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JPresseil BBug-s. —While we can usually 
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of Canada, who lias long been regarded ns an authority 
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T8ie BBSaelk Wiilnut as a r A'iml>ci* 
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beautiful timber tree. If planted in good earth, a rich 
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when two or three years old, though the better way is to 
plant the nut where the tree is to stand. About eight 
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Milk “Springing” ISeibre halv¬ 
ing.— C. W. Mills, of Rome, Ga., writes ns that his Jer¬ 
sey Dutch cross-bred cow had gone down in her flow to 
about three quarts a day, some five weeks before calv¬ 
ing, at which time it began to increase in quantity, 
without change of treatment, to ten quarts, when she 
calved. He says that all this time the milk was per¬ 
fectly good, neither lumpy nor stringy, nor showing any 
change in color. After calving, her yield was twelve 
quarts daily. The calf was healthy and stout, but not 
quite so full-fleshed as her former calves. This is not a 
very unusual occurrence with deep and rich milkers. 
“ Value 2d,” the great butter cow, tested last June in 
Baltimore, exhibited the same peculiarity, and heifers 
occasionally give milk several months before calving. 
Mr. Mills’ cow may prove remarkably rich. It would 
he worth while to test her butter-yielding capacity. 
