T HE WISCONSIN FARMER



and take good care that they are judiciously with amazing rapidity. It has
caused great
and regularly supplied with good hay, roots, alarm  and uneasiness among
the farmers.
water and salt.                              Can you enlighten us on the
subject, or pre-
  Fatten your swine as early as possible and scribe a remedy?
market. First prices quite as apt to be as     Very respectfully yours,
high as any.                                                          ARMINS
PICKEZT.
  Stables-have them in good repair, warm   WEELAyNE1, Wig., Oct. 16, 1S63.
and yet well ventilated and light, and pro-  ANSWER.-The oat-like grass to
which you
vide for the saving of manures. Thorough refer is undoubtedly a species of
the Hotecu,
cleaning, particularly of feet and legs, will be though it is impossible
to determine, without
more needed now than in the colder weather more particular information as
to the height
ff  ;,t- p shen roads are hard and dry.  and character of the stem the appearance



  Odd spells of good weather may be well
employed in cutting timber for lumber and
fencing and wood for fuel, so that when the
most favorable time comes for sledding they
may be hauled in.
  Rainy days, in threshing, cutting feed,
greasing harness, looking and assorting over
fruits and vegetables in the cellar and in
reading the FARMER, other periodicals and
books. KNOwLEDGE Is POWER.
  If any vigetable roots-asparagus, straw-
berry or others-have not been properly cov-
ered with litter, attend to it at once.
  Earth up around fruit trees to prevent dam-
age by gnawing of bark. Tramping the suc-
cessive snows about the trunk answers well,
also.



  Many other things will doubtless suggest
themselves, on reflection, as necesary to be
special.y attended to this month; and we need
only add, be sure that nothing of importance
is neglected.

          'Wild Oat."-A Nuisance.
  MR. EDITOR:-I Wish to say a few words to
you in relation to a kind of grain, or foul
plant, termed "wild oats." It has the ap-
pearance of oats, but is smaller, and has a
fine, thread-like appendage attached to the
tip end, and ripens much earlier than the
common oats. It has made its appearance in
the wheat fields here and threatens to anni.
hilate the wheat, as it ripens earlier, falls of
and disappears in the soil before th, wheat it
ripe; and the next season the whole of th4



if the leaves, flowers and roots, which partic-
ilar variety. Please give us as complete a
description as possible of every part of the
plant, and we will endeavor to identify it and
recommend a remedy.-EDITOR.

   The Latin Nations at theOreat~xhibitimn.
 Passing hurriedly through the rich and beau-
tiful collection of rare and embroidered silks,
of inlaid and laquered furniture, of elegantly
mounted saddlery, and a host of queer fancy
articles of various descriptions from China,
Japan and Siam, we have finished our survey
of the products of Anglo Saxon and Mongolian
industry, and are next prepared to see what
the Latins have done and are doing.
                SUNNY ITALY



Is here with an attractive display of mine-
rals, including copper, lead, iron and zinc.
Sulphur, too, in quantities sufficient to make
one shrug his shoulders at even the bare
thought of Pluto's quarters, down below.
Fine samples of a hundred different raw cot-
tons; beautiful fabrics of cotton, silk, linen
and wool; Leghorn hats of every description;
fire-arms of several kinds, but not extraordi-
nary in quality; leathers, velvets, picture-
frames, marbles beautifully polished; decora-
tive furniture, such as inlaid tables, Floren-
tine mosaics; Tuscan tazzas' of alabaster,
&c., &c.-the whole collection handsomely set
off with a very fine display of jewelry, after
antique models, and statues of bronze and
marble interspersed.
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