Around The Farm

"Afakm," says the Keniticky Live Stonk Journal, "is the best material possession in the workl." A wkiteb in the MassacJiasetts Ploughman says: "I have given ten years' trial to the cultivation of the raspberry. My cxperience is that the only way to get one's expenses back is to sell plants at $1 per dozen." A HoiiTicuLTDiusT furnishes the following recipe to preserve all kinds of grain f rom tl ie ravages of worms, birds, etc. : One pound sulphate of iron, oiic ounoe aloes. Dissoive in water heated to ninety or ninety-five degrees, and pour over one bushei of grain. - Ohio Farmer. A dairyman reiuorked that before sittiug down to milk a kicking heifer he put a " snap " attached to the end of a rope into her nose, and tied the rope to a pin put into the scaffold girt over the manger, slighily elevating her nose, and she stood as quíetly while she was milked as the most gentle cow in the stable. - American Cultivator. Many young fruit trees, espeoially pears, are burncd to death during the hot season. Even when the ground is kept wet and their roots are moist enough, young and newlyset trees upon which the bark is thin and tender are cooked by the sun as by a tire, and the branches and trunks die while the roots remain alive. This may often be prevented by winding the trunks with 3loths, which shuts out the sun. - M,frrqr and Farmer. I filled a half-hogshead with rainwater, and put into it one-quarter pound ammonia and one-quarter pound common niter. When the strawberry plants were blossoming out I gave them a sprinkling of the solution at evening iwice a week until the fruit was nearly !ull size. The result was doublé the imount of fruit on those where the iquid was applied to what was obtained 'iom those right alongside upon which none of the liquid was applied.' - Fruit Record. Kows of grape-vines should run north and aouth, so that every leaf may get he sunlight either in the forenoon or afternoon. This is more important in September than during the heat of slimmer. If the rows run east and west, the vines shade the entire ground and henee you lose a large part of the heat, and ;he moment the sun disappears there is no storcd-up heat to carry the vines hrougli the night. This in time of 'rost is of great importance. - Massaohusetts Board of Agriculture. We have learned to jest at gapes by making free use of camphor. We give o a chicken in a very bad case a pill the size of a small garden pea. As soon as we see symptoms of gapes we give the sirds water to drink which is strongly mpregnated with camphor, tlius giving ;o the chickens that which was a favorite medicine with our great-grandmothers, ' camphor jiilep." The treatment seeins o explain itself. The gapes or"gapng " is caused by the presence of small cd worms in the windpipe. No medicine can reach them unlees it does so by vapor. An hour after the ehicken has sw!llowed the pill it smells of camphor. Camphor is a very strong vermifuge, and .he worms die. - London Cottae (jctrdener. J. M. Haynes, of Lebanon, Ohio, finds a sweet-corn erop more profitable than a listillery. He raises over 500 acres of ,his cj-op ramually. The drying house employs over fifty persons. The fresh ears are steamed five minutes to " set the milk;" the grain is then ent off rapidly with cutters having concave faces; then spread on perforated zinc tebles, ar.d ïeat applied four or five hours from long 'urnaces, stirring constantlj ; tlien packed m barrels of three bushels each lor sliipment. Great care is required to have he corn just at the right age, and to ïave it dried just enough to keep well. Four bushels of fresh corn on the cob make one bushei dried -the wholesale price of which is $20 to $22 per barrel. At fifty bushels of corn per acre, 500 acres would yield 25,000 bushels, and jive over 2,000 barrels of dried corn, which, at $20 per barrel, would