ABUSE OF THE HORSE. Is the stall always sweet and well- ventilated-—not at the rear, or in the passageway (and in cool weather), but at the head and in the hottest nights of summer and at (say) 4 o'clock of a stifling woining? You don't know? Well, why don't you? And are you fit to have a horse of you don’t? Is the surcingle always comfortably loose, or as usual, drawn as tight as an average husky groom can draw it “to keep the blankets in place?” Now if it is tight when the animal is stand- ing up, it is far more so when he is lying down, and if you have a horse whom your man says “sleeps standing up” just go personally and give him two or three holés in the surcingle for a few nights (“unbeknownst” to your employe), and then inquire again This carelessness 1s universal and hideously cruel. It bruises the ridge and back, prevents rest and sleep, and is indefensible upon any pretext, for a beast girth, or any of the blankets with straps sewn on, will keep the coveriug in place and allow the suf- ferer—-for he is nothing else—to rest in peace. While you are about it, just measure his haltershank and see if he can lie down. Many a horse is purposely tied too short to save the groom trouble in cleaning him; also see if the band of the halter Is that he can chew }jO that the throatlash is not | pointed that the crownpiece and | n and are not harsh-edged leather and {irritate his ears en offer him a pall of water—or y—and if James has as usual, left him about half cared along until daylight the he can. Again, find if id of the dark-—many horses a “night kicker,” be | en the de should be low, so that they will not become crooked and deformed by hanging over it. I. M. Campbell, a Colorado farmer, says he winlered eighty-five ewes on an alfalfa pasture, raised thirty-five lambs and sold forty of the wethers in April for $2.95 a head. [et a dog chase through a pasture where dairy cows are feeding and the flow of nllk that night will be con siderably shortened, The first few strains of milk from each teat should not be milked into the pall, for this milk is very watery, is of little value and is invariably con taminated, which will’ injure the rest of the milk, A good brush should be used for scrubbing the surfaces of milk vessels, There is nothing more objectionable for this purpose than a cloth, particu larly the cloth that has been used for washing the dinner dishes or the pots and pans. A good hand brush can be purchased for a few cents, If you are making cheese from milk, do not throw away the sweet whey but ma¥e it into brown cheese, tuat will as much a pound as the ordi nary cheese, “«. § 8 1t, sell for PURE BRED FOWLS. The advantages of pure bred poultry ver and grades cannot be often, By far too farmers keep all sorts and mixt of on ace, instead well breed that the profit, poultry eat Pound for more nose enough mongreis fortably; doose 80 out too any breeds the pl ons 50 t no rd they i differ breeds feed, but ple the profits }y Ret out thus dread , and leave an arti bright, but, at all his paroxysms | in favor f pure breds.,” This kickers in the i the practice now fron ur own perie ft in the stable Evervthing is point We what trongly. nce for fa 1 $ « IS if es8ion mall, the cure almost | f a large flock of unif n birds, may -Outing Magazine, brown or — peckled, so long as they are all alike THE PEACH BORER id when you have such a flock, peo peach borer remains in its bur- | pl ill want ome and buy the tree over winter. During or two, o spells in the spring feeding three and by the latter part or early June the borer is full grown. It then leaves its burrow, says , and the un exchange, ahd constructs a cocoon hing at $1 or 81 at or near the surface of the ground, | instead of going to the asually on the trunk of the tree near fifteen or twenty cents the burrow. Within the cocoon it | dozen. What i ng at all, is transforms to a pupa {fom which the | worth keep any adult moth during July or the pure August. naintain em at the high The Sel the By. a cock to give the price ing ware breds nore eges egress will for hate 50 per sitting rrocer or to the worth If means doing well emerges fowls, by all Reep breds and th moths om their are day flying insects breed transparent wings and abdomens look much The female lays her eggs tupon fhe trunk of tthe Mmearvy you ani the yellow-banded like wasps breeder fr rom and three or You will then be in post a tree, usually upon ion to have eggs for hatching when wer portion, or on the soil or | You want The eggs hatch in uit a about fen days, and the young borers an entrance at any crack in of the tree, four hens them, and for a American possibly raise glarter another Agriculturist WIRE WORMS. weeds. flock Seok he in vogue for con. When a tree is bad only thing to do is to | A which can best be done at season, when they are | near the or have made their THe usual practice is to | up the earth around the tree | a8 much as possible, thus induocing the | moth to lay her eggs upon the upper i Part of the trunk, so that the borers oned may much more readily removed | © = hin the mound is hoed away. Th , | Slices are re should be done before ths | ach moths fleposit their eggs ir early sum | mer, and it Is well to cxamine the trunk of the tree just heneath the top «i the mound late in the summer for rg borers, b Anciber way is to coat the trunk n* iS are Wire worms are cau more than in the fields in the cominon rem be used on tobacco I.. Mariott of Wash ington advised certain growers who nquired of him to poison the wire worms, using sliced potatoes well pois with green, one pound te 150 gallons of water, These poisoned placed three feet apart the field, placing them to prevent drying out each piece with a leat or a little straw. The well as the eut worms, feed at night and will get hold of the | poisoned morning. Bran with repellant washes. Gis mixed paris green is also 2ar 1 as been used successtully in many | favorite plan of poisoning the cut Smmtupoea but is offer cases it has and wire worms, adding a little mo- Injured the trees. This 18 possibly lasses to make the bait more attrac due to variation in composition or to | Ye. Prompt attention is necessary elimatic conditions. It should be test. | #8 SCON as the first effects of the in. ed on a small scale before using it ex anct ravages appear.~J, C. P., in the temsively. J. H. Jale, a prominent | American Cultivator. Georgia peach grower, reports good Buccess with the following: “Two emarts of soap, one-half pint of crude In caring for sheep, the one thing earb® lc acid, and two ounces of parle | Nocessary besides good feed is good green, all thoro mixed with al shelter, No matter what is the time bucketful of water, to which’ enough of the year, the animals do not like lime and clay have been added to to be out in the rain at night. Sheep make a thin paste.” should have a dry place In whieh All such washes are largely repel. | 0 stand and lie when not grazing.— ants to prevent the laying of the eggs, Farmer's Home Journal. and should therefore be applied early