I, i i £ : = ® 5 ¥ i . spriag,snd keep Bellefonte, Pa., November 9, 1906. FARM NOTES. —Sunshine is cheap and healthful, Have pleuty of it in the stable. —As the cows gradually change (rom tare to dry foods, feed liberally, even tter than in the depth of winter. —A sprinkliog of straw mauare over kale and spinach will keep the plants in better condition than if left nacovered. —Provide nails to hang the cas lids on and a wire screen to lay cans, and keep out the tive frog. —The frost is one of the agents of the farmer for pulverizing the soil. Every ciod or lump in the field is a detriment, according to its size, as the finer the soil the greater its feeding capacity. —Some farmers reduce prices of hay by the practice of placing inferior bay in the centre of the bales whenever it can be done. This causes distrust on the part of the pur- chaser, and be therefore resorts to straw, salt hay and other foods thas can be used as a substitute for clover and timothy. —Inexperienced s who undertake the ma! ent of will find much to learn before they can succeed. The win- ter care is important, for the bees must not be kept too warm, and if exposed they will perish. A apeeiol house should be provid- ed, which should be kept at a uniform temperature. —The small and uosalable sweet potatoes are just as valuable for the fattening of hogs as those that are of marketable size. Sweet potatoes contain a large proportion of sugar, and are, therefore, very suitable for the fastening of stock. They should be cooked and bran added. Being very whole- some, they may be fed liberally. —The solids of the milk are what call for or use up the food of the animal. It makes little difference with the food con- sumed whether a cow puts a pound of bat- ser or two pounds of cheese into a pailfal of milk, or diffuses it through two. The dif- ference hetween the two kinds of milk is water, and this costs vothing, but adds value to the whole. —Pat the young roses that have just rooted into the cellar, where the frost will not reach them, but do nos keep them too warm. If started very early in the spring in the house, and set out in the open air alter the frost has passed, they will make rapid growth and hjoom during the sum- mer. - Old rose bushes may be cat back af- ter the ground is cold, and protected with straw or old bags. —It is neither profitable nor always safe to keep great numbers of hogs together. Besides the liability of dieease getting among them there is always the certainty that the stronger will crowd the weaker from their feeding places, so that the in- equality in sizes will increase instead of decrease. In every litter there are always one or two weaklings that were born rants, and unless given a hetter chance thao their fellows they will always remain small and weakly. —Before the ground freezes the rap: berry plants may be laid down and covered with a slight covering of earth, and the strawberry plants should also receive a covering of some coarse materia!—always remembering that, as this plant is partially an evergreen, it must not be covered so deep ns to keep the air from the green leaves. Whatever tender plants there may pe in the garden that are to be left over wiate: should be carefully protected before the cold weather comes ob. sometimes inquisi- —Grape vines should be planted about eight feet apart each way aod about 10 inches deep, cutting them back to two or three bads above ground. A crop of po: satoes or strawherries may be grown be- gween the rows the first two years. An excellent plan is to allow two canes to grow the first year, cutting back each year to three bude, again allowing two canes to grow. When the vines are five or six years old from three to five canes may he left. Always cut the old wood back to about a foos of the ground if stocky vines are re- quired. It isthe young wood that bears froit. —In the growing of alfalfa the land must be plowed deep and harrowed fine. Manure and fertilizer should be applied liberally in the spring and lime applied on the land in the fall. Sow the seed in the spring, using #lrom 10 to 20 pounds of seed, according to , sironmstances, sowing broadcast if the land , is clear of grass and weeds. If not, it will 1 be.an advantage to drill the seed in rows, , olose together, and cultivate the first year . with wheel hoes. Once established, an . alladfa plot will last for years, as the roots , go:doern to great depths aud secure mois- _ tute. pl. this section farmers should sow a + few, sows by way of experiment in the e plants free of grass and. weeds. Some al growers find the y fall the best time to seed the land. —«Whevrthe land is sour and grown up . with sorrel.avhich contains oxalic acid,lime \ is said, thento ‘‘sweeten’’ the soil by re- . movipg the —sourness, but what is really , does is to assist in changing the acids of the . soil into. cathenate and oxalate of lime, + threpgh - chemical combinations, the sour «soil becoming alkaline because the lime has