The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-08-30

the 0jaer departments lot the time ana
feed not before assigned to them-he
should fatteu, and sell down to such
number as will conveniently work
along his crops and other live stock.
Local butchers will always pay fair
price for few good wethers, and some
neighbors can usually be found ready
to make room for few desirable store
sheep. AS the facilities for enhancing
the numbers of the flock improve, the
annual drafting may e confined to full
grown wethers, and such ewes as, by
reason of age or other disqualify;ng
peculiarities, are undesirable. The
texibility of small flock is one of the
strongest recommendations-enabling it
to be accommodated to the circumstan
ces or ambitions of the owner more
readily than any other livestock prop
erty.- LiUe Stock Journal.
Destroy the Weeds. this season of
the year farmers are generally crowded
with field work and unless great care is
exercised, many things about the farm
will he neglected, There are few more
repulsive sights about a farm, than a
garden overgrown with tall noxious
weeds. 1t is matter of economy as
well as neatness that these weeds be de-
stroyed before they mature their seeds
and they become scattered over Il e
ground. One weed allowed to go 10
seed at this season, will make a great
mary weeds next year, and it is clearly
to be seen that unless care is taken to
prevent it, little negligence now viii
cause much trouble another year. A
few hours each week spent in the gar
den with cultivator and hoe, will be
sufficient to prevent this evil and the
time, taken at odd spells when there is
little else to be done, will hardly be
missed. II is not practicable to en-
tirely exterminate the weeds from a
garden, but if little care is exercised
in preventing t,,em from going to seed,
a great deal will be done in that direc-
ton. A we'll managed kitchen garden,
will help gre atty to reduce the current
expenses of a family, but al This season
of the year It must not be neglected or
the weeds will soon become the Grief
occupants of the soil. A quarter of an
acre of garden as some are managed,
will grow more weeds than ten acres of
farm land. Fence corners are also apt
to be neglected When crop of grass
or grain has been reno, cd from a field,
the fences and fence corners should be
moved out with a scythe. This will
add greatly to the appearance of p farm
and many weeds will be prevented from
scattering their seeds to adjacent fields
and farms.
AMONG the best sorts of turnips for
sowing from now till the end of August,
are the following: Cow-horn, White,
Norfolk, Red-iop, Strap-leap, White
French, Yellowstone, Golden Ball,
White Egg, and Yellow Globe. Root
crops of all kinds are more and more
appreciated in this country as the neces-
sity of mixed food for stock is recog-
nized. Turnips terminate quickly, and
farmers should be provided with lime,
ashes or SCOT to scatter over the drills
or over the entire field, if broadcasted,
as soon as termination begins, in order
to protect them from the fly. If thus
provided, half of the seed usually sown
will suffice, and the so ling of the lime
or ashes is really less trouble than the
hoeing out of the surplus plsnts. We
have no doubt that halo a pc md would
suffice for an acre if sown in drills by
hand, and that with proper cultivation
the crop would prove larger for it.-Ru-
raj Ne,o Yorker.
Few SuggestiOns.-Never try to
beat colt into doing a thing, for if
nervous he may turn out vicious
horse, and if stupid he may become
stubborn. Remember that by patience
and gentleness he can be got to do any
thing that will not hurt him.
When the horse shows signs of shy
ing at an object. 90 not beat him, but
lead him W to il, a lowing him to stand
and look a, be comes closer, and after
he examines it few times he will not
fear anything of the kind again. In
passing by hedges with colt, throw
in stones and stop him until he takes no
notice of the noise.
Before putting on any article of har-
ness, let him smell it, ard then rub it
against his head, neck and body.
Always start horse with the voice,
never with the cut of the whip. In
starting turn little to O. e side; in
stopping when going up I'LL do the
same.
THE potato bug has advanced down
the ST. Lawrence river as far as Ne
repis. On Monday last there was not
the sign of one about the place, but on
Wednesday the potato fields in the vi
cinity were covered with them. Their
growth is amazingly rapid. In twenty
four hours after being bowed the insect
is alive, and in another twenty-four
hours it attains 10 the size OF an ordi-
nary house fly.