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sionally in the meantime the plants viii
not suffer for want of food. The liquid i,
always in an Immediately available form
an important consideration in the garden
where the vegetables are quick growers
and fast feeders.
Partially rotted manure is best for this
purpose. Fill barrel half full of manure
and the remainder with soft water. A
stout stick should be kept in the barrel to
be used for stirring up the mass occasion
ally.
If very rich application is required,
| liquid form, or very thick Refill the
barrel with manure occasionally through
the season. All garden vegetables thrive
! wonderfully well when treated to liquid
manure in dry time. Fertilization by
| filtration is the most natural of all means
used for the application of manure to
the roots of plants. The trees of the
forest and the grasses Of the plains are
fertilized in this way.
Liquid manure should be applied at
night on freshly worked soil. If only
the clear liquid from the top of the
barrel is to be used, the sprinkler is good
to apply it with, but if applied thick, an
old pail and dipper will do as we'll as
anything.
ss-BREEDING OF SHEEP.
A mongrel sire is worse than bad :;
cross bred ewes make good dams; that is
admitted, but when wool is the chief
consideration the first cross is far and
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has worldwide renown. The best feeces
are the result of the union of clean
bred, short-wooled sheep with clean
bred ram of long-wooled tribe, or vice
versa. All further crossing causes a
marked deterioration in the fleece This is
not perceptible in focks raised for mutton,
as the cross bred ewes can, generation
after generation, be bred to pure blooded
rams until the old strain is lost and the
flock attains an almost clean standard of
pedigree Every cross in the upward d.
rection improves the quality of focks as
mutton sheep.
THE CROW.
In the report of the Department of
Agriculture, Washington, after citing much
evidence from careful observers ali over
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crow, closes the case of this ill-omened
bird as follows
1t appears from careful consideration
Of all testimony, published and unpub-
lished, that
Grows seriously damage the corn and
injury other grain crops usually to less ex-
tent.
They damage other farm crops to some
extent, frequently doing much mischief
They are very destructive to the eggs
and young of domesticated fowls.
They do incalculable damage to the eggs
and young of native birds.
They do much harm by the distribution
of seeds of poison ivy, poison sumach, and
perhaps other noxious plants.
They do much harm by the destruction
of beneficial insects.
On the other hand
They do much good by the destruction
of injurious insects.
They are largely beneficial through their
destruction of mice and other rodents.
They are valuable occasionally as scav-
engers.
The careful examination OF large num-
berS of stomachs and the critical study of
the crow, may change materially the pres
ent aspect of the question, but so far as the
facts at present known enable judgment
to be formed, the harm which crows do
appear to far outweigh the good.-Faym
and Firesjdc
FARM NOTES.
Rotation of crops solves the labor prob
lem on the farm and economies labor, by
distributing work through the year.
The past season a vegetable-grower in
Plum City, Fla, sold a ten-acre lot of to-
matoes tor $50, as they appeared to be
doomed by drought Two days after rain
set in, the tomatoes grew and fourished,
and the buyer has sold over 81, 200 worth
Of them.
In some sections of Maine, where can
ming of vegetables is carried on to con-
siderable extent, the farmers drop a pea
with each piece Of potato planted. The
two thrive well together; the peas yield
good crop for the canner, and do not per-
ceptlbly interfere with the potato yield.
The COW soon becomes accustomed to
the mixer, and If treated kindly will
cease giving evidences of vices. To strike
her places her in fear, and she will seize
every opportunity to kick or move her
position. Milking should be performed
quietly, the COW being given her food just
before beginning to milk.
The time for corn planting varies with
the latitude, and also depends much upon
the weather. When the days are mild
and the ground warm is a safe rule, when
ever hat may be, in all localities Three
conditions are essential to the production
of a paying crop of corn, namely, good
seed, rich friable soil and thorough til
lage.
In Pennsylvania, where the growing of
turnips for seed is great industry, the
seed IS sown between the rows of corn, after
the last working, This gives turnips abort
two inches in diameter, the most desirable
for seed purposes. In this manner a good
crop Is secured at nominal cost, as they
require no work after sowing. Sufficient
roots can he grown with an acre of corn to
set three acres for seed the following season.
Blackcap raspberry plants are easily
propagated, and anyone who has a few
plants of variety that pleases him may
greatly increase their number by layering
the tips of the young canes and covering
them with two or three inches of soil. The
proper time to do this is when the end of
the cane begins to enlarge and swell, soon
after the fruiting season. If the soil is
rich and mellow they will soon root, and
make fine plants for setting next spring,
until which time they should be left un-
disturbed. Every tip, laterals as well as
main canes, should be layered, and will
make plant.
Nothing is palmer to the American
than the one correct way to sell fat cattle
is by weight; yet the progressive English
men who are trying to get this idea
through the heads of the stoek-raisers of
the United Kingdom find that they have
no easy task before them. Prejudice
amainst the innnratinn is strnIac. and hitter