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This, with the’advantage of liis enemy, and 
the withering rebuke of the lawyers, was 
a terrible retribution for poor John. But 
more was yet in store. Redman saw by 
the evidence in court that he had been 
cheated out of one hundred feet of ditch 
actually dug, so he commenced suit against 
John. Again came the sheriff; again he 
went to court, and again he received the 
cold cuts of the attorneys and the sneers of 
the peonle, with the verdict of guilty, and 
the order of full pay to Redman and costs 
of court. 
And yet more was in store for him. The 
Long Rod-Pole was still kept for another 
use, the worst of all, for now the church, 
of which John had long been, to all out- 
w r ard appearances, an exemplary member, 
took the case in hand and expelled him 
from their communion and fellowship. 
Thus did the biter get bit. Thus swiftly 
did the retributive justice of God overtake 
the poor cheat who secretly tried to rob 
a poor honest man of the fruit of his toil. 
The wretched John never heard the lust of 
the Long Rod-Pole.— Am. Rural Home. 
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NOTES AND GLEANINGS. 
June and July are the months in which 
grape vines are layered. Take a cane of last 
year’s growth, bend it to the ground and cut a 
half slit acoss it where the bend is made. Then 
cover all the new shoots two or three inches 
deep with fine earth—sand is best. The two 
lower leaves of the shoots may be„removed and 
the bark slit in the cane opposite them. In the 
Fall you will have as many finely-rooted plants 
as there are new shoots on the cane, and the 
whole should then be removed from the parent 
vine. This is probably the easiest way for 
amateurs to grow strong vines for their own use 
or for their friends, but it exhausts the vine to 
continue the practice year after year. 
If feaks are entertained of diasagreeable 
odors in the milk from cabbage or turnip leaves, 
“give the cow about a teaspoonful of saltpetre 
once a day, pulverized and put in her grain; if it 
is already in the milk dissolve the saltpetre in 
water, and put about a teaspoonful of the solution 
to a gallon of milk, and it will remedy it at once,” 
so says an experienced dairyman. He also says 
that “it drives off good flavors as well as bad 
ones, and that butter made from milk so treated 
will be as flavorless as Winter butter made from 
fresh meadow hay, but as it does not destroy 
the color, people will not find fault with such 
butter unless they are accustomed to something 
very nice. Even then they will prefer it to 
that which has a taste of turnips, cabbages, 
carrois, or bitter weeds of any kind. 
If a farmer who had but one animal that was 
useful to him, should allow a dozen others that 
were of no use to him, and that would only be 
a greater nuisance as they grow older, to feed 
from the same crib, one wou’d say be was not 
wise. Is he any wiser who allows a dozen 
weeds to grow and fatten upon the fertility of 
his soil, for each useful plant that he grows ? 
Keep the hoe moving now, and do not allow the 
plants to be robbed of both food and drink by 
worthless weeds. Remember that more of them 
can be destroyed in one day while they are 
small, than in ten after they have got well 
rooted and cover the ground. Remember that 
the horse hoe can be put through the field five 
times as easily as the hand hoe would do the 
work once, therefore farmers can afford to run 
it frequently. Use it as often as time will*per- - 
mit, whether the field looks as if were needed 
or not, and use the hand hoe when the field 
needs it, or rather a few days before that time. 
It goes easier then. 
At this season extra care should be taken 
that the horses should have no more grain than 
they can eat up clean. If any is left in the 
manger it should be taken out at once and thrown 
away. If the manger becomes so foul as to emit 
a sour smell from any cause, it should be care¬ 
fully cleansed and washed with a solution of 
soda or potash until perfectly sweet again. The 
eating of grain that has soured in the manger or 
feed box is a frequent cause of colic in horses, 
and those which are well fed, but do not always 
have time to eat the rations given them, are the 
most liable to it. If colic occurs from any un¬ 
digested food one of the best remedies will be 
found in taking a few lumps of charcoal, pul¬ 
verizing it, and turning about two quarts of 
boiling water over it. When lukewarm strain 
off and turn down the throat of th^ horse from 
a bottle. Another remedy having similar effect 
is one heaping tablespoontul of saleratus dis¬ 
solved in a pint of milk or warm water, to which 
add a half-teaspoonful of cayenne pepper and 
administer at once. If colic is caused by taking 
cold or by drinking too freely of cold water 
when heated, give two tablespoonfuls of ginger 
and a teacupful of molasses in two quarts of 
warm water. This is a dose for a fiu-il-grown 
horse, and while usually effective it is not liable 
to do any injury, even if the amount given is 
much greater than above named. 
