Year: 1877

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hen and chickens in May.


RAsPBERRIEs, gooseberries and black
berries start to grow early in the spring,
go that either roots or cuttings should
be set as early as possible.


Touch with caution all new farm and
garden seeds, especially when they are
accompanied with an extra price. Ninety
nine times out of hundred they are swim
| dies.


The venerable New York farmer, John
| johnson, now S6 years of age, said the
other day: 81 have often fed forty tons
of oil cake year, and I wish I had fed
much more"


| A CORRESPONDENT wishes to know how
to break hen from eating her eggs.
There is no effectual way, and the best
thing that can be done is to make pot
pie of the hen.


In selecting evergreens never pay ex-
travagant prices for fancy foreign vari-
eties wl,en you can get cheaply our ma
tive white pine. A few Norway spruce
and Australian pines would be ornamental
| and are reliable.


BUSHES and trees cut early in the
spring, before growth commences, throw
up vigorous shoots cut after their buds
swell, their vigor is much lessened, and
becomes less and less till the period OF
cessation in growth approaches, and that
is the best time to cut them-that is,
while still in growth, but as the ter
minai buds are nearly ready to form.
After this, as autumn approaches, they
are less and less affected by cutting.


Till deep with cabbage, and shallow
with onions and ttir11ips. Earth up
fibrous-rooted plants like cabbage, corn,
ETC., but not edible-rooted plants like
beets, carrots and parsnips; nor should
these last be worked deep unless they
are well along in size, or they will put
out side shoots and grow scraggy. Beans
and celery shotild never be touched
while wet with dew or rain. Cabbage
and caulifower seem to prefer wet
weather for planting.


DEEP P1owING. plowing, says
an exchange, is good practice when you
have deep soil. It is better for some
crops than for others P1ow deeper for
roots than for grain, and especially for
corn. since in our short summers corn
will mature quicker if the roots are not
obliged to go down into cold sub-soi
for nutriment. But with shallow plow-
ing you must have plenty of plant-food
mixed with the surface soil, since you
desire to confne the roots to that for the
sake of the warmth. But above all be-
ware of the deep plowing in a shallow
soil. He who lifts several inches Of un-
tempered si1b-soil, and mingles it with
a shallow surface soil will not be apt to
repeat the experiment.


CARE OF CALVES. calf should never
be allowed to suck if it is possible to
avoid it. AS soon as it's coat is dry it
should be taken from the COW and put
into stall next to her, where she can
see it. This is better than separating
them altogether, unless the calf can be
removed entirely to where the COW can
not hear it. A calf may be taught to
drink in one lesson if patience is used,
and it has not sucked the COW. 1t
should have the fresh warm milk for a
week, then warmed half-skimmed milk
for time, and final y warmed skinned
milk. While the weather is cool, the
milk should be warmed and given little
sweet well-boiled Iinseed meal Cruel is
an excellent addition to the milk.


The following is the recipe for a
wash for orchard trees used by William
Saunders, of the Government Gardens at
Washington Put half bushel OF lime
and four pounds of powdered sulphur in
a tight barrel, Stacking the lime with hot
water, the mouth of the barrel being
covered with cloth this is reduced to
the consistency of ordinary whitewash,
and at the time of application half an
ounce of carbolic acid is added to each
gallon of the liquid. Mr.. Saunders
says 81 generally apply it in the
spring before the leaves make their ap-
pearance, but [ am convinced that il
would be more effective if applied later,
bat then it is so difficult to do SO when
the tree is in foliage" Mr.. Saunders
applies the wash not only to the stem Of
the tree, but, to some extent, to the main
branches.


Moor III
Bros, of the 's North Bloomfield custom
woolen mill," New York, once gave
the following recipe for cleansing wool
To two pailfuls OF water add quart
of soft soap and half a pint of common
salt Heat from $50 to $50 degrees-ol
a little warmer than the hand can bear.
Put in all the wool that viii stir con
veniently, and let it remain fifteen min
utes, moving it In the kettle occasionally
Then take it out let it drain return
the drained liquor to the kettle, and ado
all the water needed Repeat the pro
cess, and occasionally add a little soal
ami salt. After the wool is sufficiently
drained simply rinse it out in cole
water, ana you will have it white ant
soft. Never let wool boil in the liquid
as that will fix the gum, render the fibe,
stiff and gray, and unfit it to make soft
flexible yarn. Fine wool needs more
time in the kettle 5sii.in coarse Tagging
may be c1eansed in the same manner, b,
clipping off all the hard matter that can
not readily be compressed between tn
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