Show ena eda L TV s 1 BROWN BREAD I 1 am m a yankee born the rye and the corn cf f the eastern states itis itts said V ad and a tribute ill pay la in a rhyming way ways to ther their loaves of good brown bread lve ive tee lived at best six sl years in the west where wheat Is used In instead steady but in all my round ive vve seldom round found A I 1 loat oat of good brown bread I 1 binca bince I 1 have roamed to my hoy boy hoods home at the rocks and hills I 1 dread r 1 yet in to spite of that im growing fat every day on good brown bread you still may mke white bread and caye cate wll by style and fancy led 4 but I 1 tell you yon sir that I 1 prefer A loaf of good brown bread N E P w fodder for sheep in the choice of fodder much discrimination may be used and probably we cannot do our readers not alone sheep breeders bleeders but stock growers browers generally better service than to give the result of a series of experiments conducted by veit professor of agriculture in the royal institution of bavaria ile he remarks the straw of the usual legum inious fruits and especially of lentils vetches detches and peas is more nutritious than the straw of seed clover cloer the greener the tips are the less it is lodged the better it can be dried and brought in the more nourishing it is the fine stalk vetch straw ia is also very nutritious behind which stands somewhat orne oine what the pea straw with its thicker taik stalk talk all straw of leguminous fruit is is particularly r ticul arly a welcome fod fodder er to sheep on w which ich account therefore it is greatly prized by many sheep owners and considered equal to hay oat and barley straw is the straw for fodder of the cereal fruits oat straw is most agreeable and ind the most mort nutritious on account of its peculiar taste for all species of castlebe cattle cattie because on the tops of the panicles pa nicles are usually found unripe grains 0 and oats are cut before they are tully fully kripe knipe barely straw has on account of its moisture and short period of vegetation a high value as fodder and other things being equal is as nutritious as oat straw if it it were not as is the case fully ripe rlee before reaping yet it is mo more reliable liable to injure than tharl oat straw because it imbibes imbiber more moisture from the air and soil straw of summer wheat summer and summer rye for fodder stands after oat and barely straw the stalk of maize or indian corn contains much saccharine matter and therefore is very nutritious used fine and agreeable to all kinds of cattle the cobs after the corn has been taken orf off ground up are likewise a ver very y nutritious fodder and the hard stalks may maybe be chopped up for the purpose taking all these thing into view it stands next to the tho straw of summer rye in value ag as fodder millet straw has bas a hard stalk but contains at least as much nutriment as the winter straws buckwheat on account of its quantity on a field of less fertility and if of fine stalk in which its value as fodder rodder from its straw being rich with leaves is enhanced is as good as the straw of winter grain bean straw in case its leaves have not fallen off or decayed and the ends of the stalks are green when it is cut as many experiments have hive shown is more valuable than generally supposed whether VY hether water was a necessity of the sheep during daring winter was a mooted point for a long period but is now ranked among their wants kruep rrue true an animal will quench its thirst by eating now snow and man will natures clavings cravings cravi cravings clavings cravi in the same manner it if compelled but where a choice is given to both the tastes it ai can be readily dis coverd discovered sheep will not over 0 er drink where constant access to water may be had bad and the objection that the animal ia is robbed of natural heat beat by these draughts in in cold coid weather is nullified if it proper shelter has been provided provi d ed rural new yorker ventilating waterproof cloth the parla paris paris paria eur Indu industrial states that tunics rendered waterproof and yet porous were served out to the french army during the late war with russia they were prepared p in the following manner take 2 ibs lbs 4 oz of alum and dissolve it in ten gallons of water in like manner dissolve the same quantity of sugar of lead in a similar quantity of water and mix the two together they form a precipitate of the sulphate of lead the clear liquor is now withdrawn and aad the cloth immersed for one hour in the solution when it is taken out dried jn a the shade washed in clean water and dried again this preparation pre enables the cloth to repel moisture like ilke like ilke the feathers of a ducks back aad and yet allows the perspiration to pasa somewhat freely through it which is not the tha case with gutta percha or india rubber cloth the method of thus preparing cloth is not altogether new but such cloth being employed by the french frinch army is some evidence 0 of its utility ifor for the deseret news setting sett ng out fruit trees before planting an orchard the piece of ground designed tor it should ie be secured by a good fence against the depredations of cattle it if not naturally rich it should be made so by the application of manure it should also be in good 0 0 d 1 