The Wichita city eagle., 1880-11-18
HOUSE AND FARM.

Apples boiled with meal are good for
pigs.
1t pays to feed cows giving milk
iiberally. Butter is high and nowi
the time to feed profitably.
Cracks in stoves may be effcctually
stopped by paste made Of ashes and
salt mixed with water.
Evaporatcd fruit is as superior to sun
dried fruit as fresh raspberries are TO
those dried on the bushes.
II is estimated that the stalk crop Of
the country annually amounts TO $4,000.
600, tons worth over S260,OOO,O00.
Summer hog packing TO August 4,
amounted to 3,43O,9sS hogs, against 2,
319,S95 same time last season.
Always give the first meal. If it is
well fed with manure it will feed all
else plants, animals and men.
Give catci no water from this time
until February. While in growth wat
or moderately. They bloom from May
to August.
+. +. Roe, ia his valuable work Oh
small fruits recomends setting ont black
berries either in autumn or very early
in the spring
About 10000 buffalo hides were ship
ped from Yellowstone county, Montan-
ma, this summer and spring. They
were worth about $4,000.
The preparation of bees for winter
should now be the study Of all jubicious
beekeepcr. If not yet decided how to
prepare them read mp at at once.
The importation Of thoroughbred
horses, cattle and sheep from Europe to
this country for the past year exceeds
in number that ofany former year
Rapid drying Of paint is insured by
the addition ola small proportion of
lithsrge, sugar of lead or Japan varnish
according to material or color.
A syndicate of cattle dealers nj Tor
onta Canada recently contractor for
the conveyance of over 10000 head of
cattle to the ports of Liverpool, Glas-
gov, Bristol ahd London.
A tract of 8, ,4S0 acres in Logan Valley
Nebraska, has been brought by Iowa
men for $50 ,Os2, and they will open an
extensive stock farm, starting with
1900 head ofyoung cattle.
The potato crop Of this country, il is
believed, will reach 125 100000 bushels
this year, value at SlO0,O00,O00. New
York leads in its cultivation, the crop
there reaches 25 900, 900 bushel.
Suffolk and Berkshire pigs ma! be
profitably fee TO be sold at 9 and 10
months, upon clover. corn meal, linsccd
meal. or corn and oat meal. Half
pound of linsecd meal per day on the
average to six-months- pigs would
: be sufficient.
Recent experiments in England show
that thin showing of wheat in drills is
more productive than thick sowing. BY
special culture on small plots single
grain 10 the hill has given a yield of 100
to the acre, according to the Expert
meat Record.
A dormant bulb of the call should be
planted so that the point shall be just
above the surface: the eXac: depth OF
this plant in pot or tub Is not a
matter of much Importance. as it read
lily adapts itself 10 circumstances if it
has constant aupply of water.
None but earth colors should be used
in painting floors, and the rapid wear
ing off of coating of oil paint on a floor
is a sure inechtion that white lead has
been mixed with the paint. Ii is impor-
tant that the first coating should per
fectly dry before the second is laid on.
In selecting cows for milk the free,
easy step, the pleasant and comfortable
expression of countcnance and the
round, capacious form of body are far
more important than the line of decent
or family history. Pedigree goes for
little unless il carries with it the marks
of good milker.-Amcricdn Cultir0-
tor.
The subject of the shipments of cattle
from Omahaw TO Brussels direct is be-
ing investigated. From Omaha TO New
York the freight will be about eighty
per 100 pounds, and from New York to
Antwerp, a per head. What the cx-
pense on a cargo would be has not been
defininelv ascertained, but il is said
that the venture has favorable look.
A ton of cottcn-sced meal contains SO
pounds of potash, 3G pounds phosphor-
ic acid and 7s pounds OF nitrogen. \
ton of average barn-yard manure con-
tains IL pounds of nitrogen, 6 pounds
of phosphoric acid and IL pounds of
potash. Those minerals would make a
ton Of cotton-seed meal worth, rs fer
tiliZer, S25.66, while those contained Ill
. ton of barn-yard manure would be
be worth S4.05; bnt there would be a
value in barnyard manure not given in
these figures arising from its ameliorat-
ing effects in the soil, and another val
ue arising out of its heat-producing
properties which the cotton-seed lacks.
The heat giving properties and its amel-
iorating action in the soil makes il of SO
much more value to market garden
er.
Every young man should remember
that the world will always honorindus-
try. The vulgar and useless idler whose
energies of body and mind are rusting
for want of exercise. the mistaken being