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Show and you will conclude that rerubs are quite expensive. Speciality in fruit growing can often be made very profitable, but the quality quali-ty must be of the very best Sheep manure contains a good percentage per-centage of nitrogen in an available form, and hence is a valuable fertilizer. Good grade draft horses cannot be excelled for doing the necessary farm work, while they also sell readily ax good prices. In addition to farming, a good system sys-tem of rotation and a variety of crops enables the farmer to make up a better variety of feed for his stock. One advantage with rye is that it will grow on thin land, can be pastured at any stage of its growth, or be turned under as a green manure with benetlt. In feeding for growth, vigor is an important item, and the quality of tho feed, as well as the conditions under which it is fed, largely determine the vigor. Because you have pure-bred stock is no reason for thinkiilg that there is no room for further improvement. It should bo understood that there is practically no limit to improvement. By feeding on tho farm the various products grown, and sending to market on the hoof, a much larger quantity of fertilizer is left for the land than the crop has extracted from it. Dogs, as a rule, are a nuisance on the farm, but if you must have one take a little pains to have a good ono. As with other animals it eosts no more to keep a good one than a poor one. Wheat bran, middlings and rye make a good feed for growing pigs. If the rye cannot be readily secured oats can bo used instead. They can he materially ma-terially increased in value if they are ground. Hints for the Howe. Strawberry cream, honey paste and cucumber butter form part of the list of new greases for keeping the face and hands smooth. A cup of mashed potato mixed with a teaspoonful of sugar at night will lighten the batter in the morning and tho expensive egg will not bo missed. The torturous hinge can be rendered noiseless by the uso of a black lead pencil of tho softest number, the point rubbed into all crevices of the hinge. A bright little housewife is reported by tho Philadelphia Record as having caught eight mice on sticky fly paper placed over night ou the kitchen floor. In England celery is much used as a last course at dinner, dipped in grated cheese that is, the cheese is passed with it and the celery dipped as it is eaten. Don't neglect to have your name plainly painted on all jugs or bottles that are sent to the store for vinegar, molasses, etc. Then you will be sure to get. your own back again. Brown some flour and make a gravy of boiled milk, with salt and sugar, and it will often cure bowel complaint, either with children or adults, if no other food is eaten for a clay or two. An excellent way of testing tea is to put a teaspoonful in a glass of water and shake it thoroughly. If the tea is i pure the water will he a clear amber tint, but, if adulterated, strongly colored. FARM AND HOUSEHOLD. WHEN AND HOW TO BECIN FARM BEE-KEEPING. Keeping ltees for Incidental Income and Household Convenience A Talk Abo-it Diversified farming The Home, Ktc. tVhen and How to Begin Hee-Keeplng. Bee-keepir.g might Iks taken in two classes the apiarist by profession, whose entire revenue comes in through the hive, the honey producers, queen raisers and bee dealers; and secondly the larger class, who keep bees, or if they understand how. would keep them for household convenience or the incidental in-cidental income. Every farmer to-day has a bearing tree, bush or shrub in his garden, because the first cost is little and tho attention is inconsiderable. inconsidera-ble. Many a hive would stand under the laden limbs to add to its product, the most delicate relish, did not the cost nnd the care appear so forbidding. The latter consideration need be no hinderance; use tho time that would be lost, a few minutes at noon when the first mellow days have come in the spring. Then re-arrange and supply deficient stores that the queen may pre-dispose the hive in good season with a multitude of gatherers. This gives her the timely chance to provide her forty' to fifty thousand hand's. Fifteen minutes will bo time enough to manipulate three or four hives. It takes but an instant to slide the empty combs into the center, which is the seminal spot and nursery of the bee hive; to sift the full combs to the outside, out-side, if the stores are short; only a few minutes arc needed to set over the combs a feeder or a pan of syrup floating float-ing a thick cloth upon it. No more care until the flowers begin to appear. Then, in a minimum of time, the surplus boxes arranged during the leisure of winter in frames or crates as desired, may bo slid in above the brood chamber cham-ber and everything is ready for the inflow of the harvest. "But tho swarms?" In this busy age we cannot watch and wait upon tho whims of an insect, nor ein we allow to vanish in mid-air a working power worth from three to five dollars. Later on we may look a little more into this question of swarms before the season comes when the troop of bees seem ready and mad for motion. In all the other management however, how-ever, how insignificant is tho item of time and attention. But the outlay for a few Bwarms is a matter of personal judgment like the purchase of a quince bush or pear tree. The plant may be procured in various ways, and for a person of a mechanical turn, tho expense ex-pense noed not be appalling. In tho next place it may be well to Inquire