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Mixed Feed For Hors. The Dairy Commissioner of the Do minion of Canada says: “I have found the best results to be obtained from using such graius (a mixture of peas, oats, barley and corn, or a mixture of peas, corn and bran) ground fine and soaked for not less than thirty hours before they are fed. I think hogs should be kept so as to permit, and£even to cause, them to take a good deal of exercise until after they weigh more than 100 pounds each. In the growing of young pigs it is important that they should re ceive a daily allowance of skim milk for six weeks or two months after they are weaned. Skim milk is the great flesh-forming or muscle and bone forming* food; and if the young pigs are stunted in these regards at that time they cannot be developed into the best class of hogs, no matter what breed they may be of. In my judg ment, it is highly important that the Canadian hogs, in regard to propor tion of lean flesh and firmness, should be maintained and improved, if the best customers for hog products are to be secured and retained. Cut Feed For Horses. Almost all farmers practise feeding their horses while at work with cut hay, moistened and mixed with ground corn and oats. The hay is much more easily digested when cut and wet, and the meal on it causes the horses to more thoroughly masticate it, as they like the taste. There is also much less waste in feeding grain after it has been groun^, especially after the mas tication which is made necessary when cut hay is fed with it, and which thor oughly mixes saliva with the food be fore it goes into the stomach. There is economy in steaming cut hay for feeding all through the winter, when less meal is required. When the hay is steamed, and corn and oat meal sprinkled over it, the flavor of the meal permeates the cut hay, as it can not when only cold water is used. But care should be taken not to give at any time more of this cut feed than will be eaten, and especially not to al low poultry to come into the stable and soil the mangers and feeding boxes, as they surely will if the horse barn is near the henhouse or poultry is allowed near it. / W The Pie Plant. We expect that next spring, the ap ples being scarce and cranberries high priced, the rhubarb or pie plant will be in better demand and sell at a better price than it has for some years past. Last spring it was espe cially low, as apples were very abun dant. Perhaps, also, the abundance last year of canned small fruits helped to lessen the demand for rhubarb. By the way, how many know that rhubarb can be put up in glass jars for winter use, at no expense and with but little trouble. Cut it up as if for pies, fill the jars, place them in tub of cold water deep enough to cover the jar, which will fill with water, and put on the rubber bands and covers while under water, so that no air may enter. Then make covers tight. Rhubarb so kept is even bet ter than when first picked, becoming very tender, losing some of its acid, but none of its rich flavor. Last win ter we kept it until rhubarb came again, and how good those pies did taste when we knew that rich people were paying twenty cents a pound for rhubarb not as good, forced under glass. But this is a digression. The rhubarb is a gross feeding plant. It requires a large amount of manure, and cares but little what it is if it is strong and abundant. Those who have roots of it will do well to cover them with manure now, whether the ground is frozen a little or not, and when the ground thaws, even if next month, fork that manure in around the crown of the roots. The more manure the bigger the stalks will be. No matter if a few roots are broken if the plants are old ones, as sometimes, with too many roots, it throws up too many stalks and they will be small. In the spring a square box with an old half window over it, or even a covering of cotton cloth nailed on top, can be used to give it an early start, that it may be brought to market when worth five or six cents a pound. Last spring some gardeners plowed up fields of rhubarb because the price was so low they thought it unprotit- nble. Others allowed it to stand, but pulled but little from it, for the same reason. We think both were unwise. For the reasons given above, scarcity of apples, cranberries and canned berries, we think good rhubarb will sell well next spring. The stalks should be pulled -often and not too much at one time. Long growing without pulling tends to make the crowns grow above ground, and the stalks will not be as long. Going to seed has the same result. Roots should bo broken up and divided, and ' a new bed set when it gets so as to 1 throw up a large number of stalks of small size.—American Cultivator. Farm anil Garden Notes. The Wyandotte class in the recent Dairy Show, England, was the largest of any, numbering 230 entries, while the leghorns numbered 207, and the famous English table favorite only 101 entries. Plymouth Rocks numbered 168 at the same show which clearly shows that they have takeu well also. We have much to thank England for in the poultry line and England has much to thank us for in the same line. One advautage of breedingthorough- bred fowls is that we know just what the chicks will be before they are hatched. We will know just what to expect from them, and, if wo have bred them any length of time, just what they will be good for when ma tured. All others are “chance” birds. The Wyandotte is about tho best table fowl w'e have. It is a good broiler, good roaster and a good dressed fowl. It is not quite so rapid a grower as some other varieties, but plenty rapid enough, and is fit to kill at almost any age. It has an excellent breast aud comparatively little offal, and, withal, is a good layer. At intervals during the summer when the bees can not gather honey the queens cease laying and the strength of the colony is cur tailed. A little feed at such times keeps the queens laying and the col ony is thus made much stronger than it would have been otherwise: This is very important in early summer. If bees are wintered in ordinary thin unprotected hives the moisture arising from them will condense and freeze to the hive, thereby ; encircling the bees with ice. On a warm day this will melt and # run down over the combs and been and produce disease. Protect with chaff hives, thoroughly made with double waHs, aud pack with good dry chaff. Bees that lack stores for winter should be fed in autumn, and the month of September is the proper time to do it. They should be fed while it is warm, so that they can seal over their stores. The best winter food for them is thoroughly sealed honey of the best class, aud for feeding the best of granulated sugar should be used: It is a mistake to undertake to feed bees daring the winter. The broiler season is with us once more. In fact, those who work on a large scale already have their houses partly full or at least many eggs under incubation: Those who intend to start for the first time ought to get every thing in apple-pie order this month at latest and start up tho machine or ma chines the first of the year, so as to get, (1) experience in hatching,and (2) be able to get three or more batches ofi’before April. Good-Natured Princess. It is a favorite device of novelists to have some one put a letter iu the wrong envelope, and an embarrassing instance in English high life is re called by the death of Princess Mary of Teck. A candid young lady once wrote to a friend that she could not play tennis because “Fat Mary” had invited her to a party. The good- natured Princess somehow got the letter, and when the young Wady ap pealed gave her this wholesome ad vice: “My dear girl, I know I am stout, but I cannot help it. You should be more careful in posting your letters, aud never forget that you never know who will read what you write. Don’t apologize. I have forgiven you.’’ Remarkable New Elements. M. Czernik, tho well-known Russian chemist, has examined two minerals from the Caucasus, with very note worthy results. One of them is a kind of coal, the ashes of which con tain a considerable quantity of tbo new element helium, along with several rare and precious earths used in the manufacture of incandescent mantels. The other is called cerite, and consists mainly of the new ele ment argon. 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