condition by deep and fine ff ft t the tha h e subsoil ia is wet and cold it will require under draining before the most profitable results can be obtained from fruit trees set out upon it if the ground is not in the required I 1 condition and the necessary labor and expense cannot at once be laid out to make it so 80 pits maybe dug where it is designed the trees shall stand of several feet in diameter the larger the better and eighteen or twenty inches deep these should be filled up with rich mellow earth if manure is used it should lie be thoroughly rotted and well mixed with the earth I 1 green manure placed near the roots of trees when set sei out is liable to injure them in conr latu naturally rally raily dry soil by generating heat in the process of decomposition and by keeping the ground ao open that moisture evaporates too readily the method of preparing pits in poor ground will enable the young trees to make a vigorous growth for a year or two and give the owner of them time to improve the whole plot in selecting trees it is important to obtain good varieties and those that are young and of 0 a thrifty growth trees only one or two year years old oid soil soll situation and cultivation being the ame same will generally in time outstrip those whichard which chare are older at atthe the time of transplanting one reason of this may be that there is not as large a proportion of roots taken up with large as wi h small trees the roots are so many channels through which the tree is fed from the soil the more of these that are cut off or multi the longer will it take it to regain its previous condition of vitality and growth from the moment that tree trees are du dug up until they are set out great care sho should af A be used to shield the roots from the sun and drying winds if I 1 carried in a wagon they should be covered with straw or other litt erand kept moist by throwing water on them on arriving atthe at the place of destination they should be set out immediately if practicable otherwise a trench tren ch should be dug in moist ground the roots of the trees laid in it and well covered with about afoot a foot of the trunk thelen the length 11 th of time they may be kept there without injury depends on their being kept moist the season of the year and their condition when put there when the operator is 13 ready to plant them they should be taken from the trench only as fast as wanted in order to expose them the least possible t met me to the drying effect odthe of the sun and air are which should be kept constantly 1 in I view nurserymen nurseryman Nursery men are often blamed by purchasers because trees do not live or because they make only a stinted sickly growth when the cause might be found in their own mismanagement when ready to plant out the operator with a sharp knife should cut off all mutilated roots and the ends of those left rough by the spade in digging up the top should also aiso al so be well weil we I 1 shortened in to correspond with the loss of roots this is an important item neglects if or slightly done the sap in the tree is liable to become exhausted in the effort to put forth too many leaves before the roots are able to supply the waste in consequence of which the tree makes at a feeble growth the first year from which it is not likely soon to recover in performing this latter operation much may be done towards giving the tree the shape most moat desirable in its future growth in setting out trees for an orchard jurists pretty generally agree that they should be inserted in the ground about the depth or perhaps a little deeper than they stood in the nursery no matter how good the soil maybe be the holes for the roots should be made large enough to receive them without being crowded tog together ether and they should be carefully straightened with the hand as near as may be in the r natural position when this is done a pail pall of water should be thrown over the roots and then the hole filled with finer fine earth the water will cause the earth to adhere to the roots and settle it firmly around them this is much better than using the foot to press the earth down which has a teu tendency dency to press the roots together much more might be said on this subject did space permit gut but perhaps these few hints may serve somewhat as a guide to those who have had little or po experience in planting fruit trees L potatoes the following fol lowig method of storing potatoes for winter practiced by mr adams of peoria illinois we clip from an anex ex hange I 1 selected a knoll and dug on the top of it a pit it 1 0 feet long iong 5 feet wide and 4 feet deep ka in the bottom I 1 put 3 cross timbers a foot thick and on them laid a floor and then boarded uv ura the sides 6 inches from the earth wall I 1 then took care to have the potatoes thoroughly dryland all defective ones sorted overhand overland with careful handling I 1 filled the bin and covered it with straw and on that about a foot of earth and aad there the potatoes kept till spring in first rate order I 1 found water under the floor which would have tended to the ruin of the potatoe it if it had bad come in contact with them thim as it had in informer former years when they were stored in the common way the air space around the tho heap keeps it from freezing from