ing as most are in the winter season, two meals 
are better than three. 
In a very cold barn, possibly, cattle might 
need to be eating most of the time to get food 
enough to k,eep them warm, but dairymen 
have no use for cold barns for their cows. 
Our stables should be so warm that no exces¬ 
sive amount of hay and grain will be required 
for maintaining animal heat. 
Mr. Cheever was surprised to see how 
quickly cows would adapt themselves to the 
two meal system, and would lie and chew the 
cud at noon when persons were about the pre¬ 
mises. They not only learned not to expect 
feeding, but soon learned not to care for it.... 
Peter Henderson says in Garden and 
Forest that more cut flowers are used for 
decoratioh in the United States than in any 
other country, and jt is probable that there 
are more flowers sold in New York than in 
London with a population four times as great. 
In London and Paris, however, nearly every 
door-yard and window of city and suburb 
show the hous^holder’s love for plants, while 
with us, particularly iu the vicinity of New 
York (Philadelphia and Boston are better), the 
use of living plants for home decoration is far 
less general 
The chrysanthemum, he says, is now rival¬ 
ing the rose, as well it may, and no doubt 
every decade will see the rise and fall of some 
floral favorite. But beneath these flitting 
fancies is the substantial and unchanging love 
of flowers that seems to be an original instinct 
iu man, and one that grows in strength with 
growing refinement. Fashion may now and 
again condemn one flower or another, but the 
fashion of neglecting flowers altogether will 
never prevail, and we may safely look forward 
in the expectation of an ever increasing inte¬ 
rest and demand, steady improvement in 
methods of cultivation, and to new and at¬ 
tractive developments in form, color, and 
fragrance. 
Farmer Moore, according to the Michigan 
Farmer, says the cheapest way to make a silo 
is to use the bay, in a barn, and make the 
sides tight. He uses clover, cut up, and pack¬ 
ed tight; thinks it better than corn. After 
the silo is full, it should be weighted heavily, 
aud covered tightly. Twelve acres of clover, 
put in a silo, make more feed than twelve 
acres of hay, and it is better for cows in milk. 
Some papers advised not to put on weights, 
but he tried it, and lost half his silage 
Mr. Moore deems silage a cheap fodder 
because so much can be put into a given space. 
He has put 42 loads of clover in a bay of ordi¬ 
nary size. “Isn’t it costly to get silage out of 
a bay 10 feet high?” he was asked. Mr. Moore 
replied that this difficulty was overcome by 
cutting doors at different hights in the silo., 
If every highway, says the Husbandman, 
were of stone well broken and beaten down 
by the passage of wheels, farms through which 
they pass would, at once, be worth enough 
more to pay for all cost of construction. 
Any rule that sets a price on a day’s work 
without reference to the man who does it, or 
the amount, as related to the general average, 
is iu the iuterest of poor, shiftless, incompetent 
workers, is unfair to the employer, or the 
faithful competent worker., 
Bulls are often vicious because they are 
shut up aud have no exercise. The Dairyman 
suggests that a good thing to do in such cases 
is to get a tread power feed cutter and make 
the bull cut the feed for the rest of the stock. 
The exercise will tame him and make him a 
surer breeder besides. 
Plant evergreens as soon as the frost leaves 
the ground. Don’t expose the roots to sun or 
wind one minute if you can help it. 
Eighteen years ago, when a certain cor¬ 
respondent of the Farm Journal began house¬ 
keeping iu a large town, he bought a whisky 
barrel which had just been emptied, and had 
a farmer friend fill it with the best cider he 
could make. He used a little of it while 
fresh, but about seven-eighths of it remained 
in the barrel until spring. Then he carried it 
to a porch on the sunny side of the house, put 
iu two or three sheets of brown paper and a 
gallou ot good molasses, used an inverted bot¬ 
tle for a bung, and let it turn to vinegar in 
the good old-fashioned way. That barrel has 
never been empty since. Every fall he draws 
out a few gallons for immediate use and fills 
up with the best cider he can make. All the 
neighbors like to borrow a little uowand then, 
aud all ask “now in the world do you make 
such magnificent vinegar?”. 
Henry Stewart says that the reason for 
the very large consumption of cheese in 
France and Germany is that small cheeses can 
be purchased for small sums in great variety 
aud in small and portable shape, each one 
about enough for a single meal for a family. 
Many millions of these cheeses are sold, ami 
of some kinds alone more than a million each 
are disposed of each year, and there are more 
than 100 different kinds made in those two 
countries. It is the habit there to eat cheese, 
but habit is formed by convenient opportuni¬ 
ty, and if the opportunities were offered it is 
certain that our domestic consumption of 
cheese would be very greatly increased aud a 
very good price would be obtained. 
