Year: 1877

proved Dy variety OF Analyses TO De
richer in fixed material than that of
lean one; and, though the flesh of the
latter possesses more uniform quality,
yet a poor part in the former will pro-
duce more fat in the consumer than the
best part of the latter.


CARROTS for horses, experiments have
shown, are most beneficial when fed in
conjunction with oats. Alone, they are
less nutritious than oats alone; but when
fed together, in the proportion of, say,
two quarts of oats and two of sliced car
rots to a mess, the result will be more
satisfactory than if either were fed sepa-
rately.


MARKING sheep is best done with Ven
etian red, ch ); p paint, only few cents
a pound, and one pound will mark
thousand. Take pinch of the dry pow
der and draw the inclosing thumb and
fingers through the wool at the spot you
wish to mark, loosening the powder as
you do SO, and it will combine with the
oil in the wool and make a bright red
mark that the rains will never wash out,
and which, without iniuring the wool,
Will endure from one shearing to another,
while it can be readily cleansed out by
the manufacturer.


A FARMER lately informed us that he
grew thirty tons of green fodder-corn on
an acre. This estimate we did not
doubt, for we saw it while he was feed
ing it out to his COWS. No other forage
plant named would very nearly ap-
preach that in quantity and quality COM
bined. The next plant in regard to
quantity of forage is German millet,
called by some golden millet This for
age plant is highly commended by those
who tried it in this section last season.
While we deem fodder-corn the best
supplemental forage crop for mich
COWS, we would not deny that the others
are good. CultiVatOr.


CATTLE FooD.-Potatoes as cattle
food will probably come into common
use this season in those districts where
heavy crops glut the local markets and
heavy freights preclude distant ones. In
this connection the results of a series of
experiments by DR.. Wolff, a German
chemist, may be profitable and instruct
i've to some of our readers. He expert
mented in feeding raw and cooked pota-
toes to two COWS, together with hay and
rape-seed cake. When fed on cooked
potatoes the animals did not give as
iaage quantity of milk as when fed
upon raw, but the milk made nearly a
third more butter, forty-two pounds of
milk having been required to make a
pound of butter in one case, and only
| twenty seven in the other.


TRANsPLANTING.- only advantage
which is claimed for fall-transplanting,
over spring gtransplanting is that the
roots become settled in the ground and
new fibers are formed which induce an
earlier spring growth and a more recip-
rocal action between the leaves and roots.
We are not advocates of fall-transplant-
ing for the climate of Chicago, Boston,
or even New York, except for those
plants which are never injured by our
severe cold or extremes of temperature.
But for those who have already settled
upon transplanting this fall we would
say-do it now as soon as it can be well
done. IF it is fact that the roots will
make fibrous growth which is not
killed by alterations of freezing and
thawing, then the sooner they are trans
planted the better, after the leaves have
ceased to act. This may be ascertained
by the first discoloration of the leaves,
which is proof that their cells are
clogged with insoluble matter, that they
no longer receive sap from the roots. and
they have, consequently, no longer the
power of celebrating material for their
own support or that of the plant upon
which they still exist


| Domestic Economy.


To CLEANSE A QUILTING-FRAME.- =
Wash it we'll with hot water, made soft