Show ACRI agricultural CULTURAL NOTES in england the fields are immense the country ia Is beautifully undulating every inch of ground brouna ia Is well kept and all the division lines between estates are marked by well trimmed hedges in all england I 1 didiot did not jee see a ragged nagged hedge jn inthe the most unfrequented field the hedge would be trimmed as nicely as in a gent lemans groups group eis ds but in all farming opera ns the english are very clumsy though very thorough their thein tools are heavy and awkwardly made but last through generations i an english paper says the guinea pig Is extensively in lem iem peru as an article of foode 0 merely by the hl hiher higher her classes as 4 a delicacy cac cae y but rn mainly a i 1 aly by the poor foor from its CA cheapness and abundance it is an entirely herbivorous animal and clean feeder being there chiefly maintained on green reen lucerne or trefoil but it would doubt doubtless leg leQ s thrive equally well on cabbage or lettuce leaves and most sorts of green garden in short on the same food as the rabbit to which it aas nas many points of simija similarity rivy rity its onis similitude to thes them rat is that after the hair has been scalded ond off it presents an appearance not unlike what ahat a large rat rit might dulf duif do if similarly treated minus minus the tail tall for cooking itis it is wot hot skinned but the hair being scalded bt tofi it is split open and clear cloar cleaned ted tod and is generally fried entire in a frying pan or sometimes grilled over the coals coah thus prepa prepared preparedly lt is savory and deli cate rate the flesh being white succulent and nutritious svery avery very Eu superior perlor to the rabbit and it makes makus a most excellent dish the cost if nf rearing and keeping thermis them Is next to nothing lug ing and their introduction into this country as an article of food would prove an inexpensive addition to our materials for the breakfast or dinner table farmers do not live up to their privileges T they he ys may n tay have as good a livina living as s those thosa d in in towns who expend thieo or five thousand annually forr foi that purpose their ta bles bies maybe better supplied the articles nicles of much better betten quality as f resh vegetables butter milk cream eggs and fruit a horse and carriage more leisure beckoning the articles consumed by the farmers family at the price his city friend is forced to pay we bhail shall not find as much difference as one would suppose it would be found more apparent than real it is the few in any 0 occupation ec upa tion that acquire fortunes where V h e r e one succeeds multitudes fall fail perhaps as ae large larn a proportion of farmers grow wealthy as in any other class elass of equal means if people would 1 live as econos economically as forai foral formerly erly probably as much money could dould be laid up as at 1 an any t time nhue habits of extravagance y h have lve ivo done much to bring the su unc une siness ines lues into lito disrepute and it is visible in almost everything houses and furniture clothing 0 horses carriages harness A st sta a ble keeper recently informed me aae that formerly he found a ready saie sale among far farmers for his secondhand second hand carriages after running them for a year ear or two now there was no demand and from flom that quarter the best was none too good for them bo so in almost every thing else the farmer vies with others for the best hence so long as the desire to make a show and outdo others is the bead lead ing idea money must be scarce and the cry of liard time times swill will be heard if people would study comfort and not seek to foil follow 0 w tio the fashion much useless expense would bo be avoided A great reform in ld public opinion Is needed rural life opinion s should ouid bo be made more popular lar and domestic service more respectable nothing but mistaken ideas have produced the clamor that farming doe not pay and that it is an unworthy occupation with all the drawbacks many do make and are making money by farming and nud time only is needed to show the truth of what I 1 have written in the mean tinie flato let lot us go on and trust mother earth knowing that in the end we shall shall shail como come ota out all right W brown in geranan alvn alon telegraph there are many things which seem to be tte advantageous over general at i practices wh ch are often strongly urged and which r seem seem eem to be bac backed d by the most moa unanswerable argument and yet in spite of all ail their thein promising features never seem to ma make ke their way to public confidence we have for instance during a long along ilfe life in connection with ou on editorial earsery career noted seemingly at set stet times a sort of excitement go through the tho whole agricultural press in regard to the great value of mules and oxen on the farm there is nothing too good to be said about them the mule is a very strong animal he will live and grow fat on food that any good mannered horse hors ee would sicken on he will live longer as well as work harder and as a general thing his first cost is less than the first cost of a good licurse li orse cirse then they are bright t and easily taught and indeed will do may many things that are quite incomprehensible to the spirit of ali all a horse almorse orse orso this is something like what these periodical articles read and as for the oxen they are patient strong enduring moderate feeders and then their flesh is eatable and a dead ox is often worth more than a live horse time and again we have read these arguments and time on pu time we have known of periods when people corl cori convinced vinced by them purchased alid and worked with them but in time both ox and mule get gia their discharge and the good old fash cloned horse takes their places just now we see bee symptoms of a break ing out of the periodical talk about them wo we are prepared at once to agree with all that is to be said in their f favor avol but yet we are sure that all who buy them for general farm pul pui poses will in tim time sell esell them again and go on as before the fact I 1 is the horse can do all that the others can do as a general rule and a great agrest deal more in some others and where there is general work to be done one thing that will do the most of them tolerably is better than a great many tools each well adapted to its particular end germantown telegraph |