Facts for Farmers.
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There are some things that farmers oug',t to know

 Itis an error to plant seed from a State farther south. In cold season only, the seed of the cold CT climate will ripen well.

 Often breaking up a surface keeps a soil in health for when it lies in a hard bound state, en- riching showers run off, and the salubrious air cannot enter.

 Weeds exhaust the strength of the ground, and if suffered to grow may be called garden sins.

 The hand and the hoe arc the instrument for eradicating weeds yet if there is room between the rows for the spade it iA well to use it.

 Never keep your cattle short !; few farmers can afford it. If you starve them, they will starve you.

 It will not do to hoe a great field for q little crop, as to mow twenty acres for five loads of hay. Enrich the land and it will pay you for it. Better farm 80 acres we'll than 50 by halves.

 Drive your business before you, and it will go easily.

 In dry pastures dig for water on the brow of q hill; springs ar more frequently near the sur face on height than in a vale.

 The foot of the owner Is the best manure for land.

 Gut bushes that you wish to destroy in the summer, and with sharp instrument; they will bleed freely and die.

 Sow clover deep; it secures it against the drought.

 Never blow in bad weather, or when the ground is very wet.

 It is better to cut grain just be- fore it is fully dead or ripe.- When the straw immediately below the grain is so dry that on twisting it no juice is express sed, it should be cut, for then there is no further circulation of juices to the ear. Every hour that it stands uncut after this stage is attended with loss.

 Accounts should be kept, de- tailing the expenses and product of each field.

 When an implement is no lon ger wanted for the season. lay it ca:efully aside, but first let it be well cleaned.

 Obtain good seed, prepare your ground well, SOW early, and pay very little attention to the mOon.-

 Avoid 0 low and damp site for q dwelling house.

 Build sufficiently distant from your barn and stock yard to a. void accidents by fire.

 Sheep put into sresh stables are aptto be killed by eating too much grain.

 Good fences make good neigh bors.