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Show THE FARM AND GARDEN. Asiatic Poultry. What are known in this country as the Asiatic breeds of poultry are at the present day divided under six names, as Light and Dark Brahmas, and Partridge, Burl, White and Black Oochins. We e nothing any more at the exhibi-1 Dons ot Shanghai, Cochin China or Chittacone fowls. These old-fashinnpil names have given way to those above mentioned; and where we formerly saw large fowls of all styles and shades of color, we now see six well-dctined well-dctined families of stately birds of Asiatic origin. SUBSTITUTE FOR EGGS. It IS not generally known that boiled carrots, when properly prepared, form u excellent ex-cellent substitute for eggs in paddings. They nniat, for this purpose, be boiled and mashed, and passed through a coarse cloth or hair seiva strainer. The pulp is then introduced among the other ingredients at the pudding, to the total omission ot eggs. A pudding made up in this way is much lighter than when eggs are used, and is much more palatable. On the principle of economy, this fact is worthy of the prudent housewife's house-wife's attention. To Destroy Canker Worms. To completely destroy canker worms in orchards, Mr. E. T. Curtis, of Rock-ford, Rock-ford, 111., writes, is by the use ot Paris green in water, applied with a large syringe or force pump, a tablespoon-tul tablespoon-tul to a patent pailful of water. When the worms are all hatched, as near as can be iudced. eive the trea a good wetting down, and if afterwards after-wards it is discovered that they were not ail killed, put on more, but usually usual-ly one wetting will answer. The liquid will not only destroy the canker can-ker worm, but the myriads of insects too small to be seen by the naked eye, that are preyine upon the foliage of trees. Picking qyf Potatok Blossoms. We observe some discussion in the papers on the practical utility of pick-1 iug the blossoms off from growing I potatoe plants to increase the growth of the tubers. According to theory this would be the result, the formation forma-tion of seed always tendine to exhaust more or less the vitality ol the plant. Many years ago a statement came from Europe on this subject, and we were told that the crop would be in creased one-third by carefully removing remov-ing all the blossoms. We gave it a careful tst in rows side by side, but ordinary measuring did not indicate the slightest difference, which mast have been very small if any probably proba-bly requiring more refined weighing to distinguish it, and of no' consequence conse-quence whatever in common practice. |
