Show facts pacts for Far farmers mora blue grasa gram improves on tho the same ground lor for a hundred years it is estimated that not more than one acre of land to a farm in vermont is planted to corn pigs are said to consume far more m bore food in proportion to their weight than cither either sheep or oxen the number of cattle reported i in n texas for 1881 is head which are valued lit at young cows do not give as a rich milk as those of age do A lean cow gives poor milk and a fat cow gives rich milk celery will bear cold to a temperature of 28 degrees without t injury butan but any cold below thia thi s will destroy its vitality ty and decay immediately follows 11 such has been the recent damage to the british crop crops that the current wheat deficiency in the united kingdom kingdom is ii estimated at bushels green or the plowing in in of green crops is especial especially 17 adapted for light bandy sandy soils which need a humus to increase their retentive ten ti ve power the american wheat acreage IS is r spreading reading in advance of the rate of ip increase acrea ase in population hence larger quantities will be availably avail aTai lable abl year by y year for export the potato is is more productive product iye than any other esculent and one authority places the yield from an equal quantity of ground at thirty pounds of potatoes to one pound of wheat the general opinion is that ants are re enemies of fruit trees but it haa has long since been proved that they destroy and chrysalides and they do do not destroy the fresh fruit if the owner ofa of a cow will realize the ae fact th that 11 t unless she he pay pays him in clear cash yearly aha she is kept at a loss he will soon become inter ested in the subject of the improvement cows both for its effect upon tipon fattening and upon health a small emall amount of leeched leechen ashes should be given to swine the food without this is rich ip in phosphoric acid but has little lime and tho the equivalent should be thus supplied the dependence of the farm farmer er 29 is to be more and more on stock stock itself and its products are more and more in demand while the manure must be had to make farming successful cess ful ill success with stock then them includes almost everything else elm the soot of soft or rather bituminous dinou s coal dusted upon onions onions w when ben wet with dew is baia said to bo be a remedy for the maggot the mother fly closely resembles the house fly As soot is a good fertilizer nothing is is lost by its application even if it docs does not always destroy the maggots it might be well to try soot derived derived from the burning of pitch pine or other soft woods while working with beca bees avoid all sudden jars quick active me motions and never fight them careful handlin handling will cure nil all cross bees while with careless rough handlin handling the most quiet will become cross tt it is a part of the nature of bees to gorge themselves with honey when alarmed and when in this condition they rarely if ever sting unless pinched |