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With all classes Of stock IL the farm
er expects good results he should feed
we'll.
1t is not enough that food makes fat,
1t should also impart an agreeable
favor.
1t Is better to buy good animal
with poor pedigree than a poor ami
NAL with good pedigree.
Some men 60 out on moonlight
night and cut down $40 tree to get
10-cent coon. A great many farmers
work on this plan.
Did you know that there Is good
money In geesef The Germans and
Jews of our large towns and cities are
always good customers for fat geese.
What has become OF the old-fash-
Toned farmer, who used to get up at 4
o'clock in the morning. rout all Of the
animals out of their warm beds to
feed, then 60 back to the house and
doxe before his fire till daylight
Asparagus was originally wild sea
coast weed Of Great Britain and Rus
sia. and is now SO plentiful on the Rus
sian steppes that the cattle eat II like
grass. In some parts of southern Eu-
rope the seeds are dried as substi.
tute for coffee.-Philadelphia Inquirer.
The average annual grain crop of
the world Is estimated at e.000. 600. 600
bushels, and IL is doubtful whether
q twentieth part OF this Is ever in stock
at any one date. so that at any time
the worlds bread supply would per
haps In default Of renewal, not last
much more than a fortnight
A southern Ohio farmers wife re-
ports the sale OF loo dozen eggs from
As Plymouth Rock hens, from Sept 20
10 Dec. 16. Farm range and the feed.
refuse corn. These eggs were sold at
26 cents per dozen average, the hens
that laid them were worth about 80
cents each and the eggs In less than
three months brought almost as much
as the hens that laid them.
correspondent In Rural New York
er says; "When meat or blood meal,
iinseed oil Toll cake) or cooked meat
is given them In thels soft food once
a day, or when green cut bone Is used
instead. believe that barley serves
the same purpose for fowls as wheat
would I use by preference beardiess
barley. Young chicks will learn to like
this very soon crack II in the be-
ginning for few feeks; when 4 weeks
old they eat 1t whole
Grating Fruit Trees I'm Germany.
Consul General Richard Guenther, OF
Frankfort, reports a movement among
German fruit growers fer the purpose
of getting rid Of all inferior and medi-
um fruit trees and replacing them with
the finest kind and best suited to the
climate A leading fruit-growing and
horticultural Journal published at
Frarkfort-on-the-o Oder, has devoted a
number of essays to the subject. and
has shown that the desired result can
be achieved, even with very old trees.
by grating. and the simple stock or slit
grating Is especially recommended In
Switzerland many thousands OF old
fruit trees are annually regrafted In or
der 10 better meet the demands OF the
trade In the Rhenish Province OF
Prussia a systematic rcgrafting OF the
fruit trees Is going on. expert grafters |
being employed at fixed contract rates |
Protect Plans from Curcslfo.
Plums too often an uncertain crop
on account of curcullo. may be easily |
grown every year unless destroyed by |
frost. This Is especially true Of the old |
Damson pluns. the rich favor OF which |
is now too little known In the scram- |
bic for the newer japanese varieties |
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