Show I t rli + INDOORS AND OUT 1111 IJ p IJf I 1 The Farm Orchard Garden r > 1 I sand < Household jfl f i i t V v HINTS AND NOTES FOR ALL I d ft t C 1 Cabbago Worms Setting Hens Cur i Inc CloTOj Carpet Moths Acute Rheumatism I I i 1 This is an excellent drink cases of j diarrhoea A coffee cnpfnl of browned coarse cornmeal boiled in sufficient t t water to make it as strong as coffee L Drink warm as possible + fl i Monse holes in walls and closets f J should be filled with lime afterward I iii pasted over with plaster of Paris mixed l h J > mix-ed with water It is a good plan to keep a paper of the latter in every house f J as it is useful in filling cracks and in fact comes in in many other ways Into 1 household economy 4 It is a slovenly practice to take a reaper into a harvest field without first cutting around the field with a cradle The like is done however more and more each year one reason for this state J i of affairs being that few farmers haye Ala t cradles in good condition for using and I few men nowadavs know how to nse i t cra lesEx t j The field pea is ready to cut before i 5 oats but you must cut when the pea is s ready The pea must not be allowed to h J get quite ripe for it shells very easily i t and you may find the best part of the crop shelled outon the ground TVJien I the pod begins to change color at the top of 4 the vine cut the crop at once and do this when the dew is on it in the I morning Better err in cutting 11 little early than late 1 The cheapest method of avoiding lice i I is to swab the roosts with coal oil once a week It may be mixed in proportion t to one quart mal coal oil and one gallon I of milk as an emulsion Now slack en I T ough lime in warm water to maKe a buck buc-k t ofwhitewash ad to each bucket of whitewash add one quart of the oil and milk emulsion Use it freely on the f walls and very part of the poultry t house and the lice will be destroyed t Human beings do not experience any thing more painful and troublesome than boils They can be effectually destroyed de-stroyed by taking the following mixture mix-ture Two ounces on Epsom salts one D ill t ounce of saltpetre put into a wine bottle of spring water shake it often A Take a wineglassful three consecutive mornings fasting then stop for three mornings and then go on again until the whole of the mixture is used This ism is-m a capital medicine t J An ointnfent for eradicating the accumulated t ac-cumulated matter from the legs of fowls afflicted with scaly leg may be I r made as follows Sulphur one tablespoonful table-spoonful carbolic acid liquid one teaspoonful lard one ounce Mix the j ingredients intimately and after washing wash-ing away the dirt with soap and water anoint the legs from the thighs to the toes well Repeat the operation once a week Three or four applications will J usually be sufficient r I This is a recipe to make rice muffins 1 t I One pint of rich milk one quart of sifted S 1 IL I flour one pint of soft boiled rice three wellbeaten eggs a tablespoonful of sncar one teaspoonful of salt one of soda and two of cream of tartar Mix sugar salt soda and cream of tartar with the flour and rub through the l sieve add the eggs to the milk and stir gradually into the dour when a smooth J light batter or paste add the rice and 4 beat thoroughly bake thirtyfive butfered minutes in buttered rings in pans g Ex l There is no such disease as hollow I 1 I horn When cattle are sick their horns t i J are apt to be cold but we must look I I elsewhere than to the horn for the disease Indigestion is quite apt to be E I the cause and this is often accompanied with loss of appetite indicated by a i refushl to chew the cud It is a popular I f popu-lar mistake to suppose that the cud has been lost and must be replaced We f might as well talk of putting an appetite I appe-tite into a dyspeptic man Exercise fnbrinEx 1 and careful feeding will bring cattle I 9 around all right and men also for that 1 j matterAmerican Cultivator In horses the pulse at rest beats forty times in an ox from fifty to fiftyfive i and in sheep and pigs about seventy i to eighty beats per minute It may be felt wherever a large artery crosses a bone for instance It is generally examined ex-amined in the horse on the cord which crosses over the bone of the lower jaw in front of its curved position or in the bony ridge above the eye anti in cattle over the middle of the first rib anoint anoin-t IL sheep by placing the hand en the left T side where the beating of the heart can J be felt Any material variation of the i i pulse from the figures given above may t c t beconsidered a sign of disease If I F rapid hard and full it is an indication of high fever or inflammation if rapid 1 t small and weak low feyer loss of blood or weakness If slow the probabilities I proba-bilities point to a brain disease and if irregular to heart troubles This is one j i of the1 principal and sure tests of the I S health of an animal Ez 55 t > Mr Faville at a meeting of the Wisconsin Wis-consin Dairymens Association About curing clover I 1 I ia say cure your t clover in the mowput it into a big b mow the bigger the better and as tight 7 to 1 j as you can make it As to just the extent ex-tent to which it should be cured let it be nSi just a little wilted If the season is wet and the land and hW are full of t water of course it must be aried more vt i but inan ordinary season cut jt after J the dew is offremember thatand fi 11 that it takes a good while for the dew I S to dry off clover and put it into the S mow not wet but green We usually I 1 s cure too much it should be green i k enough I remember I tried it only on + the