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MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
Lime makes clay soils more open and
porous.
All young animals need to be kept dry
and warm.
In most cases the grasses for hay are
pest when cut near or at bloom.
Use whitewash freely around stables
and outhouses.
Lime helps decompose organic matter
and mt 1t for plant food.
Wood shavings contain but little fer
tlllzing material.
One-third of all the land that is Guilt
waited In the United States raises Indian
corn.
Sour buttermilk, applied three or four
times day, is said to be cure for
scratches.
For meadows never SOW together
grasses that do not ripen together.
Don't put lime on stable manure. 1t
changes the nitrogen into ammonia,
which IS volatile and escapes.
The pumpkin was found here by the
early settlers, cultivated by the Indians
among corn, as now. 1t is of tropical or
lgln, and f1ourishes best in sunshine. as
is shown by the finest specimens grow
Ing around the edges of the field.
a Lancaster (Pa.) County farmer claims
Tor his own a pair Of horses which are
so well broken that they will pull har-
row regularly across field from morn
Ing till night without driver.
Turkeys and ducks are not popular
with the ordinary farmer. The turkey
has such a decided disposition not to
ramble over the home farm, but to en-
croach upon their neighbors, that he is no
favorite.
Experiments through six seasons with
seed from ripe and unripe tomatoes seem
10 prove that immature seed reduces the
size of the plant, but increases its fruit
fulness.
1t is said that London England
poulterer, who sells 10000 eggs per week,
scarcely offers an English egg from No.
Vember to February. France, Denmark
and Austria supply him during these
months.
The cherry tree needs a dry, but rich,
deep soil, with enough potash in it to
supply its enormous demands for this
mineral in producing its crop of seeds.
The cherry itself is mainly water, but if
the stone cannot be perfected the cherry
is apt to rot, especially if few days of
Wet weather occur about the time it
should ripen.
CC~eiiO1h pCOplG w llOG CHI IIlO KIM Oh
watermelon they send North by the car
load. Every season for their own eating
they grow dark-Skinned oily melon,
not encountered with two inches Of green
rlnd and a small red heart, but kind
that IS nearly all meat, and which possesses
uellclous naVor unknown to melon
eating people north OF Georgia.
Buckwheat may be profitably grown
Tor fowls, as it may be put in late and
grows quickly, occupying ground that
mas produced an early crop of some kind
The advantage Of buck wheat is that it
provides change in the winter, while
the straw affords excellent litter on the
floor of the house for the fowls to scratch
in. AS grain food it stands higher than
wheat or corn, possessing more mineral
elements, and, as it is not difficult crop
TO grow, no mistake will be made in
growing it for the hens.
An important reform in methods of
buying and selling eggs has been adopted
by some Western dealers who are pur-
chasing for the English markets. They
buy by weight, and refuse all that do not
come up to certain standard. OF course
this way of doing business throws out a
large proportion of eggs as culls because
they are under weight. Doubtless, in
time, selling by weight will be the rule
here, as 1t long ago should have been. 1t
is the only way that is just boGh to buyer
and seller.
Many dairymen think highly ofpump-
klns as food for milk cows. Fed imme-
diately after the milking they do not i'm
part flavor to the milk, are thought to
impress its color and to increase the flow.
There is long standing prejudice against
feeding the seeds to mich cows, but it is
doubtful if they do harm; they may
have been COMPOUNDED with water
melon seeds in their effect, which is
diuretic; however, the matter has not
been sufficiently investigated.