~~ 83 ga —Gather melons in the early morning, while the d2w is still on: put in the cold spring or well, or cellar floor, until are scrum on a hot day. Of course, ice d be so much the better. or other ob fully, and if maggots appear wash the | . wounds with a weak solution of carbolic acid and water. If the wounds are deep and difficult to reach, inject the solution with a small glass syringe. —Oats that are to be used for hay are usually seeded and grown in the same way as oats that are to be cut for the gram; that foto 9. they are sceded very in the ng upon -prepared | The better the land is prepared the surer will be the results. —Most horse owners feed too much hay. Never give a horse any more than he will eat up clean. Many excellent horsemen give no hay at all at the noon meal. They fill the mangers in the even- ing and give the horse all that he will clean up in the morning, but no more. —Manure stains on white or gray | cial horses are very unsightly and at times mighty hard to. remove. Ammonia isa’ great help in such cases and when am- monia will not do the work whiting will cover up the stain, althoug | i will not remove the cause of the trou. ae, —Pliny said that thunder is rarely | heard in winter, and that the great fertil- | ity of the soil is due to the frequency of | thunder rain in spring. Science has dis- | covered the cause of the nourishment in | rain water to be due to the presence of great quantities of ni n and ammonia in the thunder rain and in hail. | —It pays to top-dress meadows direct- ly after mowing, even with fresh barn- yard manure, for though there will be some loss from evaporation, this is more | than offset by the protection provided against sun and drought. But if the manure is properly composited it can be | applied as a top-dressing at any time without danger or loss. —The heifer intended for the future | milk cow should not be allowed to be- come too fat. From the time she is taken from the dam till she is weaned and turn- | ed into the pasture she should be fed liberally on those feeds which will develop her milk-producing organs. Those feeds are those usually given to the milk cow to promote the production of milk. To a hard-working horse ST is almost as much a necessity as f Un- less a horse lies down larly his rest is never complete and his joints and sinews stiffen. While it is true that some | horses sleep in a standing position and continue work for many years, it isequal- | ly true that they would wear much longer ! and perform their work much better if | they rested naturally. —An authority says one of the relics of barbarism that anti-cruelty societies and owners should take notice of is the habit still in vogue of burning a horse's shoe on to his hoof. The fact that a horse does not go lame immediately after the operation is no proof that the animal has not been injured. It only takes a little more time and work to carve a setting for a shoe, and it is humane. —According to one of the experiment stations, it Er 25 per cent. more feed to put a pound of grain 1 than it does on the hog, and 85 per cent. more feed for the pound of grain in the case of the older hog than on the 40-pound hog. The farmer's profit will come from choosing