COUNTRY DOCTORS.
The Busy Lives of Country Phy¬
sicians in the Last Century.
Medical Treatment in the Days
of Our Great Grandfathers.
Ty e country physician of colonial
day3, and of the years ending with the
last century, led a laborious life. Most
of his waking hours were spent in rid¬
ing long distances over bad roads. He
was obliged to bo hail-fellow-well-met
with every one iu the county, for on his
popularity largely depended his profes¬
sional success. In tlioso toping days
there was always something on the side¬
board for tho doctor, of which he was
rarely loath to take advantage; conse¬
quently, he generally mellowed with
the years, grew rotund in person, and,
like Hawthorn’s middle-aged English¬
man, “his legs abbreviated themselves,
and hi3 stomach assumed that dignified
prominence which justly belonged to
that metropolis of his system, llis eye
■contracted a merry twinkle, a chuckle
lurked in his full throat, always ready
for use, and gradually ho grew to be
known as a peripatetic story-teller, and
often the best gossiji in tho county.
At that time, as a general thing,
chemists and druggists had not yet
been educated, and established ou the
most prominent corners of tho towns.
The apothecary shop of the neighbor¬
hood was usually wherever the doctor’s
saddle-bags happened to be at the time.
Drugs were then taken in largo doses,
their use not being by any means Con¬
fined to the sick. Purgative compounds
were administered to tho hearty and
strong each spring, and it was deemed
necessary that at that season of the year
The blood of both old anti young should
be purified by the use of generous doses
•of noxious mixtures. Rhubarb and mo
lasses were forced down tho throats of
healthy children as a fancied preven¬
tive of disease, and mercurial medicines
were used to such an extent as often, to
result in the falling out of tho
patient’s teeth. Powerful tine
turcs, loathsome infusions, Ahd
bitter barks were prescribed in such
quantities as would hardly be credited
■by physicians of the present day. Gen¬
tlemen of the profession, when at s, loss
to know what to prescribe, were al¬
ways ready to pull, out the laucot, and
pious quailtitit
uo when such
.veaaenmg a u d depseting treatment
..
creased the malady and hastened death.
.Blood-letting was oven resorted to in
■cases far gone with consumption, and
by the oid-time physician was considered
tho alpha and omega of ail practice
During tho prevalence of yellow fever
in Philadelphia testimony was taken
as to its manner of treatment. Mc
Master quotes from the published re¬
port, showing that one patient was bled
twontv-two times ia ton days, losing
170 ounces of blood. From another o°f
the sick 150 ounces were taken in fitoen
bleedings; several lost over 100 ounces,
and from one child but six weeks old
30 ounces were drawn. The Rev. Dr.
Ashbel Green writes in his autobiogra¬
phy the t when a lad of about ninetcan,
and without any medical knowledge, he
* Uflr -d to bo called upon by his father—
who was a clergyman, physician, farmer
and distiller—to prepare medicines, let
blood, extract teeth and inoculate for
smallpox.
At the beginning of the eighteenth
century smallpox was still tho enemy of
mankind, as that dread disease had been
Dorn tlio sixth century, when, in
Arabia, it started on its mission of
death. It was annually committing
fearful ravages—as many as 400,000
dying in Europe iu ono year. The
.Sist, a3 if desirous of compensating the
v t'rld for originating this terrible
scourge, gave to suffering humanity its
Initial knowledge of how to check its
spread, for it was in Turkey that inocu¬
lation first became known. This man¬
ner of fighting the disease was intro¬
duced in the Amercan colonies in 1721
by Dr. Zabdiel Boylston of Now Eng¬
land, at the earnest instigation of Cot¬
ton Mather, who had learned of the
success in the Ottoman empire of such
treatment. In tho face of great op¬
position, the doctor’s first experiments
■were made on his son, a lad of thir¬
teen, and on two negro slaves. The re¬
sult was such as to warrant his extond
ing the operations, and during the year
240 persens were inoculated. For a
time Dr. Boylston stood alone. Physi
cians, people, and the press were intense
against this new manner of combating
the smallpox. Even Franklin, who
was generally far ahead of the times in
his appreciation of what was valuable
for the community, wrote strongly in
condemnation of tho practice. He a!
tered his views in later life, as is
shown by his memoirs, although long
before that time the treatment had con
quered opposition, and was generally
accepted as a true preventive of this
terrible scourge of the colonist.—[New
York Post.
