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PETTKNOILL & CO., 37 Park Row, New York, Are the solo agents for the Southern Agricultu* uat, in that city, ami are authorized to contract ior inserting advertisements for us at our lowest cash rates. Advertisers in that city ure rcques ed to leave their favors with either of the above houses. Propagating G omniums. A “Constant Render” of the Coun¬ try Gentleman, December lath, asks information of the editors us to how to raise and cultivate geraniums, and as you have left it to some of your readers for a reply, I hope to be able in a brief article, to impart such in formation to your correspondent as will erfable her (or him) to have abun¬ dant success in their culture. Tne geranium is one of the easiest to pro¬ pagate among the flowering plants, which either from seed or cuttings, of I have any knowledge. But one other family of plants (Coleus) roots more readily. This being true, if your cor¬ respondent will get a small, shallow box, say five or six inches ut*ep, and NOVEMBER, ' 'is‘r'ééf two feet by eighteen inches in size, and till it with rich, light, garden earth and sifted sand, she will have all things ready for the cuttings. Then, if you have no green house, any time during the growing season—say iu the months of June, July, August, and the first of September—break off slips from any plant, about three to six inches in length, and about the size of your little linger (or larger) and make a hole in the sand, and put in your cuttings two or three inches deep, pressing the sand firmly about the base of the cutting, and putting the cuttings a few inches apart, until the box is full; then water freely every day or two until they root, keep¬ ing them in the shade. Scat cel}' a single cutting will fail to root, and soou became a large flowering plant. A still better way is to “tongue” the branches before severing them for cuttings. This is done as follows : Take a sharp knife, select the branch you wish to sever, and make a sloping cut half way through it, about an iuch long, and to prevent its breaking oft, tie it with a yarn string iu a sort of swing. In two or three weeks this cutting will callous at the cut point, and then it may be severed entirely and put out immediately, as before stated. Callousing is the first process of looting, and the parent plant fur¬ nishes the cutting with nutriment un¬ til it undergoes this process, and the result is that such cuttings root much more readily and grow more vigorous¬ ly. Geraniums are exceedingly brit¬ tle, and should be handled like china or ctrusean vases, hut they are, in my opinion, among the most lovely and satisfactory of all flowering plants. No special care is required for after treatment; better only I have found them do when grown where they can have a little shade in the ’neat of the day. For protection in Winter, a pit made either of brick or plank, four or five feet deep, and about six by nine feet in size, furnished with a glazed sash or two, will keep them iu flue condition without any artificial heat. 1 have made my response longer than was perhaps necessary, from die fact that it applies to nearly all kinds of soft cuttings— Cor. Count. Gent. Pigs on Grain Farms. The following excellent suggestions on the economical management of pigs on grain farms, is from Harris on the Pigs, an authority on swine mat¬ ters which is generally accepted as entitled to respect : “Oii far-ms where much grain is grown and only a lew cows are kept, it is usually uot profitable to keep a large stock made, of pigs. The common mistake however, is not in keeping too many, but in not feeding them liberally. As a rule, the pigs are kept on short allowance until they arc shut up to fatten after the corn is ripe, although there can be no doubt that a bushel of corn fed to pigs while on clover du iug the Sum¬ mer, will produce double or treble as much pork as a bushel of new corn fed in cool weather in lhe Autum, when the pigs have nothing but corn. A few’ Fall pigs can be krpt in the yards during the Winter, to good ad¬ vantage, especially if the cattle arc led grain. It i9 a great mistake to stint young pigs through the Winter, although it must be confessed that it is a very common one. The sows and any Spring pick pigs that may lion's be wintered over, will up the share of scattered grain and other food iu the yards; amt while it is often incon¬ venient to separate the young pigs from the older ones, yet it is not a difficult matter to make a hole in one of the sides of the pens that will ad¬ mit the young pigs through an ex elude the large ones—ami in this way the young pigs can be fed more and better food. This is a very important point. The young pigs should be kept growing rapidly through the Winter and Spring months. They should he in a condition that most farmers would pronouuce ‘too fat.* Young, well-bred pigs, so wintered, can be summered in a clover pasture at eom f-aratively little cost—and it is as¬ tonishing how fast they will grow. We have krpt a lot of grade Kssex Fall pigs during the Summer on a rich pasture near the ba?n yard, the slop from the h use, without No. S: any grain, that were sold at an extra price on the first of October, to ‘top otF a ear load of fat pigs sent t<> the New York market. And the whole secret of the matter—it secret it is— was in feeding the young pigs liberally through the Winter. “Few things would pay a grain growing fanner better No than t j raise peas lor his pigs. matter lmw •buggy’ the peas in ty be, the bugs or beetles remain in the peas until about the first of November; and when the peas are fed out before this time, the pigs will eat peas and bigs together, and there will be little loss. Noth¬ ing makes firmer or better pork and lard than peas, and the manure from pea fed pigs is e.\e< edingly rich. A heavy crop of peas, too, is a capital crop to precede Wiutcr wheat. They will smother the weeds, and, if sown eraly, are oft the land in g.»o 1 season to allow thorough working of the land before wheat sowing. If other food is scarce, a few of the poas may be cut in .June, as soon as die pods are formed, and fed grecu to the pigs, and a daily allowance may be fed uulil the peas arc fully ripe. In fact many farmers feed ail their peas to the pigs without threshing. But this is a wasteful plan. When the poas are ripe, pig-i will Jo mneh better on them cooked, or at It* isf, soak d in water twenty-fours before feeding. And, in addition to this advantage, pea straw, when well cured and care¬ fully harvested, is nearly as good for sheep as clover hay, and certainly will much more than pay the expense ot threshing. A large fi.rmcr in Michigan, who has mad'.* himself and his farm rich, attributes his success principally to gr wing a large quantity of peas every year and feeding them to pigs. He threshes the peas and cooks them, but d->es not grind them, as he thinks cooking is better and cheaper than grinding The manure the pea-fed pigs ha-< mi le his one of the most productive in the State. In a Nutshell.— \Ymk a- if there was no God to help. Trust it you pvWerks** to work.