If breao is burned, or anything else that is
cooked in the house, do nut throw it away,
but use it as charcoal lor your birds. If they
have been obliged to run in the orchard or
meadow to pick up their living as they can
and feed on what they could get, their eggs
aud flesh are likely to taste ; feeding cliar-
cial in any shape will remedy the evil.
Salt is a valuable fertilizer and costs but
little. It is cheaper to use pure salt at t6
per ton than the refuse of salt works, which
is mixed with lime and magnesia salts, at
12, as a smaller quantity of good salt can
be used with better effect. Salt is useful
on pasture and grass land, and is especially
useiul lor all root crops, cabbage and aspar
agus. It is also beneficial to oats. Two
hundred pounds per acre may be useful.
YorE pies often suffer conMerably in
getting their teeth. The gums swell, and
the irritation and swelling often spread to
the jaws, cheek and the whole head. It
may be cured byicuttinz thes wollen gums
over the place where the second teeth are
coming, or drawing the first teeth with a
pair of placers or pliers.
A rather moist soil and a season not too
hot are the best for oats, barley and spring
rye, consequently they should be sown
early that they may get their growths before
the hot, dry weather sets in.