Of all our infirmities, vanity is the ■
dearest to U3. A man will starve his j
other vices to keep that alive. j
THE DEMOCRAT, CRAWlo'DVTLLE. GEORGIA.
Professional Incendiaries.
Pew have any idea of the large num¬
ber of incendiary fires that the mem¬
bers of the New York lire department
cope with annually, says the Sun of
that city, and very few people can real¬
ise the difficulty tho police and in¬
surance men meet with in tlieir en¬
deavors to not only prevent incendiar¬
ism, but to detect and convict those
guilty of this crime, The insurance
men claim, and perhaps justly, that they
are constantly being,/ viudled by pro¬
fessional incendiaries <* l of largo sums
of money. P
“The professional incendiary—and
there are lots of them in New York,”
said a prominent insurance adjuster,
“is a man who devotes all his abilities
in trying to swindle insurance com¬
panies and make money easily, lie has
no other trade or business occupation.
Ho starts as a dry goods merchant, a
provision dealer, dealer in Yankee
notions, a jeweller, or in any branch of
trade that is reputable. Ho hires liis
store, selects his stock of goods, and en¬
gages his clerks, and then, like any
cautious business man of respectability,
he places an insurance on his prop¬
erty. But, unlike tho bona-fide
business man, he insures as heavily as
the most • careless broker will allow.
Shortly afterward there is a fire in that
establishment, everything is cleaned out,
and he collects tho insurance.
“How can tkesj men sot tiro to their
premises and cscapo detection was
asked.
“The cat and fisli racket is the latest
wrinkle, Et was explained to mo by a
mita who was very successful as a pro¬
fessional incendiary, but who has at last
been driven out of Now York. He said:
‘When it is about time to have a tire tho
tho incendiary has tho Walls and Ceilings
covered with varnish or shellac, which
of courso is very inflammable. Then ho
discards tho gfi; burner or the electric
light, and lias a lamp illuminated by
kerosene oil placed on liis desk. Tho
light is better to read and write by, ho
3a I s > and no ono can take any ekeep
fioua to his statement;, bo far there is
nothing to indicate tho “professional
incendiary.” lie then expends a few
cents for a fish, tho more ancient the
better. IIo ties the aforesaid fish to a
piece of Strlug, and fastens the
string to tho ceiling, so that when
in position tho rather antiquated
fish will be suspended from twelve to
eighteen inches above the top of the
!am P chimney. He then brings into his
i stray cat, the hungrier the bet
..ttrpBTpbsk “FtS lamp"” • ibi
ig, the fish is in position, and tho
pussy is shut in the office, Tho pre¬
sumed respectable merchant hies to his
home. Tho cat gets hungry; that cat,
like all other felines, likes fish. Pussy
is semil on the merchant’s desk, and
soon after is springing up to claw tho
fish, which, suspended by a strong
string, sways back and forth. It is but
a abort time boforo tho lamp is upset
and broken, the oil ignites and spreads,
tho varnished walls and ceilings readily
catch fire, and by the timo the insur¬
ance patrol reach the scene, there is no
cat, no fish, no string—nothing in fact
to tell how the fire originated, for every¬
thing is burning. That’s how some of
the fires have been started in New
York.
A Chick’s Parentage.
