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Agrostis  canina  or  Agrostis  vulgaris.  The 
latter  two  are  possibly  the  same  thing  or 
much  mixed,  and  are  known  as  small  Red 
Top,  Rhode  Island  Bent,  Fine  Top,  etc. 
Sow  either  one  alone  or  the  two  mixed  in 
any  proportion. 
The  lawn  mixtures  sold  by  seedsmen 
are  a  positive  disadvantage  so  far  as  a 
permanent  fine  lawm  is  concerned.  The 
mixtures,  many  of  which  I  have  tried  and 
have  identified  the  contents,  are  higher  in 
price  and  much  less  satisfactory,  except 
for  the  indifferent  judge  of  a  lawn  who 
is  impatient  for  something  green  to  cover 
his  land  at  the  earliest  possible  moment. 
I  have  patches,  two  years  old,  each  by 
itself,  of  mixtures,  two  from  Ferry,  two 
from  Henderson  and  one  from  Vaughn. 
These  are  rank  in  growth,  and  spotted 
with  grass  or  clover  of  unequal  growth 
and  size.  I  see  good  reasons  for  an  opinion 
expressed  some  years  ago  with  no  uncer¬ 
tain  sound,  to  the  effect — here  reaffirmed 
— that  the  lawn  grass  mixtures  are  decep¬ 
tive  and  rank  among  the  swindles. 
Sow  seed  in  early  spring  or  in  early 
autumn  provided  there  seems  to  be  a  good 
prospect  that  autumn  will  not  be  dry. 
If  in  the  chaff  and  the  seed  is  good,  sow 
from  two  to  four  bushels  per  acre.  The 
better  the  condition  of  the  land,  the  less 
seed  will  be  needed.  Again,  the  more 
evenly  it  is  sown,  the  less  waste. 
The  desirability  of  rolling  depends 
much  on  the  exposure  to  wind  and  the 
nature  of  the  soil.  I  can  give  no  brief 
rule  as  to  rolling.  Cut  rather  high  as 
soon  and  as  often  as  there  is  anything  to 
cut.  I  am  not  well  up  on  lawn  fertilizers, 
but  should,  for  appearance  sake,  after  the 
lawn  had  been  made,  use  only  commer¬ 
cial  fertilizers.  I  do  not  believe  in  mak¬ 
ing  a  barnyard  of  a  lawn  for  six  months 
in  a  year.  [prof,  j  w.  j.  beat,. 
Education  foe,  Butter  Con¬ 
sumers. 
The  farm  journals  are  doing  excellent 
work  in  educating  the  farmer  in  the  bet¬ 
ter  way  of  making  and  marketing  but¬ 
ter,  but  who  will  educate  the  consumer 
to  know  what  good  butter  is  ?  We  have 
spent  several  years  in  making  and  mar¬ 
keting  butter ;  we  have  read  and  com¬ 
mented  on  the  methods  given  by  butter 
makers  in  The  Rural,  and  we  feel  that 
we  are  making  No.  1  butter.  We  supply 
customers  at  our  county  seat  with  ever 
50  pounds  every  week.  These  customers 
are  the  best  families  in  the  city,  and 
know  what  good  butter  is,  but  it  was 
while  disposing  of  our  surplus  butter 
that  I  discovered  that  one-half  of  the  city 
people  were  not  educated  on  the  butter 
question.  Our  extra  butter  is  sold  on 
commission  by  a  groceryman  in  the  city. 
On  last  Saturday  I  was  in  the  store,  and 
we  had  taken  him  four  pounds  more  than 
our  usual  surplus.  He  told  me  that  all 
our  surplus  butter  had  been  engaged  by 
parties  as  early  as  the  Monday  before, 
except  these  extra  four  pounds,  and  I 
watched  the  sale  of  these. 
A  small  girl  entered  the  store  and  said 
her  mother  wanted  a  pound  of  the  best 
butter  he  had.  The  grocer  gave  her  a 
pound  of  our  butter  ;  but  presently  she 
brought  it  back,  saying,  “  Ma  wants  cow 
butter ;  she  don’t  want  manufactured 
butter.”  Without  saying  a  word,  the 
grocer  went  to  a  jar  and  procured  a 
round,  ill-shaped  pound  of  indifferently 
colored  butter  which  had  a  smell,  and 
gave  it  to  the  girl,  who  departed  and 
did  not  come  back,  so  I  presume  her 
mother  was  satisfied  with  this  as  cotv 
butter. 
A  showily-dressed  man  entered  with 
an  air  of  importance.  “  A  pound  of  but¬ 
ter,  please.”  The  grocer  began  wrapping 
up  one  of  our  square  pounds  for  him. 
“  Beg  pardon!  but  I  asked  for  butter 
not  soap,”  interrupted  the  purchaser. 
The  grocer  began  to  explain  that  the 
pound  in  question  was  good  butter  made 
on  the  creamery  plan. 
“  Creamery  butter  ?  well  that  settles 
it  he  exclaimed,  “  why  creamery  but¬ 
ter  is  only  another  name  for  oleomargar¬ 
ine,”  so  this  man  selected  a  pound  of 
butter  like  what  the  small  girl  had 
taken. 
