The Farm

One Western gires it as his opinión, after years of feeding food that is cooked, thftt the system savos onofourlh of the grain. Vegetable and fruit gardening at the South is iacreasing cvèry year. Strawberries are an important erop, ing sometimos f rom $500 lo .fíOO per acre. A New York city commission man says that during a thirty years' business in his lino he has never known apples of all sorts to be as scarce ns this season. Much may be saved in winter feeding by keeping grain straw bright and clean. Straw is not a good feed alone, but its use will enable the farmer to keep more stock with his grain and hay than he otherwise could. i luí. O' iiuuu ntljo m övyivxïo u Russian apples sent to tho Iowa Agricultural Collego wero jndiciously selected from varieties grown in tho latitude of St. Petersburg and Moscow, and ho prophesios thoir future suecess n this country. H. A. Chase, in thé Miissachusetts Ploughman, saya the tcndency of Kieffcr's hybrid pcar is to overbear, fre.At1ff tivioí íik íiiiif.h fruit as it ought to bc allowed to maimre. The best remedy for this is thinning, but if plenty of plant food is fnrnishcd the tree. 'it will mature a largor quantity of fruit timp any othcr variety. Aoorrespondent of the Massachusetti Flonghman says that potatoes greened by exposure to sun and air while growing, if planted for seed are quick to grow, but the resulting erop consists largely of sinall sized tubers. Unripe potatoes ïised for seed do not givo quite as good resulta as those which are fully matured. Au American correspondent of the London Live Stock Journal, in comparing the sales of blooded cattle on both sides of the Atlantic this year, says the range of shorthorns has been higher in America. Heresfords have been about equal on both sides of the ocean, and polled stock has ruled decidedly higher in Scotland. He compares the Jersey crazo now with the shorthorn craze of some years ago, saying tliat this secoud The'editor of an Eastern agricultural journal says: "ín thc course of a ride of five miles, in a good farming county in Massachusetts lately, we saw three mowing machines standing out in the snow, just wherc their careloss owners had lef't them when they got through using them last suinrner. ïf we were making or selling mowing machines, we should bo tickled to death when we sftw t.h farmers rustine1 out their tools moi-e in one winter than they eould wear them out in threo summers." A peach orchard planted and left without attention, as is so frequently seen, will hardly last more than ten years. Of these, four are required for the tree to attain the age of fruit age, and as there are rather more than two years of total failure in every five, not more than three or four crops are realized. Now, if the same trees be cultivated, pruned and wormed, they are quite certain to be ín a better state oí preservation when tvventy years oíd than tho neglected ones at ten, and the number of years of proíit are verynearly doubled. What iá ealled the "lazy-bed" method is used in England to considerable extent in the culture ot potatoes, and is as follows: It consiste in laymg off the ground in four or five foot beds, with fntervening trenches from 18 to 24 inches in width. After the dung is laid on the beds, and the potatoes planted on the surface, the earth from the trenches is shovelled over the duna and the sets, which are covered to a depth of three or four inehes. A second and further earthing may be applied as the plants advance in growth. No plan is better for wet bog land, low marshy places, and rough rocky grounds which obstruct the action of the blow