Year: 1877

They might treat me though I'd some day be a


man,


I'm SO tired of the song father always has sung,
GO I did better than that y,hen young"
american CultiuatOr.


Farm Rakin0s.


TRY common salt as a preventive of
mildew upon grapevines, sprinkled about
the stem.


IT is always best to take wheat to a
good miller, no matter if it is a mile or
two farther, for poor grinding will ruin
the best of gram.


IT may be well ior our fruit growers
who have large crops for sale to bear in
mind that the English fruit crop is next
door to complete failure.


BUTTERMILK AS POULTRY FooD.-
Buttermilk is much relished by poultry
in summer. 1t is very nourishing, and
is considered good egg producer. We
have used it for years, and are confident
that it is good and nourishing drink.


FERTILITY OF HAMBURas. as.-The black
and spangled Hamburgs are excellent
layers. They are a fine breed, produce
white, large eggs, and are non-sitters.
They can be depended on for two or
three years, and are good to cross With
other breeds. -Turt, Field and Farm


THICK WIND.-There is really no GER
tain cure for thickwindedness in horses.
It is due to several causes, most of which
are of permanent nature. The condi-
ton can be amehorated by attention to
on dry and bulky food The best up
land prairie hay, with plenty of rosin
weed in it, should be selected. It should
be fed in small quantities, and it would
ground feed, and wetted. In proper
season give fresh grass instead of hay
Exchange.


DESTROYING THE PoTATo BUG.-Mr.
D. Milne, of Howick, has informed us
of plan successfully adopted by him.
AS soon as the potato appears above
ground he entices his hens, about forty
in number, into the potato patch, where
he strews grain all over. Last season
the fowls remained upon the ground
looking up the grain, and in so doing
picked up the bugs 80 effectually that he
found only two leaves with eggs upon
them, thus doing away with the young
bugs, which are admitted by all to be
the most Observation-Disclosures (Ont)
Tribune.


CUT-WoRMs.- One way to stop the
ravages of cut-worms is to wrap a two
inch-strip of paper around each cabbage,
tomato, or other plant, as it is set out,
leaving the paper half above and half
below the surface. Perhaps a better
plan is to have strips of tin cut, and bent
at the ends SO as to clip round the plants.
They can be unlocked after the plant
has got beyond the power of the cut
worm, and put aside for another year.
The ground should be dug up in the
fall so that the insects may be either ex-
posed to the frost, or else buried so
deeply as to prevent their getting out
Toronto Globe.


WHEN a man gets house up on good
foundation, the most important thing
next in order is good roof. No part of
any structure is so much exposed to the
violent influences of heat, of frost, of
vet and sudden changes of temperature
as the roof The framework, therefore,
should be made very strong, and what
ever is used for covering should be of
the most durable character. Shingles
soaked in crude petroleum, fish oil or
cotton seed oil make aroof that for dura-
bility will equal tin, probably. The
danger of taking fire can be obviated in
large degree by painting with hnseed
oil and iron ore finely ground. This is
used largely by railroad companies for a
covering to car-roofs. Plastic slate, so
much talked about few years since,
and commended SO highly by some per
sons, cannot be relied upon at all. 1t is
among the poorest of the felt coverings
now in use. Having tried it faithfully
under varying circumstances, we know
whereof we speak. In most cases it is
tar wiser to expend the money on the
roof which is too often as bad as wasted
on needless ornamentation of the projec-
tions, porches and windows. 1t is even
| better to postpone inside finishing OF
furnishing for year than to slight the
roof.-Detroit Tribune.


Domestic Economy.
FEVER AND AGUE.- Strong doses OF
qujnine viii generally do it; if this
| ra,Is make a change in yoT1r place nj