Morning journal and courier., 1886-01-14
Farm and Garden,

Good corn fodder is better than good hay for milch COWS.
 Salt the cattle regularly this year-say l every Monday morning.
 How smooth the agents talk; farmers, be
 ware of these oily-tongued fellows. In cold weather cattle will often suffer in juriously from thirst rather than go some distance to the water. See to it that this doas not occur, even if driving them to drink is necessary.
 The theory of the farm chemists and the practical facts of the farmer often appear to run at variance. For instance, the chemists tell us that prickly comfrey is very rich in flesh producing material and are urging far l mers to raise it for feeding. The farm ami 1 mals say mo" in their refusing to eat the stuff after it is grown.
 One ''rural" editor laid great plans year ago for raising 400 bushels of potatoes to l an acre by new and original process. He took pages in his paper for talking about it. The season of 1885 came and the season went, but the great experiment which was | made proved failure. This editor is now the laughing stock of his friends, and he is often asked how the potatoes are coming along We sure that the next time he will reserve his bombast until after the fact It's good plan always.
 The Wyandottes.-It is with new breeds of fowls or other live stock as with new grains fruits and the like, namely, one ought not to accept every statement put forth as to supe- riority. Of late the Wyandotte breed of fowls has attracted much attention. The ob- iect of these lines is not to show that they are in the least unworthy of this, but merely to caution buyers against expecting exceed ingly high results from them. A friend of the writer, who has tried them, reports thus k,,, o1~1r -1S,, pares them with the Plymouth Rocks From the 27th of September, when the first egg was laid by spring matched chickens, un- til two days before Christmas, the yield from nine hens was two hundred and fifty one eggs. As 8 breed they mature rather earlier than the Plymouth Rocks, and are prettier as to feathers-both good points. But then the eggs average smaller in size and are darker colored than those of the other breed named. Thus we see that in these, as with other i nissIfy ia9 tssd breeds, &le,e points both for and against them. Many who praise the Wyandottes the highest have never raised q hen.
 Smutty Feed. Notwithstanding all that is | said in the farm journals from time to time about death to animals from eating corn or other grain that is affected by smut, we ven- ture to say that ten thousand cattle die from other causes every year for each one that is killed by smut The National Agricultural 6AplOQeu the theory concerning the injury which smut may cause l some years ago. A test was made by tying up some cows and feeding them on smutty grain and fodder very freely. They didn't die-not one of them-but instead improved in flesh during the time of the experiment. How the falseneSs of this theory gained cur rency no doubt was by the feeding of un- cured fodder in the fall, that had smut in it, at a time when the animals were unused to this kind of food, and so freely as to amount to an over-feed. But whatever bad results there may have been, it was due more to the general un6tness of the food than to the smut that may have been present. Speciality Farming. We hear of a farmer who is going to put all his land to one crop it reminds us of man down east who tried that sort of thing for just two years. The onion crop had been & paying one for some years in his vicinity, and as his soil was we'll adapted to it, and he had each year wished that his acre of onions had been 1 many acres, he concluded to put his entire farm to the crop, which he did. Result, an immense crop, but everybody else had big onion crops too, and he didn't realize enough from all he harvested to pay expenses. Pc tatoes, however, paid well everywhere that year. and had he put one-half of the farm to this crop he would have made money. The
 next year he quit on the "ruinous onions"
 and put in nothing but potatoes. This time he fared as badly all around with the pota-
 toes as he had the year before with the on-
 ions, so that in two years he made. nothing from his farm. Now he grows a number of crops every year.
 ORCHARD AND GARDEN.
 Ges around the catalogues.
 A poor galden is really expensive.
 Are the cellars secure against frosts!
 For a second early pea the Stratagen is the best.
 T1or o1f 1,oe Ioo, praised.
 The Russian mulberry don't amount to much unless it may suit the silk worm.
 They have great soil in Montana for pota- toes. perfect specimen of the Early Rose that weighed four and one-half pounds was recently grown there
 Most kinds of fruit trees produce their crop from spurs one or two inches in length, which grew from well established branches
 FLOWERS AND THE LAWN.
 Sow golden feather seed now.
 Ferns love coolness and moisture
 Floral horseshoes are out of fashion.
 Young plants usually grow more freely than old ones, but in proportion to size are less horife1ous as rule.
 The color of wild flowers varies somewhat with the latitude. It has been noticed, for instance, that white or pale-colored flowers are more abundant in the northern attitudes than in the tropics, and in alpine situates than in the plains.
 If you have never grown the lantans for summer flowers or for window culture, then do so unless you object to the fragrance of the leaves. It is strange how this affects different tastes; for our part we like it ex- ceedingly, but others we know consider it as being quite offensive. But as to it's ease of culture and freedom of bloom, in singular coloTs, everyone is agreed that it can hardly be excelled.
 Worms in Soil-These are often present, and if they be only common angle worms or other soft skinned, they may readily be ex- pelled by giving the plants one good water every four or six weeks without harm For the small, white, hard worm that is some- times met. to soak the soil with tobacco wa ter of strength resembling tea will clear them out If they happen to be very nu- merous it may be better to remove all of the old soil from the root, repotting into fresh soil. Aside from the consideration of kill ing insects this is course of treatment that is beneficial to most plants. The old soil is easily removed by gently swaying the ball of earth to and fro in vessel of water until all is loosened. The Peasant in the South of France.
 From the National Review.l
 Judging from the outward aspect of the well-to-do peasant proprietor, and from his mode of life, no casual observer would credit him with possessing surplus pence, and cer tainly would never dream of his keeping a banking account. His daily fare is of the | most meagre description. For breakfast he | and his family usually partake of bread, with | the magnetic, preparation of small salt | fish, such Gs archoves, etc, sometimes varied |
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