Show notes sn francisco chronicle apples boiled with meat are good for pigs there will be a great demand for broom coin this year the first cows were brought to this country by columbus at hia second voyage 1493 A little gas tar put into the holes of ants or about where they are will drive them away victoria has purchased an american reaping machine for her farm at Alberg eldie the hereford heifer edith fattened on elastus Corni ngn farm for an albany butcher tipped the beam at WM A highly delicious peruvian fruit called papaya w being grown with in the southern portion of los angeles county A french cure for slugs is to coat a thin board with grease and lay it on ikc ground the slugs crawl on to it and may be killed 11 is said of colonel M P wilder of massachusetts that eiery morning in the year he regularly enjoy his alili of pears from lits oart orchard A dirgo number of fruit and shade trees have been planted in county this season cork elca locust and white mulberry trees are preferred for shade in the filk crowing countries of southern europe if is a usual practice pra atice for the women engaged in silk culture to put bilk worms eggs at the town of willet to in little lake valley there are about acres of tillable land in the winter a portion ii covered frith water and the crops are late in the tpring getting in mr S II 11 coles norfolk conn secured gallons of crude juice or 40 ballon of A aarup worth 75 centi a gallon from amber cane growth on fourteen and a half rods ot ground the next annual meeting of the american poultry at the exhibition room of the cleveland poultry pigeon and pel stock association at cleveland january P loucks of fresno blurted with 50 elands last pring and now has stands he obtained pounds of honey it will all be sold at from ten to twelve centa per pound the columbus ga sm ells this champion gourd E T Hickey haa a gourd vine covering about one fourth ot an acre and upon which is over geurds gourds which will hold yer a gallon each they are beginning to use indian corn in england instead bahiey to make malt if the experiment proves to be practical i twill cause nn demand and farmere will always have a place to put their surplus grain during a recent visit of victoria to scotland her breakfast room at perth station was decorated with arge peach trees grown in pots from the garden of the earl of mansfield to prevent the fruit falling off duro ing the transportation each poach ivas secured to the branch by elpitio bands by the analysis of professor collier ha found the per cent of ugar in the of indian corn to be much greater the moro perfect abo italics and the nearer they to maturity the experiment a demon elrate iho importance of fodder corn thinner ia order to get a more valuable crop in southern europa millions of chestnut trees are growing the nuts being into flour it ia aed in to samo wy w wheat flour and although w nutritious it is cheaper and at the aado time exceedingly to abo tats in bome districts it ha tn lirely KUper edd wheat flour ani corn meal in england they havo adopted the following method to keep walk and drive free froia arcenio to the amount of three pound is boiled in three callona of water and 14 thi when cold ia added seven gallons of water this ut for ninety fact of walks nine feet wide ilia applied once aw by man of a thero i a prevalent idea among farmers of the old school that manure bould b kept in heaps until by heating and become well rotted and in condition for use A direful ana yei flows tact manur o los ten per ceni of its nitrogen which would havo been saved had the manure been carried to the geld or and spread |