Show farming flashes from the S F chronicle farmers will always remain poor as long as they allow others to do their thinking unimproved Ri verEide san bernardino county lands are held at from to per acre slovenly work does not pay see then that the work of tho plow and hoe is done thoroughly never work with dull tools for they require tco groat an outlay of strength both of man and beast it is estimated that one half an average honey crop will be harvested this season in los angeles county A tract of acres of northern pacific railroad has been boullit for a colony from belfast ireland asa teft of stockton N Y makes an average of over pounds of butter per annum from each of lia cow in finishing up the cultivation of fields leave the land as level aa possible as it will facilitate tho gathering of crops the butter plo bules in milk from farrow cows and cows nearly dry aro smaller than from cow in flush of milk and in order to obtain all alie butter tho cream from the former should he churned together and the new milk cows sulphur has been found to cure croup ip fowls when applied as follows open tue fowls beake and with a tubo which may be formed of paper blow half a teaspoonful of sulphur down the throat three applications have been known to uro several genera of flowers ought to bo discarded from gardens where children aro wont to have access owing to their poisonous properties the common arum berries have often proved fatal and abo many of both leaves and boota monkshood y also danger there was acres ol 01 wheat harvested in the san fernando valley los angeles county this season which was owned by twenty five men an average of over acres each J B Lanke ashim was the heaviest brower having acres the yield will ampt amp t to centala cent als general grant says he was shown a piece of land in china which has leen under cultivation ayery year for year without deterioration of the soil taken from it that is not consumed the result i effected by returning to tho soil everything taken from it that is not consumed diore then is ahn secret of tho remarkable richness of chinese soil young orange grove near marline comprising trees five to six years old were injured by the last bevere winter the bark alit on tho north side and finally oil next to hy cutting them olf to the ground all vero aved and are expected to tt ronger than an bettor ahamed trees alio older trees some being beirs old uninjured the joural home nn important fact in rose culture every joao will come from the alip of tho targe great divisions into aba rose family a separated namely the damask the noisette and the tea tho last two may bo propagated with more or legs readiness from the blip or by buddi ngllie only by dividing the boota and planting the bed which latter inela od i resorted to however only when it I desired to obtain new Motto itha minister are now off on their UDit ner vacations balun they abuce ohp most els a better maniple in thi hosped by remaining tear lily at ork but the he is ired to the hit |