swept or scraped up every other morning, 
and put in a barrel or box in the dry. 
A very little salt mixed with soft food, 
occassionally is good for fowls. 
The Douglass Mixture is one of the best 
tonics in the world for weak drooping fowls. 
It is composed as follows: one ounce of 
copperas and one drachm of sulphuric acid 
in one quart of water. Put one tablespoon¬ 
ful of this mixture in one quart of drinking 
wat^r once a week. 
A few drops of the tincture of iron should 
be put in the drinking water often. 
If you want to make a success of poultry 
breeding, buy a Standard of Excellence. 
Nest boxes should be cleaned and scrubbed 
out, whitewashed inside and out, and filled 
with clean straw at least four times a year. 
The difference between an egg laid by a 
plump, healthy hen. fed with good, fresh 
food daily, and an egg laid by a thin, poor¬ 
ly fed hen, is as great as the difference 
bet ween good beef and poor beef. 
A small pill, (according to size of chick) 
of asafetida will give new life to a drooping 
fowl. 
Lnsect powder, sold at drug stores in bulk 
form, cannot be beaten to eradicate chick¬ 
en lice. 
One-half wheat bran and one-half shorts, 
scalded, makes a splendid morning feed for 
either old or young fowls. Do not feed 
while hot. 
Fumigate the fowl house with sulphur, 
after letting the fowls out, and close it up 
as tight as possible to retain the sulphur¬ 
ous smoke. After this, whitewash. 
Hidging the Garden in the Fail. 
BY THOS. D. BAIRD. 
I presume it is the desire of every reader 
to have a good and early garden. There is 
nothing that adds more comfort and hap¬ 
piness, or that is more conducive to health 
as a variety of early vegetables. The mar¬ 
ket gardener often realizes from $100 to 
$200 by having vegetables four or five days 
ahead of others. 
Now that you may have an early garden, 
and enjoy the pleasure of sending your 
neighbor the first mess of radishes, beets 
5 
and peas, take a turning plow and throw 
your garden soil up in ridges, the higher 
the better; plow deep; let the ridges run 
north and south. The ridges should be 
about four feet at the base. The two last 
furrows will act as drains carrying off all 
surplus water, that your garden may be 
worked four or five days earlier the next 
spring than if not ridged this fall. 
Last fall I ridged a portion of my garden; 
rain stopped the plow before the entire 
garden was plowed. The soil was not in 
order any more. In the spring it suited 
me to run my rows the other way of the 
garden across the ridges. When the plow¬ 
ing commenced, the soil not ridged in the 
fall was entirely too heavy, while the part 
that was ridged worked mellow. This was 
planted to beets, peas and radishes, and 
the plants were up before the unridged 
portion was dry enough to work, and then 
the soil was not as lively and mellow as 
where ridged. 
In this way I have had the market to 
myself for two weeks, using the earliest 
and best varieties, of which I will speak 
hereafter. 
Yours and Mine. 
BY MRS M. J. SMITH. 
Gold from the distant mines is yours, 
Love is my wealth. Full measure, 
Bitterness dwells in the heart you bear, 
Mine has sweet thoughts to treasure. 
You have a liege lord proud and cold, 
Mine is a humble yeoman. 
Grand is your castle; poor is my cot; 
I am the happiest woman. 
Never the kiss of a loyal love, 
Ruffles those golden tresses. 
I am made happy the whole day long, 
By truest of love’s caresses. 
Motherhood’s crown I gladly wear; 
Thorns to your brow are clinging. 
Quiet your home is; mine full of care, 
With laughter is often ringing. 
Diamonds, and laces, and jewels rare. 
Drooping of earthly feather, 
Under them this thought you bear— 
“Bound without love together. r 
My first supports the ministers, my sec¬ 
ond the doctors, my whole the schoolmas¬ 
ter.—Pupil (pew pill). 
