Show ithma A good carding of animals nt tasa season the skin a n d ali iia assists in the changing of their coats A hone will not bite a crib made of hemlock lumber nor will rt mice or other vermin gnaw through it wm county ind has a lamb at thirty days old which weighs fifty five coundi it is a cross of the Cot wold and southdown breed in egypt the ugar field have been really injured by the frost another inducement to our farmers to plant sugar beets sorghum and corn to be made into sugar it nadeau of california has plant ed acres in sugar beets and the prospects are good for an immense yield it is thought he will make a clear gain of by the operation A farmer in iowa estimate that the profit of raising one two year old shorthorn short horn steer for marketis equal to that on eighteen scrub steers which have to bo kept three years or more before they are salable the advantages of mulching are not so well understood as they should be the mulch if applied after the ground is worked while it is yet moist will be a grand help in time of drought by retaining whatever moisture there may be philadelphia chickens so called in the boston market though mostly raised in new Jersy sell at from three to four cents per pound higher than ordinary chickens owing to the fact that they are more juicy and tender than the northern or we item fowls last fall jerry spaulding of lonia mich bought a carpe number of sheep paying to a head the flock averaging less then apiece and fed them through the winter april ast 1st ho eald fat sheep averaging pounds at cents a pound or a head aggregating lionel richard peters of atlanta ga tells the southern that he prefers a pe cember lamb toa later one and those born after may he kills as soon as this can ba done with safety to the ewes udder the reason why they are worthless is nut very clear but the fact is well established so far as the south is concerned patient and careful counting has shown that B single plant of pan slane ole racia will produce a million matured seeds the counting is achieved by first counting the pods then alip beoda in a single pol the seed from a single plant will furnish a seed for every square foot in twenty three acres if the second generation was as prolific as the first plant ihen we should haap the amazing amazi pg amount seeds from one plant in two years |