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Show FARM AND liOTSEHOLD. Eternal vigilance is the price of; vegetables. ! We pick op our knowledge as the ' fowl picks up the com a grain at a 1 time. I One pound of potatoes, care fully cat, will make one hundred sets. These will plant a hundred hills that should raise from two to three bushels. Soak beet and carrot seed from twelve to tweniy-four hours before sowine. This forwards germination and helps them to come up as quickly as wee-is. Dwarf pop-corn, planted iu drills eighteen inches apart, and thin, will produce abuDdamiy. When sinking sow early purple-top strap leaf lurnip between the rows. Plants do not eat manure, they drink tho essence of it. Hen Manure for the Garden. A correspondent asks tho best mode of using hen manure on a garden. The best mode we have ever adopted in apJ plying it is to put it in barrels, add water, leaching it, and applying it to plants in liquid form. To Ccre a Balky Horse. Take a piece of rope about twelve feet loog, tie it close to the base of the tail, draw it down between the hind and fore legs, tie a whitlletree to the end and hitch thereto a horso which will start. I'll warrant a sure cure. Sore-Shouldered Mule. Take a quantity of white oak bark, boil it down, in water, until strong. To two quarts of the liquid add one pound of alum, and use it freely on the mule's shoulders. I will guarantee a speedy cure. It is an excellent application for all horses' shoulders prior to beginning spring work. An Extraordinary Fleece. The Los Angeles Netcs of April 9th says : It will be remcmbert'd that among the live stock at the southern district agricultural fair, last fall, there were two Merino sheep a ram and a ewe exhibited by the Jewett Bros., of Kern county. The ram has lately been shorn, and the fleeeo upon being weighed turned the scales at thirty-eight thirty-eight pounds. The ewe also carries an extraordinary fleece, but has not yet been shorn. Spread Manure. A late writer says: "The wasteful practice of spreading spread-ing manure on tho surface of tho soil, ana allowing it to uc oicacuea tor weeKs, and even months, before being plowed in, is still carried on in some counties of England, and stoutly defended by hosts of clay-land farmers," and he exprosses the opinion that "if the perpetrators of such an enormity be right, science is at fault, analysis is an illusion, and ammonia and all its kindred kin-dred a family of impostors." Co-operative Farmino. ''Farmer ''Far-mer Garrulous" says he knows of many instances where co-operation has proved a panacea for the ills of those who cooperate, co-operate, and ho suggests that young men who have to work by the day or month, and who do not like it, unite and rent and run farms for themselves. Their joint capital may stock the farm, and their joint labor cultivate and securo the crops, without hiring help. If they can agree upon the direction and management of farms, in this manner they may suooced. Irrigation. A. great source of agricultural profit is overlooked at ihe present time, although an epoch of intellectual activity and morbid cravings crav-ings for wealth. It is irrigation. Four thousand five hundred years ago, in the reign of Pharoah Amenemha III., Lako Mierus was dug in Kgypt in order to have a supply of water for quenching the thirst of growing crops when the Nilo was low. In that fruitful granary of the ancient world irrigation is dtill univorsally practiced, aud with tho most satisfactorily results. Ex. |