Agricultural Notes

Nov is the best time to pack down buttor for winter use on the farm. A good yard fence niay save lmndreds of dollars in erop and stock in one niglit. Hoos are clieap ; but with good cloyer pasture and constant attention pork ean be produced more cheiiply than any other rlesh. A heat lawn, thrifty orchard, and lovely shade trees, which may not all cost $100, may add thousands to tlie value of a farm. In onion is strength for fpwls, according to the Potdtry World. Chop fine and feed three times a week, as many as will be eaten clean. Farmers and cattle-breeders in seleeting stock must recollect that it ia with cuttle as well as the human race. "If you have nof constitution yon have not anything." The agricnltwral editor of the Toronto Globe does not think that drilling has much advantage over broadcasting, unless the wheat is hoed. "When drilled and cultivated, the yield is much greater than can be got in any other wáy." Wuerever the cnrrant worm is fonnd, says a correspondent of the ücintijic Farmer, there is the wasp, busy in search of him; and a newly hatched brood makes but a portion of a "square meal" for our friend with the long, slender, smoked-pearl wings. It is interesting to see the eager, seemingly nervous haste with which he goes from leaf to leaf, hunting Eis favorito food. There is no doubt ibimt it that Clawson is one of the most hardy and prolific varieties of wheat cultivated. We have raised this wheat for three years past, and have eaten bread made therefrpm during that period. The bread is not so white as that made from some other wheats, and does not so tickle the pride of the bread-maker, but it tickles the palate of the bread-eater quite as well. W. J. F. tells the Country Gentleman that "some of our best farmers intend to sow only four or five pecks of wheat per acre." Their idea is to grade the wheat, selecting all the large grains. This, they think, will give as good a seeding as two bushels sown in the usual : way. Using some concentratcd manure where the young plants can get it will cause them to "stool" and cover the whole ground. To keep lice at bay, M. P. Burnham says, the fowls and their nests should be thoroughly clean, constantly. By using j alittle jjowdered sulphur on their bodies, and carbolic powder, also, rubbed into their feathers and through the hay of their nests, vermin will disappear. In warm weather, wash the roosts all over (and underneath) with kerosene, to stroy these parasites. Thus they may ' always bekept clean and comfortable, with but little labor, if this be regularly ; attended to. In answer to the question, " Why are j farmers so liablc to rheumatism?" the i Science of Health says: "Because they ■ wear wet clothing, heat and suddenly chili the body, overeat after very hard , Avovk, and because they do not keep the j skin in a vigorous, healthy condition. If farmers would avoid suddenly cooling the body ufter great exertion, if they would be careful not to go with wet clothing and wet feet, and if they would not overeat when in an exhausted dition, and bathe daily, using much friction, they would have less rheumatism." Mani're a Specific for All "Wheat j Ii.ls. - Manure, "Waldo," of the Oh o Practical Farmer, says, seems to be a specific, a sovereign remedy, for most if not all the ills that wheat is heir to. His early-sown wheat, last fall, was as badly infested with the fly as he ever saw, but where it was manurcd a heavy erop grew in spite of it. A few years ago the chinch-bug made its appearance I and much of the wheat was badly damaged, but where it was manured it ! caped. In the years when wheat has rusted badly it has always been the weak, late wheat, on poor land, that has suffered most. One of our horses had tender feet forward and was very lame. Mr. Van Guysling, ayIio happened to be at the [ shop while we were getting him shod, advised having shbés put on without calks. "Get the foot as nearthe ground as possible, so that a horse can step on : to nature's calks, the frog," hesaid, "and the horse will go all right." Oíd Jim has not been lame since this valuable advice was practically carried out. An other horse had been lame a year; ono blacksmith after another had tried his skill, but all in vain. At last a shrewd fellow suggested that the animal had been shod too much. "These artists," he said, "have cut her feet all away." j This was not literally true, but each one had pared and cut until the naturally large feet were reduced almost to the quick. By preventing any more cutting awav of the feet, this animal was cured.