Show INDOORS AND OUT The Farm Orchard Garden k and Households F I L II a 00 AI HINTS AND NOTES FOR ALL Seen Wheat Hessian FlyPlowIng 1Eud8WeBnlngOld Potatoes Sour milk is good food for fowls at any time But do not set enough out at once to last two or three days It pas to save the best seed corn possible pos-sible and the selection should be made early Dry thorough and store away carefully Rub the stove briskly a few times with a piece of old newspaper and it will remote the grease spots and give it a good polisk Keep a shoemakers knifestone in your kitchen for putting a keen edge on cmvps A dull knife is the bans ot the housekeeper Airslacked lime sprinkled liberally among potatoes as they are put in tin bin after being dug is often a preventive preven-tive of the rot It seems to destroy the fungus While planting the tree do not try to rattle the dirt among the roots by shaking shak-ing the tree up and down frr this draws the fine hairlike roots out of place but does not push them back it folds them up and gets them all out of shape It is a fact that pastures which have become so thoroughly run out and overrun by briers and bushes as not to be worth fencing for cattle pasture by being turned over to sheep for a few vnr will be brought into a productive condition To make apple preserves Take ripe apples pare and core them and mince them fine then take threefourths of a pound of sugar to one pint of water and Doll this for one and a half hours then add the minced apples and boil for an hour longer but do not stir them lest the sugar will cause them to burn Not to exceed one hundred sheep I should be kept in a flock during the winter In making divisions of the flock those of the same size and strength so far as possible should be put together Put the old and feeble ones by them selvesBreeding ewes should be by themselves them-selves and wethers and weaned lambs in other pens A cold wet fall will give fruit of a generally gen-erally inferior character as regards sweetness and a better flavor Apples i ripened slowly will keep better during the winter and for late varieties it is no misfortune to have the ripening process completed in the cellar But for most other fruits warm weather at ripening greatly improves their quality As no good traveler after having fed his horse renews his journey in a trot but with a slow walk gradually increasing increas-ing his pace so in getting up to addi ess an assembly for a continued effort the first few sentences should be uttered in a low slow tone gradually intensified otherwise the voice will break down in avery a-very few minutes with coughing or hoarseness One of the best and cheapest devices for plowing to prevent baking trees in orchards is a short whiffletree with the hooks for the traces on the back and so fixed that the traces have to be placed over the end Thus when the whifIle rubs against the tree the latter is protected pro-tected by the leather There was once a patent on this device but it has long since expired The practice of closely screening seed oits and wheat to get only the largest and plumpest kernels to sow cannot be too highly commended as a practical means df improving the quantity of these grains By snch a plan only the bst grains are allowed to germinate and reproduce their kind and in course of tme by this process it may be noted that there is a marked improvement in both quality and weight Two years ago I wrote an article in the American Bee Journal against the use of old comb in section boxes After repeated experiments since I have not changed my mind Many beekeepers use sections year after ytar or till they get them filled some after extracting partly filled sections and others placing hem again on the hive with the combs partly filled with honey of the previous year It is true the bees will fill such combs rapidly but thev are difficult to keep from souring and are never so nice as combs built on nice thin foundations rt Thefpugnest and hardest t hands cane > can-e made soffc and white in a months ime by doctoring them a little at bed time and all the tools you need are a nail brush a bottle of ammonia a box of powdered bora hand a little tine woite sand to rub the tains off or a cut or lemon which willdoeven better for the acid of the lemon rill clean any thing A little ammonia or borax in the water you wash your hands with and that water just lukewarm will keep the skin clean and soft A little o1it neal mixed wllh the water will whiten the hands ticTerilijlc AmericanA American-A authority giyes the following follow-ing recipe for a transparent cement which possesses tenacity and has not the slightest yeUowtinge Mix in a well stoppered bottle 10 drachms of chloroform With 10 drachms of non vuloanieed c out houc cut in small pieces Solution readily affected and when it iscompletedadd 2f drachms of mastic Let the whole macerate from eight to ten days without the I application of any heat and shake the contents of the bottle at intervals A perfect white and very adhesive cement is the result Gradually during the last few years American diarymen have more closely confined their cows and kept them warmer than ever before not only keeping them in warm stables but resorting to artificial heat and giving them warm water to drink Thus far all testify to the beneficial results arising aris-ing from these practices It is not the nature of the cow to exercise much She prefers in the open field to crop the grass until her stomach is full and then lie down in the shade and peacefully chew her cud with a dreamy expresioa of the eyes that aenotes rest and enjoyment enjoy-ment She does not run and cavort like the horse This is not her missionEr I The best method the writer has ever found to wean a colt is in the stable insight in-sight j of tha mother and by gradually weaning the colt from the milk of the mother For the first three days allow ir to nurse night and morning the mrr 1 K 6 i > l if giving a full flow of milk should be milked at noon For the next week allow it to nurse once per day by which time it will about cease to carefor the jnilk altogether r The mare should be milked just enough to keep the udder from becoming much fevered during the las week that the colt nurses After that an occasi nal milking milk-ing and a few applications of spirits of camphor to the udder will complete her drying off After the colt k weaned it should have a feed of grain composed of equal parts by weight oats andwheal shorts night and morning giviig about one and a half to two pounds of the mixture at a feed and if good pasture can be had a daily run at grass until the fall rains commence when it should be kept in during storms and every night Ex |