Gleanings For Grangers

It is time now to sow tomato seed in boxea. To secure stock plante, transplant thrice betvveeu thls and Mar 15, wlien tliey may be set out. Nitrate of soda is becoming comparatively clieap, on account of the discoyery of Immense nitre bed9 in South Atnerca. It is a very vuluable ferlilizer, but its use has been restricted by its high cost. It is most useful on .laixl that is rotten, tilín and poor, as it causes a large rank growtli of straw. The Holstein breed of OOWf II gradually superseding all otliera in the dairy rpjfions of the west, where tlie dalryoMii make a business of selling milk only. It is stated that a'though pears grafted on apple stocks will row and bear, yet tliey are short lived. The botter plan lü to bud or graft on pear stocks for standarda, and on angus quince for dwarfc. All fonces tliat have not been repairod should be uttended to at once, or tlie buy season will set In and leave no time for such work. By! the end of an other season the daraage will be threefold. Manure heai8 should be wSll coverec duriug the winter, or the inelting snow will do inuch damuge by inailing out the soluble portions. When an orcharil lias come fairly into bearing, it is a good plan to sow dover and turn it into a hog pasture, The pigs and the soil will both derive benefit there from. New seed is as requisite as manuro a intervals for moadow and pasture lamls in fact it 9 well to 'sow seed with enen dressing of compost, as repeated cuttin. and pMturing weakens the grass and pre venu the retention of a thick, ln-altlii tod. A piece of ground set out n black walnut and allowed to remain twenty years will prove more tuaii equal to any farm investment. The ihortaga of the wool clip in Australia laat year ia ectlra&ted at 80.1)00,000 pouuds, or nearly the amouiit of the annual Importation to the Uuitecl States. Ifatiy mil liona of tbeep were destroyed by ilrouht. Pirs will take to eharooal greedily, and f it U fed two or three times a week C will correct tlie accidity of the stoinath and mucli Increase the chancea of fattoning. Cottonseed meal is itated to be t lui best stiinulant and inilk ]roducer yet nlioduced Two quarts per tlay is sufflcient for a cow fed on hay or gras. Butler or string beans, nmy beplanted on ÜM corn li il Is just after the coru peeps up. TUe corn erop will not be leuened and a full havent of beans ra -iy be j;aihered which will bring a price. Straw and fodder may be conyertcd into palat.ible food by pauing throuh a cutter, bein nioistcned and spriukleil wlth bran and mcal. Boiled rice mixed with ground outsand cornnieal m:ikes an excellent, fatleuing food for poultry with speedy resulta. Prepare the ground for oats as soon as practicable, for the etrller thil erop is aown the greater will be the yield. Never waste corn-cobs. Tliey niako excellent fuel, and the ashea care fu 11; rathered are especially vuluable for the large proportion of potash contained.