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beautiful whiteness, assumes a cloudy or
smoky yellow instead, and becomes
striated with brown and black marks,
and the tusbes %infrequently drop,
ns-,, Notes.

AgricuIt ur,. Notes.
In every state there should be a law
prohibiting the use Of any but thoroughN
bred or improved males, whether oil
horses, cattle, sheep or swine.
The Vermont Record says that wounds
in animals are quickly cured by washing
several times a day with turpentine in
which the yolk Of eggs has been thor
oughlY mixed.
Worse and worse. In North Carolina
II costs from five TO ten times ~ much
10 fence the stock in as the stock il worth,
In other words, $40 for pocket to put
81 in.
Every farmer should use a part Of his
garden AZ an experimental plot. In no
a can he 10 advance his OWL interests
and promote the agricultural advantage
Of the country.
The Practical Farmer says that If a
tablespoonful Of saltpetre is dissolved in
a pailful Of water, 4 pint Of the solution
put around each bill will destroy bugs
on squashes and c%ucumbers.
BY adjoining our farms and homes we
thus contribute large charities to the
world, for the beauties we add to our
premises are the property Of the neigh
borhood and the world Iowa State
Register.
For some sorts Of vegetables, rs let
tuce, cress, radishes and others, the Chi.
nese system Of keeping the soil confirm.
Ously wet IL the best that can be adopted.
1t produces II crispiness in the vegeta'
bIes that is obtained only when there has
been no check in the growth.
DR.. Sturtevant says: cone Of the
best results that could happen to our
talking agriculturists would be to sweep
fr0m existence the idea that cheap re-
suits can be Of other than Of cheap value.
The true results are always costly OF
time and of thought. Let the agricul
tural thinker receive recognition, in ac'
cOrdance AZ his thoughts are based or
facts" Josh Billings says what costs
nothing is worth just what it COSTS
nothing, We, too.
The New England Farmer says: at
is estimSted that the loss to agriculture
from the growth of weeds instead Of the
useful grasses in meadow and pasture
lands is not less than 500, 600, 900 per
year in the United State. Nothing will
sOOne or more cheaply bring about the
desired change in this direction than a
more general employment Of sheep as
scavengers on every farm where their in
PRODUCTION IL indicated"
Mr.. NJ. b. Bateham of PainyiIle, Ohio,
in an address before the American
Dairymen's association, advised the SOW
ing OF the following six kinds of grass
seeds for pasture lands "a known to be
adapted to clayey soils, Timothy, blue
grass, red top, orchard grass, meadow
fescue and English rye grass, adding
white clover ii desired. II either kind
is omitted it should be the rye grass, IN
it sometimes winter-kilIo on fiat, cIayey
soiIs,
We clip from the Michigan Farmer a
valuable mixture to keep on hand dur
ing the growing seaiOn. 1t il one bushel
Of coal ashes, sulphur and hellebOre. The
ashes should be very fine. 1t il best
after passing them through the ordinary
coal ash seive. TO one paiIfuI OF ashes
thus sifted add a quart each Of -four OF
sulphur and helIebore and mix together.
For currant worms, plant lice, cabbage
feas, slugs on pear trees, melon bugs we
found this 30 eiieCtual last season that
we confidently recommend it to our
readers. 1t is always to be used in the
cool Of the morning, while the dew ia
upon the leaf.
The careful housewife will utilize Il
great many useless articles. Old tin
fruit and vegetable cana have been thrown
into the back yard and alley long enough.
Instead of disposing OF them in this way,
they can be used for flower.pots, and
may be made very ornamental, too.
Here is an opportunity for a display of
the decorative art" at present 80 pop
ular, The plants will thrive if a hole is
made in the bottom of the can, quite ~
well M in porous pots. The rust from
the tin il more of n benefit to the plants
than otherwise. They may be painted
any color, with some pretty pictures
pasted on.-[Chicago Journal.
TO all who make use of tho compar-
alive leisure OF midsummer TO visit the
orchards, gardens and grounds of others,
we nave one bit OF advice to give: "Shut
your w gate behind you! When
you leave your garden, iruit.patch or
grounds, of whatever kind, shut the gate
and leave whatever is behind you there
don't take it with you. Recollect
that when you visit the plsce OF another
you go to see what he has to show and
learn what he has to teach. fyou would
be n welcome visitor and dism ssed with
a pressing invitation to come again, place
yourself in n receptive mood be for the
time the attentive pupil and not the
teacher. When Others visit your place
will be the proper time to teach. OF all
the intOlerable bOres who visit III il the
man who brings his " place along with
him, and who, whatever may be shown
him, at once institutes a comparison with
his own, and at once begins to tell that
mime are mach better than that" and
ignoring the things before him, tells liz,
"Ah, you should see my Strawberries,
my roses, my tomatoes and 30 on ali
through, in short, the man who did not
Shut his gate behind him
= American Agriculturist.
Seward on China.
lionroo II Sam.rJ ITniInJ Gio.o, -.