Year: 1877




his field-work a reason for not attending
to the vegetable garden. A good supply
OF vegetables in their season is worth
much in money and health.


A NOTABLE act of the last Connecticut
Legislature on this subject seems to
have escaped general attention. 1t pro-
vides that land planted to chestnut, hick-
ory, ash, white-oak, sugar-maple, Euro
pean larch, white pine or srruce-a
number not less than 1 200 to the acre
shall be exempt from taxation for ten
years.


Corn STALKS FOR FODDER. corn
stalks are cut up in fodder-cutter with
rollers that bruise them, and are then
wetted and sprinkled with meal, they
Will be eaten by either COWS OF horses.
That is if the stalks were well saved and
are in good condition Feed at morning
and night, and give no hay with them
The hay should be given by itself at
noon. When thus treated, We have
never found any difficulty in successfully
using corn stalks. = american Agri-
coitarist.


FLOOR FOR A SrABLE.-A water tight
stable floor may be made as follows
Lay dry, tongued and groved, inch-and-
a-half plank, with the joints put togeth-
er with hot gas tar or pitch. for the first
floor; satulrate this thoroughly with hot
tar, laying upon it a second floor of
plank while the tar is hot. The seams
should be we'll filled with the tar. No
water will pass through this floor, ani it
will be very durable the more so if the
upper floor is we'll coated with hot tar
and then sande,l.- 4gri-
cuttorist


USES FOR CoAL ASHES. s.-The best
thing to do with coal ashes is to Use
them as an absorbent OF the liquid parts
OF manure. A nuisance is thus pre-
vented, and the manure is rendered
more valuable. Another good use to
put them to is to mix them with gravel
for the forming of garden walks. Coal
ashes contain very little fertilizing value.
Good results follow their application as
top-dressing to grass lands, and on
stiff soil they act as divisor, and thus
render the soil more easily workable
Toronto Globe.


How TO CURE SCRATCHES IN HORSES.
First cleanse the heels well from all
Ii,fa
strong suds made by means Of carbolic
soap and warm water. This done, dry
the palts well ami be careful to remove
the soapy matter thoroughly from the
sore, in order to prevent the collection
of dirt. Then dress the heels with To-
tion composed of carbolic acid, one
part; cold water, forty parts, three times
day. In one-quarter of an hour after
using the lotion, rub over the diseased
surface with glycerine, and keep the
parts supple with it. Give him, mixed
in his feed of grain, night and morning,
one and a half ounces of liquor arseni-
calls each time, and continue this treat
ment for a time after his heels have dried
up.-I't.rf, Field and Farm.


BREEDING Fowls. When it can be
done, mate the best 2-year-old hens with
fine, large, vigorous cock, 1 year old
Where pullets are used in breeding they
should be mated to a cock 2 years old
A hens first laying for season will
always give the bestchicks. She is then
more vigorous than after laying long
while. There is more vitality and thrift
in the earlier than in the late-hatched
chicks. Owing to the greater strength
and vigor of the hen when she first begins
to lay, there is more vitality in the germ
from which the chick starts, ard it is
characterized by greater robustness all
through the period of growth and devel-
opment; therefore, hatch early. When
the chicks are old enough to show what
they will be, all who do not come up to
the mark should be culled and eaten, OF
marketed; this will leave more room for
the good ones. A beginner sometimes
thinks that his chicks may come on and
Outgrow some apparent defect, but, IN
less he have nerve to Use the ak freely,
he will make slow progress in breeding.
Everything that does not "fill the bill -
at twelve weeks old should go upon the
broiling spit.