Show 11 HEAVY ENvy gral GRAIN T W 11 tells the germantown telegraph that he raises winter wheat I variety at the ii rate te of nearly 28 bush els per acre ae by measure measure or soi sol 30 by weight each measured bushel we weighing hin 65 pounds which he be thiis thinks pretty good the weight per bushel is certainly good PROLIFIC bows the homestead says willi william B D ling ring king of suffield connecticut hasa has a breeding sow six years old which he is 1 now batting fatting fat ting that has had pigs which sold for over nive five hun hundred Ired dollars he has now three sows adwa which have one ietter letter three weeks old odie ofie one two weeks old and one one week old in all thirty onh one these four sows bows have raised since this year came in seventy eight pigo pigs endl ran RAM bales balis whelon thelon the zon london fidd eidd calls attention to the great change that has taken place in the english sheep sales formerly leicester and south downs were the leading breeds now the Lelce rs are in much le less ss demand while the hampshire and Cots wolds are in good demand some very high prices have been paid at recent sales A breeder from N tow now zealand paid guineas 1000 gold for a lincoln ram for another A ram was rented for the season for guineas and a hampshire ram for 1162 SEASONED WOOD MOST profitable ar economy may rny be practiced in a thousand ways and one way is in our fuel wood that ha has been sunned a few days after cuttin cutting and s splitting ft it and then tilen housed four months or more is worth for the family purposes of warming varming coo cooking kinq and washing almost twice as much much muce as when green but few farmers realize the tile value of dry wood especially during the winter season and hence but little wood is stored during the summer be sure to ta furnish plenty of oven wood be piled plied led in a part martof of the tile wood house aby by itself it will promote kindly feeling in the family id will it save much time otherwise lost in kindling fires with green wood then let us prepare a good supply y of dry wood for foi winter ter full six gix months before beford wan wanted for use ex EARLY CUT GRASS best bust the german papers publish details of a series of experiments carried on at the agricultural schools of F fatherland for the purpose of testing the nut nutritive ve properties of grass and hay at various stages the experiments were initiated by hy the cices excessive demand for forage in germany but hub are not the less valuable on that account by an elaborate series of or analyses it is shown why young 0 grass is more nutritious than mature grass the physiological experiments show that it is more e amily Q ted thus grassa gram sai inches high C con bains nearly 50 per cent mo more re of than grass which is six inches high and about 10 per cent more of crude fat pe per F cent against the mature grass contains more woody and less flesh forming matter than the young grass and besides this it is found t that frass grass at the nutritious albumen album enolds olds exist in a less soluble form in hay than in young grass hence the difference of nutritive value and digestibility autumnal hay was found to be more nutritious than summer hay pennsylvania BARNS AND THEIR OWNERS in chester and lancaster counti counties Vs is I 1 think the most finished farming iu in the union the farms composed of a brick dust sort of soil are cultivated from fence to fence every rood as the farms of flanders and brittany are cultivated from hedge to hedge C cattle cattie italo lttie stand with their four feet in two feet of clover every field nield is a park every barn is a cow palace every pigpen is a po porcine reine paradie pennsylvania is is preeminently pre eminently the state of barns think of a three story stone barn with a swell front and dormer windows in the roof and a luxurious portico where the sybaritic calves chew the cud of sweet contentment on summer evenings and then behold the little cabin in thia tha re rear ar where the tile agricultural dutchman lives with his frow and where the children lie on the floor and envy the happy calves in the lattice portico I 1 the barn is three times as large as the house which serves as a sort sore of appendage and as it were plays second nid fid fiddle niddie le to it the barn is headquarters and the house a sort of sentry box where the man resides s who takes care of it IL the barn is slated painted corniced corn iced ci lightning and the pigsty pig sty is glazed the chicken coops are bal Eal painted and the worm fences are whitewashed as far as you can see I 1 have no doubt the or original anal dwellers here whitewashed the ground for acres arou abou around nd the i domicile twice or thrice abear till the ther they y learned its fatality ex PENS FOR pigs pias farmers I 1 in n a great ma majority bority of cases case a have less pride in what they do for swine than any other labor upon the premises first class barns for horses es and cattle convenient sheds etc for sheep are numerous but it is something of rarity to see eee a nice airy and really convenient ilg sig sty the reason of this is doubtless attributable to the generally brally conceived idea that the hog is a filthy animal and not fit to occupy a decent place but the fact is swine are made more filthy than it is their nature to be by being confined in unwholesome and pens A de den n can bo be easily constructed so that the floors bf the different departments may be kept dry and wholesome the floor should be tight on a little decline and aud kept lift littered ered with good absorbents in the construction of pens there is a general f ault fault in the way of having them too low between joists foists most of them being not over five feet when there should be not less than seven bo so that a man can stand erect in id them we have seen many expensive pens having this fault and the swine therein absolutely neglected on account of the work of cleaning the different sections out every sty should have hive a good yard at one side so that the swine may get at the earth but they should shoula hai uld not be allowed to run therein at will nor should the cleanings gleanings clean elean ings of the pen be thrown into the yard to be mixed with the soil by the trampling and land rooting of or the hogs for it is one of the most valuable manures januies that can dan be produced upon a stock farm f X the farmer who makes m most ost money from pork raising is the man who not only is careful in the selection of df breeds but particularly careful to have good commod commodious lous ious pens feus and give the swine all the attention re regu required ired to make wake them grow and lay jay on the fat rapidly when we see fattening hogs in rail pens with the earth for a flo floor orand and the sky for a roof our is at once formed as to the chafi chances ces of that farmer to prosper and they a are re decidedly unfavorable dla jea 1 A I s few d days dass ago a fascinating y young lady lags lats w wishing shing to visit lynch burgat burg at the time timo of the meeting of 0 stockholders in that city forgetting she was addressing an eligible widower in the person of an old acquaintance asked him if he could ioa loa loan ioan n her a certificate of stock entitling her to a free ride over the railroad tl certainly he replied p provided r 0 vided aided you are willing to travel under rpy my name with the blush which mantled her cheek came the posing retort thank you sir air I 1 will consider your proposal 0 the san jose mercury thinks the offering of a largo reward is the only means of capturing the notorious vasquez as his spies inform him of every movement of the officers and the mexicans who harbor him hlin are generally of that class who would sell their best friend for money |