Evening star., 1869-08-10
HOUSEHOLD AND COUNTRY.

Lands that are overstocked not only yield
less food, but the animals pastured upon them
make a less WELD in beef OF milk than when the
stock Is in proportion to the capacity Of the
lands for producing food.
1t is said that Mr.. Charles Timmis, of
White Pigeon, Michigan, recently sold wool
from eighty Cotswolde 1es. in Chicago at SIXTY
cents net-all charges and commission being
paid. The average weight Of the fieeces was a
Irifie under five pounds.
Mr.. Cooper Sayre, Of Ontario county. N
q. sheared 100 pounds OF wool from eleven
yearling CotswOld rams He left at the office
of the Country Gentleman sample of wool
fourteen inches long, OF one years growth
from yearlIng eve.
Clean cultivation is an important part OF
berry growing. Grass, weeds and plants can
not all flourish upon the same grouud Plants
to produce large berries, must have the room
and the benefit OF all the frItIIiZing properties
OF the soil, and those also applied. Fine fru II
viii always command remu nerating prices
The man who Is the best prepared by help
and machinery. and begins the earliest, is ths.
most successful; ard he Is not the negligent far
ner, be Is not the farmer opposed TO ma
ChInery. and of the best kind; he is not the man
who Is too late in his wOrk-any workout
especially making hay.
We cannot advise any man to enter upon
carving without making ample provision for
supplying his herd with an abundance OF
pure water. Stagnant water. gathered in holes
anu IOg ponds, VIII not make good milk,
neither Will /; corduce 10 the health and thrift
OF the COWS.
The different varieties of cucumbsrs,musk-
melons, watermelons and So uashes will inter-
mix, but not these different species. That is
winter and summer squashes. pumpkins &c
viii mix-yeliow muskmelons will mix with
green ones cluster Cucumbers will mix with
the long green. sc. But watermeIons will not
mix with musk melons, nor mus kmeIons with
squashes, sc.
New Jersey mari contains large amount
OF phosphorlc acid, funs, alumina. sulpnuric
SILICA and carboIie acid, magnesIa and oxide
OF iron-all Of which are req uired by almost
every crop the farmer raises No plant can he
successfully cultivated without the presence OF
Phosphorus. In every one hundred hounds of
mari there are over three pounds of phos-
pnOrus-
"A writer 10 the Boston Cultiyator states
that. having moved his barns the past season
10 some distance from the trough where the
animals had formerly drank, a considerable
stream OF water during q freshet flowed be-
tween the barn and the old watering pIace
On turning the cattle out the first morning af
ter the freshet several of the larger ones passed
over the stream TO drink, though the water was
so deep that they had TO SWIM.
The new thing under the sun is grating
potatoes. The mode of operation is to take two
potatoes. one of each variety. the good QuaIi
Ties OF which 10 wishes TO combine With a
pocket knife cut all the eyes clearly out of one
OF them and substitute IN their place the ayes
cut out OF the other. The ewes 10 be iuserfed
should b. sprOuted and cut in the form of we'd
ges and inserted into cuts of the sama shane
and size in the other potato. they ar held in
place by hsir-pins, and bound with bass M At
ting or tV Inc.