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Show FARM AND GARDEN. Correspondence for the "Farm and Garden" department of the IIikald is solicited from all parts of tbe territory. Utah farmers must, to a great oxtnt, establish a system of agriculturo adapted to her special necessities. Agriculturists Agri-culturists will assist each other by sending send-ing in for publication, information pertaining per-taining to farming and gardening, and agricultural pursuits generally. WHITE CLOVER IN THE PASTURE, Every pasture should contain some white clover. It will afford more feed at certain limes of the year than any kind of grass or clover. It will not flourish on damp soils or those that are very poor. It will do very well in a partial shade, as a grove or orchard, but to make the highest excellence itthould be sawn where it will have the advantage of full sunlight. sun-light. It is easy to secure patches of white clover in a pasture by scattering teed in early Bpring on bare places in a pailure. The disposition of this clover is to spread by means of the branches that run alone the but face of the ground and take root. Having secured a eod a foot square, it will soon extend so as to cover first a yard, then a rod. CROSS BREED SHEEP. At the New York state fair there were exhibited some sheep bred from common Merino ewes and a CoUwold ram. The fleeces of the first erode measured five inches in length, and the wool was us floe as the Merino, and as easily combed as lh.it of u Cotswold. The wool of the second oroas, as long as that of the pure Oota wold, was still as fine as Merino wool. The carcaea of the crous breed sheep makes excellent mutton, and ia nearly as heavy as the pure Cotawold. Wo nave frequently alluded to tht advantage of thin cross, and the interesting example at Rochester proves how successful and profitable farmer's sheep it would be. The farmer's sheep - is undoubtedly the cross-breed. American Agriculturist, KEEP THE CHICKS GROWING, It is a mistake to stint young fowls ot food. Good, rich food, and plenty of it, ia what they need; and there is no danger of over feeding if they are growing and have their liberty. Do not fail to feed the young ones all they will eat. A grod feed of whole grain of some ltiud, just a3 late in the evening even-ing as they can see to eat it, is one of tho eceanB of making fine stock, Aleo give them a plentiful breaklust of Boft food early in the morning. Let no food lie on the ground, or anything any-thing that will sour; it will be very likely to make the little chicks sick. If worms and bugs are scarce, a little cooked meat will repay its cost. It takes & certain quantity of food to keep up the waste of sustaining animal life; so every ounce ot food properly digested, in addition to thia actual requirement, goes to increase the size of tbe (owl. Remember this, and never neglect the growing stock. Neglect the little chicks, and you will BLirelv see the eflects ol the neglect in mature fowl. Journal and Record. HINTS ON WORKING DUTfER, Do uot work too much nor too fast. ' Work slowly untii all tbe salt is thoroughly and evenly absorbed. Otherwise the butter will not be of uniform color. Working it too fast will destroy the grain, aud the butter becomes aalvy and lard-like in its ' texture. Let it stand or put it away in the tray ior twenty-four hours, i Then work it enough to remove all buttermilk or eurplua brine so that , the butter may become dry or like a piece of cheese. Mould into rolls, and set these away for twenty-four hours, 31 until they become hard and firm. The cloth should now be put on, bo as to cover one end, while the other is left open for tho stamp. The cloth should be cut in pieces d( txct size and dipped in brine, and the butt, r ' rolled when the cloth ia diipp.og wet. Butter should never come in contact with tbe bare band. When in bulk it can be easily handled with a ladle and a flat peddle. Journal of ChemiBtry. ' RAISING COLT3. There is a crude notion prevailing that hardships make young slock bardy. A colt that is weaned in the I fall, aa ic commonly the case, should not ba allowed to become pour in its first winter. It is true th.it it will often improve in the Bpring so iu wretched condition during the winter will seem really to have baen an advantage to it, but this is a grave mistake. If the same condition were imposed duiing the whole periud of growth the e fleet would be very per-1 per-1 ceptible. Although the summer may in some degree remove tbe e fleet of - winter, no animal so treated ever becomes be-comes what it might have beeo in size, syLULUbiry ui lurixi, ana usefulness, useful-ness, by generous treatment. I believe that there is profit in breeding nice carriage and draft horses, As a general rule it coats no more to raise a good colt than a poor one, while the former will bring two or three times aa much as the latter. I have seen colts that were kept in a stable as daik as a cellar. A dark Btable is a poor place to keep a colt. Ohio Farmer. . HINTS ON TOTATO CDLTUAE. We desire particularly to impress potato raii-ers with the importance of mellow soil, abundant lerf.il zers and good cultivation for this crop. It luxuriates in a virgin soil just redeemed re-deemed from tbe forest, and abounding abound-ing in light leaf mould. A friend iu a neighboring mountain town, who has a large forest farm, as he clears up his woodland, puts in potatoes as tbe first crop and secures immense crops of the best quality. Few. however, how-ever, are situated as he is, and the next best thing is to make , the potato patch as much like virgin! soil as possible. This can be done by the liberal application of muck or leat-mould, leat-mould, with a little sprinkling of wocd ushes. Neither is barnyard manure such a damage to potatoes as during the prevalence of the rot was apprehended appre-hended and perhaps justly at that time. Of late years we hate drawn Ireely on the barnyard for this crop, and a rot ton potato is now a curiosiiy. The potato is emphatically a potash plant, as is plainly indicated by its ash, which contains, on the average, filty percentum ot potash. Wood ashejare, therefore, aBpecificin their cultivation. Regard should always be had to the character of the soil. A No. 1 article must not be expected ion a cold clay Boil. A good formula I lor a feitilizer for this crop is the fol j lowing, which any farmer can mix for himself: 30 pounds wood ashes, '60 pounds air-slaked lime, 20 pounds . fine ealt, 15 pounds bone dust aud 15 pounds phinter, tbe whole tu be thoroughly pulverized aud mixed. An ounce of this compound id each hill of potatoes will tell a good story at harvest time. Exchange. |