assurance of a rich neighbor that I if it burned up my barn he would in1 I s t demnify me for all damage and I felt I I I pretty sure it would burn but it did t not It turned to a sortof reddish I brown but the cowsate it as greedily as1 I fresh clover Now thisis just what I I j c do in good weather Cut it after dew l is off leaveitin cocks over night turn it III it over a little next day and the next afternoon put it jute the mow Itis a good plan toput a layer of etrawoverit to absorb the moistun I Mi Now we have not tried the above and f will not p sitivelyl endorse any thing A we have not tried or seen or known of I its trial by men in whose judgement we bave confidence But we have a large suspicion that Mr Faville is right I Western Farm Journal I j r S 4 According to an exchange dry powdered salt will keep moths out of I a carpet The salt should be spnnklw freely over the carpet particularly 1 along the edges then sweep thoroughly Thisshould be done about once a month in moth time and there will be no trouble from the destructive insect A physician says I have tried many remedies but none have yielded me the uniform satisfaction I have derived from the following agents simple as I thev may seem to beso simple indeed and so very oldfashioned that some your readers may not be willing to utliz them I hope nowever that none will be deterred on account of the reason named and that when called on to treat their next case of rheumatism they will give the drugs named an impartial im-partial trial I begin the treatment by putting one ounce each of Epsom salts nitrate potash and powdered sulphur into one quart of boiling water Thi after being allowed to stand in a covered cover-ed vessel for six hours is well strained and given in doses of one ounce three or four times during the day To the swollen and painful joints I apply by means of cloths a liniment compo of Olive 011 Five ounces Chloroform Two ounces AqaaAmmonU H Sir I drams Tincture of Aconite Root Two drams Apply sufficiently often to relieve pain Should the above means not secure rest at night I administer a full dose of bromide of potash and repeat in one hour if necessary I have now used it in quite a number of cases of acute and even violent rheumatism and have not seen it fail to do good The cabbage worm is one of the serious seri-ous pests of the vegetable garden Many ways are suggested for its destruction A strong solution of saltpetre sprinkled on the growing plants has been used effectively recommendation the saltpetre is that it isharmless to human beings Mr Ruinn the noted market gardener near Newark New Jersey who Bas tried fifteen different mixtures or decoctions for the cabbage worm prefers pre-Fers twenty parts of gypsum three or four parts of quicklime ana one part of carbolic acid sprinkled thinly over the leaves when wet with dew or rain repeating re-peating the application as often as necessary which may be a number of times Another plan is to use simply icecold water or water but a few degrees warmer warm-er than ice water sprinkled upon the worms during the heat of the day Mr Erwin found that such an application in the hot sun caused them to quickly let go their hold upon the leaves curl up roll to the ground and die while the he cabbages suffered nothing but looked look-ed all the fresher for the application Should this method prove as successful with others as it las with him it is evident that we have here a remedy of Very general application and one which in cheapness and simplicity far transcends tran-scends the pyrethrum which since I first discovered its valUe for the purpose in 1880 has been on the whole our safest and most satisfactory remedy against Pieris rapt Where Ice Is read ly obtainable as in the more Northern states or where cold springs are found Mr Erwins discovery will prove as use ful against some other cabbage worms The correspondent of poultry journal says Two years ago I made the nests for my sitting hens in a roomy > room-y themselves and cave them plenty of corn and water When they came off to eat they made bad work getting back on the nests again Sometimes there would be three hens on one nest and as many more without any consequently consequent-ly I bad very poor luck with them others sat well for about two weeks and then they would leave their nests and in this way I lost a number of sittings tings of choice eggs At last I determined deter-mined if possible to find out the cause of their strange behavior I caught one of the hens 1 soon found the cause She was covered with mites After that I thought I would fix them all right So I purchased some medicated nest eggs to keep the pests at bay I thought they needed to be recharged with carbolic acid and so I charged them and the chicks too for not an egg hatched where I used the nest eggs but the hen could sit quite comfortably since then I have had better success 1 make a box about fourteen inches square and six inches deep and line it with tare paper then make a nest of fine straw put in several porcelain eggs and after dark place the Hen on the nest and if she sits all right for a day or two exchange the porcelain for good eggs Sprinkle flour of sulphur on biddy and she is all right Each hen has her nest in a separate pen and is supplied every night with fresh water and corn Never put more than thirteen eggs under un-der a hen in warm weather and nine oren or-en are enough if the weather is cold In warm weather I use nest boxes without with-out bottoms and make the nest on the round with a covering of fine straw But in early spring I use boxes with bottoms and plenty of fine straw to Ii make a good warm nest l |