Year: 1877

Farm. RaIstngs.


If you have been endeavoring to get
ahead in the world by simply growing a
single crop, we suggest that you diversi-
fly in future, for we are assured you find
yourself getting behind-hand every
year. All cotton all corn, all cane, all
anything, is poor policy, especially if
you depend, wholly or in part, upon adj
vances.


FARMERS make no greater mistake than
to neglect to put up enough seed-corn,
and to spare, as soon as the grains are
sufficiently glazed to prevent bruising.
Corn may grow, yet not be tie best of
seed, and the only way to know some
thing of how much is annually los
through neglect is to have some of the
best and poorest seed to plant side by
side to realize the contrast of results
when the crop is grown. IF seed is
properly saved it grows vigorously, gets
ahead Of the weeds and natures earlier
than that selected in the spring in hap
hazard way or poorly saved in the fall
Western Rat1'al.


CLEAN THE CELLARs.-Tbe country
ought to be far more healthy than the
city, but statistics do not prove it such.
Diseases are engendered so often by foul
cellars and bad drainage for slops and
privies that special attention should be
given to them. We would suggest the
propriety OF particular and thorough
cleaning Of the cellars, sinks, ETC., and a
removal of all filth and rubbish from the
vicinity of the house. We advise it as
a measure of precaution against the de-
velopment of various forms of disease
peculiar to hot weather. Do not wait
until the odor of the cellar becomes un-
bearable, but do it now, before the vege-
tables begin to decay.


How TO MANAGE OLD POTATOES. At
this season of the year some farmers are
at a loss to know how to dispose of
their surplus potatoes, and for this rea-
son many are allowed to remain in the
cellars until spoiled, and are then brought
out and thrown away. I will inform
them of a method long practiced by some
of the best farmers in the country. In
June the potatoes are taken out of the
cellar and carried into shed chamber
and spread on the dry floor, and allowed
to remain through the hot weather
They shrivel, but do not rot nor sprout.
In the hot part of the summer, when the
feed becomes Sort, these shriveled po-
tatoee are fed out to the COVE, they in
crease the flow of milk very much and
are preferred by the COWS to new pota-
toes.


SHADE FOR CATTLB-The more cattle
eat the more they will thrive The more
time they spend in eating the more they
will eat. The more time they spend in
the shade or the water, the less time they
spend eating. If these are facts I need
say no more, but will venture ON your
patience by mentioning horses Let
them be turned to pasture during the
hot months, where they have access to
an open stable. They Will spend scarcely
an hour of sunshine in the pasture,
but nearly the whole day in the stable,
however hot the stable may be, and will
grow poorer every day ; whereas, on the
other hand, if kept in pasture free
from shelter, they will at the same time
thrive. Shade trees and all trees are
excellent in their place, but become a
plague when out of place and I insist
that, If we have shade for stock, weshould
provide it for the harder-w worked men.
And what then?


On the first warm, comfortable day of
spring, when indications are favorable to
the continuance of fine weather, set out
your bee-hives where they are to remain
If in their accustomed yard, each had
better occupy its former stand. Should
there be eight or ten, or less, they may
be set out as rapidly as they can be han
died; if more, they had better be taken
out in lots of eight or ten each, at inter
walls of two or three hours. This gives
each lot chance to fly off and re-
turn without interruption from others;
the occupants of the hives, seeing the
activity and hearing the melodious hum
of their own particular set, are attracted
thereto, and are less likely to enter build
ings other than their own, to the undue
Strengthening of some and the CORE
spending weakening of others. Should
there be snow on the ground, with sur
face sufficiently firm to support a bee,
it will oppose no serious obstacle to
flight, as it can be risen from as easily
as from the earth by any bee that is not
superannuated or diseased. Light snow,
however, is disastrous, as, on account of
its yielding nature, it soon smothers and
chills into insensibility the bee that is so
unfortunate as to alight upon it.


Domestic Economy


RoBBING CABBAGE OF ITs ODoR-It is
said that linen bag containing a large
morsal OF the soft part OF bread viii. i!