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The Ox-Eyed Daisy. —In some sections of 
the country this prolific pest has gained such 
ground that one cannot help wondering where 
the hay is to come from. Owners of fields troub¬ 
led with the weed must bear in mind that it is 
propagated by seed, and not by the root, and 
to rid themselves of it they have only to mow 
before the seed is ripe. It may require two 
seasons to rid a field entirely of the innocent 
looking flower, but it should be done at any cost. 
There is no doubt but that in the hay seed pur¬ 
chased by farmers the seed of the daisy is often 
brought to clean fields. In purchasing hay 
seed, therefore, it would be well to have it ex¬ 
amined by some one who could distinguish the 
daisy seeds, if any, or to test it by sowing 
beforehand a small quantity in a box. It is a 
noticeable and painful fact that careless farmers 
soon succeed in sowing the fields of their neigh¬ 
bors with noxious weeds. 
Economy in the Kitchen. —Cold meat or 
bread should never be wasted, for there are 
plenty of ways in which they can be used. 
Stale light bread, biscuits, muffins or waffles, if 
put in a pan covered with water and left to 
soak over night, can be made into nice batter- 
cakes, by the addition of an egg, a little flour 
and baking powder. Cold bread of any kind 
if dipped into water and set in the oven for a 
short time, will be as good as fresh. If a cake 
fails to rise, it can be made into a nice custard or 
pudding by soaking it in some milk and adding 
an egg, and if too thin, a little flour. Cold meat 
can be made into puddings, by chopping it very 
fine, and stirring it into batter with some milk, 
parsley, pepper and salt, and if desired a little 
onion. 
The experiment of sowing Winter wheat 
so late in the Fall that it will not come up until 
Spring is not tried so often as formerly. Of 
late years farmers have got into the habit of 
sowing early to hasten the harvest, the late 
wheat being more injured by the midge. But 
in very sevqre Winters, probably the safest way 
to keep the crop from Winter killing is to sow 
very late, and to have but little above ground to 
be injured. No amount of top can save the 
ground from freezing, and if the roots are to be 
loosened the less top there is to dry and exhaust 
their vitality the better for fhe crop. 
The completion of the Southern Pacific Rail¬ 
road is likely to work a revolution in the grain 
transportation of southern Calfornia, provided 
the railway magnates are willing to accept fair 
rates for freight service. By the way of New 
Orleans, California wheat can be landed in 
Liverpool in thirty-one days. This should re¬ 
lieve the uneasiness manifesting itself among 
the wheat growers of the Pacific slope, that they 
may again be placed at the mercy of foreign 
ship-owners, and be forced to pay such exorbi¬ 
tant rates of freight on wheat as to leave little 
for the expense of raising the grain. California 
expects this year to have 1,250,000 tons of wheat 
for export. 
Experiments have proved that musty meal 
is not wholesome food for any of the domestic 
animals. Disease and death have been directly 
traced to its use. When fed to poultry, chicken 
cholera or some disease resembling that was the 
result. Cows to which it was fed gave bitter 
milk, and ceased to thrive as well as those in the 
same pasture which had no grain; swine fed 
upon it failed to grow or fatten; only horses 
were not injured by it, and they escaped because 
they would not eat it. 
If pulverizad charcoal forms part of the in¬ 
gredients of a poultice of any kind for a man or 
beast, it proves one of the most cleansing appli¬ 
cations for an old sore or a festering and pain¬ 
ful wound that can be used. It will effectually 
prevent the growth of “proud flesh,” and leave 
the edges of the sore as bright and clean as a 
new cut. It may be used in connection with 
flax seed, slippery elm, bread or cracker poul- 
tices; just add finely powdered charcoal enough 
to cover the poultice after it is spread. 
A great many old farmers believe that the 
breed of hogs is determined by ihe amount of 
corn in the crib. It is certainly true that the 
best-bred hogs require most liberal feeding. In 
fact, it is one of the advantages of a good breed 
that it will make better me of the greatest 
amount of feed than a poor animal. But a half- 
starved pig of the best breed is the worst kind of 
a scrub. 
It is bad policy to grow and sell young 
stock on the phosphate exhausted soils of the 
Eastern States. A young animal has more 
framework in proportion to weight than it will 
have when older, and after the frames ork is 
grown subsequent additions to weight are main¬ 
ly of what the soil can easily afford to lose. 
Some farmers say that they would have 
done better this year if they had “made haste 
more slowly” this Spring. The crops upon un¬ 
drained land which was plowed before it had 
settled and dried are not as forward now as 
those upon land plowed and planted two weeks 
later, but which was dryer when plowed. 
