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pigs ouce a month. I have seen this done for many years In succession. Where 

 the herb cannot be got, the oil may be procured. In this case, saturate strings 

 with it, and tie them around the necks of dogs and cats; pour a little on the 

 back and about the ears of hogs troubled with fleas, which you can do while 

 they are feeding, without touching them. By repeating this application every 

 12 or 15 days the fleas will flee from every quadruped, to their relief and 

 Improvement, and your relief and comfort in the house. Strings saturated 

 with the oil of pennyroyal, and tied around the necks and tails of horses, will 

 drive ofl: lice; the string should be saturated once a day." 



Bread, Why We Butter It.— The layers of the wheat berry, as we 

 proceed towards the center, become more and more completely starchy, and at 

 the center but little else is found, and this portion makes our finest flour (super- 

 fine). The finer the flour the less fit it is for nutrition. In its natural state, 

 the wheat, with all its components present, is not fitted for perfect human 

 development. There is a deficiency in the potential heat-producing materials, 

 especially for cooler climates, there being only 2 per cent, of fat in wheat. We 

 instinctively supply this deficiency by the addition of fatty bodies. We spread 

 butter upon bresd, we mingle lard or butter with our biscuits or cake, and the 

 fat meat and bread are taken alternatively or coincidentally. The starch, being 

 a carbon hydrate, can aSord, comparatively, but little heat in consumption, and 

 the fats (butter) are demanded by the wants of the system.— United States 

 Miller. 



Bemarks.—mn?, is perfectly philosophical; we need fat in some form to 

 keep up the heat of the body, and now-a-days so few persons will eat fat meats 

 we must have butter; and it is only from eating too large an amount of it, or 

 eating that which has become rancid or " strong," and therefore almost abso. 

 lutely indigestible, that harm may arise from its use, A little nice butter is as 

 necessary as it is desirable to almost every person. 



1. FENCE POSTS, TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE 

 POLES, ETC. — To Prevent Decay, — Among the various methods here- 

 tofore practiced for preserving the ends of fence posts, telegraph poles, ties and 

 other timber to be placed in the ground, has been charring, or coating with 

 coal tar, but it is said that while neither of these modes is sufficient alone, the 

 two combined answers every purpose. The tar filling the pores of the charred 

 surface, which in itself is indestructible, prevents absorption of moisture 

 from the ground into the interior unaltered portion of the wood. In time the 

 tar is converted into a kind of rosin, which is very durable. — Harpers* WeeMy. 



2 . The Science, Best and Cheapest Way of Preserving Wood. 

 — The Journal of Foi'estry thus explains what is necessary to preserve wood: 

 ■' The primary cause of decay in wood is the fermentation and the decomposi- 

 tion of the sap that is within the pores. Wood, pure and by itself, is not easily 

 destroyed by the ordinary agencies of nature, namely, wet and dry weather, 

 heat and cold, etc. If the sap within the pores can either be removed or ren, 

 dered inactive, the wood may be preserved. There are several methods of doing 

 this, such as saturating the wood with mineral salts, creosote, eta The cheap- 



