Farming That Don't Pay

It don't pay to be caught, in the spring without a woodpile large enough to last twelve months ; or to open the gatea and let jour stoelt Into tho fields as soon as a few bare spots appear ; or to keep it on short rations, so that when it does go to grass it wil] take half the summer to get thrifty and strong. It don't pay to leave the work of mending your tools ajid selecting and securing your seed until the day you want to use them, thereby causing costly delay It don't pay to sow or plant poor seed because you happen to have it on hand. It don't pay to plant more ground than you can manure and take good care of. It don't pay to leave weak places in the fences in the hope that the cattle won't flnd them ;and. if you keep sheep it don't pay to let them run at large in the spring until they become tramps and cannot be kept home by any ordinary fence. It don't pay to neglect cows, ewes or sows when they are dropping their young. It don't pay to let the spring rains wash the value out of the manure that has aecumulated in the barnyard this winter. It don't pay to let the hens lay under the barn, steal their nests and be eaten up by skunks. It don't pay to put off any kind of spring work until the last moment,nor does it pay to work land when it is too wet ff don't pay to leave turnips, cabbages, beets, or even apples in the cellar to rot and breed disease ; for if you have more than you can eat or sell, the stck will be pronted by them. It don't pay to summer a poor cow simply because no one comes to buy her. It don't pay to sell a heifer calf from your best cow to the butcher, simply because it will cost more to raise it than you can buy a scrub for next f all. It don't pay to leave the banking around the house until it rots the silla. It don't pay to be stingy in sowing grass seed, or to try to live without a garden.Finally, it don't pay to provoke the women by leaving them to cut the stove-wood or to carry it in from the door-yard or to remind you every morning in haying and hoeing that you must saw enough bef ore you go to work to last through the day. -Mirror and Farmer. American Cultivator : In repairing or improving the old house, be sure you provide a veranda. Not one of those little, narrow, useless things, which you can hardly turn round on without stepping olï, and on which a chair can barely rest with safety ; but a good, wide, roomy, cool veranda, whereon you mav pile ilowers ; in one corner of which shall be ampie room for the hammock ; big enough f or all the children to play upon, and with room enough beside for your wife to hold afternoon receptions, and for your neighbors to come over of an evening and talk about the weeds and the caucus. A half-hour at nightfall spent in restfulness and quiet upon snch a veranda, with your wife and children about you, will be a full compensation for the hard work of the harvest fteld, under a midsummer sun. The deficit in receipts as compared with expenses of the Royal Africultural Society of England is now stated to be L15,000, or $75,000. Stock exhibitors especially who incurred great expense in moving their stock have also been heavy losers. He was a disgusted boy. He had exercised great caution, and had finally succeeded in crawling, unobserved, under the canvas into the tent. And he f ound it was not a circus, but a revival meeting in progress. There'a a wide difterence between printiag" a kiss and "publibing" it.