Show DOORS AND OUT I The Farm Orchard Gar en and Household HINTS AXIi NOTES FOR ALL 4111111 SoUYrulUPotato not heel1tloIPIDJ Iteet lloric Colic Scour To brighten stove zincs rub ffiil kiosnt Cream tartar will cleanse white kit glares by rubbing it upon them Dried orange and lemon peel burner on coal in a sick room are good deodorizers deodor-izers Cover plants with a newspaper before sweeping Also put a tithe ammonia upon them ones a week A flannel bag staffed with hops and wrung front hot vinegar laid on thr ear IS one of the quickest and surest cures for earache To prevent lampwcks rom stoking they ibould be soaked in vinegar and then thoroughly dried It is said that they will never smoke if this process is adopted If rats are destroying your young poultry sprinkle a liberal supply of doride of lime in their holes and runway run-way this will soon drive them away Finely powdered airslacked lime sprinkled in the potato bins is said to be an excellent preventive of the rot by destroying the fungus It will do r o harm to try it A slate with pencil attached is handy to bava in the kitchen on which to jot down articles you wish to buy when you So to town then you will cot forut the very things you wanted most as is often the case Nothing else will so help the the flowing flow-ing mIlk of the cows just now as a pail tal of ripe apples chopped into vices md sprinkled with the meal It pay is well to grow apples for the stock If act betteras to grow roots in the fieldEr field-Er For those who are doing to feed sheep for the shambles this coming winter low is the time to begin A sheep will hrivc more one of these mild days than it would in ten of cold weather It takes Ic = s of feed to keep up the animal heat teatAll All root crops for culinary use are better stored in heaps la the held protected ected from air and frost until the pros pect of severe weather warns owners to nove them into the cellar The cooler hey are kept in either situation the onger they will remain sound Calves frequently have scours or liarrhoca caused by too muchand too ich milk Give a pint of flour gruel twice a day if the are in pain add KOI of laudanum in one dose in very bad ayes Add M oz of prepared chalkdont ont nue after noticing a change for the I etter We will remark to those who have quince trees to winter that they should be tuplched ass protection against extreme heat and cold as the roots are small and usually near the surface The quince bears every year buy requires some car and may be pruned annually i with advantage It is important strawberry plants should be covered with some course material ma-terial before severe freezing weather Coarse stable manure clean straw or corn stalks may be used This should be raked off early in the spring or maybe may-be raked around the plants and between the rows to retain the moisture and keep the berries cleanEr Any one who has bad the mistortune to injure the coatng of a I rubber umbrella um-brella will be glad to know that it is not without remedy A preparation of dammar varnish and asphaltum in about equal quantities with little turpentine tur-pentine will make an easily applied coating which makes the umbrella about as good as new again Spots on gossamer coats and cloaks can be covered with this also A chicken house to be good needs not to be expensiveEseavate two feetmake the house four feet high in the back and seven in the front This will give the roof such a pitch that it may be made of featheredged boards without breaking Bank up the back to the roof and the sides as high as you can Make the roosts all on a level close to the ground lane with tar paper or manilla pat one or two windows m the south or if the cracks be well battened the paper maybe may-be dispensed with Sort the sheep Put all that have Ions slim teeth slender makeup and light fleece into good feed grain them fatten them and turn them over to the butcher for they are not fit for the breeder dont delay Pat the lambs into good pasture and give them some oats every day till you turn them into good pasture next spring Remember that one of the mot important lesson that science and experience have taught is this Feed given to a young animal gives twice as much profit as the same feed given to the same animal when past middle life Keep the animal in good flesh from the start when itis not gaining you are losing all you have fed to it Jltgh T Brook Candied orange peel is an excellent substitute for citron in making cakes pies etc It tastes and looks much like citron To make it I cut the peel of oranges in quarters lay them in blood warm water and let them soak two or three days or until the bitter flavor is extracted The watEr is changed frequently fre-quently and kept at the temperature mentioned Then I put the peel into fresh water and boil very slowly until it can be pierced by a fork Next after draining off the water I rut the petl into a thick syrup made of granulated sugar and boil slowly until nearly all the syrup is absorbed Then I spread the peel on platters pour the rest of the syrup over it and dry in a warm oven Fruits are eaten for the sake of the I acids starches and sugar they contain The are composed of fruit and grape sugar of malic citric and tartaric acids of pectose of vegetable jelly and of ethereal oils Dates contain much sugar nnd are therefore very nntri lions while they also have much starch in their conpoition Figs contain over 50 per cent of sugar and about 4 per rent of nitrogenous matter Grapes are I iimri > us 1U that they contain most valuable alts as well as acids sugar i ef Tiiev are valuable Joxativesbut their ds are injurious As anti 1 ccorbatic grapes have alto bad a high mmeicoa + te Ireplat from ume season lor grapes is now all unu u d lid of bread and grapes fur tboic who ove r feed themselves and are corpulent will be beneficial The riper the grapes the better they are SIr varieties arc more suitable than others In German the grape cure Las btn rtduced to a scenre aui valuable I Ut > fc > on tbt subject are puoti nedilrr ild rfiraLI i Itis not the fierce cold weather or CTen i the occasional deprivation of food whIch gets away with cattle so m ch nstb chilling rains whi h prevail much of the time during the winter month in region classed as mild and open These fact shuhi be understood considered by farmers who judge of the necessity of