-and for the past two seasons have grown on it 
very fine celery with but little labor. So I shall 
never again attempt to grow this vegetable on 
common garden soil without some cheap and 
eosy method of irrigation. 
No man can be a good neighbor to both him¬ 
self and his neighbors who is a sufferer from 
dyspepsia. No mau ever suffered from dyspep¬ 
sia who made his meals largely of fruit, and had 
a good variety of victuals and time to eat them. 
Fruit and vegetables require time and attention 
to raise; but it is better to put out an orchard and 
let it do its own prunning and mulching than to 
have none at all; and it is a great deal better to 
spend an occasional half day in the care of a gar¬ 
den than it is to spend all the time in the corn 
field and have no garden. By all means have a 
truck patch, and attend to the care of it yourself 
—Industrialist. 
One objection to a large farm of sufficient 
•capacity to meet the wants of a great farmer is 
that it concentrates all the crops and all the ma¬ 
nure at one point. In harvest time short haul¬ 
ing of hay and grain saves valuable time, and 
when manure is to be drawn, short distances to 
the fields from the heaps or sheds very much 
lessen cost. It is better to divide on large farms, 
&nd have two or more separate points of concen¬ 
tration and distribution, and thereby save great 
cost in team work. And too, it is very wise to 
so divide the farm buildings as to not have them 
all burn at one fire. These are general eonsidera- 
ations.—George Geddes. 
Sorghum for Butter. —A successful dairy 
farmer of Wisconsin relates his experience as 
follows: “I planted an acre of Imphee (sorghum 
or amber sugar eane will do as well.) A touch 
of frost induced me to cut it early, and not suc¬ 
ceeding in getting a mill to work it in time, I 
stacked it the same as corn, and afterward drew 
it convenient to the barnyard. In December I 
fed it to my milch cows, throwing it over to 
them whole, same as corn stalks. Now the re¬ 
sult ! Although they had abundance of hay, thty 
were as greedy for the cane as boys after sugar 
opiums. Every scrap of it was eaten, and so close 
’that nothing was left to indicate what had been 
ifed to 'them; no food seemed to do them so much 
igood. We could see no material difference in 
•the quantity of the milk, but in the quality one 
.good housewife said she never saw anything like 
at for “it was nearly all cream.” I believe an 
.acre of cane is worth more for milch cows than 
many acres of hay. Plant a patch of cane for 
your cow’s cream, and a Ded of carrots for the 
color, and feed; the cow’s mouth is the true 
strainer for a good col r; and let dye stuff alone. 
Try it. 
Sowing Seeds.— Joseph Harris, in his seed 
catalogue, gives his young customers some good 
directions about sowing garden setds. He says 
they should be covered only deep enough to keep 
moist, and that small seeds, such as lettuce, rad¬ 
ish, Drummond phlox, aster, verbena and pansy 
need not be covered deeper than a sheet of writ¬ 
ing paper is thick. If pressed into the soil and 
kept moist they need not be covered at all. Pe- 
tun a seels are easily covered so deep that they 
will not grow, while peas will grow if covered 
two or three inches deep. As a rule for out door 
planting it is well to cover seeds to a depth of 
three to five times their diameter, and no more, 
so that large seeds like corn and peas will be 
many times deeper than the minute seeeds of the 
portulacca. All must have the requisites of 
warmth, moisture and air (but not light) and if 
buried too deep the air will be excluded. Peter 
Heuderson finds great benefit in covering the 
seed, after pressing it into the soil, with a thin 
coat of finely pulverized moss evenly sifted on 
and kept wet. 
Farmers, and especiaily farmers’ boys, 
isolated in their work, are apt to feel as if en¬ 
gaged in an occupation of little account, disdain¬ 
ed by persons of ability and mark. On the other 
hand, men of fame and station are very much 
given to loDging for the time when they can 
leave the attained but disappointed heights of 
admiration and go down to the quiet valley to 
join in the wholesome and satisfying labors of 
the field. One of the latest notable examples of 
this general feeling carried out into practice is 
that of Captain Mayne Beid. He lives in the 
beautiful agricultural valley of the Wye. near 
the town of Ross, Herefordshire, experiments in 
gardening and reports with a fairness and a nice 
discrimination of facts and of language which 
makes his letters in this line scarcely less inter¬ 
esting than the stories of travel and adventure 
told to boys in his books. Nothing can exceed 
the candor and fairness with which he treats dis¬ 
puted points or opposing views, sensible that 
exact observation, through a series of years, can 
alone justify a fixed opinion.—New York Tri¬ 
bune. 
Professor C. V. Riley has deposited in the 
United States National Museum his extensive 
private collection of insects. The collection 
comprises some thirty thousand species, and up¬ 
wards of one hundred and fifty thousand speci¬ 
mens. 