The Now York Sun, in answer to a
question as to which lien is tho mother
of a chicken, tho hen that lays tho egg
or the lion that hatches it, replies truly:
“You must not approach this question
iu tho same state of mind as that in
which you approach similar questions of
humanity. A woman adopts a found¬
ling of a day, but she is not the mother,
liens, in the minds of men, must bo
judged by different standards. The
first hen merely lays tho egg. So far as
she 13 concerned tho egg would remain
always an egg. It might bo boiled and
eaten. Perhaps it might take up evil
courses and go to the bad. But tho
second hen comes and sits on the egg as
a loving parent sits on an obstreperous
child. In duo course of timo tho °SS
becomes a chicken, full of aspirations
and of life far greater and nobler than
those of the raw, uncultivated egg. To
the second hen is this change due. Tho
second hen is tho mother of the chicken
though tho first hen is the mother of
egg.”
A Dog’s Ride Down a Flume.
Barney Cusick, when he came down
from the mountains about a month ago,
left his dog Nero at the mills. The dog
""as B 10 constant companion of the chil
the summer during their ram.
Wes over tlle Bills, as well as at home,
aa( I they missed their four-footed play
mate. Air. Cusick accordingly wrote to
tB® boys at the mill, asking them to
send the dog down as soon as possible^
Not wishing to wait a week or so for
the stage, the men built a raft anti on
top of it mado a large box and placed
some hay in the bottom. Nero was put
in, and the raft started on its forty-mile
trip. Air. Cusick was telephoned, and
three hours after the starting of the raft,
took the dog safe and sound from tho
flume, and last night friends.—[Chico! he was again at j
home with his little
"
(Cal.) Enterprise.
LADIES' DEPARTMENT.
Two Cloror Itoral Women.
The two cleverest and most highly
educated women in Europe are said to
bo the Empress Victoria of Germany
and the queen of Italy. The Empress
Victoria is a brilliant conversationalist,
but is not as witty as Queen Marghorita.
Tho former, however, is possessed of a
knowlodgo of scientific subjects most re¬
markable for a woman. She is able to
converse learnedly with such men
Virchow and Von llelmholz, and her
comprehension of her htlslm:id; ca-o
awakened wonder among his physicians.
—[Chicago Times.
One of alee I .ea of Slie l*.lra«ill
There is a now phase of tho plate-glass
show window study. The ladies have
apparently found out that they
stop to admire themselves, under pre
tenea of examining goods* withoi
everybody knowing it, and have adopt,
another plan. As soon as ouo of t
fair ones reaches her favorito pub
mirror, she throws her parasol or s
umbrella over her shoulder in such
manner as to completely hide her t en
from the top of her hat to her wais
thereabouts, according to the (size of IT.
umbrella. Then, having thus pine
screen between herself and tho
generate starers of cither sex, she
ceeds to survey her charms, real
loged, of face, figure, and costume. E
loHies were seen thus occupied 1 :f>
ouo large show window at one tim
day or two since.—[Courier-Journal.
Woaan'fl Finiuicipalion.
Some close observers have sagely i
sorted that woman willneVol'be eilia
pated Until she is freo to swing
arms iu walking. Women’s under q
outer garments are all constructed u on
tho theory that women’s arms aro 10 (
for use. If Pedestrian Albert wore he
garments a fashionablo woman wcr. • he
could not walk fifty miles, mainly l»o
catase lie could not swing his arms ,j
inflate his lungs, No one need ' ! >o
told there is no benefit in viral kin tho
arms are confined. Therefor.:, a pi
get no benefit from open air .
or very little. How should the n fas of
women be freed? Ay, tliero’ t! rub.
What power can make a whole;,nT and
radical change in women’: ■ ents?
No power but fashion and a d > m is
foolish it may not boon poet oou
do this sensible thing,—-[" dlat ia
News.
« Itrloflr \il«
Mb|&! ChrisjSae NiJ&on,
singer, Has a hobby for coll,
tries ahd fans. Her colic, tho
former is said to be uniqilo. - of
her fans have been given her by cidneut
people.
The flnost ono she has was pr entod
her by the Thakoro Sahib of Morvi, and
is mado of gold, gems aud bathers.
