The record-union., 1891-10-07
ases the adulterations amount to IS per

cases the adulterations amount to 35 per
cent.
Crab grass is highly relshed by all
classes Of stock when it is young, but 1t
is persistent weed that takes full pos
session. All plants growing where they
are not desired are weeds, and should be
exterminated.
All wastes should be added to the man
ure heap. At this season, when the rak-
ings and refuse are obstacles, the labor of
cleaning up around the barns and stables
will be amply repaid in the conversion of
all useless material into manure.
If the hens are to give good results do
not crowd them on the roost, but allow
square feet on the floor should contain
about ten hens, and it will afford the
most ample room for exercise in winter.
Shoots growing around the trunks of
young trees rob the trees of nourishment
They should never be allowed to start. If
kept back for year they will cease TO ap-
pear. Grass around the trunks will be
more serviceable to the tree if the sod is
cut and inverted.
Though not as large as the Shropshire
or the Oxford, the Southdown sheep
holds the highest position among the
mutton breeds for quality of flesh. 1t is
also a very hardy and active breed, sub
sisting where many of the larger breeds
could not thrive.
When the wheat land is we'll plowed,
pulverized and narrowed, the beneficial
effects of the extra preparation will after
ward be apparent in the growth of the
crop. A fine seed bed is as important for
wheat as for garden vegetables, If the
| highest yield is expected.
Many trees would bear fruit if they had
about one-half of the limbs and branches
: cut out, so as to allow the sun to act on
the leaves and assist in preventing mil
dew. TOO much top and too many
branches draw from the soil the nourish
ment that should be used for fewer
branches.
Without doubt every insect;pest has its
parasite, and one Of the most important
things tor a farmer to know is what are
the parasites of his insect pests, and also
what insects feed on other insects. Thus
large part of the insect world will be
found to be the friend and not the enemy
of the farmer.
There is no reason why the boxes used
for berries and larger fruit should not be
such as to express measure. If in sizes
to hold quarts, pecks or bushels, more
satisfactory arrangement of prices could
be made. There being no standard of
measurement for the boxes now used
they differ greatly.
The Northeastern AgTicuItariSt says
| that the finest crop of wheat raised in
Codington County, South Dakota, was
raised this year on ground stubble-plowed
and sown to millet in June, 1890, and
plowed again the following August, turn
| ing under the millet, which was un-
promising owing to late sowing.
The Jersey Cattle Club has called on the
owners of Jersey cattle to send their best
cows to assist in selecting the fifty COWS
that are to be tested at the Columbian
| Fair. AS the Holsteins have won in
| former tests and now hold the champion
records, the Jersey catt1e-breeders will
make an effort to win the highest public
! record.
! Using ewes that have born twin lambs,
| using young ewes from twins, and using
rams that were twins, has given good re-
suits in increasing the prolificacy of the
| tOcks where experiments have been
made as tests in that direction. Even
/ triplets have been secured by breeding
for greater prolificacy, and by selection
for that purpose.
The plan of making witless war on
| birds Is already beginning to bear adverse
| fruits in many sections of the country.
Before man begins to kill off the
! feathered SOngSters he should acquaint
! himself with their customs, so as to be
able to distinguish the injurious from the
beneficial, and to carefully protect and
| foster the latter.
Wheat may be pastured some, but ex-
periments prove that wheat does not
| yield as well when pastured as when the
cattle are not allowed upon it. In some
sections the stock are allowed or the
wheat only occasionally, but never during
| period when the ground is wet. The
trampling of the wheat is injurious to .
certain extent at all times.
There are many advocates of mulch
ing, and it is generally regarded as very
necessary and profitable course. One OF
our contemporaries asserts, however
that thorough cultivation is better than
mulching. Beside it says that in mulch
ing there is danger from fire in dry
ward the surface, which is always moist
| from the mulch.
Feeding experiments by II. WeiskC
with two sheep, in which the effect oi
nitrogen from vegetable sources (haY anC
ground oats was compared at separate
periods with that from an animal source
dried ground fish, led to the conclusion
that the nitrogenouS substances of ground
fish were capable Of replacing like guam
titles OF albunoid materials from yegeta.
| bic sources.
Elavoring butter with the odor of fresf
flowers is one of the arts of the French
peaSantry. The process is very simple
and consists of putting the little prints
which have first been wrapped in thin
cloth, into tight porcelain dish on bee
OF the roses or whatever blossoms ar
chosen. Among the flowers which Civ
the most desirable results are clover anC
nasturtiums.
T AS soon as the corn fodder is cut
should be carefully shocked and allowet
to cure well, when it should be carried t
, the barn or placed under the covering Q
a shed. Fodder that has been exposed t.
the frost and all kinds of weather lose
its bright color and deteriorates in dual
ity. ii in good condition all classes o
stock will highly relish it, but when in
jured in quality stock will simply pick i
over, leaving much of it to be wasted.
PECULIAR in combination, proportion
and preparation of ingredients. Hood
Sarsaparilla possesses the full curativ
, value of the best known remedies of tn