Things That Are Told

The Michigan station anthorities have conoluded that with ordiDary varieties of corn planted for silage in Michigan a safe distance apart is 3 feet C inches for the rows, with kernels three to six inches apart in the row. It is reported that manygas pumping engines are being erected all over the state of California. This metbod of irrigation, though costly, will render the owners of large ranches independent of the eleruents in the matter of moisture. The Omaha World says that eggs are bringing money into southwestern Nebraska in a steady streain. Ifc costs very little to raise obickens upon the almost boundless prairies of western Nebraska. According to statistics of the agricnltural department, the mortality of farm animáis frorn severe weatherin California last winter was marked. Corn flour appears to be used more extensively abroad than in this country. Oregon ispre-eminently a fruit growing state. The best experience in growing sugar beets in Iowa indioates that upland clay soil and rich black loam are most suitable. Very sandy soils and bottom lands Bhould be avoided, it is said.