SEE©-TlSiE M3© HARVEST. 
BORROWED OR STOLEN. 
I keep about 200 sheep and whenever I dis¬ 
cover a patch of thistles I salt the sheep there, 
putting a small handful of salt in each thistle at 
the root. Besides the action of the salt, which 
tends to destroy them, the thistles are eaten by 
the sheep close to the ground and after one or 
two saltings the grass among the thistle*, as well 
as everything else that hides from view, has been 
eaten off so that each thistle is easy to be seen 
and to receive its handful of salt. After this 
treatment it is seldom that any thistles are seen 
the second year.—[Western Farmer. 
An experienced fruit grower in Ohio wash¬ 
es his apple trees twice a year with a strong lye 
which will float an egg, and finds it to be sure 
death to borers. He claims that he has not lost 
a tree since beginning the practice. Others 
practice placing a*quart or so of strong wood 
ashes around each tree with same effect. 
Now is the time when the lawn and trees 
about the farm-house begin to show their beauty, 
and when the tidy farmer can look around his 
premises with as much satisfaction as his care¬ 
less and negligent neighbor looks with dis¬ 
gust upon his own after seeing how beautiful 
are the homes about him. It pays to give little 
time and attention to beautifying the home sur¬ 
roundings, even at the sacrifice of a few bushels 
of wheat, and the genuine gratification it affords 
the family ought to stimulate any man to make 
a little effort, however limited his means may 
be. A great transformation need not be aimed 
at the first year, but by devoting a few hours oc¬ 
casionally to these improvements, the result will 
be pleasing to say the least. 
Vegetable Raising.— C. G. Upham, of 
Watertown, Me., writes to the Mirror: “ I have 
been in the vegetable business twenty-seven 
years. My plan is to plow in all my manure in 
the fall, if I can. I have learned that to farm 
successfully does not take a large farm. I use 
ten to fifteen cords of manure to the acre. Some 
will ask what I plant to make it pay. The 
fifteen cords of manure cost $8 per cord delivered, 
or $120. I sow one bushel of early peas, which 
will cost $5.00, and will yield from 100 to 200 
bushels; call it 150, and I get $150 for the peas. 
Then rake off the vines and set cabbage plants 
from a bed sowed the 10th of May, and from the 
acre I get $240 for cabbages. Another method is 
to leave every third row for squashies. Plant 
them May 25, about the time I get through hoe¬ 
ing the peas, and in August you would not know 
there had been a crop of peas on the ground. 
Then take the root crop, which will yield from 
$500 to $800 per acre. Parsnips, $1: carrots, 50 
to 60 cents per bushel; beets, the same. Summed 
all up it means this: a small farm well tilled. ,, 
Dates of Coinage of Cent Pieces. F. P. 
T. L. wishes to know at what time the old cop¬ 
per cent, the thick white cent piece and the 
present cent pieee were first coined, and when 
the coinage of the first two was discontinued: 
The large copper cent was first coined in 1793, 
the last one was coined in 1857. The small cent, 
nickel with eagle on obverse, was first coined in 
1856 and the last one issued bore the date 1858* 
The nickel cent with Indian head was first coin¬ 
ed in 1859 and the last one in 1864. The present 
bronze or small copper cent was first coined in 
1864. 
America seems the natural home of most de¬ 
structive insects. Most of those brought from 
Europe are worse here than at their native 
homes, partly because many of them when im¬ 
ported left behind the parasites that in Europe 
keep them in check. 
The rapid growth and dense shade which 
buckwheat makes give it great va*ue as a weed 
destroyer. Even thistles can be kept down by 
it if the land is sown as soon after plowing as 
possible, and the first thistles that appear are 
pulled or cut with a hoe. 
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