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Injuries and

No. /. "Can you tell me what will destroy
1.-THE little green worm that occasionally kills
cabbage plants? I have tried red pepper, a
"decoctiOn Of tomatO leaves, and am now
trying q wash from boiled China berry
"leaves."
Answer. We do not believe In applying a
ysrm, OF sRS 1,n Ses 70 yeI IN s11F s asges TO dest fSs
wash is as deloterious to the plant as the
worm itself. We have always heard that it Is
the early bird that catches tho cabbage worm.
We. therefore, recommend an examination Of
the plants about sun-up, when evcry bng or
worm IN each plant should be caught and
killed. Any other plan, in our Judgment.
Will as often injurc the plant rs the insect. <
No: 2. Can you tel US from experience the
Ans. We cannot, for since our b%oyhood's
days, when VIC kept u patch for our own pri-
vate chewing, we have not grown q seed OF
deem e~xtravagant reports about this nut in
our exchanges, and have now before us q letter
from which the following Is an extinct
II saw tho Chulaa advertised In the Ne1cs and
quarts would plant an acre. I bought five
quarts and I planted half an acre. The seed
"do not como up regularly, and I'd advise to
"three feet wide, and hills fifteen inches
apart THE plants have Tapped In the row,
and from the way they arc growing the al
"leys will in q few days be as dcnsely covered
''as the ows. From my limited experience,
II believe the Chufa Is the thing from which
our bacon can DO made; i killed twelyeh hogs
last winter, and willRill twenty this"
No. 8. when corn grows 80 tall that a tall
"top car, how is the fodder to be gathered ?
"You hnve been through Statcs where they
"pay some attention to corn, perhaps you can
"advise us how to reach even the middle
Answer. Well, did any mortal ever show
go much impudcnce! How tantaliZlng that
fellow is. He knew we hadn't rain In four
twisted Into whip-thongs by o o'clock in The
morning, and yet he has the hardheartedness
to brag to us about his crop. We'll. he excites
our sympathy, for we believe 1t is tho first
though we have known him as IL farmer, a
sort OF kid-glove farmer, for 10! these many
years. And ~ we know 1t COMFORTS with hts
Ideas OF economy, we advise him to buy q
step-ladder, hire two negroes to carry 1t into
the field for him, and gather the fodder him
self, and then he'll know 1t Is well done.
No. 4. "Messrs. Wilson & Rankin, OF q Os-
"wald street, Glasgow, ask US II we eyer buy
"anxious to supply as, cheap for cash. with
"white and black oats that weigh 45 pounds
ITO the bushel, wheat GA pounds to the bushel
BARLEY 50 pounds, and all kinds Of perennial
trees. sb rubs, evergreens," &C, &c.
Answer. We never tried but three kinds OF
foreign. seed, and they, mode us a burnt
child" we once nee paid s1ms IS for w. 2 peck n1sR,s 81
upl uLlCCb vi W. PiuaNS
the seed, and that's the last we saw OF them.
In 1868 we thought we would sweep with a
new broom, so We bought ten bushels Of most
beautiful wheat from Canada. We sowcd 1t
on ten acres, manured with A0 bushels OF
guano. We harvested 20 bushels Of
OF wheat. The next season we sowed one
bushel Of this on O thoroughly prepared acre
gio head. In 1860 or 1870 we drilled a peck OF
white outs received direct nom Scotland, and
made ID bushels. The next year we sowed
four acres Of the same and lost the entire crop
from rust. For one, we don't care TO go 80
for from home for improved seed.
No. 5. 1--WE SEQ 8 great deal nowadays sold
'about the Jerseys, and occasionally we hear
"a man say something about his Attorneys:
mot the same cattle originally"
Answer. Whether there be " distinct
breeds known as Jerseys and Attorneys. we
are unable to say, We saw hundreds last
were generally known rs Jerseys, we would
occasionally see q stall marked "Alderney,"
and we could sec no difference between the
thm eome ARC from shG the s' Gyhan isa'e Isles l OF Jersey ssy,
Attorney and Guernsey, lying, South OF eng
land, which are too close together to grow for
any length Of time two distinct species OF cat
tie' than anu the n t oth ts1s it t. Is S0i no great sreM' departure
from cattle nomenclature TO call them allper-
seys, which are usually described as small,
ra~ggedlooking cattle, giving much milk and
.9 4efaisna IN the ea ssis ou eows D. agnt ie0 and n1 Kind T.
The bulls are. however, easily made vicious.
No. 8. (which is the best time for killing or
clearing new ground, summer or winter?
Answer. We know nothing about any diff
ference In effect upon the land whether the
timber be cleared off In summer or winter.
We have cleared land more or less Turing
every month in the year, and have never dis.
covered any difference in the crops because OF
the clearing having been done Mt different
seasons: Some farmers contend that taking
drainage upon the land. We don't know
that this ia the case, for we have never heard
that the returning sap carries nutrition TO
the soil. Clearing land is o heavy JOB. and
borers Of courre will prefer to clear land in
the winter. We believe It bad economy now;
tlmbered land can be prepared for the plough
OF less than ten dollars (S!0,) and # that mon
ey be expended In subsoiling and Ipanuring
an exhausted acre 1t is questionable whether
the latter will not be as fertile and az remu-
n~erative for all future crops as the former
Honorable D. Wyatt Aken, IN the New' and
Courier.