The R. N.-Y. has always strenuously op¬ 
posed the use of the expensive “lawn mix 
tures” of seeds, and has insisted that either 
Blue Grass or Red-top, or both, are desirable. 
The experienced Josiah Hoopes confirms our 
view. He says,iu the Philadelphia Press,that 
for sowing use simply Kentucky Blue Grass— 
the Poa pratensis of botanists—as it is infin¬ 
itely superior to ail the various lawn mixtures 
offered for sale. Some introduce a little 
white clover, but as this springs up spontan¬ 
eously in almost every new lawn, it seems un¬ 
necessary to sow it . 
Small trees for small places. 
Professor Henry, in the Breeder’s Ga¬ 
zette, in reply to the question whether it is 
profitable to feed fattening cattle oats at 20 
cents per bushel (81 cents per 100 pounds) 
when corn can be had for 34 cents (01 cents 
per 100 pouuds) says that 100 pounds of oats 
give three-fourths of a pound more protein 
than the same amount of corn, but less carbo¬ 
hydrates by more than 17 pounds. Consider¬ 
ing the higher price asked for the oats per 100 
pounds, it is evident that they are an expensive 
food for fattening steers compared with corn. 
It would seem reasonable, then, to use oats iu 
this case only for a change or to keep the 
cattle consuming a larger amount of food 
daily, but that they should not be relied on 
for making the greater part of the gain.. 
_ „ Digestible 
One Hundred Pounds. Digestible ' ' 
protein. 
Sugar beets contain 
Mangels contain 
earbo-liydrates 
and fat. 
Corn silage contains 
Corn fodder contains 
Corn (grain) contain 
Oats (grain) contain 
1.2 lbs. 
1.1 lbs. 
1.1 lbs. 
2 5 lbs. 
S.4 lbs. 
0.8 lbs. 
8.65 lbs. 
4.67 lbs. 
11.0 lbs. 
35.6 lbs. 
69.5 lbs. 
51.9 lbs. 
W. W. Rawson, of Boston, reserves quite 
as large a number of sashes for beets as for 
lettuce. The beets are sown for greens. This 
business of growing beets under glass is re¬ 
munerative. Carrots and radishes are sown 
under glass together. Melons, tomatoes and 
cucumbers are sown under glass and all pay 
well to those who know just how to raise 
them. 
ABSTRACTS. 
Life: “N. J. stand for New Jersey and No 
Joke. Those who have lived in New Jersey 
feel that there is something more than a coin¬ 
cidence in this fact.”——“Romauce versus 
Reality: Wife (on her husband’s return from 
his office, with her arms thrown about his 
neck): ‘I came across a lot of your old love- 
letters to-day, dear, in one of the trunks up¬ 
stairs. Ah, John, how you did love me?’ 
Husband: ‘Yes, indeed. Is dinner ready? 
I’m as hungry as a tramp.’ ’’—Harper’s Bazar. 
-Breeder’s Gazette: “It would seem more 
reasonable, since 100 pounds of silage are 
about as uutritious as 100 pounds of beets, 
that our farmers grow silage rather than 
beets.”-J. B. Olcott: “ ‘Seedsmen’s mix¬ 
tures’ of lawn grass seem best devised to ren¬ 
der uniform fine texture impossible.”- 
Husbandman: “Have no fear about sowing 
clover and Timothy seed after the backbone 
of winter is broken, for spring will come soon 
enough to take care of them.”-Farm 
Journal: “Papa now plants an alarm clock 
under the parlor sofa set to go off at 10 
o’clock. Young America knows what it 
means.”--“Who is this natural beauty 
that advances with so much grace? The rose 
is on her cheeks; her breath as pure as morn¬ 
ing dew; joy tempered with modesty ani-. 
mates her couutenaifee. It is Health, the 
daughter of Exercise and Temperance.”- 
“Nothing better for the calves than linseed or 
cotton-seed meal one part, corn meal one, and 
bran two parts. Give from oue to two quarts 
twice a day. Keep the calves warm and 
water twice a day. Clover hay or rowen is 
best.”-“Did you ever notice that where 
the bill-of-fare lacked fruit there was the 
greatest tendency to alcoholic stimulant? 
There is a natural craving in every human 
frame for the juices of fruit. If it is not sup¬ 
plied iu its natural form, it is demanded iu 
the fermented form.-Life: 
SYMPATHY. 
‘‘There an* tears in the maiden’s tender eyes 
And h<*r heart is stirred with sweet compassion: 
She weeps at the cruel slaughter of birds, 
But dare not, will not ‘be out of fashion.’ ” 
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