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the price of good cheese. This factory say they make it profitable 

 to manufacture both butter and cheese at the same time. 



Wild Strawberries. 

 Mr. J. J. Yan Kirk, Kamsayburg, N. J., wrote to say that he has 

 a fine strawberry bed, which yields abundantly, and all from a few 

 wild plants that were growing on uncultivated ground. Four years 

 ago he planted three of them in his garden, and by a little attention, 

 and transplanting the old ones and new, spring and fall, he had them 

 in fine bearing condition in two years from setting. Last summer, 

 and this, the first picking averaged in size two and a half inches in 

 circumference ; many were much larger. His friends all pronounced 

 them excellent. They are of fine shape, rich, sweet, solid and juicy ; 

 the best, he thinks, he ever tasted. " What is the use," he inquires, 

 " of buying plants with big names, when we can get better ones from 

 wild plants for nothing ?" 



Prairie Homes foe the Poor. 

 Mr. D. W. Mott, of Franklin county, Iowa, forwarded the follow- 

 ing advice, which cannot but prove helpful to many persons who are 

 looking westward, but whose capital will scarcely more than pay 

 their passage thither ; I wish to say to every one who thinks of com- 

 ing west, that if your capital is limited, do not think of going on to 

 your own land the first year. If you have land already bought, go 

 as near it as you can find improved land for rent, buy you a good 

 span of horses, and rent at least eighty acres of tilled land. The last 

 of March or first, part of April, sow thirty acres to wheat, and ten 

 with oats; plough your forty acres, and mark off for corn. Plant 

 your corn, then harrow it, and now buy a good two-horse corn 

 plough, and plough it well twice each way. You can do all of this, 

 and find time to break twenty acres on your own land. Now, if you 

 have $50 about you, hire some man to break twenty acres more — 

 see that your breaking is all done in May and June. By the first of 

 July your corn is laid by, and you are ready for harvesting. If you 

 have done all of this well that you have done, don't buy any reaper, 

 for you can easily find some one who is ready to cut your grain if 

 you will bind for him, and, in this way, cut, bind and stock your 

 grain. You will now have something to live on, for the two-thirds 

 of all you have raised is yours. You can now cut your hay on your 

 own land, and stack it there, dig your well, and make a stable for 

 your horses and a cow, for you ought to have one by this time. The 



