Year: 1875

hUEEA1iAAA grass scGu D6


sown, for hay, at about the rate of


three pecks per acre; many use q
bushel, others not over one-half q


busheL Sow from the first of June to


the fifteenth, and even to the hrst Of


july IN ordinary seasons.


HEN-ALANURE, mixed with loan and


spread broad cast, or scattered IN the


drills, is an excellent dressing for pota-


toes, and for slmest any farm or garden
crop. If very much concentrated, it
must not be placed in large quantities
very near the seed, as it viii destroy
the life Of the young sprouts.


RUEDREDs of children have falling
victims to scarlet fever in this city dur
ing the past three months. Concerning
the treatment of this disease, an emil
nent physician Gays that he does not
fail IN effec,iug a cure more than once
IN hundred cases by giving the patient
warm lemonade with gum arabic dis
solved IN It. A cloth rung out of hot
water and laid upon the stomach should
be renewed as rapidly as it becomes
cool. This simple trsatmeat the most
obstinate cases seidom fail to saccumb.
GeTnaGutOt0a Telegraph.


WATERPROOF VA1sNIsH. Here is an
other way to prevent water from getting
through shoes. The composition also
makes a good harness dressing. Take
neat's-fOot-oil, IL pints beeswax, l
ounce spirits of turpentine, ounces,
and stir until cold. Spread and rub
this composition over the leather while
it is damp leather will absorb oil and
grease better when damp than when
drY. For the soles, take pine-tar and
rub it in before the fire until the sOles
Will sbsOrb no more. Three or four
applications will be needed. The dura-
bility of the soles will be much in
creased.


CORRESPONDENT of the Country
Gentleman, writing of the advantages
of short rotation of crops, says
" Glover is at its best for pasture or
hay the second year after seeding. If
allowed to grow through that year its
roots extend as far as they ever will,
and the ley is in best condition for
plowing. II kept longer the clover
runs out and its place is left vacant,
or filed by weeds or inferior grasses.
If timothy is mixed with clover
at seeding, it will partially occupy the
ground as the clover retires, but never
so fully as if the original seeding was
timothy. In short, keeping clover sod
over the second or third year, at most,
is generally bad policy, and should be
discouraged. For one or two years
land in clover increases in fertility,
after that the advantage is less until
another seeding is had"


SAnT FOR CABBAeE.-A New Jersey
gardener considers salt NECESSARY to the
development of cabbage, especially in
places far from the coast. He finds
them more crisp, of better flavor, and
to keep better when salt is used than
without. He used it as follows ga
few days after setting out the plants,
and when they are damp, either after
rain or when the dew Is on, I take
small dish of fine salt and walking
among the rows, sprinkle little pin2h
of salt on the center of each plant when
the leaves begin to grow. L repeat the
sailing, and when the center of the leaves
begin to form the mead, I apply salt
again, scattering it over the leaves
after this look them over occasionally.
and if find plants that do not head well
and appear diseased. L sprinkle the salt
over freely; this viii save all such
plants. a quart of salt is sufficient for
five hundred plants IN a season, although
more can be used with safety"


To PREVENT DIsEAsE.-It may be as
sumed, says the Herald of Health, with
out hesitation, that whenever a pro-
nouneed case of typhoid fever breaks
out in an isolated country house, or
when any form of low fever occurs,
though it may fail to assume distinct
typhoid character, there is In that
house, or about 1t, or In connection
with its supply of drinking cellar, some
overflow from a barn-water, some ac-
cumulatiOn of neglected filth, some pile
of rotten vegetables in the yard, some
spot of earth saturated with the slops
of the kitchen or some other form of
impurity to which the origin of the dis
ease may be distinctly traced. This
being the case, it lies perfectly within
the province of every household TO re-
move any source of infection TO which
the house may be liable. Vegetables
in any considerable amount should not
be kept in the house-cellar and at least
once week the floor of the cellar
should be swept and every shred of
waste vegetables removed. Even when
this Is done, the cellar should be ven.
tilated by a window or other small open
ing toward the quarter least exposed to
cold winds (Rnd in summer on every
side). The privy, if a privy is used,
should be well away from the house,
and especially far from the well, unless
its contents are received in a tight box
and entirely absorbed by dry earth or
ashes, and even then frequently re-
moved the chamber slops of the house
should never, under any circumstances,
be thrown into the privy vault, nor into
porous cesspool, from which they can
leach into the ground and through the
ground for g long distance into the well,
or into and around the foundation of
the house. The same disposal of the
liquid waste of the kitchen is desirable,
but not so absolutely Important. 1t IS,
however, important that this should be
led by an impermeable drain to point
well away from the house and from the
we'll swill and all manner of monde
script refuse material, such as is
sloughed of by every household in the
ordinary course of its living, should be
removed at least daily from the near
vicinity of the dwelling, and the vessels
IN which it accumulstes should be fre-
quently cleansed and aired manure
heaps should not be left to ferment and
send off their exhalations at a point
whence frequent winds watt them to-
ward and into the dwelling, nor should
the barn-yard be allowed to drain.
either over the surface or through a
porous soil, toward the house or well.
If all these precautions are taken the
well viii be tolerably safe; but if there
is any doubt on the point, then let no
water be drank except after boiling or
the drinking water of the house may
be taken entirely from a fltering
eistern, of which the filtering bed is
sufficient to hold back all organic matter.


The Esquiline Venus.