Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1879 — AGRICULTURAL. [ARTICLE]

AGRICULTURAL.

As a general thing, it fa cheaper and more convenient to get seeds of the regular seedsman thau to save them. But ifßiiy are saved, let them alwayshe of the earliest, fairest and best specimens. The manureofeows and pigs reals decomposition for a longer time than that of the sheep and horse, both the fatter being dryer than the former, and decomposing more readily in the soli. Gardening is regularly and practically taught In more than 20,000 primary schools in France. Every school house has its garden, aftd teachers must be not only good gardeners, but qualified to teach horticulture'or thev cannot pass examination. “The "charm «.f breeding,” writes Mr. bimpson, as quoted by Turf, Field and farm, “lies in the uncertainly of the pursuit. Were the coupling of a stallion with a mare reduced to an exact science, the fascination of the business would be done.” '

There is mote money in good poul-try-raising, considering its cost, by onelialf, to be had annually, than can be realized from the pigs or the sheep on a farm. And yet the fatter are fed aud housed and bred everywhere, to the entire neglects almost, of fowl stock. For a kicking horse fill an old sack with hay aud suspend it from the loft by means of a rope, in such a manner that the horse wifi be able to kick it every time it swings against him. Let him kick until he stops of Ids own accord, and you will have no more trouble vith him that way. v * It is believed by many that red clover is one of the most valuable of soiiiug crops. A half acre will keep one cow throughout the mouths of June, July and August, if cut aud fed at tbe stall; while more than twice this amount of land, if grazed, according to experiments in England, will barely subsist a cow during the same time. • '

White Belgian carrots do blast badly where the land was freshly manured. Where rye, manured last August was plowed under, the foliage remains untouched. This kind of carrot has a habit also of growing out of the ground now and then in a way to interfere somewhat with cutting the top with a thrust hoe before plowing the roots out. / Cows that have access to water at a times will drink often, but little at th time, and return to their feeding Cows deprived of a sufficient sUpplv o water fail in milk and flesh, and when they are allowed to fail, it is almost ■ impossible to bring them back to their proper yield of milk and condition of flesh, at least without extra expensefor trouble.

A most valuable remedy for heaves and said to be a sure cure: Fortv sumac buds, one pound of rosin, one’piut °f ginger, half a pound of mustard, one pint of uusiacked lime; one pound of epsom salts, four ounces of gum guiaeum, six ounces ot cream tartar. aL:; thoroughly ami divide into thirty 'powders, ami give one every morning ui then - feed before watering.