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doors open most of the timse during the hauling
in and for a week or two after the mowing
away is all done. A little pains in matters of
this sort will be amply repaid by the superior
quality of grain and straw. We need not urge
attention to the barn roof, to the end that no
leaks be left unrepaired-thiat is, we presume
met: though a knowledge of cases is recorded
in our memory, wherein many loads of wheat
have been ruined by rain, Ofter it was believed
to be snugly in the barn*
  l1or Winter Wheat- -Plow early, so as to get
in early in eptenr'ner.
   Trhd C,.n Cr-op.,The plowing and cultivat-
ing hrving oeen pretty much all done up, it
simyly r mains to go through once or twice
awi pr al up any lUrge weeds that may have es-
cp' id the implements.  Let not a single one
0, them go to seed, under penalty of being de-
nounced as a sloven of the wordt 8ort!



  I'otfr .1f.^.doios.-Cut off, close to the ground,
all bushes, single or in clumps, that may be
standing as a reproach to you.  Now is the
best time to kill them by simple cutting. Top-
dress with fine compost, if you have it-and
you ought always to have manures on hand



when you need thiem-tO increase tne marer-
math and protect roots of cut grass from the
scorching heat of the sun. Keep off stock un-
til 'lie new grass is nicely up.
  Stork.-Good feed, a plenty of it, pure wa-
ter, and salt, are essential. Don't neglect them
if you would have your stock go into the win-
ter in good plight.  Your swine and poultry
intended for market should be fattened pretty
early to insure economy and the best prices.
  The good of your sheep demands that the
rams should be separated from the ewes, and
that the lambs be weaned and placed with the
yearlings of the flock. See that the udders of
the ewes do not suffer for want of occasional
drawing of the milk.
  The (orchard.-Now is the time for budding,
layering &c. It's so much better to have just
the kind of fruit you want, and the very best
kind, than to be eating miserable. gnurly, good



for nothing stuff, with self-reproach for lack



SIN FARMER.



of ambition.  Look out for the borers; they
have hatched, probably, and penetrated the
bark. After them with a knife before they
shall have penetrated deeply into the wood.
  The Grdna.-Save all the fruits you can for
canning. Fruits are the most wholesome food
of man, and he is a barbarian who, for want
of a little effort at the right time, will compel
his wife and children to munch pork and po-
tatoes the whole year round.

         annagement of Cane Juioe.

  ED. FAunEsL:-I feel much interested in the
sorghum question, and have regretted that I
could not attend the Convention held in your
city last spring. So I will write you, asking
you to lay my experience before your readers,
in the hope that I may provoke discussion on
the topic herein treated, viz.:-how to neutral-
ize the acid in cane juice, without injuring it
some other way.
  On commencing to make syrup, five years
ago, I procured some litmus paper, (for detect-
ing acids), which, in one pailful of water, re-
quired two spoonsfal of sharp vinegar before I
could perceive that the mixture would change
the color of the paper at all.  Well, after I



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and it was changed from blue to purple in-
stantly upon touching the juice. I then mixed
with the juice about half a pint of lime white-
wash to fifty gallons of juice, tried my paper
again, and could perceive very little or no al-
teration, proving that the lime had not neu-
tralized enough of the acid to be perceived in
its effect upon the paper. Afterwards I found
that if much more lime was added than above
stated that it would coagulate the impurities
and disperse them through the mass, instead
of causing it to rise in the form of scum so
that it might be removed. Thus I found that
very little of the acid could be removed with
lime.
  Then I tried saleratus when the syrup was
about two-thirds boiled down, and it gave it a
saltish, bitterlsh kind of taste. Then I tried
saleratus applied to the cold juice, and kept
on adding it until it would not change the col-



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