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are scarce at home, they should visit the best shops in town. There 

 is great need for a common-sense book of di-awings and neat designs 

 of household furniture geuerall3% including working models. It 

 is a poor plan to work away blindly. It is better to stop and con- 

 sider for days, than to work without fixed and correct ideas. Many 

 mechanics are defective in this respect. 



BUTTER-MAEJNG FEEDING TURNIPS AND CABBAGE. 



Mr. F. Copeland, West Dedham, Mass. — I have fed turnips to 

 cows for several years, as also cabbage, and made butter all the 

 while, and will challenge the most fastidious to detect any flavor 

 of them in the butter. Such food, fed to cows in moderate quan- 

 tities, just before or immediately after milking, imparts no unplea- 

 sant flavor to the milk or butter. It is iu overfeeding, or at 

 unseasonable hours, that causes the trouble. I consider cabbage 

 one of the very best kinds of green food for cows. I allow my 

 milk to stand forty-eight hours, and find no ill eflTects from the milk 

 becoming thick. Again, just as good butter can be made from a 

 churning that produces butter in from five to ten minutes, as by 

 grinding it out in fifty minutes, and often much better. I like the 

 idea as to the quantity of butter a good cow should produce. It 

 will tend to call our farmers' attention to the improvement of their 

 dairy stock. I know men in this section who do not believe that a 

 cow will produce sixteen quarts of milk per day, and hoot at the 

 idea of Jersey and Holsteiu cows giving from twenty to thirty 

 quarts. I know that our worn-out New England pastures will not 

 produce the rich and nutritious food of your more favored New 

 York grazing lands; still, poor as they are, I have a cow, taken 

 when a day old and raised by hand, by myself, seven-eighths Jersey, 

 that calved May 10th, and gave, for two months, twenty-two quarts 

 per day, and for the most of that time made sixteen pounds of 

 butter a week. She now makes from seven to eight pounds a 

 •week. That washing butter in water is injurious, is not an exploded 

 idea. My experience teaches me that it takes from the butter much 

 of the ai'oma and fine, delicate flavor belonging to a strictly prime 

 article of table butter. 



rEEDING BEES TO PROMOTE BREEDING. 



Mr. F. T. Bingham, Gowanda, Cattaraugus county, N. Y., who 

 has had much successful experience in the management of honey 

 bees, was invited to address the Farmers' Club on the subject of 

 bee culture, and to explain the principles upon which his hive is 



