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The decimal 4 is used when the object is to find the 

 quantity in shelled corn, because that decimal is half 

 of the decimal 8, and it requires two bushels of ear corn 

 to make one of shelled corn. In uning these rules, a half 

 a bushel may be added for every hundred ; that amount 

 of ears results from the substitution of the decimals. 



The term, " barrel of corn," so much used by Souther- 

 ners, means five bushels of shelled corn. 



TO CURE SHEEP SKINS WITH THE WOOL ON. 



Take a spoonful of alum and two of saltpetre ; pulve- 

 rize and mix well together, then sprinkle the powder on 

 the flesh side of the skin, and lay the two flesh sides to- 

 gether, leaving the wool outside. Then fold up the skin 

 as tight as you can. and hang it in a dry place. In two 

 or three days, as soon as it is dry, take it down and scrape 

 it with a blunt knife, till clean and supple. This com- 

 pletes the process, and makes you a most excellent sad- 

 dle cover. If, when you kill your mutton, you treat the 

 skins this way, you can get more for them from the sad- 

 dler, than you can get for the wool and skin separately 

 disposed of otherwise. 



Other skins which you desire to cure with the fur or 

 hair on, may be treated in the same way. 



DESTRUCTION OF WEEDS. 



There are few things more essential to the farmer than 

 having a good wheat crop. He gets a better price for 

 his grain, and what is quite as much, he has no fears from 

 injury in using such pure wheat for seed. Weeding wheat, 

 therefore, is not to be neglected. In a wheat field, every- 

 thing that is no r . wheat is a weed, and should be pulled 

 out at once. Remember that a rank thrifty weed, chess, 

 cockle, stemkrout, etc., draws sufficient nutriment from 

 the crop to sustain a handful of good ears cf wheat, an-d 



