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WHEN you find ants in quantities near home pour hot water on them. The farmer when he manures his land, if he uses ashes, lime or salt sand, will not be troubled with those insects. Dr. Rees' Cyclopædia recommends boiling rain water with black soap, and sulphur, and saturating the ground with it, which is infested with those insects.

TO preserve apples for winter's use let them remain on the trees till perfectly ripe. Then gather them by hand, about the middle of the day in clear dry weather. Spread them on a floor, and let them be till about the last of November, or till there is danger of their being injured by the frost. And in dry weather remove them into casks or boxes, which have previously been made free from mould or moisture and place them in a cellar out of the reach of frost. They may be packed in dry saw dust or shavings of pine in order to ensure their preservation.