Around The Farm

Camfoknia farmers sow thcir wheaf; iu drills aud hoc it, thus donbling tlie product of the gram per acre. To Dkive Away the Mblon Bug.- Set a tomato plant into each hill of cucumbers or meions, and you will have no trouble f rom the striped bugs that are so destructive to these plant. The planta can be ticd to stakes, and if well pruned when large botli subject can proceed with theirfruiting without detriment to ouo auother. - Rural New Yorker. Change the Seep. - Experiment show, beyond the shadow of a doubt, that tlie frequent change of seed will lead to the best results. An exchange of those grown on barren or gravel land for those gathered from a limestone soil will, it is claimed, havo a goocl effect. It is well known to every successful farmer that the continuous sowing of tlie same kind of seed may be one cause of the deterioïation of crops whenever experienced. Malte a change of seeds, get good seeds, anti better results will be plaiiily wrought out, Eaisino AsrAEAGUS. - A correspondent of the Oafdeners' Monthly teil of a beul of asparagns, some twelve by twenty feet in size, planted ti good level soil, which, when its growth became strong, was year by year covered with two ar three inchcs of good rich mold, Througli this shot the talk and crept the roots. The method was followed up every seasor with the result A larger growth and product, till the bed became an oblong nound some two or three feet in height, and a perfect wonder as regard the quality and quantity of asparagws farnished for the table. Thatyeaily blanket of aoil, it is thought, was the only culture or enrichment giten. The bed was ncver lug with a fork or piwle. Taking timothy hay a a standard oí comparison, it requires 100 pounds of it to síipply a certain amount of nourishment. It is estimated by careful experiment that the same amount of nourishment can be obtained by wang the following quantities of f ood : Cloverhay, 951b; rye straw, 335 lbs ; oat straw, 220 Ib ; potatoes, 196 lbs ; carrots, 280 lbs ; beets, 345 lbs ; ruta bagas, 262 lbs ; wheat, 43 )bs ; peas, 44 lbs ; beans, 46 lbs ; rye, 49 íbs ; bfttley, 61 lbs ; corn, 56 lbs ; oats, 59 lbs ; bllekwlieat, 64 lbs ; and oil cake, 94 lbs. T."bke seems to be a prevalent idea that it ÍS not profitable to milk a cow more than eight or nine months, and most dairymen dry off their cows early and let t'hem go dry three or four months. This is not tho bcst practice. A cow is kept for milk, and She should be bred to holding it out as long as she can, with duo regard for health. It has been proved in the cases of thousands of cows that liare lived to a good oíd age that tliey can be bred to give milk ten months in the year, bear a good, healthy and strong calf, and be ready for a good milking season the next year. Figubing that Pats. - Farmers are not givfui to calculating liow many grains of wheat placed in a row it would requiro to circle the earth, or problems of a similar nature, but a íittle arithmetic of this kiiid applied to more practical subjects is wortii the while, as, for instance, the following: Let two machines, one cutting iour feet wide and the other five, follow in grain for one day, each being drawn a distance of 24 miles, the former will havo cut 12 acres, thelatterl5 aerea. Tocut 100 acres of wheat the fonner A saving of 40 miles' travel with a heavy l(M'l at tlie end of so long a journey is a matter of no small importance. It is a saving, too, of 40 miles walking, or 10 miles for each of the fonr binders. It is a aving, also, to the farmer of two days' labor for himself and team, and the wages and board of the four binders for two dav in cuttiug 100 acres of grain. -