A Few Economies in Farming.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 48, 24 August 1895, Page 3

A Few Economies in Farming.

The Daily Commissioner of Canada, addressing a meeting of farmers o.i the above subject, said economy means doing something during the kng winter season. '• I know very few men who got nil they want by working five mouths in the year. I would have my cow work as long as myself. li* you make a lid fer with her first calf milk ten months you create the tendency iv her to keep that up, and in a short time you will ha?e established a habit which will be transmitted to the progeny. I will find you herds of cattle which do not go dry at all. If a cow begins the milking season in the fall of the year instead of in the spring, she will soon give 30 per cent, more milk within the \i months, and by the ciosest calculation it dues not require more tli in 25 percent, m -re food to keep her milking than dry if kopt iv proper condition in tho bea e er. " A Gcrmaa farmer, in sheer absent min.lncss, sprinkkd some beer ou some plants one ni^ht. nni was amazed next day to find 177 <lead snails King about the plants With the object of further testing the efficacy of the liquid, he filled two saucers with bee: 1 , and placed fre^i lettuce leaves in them, with the result that he f-.uad ntxt morning the lettuce untouched, and 218 dead snails.