Show DR geor GLor GEORGE sprague ague AGur the tho prominent breeder of live stock at des moines iowa says that for every animal that has been injured by over feeding deeding have been injured in their growth and for breeding purposes by being scantily nourished and antt insufficiently housed tim THE state entomologist or of missouri says that the washing of fruit trees with soap or the application of any alkaline solution is an infallible protection against 0 borers and this is confirmed continued by the exper experience enee ence once of some of the most extensive fruit growers in that section we have told our readers this more than a dozen years ago WHEN turnips and rutabagas are fed ned to milk ilik cows and fattening sheep sliced and beeves the milk and butter and meat will have llave a decided flavor of the roots this may be prevented by feeding the cows only immediately after milking and by changing the feed of fat animals from roots to hay and meal for three or four days previous to slaughtering there will bo be no unpleasant flavor in tile the in meat eat ANTS ix IN THE ORCHARD AND len ien we vve see the ant pronounced a nuisance by some writers on agriculture but our experience and observation leads us to tile the contrary opinion on while they do little or no a actual damage to vegetation tiley drive away and destroy lice and other insects which would do serious damage we have long looked upon the ant as a friend and are glad to see some others defending the industrious ant STRAW if properly managed ean eail be made toi to serve a more profitable purpose than mere littering or to add bulk to the tile manure pile in ill england and among adiong the english farmers in canada most of f the bullocks are fed and fat tonea on straw with roots and meal no hay is used that being kept for the horses thus ahns a larger number of the stock can be fed straw cut wetted and sprinkled with ground food or oil meal will carry cattle very well through the winter oat barley rye and wheat straw are proportionately valuate abo abe abo abe in the order in which thed they y aro are placed pea straw is moro more valuable than oat straw BACON naron or pork in some somo shape or other is too common an article of diet among farmers the world worl dover over this misdoubt is doubtless due to the fact that markets and butchers are not very plentiful in the country but farmers could well use more mutton and less pork and if the taste were once created the convenience of pork for regular diet would be found not bot so great as is now thought with fresh or dried mutton and more cheese the farmers table might be more agreeably and equally well supplied as with the present perpetual pork bearth hearth and bome home CHARCOAL FOR SICK CATTLE the country gentleman says nearly all the cattle become sick from improper eating in nine cases out of ten the digestion is wrong charcoal Is the most efficient and rapid corrective it will cure in a majority of cases if properly administered an example of its use the hired man came in with the intelligence that one of the finest cows cowa was very sick and a kind neighbor proposed the usual drugs and poison poisons sl the owner being ill and unable to til examine the cow concluded that the trouble came from some overeating over eating and und ordered a teacup of pulverized charcoal given in water it was mixed placed in a junk bottle the head heli held heil upward and the water with its charcoal poured downward in five minutes an improvement was visible and in a few hours the animal was in the pasture quietly eating the grass another instance of equal success occurred with a young heifer which became badly bloated by eating green apples after a hard wind the bloat was so severe that tho the sides were almost as hand hard as a barrel barrei the old remedy was tried for the purpose of correcting the acidity but the attempt to put it down always caused coughing and did little good half a teacupful of fresh powdered charcoal was next given agven cin fin in six hours all appearance of bloat had gone and the heiner heifer was well GROWING tiie THE toul TOMATO 0 one would suppose that at this late day we knew retty pretty much all about cultivating the tomato ato but it seems that we do asmuth as we see daily recommendations as to the best mode of getting the most fruit from all quarters even from persons that one would suppose had a flight a little higher than speculating in tomato seed and undertaking fancy men as they are to tell us old practical cultivators how to raise it some people train the vines over elaborate trestlework or frames at no little expense others trellis them others stick them with brush about the size or little larger than thau that used for peas others simply throw brush down for them to run over and others allow the vines to creep over the ground without any support only previously mulching the ground with grass or straw we have tried every mode hero here mentioned and wo we have found that where the plants are stuck brushed trellised frame worked or allowed to run unsupported over the round ground sr the yield is is about the same we vve prefer the brush sticking process it produces full ws as great a crop as any other mode with only half the trouble and ex expense and looking more picturesque and not so artificial as the trellises and frames and if the brush is firmly inserted in ia the ground it admits of passing between the rows to pick the fruit and gives free access to the air when the vines are allowed to run over the ground unsupported however much the ground may be mulched the flavor of tho tile tomato is more or less extracted by the natural attraction of the soil by which the fruit is rendered almost worthless besides the vines are all ill in a mass and to get at the fruit is inconvenient to the tho picker and injurious to tile the crop germantown telegraph the london economist gives figures to show that england has lately increased her purchases ind investments in eli lii parts of the world tho tuo former being partly due flue to the rise in prices of many of cf her ller articles of import and the latter to her various foreign loans tho the amount of bullion moved from england to bombay calcutta Calcut fa singapore hong kong kon kou shaushan Shau shae gape cape and west africa spain portugal and brazil W was way pounds sterling in 1871 which was over ten times more tharl than the amount to the same bame places in 1870 oae of the results of the civilization of japan is ia to leave Budd buddhist hiet priests penniless and without employment |