Another, which was givon bar by a
Russian prince, is an exact copy of the
Queen of Oude’s famous fan. U is
made of white silk, with sticks of ivory
and gold, tho whole being covert i with
j diamonds, rubies, pearls and ome aids.
Empress Eugonio onco gave ho: one
Which formerly bolonged to Min". Du
barry, and was painted by Bon iier,
while another, presented by the c.iy of
Venice, is of silvered liiigreo and point
lace. — [New York Journal.
BSi vivnl ill Coral . 11 -u i-! n.
A lady well known in society ‘.used
consid erablo comment among her friends
recently by appearing iu public decked
out in ornaments of coral. Inquiry
proved that she wore them on a v ager
and that they were the property (f her
mother, cast aside years before. It was
noted with some surprise that they bc
i came her admirably, despito theit old
fashioned air, and tho incident has
given rise to adiscussion in the charmed
circle upon the advisability of a erfsudo
in favor of the revival of coral. It is
not so many years siice it held a high
place and furnished a prominent indptry
in France. The Empress Eugenie, when
sho set tho fashion for tho world, was
extremely partial to ornaments of this
sort. The Russian ladies of today wear
it a great deal, and among the Orietitals
both sexes affect it. Tho artistic eL ets
possible by a combination of gold and
coral are groat; in fact, there is almost
unlimited scope for the exercise of tho
jeweler’s taste and ability. An attache
of a jewely house, in speaking of the
matter a day or two ago, said: ‘fThe
almost complete absence of <oral
from the show-windows of today is a
noticeable fact, and I cannot pretend to
explain why it is so littlo worn by
the present generation. I feel ctsnfi
dent that if more coral jewelry was
kept in stock it would before long be
come fashionable once more. My r ag
oa I s that coral is becoming to netrly
everybody. Its brilliancy makes the
skin look whiter by contrast, and with
dark hair it harmonizes heautifti.iy,
while its effect i3 also very agreeable |
v ''Ben in conjunction with blonde tress- j
es - Like all fashion m gem?, this:
had its ups and down?; but it is s yi
in favor ia some parts of the wo|hJ,
proving that the taste for it is rea. y :
most universal. It is now a long time
it reigned in the fashionable
worl' ihcro, and I vould not bo sur.
delpja prisei to see .t coi.io in again.”—[Phiia
Times.
i ,
Wurrlasp by ( apturfl,
straugcl Among savage tribes some very
rules of etiquette appear to
govern' tho matrimonial relationship,
Convention prevents a Yontba wife
from i 11 her speaking to, or even seeing
!:• V id, if it can be avoided, and
v Aleutian islanders havo tho
» illation about speaking. In
jo'i i; o Fiji Islands a husband and
wi <- il they \vi?l: to meet, must meet
in - ••••! a similar secrecy is or was ob
ligai ,, own tho Circassians, and
jevoi unrig iho Hottentots. But tho
" | kingdom of Futa bears
■ ' , • palm in theso respects,
avelor is to ho credited, who
that Wives there Wore so bash
' ft. to let their husbands seo
ver
j wijxhout niifViagc. a veil for three years after
! Tho same sort of feel¬
's manifest in other cUrious customs,
jug tho Es piimaux, oven in cases
dm courso of true love ran
u noothest and accorded fully with
tal settlements, certain old women
i o bo sent to drag the brido forcibly
husband's hut, she being obliged
icr.'i tho penally of an ill namo to
, ;ak o as if it went against tho grain
1 if sho were much rutiled at it.” A
lm* kadalgirl, (apd the people of Kam
'latka aro among tho rudest of tho
- h. however well disposed sho may
to her future spouse, makes it a
iat of honor to pretend to rofuso him,
and the form of forco on his sido and of
jsisunco on hors has in any case to bo
regularly performed. And tho wild
tlbe, the IIos of India, regard it as tho
correct thing fot a Wife to run away
from her husband aud to tell her friends
tlint, sho neither lovos him nor will ever
see him agaiD, while lio in Ids turn is
expected tb display great anxiety for
his loss, and when ho has found his
wife after diligent search to carry her
homo again by main force.—j Gentle¬
man’s Magazino,
s
C inliioiit IVotoi.
