Arizona weekly citizen., 1884-12-13
FOR THE FARMER.

De sure that your corn cribs are ws
 ter-proOf and rat-proof
 Iowa claims 10 have 1,O0O,OOO more
 hogs than any other state.
 It is said that Sl,5OO. COO are invested
 in the cranberry crop of Wisconsin
 Cattle arc being brought from North.
 ern Mexico to the ranches of the far
 West.
 Remember that tools and machinery are damaged more by unnecessary ex- posture than by use.
 Fowls delight to scratch in loose ground, and if q portion of their yard Is dug up at intervals it will afford them the exercise they so much need.
 An exchange says posts can be pre- served from rotting for less than two cents each by painting with boiled lin- seed oil stirred with pulverized coal to the consistency of paint.
 The Memphis Appcal says flour made of peanuts k coming into notice. It makes q delightful biscuit and very rich pastry. A great addition to the de- mand for peanuts is likely to be the consequence.
 Mir. Peterson. a Wisconsin farmer, had this year thirty acres of potatoes which yielded him from 1000 to 5.OOC bushels. He is now putting them into market, getting thirty and thirty-tive cents a bushcl.
 A solution of hyposulphite of soda is recommended as an excellent remedy for ahff.ls.v, f.ns.f..-.s \ sa..-,.aanf,,t dropped carefully down a fowls throat three times 8 day hardly ever tails tc effect a cure.
 An Illinois farmer, who has had much experience in laying tile-drainS, says he would lay nothing smaller than three. Inch tile, and would not put down two inch drains il the tile were furnished him for nothing.
 IL is well known that pruning an or chard too severely does more harm | than good. All that is necessary is to remove the dead limbs and unfruitful | branches. An important part of fruit | culture is to know when tO let the trees alone.
 It is well known among observant | poultry-raisers that those breeds of fowls | which are large layers and non-sitters possess an almost insatiate appetite for animal food. It is the qualification of this appetite which makes them such hordinate layers.
 The centrifugal process of making butter is becoming quite popular A | machine now in use in PennSylvania has q capacity of about l,0OO pounds of milk per hour, and is run by water power at a speed of nearly 2.OOO revo- lutions per minute.
 Colonel F. D. Curtis says: ''I do not agree with our chemical brethren, ycleped professors who tell us turnips nre nearly all water and of no value. Practical experience teaches me that this scientific dogma k q mistake; and is it not curious that an Englishman can make the best Ol beef anI mutton out of water2
 Regarding the plCn ca~culiO Prof. Riley, the United States CuiOmolOgist | says: Fl find nothing superior tO the jarring process which was recommend | ed years ago. place no faith in the -epellant power of >trong-smelling substances Ntich We iind repeatedly recommended in the agricultural press"
 To hatch poultry successfully, either by artificial or natural means. q tenn lerature of lQ2 Co lpl degrees is need d. This may bc produced either by he parent birds. by fire, or by the sun. t is well known that in ancient times he Egyptians hItchel chickens by ar- ificisl means. using buildings some, what like ovens.
 An old story in q new form is going he grand rounds. and tells about a -oung man at table d'hote at oue of the 'ural hotels. where ''lady walters are He wanted beverage with lis roast, and summoned the maiden, O whom he said: Have you any DOT er?" "Yes," she said, .'we have three IT four. but they are all colored." Where ignorance is bliss it is the height | absurdity to be intelligent