DOMESTIC HINTS.

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WASTE OF BONES


Is at all times reprehensible, but more especially as they are employed
as a manure for dry soils, with the very best effect. They are commonly
ground and drilled in, in the form of powder, with turnip seed. Mr.
Huskisson estimated the real value of bones annually imported,
(principally from the Netherlands and Germany) for the purpose of being
used as a manure, at 100,000_l._; and he contended that it was not
too much to suppose that an advance of between 100,000_l._ and
200,000_l._ expended on this article occasioned 500,000 additional
quarters of corn to be brought to market.--_Loudon's Encycl.
Agricult._

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GOOD FLOUR.

According to the assize acts, a sack of flour weighing 280 lbs. is
supposed capable of being baked into 80 quartern loaves; one-fifth of
the loaf being supposed to consist of water and salt, and four-fifths of
flour. But the number of loaves that may be baked from a sack of flour
_depends entirely_ on its goodness. Good flour requires more water
than bad flour, and old flour than new flour. Sometimes 82, 83, and even