eprom the ibe american agriculturist 1 J l untidy housekeeping women wolen not always 1 at fault its itis al all ali I 1 very well I 1 mr ir editor to ie be lectured about our housekeeping to be told of the comfort the felicity and all that sort of thin thing which a tidy well kept house will afford flord af but for one pm im getting a little impatient that writers generally take it for granted that the ladies alone are responsible in this matter that if dust collects on the furniture if litter is strewn on the carpet it if the table linnen is not snowy white and the cooking stove jet black in short if eve y thing is not in the very best appie apple pie plea y order it is because the mistress of t the e house is a slattern that may be the case I 1 admit but again it may not be here is ig an illustration my friend mrs F lives in a two story house on the main village street where there is almost constant travel over the unpaved road much of the time clouds of dust fill the air and come sifting through every crevice settling down upon the carpets and furniture and reducing every thing to a most uniformity of 01 color the good woman sweeps and dusts to little purpose to keep clean she would have the air itself now when that house was built she tried her best to have mr F lay the foundation further back from the street there was room enough but no he must lust be on a line with his neighbors one would think he might now fill the small yard with trees to exclude part of the dust or cover the road with gravel or occasionally spread tan bark over it to keep it from rising but instead of that he wonders that mrs F does not keep the parlor neater when it rains the dust settles into mud and mr F looks bad words at the tracks on the kitchen floor but he has never laid even a plank walk from the street to the door and the edge of the sill is the only foot scraper mrs F long ago asked for a closet for hooks for his hats and clothing and shelves for the childrens books but to this day these artic es elsaie az e distributed about on the mantelpiece and on nails driven inta in the wall that is when she places them there for the boys imitate the r father and lav their things thin 9 8 on the first vacant chair or orin in an unoccupied corner his lordship uses the stove for a spittoon and the tablecloth for fora a napkin he be smokes in the sitting room and mends his bis harness in the kitchen and thanks mrs IF for her constant endeavors to be tidy under such difficulties by wishing she would keep a neater house ifancy if any one wants further evidence that the men need a share of the lecturing let them visit the house where rethe the wife has been absent a few days and my word for it they will be ready to ma make ke some allowances for the app parent short comings of the HousEK exper ExrEn A fruit ladder labaer split an ash or spruce pole to within a few feet of the end then put on a ring ring or insert a wrought nail and clinch it so as to prevent the pole from splitting fatcher spread it the right width for a gladser ladder until near the crotch where it must gradually curve 1 confine it in this shape bore and insen insert rounds the proper 41 distance stance and it js is ready to pole up through any little opening and will rest firmly against a small branch where a common ladder would often cant or twist about maine farmer awe we have a little caddel ladder dlf dif different fiere nt from the above and more complicate and wield ly but much better adapted to trees that will not bear the weight of a ladder and a man we took a common ladder adder some twelve feet in length bored a five eights hole between the first and second rounds at the top a palt pait pai pal of legs on supports fitting to the tha outside of the top as long iong as the lad iad ladder er and spreading six feet at the bottom is prepared and an iron bolt pa passed 8 through both and keyed the legs are strengthened with ties anu ana affords a perfectly safe ladder to get at the outer branches of large as wel well I 1 as small trees being self supporting the ile ladder separated from these legs can of course be used for any ordinary purpose e germantown telegraph agricultural exhibitions A correspondent in in one of the N E states writes to the country gulleman Gin fieman fleman as follows at the south they say agriculture agri agriculturally cultura speaking cotton is king at the north ji judging dg from the premiums offered at our fairs horses is trumps 2 I 1 begin to very mach doubt the utility of many of our sta state te and county fairs they serve to make our farmers far mersy sons dehus rather man farmers fast horses fast tast young men where we purchase an hundred dollars worth of horses reared out of our state we purchase thousands upon thousands of dollars worth of corn and wheat and where there is a premium of 5 3 offered offered for the best acre of wheat COTH potatoes arid arld roots hundreds for fast horses etc and lady equestrian performances etc excuse must get something to draw out the multitude and unloosen their purse strings 1 how carrots affect horses the carrot is the mos most esteemed of all roots for feeding qualities when analyzed it gives but I 1 ittle little more solid matter than any other root eighty five per cent being water but its influence in the stomach |