Green of \ jry shado is tho fancy of
the hour.
Largo blosoms aro seen on tho largo
Leghorn fiats.
Moire silk should bo of rich and soft
quality to bo doslrablo for a wedding
costume.
there a >mem tho tio*V pinks a
shade which jbordoi.i oa shrimp, yot is
d'-cso.
i oppies are” it i: vorltcr&vww -JKMRg
the very many beautiful blossoms exhib¬
ited this season.
Loudon sanctions for street wear long
veils of gray gauze iied in a big bow
under tho chin.
Spangled straws in fancy braids aro
very elegant, and very generally used
by French milliners.
Tho empire gown admits of no bustle,
but what it lacks in that particular it
moro than makes up in sash.
Pattern dresses in cashmere with a
border of embroidery iu colored as well
as in gold threads are very stylish.
Coat sleeves aro still worn, but tho
skiu-tiglit sausage roll variety so long
rampant has given way to an casior
shape.
Green in all shades from apple to ser¬
pent copper, terra cotta, Indian and
Siam reds aud mouse gray aro the pre¬
ferred shades.
Parasols being of light and dclicato
coloring this season, aro almost invari
( bly accompanied by an overcoat of tho
1 uno silk as the cover.
The favorite wide-brimmed hat intro
( need by tho milliners this season is a
S opy in shape of the hat worn by tiro
Portuguese peasant women.
Tho common sense shoe for walking
purposes is tho fashion in face of tho
pointed toes which some women insist
aro the only becoming foot gear.
Flounces arc very much revived, and
may be put on the skirt pretty much as
you will, provided only that you do
not lot them go regularly over it.
Full sleeves come moro and moro in
fashion, and among shapes the leg of
mutton is tho o no ofteiest chosen, es¬
pecially for lace or other thin stulIs.
A pretty summer substitute for tho
fur capes so fashionable during tho past
winter are capes made of heavy, smooth
cloth in Gobelin blue, tan color, Havana
brown, gray and blaCK,
Very beautiful imitation? of Irish
point laces are mado for trimming cot¬
ton gowns the coming season. These
aro used over a color to brighten tho
effect of tho open work om broidery of
the lace.
Lisbon straw braids are very stylish
and are trimmed very simply with u
beautiful ribbon, moro particularly
pearl white in color as this is the com¬
bination most affected by the French
modhtos, the straw color being ia de
elded contrast.
Rosettes are a favorite trimming for
gowns as well as for bonnets and round
hats, and are seen on children’s costume
made of braid. Narrow ribbon with
picot edge makes a very pretty trim
ming for children’s leghorn flats.
1'OR farm and garden.
1
llcihi In flic Oiirrtpn.
A fow pot herbs and sweet herbs
should have a placo iu every vegetable
garden. Every cook and every good
housekeeper knows tho value of tho
littlo patch of herbs upon which slu
makes daily drafts in tho summer and
which furnishes such a nice collection
of dried herbs for winter seasoning,
without which tlio Thanksgiving tur¬
key would bo scarcely worth tho hav¬
ing; while as domestic medicines several
kinds are held in high repute. A very
email space iu tho garden gives all tho
herbs needed in any family. The cul¬
ture is very simple; and the best
is to make a little seed-bod iu tho
spring, and sot tho plants out in a
as soon as largo enough. As a
rulo it is beat to cat herbs when
flower, tio them up in small
and hang in tho aliudo to dry.
H .si tilin' ■Soil's.
As tho season advances, tho matter
sotting lions must bo considered.
eral must bo set at one timo if
and the nests be roomy, warm ami
fortable. The best nest is a largo
rel filled to within ono foot of tho
with leaves and hay. If pure
eggs aro to bo hatched, common
should bo substituted for a day or
then they cau bo remove 1 and
choico oggs put iu the nest. The
should not bo disturbed for thfco
when she may be removed to feed
drink. Sho must not bo allowed
more than ten minutes. Bo sure she
turns to the nest boforo you leave her.
