The town of Amenia, in Dutchess county, N. Y., has tried, with marked success, the plan of keeping a force of four or five men at work on highways through most of the year under the supervision of an experienced and skillful builder of roads, who gives his attention constantly to the work. Every part of the seventy-five miles of highway in the town is in good condition, and the expense of keeping it so has been much less than it could have been by the old method. The new plan has greatly relieved the farmers, who have not been called to work on the roads at a time when other duties demanded their attention. New York has a law which directs that the voters of any town may elect to adopt this plan of hiring a force of men and a competent commissioner to make and keep in repair the roads of their town, but the plan, once adopted, must be followed for not less than three years. It has been found that by the method described the roads have been kept in better condition than ever before, and that the cost of the work has actually been less than that of road-making by the old way. Correspondent Ohio Farmer: In 1882 I raised a piece of Hubbard squashes. The ground was manured very heavily with rich rotten compost, probably at the rate of fifty tons or more per acre. It is necessary to make the land very rich to succeed with this crop, but that isn’t the point I am after. That same land last year was planted with potatoes, and it was there that they rolled out so large and numerous as to yield at the rate of 500 bushels per acre. Just over the fence, on a part of another lot, where no manure had been applied for many years, there were only 200 bushels per acre. Difference in soil and kinds of potatoes might account for some of this great variation in yield, but I think it fair to say that 200 bushels per acre of the best yield was owing to the manure put on the ground for squashes the previous year. The potatoes were none of them sold for less than forty cents a bushel, so we have at least $80 per acre cash benefit from that heavy manuring the second year, to say nothing of $240 an acre which the squashes brought. It was, of course, a little more trouble to pick up and market the larger crop, but enough of the potatoes were sold for over forty cents per bushel to pay for that. * * * * * BROWN’S BRONCHIAL TROCHES for Coughs and Colds: “There is nothing to be compared with them.”—_Rev. O. D. Watkins, Walton, Ind._ * * * * * The difficulty with most people is that they want to sit in the sunshine and have good fortune come tumbling into their laps. Nature is an odd dame, however, and does not give even half a loaf to a man who can do his own loafing. You must get your spindle and distaff ready and then Providence will send you the flax to spin. * * * * * MISCELLANEOUS. Cheapest Farms for Sale in Illinois. BEST FRUIT REGION IN THE STATE.