Show INDOORS AND OUTs OUT-s f1 S The Farm Dairy Garden Orchard Or-chard and Household The yellows in peach trees maybe may-be alley aced if not entirely remedied reme-died by the moderate use of a top dresslrg of ashes to the soil around the trees Wood ashes are preferable prefer-able when obtwinaoe they are an excellent fertilizer for almost any kind of vegetation i It has been said that a flock cf sheep having a bbll on the leader will never be worried by dogs TVe cannot vouch for this but know that a good bell would help any flock master better to keep in mind the whereabouts of the flock if within hearing distance Try the bell The American Agriculturist advocates advo-cates green corn as a cheap and excellent ex-cellent fatener of pork hogs Its use as Boon as ready to cut will enable the farmer lo fatten up the porkers by the time winter arrives and did penee with the costly plan of keeping them in cold winter weather Cayenne pepper is frequently used for domestic and medicinal purposes Unfortunately it is rarely obtained pure the greater proportion propor-tion of that sold in this city is adulterated adul-terated some with poisonous mate riais One test of purity is to Durn I a little if it leaves a black sediment do not use it The ashEs of the pore are light colored This subject is worthy of attention The Scientific American gives the following as a aura method to destroy red RotS Grease a plate with lard and set it where ana congregateph ce a few bite of wood EO the acts can climb on the plate easily they will forsake any food for lard when the plate is well covered with them turn it over a hot fire of coals they will drop into the fire and you can then resst the plate lor another catch A few repetitions will clean them out Those who intend to plant potatoes as late as the next two or three weeks hence would do well to carry the seed into the barn and spread them out in a secure place so that the sprouts may harden up and grow dark colored before planting They should be cut only a few days before planting as the smaller pieces will be I likely to dry too much Sprouts wbioh grow where there is plenty of light are not so likely to break off when the potatoes are dropped in the drillAn An experienced cheep breeder says that the beat ration he had ever k > < own to be led for fattening sheep was composed com-posed of equal parts by weights of oats peas and millet to fifteen bush ela of the mixture was added one bushel of flaxseed and all were ground fine together Each sheep was fed two pounds of this mixture with hay and made a regular gain of three pounds each week baeidea growing grow-ing an unusually fine staple of wool The small amount of flaxeeed is peculiarly pecu-liarly eoothtng to digestive organs It is a perfect preventive of all diseases diseas-es caused by dry fodder An Illinois farmer has this year ninety colonies of bees on hand and after many years of experience now devotes his whole personal time to them being confident of success Here is what he writes to an exchange ex-change I have far some years OOQIH biDed honey raising with farming and have tried to encourage my neighbors to keep bees for I find that I my clover fruits etc all seed and i bear better by having plenty of bees to fertilize tho blossom and carry pollen l pol-len from stamen to pistil Besides this my table is never set without all the honey we are inclined to use The Farming World has the following follow-ing from two of its correspondents A good remedy for worms in horses is sage tea I have tried it and know I whereof I speak It wont do any harm if shouldnt succeed in doing any good We presume the gentleman I gentle-man means the ordinary garden sage but Utah horsemen can try either the garden sage or the green new shoots of the mountain sagebrush The other item is a cure for chicken cholera is the extract of logwood dissolved in the chickens drinking water aI know this to be not only a cure and a good one but also a first class preventive It is a splendid thing to produce red combs and is good for chickens at any time Dissolve Dis-solve just enough in the water to color it red when used as a preventive When it is used as a cure the water should be made quite black The British Medical Journal sasy that an epidemic of smallpox can ab I prevented by a thorough revaccination I revaccina-tion The inoculation at infancy 1 seems to die out with advancing yeara and experience shows that a second I vaccination should be performed soon befora or at the ape ot pubrty London Lon-don has been several times and recently re-cently threatened with serious outbreaks out-breaks of the disease in fact it ia now prevalent in Hackney and one or two adjoining parishes Bat strict isolation isola-tion at home or in the hospitals with prompt revaccination of adults ai above stated has bean demonstrated to be the only means of effective pro taction Statistics of nearly eighteen thousand oases during a period often years clearly proves this The nurses who attend on the sick enjoy complete com-plete immunity from the disease