Agricultural Notes

As to the ainount of hay iii feeding horses, the rule of several London omnibus and delivery coinpanies is "ten pounds of hay and fonr quarts of oa't.s per meal." The estimated number of sheep in .ustralia in 1892, according to an Australian exchange, is 00,000.000, against 81,000,000 in 1884. Professor Latta, of the Indiana sta, non. givea the average lengtta of time i cequired to mature corn as lió days for the earlier varieties and 15 daj-s for the later ones. The American Cultivator says tliat Öuugarian graas is not only a good hot weather erop, bat succeeds on land that in early spring is too wet for cultivation. There is a rumor to the effect that an effort is bciui.; made to revive t':i planting in the south.