| Show L T R A LA ILA CONSTANTE 81 strawberry I 1 EDITOR dl on DESER DESERET ET NEWS sin in your last article oa on tb the strawberry there ia Is a misstatement concerning la constante variety it ia is not a email small berry it is large I 1 have hav no fault faul t whatever ver vrr to find with the berry it ia is good at least as any I 1 have tasted and it ia is of good color and handsome shape I 1 hope it will prove pro ducille duct duci ive lve my experience in strawberry culture is limited and I 1 have but few plants of la constante but I 1 should like to see a large bed of that variety with the deep working wide planting and thorough culture which mr G D watt gives to hla hia plantations the bonte ze de st julien is not large with me respectfully J jaques G SL CITY aug 26 1864 we take fake pleasure plea piea bure sure in correct correcting im the mistake alluded to in the foregoing letter from friend jaques by bf referring to our notes from which the the a articles on the culture of the straw berry have been written we fina wina ibay tuat that p particular art k i c ul a r remark in reference to bize size bize size should have been applied to the bonte de st julien only odly oklyed ED NEWS FINE erne FINE laubs LAMBS brother brothen charles 3 of cove creek in millard colwy sends bends us an inter interesting interesting eting item about lambs raised by himself and sols sons and be he throws out a banter for competition ile he says say 1 I hive have one ewe lamb six months old that weighs I 1 have also a pair of twin lambs one a ewe evve the other aher a wether welber the ewe evre weighs 77 and the wether sheep raisers raiser beat tha j and then I 1 will try again my kly son ellott has a wether not yet five month months a old that weighs this is very good and we should like some sheep of that kind it if the wool is good but friend has omitted to state in his big letter whether the breed be southdown sout leicester merino oxford down or natives and it ia is very important to know something about the weight of the fleece and quality of tho the stape staple as well as the size of caresse WHITE beans are the cheapest and most nutritious food ahl ch can beraten be eaten beans and pork furnishes nearly all the elements necessary to human subsistence A quartet quart of bim bm n at eight cents and a pound of pork at 12 cents will feed a small email family for a day four quarts of beans beang and two pounds of corn ed beef boiled to rags in fifty aarts of water j will tural farbish sh a good meal for forty men or one and a quarter cents a meal bread CRUST baked in an oven until it is very brown but not black and then pounded to the fineness of ground coffee is a safer sa fer ter che the cheaper aper and quite as agreeable are arc eible and healthful a substitute for codee coffee as any othar laix taix ture now in use LICE ON ax CATTLE the cheapest bast bait and easiest method to kill lice on cattle is as follows take half a wood pail of potatoes boil ball them thoroughly in water for about three hours strain out the potatoes and add wash the animal thoroughly with witti the liquor liquor li quor one application fo 1 ig fia generally sufficient to send fiend every louse use on the beast over jordan jardan I 1 ibave bave tiled it and know krow it to ba be effectual and that nothing daug darg dangerous erous to the animal amirr al cn can follow the application CI D R P in ta abe te rural american 7 cy lice lies ON CATTLE mr miner liner IN I 1 see in your paper a recommend al at on from your correspondent of soft soap for lousy cattle 1 I will care if you put on enough to take all tha hair off A much better remedy Is to give cattle sulphur say a teaspoonful in salt three times a week for two or three week a tablespoonful for large cattle the only elec effectual tuai remedy if cows cowa are lousy put a spoonful in the calves milk when you feed teed them three or four times a week if this fall fails there is no ilo cure ilire try aryit it CA A richmond in the rural nural american live LITE AND ANO DEAD WEIGHT OF 9 sheep the ne english rule ia 13 to weigh shep when fat fal ted tej and divide the tho weight by 7 and call I 1 it t quarters teri terl toua taua a sheep weighing hin pounds vu would d give 20 pound g a quarter quarter as dead if it the sheep are in good condition this rule is sufficiently accurate for all purposes purpose altra poor sheep will fall below thora thera tb emark ark and extra fat ones go aver it AT A T sari san francisco the wholesale price of hay brought from the swamp lands to stockton ia is steadfast at twenty dollars pr per ton and afia the product of high land ranges from thirty y fise five to forty five dollars dollare some SOME uneasiness unea sines is ia felt in ger germany any at the effect which the re recent cent long iong continued drought may bay have on the tha crops I 1 A TROUT bitout 29 inches in length len ien 1 ch and weighing jbf 93 41 b wagi wail va caught near edinburgh in 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