ld be cut before it comes in full
bloom, to obtain the greatest feeding value from the fodder. It is then
liked better, and a larger per cent will be digested.

Republican, Manhattan, Kan.: In traveling through a considerable portion
of the country this week, we noticed that the wheat looked exceedingly
promising. The contrast between the green fields and the dry grass and
naked trees was cheering to behold. Cattle are in good condition; most
of the farmers are provided with sheds or shelter of some sort to
protect the animals, but we saw some small bunches of young cattle
standing in unprotected enclosures shivering from the north wind; it is
cruel to take them through the winter without so much as a wind break to
turn off the scorching blasts. Surely every farmer can afford to build a
wind break, at least a pile of brush and old hay, around the stock
yards. The cost would be more than made up in the saving of feed.

They are growing some pretty heavy crops of wheat in New Hampshire. The
Lebanon Free Press reports that Harlan Flint, of Hanover, raised this
year eighty bushels of wheat on five acres of ground, and Uel Spencer,
of the same town, 206 bushels from four and a half acres, while the town
farm crop averaged forty-three bushels per acre. That raised by Mr.
Flint was winter wheat, and Spencer's White Russian. A Meredith
correspondent of the Laconia Democrat says that eight farms adjoining
each other, in that town, have produced this year 524 bushels of wheat.
Reports from all sections of the State show that a great yield of wheat
has been secured wherever the crop has been sown. Perhaps by the time
the prairie skinners of the Northwest have spread over all the wheat
bearing land this side of the Rocky Mountains, they may begin the New
England States and travel the continent over again.

Correspondent Farm and Fireside: There is nothing so much needed about
many houses as good walks in paths that must be used daily. There is
hardly an excuse for not having them when either brick, gravel, or
timber can be had. A good walk through muddy yards can be easily and
cheaply made by placing poles side by side, a short distance apart, and
then filling the intervening space with gravel, or with broken corn
cobs, or with sawdust. Oak planks will last many years, if turned over
occasionally, and this also counteracts warping. One of the best of
walks through a level barn-yard can be made by cutting off short pieces
from log