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pound. I slionkl not have made these reniarhs, but I do hate to see 

 anj one reconuneuding- wine-uiaking for it invariably leads to drinkng. 



Soiling in SuM^[EK. 



Mr, B. F. Pease, Trumansburgh, !N^. Y., lives a mile from the vil- 

 lage, has a farm of fifty-five acres, worth say $150 per acre. lie can 

 keep through the winter about eight head of fine grown cattle, and 

 now he would very much like to know if he can gain anything by 

 soiling in summer instead of pasturing. His laud is well adapted to 

 corn, oats, barley, wheat, clover and timothy. 



Mr. J. B. Lyman. — If Mr. Pease has fifty-five acres on that admira- 

 ble body of land between Cayuga and Seneca lakes, he has enough 

 to give him a good living and to educate his sons at Cornell. But 

 he must make it cany more than eight head of neat stock, I don't 

 know a stock man or a milkman anywhere who ever became a con- 

 vert to the evangelism of green soiling and went back to the beggarly 

 elements of empty stables, little manure heaps, scrawny cows, dull 

 horses, close bit pastures, and a dubious name at the county bank on 

 discount days. But to green soil aright, Mr. Pease must be fixed for 

 it. lie must be duly penetrated with the homely but pertinent 

 truth that the liquid excrement of a cow in one day, all saved and 

 mixed with peat and charcoal or rotted sawdust, will grow grass or 

 corn or beets enough to feed the cow two daj's. Make your stable 

 floor water-tight, with tongue and groove stuft', or with tar concrete. 

 Have a big pile of peat or rotton turf, or sawdust; throw it every 

 morning, when Mrs, Cow is taking the air, into a gutter behind her 

 stall. In fly time let her stable be dark and cool and clean, and give 

 her a fragant handful of green corn, or a big lock o'f clover to smell 

 of while chewing her cud. The more she eats, and the less she uses 

 her legs and tail, the more money she will bring you. Keep a few acres 

 close to the barn too rich for grain, and use it for a rotation of rye, 

 sowed corn, beets, clover, managing to get two crops a year quite 

 often, and presently you will be keeping fourteen cows and a span of 

 fat horses, and refusing $200 an acre for your place. 



Tomato Catsup. 

 Mr. II. W. Featherston, Union, Iowa. — Here is my mode of pre- 

 paring tomatoes, and I think it beats all other catsup. For every 

 two quarts of skinned tomatoes, one large onion, six bird-peppers, 

 chopped fine, one teacupful of sugar, two teaspoonsfnl of salt. Boil 

 about half an hour, and just before you take from the fire put one 



