Year: 1874

Farm Notes,

 IA gentleman who buys furs ex- Sensively is reported in Aoore's Rural as having recently said that he is fa- miliar with the efforts at mink culture in New York State, and that none of them he knows anything of "has proved profitable in any sense."

 In England, during harvest time, a reaplng machine cut rabbit in two. One man took it up and killed it to put 1t out of misery another kicked it. Then came case at law. The driver Of the machine was acquitted, and the two men were treated leniently, for they crime lay in having touched the rabbit.

 Cream molds when kept too warm, or when exposed to too much air or too much light. If cream or milk is kept below 65 degrees, and is not exposed to currents of air nor much light, it will keep long time without molaing.

 The English farmers have more than half as many acres under barley as under wheat, and the whole of the crop is matted and made into beer-the national "elevator." How this beer is consumed we may gather from the statement of a farmer, who complains that six harvest laborers who had earned $72 each, "clubbed" together and bought six barrels of ale of 36 gallons each all of which they drank in twelve days equal to three gallons per day.

 Pumpkins are excellent feed for milch COWS, especially when fed with bran or meal. They are better fed without the seeds. If many of the seeds are eaten, they affect the kidneys and iniure the COWS.

 This, from the Elmira Gasette, may serve as hint to whom it may concern |: As the season for social festivities approaches, our Farmers Club begins to consider it's annual public reunion and to receive invitations to the similar societies. =.

 Proper Time to Cut Timber.

 If the honest inquirer after truth will ask fifty practical farmers for the prop- CT time to cut timber, their answers will probably enable him to cut in any month of the twelve and yet all can not be right. At recent meeting of the Experimental Farm Club Cat the Eastern Pennsylvania experimental farm) an interesting essay was read by Thomas Wood, who seems to have taken great trouble to collect the ex- perienee of others, as well as retain the result of his own. A careful perusal of his essay leaves strong impression on the mind of the reader that August is safe month in which to cut down timber. l agree with him that hickory wood cut during the winter will be badly eaten by worms, and I am now hauling hickory cut in March which is badly bored and covered with worm. dust. All the results given by the essayist point to the summer months as the proper time to cut timber for all pur- poses when durability or hardness is the object, and to this would like to add one amendment, viz that the tree be cut of at the stump and instead of being trimmed up at once, it be allow ed to lie until the leaves fall of, or until they are dead and dry, having extracted all the sap from the wood. Boards cut from timber felled at this time and treated In this way are for many pur- poses seasoned as soon as sawed out. Mir. Wood claims that in removing & fence set in 1883 he found that those posts which had been placed in the ground in position the reverse of that In which they grew in the tree were comparatively sound, while those placed Tn the usual manner were entirely gone. He also states that he fenced seventy i've acres in 1852, and not having enough rails cut few ia May-the others having been cut in the winter previous. Those cut in May were good forty years after.

 HousehoId Hjn1s

 To CLEAN GLAss.-Water lime ap- piled with dry, soft cloth, will give glass nice, clear cast.

 STOVE POLISH AND SoAPsUDs. If stove polish is mixed with very strong soap studs, the luster appears immediately, and the dust of the polish does not fly around as it usually does.

 To MAKE PEPPER VINEGAR. six large red peppers, slit them up, and boil them in three pints of strong vine- gar down to one quart. Strain it, and bottle for use. It will keep for years.

 CHEESE FR1rTERs.--Slice thin half 8 dozen large tart apples, and prepare half as many thin slices of nice cheese. Beat up one or two eggs, according to the quantity required. and season high with salt, mustard and little pepper. Lay the slices of cheese to soak for @ few moments in the mixture, then put each slice between two slices of apples, sandwich style, and dip the whole into the beaten egg, then fry in hot butter like oysters, and serve very hot. These fritters are an addition to any breakfast table.

 Apple Butter.

 Take five gallons of molasses, eight gallons of apples, three gallons of pumpkins; boil the apples and pump kins soft; put them with the molasses in bright copper kettle make a brisk fire and stir continually boil down to ten gallons and spice to the taste. Do not let it remain in tho ket- tie when done, or it will taste of the kettle. This is one way (and popular one) to make apple butter.