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least; and cows kept by this process when 
through milking are always excellent beef. 
Tie has found growing heifers to thrive and 
do better upon silage than upon any other 
food; and he could not advantageously raise 
heifers except by the use of silage, tie has 
never had art animal become sick or out of 
health In any degree from the use of this food; 
but, On the contrary, since its introduction 
and use, his cattle have been much more uni¬ 
formly healthy, thriving and profitable than 
before. It must be borne in miud always that 
silos will not yield for feeding anything better 
than what they are lilied with, concludes Mr. 
Potter. It must also be home in mind that 
quadrupeds, as well as bipeds, require a vari¬ 
ety of food to maintain tbo best health and 
condition. They should not be fed upon si¬ 
lage alone. A proper amount of meal should 
be fed with the silage every day, especially 
to milch cows and stock being fattened. 
For growing stock, meal fed with the 
silage, especially oat meal or barley meal, 
will be found most useful and profitable. 
Nor will silage supersede wholly the use of 
good hay. Mr. Potter gives to his stock 
usually one ration of hay each day, and to 
his milking stock from two to three quarts 
of meal each day, fed with silage. 
From his experience, he cannot doubt that 
whoa the preservation of green crops by en- 
silugo shall become thoroughly known, and 
practiced throughout the country, it will 
largely increase the profit and the pleasure and 
success of agriculture. It will enable the 
whole Southern portion of our country to 
raise its own cattle and make its owu beef 
without dependence upon any other section. 
It will great ly increase the products and profit¬ 
ableness of agriculture in the vast West. It 
will enable farmers in New England and the 
no th eastern portion of the country to increase 
the profits of their farms by greatly increasing 
their productiveness in proportion to the labor 
expended. 
Hellebore for Currants. —Mr. William 
B. A1 wood, of Columbus, O., in his very use¬ 
ful notes on insects and insecticides, says 
that hellebore for the currant worm should 
be blowu through bellows. “Iks applica¬ 
tion.” he says, “m any other way, is u great 
waste of time and material.” Wo thiuk Mr. 
Alwood is mistaken. How many currant 
bushes will two tablespoonfuls of the powder 
sufHee for/ Let us take that amount and add 
euough hot water to form a thin paste. Then 
mix this iu two gallous of water, and, with a 
hand-pump, force it through a tube and cy¬ 
clone nozzle. In this way it is just as easy to 
spray the interior of a bush as the outside: 
just as easy to spray the under as the upper 
sides of the leaves. An eutire hush may be 
sprayed in half the time that it can lie dusted, 
and the work is far less fatiguiug. We have 
tried both ways as thoroughly as we know 
how. Now wheu it is added that the watered 
hellebore thus applied is as sure to kill the 
currant worms as the powder is, aud that 
fewer are likely to escape, it would appear 
that it is the better method of application. 
Large Milk Records. —A correspondent 
of the Husbandman asks the editor if he 
knows of anyone that believes one cow gave 
in one year ‘JO,021 pounds of milk ? If so, he 
requests the editor to mention the names. 
The Husbandman replies that sujli doubts 
about milk products do uot exist in the minds 
of men who have faith in the integrity of 
others whose ways are open to closest scru¬ 
tiny. Smiths, Powell and Lamb, of Syracuse, 
will show several records approximating 26,- 
000 pounds in a year. Messrs. T. G. Yeomans 
& Sons have records very close to the figures 
cited. From one of their cows they made 
more than 00 pounds of butter iu a month. 
The lute Col. Hoffman lmd several cows 
whose records were not far below 20,000 
pounds. It is a well established tact that a 
single day’s milk product has exceeded 05 
pounds, and there are at least two, instances 
of 100 pounds from a single cow iu a day of 
24 hours, with uo reserve of milk held over to 
make a favorable beginning. 
Cutting and Curing Hay.— In the Breed- 
ers’ Gazette, Professor Lattft, of Purdue TJni- 
ersity, says that he prefers early cutting, be¬ 
cause, first, the buy is more palatable and 
more nutritious, and, second, the bulk of the 
crop is secured before the wheat harvest 
comes on. If the hay crop bo Orchard Grass 
and clover—which is an excellent mixture, 
both for meadow and pasture in rotation erop- 
ping—the entire crop will be removed before 
the wheat is ripe. 
