Show HORACE GREELEY la IS on a visit to the south and while at houston texas delivered an address to the people assembled ledat at the state agricultural fair in which he communicated many v aul able facts speaking of the reckless extermination of trees on this conti coutt nent neat he said my own section of this continent has destroyed trees tog too eagerly recklessly y udd and pfau planted ted them too tardily too apao apan oely my county nty of westchester new sew now york yr b began gin gln zin to be tie inhabited by our air r race aee ace fully two hundred and fifty years yeara apa r ta ago it has been divided into farms rom aiom from one to two centuries and its ita pe are not behind others in sagacity and intelligence they have still much land covered with mainly young timber yet there are not less than five thousand acres in that county today to day exposing rocks thinly and partially covered with soil which never ought to hayo have been stripped bare jare of t trees rees if those five thousand aeres acres were ware re clad in their primitive vesture all the ahe and str stream eArris of the county would be more co copious more equa equable blei biel more constant than they are and the thin soll soil of the subjacent fields and meadows would endure drouth and retain moisture tureau as they never can while hillside hill side and rocky ridge are exposed to sweep of wind and glare of sun ills his ancestors two to four gen generations blado biado lis lib ils back when seeing seven eighths of No new england covered by stately luxuriant trees had said there will always be timber enough let us cut and slash and clear eleter all the land we can oti others lers fers will save wood enough though we destroy all we have bave havet but their children have haie lived to d deplore their error fifty lifty fifty five nive years am ago great pines were cut from hills now included in the city of burlington vermont sawed into boards and these rafted crafted down lake champlain and the borei sorel to the st lawrence and so shipped to europe not paying fifty cents per day for the labor calling the worth of the timber nothing barely thirty years later when vermont began to construct her railroads she had to draw the bridge timber from canada paying M many any tames what her own disparaged pines brought when they were BO so recklessly swept away mr beeley urges irrigation upon upon the attention of farmers he wonders at their stolidity in not utilizing itofe has stood he says beside a cornfield corn nield field parched and withering from drout li while a millstream mill stream danced and b rawl ed right through its center falling t wenty twenty feet in a y yet set et in moistening oi the roots booti of bf no plants but t hose of the two rows next its on either ither side while three days work ot two men would have hilve dammed end and abadi anadi diverted its waters so that four faur br inive five acres of the corn would have been unrolled t and sef set to growing growth g again by their i influence n quence qa ence enee her he be believes liev es the time is at hand band when a not only will streams be generally utilized to tp moisten adjacent fielda and thu thus s largely product taut when every thirsty anid annd arid plain will have its bounteous well weil witha windmill erected over it to pump its contents automata 1 cally at little co cont cot coit it into a reservoir where after being baing warmed by the kunf and perhaps fertilized they will be drawn awny away in ge gentie gentle bitle riis rills to irrigate acre after acre on every side alde A PAPER was read before the american institute farmers club new now bow york lately on the value of crows the writer argued that there was a deplorable milsap misapprehension pr e of the t true rue character of f crows ra s their usefulness on cultivated lands Is undervalued they are warred against and are disappearing and by and alid by they will bespoken spoken be of aa as rare birds crows undisturbed would keep down a an n excessive increase of worms siu slugs i gs noxious bugs an and d depredating predating de gnawers and nibblers at the roots of succulent radicals tender plants bery fruit and trees were vero they not wickedly persecuted la in their legitimate pursuits they should be let alone they are neither nor non robbers A perpetual aggressive war against them and many equally useful birds is a disgrace to our vaunted civilization strong legislative measures are required for their protection or in the coming future armies of devouring insects which crowd crows hunt before they have wings or commenced propagating and which other flying vigilance committees arrest if they baca escape e their searching detective ability will ruin crops and blight the expectations of of the soil to an extent to be deplored as a national ca calamity lamky A aro ABO r oarin in which which milk 14 t hept kept ept over night for the purpose of being manufactured into w which jilch is used for forzetting setting milk jabr bt itter butter should never be used friank for any other purpose pura while containing milk for the rea reason reabon son that milk is such a greedy absorbent if there be any iby odors in the vicinity milk will absorb them for this reason ther there e should be no odor from a stable a cow yard a pig pigpen pen or a slop sink suffered to come near a milk room A milk i room must mus t be so situated as to possess a pure sweet air cool and moist not exposed to the direct rays of a noontide sun anaf still be so well ventilated as to be free from dampness and mould MANY good colts are injured by being allowed to suck their dams while the latter are heated colts thus injured seldom recover from it for a year or two and many times never when the dam is to be used in hot weather upon the farm or the road let the colt fill himself before she is put into ha harness kness after using her she should be left to cool off before the colt is again permitted to suck if jf it is important that he should accompany the mother he ought to be hiedi tied ather side so hat that bat ha will be unable to dra draw w milk until he is liberated it is much better that he go hungry a while than to take his food while it is in a fevered state if the mare is to make malie a long distance in a hot day and return at night it is best to leave the colt at home and draw the milk from the udder by hand once duce or twice during the dasy and then upon returning allow the coatto colt coit to fill himself gradually gradual lynas lylas as the milk is secreted ti se A denhof DENT of the coun country tty try gentleman hp la Is a breeder of shorthorn Ho iiii isi asi ass a 4 darm farmer darmer br for practical purposes pus di wr writes ite ile tuat that he bd has a herd book cow now fourteen years old which gave on the uit aa 2 t quarts of milk he says bays lii ril ill bet on fourteen pounds of butter per week aed ard and aud she jias has never neve r seen the day since bhe she bhe she was vas two years old she couldn coulden go 40 to the butcher but then I 1 feed her hen in wint winter erand and she ahe has haa gras grass in hummer rummer 11 the statement as to her bondi condition tion wab waa made because the editor once inquired of the tha writer whether the condition of most moat well kept herds heras of short hi H rna is really due to a natural aptitude for flesh or to heavier feed of oil meal grain grainy than their owners would acknowledge THE math mark zane lane jez JEx press speaking of a sale of shorthorn short horn horil stock in england says those tho beby aeby by the 3rd ard duke of geneva an Imp imported orfed bull from america ani Ana erlea erica in 1867 and a fine handsome animal fetched capital prices the owner of this animal was offered omme offe redy on the day of the sale 2 2000 guineas for him but declined the olier ofner offer this is said to be the highest price ever offered for a single animal of this description I 1 EVERYBODY 88 says y a the world knows knork that the oil which lubricates wool is disagreeable to both taste and smell in slitting abir taking oa off the pelt it is difficult to prevent a contact of the wool with the flesh along the lines where the skin ia Is first severed preparatory to being stripped off omm the accomplished butcher cannot wholly predent prevent this contact and he therefore very thoroughly scrubs the parts exposed with sai eal eratus dissolved in aix cold water which wholly lez iez removes boves hoves the disagreeable odor and flavor the farmers for A long time were not aware of the necessity of such purgation which should be a applied talle d at ai once ance as soon as the pelt by the greate greatest st activity can be removed this do done nethe netho the meat is as free from the taint of wool oil as the meat of any other ail all animal linal A I 1 |