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Losing Situations. It is a had business of losing tions. It, is a Lad sign, too, for t presumptive proof that the loser not deserve the situations he fails retain. It may not boon account dishonesty, morality or drunkencss, or ; these are giant vices condemn their victim in all and circumstances. The young man who is dishonest, or addicted to dis¬ sipation and licentiousness, need not expect to be trusted with the business ol others; it is a wonder that he should keep it. Rut the severe exac¬ tions of business in these times re¬ quire something else of a young man than exempliori from faults and vices; they demand positive virtues and apti¬ tudes. A young man may possess exemplary morals; he may have no had habits ; he may flatter himself that he has a good education, that lie writes a good hand, that he is quick at figures, a mathematician, a linguist, and a scholar. All this is well ; but it is not enough ; these accomplish¬ ments arc graces that adorn a charac¬ ter, and give satisfaction to their pos¬ sessor ; but they do not mean busi¬ ness. {situations demand not merely the absence of bad habits ; they exact good habits, such ns dilligence, in¬ dustry, cheerful willingness to work, without measuring the alloted task; a vigilant watchfulness over the em¬ ployer’s interest ; the prrctice of doing thiugs thoroughly and effec¬ tively ; promptness and reliability. All these may be possessed by men of only ordinary talents and indifferent education ; but they will enable such a man to hold iiis situations, and rise higher ami higher in his em¬ ployer’s favor, while a young man of superior talents, education and accom¬ plishments, who is destitute of these sterling qualities, will lose one posi¬ tion after another. It is a pitiable sight to sec a man out of business, and without means, appealing to per¬ sonal friends to assist him. Rut there arc too many young men seeking clerkships aud agencies, who want not the situation but the salary; they de¬ sire good wages with little labor; they want to do as little work and to earn as much money as possible. They perform their duties but decline to perform more than their duties, they are languid, listless, and indifferent ; they take no active interest in the for¬ tunes oi their employer, and put them¬ selves to no trouble to win his favor, i hese are the men who lose situations without knowing exactly why. If a situation man, young or old, would retain his and win favor, lot him make himself indispensable to his employ ers. The task is not a diilicult one, and will be worth more titan ho im agined. •------ - Things a Farmer Should Not Do —A farmer should never keep more cattle, bev c s, sheep or hogs, titan he can keep in good older ; an animal in high order the first of December already half wintered. The farmer should never be so im¬ mersed in political matters as to tor get to sow his wheat, dig his potatoes, and bank up his cellar; nor should he be so inattentive to them as to re¬ main ignorant of those great questions of national and state policy which will always agitate more or less a free people. should A farmer shun the doors of a hank as he would an approach of the plague or cholera ; banks are for men of speculation, and theirs is a business with which farmers should have little to do. A farmer should never be ashamed of his calling ; we know that no man can be entirely independent, yet the farmer should remember that if any one can be said to possess that en¬ viable distinction, he is the man. No farmer should allow the re¬ proach of neglecting education to lie against himself or family ; if know¬ ledge is power, the beginning of it should be early and deeply laid in the district school. A farmer should never use ardent spirit as a drink ; if, while undergo¬ ing severe fatigue, and the hard labors of the Summer, ho would en¬ joy robust health, let him be tem¬ perate in all things. From the French of M. do Dombaslo, Scarlet Clover. The scarlet clover has been long cultivated in Southern Franco as an excellent forage crop. Of late years it has been introduced in some of the more northern departments, where it has succeeded very well. It is no more sensible to frosts than the ordi¬ nary clover, especially if sown early, so as to become well rooted before Winter.....One ought not to pass the end of August before sow¬ ing is finished. The most valuable property of this plant is that it. may bo cut in the Spring fifteen days before other clover and ordinarily before lucerne. It gives but one crop if cut when in bloom, which only happens where oue has no need uf green forage early iu Spring; but when it is cut before the heads appear, a second crop can be cut, but it will be weak unless the soil is strong. Strong soils will be found most profitable for all forage crops. It is not very difficult a,s to choice of soils, but light sandy or gravelly soils is loams. much better than clays or heavy This plant must be sown by itself, and may succeed any cereal or other crop. Consumed green, it is a valu¬ able forage, and it comes at a time when stock are not particular abcut green food ; but it is inferior to clover, whether used green or made into hay. One sows, ordinarily, about 1G lbs. of clean seed per acre, or its equivalent in seed left iu the head (4 bushels of seed iu the chaff are equivalent to 1G lbs. of clean seed. —Ed. F. &. II.) The last method is preferred, as the a ed is more sure to vegetate, probably because the en¬ velop left on the seed preserves mois¬ ture and facilitates vegetation. This plant likes a firm bottom; thus in a light soil not infested with weeds it is thought better not to woik it deeply after the preceding crop, but to pre¬ pare the surface merely, and then sow broadcast and harrow thoroughly. Oa some soils thorough harrowing is quite sufficient preparation, but if the land be foul it must be plowed, but not deeply, mdweli harrowed b< fore, and after sowing.” Covering Strawberries. Wherever the ground is likely to be frozen at any time during flic Win¬ ter, strawberries will do very much better, producing larger fruit and more of it, in case the beds arc well protected by a mulch from now until the 1st of April. Even where there is no frost, but harsh, strong winds that blow off the fine earth from around the surface roots of the plants, it will pay well to cover the beds with some kind of lifter. It is not necessary that I lie plants should be covered very heavy ; enough is wanted to cover the foliage the width of the row or bed. When the ground becomes frozen under this mulch, it is likely to remain so all Winter, pre¬ venting, as the mulching effectually does, the alternate changes of freezing and thawing of the surface, which often proves so fatal to the surface roots of strawberry plants when no mulch is used and the ground is frozen to a depth of six or eight inches early in the Winter. Then follows a spell of warm, mild weather in mid-winter, or toward spring, and thaws a couple of inches of the surface ; the expansion of these two inches will often break off a third of the roots or strawberries, and many of tin* plants will be heaved out, or so nearly so that they are worthless fur bearing, and might as well he hoed out altogether, tor the leaves will turn a dark brown about the middle of May; and if such "stools” produce any fruit, it will be small and inferior in quality. This is more likely t* occur where berries arc grown on heavy clay soil, especially if the ground becomes lro zen while the surface is wet. When the beds are carefully mulched there is seldom any injury from "heaving, J ’ and the foliage is generally found, when the luuleli is taken off in the Spring, to be fresh, aud the blossom buds looking very much more vigorous than it left ex¬ posed through the cold weather. Wheat or rye straw is better than oat straw for covering strawberi ies. Reaves gathered from the woods make an excellent mulch, provided they run he kept in place ; a strong wind will j often blow them all about wh n they j become dry from exposure. This cjii , easily i.« prevented of l.y scattering leaves some earth on top the as s ion as they are put on the beds. A neighbor protects his beds in this way. mulch The sooner the is put on the better, and there nec-1 be no dausp-r apprehended from tin* plants being injured when covered before very cold weather sets in. Before putting the mulch on heavy ground, it is a good plan to draw some Lose earth up around the "stools" of plant-:. In the garden this can be done with the h n-, aud in field culture a shallow furrow thrown toward the row of plants, and then leveled off some with the hoe, will be Lund to answer a good purpose. In case a few of the outside leaves are covered by* the loose soil, it will in no way injure the vigor or fruitfulness of the plaut for next year’s bearing. When mulching material cannot be procured, this method of drawing the loosed earth toward the rows of plants late in the Fall, will be found to protect the plants from heaving to¬ ward Spring, in case the weather is unsettled through the month of March. Veter Henderson. To Prevent Hoys' Rooting. — A correspondent of the Cincinnati Gazette gives his mode of preventing hogs’ rooting, which at least, has the merit of cheapness and simplicity. “I go to the tinner’s and buy rings made for the purpose nearly an inch in diameter; I take a pair of nippers and force the ends of the ring apart sideway—if the wire is soft l do it with my fingers ; then I take a tile and file one of the ends smooth. Now l am ready for the hogs. "I put them in a^small pen where they cannot stir much, and take a small rope five or bed-cord six feet long ; a piece of common that has been used a little to pi event it from being stiff is the best; l make a noose at one end of the rope about ten or twelve inches Wide ; then l put the noose under the hogs nose, when it will open its mouth, and 1 pull the rope hack behind its tusks ; now 1 draw the rope tight, and fasten the other end of the rope to the other side* of the pen, when the hog will stand with rope tight. Now 1 take a shoemaker’s punch, and when I get ready, l instantly punch a hole in the middle of the rooter (standing actraddlc of the hog): then 1 draw the ends of the rings together as it was when 1 got it from the tinner's : after (his I take a small pair of tongs, made lor the purpose by the black¬ smith, aud press the ring to a smaller circumferecce, as 1 were going to tie the ends of the lings together with a string. "I prefer this m >de as a small d ing is apt to ( ill out sooin r ; tie* end of the wire begiug twisted is apt to catch on the clover it it is high and keep the hog’rt nose sere also, 1 can ring the help.’ largest h**g I raise without any Receipt for Rots in Horses — It is well known that noordinary nostrums admini-fered to the hor-e will have . ... lV . . hi - mouth is so deep in the coatings of the stomach that it cannot be reached, but an ounce of chloroform Will gei: cral y so stupefy his senses that he w l! l ' ,0 sc h “ l, « ld ' when 3 l’ ur l*«*ivc ' f , i,uy y kind klmi , Wl11 wm carry carr » thcm off 1 have never seen a case lost when so treated. Men seldom or never die prema¬ turely of overwork. What they die of is the W3iit of pr *m> rify in their work. It was a wonderfully .shrewd saying whoever said it, that wc do not die of the work wc do, but of that we find we cannot do. Men die prana turely of chagrin.