shelter by computing the number c f days of severe weather which occur 1D the coerce of a season It is not seams these inclcia nces that the cattle need protection so much as against the ordinary or-dinary stormy weather which cjrae alone almost any time A g > al l grove to break the wind wdl do very well in reall sharp frosty weather and even whet the thermometer is far below zero the < cattle although deserving of jometbinj better will make if gentrou ly r1 blt moderate protest Bu when tilt I te are stripped of their foliage the r dripping branches afT rd but slight l protection pro-tection against the cold drizzling r in which often prevail for dais tog ther and kiep carder and other farm stock in perpetual discomfort Where the skim wet there is a steady loss o beat which tells more rapidly upon annual vitality than any other unfavorable condition tc which live stock is likely to be subject It N i the general impressson that the n kaline oil that Is one manifesting pflloreirnce is of very little ricnUura sue Such soils are however often very rich in the three ingredients most needed in improving soils viz the salts ol polish phosphoric acid and nitrogen The alkali lands are the result of an arid climate in which the rainfall is not sufficient to leach the surface soil of its alkaline salts The salts found in the alkaline sois lit 1 0 life li-fe mi are of these classes vii uu neutral salts of alkali such bs common salt glaubcr salt and fulphnt and chloride of potash etc These are injurious only when present in considerable consider-able quau titles Secondly the earth salts such us Epsom salt copperas etc The cheap and elleclve remedy for these is lime Thirdly the alkaline carbonates These are injurious in small quantities rendering the soil water corrosive to plants The antidote is gypsum or land plater which changes the corrosive carbonates into bland sulphates This antidote bas been employed and should be more generally known and used 1rot Uihjard is sanguine that gypsum in conjunction win judicious culture will reclaim all but the worst alkali soils The gypsum fixes both the phosphoric acid and potash and prevents their escape when the land is afterwards irrigated irri-gated Horses are liable to an attack of colic at all seasons of the year but among farm horses this complaint is more frequent fre-quent during fall and winter also when first turned on grass in the spring It i is brought on bye variety of C3Ule One of which is dnnklng cold water when the animal is heated The farmer who reaches home late at night in the winter ieason with hIS horse heated by exer tion and allows the animal to drink rom a trough in the yard with the water icecold i then puts it into a cold barn will be fortunate if he does not lave a case of colic to deal with in a short time It is sometimes occasioned jy changing from old to new oats in the I all of the year It is not infrequently I > y eating frost bitten clover The first i ivmptpm of an attack of colic b a man festation of distress The animal banges his position frequently lying down and almot immediately getting ip again In a few minutes these ivmptoms are likely to disappear and he horse is apparently easy but they soon return and with each recurrence he severity of the pain seems to ncrease The sufferer frequently look ground to its flanks paws with his for ilhwf f tU Jo strikes at his belly with the hind ones In a short time a cold sweat I breaks out all over the body Animal iuQering from colic generally try to void unne and a person witnessing a ase for the first time would be led to suppose that it was a case of water toppage An excellent remedy and me most likely to be available in the ountry is to mix a heaping teaspoon ul of saleratcs with a pint of milk stir It well and pour it down the Sufferers hroat from a bottle or horn Abal eaEpoonful of cayenne pepper added to be saleratus and milk will render it nore liable to be effective Probably he best remedy that a farmer can in ploy i one pint of raw linseed oil to rhichis added one ounce of sulphuric ther and two ounces of tincture of opium Care should be used to give oil which has not been boiled As soon as the medicine has been administered ihetber the saleratn and milk or the 011 give an injection of about two warts of oioodwarm water to which 111Ie castile soap has been added if at and but if not give the water clear If the pain is not relieved within an hour of giving the first dose of medicine repent re-pent the dose It is safer to tate the chill from the water for a few days after the attzck American Cultivator A cellar which will keep vecetables will answer very well for wintering bees and the going into it every day need not disturb tae bees especially if they are placed where the light does not strike them If the cellar is dark all that is necessary is to hang a thick blanket in front of the hive so that the light from the lamp shall not strike them but if the cellar is light the hive should be lowered down into a box or a place in one corner of the cellar can be partitioned par-titioned off so as to make it dark The hive should also be up two or three feet from the bottom the bench or platform upon which it stands resting on the ground otherwise the jar if any from overhead would disturo the bees and tend to make them uneasy thus cauving their loss The full entrance to the ifive should be given and the honey b03rJ emOTed e-mOTed substituting in its place seven thicknesses of old carpet or else a chaff or sawdust cushion two or three inches thick through which the moisture Jrom the breath of the bees may escape but still keep them dry and warm rfey should beset in abontNovemberSOlli and take out at the time the soft maple and elm bloom some recommend taking tak-ing out during a warm spell in the JjftpA ter to give the bees a fly so tliVWVn void their feces butif they are Inf f F con Lh r it ranch beter to leave We n undisturbed Toe right temper tuieof a cellar to winter been well is rom 42 tJ bu if fixed as I have given they wilrfio l well as low as 35 to 40 If the cellar hone tone t-one where the temperature goes as low I I as the freezing point and stays for any i i Il length of time I should prefer to leave the bees on their summer stand for a I ooDtinuedteaiperatare atabo1ttte free I fug nont or s little below s eaie to be t very Ejaos to bees J |