Show ff POTATOES FOR SEED I The Selection of Tubers for Seed Impoi > j tan Points to 15opln > crred J The selection of seed B a very important impor-tant matt A V liether one impprts fresh seed from another farm and district or continue tp pro horn grown potatoes J1 a selection P1 > t healthiest tubers must vI t i1d4 4 DO made No crop benetits more trom a frequent change of seed than potatoes and this is all the more commendable on account of the increasing liability to disease dis-ease The use of new seed will do much to prevent loss in this way whilo it invariably invari-ably results in substantially increasing the crop An English authority claims that the seed ought to come from an earlier climate to a later but of infinitely greater importance is it that they come from a sharp warm soil to a heavier and colder Such a change will in all likelihood likeli-hood hasten the maturing of tho tubers though its effect in this way will depend largely upon tho exposure of the land in which they aro grown With a southern exposure the old seed might attain maturity ma-turity earlier than new from an earlier climate under different circumstances A southern exposure will in nine cases out of every ten bring the crop to maturity ma-turity ten days earlier than any other Tho preparation of sets for this years crap should not be put off till tho hour of planting After being cut if cut at all they should be spread out on the barn floor or similar place several weeks beforo being planted The object of this is to allow them to dry and form an artificial arti-ficial skin over the wound This prevents I pre-vents tho juico of the potato from escaping I escap-ing or being drawn out by tho earth They should on no account be laid aside in a heap or thick pile They aro liable to heat and lose fertility when stored in this fashion no doubt many of tho disappointing dis-appointing blanks t > o often to be seen in the potato crop aro attributablo to mismanagement mis-management of this sort Many growers sprinkle a little gypsum over tho sets that are spread out in waiting for seeding seed-ing time for tho express purpose of encouraging en-couraging the healing up of tho wound where the potato has been cut rattenlnz Pins Some of the results in feeding pigs at thoIllinois Agricultural college farm are summed up as follows by Professor Aunt It required on an average four and oneeighth pounds of shelled corn to produce pro-duce one pound of pork during an average aver-age period of four weeks or one bushel produced thirteen and a half pounds It required four and onethird pounds of corn meal to produce one pound of pork or one bushel of com made into meal and fed dry produced twelve and threequarter pounds of pork When fed dry shelled corn is more economical than corn meal to feed to fattening fat-tening hogs It required seven and onethird pounds or onefourth bushel of ground oats to produce one pound of pork when fed with equal parts by weight of corn meaL One bushel of corn is worth nearly three bushels of oats as food for fattening fatten-ing hogs Corn fed pigs gained about four and a half pounds per week and ate about twentyono pounds of corn per 100 pounds of livo weight The gain for the amount of food consumed con-sumed decreased during fattening Pork was produced during the cold weather with corn at twentyeight cents per bushel for less than three cents per pound An insufficient food supply for two weeks caused a very considerable loss in feeding thereafter Indian corn is tho most economical pork producing material during the winter win-ter months in regions where extensively grown feeding Calves A Mississippi correspondent sent an illustrated account of method of feeding feed-ing calves to Rural New Yorker recently re-cently and wo have reengraved his plan for tho benefit of our readers The picture requires no explanation its it-s sufficiently plain to enable any who may so desire to go and do likewise Not only is calf feeding rendered an easy matter by this arrangement but economy econ-omy of time is gained Tho correspond e I ONE WAT OF FEEDING CALVES ent says With this arrangement I can do in ten minutes what would havo required re-quired two hours under the common knock down and drag out system of calf feeding Hero and There Among insects that are tho farmers friends and do great good in killing insect in-sect pests Professor A J Cook mentions tho yellow jackets the largo whito faced wasps and the solitary mud wasps usually usu-ally black or black and brown or blue black or blue the ground beetles which aro usually black with long legs and destroy hosts of cut worms white grubs etc and tho little yellow rounded ladybird lady-bird beetles which feed upon plant lice and other insects Mulch your pears when set and always keep them mulched advises E P Powell in Popular Gardening Let no manure be put in about tho roots but top dress with manure if the land is poor An Alabama farmer pronounces tho brown Leghorn the best all around fowl for tho south |