Farm Notes

Plant all hardy fruits. Be gentle and kind unto your colts. Clear up stones, sttimps and rubbish. Hakvest the sugar beets and mangels - leave the parsnips and salsify. Many farmers will büj seeds because hey are oheap, and run tlie risk of half of them being worthlesR. In many cases they should know that pure live seeds cannot be raised, gathered and sold for such prices. ïhus a bid is jfiftred for dishonest practices, and the niyer is as culpable as the seller. Fultz wheat is pronounced by the American Miller the "best in the marlet." Among its merits are : Stifl straw; does not lose any grain in ïandling; lies so compact that it takes ess room in mow or stack than any other; weighs when clean sixty-four jounds per bushei, and makes flour excelled by none. Mr. Geo. T. Powell, Ghent, N. Y., agricultural editor of the Chatham lourier, dries ten bushels of apples daily in a small building with racks, and heated by a cyh'nder stove placed ïorizontally, and the finished fruit looks white and olean enough to eat - which s more than can be said of that dried )y sun and dust-bearing wind, and visited by egg-laying inseots innumerable. A oorrespondent of the Practical Farmer says that in the spring of 1877 ie planted thirty-five forest trees in his yard ; nineteen of them standing in ground cultivated for flowers have jrown, up to this time, froni three to six eet; the remainder, in grass, have scarcely started at all, and "it looks as hough it would take them ten years to rnake as much growth as the others have n two." He was an oíd man, and when he came in with a twenty-f our-foot bamboo ish-pole and carelessly remarked that ,hat was the kind of cornstalks his garden produced in a good Beason, we never said a word, but walked into the other room and registered a solemn vow never, never to print any more agricultural items if it led men into such mountainous exaggerations as this. - Ixchange. Thebe is no particular reason why a cow that keeps easy is worth any more or that quality. The cow that eats the most, and, as a result, gives the most milk, is the paying animal. It pays to eed all that animáis will eat and assimlate. This is the season when bran and meal are given to supplement the shortened pasture. It is well to rememjer that meal is fattening, while bran is milk-producing. A mixture of the two s excellent for cows that are fattening, while at the same time the owner desires to get a good lot of milk: In answer to a correspondent who writes that his 3-year-old colt has some wind-galls or wind-puffs on the hind egs, a little below or in front of the hoeks, the National Live-Stock Jour'u3ffi!!a..-3Vind;Lalls depend on the ous sheatks. By wet, tight linen bandaging, and a few days' rest, they may be reduced in young animáis, or when not of long standing. In middle-aged animáis, and when they are the result of hard work, they cannot be reduced permanently. Blisters may be required for their removal ; but after any mode of treatment they will return whenever the animahgoes to severe or fast work." It may be useless to mention the matter to the person who has left things " lying around handy " until this time of'theyear. But we must say again: Piek up a little, and make yonr farm and surroundings attractive, just once, at any rate, and see how it seems. Keep things in place ; sleek up ; clean, brush out the f ence corners ; place the tools under the shed instead of leaving them sown broadcast along the road in front of the barn, or in the flelds. If an implement is used up, burn the wood work and sell the old iron before wintering it several years to allow it to decay and fall to pieces before your eyes. A little time spent in keeping things tidy produces a good effect on the childreii, on visitors, on strange.rs who pass by, and, above all, on the man who sees to the work. - Rural New-Yorker. Taking into consideration all the necessary comforts to the horse, no better stablo floor can be constructed than pine plank, having a fall of two inches in the whole length. There should be a slight inclination toward the middle, and ou 10 account shotild there be a trough or channel behind, to be a source of spavns, crooked joints, thrnsh, etc. A slight ïollow may be made, well perforated and cept open, with advautage. At the hcad, ilace a rack (no crib on any account), ïave a portable feed box, and board the rack to within one foot or fourteen nches of the bottom with matched oards, planed. Let the front of the jack be abont eight or ten inches wide at the bottom, aad twenty inches or two f eet at the top. This is my form of a rack now in use, af ter trying every other tind, and is by far the best, as is the loor above recommended. - Veierinary Surgeon.