Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1886-07-16

$3.50 to 5000 what can not get here
at all-sound carriage horses to draw n
wagon mile in not over $3.50 The
citizens of the United States have ut
much pains provided themselves with
the most useful horses that can be got
anywhere" AS To our noted trotters,
they were pronounced rs beautiful and
perfect in form rs the finest thorough
breds he has ever seen in England.
Frank Dougherty. in the Indiana
Farmer. gives his method of putting in
sections for surplus honey as follows:
ut is hard To define just the exact time
when the surplus boxes should go on,
as much depends on the general condi-
ton of things. The experienced eye
can easily tell the proper time, in fact
the very humming in the air will tell
him what the bees are doing. At the
proper time the cells unoccupied with
brood will be filled with honey, the
combs at or near the top will be built
out, and the bees will be adding little
patches of white comb here and there.
showing that they are gathering more
than what is required to supply their
immediate wants and they are needing
more room.
\ correspondent of the Rural World
writes that Journals Il will tell you
how sprout my melon seeds: Some
times | soak them in warm water for
about twelve hours, then wrap wet
cloths around them and put them UNI
der a setting hen. In this way | can
Sprout them in thirty-six hours. | am
trying n new plan for early melons this
season. | sprouted them in the above
manner: then | made little sacks of
old and thin cloth and filled with rich
earth. Then | put some old sawdust
in IA shallow box that | could handle.
and placed my sacks with the sproutcd
seed in this and kept it in n warm
place, sometimes set it on my stove.
The roots will pass through the cloth
with little trouble; the thinner and
more worn the cloth the better.
In the days of pea-feeding to hogs.
hog-cholera, thumps and pork which
people would not use because they
could not eat it, were things not heard
of. These are all the outgrowths and
natural result of rearing animals on
one kind of food, and that food corn,
not adapted to make n healthy body
or good. palatablc meat We shall
have these troubles more and more
until we progress backwards to the
more rational and natural way of the
fathers who studied economy with
close construction. and reared hogs
! which had the elements of food in
! them, and food suited to the hard
labor of the pioneers. We want more
peas and less corn-more muscle and
tissue and less fat. Such crops are
also cheaper grown than corn. -C Colonel
Z. D, curtis IN ohio Farmer.
The proper covering of seeds, after
they have been deposited in the drill or
row, has much to do with the success
of the crop. If in covering the seeds
are buried so deep that the germ (tho
little plant within the sced) can not
reach the surface it dies. Though .ne
seed may have been perfectly good
there will be no crop.
An old timothy sod is often renovated
by thoroughly narrowing with a light
! harrow. 1t lOosens the fine soil near
the surface. and thus cultivates the
timothy roots just beneath. Even in
winter wheat. where timothy seed is
sown in the fall, the timothy is not in
! jured by narrowing in the spring.
though this is often an objection against
the practice.
Houses for storing fruit. says the
Country Gentleman. which are cooled
by ice. are costly in structure, and eX-
pensivc in running. They are war
ranted only on a large scale, where
vast supplies of fruit will sell ut high
prices after being kept for some months
beyond the usual period of maturity.
Some of them have failed because the
reservoir of ice, which must be Sc
cured the previous winter, fails of it,
supply in autumn when wanted for
autumn fruit.