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To Protect Fruit Trees From Rabbits. Editors Tennessee Agriculturist : Your orchard should be thorough¬ ly cultivated in low growing crops— melons, cabbage, potatoes, turnips, peas, &c., never in tall growth that obstructs sunshine or air. No crop will pay you better than the cow pea, tilled jii: t as you would corn in checks ; planting at least half dozen peas in a hill. Trie pea will cover the ground, protecting it from the hot Summer sun and enriching the soil, while the yield will be enormous. Allow a portion of your peas to re¬ main on the vines during Winter ; also have a turnip patch in your or¬ chard for Spring greens. These two articles furnish the food that the rab¬ bit is especially fond of, and when in the orchard the rabbits will livo and fatten upon them, never interrupting your trees. I fiud this remedy cheap and certain. Instead of driving the rabbits away I enoouaage them to remain in the orchard ; finding it quite convenient to knock one over when I want a broil. Respect fully, W. Crutchfield. Harrowing in Corn .— A native of Dinwiddio county, Virginia, writes to the Eared Messenger the advan¬ tages he finds in harrowing corn, in preference to hoe covering or cover¬ ing witli the plow, lie says : 1. It effectually destroys the young grass and weeds just putting up be¬ tween the rows. 2. It pul» the land in good condition by breaking the clods and pulverizing the ceming entire sur face. 3. The young corn up on a level instead of on Ibe furrows, is not so liable to injury from heavy rains. 4. The oorn can be ploughed at an earlier stage of its growth with¬ out being covered up, and also can be ploughed much closer. It is the practice of seme to harrow just before or about the time the corn comes up, and while I have followed that to some extent myself with good results, yet I have adopted the plan of put¬ ting in with a harrow for the following reasons : It, saved the work of cover¬ ing the corn by other processes, and it renders the harrowing a certainty— as it often happens that when the harrowing is deferred until after plant ing, heavy tains or a press of other matter, causes it to be “indefinitely postponed.” Grape Vines —The Ohio Farmer speaks of a gentleman residing near Cincinnati, who says that for twenty five years if lias been his practice to let grape viuos run on trees, and climb higher and higher if they please He invariably has a large yield of grapes. He declares that he feels considerably elated when he contrasts his viues with those in his neighbor’s vineyard. “While on one of his vines there will be thousands of bunches of grapes without five miu utes labor in a year, those little pipe stem vines tied to stakes and requir¬ ing constant care only produce a lew bunches." Slicep as Weed Exterminators .— It may uot be known to farmers in genera), that it is a common practice in some parts of the country to turn sheep into the potato fielc^ for the pur pose of eating down the weeds. The sheep will not touch the potato vine. This pasturing with sheep is advan¬ tageous, when the crop is a late plant¬ ed one, so that the hoeing cannot lie completed until after the haying or harvesting is finished. At the grow¬ ing season it is the farmer’s aim to keep down the grass and weeds, so that they may be covered by the cul¬ tivator and hoe, when these are used. Pasturing with sheep will attain this object. Early planted erops, the cultivation of which is completed in the early part of the Summer, fre¬ quently become grassy and weedy, before the time of digging, when the size of the tops precludes cultivation. In this stage the sheep are economical wceders. It is hardly necessary to mention that the feed thus given to the sheep, makes a double profit, inasmuch as it costs absolutely nothing while labor is saved, and weeds pre¬ vented from seeding. Antidotes for Poison. —Commer¬ cial oil of turpentine is a good anti¬ dote to poisoning by phosphorus. The two substances form a compound in the stomach resembling spermaceti, and this can readily he removed from the system. Laudanum or' other anodyne is sometimes taken by mistake or other¬ wise in excess. Swallow strong coffee or the whites of several eggs instantly. All these things are to be done while the doctor is coming. Let every family remember that sweet oil, tbo whites of eggs and strong coffee an¬ tagonize a larger number of poisons than peihaps ail other things to¬ gether. If laudanum, or any other poison not burning the throat, is taken aud is promptly discovered, the best plan is to get it out of the stomach instant¬ ly, which is done by stirring a table¬ spoonful of ground mustard in a tumbler of water, and drinking it down at once ; almost before it is down the whole contents of the stomach begin to be ejected. ------------ Health hints. — hail's Journal of health gives this item Both the brain and the body of the young are feeble and watery, and capable of but little endurance. Witness how soon little children got tired of one thing, even of rest. The mother is always complaining that she can’t keep her children quiet a minute ; put them at anything that they really desire to do, and before you know it they will be off at something else ; it is because no organ of the brain, no muscle of the body, is strong enough fur exertion except for a very short time. Hence both brain and muscle should bo alternated frequently ; the overwork of one is as unphilosophical and as criminal as the overwork of the other. Sabbath days are quirt islands on the tossing sea of life. To Drive Weevils from Earns .