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Desicated Milk is a yellowish-white powder, 

 made in Prince Edward Island, from evaporated 

 milk, to which a quantity of cane sugar was added. 

 It is claimed this powder may be preserved in good 

 condition and palatable for a length of time, even 

 though exposed to the atmosphere. 

 Analysis showed 



Water 5.44 per cent. 



Fat 21.73 



Albumoids 18.01 



Milk sugar 25.22 



Cane sugar 26.45 



Ash . . . . 63.15 



Louping-ill in Sheep. Nine inoculation ex- 

 periments were made with pus cultures taken from 

 two diseased sheep. In two cases it seemed the dis- 

 ease was caused by a specific organism, whereas in 

 the other seven cases the results were negative. 



Wild Cherry. Prunus besseyi, the native wild 

 cherry growing on the plains west of the Mississippi 

 and on the mountains of Colorado and Utah, is con- 

 sidered worthy of effort towards its improvement. 

 The fruit of this cherry is about one inch in diame- 

 ter, flavor usually aromatic but inclined to be bitter 

 or astringent. 



More About Feeding Wheat. The following 

 recommendation of the Ontario Agricultural College 

 is the result of two trials of feeding wheat to milch 

 cows. The ration is four pounds ground wheat, four 

 pounds wheat bran, six pounds of hay and fifty 

 pounds of silage. "We would recommend dairymen 

 to try a ration of wheat and bran, or wheat and oats, 

 during the winter, and if it is fed to the right kind of 

 cows, and the product handled properly, we feel con- 

 fident that it will pay better than selling wheat at 

 late prices." 



A Precocious Milker. The udder of a heifer 

 fifteen months old had so developed that she was 

 milked. In appearance it was very watery at first, 

 but kept improving. . The most interesting part is 

 the fat content of this milk-like secretion. The first 

 time she was tested on the 7th of July the per 

 cent, of fat was 0.4 per cent. On July 8th she tested 

 1.2 per cent., showing a marked increase in this short 

 time. July 12th she again tested 1.2 per cent. When 

 first milked she had not been bred, but in a day or 

 so after she was mated. November 10th the yield 

 had decreased to about a pint a day, but the fat had 

 increased to 3.8 per cent. So far it has not appar- 

 ently affected her health or growth. 



->. Fertility. Forty Leghorn hens kept on 

 the Ohio State University farm, without males, were 

 placed in pens with three male birds February 18th, 

 and the per centage of fertile eggs observed for nine 

 days after mating. This increased regularly from 

 on the day of mating to 95 per cent, on the eighth 

 day thereafter. July 1st the males were removed 

 from the pens. The fertility of the eggs was appar- 

 ently not materially affected until the twelfth day 

 after removing the roosters. 



More Beans. The South is advised to raise more 

 corn, and the whole country may safely add to the 

 acreage in beans. Nearly a million bushels of beans 

 were imported last year, and advancing prices show 

 that this is a neglected crop. 



See Forage. Alba melilotus, or sweet clover, 

 will grow anywhere on the plains without irrigation, 

 and makes the best bee forage that can be grown un- 

 der similar circumstances, with the possible exception 

 of our native cleome integrifolia or Rocky Mountain 

 honey plant. Sweet clover does best on alluvial soil, 

 and is a troublesome weed in a good many instances. 

 We never advise its growth in places where alfalfa 

 will thrive. 



Proper Cooking of Vegetables. The large 

 sweet onion is very rich in those alkaline elements 

 which counteract the poison of rheumatic gout, says 

 the Medical Record. .If slowly stewed in weak broth 

 and eaten with a little Nepaul pepper will be found 

 to be an admirable article of diet for patients of stu- 

 dious and sedentary habits. The stalks of cauli- 

 flower have the same value, only too often the stalk 

 of a cauliflower is so ill-boiled and unpalatable that 

 few persons would thank you for proposing to them 

 to make part of their meal consisting of so uninviting 

 an article. Turnips, in the same way, are often 

 thought to be indigestible, and- better suited for cows 

 and sheep than for delicate people, but here the fault 

 lies with the cook quite as much as with the root. The 

 cook boils the turnip badly, and then pours some but- 

 ter over it, and the eater of such a dish is sure to be 

 the worse for it. Try a better way. What should be 

 said of lettuce ? The plant has a slight narcotic ac- 

 tion, of which a French woman, like a French doctor, 

 well knows the value, and when properly cooked it is 

 really very easy of digestion. Fruit Grower. 



Bermuda Grass. The following methods of cul- 

 ture have been found satisfactory for destroying 

 Bermuda grass : 



1st. Plow the land with a heel sweep at intervals 

 of from one to three weeks throughout the season. 

 2nd. Growing a crop of oats and afterwards following 

 with the above treatment for the balance of the sea- 

 son. 3rd. Growing a crop of oats, and for the bal- 

 ance of the season plowing every one to three weeks 

 with a scooter plow. 4th. Growing a crop of oats and 

 following this with a crop of cow peas planted in drills 

 Z% feet apart and cultivated twice. Bermuda grass 

 is a valuable forage plant, but owing to its habit of 

 taking root at every joint is not popular in the South 

 and Southwestern States. 



The thoroughbred stallion is valuable for the run- 

 ners he will produce. It isn't so with the strawberry 

 plant that is to bear a quart of berries next year. 

 The runner runs away with the plant's vitality. 



The cow of prosperity will not of her own accord 

 back up to you to be milked. She must be coaxed 

 and tempted with something substantial. If you ap- 

 proach her from the wrong side you are liable to find 

 yourself on your back in an adjoining lot; if from be- 

 hind, better call the hospital ambulance at once and 

 go in for repairs. 



