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It is believed by many that sorgluun bagasse is injurious to cattle and hogs. 

 I have seen, this season, a large quantity of sorghum bagasse ground and 

 thrown on the side of the public road, where cattle had at all times access 

 to it, and I have not seen one instance in which the slightest injury has been 

 done, and they have been around it for weeks together." 



Care of Farming Tools. 



A fanner wants to know if all the farming tools have been taken care of 

 as such costly things should be for the winter, as exposure injures them 

 more than use. 



He says, if you have no other shelter, put up a rude hovel, with evergreen 

 boughs woven in for sides, and a thatched roof. And as the season for 

 snow approaches, see that every tool not in actual use at the time, is kept 

 in its appropriate place. What farmer that does not recollect the annoy- 

 ance of sometimes having an ox-chain, an axe, beetle and wedges, shovel, 

 iron bar, or some such implement, buried beneath the snow, to be found 

 only by a long search, or perchance not until the melting snows shall have 

 discovered it in spring. 



Mr. Solon Robinson. — I like the plan of a house devoted exclusively to 

 implements and tools, including a good carpenter's set, with an outline 

 painting of each article in its appropriate place on the walls. If anything 

 is missing, its blank outline staring at you is a reminder that the article is 

 out of place. 



Culture of Sugar Beets. 



The Chairman in answer to the question asked by a correspondent, stated 

 that several works had been published in France upon the beet culture and 

 the manufacture of sugar, and he believed a work had been published in 

 this country upon that subject. 



Mr. Carpenter, of Kelly's Island, Ohio, said that the last volume of the 

 Ohio Agricultural Reports contained an article upon this subject, and a 

 detail of experiments made by a Frenchman near Columbus in the growth 

 of beets and manufacture of sugar, which determined the fact that the 

 business could be niade profitable in this country. 



Mr. Sulon Robinson stated that extensive experiments had been made in 

 Illinois, and a considerable sum of money expended in the erection of a 

 factory, which, according to a report in Tlxe Prairie Farmer, proved that 

 beet culture in this country may be made very profitable. 



Mr. R. II. "Williams contended that it never would be profitable; that 

 beets may be profitably grown for stock, particularly milch cows, but never 

 for sugar-making. When grown upon some soils, they possess such a 

 small amount of saccharum as to render them unfit for the purpose of 

 Bugar-making. Ue thought farmers should all confine themselves to the 

 production of some sweet substance, or else give up the attempfto make 

 their own sugar. The climate of our country is more suitable to raise 

 S«jrghum and Imphee than the beet, and therefore sugar can be mado 

 cheaper from these than from the beet. 



Dr. Trimble thought it was no use to war against climate. This portion 

 of the earth was not adapted to sugar-making. All Northern farmers will 



