Morning journal and courier., 1885-10-29

being as three or four to one. The Hamburgs, for example, may be counted upon to produce 200 eggs per hen each year, and often the yield will exceed this by fifty. If the eggs are some what smaller, the fowls also are not large, and consume less food comparatively. In average collections of good hens, yield of 40 eggs per annum from each is consider ed very creditable, while this often falls to 100 eggs, which most persons wonld call very fair. It may be hardly necessary to add, that care has almost much to do with this matter as the breed has.
 Pure-bred Bulls.-We would like to help that large class of farmers who seem content ed with scrub males, to figure on advantages of blooded animals instead. A good Short horn or Hereford may be counted on to sire fifty calves year for ten years; total 800. Steers of scrub origin may make 1 ,000 pounds live weight at four years old, worth three cents pound, or $50 As compared with l, 400 pounds by three years old, or $42. It costs some less for one year less feeding, say $6, which added to S42, makes S4S on this side of the account. The difference in the value then is SIS on single steer; let us multiply this by the annual progeny of fifty and we get $9O0 as yearly gain, 5000 in ten years. as showing the increase value of such bull But the farmer may not be large enough stockman to warrant the buying of a pure bred bull for his own use. The figures are quite as significant, were the ami nal to be owned by several farmers of the neighborhood. By this course the improve ment would extend throughout a neighbor- hood.
 ORCHARD AND GARDEN.
 Make currant cuttings.
 fruit diet is a healthy diet.
 Store squashes in dry warm place.
 Clear late weeds from the berry patch.
 Cabbage is improved in flavor by freez- ing.
 Set raspberries and blackberries in the fall, strawberries in the spring, unless it can be done in September.
 The black currant has an advantage over the red in never being troubled by worms destroying the leaves It is a hardy and wig orous grower. The objection to the peculiar flavor of the berries ill raw state is largely overcome by stewing the fruit or making it into jelly.
 Sparrows and Grapes.-We have known these pestiferous fellows to quit vine against a house by being stoned everytime they were seen. The same thing could be tried in vineyard Sparrows are not bad article as food, the only objection being their size Enough of them together make delicious pie.
 Hogs in the Orehard.-A few pokers if they are not kept ringed or well fed, will do good deal of damage in young orchards by IoOIlnS up tIle SOll, even SGlII III S6aTcn of food This would not be of so much con- sequence were it not that by the operation they destroy many working roots that are near the surface, as we'll as stiffer ones need ed for bracing the trees. If properly ''jewel- ed" the windfalls will afford good food for pork-making, and the worms will be con stunned; an advantage all around In orchards that are what are termed ''grass-boun it sometimes works well to turn in hogs, with their shouts free, for roofing up the sod.
 FLOWERS AND THE LAWN.
 Air the plants often.
 Hydrangeas should rest.
 Sprinkle camellia leaves daily.
 Banna roots keeps best in dry sand
 Palms are almost perfect house plants.
 Never set young evergreens in the fall.
 There is no better season for top-dressing the lawn than just now.
 Cinerarias do we'll in the window if kept where it is cool, and ample pot room is pro- vided.
 to be an immense business. These go most ly from New York and the eastern States to the large cities east and west.
 The names of but few mortals are deserv ing to live through the ages, but he who plants tree does an act that will bring bless ing to mankind for long time hence.
 Flower Beds and Frests.-When the frosts have done their work in disfguring the bed ding plants, clear these away, coat the sur face with ma manure @ and dig over for the win, ter. Tn this last operation the clods of earth should leave the spade unbroken, if possible, causing rough surface over the bed. Then the air and frost will have full effect on the soil, causing it's small particles to be rent asunder, just as the freezing of sap in plants, promoting mellowness another year. We have great faith, too, in the de- struction of grubs in the soil by this process of exposure and freezing.