Show A agricultural NOTES A PLANT stimulant the sulphate of ammonia ia is an excellent nia liquid to apply once a week to flowering plants giving to the foliage a dark green luxuriant and healthy appearance it is economical clean and easily applied belled prepare it in the evening before eforo using by dissolving one oune ounie of sulphate of ammo ammonia nia in two gallons of water t I 1 YIELD the tho average yield of wheat in different countries varies remarkably in ill austria it is 14 bushels per acre in france and prussia 17 in Spain 23 while in britain the average yield is from 28 to 30 the yield of barley in france Is 21 bushels per acle acie in prussia 25 and in england 10 from 35 to 40 bushels per acre in manitoba from 40 to 60 bushels per nere aero by merely plowing without tny any artificial ANTS A NESTS IN GARDENS F ar G in lature says I 1 have found round a very effectual emual remedy for the annoyance of ants resting in the garden paths and borders A strong solution of carbolic acid and water poured into the holes hills lulls all the tho ants it touches and the tile survivors v immediately take themselves off care must be taken in its use hs as it destroys animal and vegetable as well as insect life tire THE jer JEn JERSEYS the island of jersey has head of horned stock all jerseys which is about one to every two acres of agricultural land the farms of the trie island rarely exceed forty acres and the feed of the cattle is mainly roots and grass with some straw in winter the prosperity of the jersey farmers is said to be unequalled unequal led in the same class either in europe or america tre THE national live stock journal chicago recommends to large farmers to grind all their grain for stock and for this purpose to purchase a small burr stone not the iron grinders as being greatly superior and no dearer in end it says MY in a large experiment of feeding horses by the londen london omnibus company it was found to take six pounds of grain less per day i ifor for each horse when ground than w when hen 11 SENATOR chandler of Mi chisan is taking into the newspaper offices in detroit specimen bundles of the grass he lie raises on his farm near lansing the grass measures mea a surel six feet two inches in length he hesayo says that it is a species of meadow grass grown extensively in holland and on the reclaimed bogs of ireland eland Ii and that it is the sweetest and tallest cultivated fodder grass in the world tiie THE attention of many western farmers is being directed to the preservation of their manure where heretofore it has been burned to get rid of it they are beginning to find that the richest prairie land with a soil several feet in de depth pt h will willin in time become exhausted ot of its fertilizing constituents for wheat and cornand corn and need a revivifying revivify in ing assistant others where the laz lan land fails falls to produce a remunerating crop are looking around for the best means of increasing the supply of manure and they are not doing so a day too soon the folly of neglecting this matter year after year with constantly decreasing crops is beginning to bo be sadly realized tim tiie LARGEST Ij ARGEST angest FARM IN ENGLAND the largest farm in england consists of acres and belongs to a man with tho the name of samuel jones in its cultivation ti n he follows the four course system the whole extent of his farm bein being divided into four great crops acres to wheat 50 to barley and oats zao to seeds beans peas etc and to loots routs his live stock is valued as follows i sheep horses horsey bullocks pig pios 2500 the tile oil cake and corn consumed annually amount to and artificial fertilizers tili about the entire cost of manure in its various forms used annually is about sheep are claimed as the most profitable stock he keeps and from them are area realized about PERMAN TEANCE OF OR ORCHARD CirARD grassa GRASS A writer in the philadelphia prees frees says we have a field of it t on a strong sandy loam which has stood for more than thirty years it has been cut kears has hns as been cut for hay it has been pastured it was first sown with red clover and timothy which it long ago run out and although the white clover and blue grass venture their presence to a limited extent among it the orchard grass maintains its supremacy and breast high nt at maturity lords it over its diminutive tres trespassers assers in bounteous crop while its ts humble attendants good in their place modestly ly fill up a great T react nutritious undergrowth at ll 11 the 0 bottom ottom V ko no grass which we have ever grown has lias yielded so heavy swath as this tin s nor one from which so much cattle food to the acre can be grown aside from lucerne RED PEPPER FOR tx insects sEcTs john W still of east oakland writes to us as follows I 1 have discovered by a practical test that cayenne or red pepper capsicum capsicum m will destroy cabbage 0 lice or cabbage mildew I 1 I 1 have some two hundred fine cabbages grow growing Dg and to my sorrow some two weeks since I 1 found them covered with lice I 1 sprinkled them wherever ole Oie rever the lice could be found with the capsicum andam and am delighted to see my ray cabbages cabbages entirely cleared save a few that I 1 did not sprinkle that I 1 might contrast conti ast them and that I 1 can assure you is very evident or speaking for those I 1 so left are covered with the little dest destroyers now kow I 1 am of the opinion that capsicum will in the same manner destroy the fungi of all plants vines fruits etc spoken of in the agricultural report of 71 from page to laiso I 1 also aiso sprinkled a bumble bee with it and the result was death in a few minutes to the bee now this might inight c be applied to vines in the form for m of a solution but for the cabbage sprinkling dry is preferable ag it sticks or adheres closely to the leaf pacific rural prem press |