follows: The former is deficient in many of the 
elements of nutrition so necessary for recuper¬ 
ating the constant wear and tear which neces¬ 
sarily takes place in the body of a living animal. 
On this account, horses which are exclusively 
fed on corn and hay do not receive that kind of 
nourishment which appears necessary for the 
due support and maintenance of the animal 
fabric; hence, we must not be surprised that 
corn-fed Worses show evidence of being languid, 
by sweating profusely while being worked, lack 
of vitality, etc. Oats, on the contrary, contain 
more of the essential elements of nutrition than 
any other article of food which can be fed with 
impunity to horses. Oats are not only the most 
natural food for horses, but are decidedly the 
most nutritious. They are the cheapest, because 
there is less risk in feeding them, and experi¬ 
ence has proved that horses properly fed on 
oats and timothy hay can, with regular exercise, 
good grooming, and proper sanitary regulations, 
be brought to the highest state of physical cul¬ 
ture, and can perform more work with less 
evidence of fatigue than when fed on any other 
article of food.— National Live Stock Jour¬ 
nal, Chicago. 
Farming in Belgium.— Belgium produces 
on its small unfenced farms the largest crops per 
acre that are raised in any part of the world. 
Farming is there a species of gardening. The 
wheat crop receives an attention commmensurate 
with its importance. The seed is sown broad¬ 
cast and thick in the fall, in carefully pre¬ 
pared beds of rich soil, and comes up thick, rank 
and strong, remaining all winter, covering the 
ground like a mat. In the spring the field is 
deeply plowed, harrowed and drilled, in rows 
from ten to twelve inches apart. The plants 
are pulled up, carefully separated and dropped 
singly at distances cf from four to six inches. 
The planter follows the dropper with a trowel or 
paddle, makes holes and sets out the plants as 
one would strawberries. This is a tedious pro¬ 
cess, not adapted to one-hundred-acre lots or 
one-thousand-acre farms, but on the five acre 
Belgium farms amply repays the labor. The 
plants branch into stools, producing several 
stalks, each with heavy heads of grain, and 
yielding at haivest from one hundred to one 
hundred and fifty bushels to the acre.—[Ameri¬ 
can Miller. 
Subsoil Plowing.— I am surprised that 
farmers do not employ the subsoil plow more 
generally than they do. It is a grand imple¬ 
ment. What would the nurseryman do without 
it? If properly used I believe it would, on most 
farms in this country, nearly or quite double the 
productive capacity of the soil. Farmers are 
buying expensive fertilizers far less valuable 
than might be found in their own soil by deep 
plowing and tillage. It is the subsoil plowing 
and thorough tillage that enables a nurseryman 
to take 40 or 50 bushels of wheat to the acre, 
without manure, from land that had been clear¬ 
ed of a four or five-year crop of trees. Plow 
deep, keep the surface freely fertilized and con¬ 
stantly stirred once a week or oftener, cultivate 
deeply and thoroughly and defy the drouth.— 
[Patrick Barry. 
Pyrethrum. —Some information would be 
appreciated in regard to this new plant that is 
being introduced into this country by the De¬ 
partment of Agriculture, of which a recent cir¬ 
cular says: “In the Spring of 1SS1 Prof. C. V. 
Riley, on behalf of the U. S. Entomological 
Commission, distributed the seed of Pyrethrum 
roseum and Pyrethrum cinerarisefolium to a 
number of correspondents in different parts of 
the country, and while the excessive drouth 
rendered the experiments in growing it in many 
cases unsuccessful, yet the reports are sufficient¬ 
ly favorable to warrant a further trial. The 
value of these plants in furnishing a perfectly 
effectual insecticide that can be used against 
many of the worst insects injurious to our crops, 
as well as against household ahd greenhouse 
pests without damage to man or beast, has been 
fully established by experiments made under 
his direction during the past two years. The 
general cultivation of the plants in all sections 
where they will succeed is, therefore, most de¬ 
sirable.” 
Sour Milk eor Calves.—A successful Ver¬ 
mont dairyman who is noted for the fine ap¬ 
pearance of his stock says he takes the calves 
from his cows when two days old, and at first 
feeds them on milk which has set twelve hours 
and skimmed, gradually bringing them on to 
sour milk, which is usually accomplished by the 
end of the fi; st week. As a substitute for cream 
removed he pours in a little melted tallow, and 
begins to stir in a little bran by the second or 
third week. Great care should be used not to 
over-feed the first two or three weeks. 
Johnny and Tommy were playing out in a 
street where there was much fast driving, and 
where they had been forbidden to go. 
“Hello,” said Johnny, “there comes a spank¬ 
ing team.” 
“Where?” asked Tommy. 
“Right across the street there; ids your moth¬ 
er and mine, and we’d better cut sticks and get 
out of this,” which they did,, with their mothers- 
after them. 