and. ,pejt-haia.Joido, Jiow. a man or woman might best and most cheaply commence the keeping of a few colonies, colo-nies, t. e. enter the second and the wider class of bee-keepers. Practical Farmer. Diversified Farming. Diversity is healthy in all things. Tho individual who runs entirely to one special object may become a specialist, spe-cialist, and may possibly excel in one particular walk of life, and the partic- I Throe persons who ate food cooked I in a new tin pan were .attacked with ' severe cramps and vomiting due to lead poisoning from which only ' prompt medical attendance saved their lives. I It Is stated that glycerine washed into flannel after it is wrung from the warm rinsing water will render it most agreeably soft. Half a spoonful of ; glycerine to a pound of dry flannel is I the usual allowance. A fresh egg will sink in water be- ; j causo of the water in it It will lie on j its side also rather than endwise. ; ! Should the yolk bo plainly distinguish- t able upon being held up to a strong ' light the egg is good. j j Incalculable? harm is done to both j tho health of a child and to the in- tegrity of a second set of teeth in al- lowing the temporary teeth to become j decayed and abecssed, causing pain I ! and suffering and frequently indigestion : ! and all its accumulated evils. When children have taken cold there j is nothing bettor to give them than I j molasses, butter and vinegar; to half , : cup of molasses take a teaspoonful of butter and two teaspoonful of vinegar; j cook a few minutes and give a little frequently. Quite young children can I take this. j To fumigate a room after contagious j disease: Put sulphur (brimstone) in a tin pan, set it on a brick in a tub having a little water in the bottom, - sot it on fire aud hasten fw.n the room, ' having all cracks tightly stuffed, even j the key hole. After six hours open j and air the room. J Coffee and tea pots become discolored ; on the interior in a very short time. ! ' To prevent this about every two weeks put into them a teaspoonful of soda and ' till them two-thirds full of water; let , boil two hours. Wash and rinse well I before using. In this way they will al-; al-; ways be sweet and clean. Husk mats are tho best boot wipers ! in muddy weather. There is some one in most neighborhoods qualified to in- struct in their making. It is a nice business to do in a rainy time; the 1 husks are damp and pliable then. A : person can make a dozen a day and . sell the surplus in the village for 25 ; cents each. ! The -'real Boston baked beans" i served for its Sunday morning break-i break-i fasts are eo.iked thus. They are soaked ! during Friday night in cold water. On ! Saturday morning the water is changed j and then gently parboiled for two hours. ! then rinsed and put in an earthen pot with a good sized piece of pork with a lean streak in it, then slowly baked through the day and left in the oven through the night, having plenty of water in tho pot during the process of j cooking. ular vocation chosen may yield him a handsome return. There are, however, how-ever, but few Edisons in. their way in any walk of life. A Beecher could and a Talmnge may fill churches or tabernacles, taber-nacles, yet the majority of preachers are about as dry in their utterances as they generally are in their finances and luxuries, and to them diversity is a perfect per-fect God-send. The old sermon, with a hew face, can bo and is burnished up to pass muster on many different occasions. occa-sions. With farmers the diversity that suits them is of a different nature. Their stock in trade cannot be carried about in mouldy manuscript, neither can the improvements, made to one field, bo transferred at will to another, yet diversification di-versification can be so cosmopolitan in its ramifications, as to blend in one harmonious wholo, to tho material benefit of the farmer. Diversified farming will undoubtedly yield a surer and safer return to the ordinary farmer than special farming, yet tho farmer himself should be the best judge of his own varieties. Climate has fully as much to do with genoral surroundings ns soil. Sorghum and leets may be made to yield big returns where a corn crop might be a failure, or clover fail to get up a decent stand. Again it may be folly in some districts to devote much time to anything else than raising cattle or sheep. Each locality has, by the laws of nature, and the trend of civilization, an adaptability to some lines of husbandry, and is unsuited to others. The husbandman's safest , course is to be well informed on the possibilities of his soil, and diversify his operation as the climatic conditions safely justify Indicator. Stock and Farm Kotes. The sleeping quarters of the pigs mutt be dry. Avoid under-feeding as well us overfeeding. over-feeding. A patch of rye makes a food pasture pas-ture for ewes with lambs. It is not a good plan to uso fresh, coarse manure in the potato patch. Allowing the horses to stand on wet manure will make their feet tender. Bran, oilmeal and middlings, scaled, make u good feed for the laying hens. So far ns it is possible the most profitable plan with stock is to feed them to maturity. A scrub sire, crossed or bred with grades or even pure-breds. will gradually grad-ually tend toward tho scrub. Bran contains less oil and more b:ne material thnu eornmeal, and is better for growing stock. Pedigrees that are merely lists of names of progenitors are of no value as evidences of individual merit. 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