The best results in hatching can bo
had by sprinkling tho oggs after
seventeenth day with water
warm, just before returning tho hen to
tho nest. This is especially
dark-shellod oggs which aro usually
tough. After tho nineteenth day
not disturb tho iron at all, especially
tho oggs have coinmouced to pip or
there is music in tho shell.
If the chicks aro to ba talcon from the
hen aud placed in a brooder, a small
piece of lard (the size of a pea) should
be rubbed thoroughly on tho head and
under tho wing to kill vermin,
they arc suro to get from tho
Iron.—[Farm, Field and Stockman.
To (l*i-i, vr ill Smut iii <- ill I ii.
In a focont issuo of the Farm,
and Stockman, writes a
I noticed an item about smut aud
to prevent it. Tho way wo provent
in the Pacific slope is by tlio uso of
vitTirit,-m u "W4ie Weae, -.a?
called lioro. It is a dead shot ( I
been farming moro or loss since 1857
California and Idaho, mid novel 1
smutty grain when I vitrioled tho
Ilso it on oats as well as wheat. For t
benefit of such ns Wish to givo it a
1 will fltnlo tho process. Lor six
els of soed ground up pretty fine,
pound of blue stone; put it iu a keg
barrel, and turn in two gallons of wator,
stirring occasionally to make
all dissolve; then put your
in a light wagon bo* or on
barn floor if you havo one; set
keg close toil, take an old broom, dip
it in tho vitriol watof, and sprinkle
grain. Thou turn over with It
and sprinkle again ; stir it
until tho liquid is all used and every
grain dampened. Lot if. I/o a fow
und it is ready to sow, or it cau Uo
month if you choose. Many uso
pound to ten bushels, hut 1 use ono to
six. Farmers who sow from 100 to
acres have a tight tank that will hold
sacks, and sink them in tho liquid,
where they lion fow hours and
fish them out; that safes time, but they
use cheap sacks, as it soon eats them
up.
('iifNiicr/iiH I Bo #*«»%.
While it is certainly true that the
horse is not a flesh-eating animal, but a
grass and grain-eating one, as his teeth
plainly indicate, iik stomach has the
power of digesting animal matter, as
shown by the Arabs, who from very
early times have made cakes lurgely
composed of camels' flesh for
their horses. These cooked cakes
a highly nutritious diet in small bulk.
This ancient Arabian practice has
highly commended by some
arians, and it is thought that for
army horse cakes in which the
has been incorporated and
during fermentation would be very use¬
ful food, owing to its concen¬
trated form. About ten years
an article appeared in a French
medical journal giving an account of
an experiment made (luring the siege
Metz to feed a certain number of horses
on horse flesh, and tho writer, M. Lc
guerrioro, claimed that ho had
mined by these experiments that the
horse can perfectly digest and
raw or cooked animal matter. While i
may never be necessary to feed a
animal matter in this country, it is
to know that ho can subsist ou
food. In a hefieged town, or
snowed in as this city found itself re¬
cently, tho defunct animals might
utilized for feeding those which
mained alive or were the must
in case the supply of grain gave out.
—[New Yoik Bun.
*■- A Wfijflilf Matter.
IIouso scales, denoting ounces and
weighing up to fifty pounds, aro needed
in selling small quantities of butter,
meat, etc., aud each package of ten,
sugar, coffee, and everything bought of
tho grocer by weight should be tested
on one’s own scales, to keep tho grocer
honest. Platform scales, weighing up
to 1000 pounds, aro noodoil as much for
weighing grain in bags, dressed lioga
and other animals, wool ami hides.
Every ono should know just what his
produce weighs before it goes to market,
and then ho is prepared to talk
intelligently about it and is not so lia¬
ble to get choatad. It is not prudent to
trust to tho purchaser's weighing. If a
man’s grain ovorruns or falls short of
legal weight per measured bushel, h«
should know it before offering for sale.
