Show I 10 AND GARDEN ATTARS ATTI IRS OF INTEREST TO 11 agriculturists V wp to date alint jious at 1 1 I I tl ti bell oil nn an I 1 I 1 let Is alier 4 alture ul ture iti and NE of the first things I 1 learned as field moil wis to husk corn corti and ms ni father too took giltis to in encourage courage m mt to be bc 1 u I riold husker its s I 1 took quite an ail in ili t act in ili the mit tir I 1 studied alif callous plans used b 1 hohlt 19 in ili hind hand cop der and the mo n ants of the 8 hat at I 1 maht be able to adopt the at d most rapid lay ay A inan man th it i on hh hig knees cannot do the most lon ott work rh and it Is verv ler to 1 ot i d di 13 some plan must there 1 ba be adopted to aloid this wt 1 l bat no rick to be bothered with mith is ai I 1 husk corn corti I 1 11 hive no muscle ua to act y yta waste lifting tho the corn on to ferack rack it would tike take quite a fir and strong aflato to hold a shock ind ia me vie make hen herc twelve by four jand fourteen hills square four sixteen ind sixteen hills il tho the custom i I 1 few 5 ears iras as to cut twelve hills iiii ENT making one hundred and forty ills ils to the shock then they got ill a ng them i a little I 1 irrer irger twelve melve 81 teen one hundred and sixty P ills its to the shock now almost OIL it t fourteen hills square one bun hua ua id d ninety six hills to the shock thi ty a few cut fourteen by sixteen As dred ind twenty four hills to k h hut but one firmer farmer that I 1 know section this ear put up his sixteen hills square two tao hund huni I 1 filo bix hills to the shock or ter I 1 belle believe e Is the customary 10 0 he sciota river bottoms below 71 t he lie when I 1 come to think of uld take considerable muscle one of these shock on to a 0 or three feet high and reit co to bo be ten or twelve tele feet long IC strong to hold it talk about i busker husker to bother with such MI while title husking just the other 51 ard a neighbor hiking talking about ipp cut foar tecil hills square that ita ix bushels to the shock and agh when hen firt first cut something a per shock when it comes aing ng and bucking such corn as nan an does well to plan a little efting a shock Is pulled down in two d the husker gets down domn on his mork ork getting up and stepping andle when he has it husked ill he hao halo room for the fodder me the shock Is husked when 4 94 arks on IN 11 knees to huak a irn orn his hand is not as free to ie husked ears cars as it should be a fie te other hand at full liberty p the next ear I 1 id oi a number of iv ile e not husked much but I 1 am ere it la Is done and bome sometimes times 10 ittle tile and know that the plan I 1 moil u ears ago as the speediest ediest Is ohp w husking peg on the right N hen I 1 go to the shock I 1 pull am good sized bundle towards my ries d sometimes I 1 ga down donn on she s to busk bust this first bundle Is husked tho the fodder Is tied bundle turned one quarter the left this leaves s toward the corn pile the E S ich ell taken from the shock Is r I 1 ith the top across this bundle the husked bundles of fod rt es a lest for the bundles to mtr d ant an I 1 saves the husker from I 1 pt r demember emern ber thit that I 1 am a ita ian striving striling to get the corn kith the least labor possible FAI ler or ap I 1 corn lies before me yh it a husk uc be tops at in left rest lie ie bundled fodder each stalk do isa is reach of my left hand left hind hand I 1 grasp an ail car ear with rl 0 ma at one stroke the right side 92 ar Is 1 of husks the 19 1 passed over oler the top of tho the lean elf ct the silks and down domn lie ile toting the husks to the ere they are grasped along ala mla 0 shank and the ear broken off LOW ered to the tile pile with tho the right title dell delivering sering with the right IW next ear car la Is grasped with the thea everil I 1 if it the tile fodder was mas piled it at kc ca end the right handed husker III P h his right side to the fodder IN 4 not lot deliver dellier the corn with the id ani oil I 1 grasp the next ear A with ith ind at the same time lit handed man foi greatest rea test of action must pile tho the fodder to t and the left handed mau man to ani for great greatest esc case and should hould blind as nearl erect sik ie le the man working lor bing on his is ac mot not have hane the freedom 0 heis acis I 1 possible when nhen stam stane g nison 1801 in country gentleman so ittle in chen clention tion 1 11 I from front review report 1 S true of adrien reid tead a r raspberries shi related a 11 her exPer experience lecce it au rowing growing raspberries and other fruits A few vears ears ago it would mould have liae len nen thought in ail unusual thing for i Noi niti to undertake such a work ork but now no it Is 1 looked upon in i 1 I more sensible hensl ble in inner bhe she hid tried various arlous fruits but had had the best success with her rid which ire Cut liberts one dim cult M ith ouse m aia is that it alv sprouted bidlo but this hi ili I 1 ben laidely obviated by putting on sawdust mr nir james kirk addressed the contention on the subject ot of goote gooseberries berries about thirty veirs ago he hid had some seeds from england which he lie planted ind and produced i a few fem plants ho ili hid had been troubled first bv b mildew but had finally 1 