The Irish standard., 1888-08-04
FOR FARM READERS.

ECONOMY in use, as we'll as nherahty In
production. are the basis CT SUCCESS IN
agriculture.
TIE cows of the country ought to do bet
ter or be converted into beef. Only three
fourths Of them are said to be self-support-
ing.
THE Ru,lI Ne,D Yorker after some years Of
experience advises oil whose potatoes are
usually scabby, to sift sulphur -four over
the seed pieces.
The harrow Is q better weeder than the
hoe Use 1t before corn aud potatoes are
up and as long afterwards as possible with
out injury to the crop
THERE are nc short cuts in fruit grow
ing. The plants must he set cut and well
cared for. 80 as to secure a good, thrifty
growth, and in due time they will besr
fruit.
TO GORGE an animal with food only serves
to overwork the stomach in the attempt to
digest more than it is really able to, and as
goes to waste.
THE cost Of corn for simply keeping the
hogs Of the United States warm has been
estimated at s7Ao0o,0o0, that being the
difference between fattening the hogs in
cold weather and in summer.
TO RAVE good orchard it should be cul-
tivatea and MANFRED every year, and no
crop raised In 1t unless il be clover, and like
9, bank account IL will not honor your drafts
without the previous depostts.
II Is recommended. sometimes, to change
the garden spot, In order to get rid Of
weeds II 80, It will beneht 1t greatly to
SOW it with clover, if only 10 Hghte4 up the
eubsoil, and this the clover rooss will DO.
The farmer who can make such improve
ments and cultivation Of the sou as to raise
maximum crops, who economies feeding
and care Of stock, who purchases animals
and food to the best advantage, is certain
to have good profit on each and ali his in
vestments.
a New YoRK dairyman says he can get
more milk from COWS fed on heets, two
bushels per diem to the cows, than from
ensilage. The milk yield ran up to twenty
quarts He asserts that be can produce
beets at . cost Of four cents bushei, one
thousand bushels to the acre.
A CORRESPONDENT says that il bee-keep
ers will put out gray birch sawdust once
they will never put rye meal to use as
pollen, for they will never work on the lat
ter when the two are placed side by side.
He advises bee-keepers to try it and enjoy
seeing the bees carry the pollen from it.
TIE one advantage OF hay on most farms
Is that it is on the premises and it costs
more to market it than it does grain. The
latterin most places is the cheaper nutri-
paent, and when both have to be bought the
cheaper handling of grain is an argument
in it's favor as against hay OF coarser feed.
RECENT experiments have shown that 3
good preventive Of smuts affecting wheat ie
to soak the seed grain ten or fifteen minutes
in brine Of the ordinary strength and used
for picking pork H. e., in which fresh egg
will floats, skim of the rising smut spores
and destroy them, and then dry the wheat
BY busting lime over 1t I'LL all the grains are
white.
IT Is well to show up the advantage
which any locality possesses in having q
local nursery where new sorts of fruits are
put on trial, and whore the behavior q
a sorts is observed closely for that par
/. ocular region The convenience Of selec'
{ IN ~ ne reduced cost and surer growth
20 ~ eftown aday drive Of where
sstos So planted isa: Less but syssn -,
Il II htaaO advantage 2E