Year: 1870

a marriage.


Hints for the Season.


Keep the wood pile growing. L
it is already large by reason of thu
pleasant winter days that may hav'
beguiled you from indoor to outside
work, remember that wood proper
ly housed will be better two years
from to day than it will one. a
plentiful supply always adds to th'
pleasure of the look ahead, and the
joy comes none the less from the
wood pile than it does from the
granary or pork barrel.


LOOK OUT FOR THE LEAKS IN YoUF


BARNYARD.


Every pound of enriching materi
al that is lost, either by washing
a way or teaching away, is a loss OF
property just as positive and com
plete as though you threw an occa-
sional handful of dollars into the
fire, or bag of bullion into the
sea.


No rule for saying this can be
given, but every farmer, if his heart
i. in it, will find absorbents Of some
kind that will hold the ammonia till
the genial sun of the spring days
invites its transfer to the waiting
soil.


BEWARE OF WASTING FODDER


Cattle should never be fed where
there is any possibility of waste.
Stacking hay and corn stalks is
a necessity, but both
should be transferred to the barn be-
fore being fed What is left after
the better paets are eaten by the cat
tie can be appropriated for bedding,
but should never be left scattered
over the fields partial if not com
plete loss.


BE PARTICULAR IN THE CARE OF YOUR


The loss to the farmers of our
country in this one particular,
through lack of care and thought,
has been safely estimated at hund eds
Of thousands of dollars.


Ten lambs lost in March make a
difference in the profit and loss OF
the farmer that loses them Of from
thirty to fifty dollars and this in ten
years would make five hundred, and
in a lifetime fortune.


KEEP YOUR FALL PIGS GROWING.


Too many farmers lose three or
four months ia the growth Of their
fall / igs by giving them such meagre
liet in the winter that growth is i'm
possible.


They need whatever else they
have, litue meal or a few pota
toes, and always good, clean, dry
bed. -


BEST or AE.L.


Crowd the evenings with study,
reading, anything that will keep the
mind awake, and make it grow.
Two months from now spring will
be on us. Wearison work will make
tired evenings and the lengthening
days short ones, and then opportun-
ity will be gone till the summers
end. WHAT is better, keep the heart
centred on the cid home; plan to
make it more beautiful, more taste
full, more to you and yours than it
has been then when summer comes,
memories of a good winter will help
to cheer and irradiate days of dusty
and toilsome summer work.
Hearth and Home.


LESS FooD.-Less food means
temperance. Precisely this: moth
ing more or less. 1t means simply
the avoidance of excess. It is the
excess, or little too much, that
hurts. 1t is the feather thai breaks
the camels back. And it is then so
hard t, at this little can't be avoid
ed Z? Yes that is it; we must have
a little more; there is little more
room in the over stomach.
And what is the consequence? Sim
ply little uneasy feeling? Some.
times that is all; but not always. II
is however always hurt that will
be felt by and by, and more and
more as the individual persists. But
even for the present, with many
men, it is bad fling. A person
will feel stupid; he will have the
blues, because the stomach, through
the nervous influence, affec's the
whole system, making the body
and the mind dull, and the
individual anything but agreeable
Now this is common fact: we see
it everywhere, every day, every
meal: people "bog it," that Is the
word. Wy not just cut off the lit
tie excess. and thus become cheer
full and healthy? Some men dc
this. Reader. try it, and you viii
thank us. Remember, it is moi
hard the habit is soon formed anG
then you will be in new atmosphere
you will live new life. Think no.
you are not the one aimed at; W.
all are more or less st fault here
Much, much more happy as race
should be if we paid more attention
to Dict Country Gentleman.