-meal, and bran, are the best food for horses.
When a horse is travelling, order six quarts of oats in the morning,
four at noon, and six at night, and direct that neither food nor water
be given till he is cool.

Keep a horse's legs free from mud, or disease will often result from
the neglect. A horse, much used, should be shod as often as once in two
months. Fish-oil and strong perfumes, on the skin, keep flies from
annoying a horse. Some horses are made fractious by having the
check-rein so tight as to weary the muscles.

A cow should be watered three times a day, and fed with hay, potatoes,
carrots, and boiled corn. Turnips and cabbages give a bad taste to the
milk. Give a handful of salt to a cow, twice a week, and occasionally
give the same quantity to a horse. Let them drink _pure_ water. A
well-fed cow gives double the milk that she will if not fed well. A cow
should go unmilked, for two months before calving, and her milk should
not be used till four days after. The calf must run with the cow for
four days, and then be shut from her, except thrice a day, when it
should take as much food as it wants, and then the cow should be milked
clean.

Hens sit twenty days, and should be well fed and watered, during this
time. The first food for chickens should be coarse dry meal. Cold and
damp weather is bad for all young fowls, and they should be well
protected from it. Pepper-berries are good for fowls which have diseases
caused by damp and cold weather.

In Winter, much fuel may be saved, and comfort secured, by stuffing
cotton into all cracks about the windows and the surbases of rooms, and
by listing the doors. Cover strips of wood with baize, and nail them
tight against a door, on the casing.

The following are the causes of smoky chimneys. Short and broad flues,
running up straight, as a narrow flue, with a bend in it, draws best.
Large openings, at the top, draw the wind down, and should be remedied,
by having the summits made tapering. A house higher than a chimney near
it, sometimes makes the chimney smoke, and the evil should be remedied,
by raising the chimney. Too large a throat to the fireplace, sometimes
causes a chimney to smoke, and can be remedied, by a false back, or by
lowering the front, with sheet iron. Shallow fireplaces give out more
heat, and draw as well, as deep ones.

_House-cleaning_ should be done in dry warm weather. Several friends of
the writer maintain, that cleaning paint, and win