"Bellefonte, Pa., Dec. 25, 1891. Farm Notes. If you didn’t stop the crevices in the barn belore this cold spell, you should do it yet. It is said that sweet potatoes may be kept by placing in a box a layer of po- tatoes and a layer of dry sand alternate- ly, until tull. It does not indicate an inferior quali- ty because butter is white. Nearly all the butter sent to market is colored with annatto. Nothing makes a better protection for beds of perennials than torest leaves. A little dirt sprinkled over them will hold in place. Coarse light hay thrown over spin- ach will usually carry it through the Winter in open ground, provided water does not stand on the land. Where a garden is plan‘ed as it should be for bouse cultivation it is an easy matter to keep it free from weeds. Start early and don’t allow them to grow. Cornstalks and straw make excellent mulching material for plants, and the work of applying such mulch is but little, as the stalks and straw are easily handled. Wheat chaff may be advantageously used as bedding in the pig quarters, as it is an excellent absorbent, can be easi- ly removed, and makes the floor clean and dry. It is said that a Minnesota farmer this year, grew, 1120 bushels of pota toes upon one acre of ground, a state- meut ‘sworn to by trustworthy people in that vicinity.” If you want good results you must feed the plants or animal. “With what measure ye mete it shall be meas. ured to you again’ holds true here as in other matters. The New Hampshire Station shows that glutten meal, which is a by-pro- duct in making glucose from corn, has a high value as a butter food. It com- bines well with cottonseed meal. IVs the storm-beaten, weather- bleached fodder that is left uneaten. This wears away the hay and before Spring there isa shortage. Protect. the fodder and thus save the hay. Milk for the calt should not be colder than 96 degrees. From its dam the calf receives warm milk, and this fact should teach those who raise calves by hand the importance of avoiding cold milk for them. No man need neglect his fruits or his garden crops or his pou'try because he makes a special feature of some class of stock, but he should feel that some one thing which will consume the raw material on the farm, is the leading business. G. J. Kellog says the soil for small fruits, including grapes, should be rich enough to raise 100 bushels of corn per acre. Side hills that wash should be avoided, yet southern slope for grapes and early strawberries is best, northern slope for late berries. The soil and seasonsare not at fault. There is no reason why Florida, which has a longer growing season than New England, shoald produce only eleven bushels of corn per acre, nor should Massachusetts produce twice as much tobacco per acre as Virginia, Kentucky Maryland or Tennessee, where the soils is well adapted to that product. The success of New England is due to the tact that her lands are such as to de- mand better tillage. The very diffi- culties which the farmers of that sec- tion encounter compel them to use more judgment. In fact “brain work’ is one of their potent factors of success. Even the drawbacks of climate, and the lack of fertility of the soil, did not prevent New England from leading, and this fact is a lesson which well de- serves the consideration of farmers.