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rotting at the center. 1t is native Of

rotting at the center. 1t is native of
the Malay archipelago.
In selecting young Brahmas an indica-
tion of what the plumage will be is given
by the bills. When the bill has a dark
stripe down the upper mandible the
hackle and tail will be dark.
One of the best methods to start rose
cuttings, is to stick the cuttings about
an inch deep into moist clean river sand
with good we'll prepared soil below to re-
ceive the roots as soon as they strike.
Because there is but little in the paper
warning against planting bad seed, be
careful, nevertheless, to see that all the
corn you plant is sound and lively, and
thus avoid the serious expense of replant-
ing.
Red spiders are easiest destroyed by
lay ng the plants carefully on their sides
in the open air, and using hand syringe
on them as powerfully as they will bear.
If little sulphur is used in the water it
is still more effective.
The use of reaper and mower knives is
apt to get the grindstone very uneven.
The groves thus made spoil the grind
stone for any other purpose than grind
ing sections. Sharpening dull spade,
by which the whole width of the stone
will be ground down level, is the best
mode of removing these inequalities.
With little labor the stone may be made
as good as new.
The instinct of a fowl leads it to scratch
even in feeding on heap of whole grain.
This causes it to stop eating long enough
to swallow. We give fowls too much at
time, and this causes them to stuff
themselves so as to injure their crops, if
fed dampened meal. A little whole grain
scattered among straw will make poultry
scratch for what they get, and conduce
to their healthfulness.
A litter of pigs farrowed in spring or
summer grows rapidly if at pasture, be-
cause the green food keeps the pigs di-
gestion good and enables it to get full
benefit from any other food that may be
eaten. Part of the food for sows giving
milk at this selson should be mangel
wurtzels or beets, and if these are not to
be had, put in liberal portion of bran
with the meal and mix with hot water.
The question is often asked-Is there
any value to cob meal, and will it pay
to have the cobs ground? If the cobs
were to be ground separate, and the meal
fed to the cattle unmixed with the
corn meal, it is very doubtful if it would
pay; but when the corn is ground with
the cob and the meal thus mixed, it is
believed by those who have tried it that
it will pay-in fact, that it would pay
even if the cobs contained no nutritive
qualities, because of tie mechanical
effect which the cob meal has on the corn
meal in the animals stomach.
The benefit which fowls derive from
eating charcoal is acknowledged. The
m ;thod of putting 1t before them, how
ever, is not we'll understood. Pounded
charcoal is not in the shape in which
fowls usually find their food, and conse-
qutntly is not very enticing to them.
Corn burnt on the cob and the refuse,
which consists almost entirely of the
grains r duo ed to charcoal, if placed be-
fore them, they eat greedily and with a
marked improvement in their health as
shown by the bright color Of their combs,
and their sooner production of greater
average of eggs to the flock than before.