Farm Notes

Ax old potato-grower says ho thinks 50 cents a bushel for potatoes as good in the fall as 75 cents in the apring. Violent exercise just previons to death gives inoreased tendorness to tho flchli of somc animáis, henee the greater tenderness which is well knowii to belong to the flesh of tho huiited animal. It is worth remembering, at this senson of tho year, that cabbages and turuips can be fed to cows just before milking time, without imparting any diagreeable flavor to the milk. Try it, Befoef. cutting up corn the seed corn shoukl be selected, taking ears from .stalks that havo borne two or more; good ones. The tops of the selected stalks may be broken down, to marie thera, and, wlien the erop is cut, left standing nntil the ears are perfectly ripe, then tliey should be gathered and stored in a dry, cool place. Such seleetions of seed will teil well in the next erop. Cabbacie has a superior valué for feeding purpose. English cattle feeders assert that tlieir beasts progress faster ou cabbage, mixed with plenty of finecut wheat straw and cotton cake, than with any other vegetable. Cabbage contains one part flesh-iorming substanee to three of heat-producing, while in potatoes tho flesh-forming is only one in twenty. Cabbage is also rich in mineral matter. If a farmer wishes to obtain a good reputation for londing ho must be eareful to keep hia tools in condition. When a man borrows he is usually in a hurry, and it is very vexatious to find the article out of order. I have never yet seen the borrower who was willing to have a tooi repaired for the use of it. He will either do without or go to another neighbor. I have a smoothing harrow that has been borrowed to death. Families of farmers engaged in drying fruits are reminded that the solar heat is not sufficiently intense to destroy insect eggs that may have been deposited in the fruit when green or in tho process of drying. If put in a i moderately warm oven for ten minutes all parasites and their eggs would be destroyed. In countries where fruits are extensively dried the treatment in practiced gencrally. - New England Homestead. A writer in an exchange says : "Experience gained the past season goes to show that liberal manuring is the most I economical. We can seo in the past harvest where $5 more fertilizer per acre would have been twice the value in grain. There can be no doubt that artificial nianuring must become a part of our settled praetice in future, and making a fesv careful experimenta will givo valuable experience as to the use of these fertilizers. Teach the boys to love the farm, but do not prove hard tuskniasters. Do not make their farm life one of drudgery and toil if you would have their thoughts in after life turn lovingly to their old homes and happy young lives. Teach them that sometliing more than muscle and physical endurance is required, that indeed agriculture is a science or art that should be conducted according to clearly-dofincd laws and weli-established principies, and successful in proportion to the iutelligence that directa it. - Exchange. A milch cow, on the average, requiros daily 3 per cent. of her weight in hay to keep her in health ; an ox 2 per cent., or 2 per cent. if working moderately. An ox fatting. 5 per cent. at first, and 4 J per cent. when half fat; sheep 3J per cent. to keep in store order. If other food is substitnted for hay, or a part of it, its comparative value as nutriment must be ascertained. Thus, eight pounds of potatoes are equal to four pounds of good hay, while eight pounds of turnips are only equal toone and fifths pounds of hay. OüR attention has been called to the subject of cooked food for horses, by a circular from a firm in Boston, whopropose hereafter to cook all the food for our horses, and thns save both expense and trouble to the feeder, while the health of the animáis will be maintained with greater certainty. The cbmpany claim that in no case should corn be fed in a raw state to horses, but should always be thoroughly cooked by steaming ; that hay should nover be fed immediately after grain, as the stomach of the horse is so smal] that the hay will crowd tho grain along faster than it can be digested, tuus causing colic, stoppage, etc., and a great waste of food. Doubtless farmers and others are often too careless in the care of their horses, and bring on most of the diseases with which their animáis are afflicted, but as yet we are hardly ready to believe that all uncooked grain is daugerous as food for horses, or that our people are at present all going to send tlieir corn to the city for cooking before feeding it. - New England Farmer.