Show INDOORS AND OUTS OUT-S Tile Farm Orchard Garden and Household HINTS AND NOTES FOR ALL II Dark Stock Potato Beetle Sheep Catarrh The Urd Saltlnr Atparaeus Soup I I Feed your poultry on raw onions chopped tine mixed with other food I about twice a week It is better than a dozen cures for chicken cholera There is good authority for the statements state-ments that workers in lead factories and smelters who drink milk several times a day are unaffected by the lead The grass should not be allowed to grow around young trees after planting plant-ing as it stunts their growth and utterly utter-ly ruins them The ground should be Kept clean and loose around them until un-til at least they are of bearing sire Hail water often becomes very impure im-pure Throw in two ounces of powdered powder-ed alum and two ounces of borax to a twenty barrel cistern of rain water that is blackened or oily and in a few hours the sediment will settle and the water will be clarified and fit lor washing wash-ing No more valuable help can be procured pro-cured in the garden to disturb and destroy de-stroy insects than a brood of ducks They devour immense quantities of slugs and other injurious pests and in their continual ranging disturb what they do not destroy They injure none of the vegetables unless it may be young cabbage plants A New York farmer states that he uses only chat gas tar to prevent the ravages of the potato beetle He puts > a gallon of tar in a tub over which he pours boiling water which is allowed to settle and cool This ia sprinkled over the vines with an ordinary sprinkler A gallon of tar costing cents suffices for several acres of potatoes Many persons are troubled with scurf or dandruff in their hair A preparation prepara-tion of one ounce of sulphur and one quart of water repeatedly agitated during intervals of a few hours and the head saturated every moraine with the clear liquid will in a few weeks remove re-move every trace nf dandruff from the acglpand the hair will soon become soft and glossy Asparagus soup should be made as follow Tnr < e pounds of knuckle of I veal will make a good strong stock Put the veal to boil with one and a hall bunches cf asparagus n gallon of water and let it boil rapidly for three hours Strain and return to tho pot adding another bunch of asparagus j chopped fine and boiled twenty I minuu Take a cupful of milk add a tablespoonful of flour let all just come to a boil and serge Season well with pepper and salt The shortsighted fruit grower says shoot the birds they are eating my cherries Why not say shoot the children they are eating my bread shoot the horse they are eating my I oats The few berries they eat are but a trivial los compared with the service ser-vice they render Among the most helpful birds are the tlirushc chickadees chicka-dees nuthatches warbler vireo lIy catchers swallows switts night hawks orioles cuckoos quail woodpeckers and smaller hawks and owlsEr After eggs have been under a hen fortyeight hours the danger of destroying destroy-ing their vitality by chilling is very much greater than at any other period I It is not uncommon for a hen to set the first fortyeight hours without leaving the nest and then start out to find food and by some mishap fail to return to the nest until the eggs havo teen chilled chil-led She may set dnnng the balance the time with great regularity but the mischief has been done with a result of from fifty to a hundred per cent of rotten eggs Young apple orchards says J D Husted should be annually cultivated until ten ears old Barnyard manure and leached ashes are among the best and cheapest fertilizers and liberally applied ti ey pay well When well in bearing the orchard can be seeded to grass provided it is kept fed short to she p and hogs If the pigs are rung when weighing sixty pounds or more they will not bark the trees Pigs and beep kept in the orchards during all summer year after year will destroy the codling worm keep the grass short and enrich the land with their droppings drop-pings As a general thing the fault of eggs not hatching although fully developed is caused by the extreme dryness of the shell and an easy and certain remedy can be given as follows Sprinkling thee the-e s with warm water every other day for ten or twelve days before hatching times and if the shells eeem to bo unusually un-usually thick take a pall of warm water about a hundred degrees and 1 put the eggs Into this water two days before they should hatch let them remain re-main in this ten or fifteen minutes All the live eggs will bob about in a carious cari-ous manner then return the egg to he nest If the hen is not a quiet one his had better be done at night Continental farmers prefer stock of a dark colorrusset maroon and black to those of a light color for yielding mtlk rich in butter Race influences the secretion of milk the Ayrshire are bettermilsers than the Devons and the Dutch and Bntany cows to those of lorvan and Salers Climate is also a actor to be reckoned with Humidity and uniformity of temperature promote pro-mote secretion of milk while warm regions check itn the animals too freely perspire Then the former clio mate favors the production of abundant rage Cows are at their best milking stage after their third calf Food cxerj I Cis68 powerful influence on the quantity I quan-tity and quality of the mllkEz Geese usually pair though an extra goose will be accepted by the gander Ii I I she has no mate Guineas also pair and l mate The drake will take Jour or five I ducks to his care but in confinement the number rhay increased A Made union of a gobbler and hen turkey for i j tallies all the eggs for that season or rather for that clutch If the turkey i hen sits and after hatching begins to I I I lay she shoadagain be placed with the gobbler It is conceded that eRgs from I I the barnyard hen become fertile on the fifth dav after she has been mated with I the cock and tho eggs will sometime hatch after the cock has been removed for a week or ten days Till drpei l however upon the p sinon of the eif in the ovary and the duration f H 1 time the hen has been layillotfr In answer to a sheep mans gner t for treatment for his sheep woijU n I have ad some experience UIIM nn I same trouble and my plan of ire < ment WItS as follows Make II trr liE trouch in the