Show FACTS FOR FARMERS A horses life with moderate coro and good h protracted to awen ty five thirty five and forty years N E fanner mention is made of cows poisoned hy rotting potatoes one died the others acro saved y r sod if apt to be plowed too deep IQ the spring bringing soil to the sur faco lias not been benefited by exposure to alic clr and taw albany journal very young ducklings duc klings oro tender at first and should neither bo allowed to go into cold water nor bo exposed to chilling winds while they anro under twenty days old such exposures cause cramps and they often die suddenly from theio rc sulLo prairie fanner over gioga leavo died ol 01 cholera sinco last all and yet this loss would not leavo occurred but for feeding too lucli corn and keeping the hogs in niah this is the secret of the arvil and farmers as well realize lie fact and save themselves further in toledo regarding the manuri il value of tree leaves it lias been ascertained certa ined through alic of prof dr loges and amcis that aik oik and birch leaves contain only 2 to 23 per cent of ablo matter plane up to 4 and and willow 0 to 57 per cent the better way to salt stock Is t buy a few lumps of rock salt put them under cover and allow stock access to them as they wish A dollars worth of rock silt placed under cover will ladt as long as a barrel of salt given in alic usual way with the advantage of tho stock getting salt as they need it san francisco chronicle storing fruit we can not bo too careful about storing fruit tho tribune and fanar no doubt as much is lost through faulty storing as from any other cause fruit should not bo kept in a damp warm cellar that is loaded alth gases aiom decaying vegetables if poi blo the fruit room should be entirely separate from the cellar proper after the digging of potatoes both in alio garden and in the nold a good dottl of enriching may be secured in addition to by sowing densely a crop of rye it may bo turned under in spring in time to plant corn sow turnips or pet out cabbages if the crop ani been kept clean the ground will bo mado mellow enough by tho digging of tho to beecho reecho the seed of the rc by harrowing alone As this crop occupies the vacant time between tho two crops it is an inexpensive fertil izer exchange |