Show AGRICULTURAL for the Farmer and Stock < POIntS Raiser j The work of drawing out manure I nn a well cultivated farm is rareJy fntermitted two weeks at a time through the year It is to be presumed pre-sumed that all available manure i has noW been applied to winter t But it will pay much better at gram any time this fall to draw ands and-s read manure on next years corn J or potato groand than to wait until girDg Corn loses oneflflh by dr3 ing and wheat onefourteenth From this the estimate is made that it is more profitable for farmers to sell unshelled corn in the fall at 8350 per barrel than 8450 the following summer and wheat at 125 in December De-cember than to get 8150 for it in I the succeeding J une In the case of potatoes taking into consideration considera-tion those that rot and are otherwise lost together with shrInkagethere is but little doubt that between digging dig-ging time and the following June the owner who holds them sustains ailoss of not less than 33 per cent The Boston Cu tivator remarks More than 500 stallions are now annually being imported from France to the United States The I immense wealth they are adding to the nation will Be better understood t from the estimate that the first cross of a Percheron stallion with a native mare doubles the selling value of the colt when mature The greatest importer of this breed isM is-M Dunham of Wayne 111 who has imported this yea 300 the next largest importers are the Dillons of Normal Ill who have imported thirtythree this year It is the custom of some farmers to sow concentrated fertilizers on part of their grin and apply stable manure to the remainder This is well enough as an experiment but we have found that to get the best results the concentrated fertilizer and the barnyard manure should each be made LO go over the whole surface In other words it is oetter < to put 100 pounds of phosphate and six loads of manure on each t wenty acres than to apply 200 pouad of phoFphate on te j acres and welve loads of manure on the other L nIt n-It used to be said that cotton is king but if any one of those noble plants which constitute the chosen vegetable races of the new world could aspire to royalty it would be that emperor of cereals Indian corn a proud native American which lifts higii its imperial form and tasseled banner above all its compeers North and south east and west from the centres to the seas Indian com is to be found wielding universal sway Wheat in England is yearly decreasing de-creasing in yield and every year a I smaller acreage is sewn thus increasing j in-creasing the dependence of its i people on food importations En I this country the average yield oft of-t wheat per acre is greater than I twenty or thirty years ago and this I too more largely by better farming In the older states than by opt ning t up virgin lands in the far west |