The record-union., 1895-12-27
minutes the process which formerly

minutes the process which formerly
required hours.
Compared with corn, there is more
protein in oats and less of the carbo
hydrates than in corn Oats contain
about 9.25 per cent. of protein, and
corn about 790, while corn contains
about 81 per cent of carbohydrates,
and oats 4S per cent. Thus, for fatten-
ing purposes, corn is superior to oats,
but for animals that produce milk, or
are growing oats should be fed. Corn
is usually cheaper than oats, which
brings it into more general use, but it
is more economical to feed oats to
work horses, growing stock, cows CIV
ing milk and laying hens than to use
corn.
Bugs and other pests of the insect
creation are supposed to have had
sorry time of it during the past severe
winter, but it will be the better part of
wisdom to keep an eye out for the usual
signs of their depredationS. The bug
crop never fails.
The younger pigs are the more profit
there is in feeding them. 1t costs double
the amount to put pound of gain On
y
the same increase on the one six months
old. Thus the more rapidly they can
be forced forward from the start the
greater will be the profit.
Give wheat the same tillage we do
corn and the same land would give Just
as many bushels an acre of the larger
grain. One way would be, when sowing
to stop every hole in the drill, thus CIV
ing rows sixteen inches apart, through
which narrow garden cultivator could
be run by horse power.
The safest way for the onion grower
who wants to be sure of plants for
certain desired area is to SOW seed
erCugh that he will have what plants
he needs, even should he lose a quarter
or one-half of those that have come up.
American Gardening.
1t is about time that both cotton and
corn should hand over their kingly
crowns to clover, for neither can equal
it in Importance to the general farmer.
There is no item we could less afford to
have withdrawn from our agricultural
system, and the farmer in whose rota-
tion it has no place is making a mis-
take.
wheat market. It's average product for
the last five years is about 270,000, 600
bushels, of which about one-seventh is
exported. The cultivated area is con-
tinually extended in the Punjab, Ben
gal and the northwestern provinces
India's competition is a fact that we
dare not ignore.
The careful Argentine farmer can
raise from thirteen to fifteen bushels of
wheat an acre, and he can rent land
for about 40 cents an acre. The cost of
producing wheat in that country in
1892 was about 13 cents a bushel, ac-
cording to the average of several crops
investigated by the English Consul at
Buenos Ayres.
The care of fowls is not only rest and
recreation to many of our wives and
daughters but it is medicine itself to
scores who have been seeking for health
and strength through other means in
vain. Just the occupancy of the mind
with an interesting and profitable pur-
suit is much to those who have been
pining under enforced confinement all
their lives.
The less stubble is left in the first cut
I4ilSo VI Civ Sl llIE IIlOi qOlChIJ IL Will
sprout and the larger will be the second
growth. In this clover differs from the
grasses, which are better for cutting
high. When clover IS lodged it is diff
cult to cut it low if the piAce Is cut
around. One side or the other the
knives will run with the lay of the
clover, and only cut off the tops, some
times cutting through a stalk length
wise as it lies on the surface. 1t makes
more labor, but it is better for the land
to cut and carry a swath, throwing
aside the clover so as to make a path
without running over it. A still better
way is to grow some timothy with the
clover. This will make the clover grow
less rankly, and the timothy and clover
together can be cut better and be cured
more quickly than clover alone.
More or less ammonia escapes into
the atmosphere from the organic mat
ter decaying near the surface Of the
earth. This atmospheric ammonia is
brought back to the earth by the rain
and dew, which are seldom free from
this compound, although the amount is
small and variable. The experiments Of
Sir J. B. Laws indicate that an aver
age Of about five pounds Of combined
nitrogen per acre is brought to the soil
annually by rain and dew, but in ordi-
nary farm districts the supply of nitro
gen from this source would probably
not amount to third Of the combined
nitrogen removed from the soil by an
average crop of wheat.
1.-The Practical Dairyman' tells us
that for lice on cattle nothing is more
effective than kerosene emulsion and
of the strength usually employed in
spraying fruit trees and vines. 1t is
made by dissolving one-half pound of
hard soap in a gallon of boiling water
and adding two gallons Of kerosene oil.
Stir violently until a perfect emulsion is
formed Dilute with nine to fifteen
parts Of warm water, and apply with
spray pump. 1t will knock out all lice
on the first application, but will not
kill the eggs. A second spraying should