— A writer in a French publication as- j serts that bis father had, a long time ; ago, his granaries and barns infested with these insects {curculio grana rius), so much so that they penetrated into all the bins and grain stored therein. lie plaecd an open cask impregnated with tar in the barn and then in the granaries. At the end of some hours the weevils wore seen climbing along the wall by myriads, and flying in all directions from the cask. On moving the tarred vessel from place to place, the premises were in a few days completely cleared of these troublesome and pernicious guests. The farmer who is troubled with these insects may, as soon as he perceives tin ir presence, imprcgnatr the surface of some old planks with tar aud place them as required in his granaries. Care must he taken to renew the tar from time to time in the course of the year, to prevent their return. Field Carrots .—Having ploughed and harrowed the ground, mark for seed, twenty inches apart, leaving drills two incites deep. So;fk seed over night in water as hot as the hand cax be held in ; drain and mix with dry ashes until tin* seed will separate Sow about, the lOlh of May. After sowing, brush a little dirt on the seed The row should be rolled nr stamped hard, leaving the spaces between as light, and loom* as possible. 'Hie ear rots, if the seed is good, will appear in about ten days, or about two weeks sooner than by the ordinary manner of planting. They should he hood as soon as they begin to come up. The previous rolling in the r<»w will hold the small plants ho that the hoe may cut close without disturbing them. Repeat the hoeing in a week. The weeds and surplus carrots may now be easily pulled from the rows. Ex. ♦ • ♦ The power of growing plants is almost incredible. The roots of a i tree will upset a massive stone wall, against which they have grown, in¬ stead of giving way and striking into the yielding soil. A mushroom a ill lift a paving store rather than grow out of its natural course. Cultivating — An oicbard needs to be kept plowed and thoroughly j cultivated in order to produce the best results, and during the lirat few years after plant ing some crop may be raised ; between the rows ; potatoes or carrots 1 are good crops for a young orchard. ---- In Russia a man and wife own ! their own property always separately, aud instances have occurred of wives suing their husbands for debt, and are by no means uncommon. --- — - Cream of tartar biscuits are made by mixiug oue tcaspoonful of cream of tartar with sufficient 11 uir to make a | batch, one-half tea.spoonful of soda dissolved in the milk, with which mix the flour. Addition of sweeten iug makes them uicer; but with only sweet milk they are very good, and not dangerous to dyspeptics. Cultivation of Corn .—We have so fully entered upon the discussion of this duty in our May and June numbers, that we need say but little thereon. This crop must be kept clean from the time that is high enough to work, until laid by—it will not do to permit weeds and grass to contend with it for the mastery, but the hoe and the cultivator should be kept busily employed, not only to keep it clean, but at ilit* same time to keep the soil in a proper condition to in reive the fullest advantage from the atmospheric influences and the nitro¬ genous supplices of plant food which are derivable from the dews and rains of Heaven. As remarked on former occasions, the c dtivator and the hoe arc the proper implements for this purpose after the plants are f ur incites high or more, as the. use oi the plow is apt to lacerate the roots of the young plant—the philosophy of this, we need not repeat.— Ex. Harvesting. —At the South, the wheat harvest by this time is pretty well over—as early as the first of June the first wheat of the season was in the Baltimore market, shipped by Branch & Scott, of Augusta, (la., and was purchased by our enterprising merchants, Messrs. T. W. Levering A Me A tee, at the extraordinary price of $5.50 per bushel —the first, lot was received la>t year on 31st May, one day earlier, aud sold at $3 per bushel — ho much for energy and good man¬ agement! hi our June number we have so thoroughly gone over the whole ground, in our suggestions for preparing for the harvest and the cutting and securing the grain, that we can add thereto at. the present time. We, therefore, refer "our readers to the remarks tin-rein made, to select from them such as may be applicable to their circumstances at the present time.— Ex. Cruel ,/okc. —Two practical jokers in a Virginia town were left in charge of numerous babies, on a special occasion, while the mamas enjoyed a dance, changed the clothes of the little darlings, and arrayed each uiie in strange habiliments. The motions, after an hour or so of devotion to Tcrpsiehorean delights, tq*.k their baby \estrnents and the dear little hums therein contained, and retired to their respective and once happy homes. On preparing the little ones fur the crib, sexes had changed—girls were boys and boys girls—and with one universal yell the outraged ma tcrnals set out on a baby hunt. At last accounts, almost all had succeeded in recovering the lost heirs; but the wags keep out of the way of those matrons as much as possible. ——- + •»+ ---- A Cure for Earache. —Then? is scarcely any ache to which children are sm ject so bad to bear, and diffi* cult to cure, as the earache. Hut there is a remedy never known to fail. Take a bit of cotton batting, put upon it a pinch of black pepper, gather it up aud tie it, dip it in sweet oil and insert it in the ear. Put a flannel badge over the head to keep it wai in It will give immediate relief. — Household.