shape of a V pniiki I Bait along the bottom and ab ui i > II inch above the alt apply with n Woad brush pine tar along the shies the 11 ject being to get the tar on the IIItOl i nose while they are licking the ail Tbi is a more expedition manne tlin Catching each onestpar tely mid app I > lUg but in bad cases thrv will liar t < be caught separately and the lur nppliri to the nose with a small brush Few to all the following One half poiini of ussafoetida powered onehalf tr nod of sulphur four pounds of cuminm salt two bushels of bran and < ala fht is an excellent tonic and after a hard severe winter sheep need a tonic mi blood purifier Ax Babyhood replies thus to a question ar to the propriety of keeping plants III the childrens sleeping room Plan are usually injurious in a room durir the daytime When there tsMinliifi the plants absorb carbonic aiii and 111 i > proprlate its carbon and set free car tail amount of oxygen This proces is I not harmful but rather the reverse to a imal life The oilv harm thin need be considered is that posibh arising from any considerable qiiantitx of damp earth in the loom but this is probably very slight But with the coming of darkness this process of absorption ab-sorption of carbonic acid ceases and a i certain amount of the gas is given off just how much of course varies with the quantity and kind of plants in you greenery The effect is in kind if not I in decree very much the same as that of having another person sleeping in the room If you can arrange your j > ants upon a stand with casters that can be rolled out of the room before sundown and can be brought back ill the morning the plants will probably be harmless otherwise they are better away It would surprise many to know what a number of horses ate nnnnalK sacrificed by ignorance I and carelessness in their management Good horses should remain serviceable until twenty five or thirty years old but horse Is i usually regarded old by the time he reaches half these year And the worst feature in this matter is that so many who kill their horses off so unmercifully un-mercifully are men who imagine tha they aye treating their stock as well as circumstances will permit Overfeeding Overfeed-ing will impair the digestive organ quicker than not feeding enough yet hundreds of horse owners persist in gorging their horses at the expense of their own purse as well as at the expense of their horses health The character of the food provided is also of greater importance than many imagine A small amount of the right kind of food is much better than an abundance of inferior stuu The different ways in which the lives 01 the best horses are shortened are too numerous to mention men-tion in detail If you would have your hones to live to good old age and be ns serviceable when they are twent year old as when they are five or ten give them nothing but the best treatment ExIt It is only here and there that a farmer farm-er fully estimates the value of salt as an every day portion for bis stock He is apt to look upon it as a luxury rather than a necessity and therefore Deromes careless about its daily supply The French government has made a report on this subject giving the result of a number of practical and scientific persons per-sons commissioned to investigate itnm a scale fixed upon by them as the minimum mini-mum daily allowances for the different animals in ordinary condition In this a working ox or milch cow is allowed two ounces of salt Reported trials seemed to prove that the amount sped led produces in mUch cows the greatest great-est flow of milk Oxen fed the same amount presented sleek and smooth coats while others receiving no salt were rough mangy and conditioned The scale alluded to allowed for tattf ing stallfed oxen two and a half to fonr ounces of salt per day and for fattening fatten-Ing pigs from one to two ounces For beep from one half ounce to twothirds of an ounce was allowed One ounce was set down as the daily portion for horses and mules Boussingonlt the well known French chemist once tested he salt question with six steers The experiment consumed thirteen months times The steers were placed three in one lot and three in another All received re-ceived an equal amount of food and water but the animals in one lot were given in addition one and an eighth ounce of salt daily while those in the second lot received none at all At the end of the test the first lot were in prime condition and weighed some 140 pounds in excess of the illconditioned second lot that received no salt There Is probably more empiricism in fruit theories and remedies than in any other kind of business Theorists seem to think that fruit trees require butchering In every conceivable way The top must be shortened in or the tops thinned out and large limbs cut off The branches must be shorn of all mall limbs or in some way the saw or axe must be usedthe tree must oe butchered in some way A new theory is now being pushed Nt being able to satiate a thirst for butchery on the top of the tree the roots now come In for a share We are advised to dig down and cut oft the roots say in trees of fonrinchesin diameter to within with-in two feet of the tree leaving only a ball of earth four feet in diameter un disturbed The trench made In cutting off the roots Is to be enriched by manure ma-nure and In tlfb spring liquid manure is to be copiously frequently added and barren trees thus treated are said to produce full crops of fine fruit We I eee no need of all this butchery of the top and root Trees that are too thickly thick-ly branched mar be thinned a little each year in the centre If the fruit Is produced pro-duced too freely It may when set be shaken off or removed by beating with I a small pole wrapped with cloth so that the limbs will not be bruised The thin nlng can be done very rapidly and cheaply too not costing onehalf as much as the pruning would and if the proper quantity of fruit is allowed to remain it will be very fine In both size and flavor Much harm is done by those people called tree butchers by i the pre than can be stoned lor in vearstrf careful cultivation We say 1t the trees be pruned but little and judiciously The orchard should be manured well and the fruit if too much is set to ripen well thinned out letting the butchery of the trees alone Ex i |