Year: 1877

Farm, RaEings.


The United States occupies the third
place IN the list of hop-growing coun-
tries, Germany taking the lead and En-
gland ranking second.


JUDsoN r. HILL has an excellent
farm of 18O acres on which crops were
generally looking we'll He was engaged
i'll covering the second time, with ma
chine, field of potatoes. The tops had
just begun to come, when he went over
them with machine, covering weeds,
beetles and everything, and leaving the
field very clean and mellow. R,uraI
Home.


I CAN fully corroborate from my expe-
rience what your correspondent says as
to eggs not Matching which went to the
bottom of the water. tested a setting of
Black Cochin eggs the other day, and, as
one OF them Immediately sank to the
bottom, concluded it was a bad one,
but, seeing it wobble," L put it back
under the hen, and it was eventually the
first one to hatch. Gazette.


SOME of the best hay which we have
found in the market this year has been
that made from Nepaul barley, the yield
OF which on some tule farms exceeds
three tons to the acre. The greatest hay
producing districts this year will include
the reclaimed lands, and even lands par
TALLY reclaimed, the owners of which
have no complaints to make about
drought, northers, or heated terms
San Francisco Bulletin.


IT is claimed that slight shock given
to an apple tree will send canker worms
spinning to the ground, and further that
if once off these crawling pests could
made no headway over dry, loose soil,
providing their course was up hill. A
complete barrier to their return is formed
by heaDine up dry ashes about the aD-
pie trees. Farmers that are suffering
from the havoc of the canker worm
should try this simple experiment and
report the result.


The secret of preserving eggs is in
excluding the air, sealing the pores of
the shell. This may be done by dip
ping the eggs in melted tallow and after
ward packing them in bran, layer upon
layer, covering the uppermost well with
bran, or salt may be used instead of
bran, or water saturated with lime and
salt is also good. An English lady, an
experienced poultry breeder, has pre-
served eggs in this solution, keeping
them for several years without a single
failure. re.-Fanciers' Journal.


KEEPING Cool IN DRY CELLAR
friend of mine who had just got over
severe spell of typhoid fever used to
spend the greater part of the hot days OF
summer in one part of his cellar. 1t
was plastered and cemented, perfectly
dry, and ventilated by two windows over
which wire screen was fixed. Here he
was free from the flies and mosquitoes
day and night, while the temperature
was many degrees lower than the rooms
above. On asking him once whether he
was not fearful of taking cold, his reply
was that he was not, and attributed his
speedy recovery of strength and vigor to
this underground living for time
Cor. Gerna1etOaOn Telegraph.


TURKEYS little experience is very
good thing in raising turkeys as well as
anything else. If they run where they
please, they need not be fed more than
twice day; if kept in small yard,
every hour is not too often, while they
are young. The practice of feeding wet,
raw corn meal is very injurious to all
kinds of fowls, and especially turkeys.
Small grain and corn bread, meal jus
mixed with water and baked, then damp
ened, may be fed, and the chicks Will
thrive. A pan of sour milk set out to
them will disappear in an Incredibly
short time, and the curd scalded and the
whey poured off is excellent for them.
Hens should be quite young, bnt COB
blers ought to be kept over until the
second year. Breaking up the nest and
forcing the hens to lay a second time is
not best, as the turkeys raised with COM
mon fowls never do so well, and the late
chicks thus obtained do not often make
up in weight what might seem an advan-
tage in getting a few more eggs. For
several years eighteen out of twenty
eggs under turkeys came out, and fifteen
out of eighteen lived to go to market
Western Agrictttturist.