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cribs and the heaps OF corn left exposed
IN the fields will soon no more be seen.
The past winter has been damp and
warm at times, and large quantities of
corn lying open to the weather in this
way have rotted, and of course have
deprecated in value very considerably.
When meal is fed plain to cows, they
often pass it with but half digestion, or
in this shape it is apt to pass into the
mtestines without being returned with
the cud to be remasticated. This Gre
ates a loss, and to prevent it mix the
food with wet cut hay, straw, fodder or
other coarse feed. 1t is said that meal
fed dry, if not mixed with rough feed,
will he better masticated than when it
IS fed wet. Western Agriculturist.
''Let a drop of fresh milk fall" says
Professor s.. HI. Heath, into a glass of
pure water. If the milk promptly dis
seminates itself through the water, the
COW that yielded that milk is not with
calf; but If ii sinks to the bottom of the
glass as it falls upon the water, and pro-
duces but little of a milky cloud, the
COW is pregnant. The specific gravity
end viscidity of the albuminous milk be-
ing heavier than water thus retains the
drop of milk aud causes it to sink"
Mr.. J. A. Donaldson asks me to tell
in the Tribune how to raise box elder
and white ash from seed. Examine the
seeds after they are collected, to be sure
that most of them are filled. The best
time to plant is soon after collecting the
seeds from the tree. They may be
buried in twice their bulk Of moist mot
wet)sand. Bury in dry ground or on a
knoll where the seeds will not become
w~ater-soaked. 10 this way seeds may
be kept till you are ready to plant in
the spring, Plant in row four feet
apart, dropping n seed, if good, to
every six or eight inches in the row
Professor. w. j. Beal.
Never be afraid of spelling the appear
nice of your trees by trimming the tops
before planting. 1t may seem a waste
of good wood for the present, but look
ing to the future it is a positive gain, as
a tree cut back will make amuch strong
er growth than one left untrimmed.
o~undeviating rule can be laid down for
regulating the proper amount of wood
to remove, but in most cases about half
the length of each previous years shoot
will not be far wrong.
A very common mistake in rearing
colts is to over feed them when they are
weaned. This produces Indigestion,
weakness in the stomach, auses an IN
thrifty condition and stunts the growth.
The remedy is to change the feed alto
gether and give small rations of the best
food that will be easily digested until
the stomach regains strength. The
food should be soft and laxative; bran
scalded and stepped until cool and sweet
ened with molasses will be useful, but
no more than q pint should be- given at
a time and four feeds a day. Linseed'
may be added TO the bran or given in the
form af thin Cruel swsetened. A dose
of two ounces of linseed-oil may be Civ
en- at once to clear the bowels. The
scurfy coat shouldb be well brushed twice
a day, or rubbed with a coarse cloth, to
excite the skin to healthful action.
A writer in the Rural New Yorker
contends that by planting corn at the
earliest safe moment we not only in
crease the chances that the crop will re-
ceiye the necessary number OF degrees
of accumulated heat during Gne warm
season, but the number of hours of sun
shine as we'll, and, what is Of nearly as
much Importance, we advance the epoch
of blossoming several days, and by so
doing hasten maturity by several weeks.
In feeding calves by hand great care
should be exercised to have the food OF
the right temperatdse-as nearly as pos
sible that of the milk fresh from the nd
der-and to feed often enough to pre-
vent the calf from getting excessively
hungry, AMI then overeating. BY neg
lect af these precautions promising calves
are often seriously injured, fnot killed
outright.
The Rural New Yorker recommends
oats and peas as an excellent green food
for mich COWS. For this purpose one
and one-half bushels Of peas and two
and one-half bushels Of oats are sowr.
As peas are not easily covered by q har-
row, excepting the Acme, which covers
them perfectly, the seed should be sown
on the narrowing ground and covered by
the cultivator or p1oughed IN.
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stop That Cough.
Many mothers appear. to accept with
resignation the repeated and violent