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Show FARM AM HOIESHOLD. Japanf.se Farming. lion. James Brook.s. speaking ol' Jajinuese arioul-turo, arioul-turo, says: "-Proud as L am of thf arts, Fcienees ar.tl marvelous doings of my own country, 1 b!uh when I compare com-pare American farming willi tlii.s!" Froen potatoes, says the Scientific Scien-tific lJrcss, if not permitted to thaw before being cooked, can be baked so ;is to be as good as if never frozen. They can't be boiled, however, nor even baked if submitted to tbe usual cleansing process of washing. Bkes. The same journal says : One of our bee-keepers prevents his swarm.i from leaving his premises by killing all the "queens" bat one in each hive and then clipping one wing of eaeh. Lf they then attempt lo leave, they go no faster than the queen travels on loot, and arc consequently easily Lived. To .salt i:i:es 1i!1 a vessel, trough, bucket, or anything that will hold water, with water, shaving3 and salt, and set in the yard. They will soon find it, and through May and June, and all through the breeding season, the vessel will be covered with bees. To Harvest Carrots. Cut the tops with a hoe, plow between the rows with a subsoil plow, which loosens the roots so that with a potato-hook or dung-fork they may be very easily gathered. The tops, as well as alt other root tops, if put in layers of a foot thick between rails, and made into a pile five or sis feet thick, will keep for a lon time. Corxand Cocs. To experiment-: ing as to the relative weight of corn i and cobs at Geneva, III., tho following ! is the average result: Selected lots i showed a weight of a little less than 12-j pouuds of cobs for eacli bushel of shelled corn; or fi8 in the ear would give sixty pounds of shelled corn. Home-made Chloride of Lime. An excellent disinfectant is readily obtained ob-tained by dissolving a bushel of salt in a barrel of water, and wilh the sill water slack a barrel of lime, which should be wet enough to form a kind of paste. For l he purpose of a disinfectant, disin-fectant, this home-made chloriile ol lime is neatly as goud as that pun-hasi-d at the shops and drugstores. |