to the 20th of March; Tomatoes, a few 
about the 20 of March; for main crop from 
April 1st to 25. Tomato plants quickly 
grown are preferable to stunted ones. For 
hot-bed treatment I would sow in flats and 
place them on the soil; from the 10th to the 
15th of April is soon enough for this climate. 
CONCLUSION. 
The preparation and cultivation involves 
a system of management whereby the 
growing plant will not be subjected to the 
slightest check from the time the seed ger¬ 
minates until the crop is matured. The 
first operation is to thoroughly pulverize 
the ground before sowing. 
E. W. Turner , Newton Falls, 0. 
Gold Dust. 
BY JOHN M. STAHL. 
Never work about peas when the vines 
are wet. It injures them greatly. 
Plant Lima and other flat beans with the 
eyes downward. 
Strawberries require more water and 
manure than they usually get. 
The best remedy for cabbage worms is 
very early planting, heavy manuring and 
thorough cultivation. 
If cut woror.s infest the garden, lay pieces 
of boards about. The worm will take 
refuge under the boards in the heat of the 
day and may then be killed. 
Burn stubble and sow wheat late if you 
fear the Hessian Fly. 
Dusting the leaves with white hellebore 
powder is the best remedy for the goose¬ 
berry span worm. Be careful that you do 
not inhale the powder. 
The most essential point about lightning- 
rods is that they extend down to ground 
always moist. 
If you have swallowed poison of any 
kind, drink instantly half a glass of cool 
water into which a heaping teaspoouful 
each of common salt and ground mustard 
has been stirred. 
A three-penny nail is one inch long; a 
twelve-penny nail is three inches long. 
Be sure of the title to land before you 
buy it. 
Bright brains and brown hands never 
complain of bad luck on the farm. 
Believe no man in a horse trade. 
Reduce contracts, especially leases, to 
writing. 
An agreement without consideration is 
void. 
A carload is 20,000 pounds; 340 bushels 
of wheat, 460 of corn, 680 of oats, 400 of 
barley, 360 of apples, 480 of Irish potatoes 
and 360 of sweet potatoes. 
A box four inches square and four and 
one-eighth inches deep contains one quart. 
Twenty-eight bushels of bituminous coal 
make a ton. 
i 
Do not purchase a horse that has not a 
wide forehead and a large nostril. 
The best cure for colic in horses is the 
palm of your hand full of turpentine, rub¬ 
bed against the upper gums and the inside 
of the upper lip of the horse, and his breast 
bathed with the same. If not relieved in 
one hour, repeat the dose. 
Five hundred cubic feet of timothy hay 
a year in the mow or stack, or 700 cubic 
feet newly stacked, make a ton; nine hun¬ 
dred cubic feet of clover, new, or 700 cubic 
feet stacked some time, weigh a ton. 
For hoven give chloride of lime in doses 
of from two to four drachms; or give a 
teaspoonful of pulverized charcoal in one- 
half pint of milk or water, sweetened with 
a little molasses, every fifteen minutes un¬ 
til the animal is relieved. 
Concentrate your efforts on a small area, 
thus economizing materials and stock. 
The best preventive of and remedy for 
sore shoulders in horses, is to wash them 
clean each night after the harness is re¬ 
moved and then bathe them with strong 
salt water. 
The older and larger an animal becomes 
the more food is required to make a pound 
of gro'vth. The reason of this is that the 
larger the body the greater the waste to be 
supplied by matter assimilated from the 
food. 
The doctor will ride on and sigh and sigh 
if he sees you have a good garden. 
In warm weather feed fowls principally 
oats, or varieties of food containing but lit¬ 
tle fattening properties. Most, if not all, of 
the ailments of poultry may be traced to 
errors in their diet, the water they drink, 
or the filthy condition of their houses. 
