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Show J AGRICULTURE. (Third rp, r ) The other djy, in the midst of falling fal-ling enow, I saw a farmer cutting the straw out of hia stack and lorking u over his corral burs to a couple of boy a who, in turn, would distribute it in small heaps all over the corral. I could not help stopping and abking a few questions. "Yes, sir; we are feeding our stock ten head of Jcattle you see yonder. The straw is clean; quite a few heads of grain are left that-ebcapod the threshing machine, and we put eneugh for the poor animals to lie on these cold nights. Sheds wculd bo a great help, and I will build some as soon as I can get at it. I tried very bard, but could not possibly build some thia fall. Well sir, once a day, just before dark, I give them some corn fodder tied up in bundles, and they eat it all before morning, as none of it conies in contact with dirt or manure. I have found out that if I yive them corn fodder twice a day they Boon get tirad of it, run from one bundle to another, the stronger driving the weaker bfore him. They get all in a ramble, trample over the feed, my corral gets full of corn atalka and instead of improving my cattle get poorer. A good pile of manure I shall have next fall. 1 expect to cart some 300 loads out of this corral, and I consider that alone will pay me for all my trouble. In the summer I shall put over thia 150 loads of dust from the road that will receive ail the liquid manure. I shall mix up the whole thing and pile it before winter sets in, and you had bettor believe ! something will grow where I put it." I nodded my assent. This is a sensible firmer. Call when you will, you will find his animals well taken care of. No ma ter how severe the winter, they will come out all right in theBpring, and his crops will be among the beat. A farmer ought to be a farmer, mako a living out of his farm or quit and go to selling eewing mi-chtnes, mi-chtnes, or get in the preaching business. busi-ness. I am sorry to say that the way most farmers take car of their stock 1 maea one tmn oi a certain patsage of the bible, where it ia spoken of the mercy of the wicked. Have no more animals than you can feed, and feed them well, and you will soon see the wisdom of it. It is true thatsince the passage of the so-called no-fence law, we see no more those living skeletons that used to break the monotony of the landscape in the winter months, and fall at last a prey to starvation. , Although thfly any that there are yet some agricultural districts where larmera deny themselves the benefit of the la,v, and stand guard over the 'ark of prejudice and ignorance, emptying their pockets for the profit of a few. ; Thia reminds us of a fact that happened hap-pened several years ago. They wanted to have a cheese faetory, and s-iares were sold to raise the necessary means. Then they built a big factory fac-tory and found out that all the money was gone. Then they weut in debt to buy the machinery. . Then they had nobody who understood cheese making. mak-ing. Then they quarreled among themselves, gave it up, and to-day, after thirty years, the factory stands as a monument o( their Bhort sighted-nesa sighted-nesa and folly. Aqricola. |