concluded tint that the best v way vay ay to fight it was mas b bv thorough cultivation he lie uses bellfore bell bore for the worn s the should be kept free from weeds ind and anve a good mulch tj through the summer ilu give gle all gorte berries the u same treatment borne some persons get fine plants and set them out oot m where here they have liae the full glare of the sun but that 1 Is not the a to get gooseberries discussion then followed fol loved lomed on blackberries raspberries ind mr willard I 1 have figured out that blick berr crop of mr KLI an and d find that he got i I 1 good deil out of it As to the gooseberry gooe berr my experience Is that it Is one of the pa paving ing caps on one of the most profitable croft crop I 1 capr raised on mv ili faini fai rn wis m is a crop of goose berries dinv fall think tint that it ie is i hard crop to gro grow to perfection but I 1 think that with mth the assistance of the u spray ing pump we me cm can succeed they the do 10 best on ott a cool loi a lie deiv I 1 soll and the boniv instinct slurp the tile hie suffered from mildew w N lilt me tile ins his been on high sand lind now nov we ine will mill have some trouble with mith blight as long as we me use the english goo gooseberry cherry and anti the english Is the hist of course there ire are new nem and large gooseberries coming coining out ill all the tine but ill all tint that arc are of i 1 good size have liae more or less blood in them nearly ill all of those thoe rn glish gooseberries mike wood too slow 1 4 to please the americans foi we bew wew m int to make money fast and want mant the bushes to reich matut matui it ltv it at an earl date Q hat about the rod jacket mr willard it Is pt ett good but I 1 think the best goo deberr is the A hite smith in this countr country it Is not so much mulli quality ity tint that wo m e v int ant is as qu entity the english on the othel hand demand a goo go oberry of gool Q how do to 3 YOU ou like the houghton A it Is too small Q ilum Is the downing A it is a good hero berry but the market wants the large english gooseberry some of our american Amerl cin nurseries have tried to get a large american berry berr but it his not ct et been done they have SUC succeed CeLI d in getting large berries only by infusing the english strain and with it the to mildew I 1 bought ilk alte smith goo gooseberry bushes from england and put them on rich sandy soil soll I 1 alicy hey cost 11 per hun died and I 1 got only one crop of berries from them they mildewed and I 1 had to dig them up I 1 hid had them on the m wrong rong kind of land afterwards I 1 got more ind and put them in a clay soil soll Q ion hit have hai e 5 YOU oil to siy say about the pric printice tice of picking gooseberries by stripping off the berries leaves and all and running them through a fanning mill A 1 I would not have hae any berries picked in that manner because it takegi iwa the fol foliate laire which lb au needed to ripen the wood mood and develop the buds for the net neit veir air Q aon hat Is the quality of tho columbus A I 1 can t sav sa for we do not allow them to get ripe enough to tell whit what the b ba ine c pick them green hauling fodder A m writer rl ter in Il d tells how he lie hauled in fodder ho lie sas AN e took the rear stake out of the has haystack built up lip a high nick rack in the front end and then ar ringed i I 1 walking board N with ith cleats willed to it to be used to walk up lip on the wagon magon with mith an armful of fodder A piece of wire attached atti ched to the voird ho ird would mould drag it from one shock to the other making it unnecessary to carry it fodder should be hilled when allen it Is damp or foggy but a bood ua time to haul it Is m when hen ou have hae time and are read it if the w either ileather 1 is dry it Is best to keep beep oft the loid load as much as possible 11 lal walking king up lip the running buird at the rear end and building up the tile load ae as YOU ou work m ork backwards ten to twelve shocks can call be put on and there will mill be no running over oer it to break up tip the balides he ile gin unloading from the tile reir rear end of the loid load ind and it docs does not AN able much house stack like grain or bet it up tip against st a ridge pole tb th t irow ing colt corn Is the poorest grain food for a grow ing colt and Is usually as expensive e as those which are much better oi s and bran arc are the best for a growing grom ing animal atil mil es all ono on that la Is raided for work mork instead ot of met feed good bright corn fodder and bran ind oits oats or it if these are ire ex expensive pensie or difficult to get feed oil ineil meal mixed N with lilt the corn mial to bil anco ance the ration have liane a warm stable stab lel but see that it is 1 well ell ventilated and give ole a clem clean airm arm bed at water and ind silt salt regulars regu larl ind in all pleasant plea sint weather let them out a few hours each dav da for exercise but m when lien sm severely erel cold or storm it Is best to keep them in iq t it all da dav kr EX maii the foll following ovOng from selene re rel itlie to the sugar producing cip cap billt les of indian corn I fiher clotil in ili paper mi ilia be of in ili at the present time tb beet Is attracting attention