Farm Notes

Fakming don't pay, says the man who spends his time at the grog-shop. Farmers should medítate on what tliey read, and read that they may have food for meditation. The Colorado potato-beetle is announced as Jiaving arrived at Soowalki, in Kussian Poland. A sheep-collar withsharp pointsprojecting lias been invented as protection against dogs, which seize their victims by the throat. ïiiis ík m Indiana correspondente way of utilizing apple juicc : " Place a strong iron-bound cask in a warm placo and put into it in the first place a few I gallons of the best vinegar. Then add once a week an average of a pint of eider to each gallon of vinegar till the barrel is full. This will give the very best vinegar." Cottage Cheese. - Take thick milk, slice it each way with a knife, set it in a warm place so that the whey will leave the milk., but do not let it get warm enough to harden it ; then put it in a cloth, and after it has well drained hang it up ; with the hands rub it to a smooth paste, add a very little fine salt ; mix wcll ; serve with thick cream, sweetened and flavored with vanilla. Eggs hatch much better if the nests are made by placing a cut of turf and a shovel of mold, sand or ashes in a box or basket, and on this a little short straw, than if straw only is used. In this way a convenient hollow is obtained that prevents tho eggs rolling out from onder the sittiftg hen. In coo) weather the eggs are kept of much more equal temperature than in nestr, made simply of loose straw. To prevent cholera among poultry, í supply of good, clean sand and gravel shoulil always be accessible to them. The water they drink should bfe in an iron vessel, or"a quantity of rusty nails should be kept constantly in it. Of course the water should be pure and renewed every day. Before adopting this course, so-called cholera took one-half the flock, but now it never maken an attack, even under circumstances more unfavorable than formerly. I always root my geranium slips in August, and in tho fall tliey are ready to bud, provided the pot is not very large. I use peach cans for mine. They bloom all winter, provided you don't let them freeze. Then, in the spring, I take them out of the pot and put them in the ground, and they will bloom all summer and fall. I have geraniums in bloom all the year round. Keep tliem as free from dust as you possibly can. No flower will bloom unie ss it is kept clean. - Letter to Chicago ínter Ovean. Peesons who have been dilatory in taking into the house their tender plants and now find them occasionaUy frost-bitton, may be glad to know that English gardeners tliaw thfem out successfully (when not too severely nipped) I by sprinkling them copiously with cold water. It is useless, however, to apply the cold water before the temperature j rises above the freezing point, for then the cure will be worse than the disease. The disastrous effects of late spring frosts may be remedied in a similar manner. Many farmers throw away the oíd brine in beef and pork barrels and fish packages. Sometimes they throw it on a grass patch or under a tree and kill tlie vegetation. If they desire to kill vegetation with it they should pour it on patches of burdocks or thistles, or arouud trees that are worthless. It ia better, howevor, to use it for manure, in which case it should be applied with judgment. It may be applied to asparaj gus beds or quince trees liberally, but i to other things sparingly. Ordinarily I the best disposition to make of it is to pour it on a manure or compost heap : and allow it to be absorbed.- Exchange. A farmer of Bucks county, Pa., has been bucking against tho inevitable för sixteen years. In 1862, whön there was sucli a rapid riso in the market price of all nyricultural productións, he held for higlier figures, and atill lield, till at last the tide turned. This seems to llave filled him with the gall of bitterness, and, thongli continuing to give careful culturo to bis 133 productive acres, he keeps on putting hay and grain in stacks, of whiob. there are now 103 on rae place, in all stages of decay, some rotted down to half their original bulk, and with a luxuriant growth of weeds on top. If in good condition, it is estimated they would now be worth from $15,000 to $20,000. The case is one for suggestive and moumful study. We have just been reading an account of experiments made in England in dibbling whoat and cultivating it like corn, with the hoe. The ftéed was plantod in drills, one foot apart, and íour inches apart in the rows. The spaees between the drill rows were carefully cultivnted until the plants had attained sümc'ient growth to interfere witb the vork, The ifèsult was eightyfonr bushels per acre. Another experiment, with rows six inches apart and foiir inehes apart iu the rows, resiüted in a yield of sixty-nine bushels per acre. Other cases might be given in which even greater success attended this method of growing wlieat. We would i suggost that our readers test this method OH a small patch of ground- a square rod or more. Have it accurately measured, pnt it into the best condition, and see what your land is capablo of producing. If it will pay we ouglit to know it, and we will liever fiud out without trying. You may be compelled to ciiltivate the square rod with the hand hoe ; but, if it is found to increase the erop to an e.xtent thut will justify th(i work, implements for cultivating by horso power will speedily be forthcoming.- Oh o Farmer.