Show INDOORS AND OUT I The Farm Orchard Garden f and Household HINTS AND NOTES FOR ALL Old Pastures Heo Feeding Crlbber Potato Disease Overfeeding Spoilt Babies Machine grease may be removed from wash goods dipping tbe fabric cold rain water and soda The best cure for harness wounds on horses is burnt leather Rub the ashes on the sore and a cure is soon effected You may avoid the unpleasantness to I the eyes when peeling onions by sitting in a draught of air or by an open window win-dow or door while doing it Red raspberries should be set two feet apart in rows and when kept well worked the first year they will fill up and form a continuous hedge of plants good for ten years or more It is claimed for Polled Angus cattle that they stand the winters better than I any other class of cattle They have no horns to freeze off their hides areas are-as thick aa a buffalos and they seem peculiarly adapted to a cold climate Rums often fight desperately bruise their heads and the maggots get in the bruised places and kill the sheep Many valuable rams are lost in this way every I season and where several aged rams are kept together they should always be blindfolded so as to prevent their fighting The following is a refreshing disinfectant disin-fectant for a sick room or any room that has an unpleasant aroma pervading pervad-ing it Put some fresh ground coflee in a saucer and in the centre place a small piece i of camphor gum which light with a match As the cum burns allow sufficient suf-ficient coffee to consume with it The perfume is very pleasant and healthful being far superior to pastiles and very much cheaper The great difficulty of many dairymen dairy-men is to keep their cows clean or from becoming encrusted with their voidings This is very easily remedied little attention is paid to the construction of their quarters < < They should be so built as to have a place jnst large enough for the cow to stand and he on two or three inches higher than the main floor and with thorough drainage This will make it just as easy to keep the cows clean as horses A few years since says a writer I had an old pasture that had almost ma oat covered with weeds and patched with moss I mixed a few barrels of salt and 1 t wood ashes and applied about two barrels bar-rels of the mixture per acre covering about half of the lot The result surprised sur-prised me Before fall the moss had nearly all disappeared and the weeds were rapidly following suit while the grass came in thick assuming a dark green color and made fine pasturage The balance of the lot remained unproductive un-productive as before but the following yearlt was salted with like results Danish agrlcntaral scientist and experimentalist ex-perimentalist has issued a book claiming claim-ing that earthmg up potatoes Is a pre ven live of disease He says those vaii r sties which root deepest are most free from disease and that the spores of the tungus which cause rot are conveyed through the atmosphere to the plants and can only reach the tubers by being carried by the rains through the earth or dews down through the main stem of the plant He recommends earthing up potatoes as a protection saying that though the yield is not increased a remarkable re-markable freedom from disease is noticed where the plants arc earthed up as much as they will bear Every one of course feeds to his flock more or less corn or oat meal made into a dough But some make the great mistake of mixing with it so much water as to give it the consistency of a thin slushy paste at once difficult to pick up with their delicate pointed bills and impeding digestion by weakening the digestive fluids with too much moisture moist-ure Corn meal especially should have just enough hot water poured over it to moisten and partially swell the minute particles and cause them to fall apart rather than adhere to each other Beekeepers remember that constant spring feeding in suitable quantity if carefully carried out will in a short time produce a marked effect on your stocks If a hive in good condition is treated thus it is surprising how soon the amount of brood will increase and the young bees as they hatch out will add to the strength of the hive and make it possible for a still larger amount of brood to be produced Should the hive already contain a supply of sealed store it will not be necessary or desirable desir-able to give the bees any syrup until the store they already possess is in great part consumed Instead of putting on the feeding bottle we need merely to uncap un-cap the hone in the hive little by little The bees will commence restoring it excitement in the hive will ensueand the queen thinking honey is plentiful with will commence laying with a will The way to keep the babv from becoming be-coming spoilt is to let it cry as little as possible It will gain strength of mind to endure its necessary ills all the sooner if it is allowed to suffer as little as possible from its that can be avoided Its wants should be anticipated its sources of discomfort should be removed re-moved as soon as they arise without waiting for it to cry it should be prevented pre-vented in every way from forming the habit of crying Study its expression when it is tired of playing on the floor take it up and dame it about the room and let it look out of the window for a few minute In a little while it will be glad to go back and play on the floor again If it is necessary to resort to discipline be careful to seize the right moment for it If you want the baby to learn to go to sleep without being rocked choose a day when it has been t unusually bright and happy all the morning wait until twenty minutes or so after the regular hour for its nap then Rive it a cup of milk particularly I sweet and warm and nice make its little bed soft and cosylny it down gen U v and soothe it with a little kissing and P3rtin and if itisnot too much spoilt i will only be too happy to close its eyes in th sweetest kind of sleep If it does not its lit of crying will be as brief and as little injurious as it can ba Babyhood Baby-hood It Is said that eight drops of tincture of aconite dropped on a piece of bread and mixed with the food at night and next morning four drops more given in the same manner will generally complete com-plete the cure of garget in cows To remove the dust from carpets pin a wet cloth over the broom Also to make the broom wear as long as two draw a stocking lee over the brash and with a needle and twine sew through and dampen the broom every day Sore eyes is sometimes a complaint with young chicks and arises from cold A drop of glycerine rubbed on the eyes is the best remedy Sore on top of the head may generally be traced to lice Swelled aces with running at the nostrils nos-trils indicates roup Late of Life is ia favor of invalids or for that matter well peope sleeping in about the same temperature that they live in during the day It thinks that persons confined largely to the house during the