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cheering beverage. When taken as a medicine, as for instance to 

 cure a nervous headache, it should be made strong. Yery strong tea 

 is an antidote for poisoning with opium and also with tartar emetic. 

 In these cases the tea should be boiled for the reason that it is the 

 tannin and not the theine which forms the antidote to the poison. 



Canning Coen. 

 Mrs. "Wm, B. Ilazleton, Mahopao Falls. — I will give my experience 

 how to do it, which does not fail with me. 1 take the sweet or even 

 green corn before it gets too old, cut it from the cob, fill my cans 

 full, pressed down. I then take a boiler, lay some sticks in the 

 bottom for my cans to sot on, I then lay the covers of the cans on, 

 fill the boiler with water so that it will cover half-way up the sides 

 of the cans, put the cover on the boiler, boil for three hours briskly, 

 take out and press the covers on tight. Will keep well and have all 

 the flavor of green corn. 



Chickens. 

 Mrs. Lydia B. Read, Eagleswood, Perth Amboy, N. J. — Last year 

 I raised over 100 chickens, having fourteen old stock. Three hens 

 did all the nursing, one Brahma taking care of forty -five chicks, and 

 brooding them well until the oldest were able to go to roost on a 

 perch close by. Of two broods I lost none by disease, but three by 

 accident. The other was placed under a tree, and a violent rain 

 coming on while the chickens were very young, several became blind 

 and died. I never have a case of gapes, for I feed only with cracked 

 corn, wet slightly with boiling water. This I believe to be a sure 

 preventative. This spring I wished to raise 200 or more and am trying 

 the experiment of bringing them up without the aid of the hen, 

 allowing her the freedom of the yard after bringing the chickens out 

 of the shell. My first brood was hatched the loth of March, and 

 have grown finely. I use houses with glass roofs, warm and tight. 

 For a brooder I use a sheepskin, or its equivalent, tacked with wool 

 side down, on a frame inclining a little, so that several sizes are 

 accommodated. 



Loziek's Hay Loader. 

 Dr. Lozier exhibited his improved hay loader ; it is easily attached 

 to any wagon ; it has a crane with a hay fork fastened to it ; pins 

 are driven into the spokes of one of the wheels forming a reel on 

 which the rope that pulls up the fork is wound ; it costs about fifty- 

 five dollars and will be found to be an admirable instrument. 