consequent con-sequent upen their having been re vaccinated Closing An article on the subject the above mentioned journal says To prevent an epidemic of smallPOX we unhesitatingly say that the only effective measure is retiLcoi nation The potato blight has made ib appearance in California already this season fine looking crops were blighted in a single night A successful Utah raiser of small fruits says the best plan he has found to insure a full crop of rasp berries is to cover the ground all around and between the canes with an inch or two in depth of waste tanbark It acts as a mulch to the canes insuring them continued moisture to fill out the fruit An exchange says Beekeepers must provide pasturage if profit is expected Trees for shade and honey both should be planted and when the roads streets and lanes are bordered w th them the market value of the property will be increased in-creased more than double the coat of bees and labr necessary In favor of hornless cattle Mr Jas Koyt in the New England Farmer eaysthat after few years experience with them he is ready to endorse all that ha been said in their favor He thinks that other things being equal the cows will do about onefifth better than these with the worse than useless excrescence excres-cence on their heads The vapor of tobscco juice has been tested with success as an insect destroyer in hothouses The tobacco is soaked or boiled and placed in an open dish over a fire or flame of a lamp in toe conservatory Delicate plants are not Injured as by tobacco I smoke the atmosphere is inoffensive inoffen-sive thrips scales and slugs are effectually disposed of One quart of tobacco juice evaporated in a hou e containing 350 cubc feet euf fices Professor Vcelker tbe agricu tural chemist to the royal bgrcultu ral society of England says in relation re-lation to poultry manure With regard to the application of poultry manure the least expensive and best way of using it is to mix it with dry earth ashes and such like into a compost Mixed with about twice the quantity of dry earth matters of this kind it will soon be reduced into a fairly dry and powdery state in which it may be readily sown broadcast or with the drill and found very useful in growing every kind of garden vegetables HOW THE BEST BUTTER 13 MADE A Berkshire county Mass farmer write My object has always been to make the best butternot the mojt profitable necessarily but thebes the-bes Having this object in view I have been compelled to discard oil meal and thus reduce the quantity of my butter and the value of the manure I have been obliged to take the cows out of all basement cellars and have consequently received less butter for a given amount of food I have been forced instead of dropping the manure into a convenient cellar below the cows to give up this cellar and wheel the manure into the shed I have been obliged to discard deep setting and to content myself with the open shallow method which is moro expensive and requires more attention and returns less batter I have been obliged to reject all feeds except corn wheat hay 1 beets and carrots I have been obliged to give up using the milk of cows that have calved too recently or toe remotely I have for a dozen years carefully and faithfully tried to make butter as Rood as it could be made this has been the first considerationprofit ablenesa has always been secondary The result has been that for many years this butter has brought a higher high-er price than any butter iu the county coun-ty of Berkshire where much good butter ia made and lit has taken the first prize over the county It has been in euoh constant demand at 65 cents a pound the year through that when making 100 pounds a week I hava had unfilled orders for 25 to 50 pounds moreGrange Bulletin THE HOLSTEIN Here are some clippings concerning the Holstein cattle A Holstein calf at Keye3 Pine grove farm in Haverhill is reported to have weighed 500 pounds at three and a half months old < The Holstein cow Echo belonging to Mr F C Stevens of Attica New York has made a wonderful record In March she produced 1931 pounds of milk which made a total for he 307 days she had been in milk of 203591 pounds She haa still 58 days to go to complete her tyears record Sheis now giving from 59 tc62 pounds a day and her owner thinks he can safely calcuiateon her producing over 3000 pounds before her time is up to a total of over 23000 pounds forjrhe year It is needless to say that she beats the record The agricultural man of the New York Times says The word Holstein ia pronounced with a long Ii i as I HolQtine There is no breed of cattle in this country that can be call ed by that name with any propriety as those so called coma from North Holland which is a totally distinct locality The cattle stupidly called Holstein come I from a part of the Netherlands in the neighborhood of the Zuyder Zee and a Province of Germany and the caN tie of this country are not dairy oattle and differ wholly from the North Holland Hol-land or Dutch cattle which are essentially essen-tially dairy animals |