Farm Notes

Sow plenty of rye for pasture. Have the soil n good condition for fall seeding. Prepare a shed under which to store :orn-fodder. Do not attemptto winter more stock han you can slielter. Better be a little ahead of the work now, than to get behind. If well fed, early batch ed turkeys can e ready for market early. It costs less to latten stock daring the next two months than later. Store away plenty of bedding and oake all the manure possible It is no item to feed turkeys for size. Medium weights sel) the b( at. It is usually not best to wean the colts and calves wliile the weather is hot. If grain is stored for higber prices, have the grauaries water and verinin proof. When jirices are good, it is generally besi to sell the early potatóes and onions. Guage the quantity of seed wheat by the time of sowing and the condition of the soil. Better sell a part of the stock now, than to be obliged tosell all half fata little later. Do not sell off all the best animáis on the f arm and then expect your stock to improve by breediug. Bad grains and hay are dear at any price, and should not be fed to your liur.sc siinply because tliey are cheap. One item in cutting sheaf oats leiore feeding is the saving of waste. Adding a little bran improves the valué as a catión. There is no advantage in sowing grasa seed unless there is sufflcient moisture in the soil to induce a good germination of the seed. Prices of nearly all kinds have advanced some, but the best grades of beef cattle have advanced the most, while there is no advance in the cost. It is supposed that a damp nest is better than a dry one. This belief is not correct. In the summer a hen prefers a cool nest. In the winter her nest should be warm. lf the hens prefer nests on the ground, that are covered with brush, it is not because they seek damp locations, or desire such, but bepausesuchsecluled places are coolerand more comfortable. A close poultry-house in the summer season, il the roof is low, will often reach a temperature almost unbearable during the iniddle of the day, and the nests are avoided by the hens for that reasou. In the winter, it may be noticed that the heus prefer the poultry-house, and seldom seek nests outside. Feeding the colts oats ruther than corn will helpto secure a better developtnent of muscles rather tlian fat. Jt is very important ii fall seeding o grasa is to be done to arrange to do the work early, so thal the plqnts can get well Btartéd to growing. It will pay to push the plowing for winter wheat, as the ground often gets bard and dry by the first ui August, increasing the work very materially. Ten head of young catüe, well fed and kept comfortably during the winter, will bnng a better return than twenty left to shift for themselves. When you can'1 plow corn or thresh wheat, it would f a paying job to haul the big pile ui manure awáy írom your barn Int and scatter t mi weak spots. When skiiu milk is a waste product it can always be fed both ti igs and poultry with proflt, but it is oniy in exceptiunal cases that it will pay to buy it. [f stock is turned into the stubble fields see that it is not kept in Eoo long, or aniinals will begin to run down, and what thev lose will have to be made up again Generally the pigs that return the best profit ure the ones tliat are ready to market n the shortest time. Thia im ]lii's a quick growth and ui early niatui ity. An hour speut in thinking out the best plan to accompliah a certain piece of work, is worili ;i whole day in the use of blind niuscle t execute the sauie work. All old poultry not intended to be kept for breed in g or laying should be marketed now. Later on pnces are liable to get low, so that there is no advantage in keeping. There is no economy and no ïnonev in it to let a rusty trace chain or a broken collar chafe a sore on a horse's side or shoulder, and finally lose its services for ten days at least. "The man that is trying to cultívate sixty acres of corn with a thirty acre team. is flnding thai bis team can't be spread out in meet the emergency, says the Lyndon, Kan., Journal. President Lawrence, of the Ohio Wool Growers' Ajssociation is out with the announcement that the Buckeye State "will add mort' than a niillioii to the number of her sheep this year." Between marketing, evaporating, and making into eider for vinegar, and feeding stock, no fruil should Be allowed to 80 to waste, and especially to rot under the trees, when it is possible to avoid it. The best "sign" of a goud cow asa milker is a good milk and butter record for a year or more, but shiftless farmers are apt to forget it. Any man wlio depeiiiis on other signs deserves disappointment. Sinur a sotiir o' ñshine "Twelve-poiind tish I vum ! ' 6 Ín that 'ere lake ■ tal e ir swallowed wnm." When the "whale" was hufted He dldn't v;i n pound. Wj.-ii'i thal o prettj lie To send ;i travelJ iíí 'round? - Foresi nuil 81 roa m.