Year: 1872

Farm, Garden and Household.

 EAsY-MADE PUDDING. - Take half a pound each of entrants, four, and chopped beef suet, four ounces treacle, and breakfast-cupful of milk add little spice mix well together, and boil 1t in a cloth or basin for four hours.

 RICE CAKEs.-Boil rice until it is soft, and while warm make 1t into cakes or flat balls. Dip the balls into beaten egg, and then roll them in Indian meal till thoroughly coated. This done, fry them in lard, which is better than butter for this purpose. Serve them with sauce, or with butter, or with cream and sugar. Coop MEN MAKE GeoD HoRsEs.-A horse is never vicious or intractable with out a direct cause. If horse is restive or timorous you may be sure that these faults arise from defects in his education He has been treated either awkardly or brutally. Commence the education of a horse at his birth accustom him to the presence, voice and sight of man speak and act gently; caress him, and do not startle him. All chastisement or cruelty confuses the animal and makes him wild. They are good men who make good horses. MANUREs.-D Voelcker says, in an English journal, that if farmer wishes to lay out money to the greatest advantage in the purchase of artificial manures, he should discard the recommendations of competing manufacturers he should en- deavor to procure at the cheapest rate and in separate form all the various fer tilizing substances which are best adapted to particular crop on a given soil, and to prepare himself the several mixtures which are sold under various names at much higher price than that at which he can make them. Ihe Maine Farmer indor- ses the doctrine of this eminent authority and expresses the opinion that the plan proposed is perfectly feasible one, and that it might be adopted in this country with satisfactory results.

 WEEDS IN WA1Ks.-According to THe Caaadta Farmer, these may be destroyed by applying solution made of four pounds of arsenic and eight pounds ot soda boiled in 12 gallons of water. To every gallon of this mixture three gallons of cold water should be added, and the liquid carefully sprinkled over the walks while 1t is yet warm. It is desirable to do this in fine weather and when the walks are dry, so that the weeds and weed-seeds may have full benefit of the application. Care must be taken not tC let any of the liquid fall on the leaves ol reach the roots of any plant it is not desired to kill. In 24 hours after the poison is put on the walks every weed is killed and if it be thoroughly done, the walks will be clean through the season

 WHEN 20 CUT GRAIN. Cozeman's Rsua World calls attention to experiments which have been instituted from time tc time to determine at what period grai1 should be harvested to secure the great disadvantages The unanimous opinion appears to be, that if grain is cut soo1 after the straw has turned yellow below the head, while the lower part of the stem is still green and the seed yet re mains in 8 soft and doughy state, the grain will weigh more to the bushel ani yield a greater amount from a giver space of ground 1; that more and better flour is made from it and where the straw is to be fed to stock, it is relishec better and is more nutritious than if the grain was allowed to stand until it be came fully ripe. Some very careful test of this character were madein Yorkshire England, by John Hannah, and he sum! up the loss by shelling and in the weigh and quality of the grain through letting it stand until fully ripe-as equal to $t per acre.

 THE SonINa SYsTEM.-In considera tion of the fact that pastures have sui fered in common with all grass lands while the stock of cattle cannot easil, be reduced on account of the extremel1 low prices. Ihe Massachusetts Plough man suggests that it is worth while fo the farmer to consider whether he ha( not better adopt the system of partia soiling, or perhaps better of buyin1 extra feeding stuffs in the shape of lin seed or cotton seed meal and feeding reasonable quantity once or twice da, throughout the summer. Many farmer put their cowsjn the barn nights, and is very easy matter to feed out say

 quart of oil meal morning and night The advantage of this would be to in crease the quantity of milk and to carr the stock along with less injury to tn pastures, the natural consequence c overlooking while the value of the ma nure would be considerably greater Furthermore, the freer use of artificis manures on pastures and the use c feeding stuffs for stock while at gras will rapidly improve the farm.

 CANADA THISTLE CURE.-A corresp O. dent says I see by late discussion i your club that you are still at war wit the Canada thistle. They never gro down South, and having lived about 1 years in the land of strawberry short cakes, I had forgot the miseries of bin6 ing Canada thistles in thin shirt-sleeves But I once realized it up in Broom County, and I had no difficulty in des troying them in every case. cut the1 with seythe about the time they bega to blossom, and allowed none to go t seed. This kills the crop but there a crop of young plants in the ground fo next years growth. Let these be now the next year about blossoming time, an before any seed are ripe enough to grow and as there were no seeds ripened O the last years crop, there are now n plants in the ground to grow the nez year. Of course the crop ceases. Unles they have learned to be more ugly tha they used to be, any patch can be des troyed in two years. But care must b taken that none goes to seed either veal and as these roots only grow one year their entire destruction is certain.

 have thus exterminated them on ric bottom lands, and know whereof speak 

 FRIGHTENED FROM Ills PROFESSION A young Kentucky physician who ha been regularly educated for his profe sion, was called to the bedside of p tient that he had been attending wit his best care for some time, but who ha obstinately grown worse and worse, LII til now his end seemed very nea D 1--s