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ICenicdy for Barrenness.— "S. H.," 
Otie Ciet-'k, X. M., wauts a remedy for baiiL-nness iu bia 
bens and sow. He bas tried balsam of copaiba, rosin, 
copperas, Colombo, Purnviau bark, Cayenne pepper, aad 
many otbev remedies for Ibe sow, and bas subsisted bia 
liens upon grasshoppers, and all witbcut avail. We caa 
suggest nothing, unless it be the knife, or to feed these 
animals on some food with more nutriment in it than the 
above articles contain. 
Use of Qiistiio iu titc West. — '' L. S.,'* 
Springfield, Mo. Tlic use of guano cau hardly be made 
profitable in ordinary farming in the ivestem states. 
Much less can it be profitably used on good fresh land. 
The laud may be kept in good order without this costly 
fertilizer, by a proper rotation of crops, and by growing 
clover, and by the use of what stable manure is made 
upon the farm. Ordinary prairie land ought to be kept 
profitably fertile in this way for a lifetime. 
'What to do M itli a Poor Co^v.— " J. 
H. W.," Jeflert-on Co., Kj'. Some A3Tshire cows are 
poor butter cows. There arc two classes of this breed of 
cows, viz., butter makers aud cheese makers. If you 
have one ol the latter, it would be best to get rid of hci* 
if butter is expected, ller ca'.f will probably inherit her 
character, aud would hardly be worth raising. The tests 
of a butter yielding j\yrshire cow are, yellow colored, 
loose, mellow, soft, fine haired skin ; a fine clear horn ; 
very yellow color of the inside of the ears, aud of the ear 
secretions ; a fine head, face, and neck, a large milk vein, 
and a smooth, large, well made udder and teats. If the 
cow has a white hard skin, a iairy, coarse udder, coarse 
horns aud head, although she may give much milk, she 
will rarely, if ever, be a good butter cow. 
Feeaing; and Fodder.— **S. E. K.," 
Eastham. If meal is fed to cows with roots or oth^r 
coarse fodder, it is well to feed, it twice a day. There is 
not only the question of the nutriment iu the food in- 
volved, but that of the completeness of the process of 
mastication aud digestion. The cow's appetite is kept 
in good order if her feed is given regularly and without 
any change. Besides more coarse fodder is eaten when 
meal is mixed with it. An acre of corn-fodder may be 
made to yield 10 tons or more of dry feed, which is worth 
more than can be obtained from an acre of corn. The 
closer planting and heavier growth of the fodder, makes 
thediflereuce iu value. 
As to S«?veral Matters.— "J. E. De 
M.,*''* St. Johns, N. B. Crude petroleum, when it is thor- 
oughly absorbed by shingles, does not make them any 
more liable to take fire tban they previously were. The 
volatile aud most inflammable portion of the oil soon 
evaporates, leaving the paraflBue aud tarry residue only in 
flic shingles. .. Spruce aud pine timber yield about 9X 
per cent of ath, which is only half th;it of oak and beech, 
aud from oue-sixlh to one-tenth of that of walnut, hick- 
ory, aud elm. The ash of pine aud spruce is also veiy 
inferior in potash and phosphoric acid, containing but 
a tenth to a thirtieth as much as is found iu the hard 
i woods. Pine allies are never used toy soap-making, on 
I account of their poverty iu potash. Still where they can 
I be secured very chcai)ly, they arc worth tiieir proportion- 
ate value, probably 5 cents a bushel — One reason why 
spruce trees which have been reserved from woods which 
! have been cut down, wither aud die, is the want of shade 
\ to which Ihey have been accustomed. In some localities 
they are infested by a parasitical growth, which robs 
them of their sap, aud gradually destroys them. 
Ifeepiu;; Manure in California.— 
" S. W. K.." Mendocino Co., Cal. The ditficulty experi- 
enced in preventing manure from heating injuriously in 
a dry. rainless climate, may be avoided by carefully sav- 
ing the liquids from the stable and drawing the fresh ma- 
nure to a heap where it may be composted with waste 
j matters and eartb, using two or three parts of earth to 
I one of manure. Or another and less troublesome plan, 
would be to keep the manure in a cellar or jiit mailc with 
cemented walls as is described in the American Agrunl- 
^wrifi^ of January. 1875. This method is used in Italy, 
and succeeds well in that dry climate. When the manure 
is too dry. water mi-jht be ibrown upon it. Of course 
the liquids from the stable should flow into this pit. 
