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stalks to the viglit, to the loft; cornstulks every where. Ap^ain, why ahovild 

 hogs and mire be so closely and universally connected? Even if mud be a 

 necessity to profitable fattening, might it not be well, for the sake of ap- 

 pearances and consequences, to provide a partly enclosed plank floor' for 

 bedding- and feeding;? As an excuse for cruelty the citizen farmer exclaims, 

 " they are only hogs!" Next from the farmer soldier you hear the excla- 

 mation, " they are only Indians, niggers, or secesh," as the caise may be, 

 until liiially retribution with heavy hand comes to set things to right- 

 Farmers of Illinois, Indiana and Missouri, do not allow your patriotism to 

 be exhausted in Sanitary Fairs, Christian Commissions or brokerage in 

 substitutes. " 



Honey Locust Hedge. 



Mr. H. Paine, Lockport, N. Y., says there is a hedge at Darien, Genesee 

 county, N. Y., forty years old, which he has watched from the start, in 

 hopes to see tiiat it would make a good fence. He is now convinced that 

 it will not answer, because it inclines to drop its lower limbs and grow 

 to a trce, 



SuLPHUR FOR Mildew on Grapes. 



Mr. Paine says he he has tried it thoroughly, and is convinced that a fool 

 and his money are soon parted, whenever he pays for sulphur to kill mil- 

 dew. The best remedy that he lias found is an application .of salt annually, 

 at the rate of three bushels per acre. He says: "I have three acres of 

 grapes, and sold my crop this year; tl»e first tun, put up in twenty-five 

 pound boxes, for 12 cents per pound, $240; the balance I sold for 5 cents 

 per pound; picked them from the vines as they grew, and delivered them 

 in town— over twelve tun.s— at $100 per tun. I am willing to pay an 

 income tax on that to support the war and help put down the rebellion." 



A Variety of Information. 



Mr. Tlobinson S. Ileinman, Pleasant Vale, Ct., is desirous as one of the 

 outsi<le members of the Club, to contribute his (piota of information "inter-" 

 esting to farmers," which ho does as follows: 



To Prevent Bugs from Eating Hams- 



"U'iicn they are taken from the smoke house in the spring, dip them in a 

 Btronjj tea made of elder leaves and young sprouts. 



Value of Muck, 



An old Quaker uncle of mine told me that he used muck from two different 

 muck-beds that he formerly owned, witli n»ore profit than he ever used barn- 

 yard nianuie. He did not, however, ai)ply it to a piece of heavy clay soil, 

 but on a piece of warm river land that was uaturally sandy. One of my 

 neighbors also has a garden, part of wiiich wouldn't bear beans it was 

 so warm and dry. He put on a little muck about five years ago, and it ia 

 good land yet. 



When to Cut Bushes. 



In a discussion of the subject among old farmers, eome thought the old 



