That the Exraoor is a hardy sheep is well known in England. A Steam-drying machine has been in vented by which hay can be cut and stacked in one day. In no other country in the world are so many wheat bags used as in California. Last year no less than 21,000,000 were required. Sew a collection of annual flower seeds. For an expenditure of 10s you can have a gay garden iv the summer. Pan-dcs, if for exhibition, must have frequent applications of manure water, and both shoots and flowers must be kept within limit. Says a writer in the Australasian :— '' If you cannot find out how to grow wheat at 2s 6 i per bushel and live, you will either have to give up wheat grow ing 1 or die." Goats ought always to be kept in large stables, because they will face fire, and horses will follow them out, though they would not go by themselves. Keep your turkeys growing 1 right straight! from the shell, and you will find that it will pay when pay day comes. Pinks, picotees, and carnations are coming into bloom, and the bursting of the flowers may be prevented by tying a slight band of worsted nround the tube of the flowers. Every farmer should allot a portion of each field to his son, and let him try and "beat the old man's crop." Let th 3 lad keep the pro -.eeds for his wages. A flowergrower in Germany has five acres under crop with lily of the valley : they all fiud their way to English mar kets. There are many things beaidf-s wheat to be produced upon farms — indeed, wheat growing is not the whole "art and mys tery" of farming. Phylloxera, in spite of all the strict Government enactments of Victoria, is not yet, stamped out. to come ? is a query raised by a correspon dent of an Australian pfrper. The Evtnoor mutton is of a delicious flavor. There is weight, without that " tallowy" smack which is so disagreeably prominent in the flesh of the Lincoln and 1 eieester. Ro«es are sufficiently advanced in growth to show which are suckers from the stock on which they have been budded, and these, must he removed with a strong hand, and the fly plasrue must be kept down by brushinir, dusting, or syringing. 