ac cording to the article maize maim ins his cu su properties lee to the bet for a 8 igal purposes A double hinest hirl et of SUR sug i li I 1 ind and grain Is 1 libel in fatute from frow in ili dian than corn the tile st ite ito j ment his ii is been made b V 1 L at mart of Murr sille that bal bv picking the cobs at the usini usual bigl tot sm act corn corti or cir before the ii mains ains ij hz 12 and anti harden there Is an im hii niente u of sugar in ili the til I 1 ull details of it inn car of experiments are given b blui in ir some recent numbers of science lie browa tint that after such rt r mok il I 1 the I 1 e increases from front under tinder a pos elble sible 9 per cent to 15 perc perce t cr or even een 16 per cent of the weight of the stalk after the leaves are tripped off this la Is more even een than Is found in the sugarcane as u grown gronn in louisiana and slightly above aboe results obtained at madras it should IP LP noted that sug sugarcane arcane like maize 6 griss but na filla fails to produce sect seed save sale under tinder exceptional circumstances perhaps the most extraordinary cir clim stance is that the dIsco kr was ma not mile beaure A correspondent reports in i a laler later number tint that a farall farmers re wife life lu in ontario some 40 cabb u ago did actually make her tier bugar doni corn stalks the stalks wire mire boiled and then the liquid squeezed out I elding on oil eap evaporation oration a white and set ugar left to itself the cornstalk in lien I 1 ibyl kvanli early in september bad sail lenly loses nearly all its sugar as the grain glazes ind and hard cris and then quickly assumes the dead lead dry condition let le t the ears ho however eer be in earl august and the sugar inc babes u until the end of september and the tile plant lives mes on eaf even n into the next month un lese cut bv all kinds of indian corn do the same but not thi OIL somewhat similar sorghum from which for many vears ears attempts have hale been to obtain sugar at it commercial prices corn sugar is made far more F as 11 than from this or beet even elen it if it proves rather ae lee productive than sugarcane lorn lora cane has two immense advantages over the former its range and ease of cultivation ti atlon are ate incomparably better whilst tho the grain Is not lost and the leaves stripped off are already used extensive 1 iv as silage the grain Is far more dl dt gee tible at this stage and Is easily drad for keeping as cattle fodder or for grinding for bicad again should the grower gromer wish mish it he can still at mid laid august leive leane his crop to ripen ID to thu the ordinary manner corn being in man roani parts of america almost a drug in the market this doubling of ita its use will be most welcome doubtless improved forma forms will soon be de developed eloped since a few plants responded moie kindly mildly to the efforts of the agriculturist already certain varieties have been shown to be preferable especially the virginia ind and golden beauty care has also to be exercised that tho the kind grown gron at a given glien latitude shall have sufficiently developed tor for cutting before the early frosts the crop is sown in the usual wa a the first named kind will give glee 15 tons of st cane pel acre containing therefore tons of sugar of thie this probably considerably a ton could be extracted a welcome addition surel to the 5 profits on the crop the process of extraction his to be entirely distinct from sugarcane BUg sug arcane as the crushed cane is bo u sponge like that halt the juice Is ili quickly re absorbed but it Is said to be extracted both simply and effectively I 1 10 lie lo stuck in lian binai sits tho the numbers at 01 the different classes of live stock in aarah arch and ind their values based on their average prices lor for the voir oar is as fol follows loNs horses head average value 28 total value alue 23 al 01 1 mules and asses 93 95 head average value alue 34 total value 3 23 1 16 cows cos head average value 2 24 1 total i value alue 12 other cattle 1258 head average value 19 total value aluc 23 sheep head average value total value S swine ine head a average val value ae 5 50 total alue 9 50 total value alue of live stock 50 ther are no diseases di of live ine stock reported except the eo so called I 1 cholera among hot ho and this Is common in counties where are most nu merou berou the losses from this little un derston der alop scourge ha have e been enormous kansas Hansa ii is overflowing with both for ige ind and iraln ind and could winter to great advantage advin adian tige tage N ast numbers more of cattle and swine smine than are naw obtainable at tit prices like to permit a profit F D coburn N here ab sheep beep can be pastured pastur ert during the vinter winter saas american in sheep breeder there ia is no more N valuable alti able green crop for this use than white mustard iwo 10 pounds of se sed sown soun per acre will a ford a thick growth that may be eaten off by hurdling the tile flock on the f field this is one of the very nery best fc lang crops for sheep as it Is rich in the sulphur that is 1 needed for the healthful growth of wool ool in which there li Is aj 3 per cent of this substance most french ni al officers are men inen of ind pendent means |