The agricultural editor of the New York Times says that no doubt many
farmers who are intending to underdrain their farms would save money by
employing an expert at the first to lay out the whole system and make a
good beginning, and so avoid any possible mistake, which might cost ten
dollars for every one paid for skilled advice.

The New York Times says that lime seems to be a preventive of rot in
potatoes in the cellar. Some potatoes that were rotting and were picked
out of a heap of forty or fifty bushels were put into a corner and well
dusted with air-slaked lime. They stopped rotting at once, and the
decayed parts are now dried up. There is no disagreeable smell about
them.

Cincinnati Gazette: It is remarked that when young hogs are fed mainly
on corn they stop growing at an early age and begin to grow fat; but
that green food makes them thriftier and larger than dry grain. In fact,
it is better to prevent all domestic animals from becoming very fat
until they have attained a fair natural size, particularly breeding
animals.

A member of the Elmira Farmers' Club recently expressed the opinion that
bad results would always be found with wheat sown on land into which the
green growth of any crop had just been turned, although it was believed
that buckwheat was the worst green manure. All green growth incorporated
with the soil near the time of seeding will in all cases be found
prejudicial to wheat.

It is announced that Robert Clarke, of Cincinnati will have ready, in
February, an extensive work on sorghum, containing the results of the