Hay scales cannot bo dispensed with
without loss. Deprived of this help,
the farmer buys, sells, and feeds stock
blindly. Store cattlo aro wintered at »
loss unless they gain in weight all the
timo, otherwise there is nothing to show
for the euro and food but tho manure!
heap and an empty barn. And ho can¬
not; toll whether his stock is paying
without frequent tests upon the scales.
Butchers like to buy by tho lump only
whoa they think they aro getting tlio
host ond of tho bargain, aud they can
outguess a farmer every timo. Weigh¬
ing often causes “tho scales to drop
from ono's eyos.” Tho farmor lias a
great advantago wlio always knows just
what his stock weighs. Huy scales aro
quito expensive and not evory farmer i»
ablo to have thorn. It is often suggested
that several neighbors unite in tho pur¬
chase of a set but this is impracticable,
becauso tliero is always so much dissatis¬
faction. Tlio bettor way is for ono to
mako tlio purchase and tell tho neigh¬
bors it is at tlieir service for a trifle,say
10 conts a draft. This would at least
pay tho interest on tho purchaso price.
Scales should bo sot up in n building as
a bay barn and then they are always in
readiness.—-[Now York Tribune.
E'.irm ami dardntt Sol..
This is tlio timo to apply whitewash.
Well rotted sawdust can bo usod to
advantago about all fruit troos.
Tho darkness of comb in fowls is the
result of congestion of somo kind.
In agriculture, tho scrub in all its
forms should, as far as possiblo, bn
avoided.
Has tlio poultry yard all tho troos in
it that it will hold} If not, put plums,
cherries and poaches.
It loss to expoct tlio adoption of
'l.n i no nctUods of farming whoro
lands are plea ad cheap.
Coarse boncsjpn fowls indicate coarso
meat. A coarso-moatod fowl is a poor
thing beside n fine, juicy-mcatod ono.
Chicken manure is of itsolf a good
fertilizer, possessing liberal portions of
nitrogen, potash, and phosphoric acid.
Continual mulching is a dangerous
practice, drawing tho roots so near tho
surfuco that they loso tlieir hold ou tho
soil.
Ducks, after commencing to lay,drop
one egg vory regularly every twenty
four hours, almost invariably utter
night.
Hi is said that if wot boots aro filled
with dry oats at night, in tlio morning
they (the hoots) will bo dry, soft aud
pliable.
Be careful in ploughing the grovo or
orchard; much damage is often done by
tho (dough, especially if tho hired man
has hold of tho handles.
Borrow tlio good wife’s yardstick, and
mark all tho hoe, rake, pick aud shovel
handles in foot aud half foot measures.
Handier than you think.
Never cut the entire top off a tree
when transplanting. It will not heal so
as to be sound. Shortening the branches
so tin to mako a good formed top ia a
better plan.
The damage done to fruit trees by
rabbits, borers and insects, may bo pre¬
vented by applying pine tar to tlio
bodies of the trees. Warm the lar and
apply with a brush.
A mixture of wood ashes and super¬
phosphate is a special fertilizer for
strawberries. Hen manure in a lino
condition may also be used, and should
bo mattered over tlio plants in time to
be washed down by the rains.
If potiflo seeds aro spread out in sin¬
gle layers, and in a light place, three or
four weeks before planting, the buds
will grow short and stout, aud aro
ready for business when put in the
ground. Not so if left in barrels or bins
in the cellar.
Tlio carriagc^nouso should be entire¬
ly separated from the stable. Tho am¬
monia arising from stable manure
destroys the varnish and paint on car¬
riages in a short timo, and tho owner
feiior material.
An oblong form is better than a
square ono for tho homo garden. Seeds
sown or planted in rows instead of lit¬
tle beds simplifies the whole matter, and
admits of the uso of the plow and culti¬
vator instead of the spado, the hoe and
tho rake, and makes its cultivation a
pleasure instead of a dreaded task.
