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AGRICULTURAL tropics OF INTEREST RELATIVE TO FARM AND GARDEN. Heeling-In. Whether trees are to be planted in the fall or in the spring it is best to procure them in the tall and heel them m. operation, “Heeling-in” is a most important Moll and, according to its being results or poorly in done, it is of great benefit or loss. It is really a tem¬ porary for planting, almost which will preserve the trees any desired length of time, yet allow them to be taken out whenever they are wanted for permanent planting. Select a high, well-drained place, in light soil where water will not settle, and free from weeds that may afford shelter to mice. The object is to place the roots and a portion of the stems in contact with the soil. A trench is opened, the head toward the South, of a width and depth governed by the size of the tree3. The trees are laid in at an angle of about forty-five degrees; one layer being placed, the roots and part of the stem are to be thoroughly covered with fine soil. Then another layer of trees i3 laid in, more soil, and so on; when all are in the trench and ^*e earth so filled in that no airspaces are left among the roots, bank the earth up over and around them, rounding it up well to shed water. As the trees are heeled in, use every care, by labels, marking the identity stakes or by record, to preserve of the kind. When the trees are taken out for planting, there should be no di culty or uncertainty about their names. This should. be kept in mind when placing them in the trench. The trees aie placed in a sloping position that the branches may protect those below them from the sun. If the weather is very severe and there is no danger from mice, the tops may be covered by leaves or other mulch. If mice abound, heel in the trees erect, and bank up the earth well around the stems .—American Agriculturist. Wintering Stock. The farmer should look well to his store of feed, to see that he has sufficient liav, grain and roots to feed his stock through winter profitably. In addition to a lull supply of feed, he should have a supply If of clean straw, to bed his stock. to be obtained, forest leaves and are preferable. Gathered while dry, stored away, they make the best bedding; besides, they are shorter, and not so heavy in handling. The manure leaves also make a richer manure than straw. If the farmer has not sufficient feed for his stock, it would be wise either to buy feed or sell off a portion of the stock. He should cull out and dispose of all old or otherwise inferior animals; they are kept at an expense, and with no outcome. It is also important that the barns be in good condition, to keep stock comfortable really astonishing throughout how winter. It is careless and thoughtless this. many farmers are in regard to Many farmers go into winter quarters without shelter for a portion of their stock; others with their barns open, shackly and illy covered, with just feed enough to carry their stock through, as trouble though, after the expense of feed and of of feeding through winter, they were not any more value in the spring than they were the fall before. The feed, thus scantily given, was entirely lost, with a little manure, and that of poor quality, The object to pay of for their trouble. the farmer in feeding Feeding through winter should be for peofit. stock to gain a profit from is a nice point, and requires study close attention. It is not enough to a sufficient quantity, but the feed be of such as is best for accom¬ the ob ect of- feeding, let this for milk, butter, fat or growth. The must first consume a certain of food to maintain its station condition, to keep up heat for the and supply material waste. These must be first provided for before the can gain anything for the food. An animal kept health, clean, dry and warm, is kept in better consequently it takes less food, and what is consumed is more effectual, and more profit is realized from it. In feeding for miik and butter, such food must be given as will best meet the demands for milk, in addition to whatis required to supply the wastes of tissue. ‘While young, animals require food for formation of bone. This is yielded in milk in larger proportion than from any other food. A more matured animal re such food as the grasses, roots and grain, to produce bone, muscle, and a certain amount of fat. If the animal is fed for the butcher, it should be fed some flax and cotton seed. Corn is the most fattening Another grain. ■Winter thing in is feeding animals over condition to a profit, while to get them in good pleasant. early, It the weather is will take less feed, than to start into winter with them in a poor condition. The manure produced by the stock, if not secured and judiciously usdd, will greatly diminish the profit on the feed and care; therefore, let this be a point of great interest to those feeding animals through winter for profit.— Prairie Farmer. Farm and Garden Notes. Near the close of a journey let the horse walk. Use land in which some cultivated crop grew last year. Do not use coal oil or grease of any kind on a sitting hen; it will prevent the eggs from hatching. It is better to think twice before you strike a cow, than to think twice to find out why you struck her. Ducks may be profitably raised on farms where there are no streams or pounds of water for them. The evening milk has been proven by recent solids Knglish dairy tests to contain more than the morning milk. fo cure a cat of catching chickens, cut off her tail just back of her ears, and then top-dress her with two feet of earth. Mushrooms can be grown in any dark room or cellar where the temperature can be maintained at from fifty degrees to sixty degrees. It is better to keep a cow that knows how to attend to one branch of business thoroughly, than to have one ambitious to excel in everything. Happy is the man whose cows “come ill” .. at the right time ior winter dairy ing. has If he cannot makedairying things pay he some important to icarn. It is better to fill up the water trough before it is quite empty, than to let the cows get very thirsty and drink so much they won’t care to cat for two hours. No animal is more sensitiye to cold than a milch cow, and it is very import¬ ant to observe great regularity in time of feeding and milking. Cows keep accu¬ rate time in these matters. The poor quality of the native wild Masses in the West is one difficulty of the dairyman in that section. Prairie hay, though nominally cheap, is poor feed, and really often not so cheap as corn in the great corn producing States. other Potatoes, beets, be turnips, kept parsnips and roots can in the cellar all in winter without wilting by storing them airtight receptacles. placed They keep and equally covered well if three on the cellar floor two or inches thick with damp leaves. When farm implements are housed for winter they should be painted with crude petroleum, mixed with enough coloring that matter to give it a substance will hold it on. If this is done their durability will be greatly increased, and one of the most serious farm expenses be correspondingly lessened. An Odd Will. Persons frequently illustration form strange at tachments. An of this was furnished the Probate Court by the pro¬ visions of the will of Maggie Watson, which that was of probated. the After providing the out of hearse estate and was to be paid expense a four carriages for the funeral, ancl that her body be laid beside that of her husband, aud a monument be put on her grave like that on his, the will goes on to provide: “It is my will that the two china dogs now in my room he each separately put in a box with glass fronts, both alike, and one placed on my dear husband's gave at Spring Grove and the other on my grave, and ail to be paid for out of the money I leave. ”— Cincinnati Enquirer. A Famous Almanac. The Liegeois is one of the most fa¬ mous almanacs in the world. It is pub¬ lished at Liege, where the first edition was issued in 168(1, and it is distinctly the almanac of the peasants ancl others who cannot read. Its instructions are followed by means of certain symbols in cpnnection with certain dates. 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