day make a mistake in sleeping in rooms absolutely cold at night To give a delicious flat or to lamb which is to be eaten cold put in the water in which it is boded whole cloves and long sticks of cinnamon To one leg of lamb allow one small handful of cloves two or three sticks of cinnamon If the lamb is to be roasted boil the cloves and cinnamon in water and baste thelamb with iL With a cow the more you take from her in the way of milk within reasonable reason-able limits the more she will yield while if you forbear to take from her all that she has secreted her secretion of milk will diminish until her secretory organs will entirely cease to act Hence we tee the importance of keeping cows in ful milk as long as possible alter the birth of every calf While I have been very reluctantly forced to the conclusion that it is not practicable to raise plants or trees on a large enough scale to materially increase in-crease our crops of honey I think it probable that we can increase the growth ot figwort sweet clover etc in waste places in our neighborhoods enough to keep the bees at least partly employed during what would otherwise be seasons of almost absolute dearth of honevproduciog plants No experienced experi-enced beekeeper needs to be told the advantages of this even if little or no surplus honey should be gathered at these mesEz An experienced horticulturist lately said that the greatest obstacle to rose culture is insects Nothing but eternal vigilance will overcome it He advised to save all the soapsuds made in the house and give a bath two or three times a week to the rose bushes He did not approve of the use of whale oil soap One of the worst insect enemies of the rose is a beetle which cuts the oliage at night and can only be destroyed de-stroyed by hand picking Another cal turist keeps insects from his rose by dredging the bashes with hellebone early in the rsorning before the buds form which kills the nrst insects that come then again before tha bloom and after blooming Theso three application applica-tion are sufficient It Li difficult for the novice to Me the 1 importance of String his plants and I tree plenty of room IB planting he I marks oat hu ground prrbapf with an ordinary corn marker and as he seta his raspberries blackberries in these rows it appears to him that three feet and oneLalf may be ample space lie u not able to look forward ia his imag aatioa to the time when each blackberry black-berry and raspberry row will cover an expanse of four or fire feet that demanding de-manding seven or eight feet space between be-tween the rows It is the same with rapes and with fruit trees generally mon bfgmntra planting the a too closely close-ly together When I began fruit grow tug 1 made the same blunders 1 remember re-member in planting black raspberries seven feet apart it seemed to me that there was too much waste ground between tween the rows and baring some pear stock which I desired to feed I foolishly berries thembetween the rows of rap berries AU went very well the first year but the second could scarcely see my pear seedlings By great perseverance per-severance in shortening in the raspberries raspber-ries I succeeded in getting a fair stand of pears but it was a foolish operation The wiser course would have been to leave the vacant row between the raspberries unplanted or plant to early potatoes or a similar crop American Garden Sheep skins may be nicely tanned witu wool on to be used for carriage or doormats door-mats by a process very similar to tanning tan-ning furs First wash the pelt in warm soap suds until the wool is thoroughly cleansed rinse well and soak for one day in a solution of alum and s lit equal parts in water say eight ounces of gui in sufficient warm water to cover the pelt Drain well stretch on aboard and when half dried sprinkle the flush side with equal parts of finely mrerized alum and saltpeter fold together to-gether and let it remain in doors for a few days turning the pelt once or twice a day so as to get the solution equally upon each part When well dried drpn off and rub in with pumo sUne wLcli will render the hide very soft and white In every flock of hens there are always al-ways some that are better layers thaa others for Instance supposing we start with six Plymouth ROcksa cock and fie hens Very likely out of the five two may lay thirty or more eggs per annum more than tier of the others the eggs from these best layers should be noticed and saved up and onlv these eggs set and by following up this plan for awhile the egg production of the flock may largely increase my atten tion has been particularly drawn to iris subject lately by a friend of mine who has a pullet which has laid nearly three hundred eggs in nycar and this won derful laying quality has descended to several of her progeny 1 have since heard of other instances which prove very conclusively a very great improvement im-provement might very easily be made m all the breeds of poultry if the above plan is carefully foUowedEr Overfeeding is the most common and mast injurious mistake made in the management of all kinds of stock We even overfeed and so greatly harm ourselves our-selves and children A large propor tion of the exceedingly numerous deaths among infants and young chil dren is due to overfeeding and if we cram our children to death it is no won der that we should make the same fatal mistake with young chickens calves and pigs It is quite safe to say that ninety per cent of all disorders of these young animals result from overfeeding A shepherd will more easily raise nine tyme per cent of his lambs than a farmer will rear fifty per cent or his lIatch d snicks and J the reason is that the lambs feed themselves while the chickns are fed and crammed as lone u their little crop will bold one more I grain of food Then the fatal diarrhea comes on the chickens are weak and and fall prey to the gape worms puny moe amyl or they become paralyied or mope about with ruffled feathers until they die I am quite often asked for a cure for cribbing in the horse I quite often see socalled cures advertised The latest is to have all the front of the manger covered by woolly sheepskin This Is an old boasted remedyquite old and quite Ineffectual Thereis no cure there are many preventives I have tried nearly or quite all of them with varying vary-ing degrees of success None of them have been s success by any means My best plan is to have the manger and rack so low toward the ground that the horse when eating or when trying to crib has to lower his head so much that he rompresses the trachea windpipe wind-pipe and he cannot possibly crib or suck wind In fact he could not breathe sufficiently to sustain life with the nose I dose to the ground if the head wail not being constantly raised I have so far succeeded by this simple inexpensive inexpen-sive plan as to make the ownership of a bad cribber tolerable In fact while so placed he was cured and bothered me little if any |