How To Preserve From Decay Fish-Net

Steep in melted paraffine.

Fattening Fowls

It is said that charcoal will fatten fowls, and at the same time give the meat improved tenderness and flavor. Pulverize and mix with the food. A turkey requires about a gill a day.

How To Preserve Fruit

Fruit is kept in Russia by being packed in creosotized lime. The lime is slaked in water in which a little creosote has been dissolved, and is allowed to fall to powder. The latter is spread over the bottom of a deal box, to about one inch in thickness. A sheet of paper is laid above, and then the fruit. Over the fruit is another sheet of paper, then more lime, and so on, until the box is full, when a little finely powdered charcoal is packed in the corners, and the lid tightly closed. Fruit thus inclosed will, it is said, remain good for a year.

How To Ripen Grapes

In the Rhine district, grape-vines are kept low and as near the soil as possible, so that the heat of the sun may be reflected back upon them from the ground; and the ripening is thus carried on through the night by the heat radiated from the earth.

How To Utilize Grasshoppers

The grasshoppers, desiccated and ground, are useful as a fertilizer; but in this prepared condition, they form an excellent food for all insect-feeding birds. There is no better food for all young domestic fowls. Containing silicic acid in a soluble state, they seem specially adapted for young birds, promoting the growth of feathers.

Handling Guano

Many cases of poisoning have occurred by contact of guano with wounds. It should be handled with gloved hands.

Home-Made Guano

Make a compound of 1 bushel ashes, 2 bushes fowl-manure, 1-1/2 bushels plaster, and 4 bushels muck.

Spread the muck on the barn -floor and dump the fowl manure on top of it. Pulverize the latter with the spade, and mix in the other ingredients. Moisten the heap with water, or, better, with urine, before planting. Deposit about a handful in each hill of corn, potatoes, or beans, mixing it with the soil before patting in the seed.

Cleaning Harness

Unbuckle all the parts and wash clean with soft water, soap, and a brush. A little turpentine or benzine will take off any gummy substance which the soap fails to re move Then warm the leather, and, as soon as dry on the surface, apply the oil with a pai nt -brush era swab. Neat's foot oil is the best. Hang up the harness in a warm place to dry, but do not let it burn.

Oiling Harness

Give one or two coats of lampblack and tor-oil warmed sufficiently to make it penetrate the stock readily. Then sponge the harness with 2 qts, warm soapsuds; when dry, rub over a mixture of oil and tallow, equal parts, with enough Prussian blue to give color. When well rubbed in, this compound leaves a smooth, clean surface.