Paint For Tools

White lead ground in oil, mingled with Prussian blue, similarly prepared, to give the proper shade, and finally mixed with a little carriage-varnish, is an excellent and durable paint for farm-machinery and agricultural tools.

Felling Trees

To find the height at which a tree must be cut, so that its top will strike a given point on the ground: Square the height of tree, and the given distance from tree to point. Divide the difference of these squares by twice the height of tree, and the quotient will be the height from the ground where the tree has to be cut. Example: Height of tree=60 feet, distance of point to the tree 20 feet; then 602=3600, 202=400, difference=3200. 3200-:(2x60)=26.6 feet.

How To Protect Against Mice Fruit Trees

Apply to the bark a mixture of tallow, 3 parts, tar, 1 part, hot.

How To Save Girdled Trees

If possible, bank up earth about the trunk to above the level of the girdle. If the wounded parts are too high, bind on clay with a bandage. The sooner the surface is protected after injury the better. The death of the tree is caused by the seasoning of the sap-wood.

Young Trees, In Hot Weather

If the trunk is fully exposed to the sun, it should be protected from intense heat. A couple of boards, tacked together like a trough and set up against the trunk, will furnish the required shade; or the trunk may be bound with a hay-rope, or be loosely strawed up as for winter protection.

A Cause Of Trichinae In Pork

It has lately been found that swine may become infested with trichinae through eating carrion, or even decayed vegetable substances. This is a point worth consideration by farmers who incline to the belief that dead chickens, putrid swill, or any other filth about the place, is legi-mate food for the pig.

How To Protect From Fly Turnips

Use lime, slaked just before application. Sow it by hand over the plants; or sow brimstone with the seed. A simple way of removing the insects from the plants is to mount a board two feet square on wheels, cover the under side of the board with tar, and straddle it over the rows, drawing it from end to end of the latter. The insects will jump off on the pitch and be caught.

Water For Fish-Ponds

Lead-pipe will not do to conduct water to fish-ponds. It is likely to poison the fish.

Destroying Weeds

Some weeds can be killed and prevented from growing in garden-paths, by watering the ground with a weak solution of carbolic acid, 1 part pare crystallized acid to 2000 parts water. Sprinkle from a watering-pot.

Remedy For Currant And Gooseberry Worms

The best is powdered white hellebore, obtainable at any druggist's. Put the powder in a common tin cup, tying a piece of very fine muslin over the mouth. Fasten the apparatus to the end of a short stick, and dust the powder through the muslin lightly upon the bushes. Do not work on a windy day, and stand to windward during the operation, as, if taken into the nostrils, the hellebore excites violent sneezing. The same material is a good remedy for cucumber-beetles.