240 ^''>^^' t^-^ make the farm pay. 



fortunate. Those wlio have not, had better get them. Until 

 they do, however, the juice can be boiled in the ordinary sap 

 kettle. The question here arises, if it is profitable to raise 

 sorghum for sugar. We do not think it is, or ever can be 

 made so, except on a large scale. But we do believe it profita- 

 ble for the farmer to raise it for making syrup, and for fodder 

 f 'r his stock. It is a very simple process to make syrup from 

 it, and the farmer may make a barrel or two, from a small 

 strip of ground. Three hundred gallons per acre, has been 

 pronounced an average crop, but even at two hundred gallons 

 per acre, or two barrels from half an acre, it will prove profita- 

 ble. It has been raised and made at a cost of sixteen cents per 

 gallon, and we think that it miay be done by almost any farmer, 

 at a cost of not over twenty-five cents a gallon. 



As a fodder for stock, sorghum hardly has its equal. For 

 this purpose it should be sown in drills, two or three quarts of 

 seed to the acre, and cut just before blossoming. It will imme- 

 diately spring up again, and three crops may be cut during the 

 season. It is very nutritious for cattle, who eat every particle 

 of the stalk with avidity. 



Maple Sugar and maple syrup are such delicious, and 

 withal such marketable articles, that we consider it worth while 

 to know how to get the most and best. Never destroy a sugar 

 maple, as long as you can get sugar from it. If you are clear- 

 ing up, and cannot leave the young trees where they are, plant 

 tliem out somewhere else. Plant them out in your orchard, or 

 along your fences, or on some hillside. "Its form and foliage 

 are beautiful ; its shade delightful ; its sap delicious and health- 

 ful in all its stages; and its products profitable. Plant Maple 

 Treesr We indorse the above quotation, and shall endeavor 

 to give the most economical methods of making syrup and 

 sugar. At some leisure time during the winter, get your 



