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SEED-TIME km HARVEST. 
Jonathan Talcott believes the best roots 
for stook are the Long Orange Carrot, White 
French or Sweet German Turnip, and potatoes. 
The carrots he would feed with meal or shorts to 
dairy cows. There is something in roots thus 
fed, he thinks, that seems to give an animal a 
better appetite, and consequently, a greater gain 
than when dry food alone i- ; used. 
There ought to be a law making it a crime, 
punishable by imprisonment, to fry beefsteak. 
Broil it; it is just as easy, and when broiled it is 
delicious. Fried beefsteak is not fit for a wild 
beast. You can broil even on a stove. Shut the 
front damper—open the back one, then take off 
tt griddle. There will be a draft downwards 
through this opening. Put on your steak, usiug 
a wire broiler, and not a particle of smoke will 
touch it, for the reason that the smoke goes 
down. If you try to broil it with the front dam. 
per opeD, the smoke will rise. For broiling, coal, 
even soft coal^makes a^better fire than wood. 
18 VERY EVIDENT that the cultivation of 
flax will greatly increase in this country soon. 
And it isjust as evident that its production must 
prove profitable. The annual importation of 
flax and flax products costs this country over 
$20,000,000, every ounce of which might just as 
well be grown at home. Great Britian annually 
imports from Russia, Germany, Belgian and 
Holland about $23,000,000 worth. 
The benefits of establishing creamer¬ 
ies are summed up in a telling manner by a Con¬ 
necticut farmer as foil >ws. “I keep half a dozen 
cows, my wife makes as good butter as is made in 
the Connecticut Valley, and I sell it to private 
customers at top prices. Notwithstanding this, 
I am going into the creamery, because it makes 
komuch less work in the house, and I can keep 
two or three more cows and not work nearly as 
hard as I do now, and make more money, make 
snore manure, improve my farm and enjoy life 
more. Perhaps the creamery won’t return on’e 
quite as much money for my butter as I now get 
from my customers, but I sha’nt have the bother 
and worry of making and selling it, and to be 
relieved of this I consider a great thing.” These 
are our sentiments exactly. 
The bean weevil is an insect pest which is 
rapidly spreading over our country and is likely 
to do great injury to this staj le crop. It i* 
closely allied to the pea w eevil but is in tiled 
much more damaging, fir»t because while the pea 
weevil rarely if ever produces more than one in¬ 
sect in a pea, the bean is frequently found with 
from one to a dozen in each seed. Again peas 
are principally used for food in the green state 
before the weevils show if the egg or germ is 
present, while beans in a dry or mature state 
fi rm an important article of food and the matur¬ 
ing weevils or larvae in them do not tend to 
make them any more palatable to say the least. 
The parent beetle lays her eggs on the outside 
of the young pod, the grubs when hatched eating 
their way into the bean where they remain dor¬ 
mant in the pupa state until spring, usually after 
the beans have been planted, unless they are 
kept in a warm place when their maturity is has¬ 
tened. As the time for planting beans is ap¬ 
proaching it will be well to remember that the 
only way to check or abate this nuisance is to 
plant no affected seed. If there could be co-oper¬ 
ation in this matter their increase could be baf¬ 
fled. Seed beans intended for ] lanting should 
be placed in a tight bag and kept in a very warm 
room for some weeks when the weevils will de¬ 
velop sufficiently to be easily scalded without 
injury to the seed. Or if the seed is kept con¬ 
fined in a bag until it is two years old the wee- 
v Is will all be dead. The evil will never be 
checked until united action is taken. 
Mr. Casper Hiller, Conestoga, Penna.. 
speaking before the Lancaster Agricultural Soci¬ 
ety of the practicability of dispensing with divis¬ 
ion fences, said that “the expense of keeping 
them up is greater than to hire a man to look 
after the cattle.” Mr. H. M. Eagle declared 
that “the law should make every man take care 
of his own animals instead of compelling him to 
protect himself against those of his neighbors.” 
A commit’ee was appointed to “examine into this 
question and report at the next meeting. 
There is an ingredient which every suc¬ 
cessful business man mixes in one way or an¬ 
other with his business. Some are slow to see it; 
in fact are so little acquainted with it even in its 
clearest and purest forms that they try to ex¬ 
press themselves when speaking of it by using 
such phrases as “Good Luck,” “Born Happy and 
Lucky,” and a host of other expressions which, 
when they all are put together and are boiled 
down the thing obtained is Brains.—D r. Byron 
D. Halsey. 
To Protect Farm Tools.— An excellent 
preparation for the preservation of the iron work 
of farm implements, may be made by the slow 
melting together of six or eight parts of lard to 
one of resin, stirring till cool. This remains 
semi fluid, always ready for use, the resin pre¬ 
venting rancidity and supplying an air-tight 
dim. Rubbed on a bright surface ever so thinly 
it protects and preserves the polish effectually. 
