Show house and farm NUTMEGS to test nutmegs prick them with a pin and if they arc are the oil will instantly spread sp r end round the LEMON SHORTCAKE make a rich shortcake split and butt erthen lake take rind juice and pulp of three lemons grated one cup of sugar and one cup of cream READILY spots on varnished furniture arc are readily removed by rubbing rubbin them with essence of peppermint or spirits of camphor and after with furniture polish or oil APPLE arple guetl r stew eight large apples and mash fine add four eggs one cup of hugar small piece of butter season with cinnamon and n ittem bako bake until brown and servo serve ilot hot MICE to keep keel seeds from the depredations of mice mix some pieces I of camphor with them camphor r placed in trunks or in drawers will prevent mice from doing them injury mix N some chocolate powder with white of eggs and powdered powdered loa loaf r sugar into a paste mold this into biscuits and bake them at a gentle heat on a sheet of white paper fon FOR POOL EVIL IN HORSES take corrosive sublimate in small lumps lum size ize of small marble and introduce t rois uy into nto the opening pening ono one lump at a time do this his t every three or four days until it shows sign of improving CATSUP BOTTLES if you have trouble to get your last years catsup bottles perfectly clean after washing them thoroughly in suds and rinsing in in clear a it potato quite fine mix it with a little warm water put this in the bottle and shako it well it will surely remove any foreign pub sub stance IN ORCHARDS the country gentleman says say that sheep in orchards will annihilate the codling moth those who have orchards and sheep should make a note of this a fact and the they may also note that the fertilizers that sheep drop in an orchard will greatly increase the crop of fruit and improve its quality dr T H U hoskins II of vermont who has lias been a fruit grower for 35 years and owns an orchard of over 1500 trees is i willing to confess that there is a great deal still to be learned about the business he ile adds add I have never found the kind of men that knew it all of much value as teachers |