While  this  sale  was  going  on  I  sat 
with  burning  cheeks  thinking  of  the 
pains  and  hard  work  put  upon  the  said 
“oleomargarine.”  I  thought  of  the  four 
strainer  towels  I  had  faithfully  washed 
and  dried  every  morning  so  as  to  have 
clean  cloths  to  strain  the  milk  through 
and  thus  have  no  particle  of  the  “  cow  ” 
in  the  butter. 
When  we  were  alone  the  grocer  pleas¬ 
antly  remarked. 
“  Well,  how  do  you  like  to  make  oleo¬ 
margarine  ?  ” 
“  I’m  glad  he  got  cow  butter,  for  I  hap¬ 
pen  to  know  that  pound  of  butter  he 
took.  The  milk  is  taken  from  the  stable 
containing  all  the  surplus  stock  in  trade 
that  the  cow  has  in  the  way  of  filth  and 
bad  odors.  It  is  then  strained  through 
the  dairy  humbug  called  a  wire  strainer, 
which  lets  through  the  said  surplus,  or 
part  of  it,  and  in  this  way  I  suppose  the 
true  cow  butter  is  made,”  I  answered. 
farmer’s  girt,. 
A  Gleaner’s  Notes. 
There  is  too  much  outcry  against  skim- 
milk  cheese,  as  there  is  against  skim-milk 
itself.  There  are  people  who  prefer 
cheese  with  less  cream  in  it,  and  certainly 
there  ought  to  be  no  law  against  supply¬ 
ing  this  demand.  If  business  of  all  kinds 
were  run  on  its  merits,  with  no  inter¬ 
ference  and  no  legislation  to  protect  this 
or  that  industry,  these  matters  would 
take  care  of  themselves ;  supply  and 
demand  would  regulate  the  markets. — 
Orange  County  Farmer. 
There  is  no  law  against  making  or  sell¬ 
ing  skimmed-milk  cheese  and  no  outcry 
against  it.  It  is  a  perfectly  legitimate 
product  and  is  a  nutritious  food  for  those 
who  can  digest  it.  The  outcry  to  which 
our  esteemed  contemporary  doubtless 
alludes  is  against  the  “  half  skim  ” — that 
is  a  cheese  from  which  about  one-third  or 
one-half  of  the  cream  has  been  removed. 
It  is  almost,  if  not  always,  retailed  as  a 
whole-milk  cheese,  and  is  a  fraud  on  the 
purchaser,  besides  being  a  calamity  to 
the  dairying  interest. 
The  Atlanta  Constitution  correspondent 
has  the  following  : 
A  mule  of  mine  died  on  the  27tli  ultimo 
that  was  probably  the  oldest  in  the  South. 
She  was  36  years  old  and  was  branded 
“  C.  S.”  and  “  U.  S.”  She  was  raised  in 
Alabama  and  was  in  the  Confederate  ser¬ 
vice  until  1863,  when  she  was  captured 
by  the  Federals  and  was  used  in  that 
army  until  the  close  of  the  war  when  she 
was  brought  to  Mississippi.  She  fell  into 
my  hands  in  the  fall  of  1870,  being  then 
15  years  old,  costing  me  $200.  She  did 
faithful  service  on  a  farm  until  two  years 
ago,  when  I  set  her  free,  but  cared  for 
her  as  though  she  were  young,  working 
her  only  when  compelled.” 
It  is  right  to  care  for  any  faithful  old 
animal.  Don’t  sell  a  faithful  old  servant. 
Knock  it  on  the  head  first ! 
The  disposition  so  generally  observed 
among  our  people  to  flock  to  the  towns 
and  villages  is  alarming  when  we  con¬ 
sider  its  probable  influence  upon  the 
future  character  of  our  agricultural  pop¬ 
ulation.  There  is  a  craze  to  send  the 
children  to  town  schools ;  and,  still 
worse,  families  sacrifice  all  the  advan¬ 
tages  of  the  moral  and  industrial  train¬ 
ing  which  this  quiet  and  peaceful  indus¬ 
try  affords,  rent  out,  or  sell  out  the 
farm,  and  move  “bag  and  baggage  ”  to 
town  to  educate  their  children. — Judge 
T.  C.  Jones, 
This  is  everywhere  noticeable.  Why 
this  craze  to  get  to  the  town  ?  Is  it  not 
possible  to  improve  the  country  school 
and  sustain  the  country  church  so  that 
our  children  will  be  satisfied  to  stay  at 
home  ? 
A  driver  who  sits  in  his  wagon  and 
lashes  his  worn-out,  half-curried,  half- 
fed  and  half-watered  team  should  never 
complain  of  any  abuse  he  may  receive 
from  his  master  or  employer,  for  he  is 
lower  in  character,  harder  in  sympathy 
and  less  noble  than  the  brutes  he  is  driv¬ 
ing,  and  deserves,  in  the  name  of  all  that 
is  human,  the  same  punishment  as  a 
criminal. — Breeder  and  Sportsman. 
That’s  right.  A  horse  needs  watering 
far  more  than  a  plant  needs  irrigating. 
The  best  load  you  can  take  to  the  field 
is  half  a  barrel  of  water  for  the  horses. 
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