Curing without bleaching is essential 
to tlie best quality of hay. The commou prac¬ 
tice of letting the grass lie in the swath with¬ 
out stirring is bo.h a slow and u wasteful 
method of curing hay. When the yield is 
large—as it generally will bo under good farm 
management—the upper layer of grass will 
dry out mid sometimes become bleached by 
sun and dew before the lower layer will be 
even wilted. What we need to secure is the 
rapid and uniform curing of the entire swath 
of grass. For this purpose the hay tedder is 
invaluable. Next to the mower and rake he 
considers the tedder the most important im¬ 
plement in the hay field. It lifts, loosens, and 
to some extent, turns the grass, thus exposing 
the damper portions more fully to the sun 
aud facilitating the circulation of the air 
through the entire mass. The tedder should 
be passed over the cut grass more or less fre¬ 
quently according to the rate of drying, but 
as soon as the leaves become dry and begiu to 
break off its use should be discontinued. 
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS. 
Pres. Edwin Willits, in bis address at. 
the Kansas Agricultural Commencement, said 
that he had an impression that he could not 
shake off, that our system of education is too 
diffusive; that wcare trying odo not too much, 
but too many things; that the weary arm¬ 
loads of books are the precursor of a weary 
burden for the mind as well; that we are chas¬ 
ing after too many small facts, memorizing a 
host of worthless trash. He wants our teach¬ 
ers to lie iu os dead earnest as our lawyers, 
our doctors, our merchants. Much is said 
about our teachers getting into ruts. He be¬ 
lieves in ruts; every good lawyer has Ins rut. 
He travels over and over again in the same 
tracks ami makes it a rut. But let it be a rut 
of his own making; let it bo like the channel 
of a river which makes its own banks; and let 
there be enough of him occasionally to over¬ 
flow. ... 
C. M. Breese, in his Commencement ora¬ 
tion at the above college, declared that office- 
seeking seems to have become our national 
malady—a prolific source of political corrup¬ 
tion, In every village a scoro of men will 
fawn, cringe and toady for their townsmen’s 
votes for a paltry constables!)ip. Office-seek¬ 
ing is not confined to smalt offices, but the 
same spirit may be seen from the Presidency 
down. A new President is at once surround¬ 
ed by a multitude of office-seekers, ravenous 
for a morsel from the nation's table. 
He takes the view that a strictly houest 
man, desiring purely the public good, unwil¬ 
ling to share in lies or party' slander, or act 
the rat, weasel or fox, cannot succeed in poli¬ 
tics. YY r bat will lie the outcome of all this? 
Every citizen should be interested iu the good 
of the government. But the turbulence of 
elections, scandal of the press, and the useless¬ 
ness of honest, uncunning efforts in political 
life, discourage good men, giving our politics 
over,to tricksters.. 
We guard well our steps that we do not 
lead the world astray. Our inspiration is not 
“America for America’s sake,” but “America 
for the world’s sake.” Humanity is America’s 
mission, said A. B. Elliott . 
F. B. Elliott, speaking of the defects iu 
trades unions, said that when the unions at¬ 
tempt to formulate absurd rules governing 
the number of apprentices that may be em¬ 
ployed, and providing that all laborers in a 
giveu trade shall receive equal wages, the ob¬ 
jects for which they were created are defeat¬ 
ed. Bo manifold are the defects in these 
trades unions that we evidently must look to 
another source for the solution of the labor 
problem. If unions are insufficient, let other 
means be tried. The near future should wit¬ 
ness the end of all strife between labor and 
capital..... 
Farmers are begiuniug to find out, says 
the Husbauduum, that it is not [laying them 
to husk, grind and mix feed for stock; that 
the corn that is fed on the farm should never 
be separated from the stalk on which it grew, 
but fed together, aud save at least one-fourth 
of the labor and the uncalled-for expense of 
husking aud grinding.. . 
Professor Budd, in the Iowa State Regis 
ter, says that few realize the work of the busy- 
birds iu distributing the seeds of our fruits, 
shrubs uud trees. Last fall wheu directing 
the plowing up of sprouts fioni the edge of a 
row of elderberry, he noticed seedlings of 
grape, raspberry, strawberry, currant, goose¬ 
berry, mulberry und other cultivated plants. 
At first he was puzzled to account for the va¬ 
riety’ of species until ho hap;>tmed to think it 
was a favorite resort for the birds from the 
time the first elderberry liegan to turn uutil 
late in the fall .... 
Waldo F. Brown advises the readers of 
the Weekly Philadelphia Press to stick to the 
Timothy seed in making a new lawu. His 
neighbor re-graded his door yard this spring, 
and used only Blue-Grass seed, under the mis¬ 
taken idea that if he seeded heavily it would 
be sufficient. It came up quite thick, but 
does uot make body to cover the ground or 
keep down weeds, and, as there is nothing for 
the lawn-mower to cut, his yard will be uu- 
pightly nil euowier. Another yard near was 
graded at the same time, and plenty of Timothy 
was used with the Blue-Grass and Red-Top, and 
it was ready for the lawn-mower about May 20, 
aud is now beautifully green and velvety. 
