The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-04-14

In his experiments in feeding cattle, at
the Kansas College Farm, Prof. Shelton
says: ga considerable general expert
ence in the use of corn and cob meal as
feed for herd OF sixty odd head of neat
cattle has greatly strengthened, not only
the writer, but those having the practi-
cal management of the herd, in the con-.
victlon Of the superior value of corn and
cob meal. The corn and cob meal was
apparently at least, better digested than
was clear corn alone when used it was
eaten certainly with as great relish the
cattle we're "off their feed less often
while cases of diarrhoea caused by over
feeding-all too common wien corn meal
was ueed-were practically unknown
when the grain feed was the ground ear
corn.
A writer in Vack's says that "pelargo-
NUNS are among the easiest plants to
cultivate that I ever tried. Much less
trouble than the common geranium. A
slip stuck into dirt of any kind, at any
season, is almost Gel tain to grow, and
also to grow rapidly. I find that few
things are important in their culture.
They require all the air and sunshine
they can get, and will not do we'll crowd
ed among other plants, or in the shade.
A neighbor gave that trial. Hers stood
on a piazza, nearly hidden by other
plants, and it was tall and spindlinQ
covered with lice, and without flowers.
Upon being told what the matter was.
she set it outside, and it began to grow
and thrive and blossomed beautifully"
In an exchange we find the following,
letter, which contains many practical
suggestions on the strawberry subject
"The plants were set two feet apart,
In rows sixty rods long and three feet
apart. The ground was level to begin
with, and for the first few weeks was
tended with a small toothed harrow.
When the first runners began to set
plants they were trained to follow the
rows, and right at that time I began
cultivating with a common two-horse
corn cultivator, throwing the dirt to-
ward the plants. The whole patch was
gone over with the hoe and the horse
cultivator, every ten days, till the weeds
ceased to grow. The parent plants we're
entirely covered in some places after the
first plants were we'll rooted and showed
their first runners. By October 1st the
young plants were matted on top of a
ridge, where the soil is three or four
inches deeper than when the parents
were set, by running between the rowe,
making the ridges level on top. Each
row has high bed.
"Now for protection. It was covered
with prairie hay cut In July, before any
seed ripened. The hay was very evenly
spread over the rows and left where it
was to keep the berries off the dirt. The
burrows made by the lister were partially
filed by coarse manure and trash to hold
moisture to next spring."
LITTLE words are the sweetest to hear;
little charities fly farthest and stay longest
on the wing; little lakes are the stillest;
little hearts are the fullest, and little
farms are the best titled. Little books
are the most read, and little songs the
most loved. And when Nature would
make anything especially rare and beau
tiful.she makes it little-little pearls, little
diamonds, little dews. Every man calls
that little which he loves best on earth.