Right you are, Uucle Waldo. But how do 
you know that in the case of the second lawn 
the Red-top would not have served as well as 
the Timothy in hastening the velvety green? 
If so, would you have advised the sowing of 
Timothy with the Red-Top and Blue Grass.... 
The Texas Live Stock Journal says that a 
larger percent, of interest can be realized on 
500 head of steers worth $30 a head than there 
can be from 1,000 heat! worth >15, and the 
sooner our ranchmen keep this fact in sight 
and breed and run their stock to that end the 
better it will be for them.” To this the Gazette 
remarks that if this be good doctrine for the 
range, with how much greater force does it 
apply to the high-priced farming lands of the 
older States.. 
E W. Stewart (first-rate authority) tells 
the Albany Cultivator that flaxseed isa preven¬ 
tive of disease—a food medicine. Its oil is 
very soothing to the stomach and intestines, 
and is also rich in food for muscle and boue. 
One of the best ways to use flaxseed is to boil 
it in six times its bulk of water till it forms a 
jelly; then mix a little of this jelly with wheat 
bran aud you have an excellent food for grow¬ 
ing a pig. This is also good food for the 
brood sow, promoting her yield of milk. If 
used iu this way, one pound of boiled flaxseed 
is mixed with ten pounds of bran. Pigs very 
soon get a liking for the taste of flaxseed. 
Another way, say. Professor Stewart, is to 
grind one bushel of flaxseed with eight bushels 
of oats, or all the flaxseed that eau be ground 
with oats without sticking to the millstones. 
Then mix 100 pounds of this ground oats and 
flaxseed with 200 pounds of bran. This will 
be the best kind of feed for young pigs; and 
it will be good for them all the time up to fat¬ 
tening; aud besides this they will be smooth, 
rangy pigs, making good roosters at any time. 
At the Rural Grounds sve have uever raised 
a potato quite so early as the Early Ohio. 
Experiments are reported in the lost Report 
of the N. J. Board of Agriculture showing 
that it proved to be earlier than Early Ver¬ 
mont, Beauty of Hebron, Lee’s Favorite, 
Early Rase, Early Maine, Pearl of Savoy or 
Thorbum. Of 2(5 leading kinds planted Rural 
Blush (487 bushels), Burbank (396 bushels) and 
Jumbo (399 bushels) yielded most. 
A writer in Hoard’s Dairyman argues that 
instead of offering a prize tor the cow- that 
can make the most butter, we should offer 
cue for the cow that makes the most at the 
least cost. Had this been the rule at the lute 
National Dairy Show, he says, the Holstein, 
cow, Clotbilde, and her daughter would not 
have gotten the prize. The little Jersey cow, 
Gold Lace, weighing not half as much us 
Clotbilde, tnakeR within ounces as much 
butter. Her butter must huve been made 50 
per ceut. cheaper. He concludes that we 
waut no more tests of cow against cow, but 
let cost of production be the basis . 
Mr. J. A. Armstrong says that the breed¬ 
ers of Guernseys have been modest aud less 
forward in vaunting aud advertising their 
true merits than the advocates of the Jerseys 
and Holsteius, or oven the Ayrshires or De- 
vous, aud had they possessed the spirit to push 
their animals by advertising in the papers, as 
the others had done, the Guernseys would now 
be better known and estimated by the mass of 
our dairymen. 
Dr. Lawes says that the stomach of the 
animal and the reagents of the chemist do uot 
tell the same tale.. 
D. B. Wier, of Illiuois, in the Farmers’ 
Review, startles the R. N.-Y. by saying that 
never but once in forty-five years of coru cul¬ 
ture has he seen the weather hot euough and 
the soil dry enough so that corn would be in¬ 
jured by deep, close plowing when well 
grown. This was iu Hie sununer of 1870, 
when there was uo rain from the first of April 
until the 0th of August. Iu elosiug, he says 
that the two greatest faults of our farmers in 
cultivating corn are uot plowing deep euough 
wheu tilling it and laying it by too young ... 
In supjHirt of t he above statement Mr. Wier 
quotes the result of an experiment carefully 
conduced years ago by Dr. Hull. We are 
surprised he dot's uot quote from Dr. Sturte- 
vaut’s cai’ofully-coudurted experiments also.. 
“What good are the horus anyhow?” asks 
the editor of the Live Stock Indicator. Mil¬ 
lions of men und beasts have suffered torture 
from them, but where is the man, the beast, 
or the cause that has been benefited by their 
powers for causeless cruelty ? Let’s do away 
with sentimentality and look the question cf 
horns or uo horns squarely iu the face as a com¬ 
mon-sense, busiuess proposition. If horns ou 
cattle are good, valuable, desirable, let it be 
known fully how, wbeu aud why. If they are 
nuisance they ought to be abolished as gueh, 
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