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Experiments with Fertilizers.

AT meeting Of Maple Grove Grange,
No. l5G, Westminster West, October
so, the business of the evening consist
ed mainly in hearing the reports of
those who had experimental with the
Stockbridge Fertilizers, a report of
which send YOU. thinking ii may be
of sufficient general interest for You to
publish.
The pamphlet issued by W. IL. Bow
ker 4 Co., manufacturers of the Stock
bridge Fertilizers. gives the amount to
he used per acre for any kind of crop,
and price of same. IL states that for an
acre of corn, four bags, costing 1922,
will produce 40 TO Go bushels shelled
corn. For quarter of an acre of beets
or turnips, one bag, costing sc, will
produce 100 TO 100 bbshels. For an
acre of potatoes, two bags, costing Sl2,
will produce 100 TO 100 bushels. As
the above are the only crops for which
the fertilizer was used, | will quote no
further from the pamphlet, and will
only add that TO produce the amount
named above, something will depend
on the soil and season. Some members
of the grange reported as follows:
George Campbell.-l used two bags
one acre of potatoes, and harvested 80
bushels more per acre than where no
manure was used. On half an acre OF
loan, without any manure, l harvested
" bushels of ears. On half an acre,
with two bags Stockbridge fertilizer,
costing Sli, | harvested so bushels ears
"a gain of Is bushels ears at a cost of
Sli.
l.. A. Wildcr.-l used one bag Stock
bridge fertilizer, costing $3.50, on one
eighth acre corn. applied according TO
direction. aud harvested ten bushels
shelled corn. Applied it on potatoes,
and could see no special benefit. On
the same kind of soil where used ashes
and the same value of Stockbridge,
double the quantity of potatoes were
produced.
Reuben Millcr.--I used one bag. cost
ing IS, oil corn in hill, and think il
was damage to my crop.
I'll. ID. Ranny.-I used the Stock
bridge fertilizer on corn in hill, and did
not get as much corn as where no fer
filiIer was used.
VIM. Ii. Nutting.-I used one bag OF
Stockbridge fertilizer, costing So, for
beets and turnips, on a quarter of an
acre. The soil was sandy loan, deep
and moist. The fertilizer was applied
according to direction of manufacturers.
spread broadcast and narrowed in. ]
harvested ~ bushels berts and iurnips.
On one-sixtecnth of AN acre last year.
with stable manure. had - bushels.
! also used il on corn IN the hill, but as
The wire worms worked Il badly, can
give no satisfactory result.
ID. &. GOrham.-In making my re-
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Breeding and Training Colts.

Mr.. NJ. W. Durham, of Illinois, an
extensive importer of Perche and Nor
man horses, in letter to Wallace's
Monthly thus describes the humane
treatment bestowed upon colts while in
training in that portion of France
specially devoted to this industry:
"The division of the sexes in Perche
differs from most countries where horses
are raised. One section has the mares.
and produces the colts, while another
section buys and raises them. No mai
ter what may be the class to which she
belongs, light or heavy. or partaking OF
both, the mare is expected to breed
every year. If barren She is sold. This
fault continuing she passes into public
use. During her CESSATION she works
constantly. 4 few DAYS rest before
and after foaling is the only time lost.
The remainder of her work paws
abundantly for keep and interest on her
cost. AT the age of five or six months.
the colt is abruptly weaned and sold.
Led into the interior upon the fertile
meadows, it remains one year unpro-
ductivc. In winter il is fed on hay, in
the stable, and during the fine season
turned into the field to Craze. To sum
up, it is rather poorly nourished on
bran, grass, or hay. The reason is. thai
it is yet unproductivc TO its master, and
it feels the effect. Wait n little. Its
hardest time has gone by; and work
will soften its LOT. II reaches, in this
manner, the age of fifteen To eighteen
months. At this age the colt is nut TO
work. Naturally docilc, in the hands
of man always patient and kind, the
training is generally easy. Assigned to
farm labor, the colt ploughs or draws a
wagon. iIarnessed with four or five
colts Of IFS own age, together they null
what would be an easy load for two
good horses. Put before oxen or Joined
to three of its companions. the Young
animal ploughs and is never ovcrworE-
ed. Now il is fed better, and receives
better care. Its mO3ule improves, and
its master seems To delight in coniem-
plating the progress and development
of the desirable qualities. Master, SER
want, large and small, all deeply imbued
with the love of the horse, unite in this
work with admirable skill. Thus in
travelling through Pcrche. one involun-
tarily stops in the middle of the fields
TO see the colt work, never tired of adj
miring the yieor it displays and the
gcntleness with which ii is treated. AT
the age ofthrec, the Deauce farmer BUYS
the colt TO work his soft and light soil.
For him the young animal must be pre-.
served intact, its development unininr.
ed, nay, encouraged.
"The colt has thus been worked one
year, abundantly fed, but supplied
with little or no grain. Doing enough
light work to pay its keeping, the mas.
manure to pay heavy interest on The
cost of his colt. The primitive work
which would nave been injurious under
careless management, is, On the contrary
beneficial so long as the colt is in tho
hands of a good master. This is SC
much the general case, that The contrar,
is the exception. The animal grow
and becomes better developed in sic
and strength than if not worked"
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Shropshires.

The Shropshire has dark brown
face and legs, and the wool in the CEN
ire of forehead aud around the ears
tingcd with brown, larger than South
down, which il much resembles, and
the fleece, which weighs from five to
seven pounds, is much longer in staple
and heavier than the Southdown, but
still carding wool; there is, however,
a lack of uniformity. In samples taken
from last years lambs the fleece had
precisely the appearance of Cotswold
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much like. the Southdown. The meat
resembles..the Southdown, being mar,
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DECAY or FRurrs.-Reccnt expert
mcnts by DR.. Brcfeld, in Germany, have
shown that decay in apples was caused
by fungi, Mucor StolonUerd, ". race
moSuS, Botrytis cinered, and PenicW-
nm qiducum. But the spores of these
fungi would not terminate on sound ap-
pies. When moistencd with apple juice,
however, and placed on sound fruit they
terminated rapidly, or when placed in
bruises or artificial wounds; showing
that sap escaped from the cells and cx-
listing in their intcrstices was necessary
to the termination of the fungi. The
obvious lesson is, keep the fruit free
from bruises. by careful handling, and,
other conditions favorable. we may ex-
pect the fruit TO keep well. A lesson
learned by practice, but this is nice
explanation of it, Scientific Farmer.
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blcd with fat, but perhaps less delicate.
While the Shrophshirc MS breed arc
superior to the Southdown in size and
weight of fleece, still it Is much to
be doubted if they will prove equal to
the Southdowns for improving the
common breeds of our country. The
Southdown being very old and dis
tinct breed imprcsscs its characteristics
with great certainty; the shropshire
being cross-breed animal, and, rs
the most cross-brcd animals are supe-
rior to either of the breeds from which
1t is formed, is not so likely to impress
its progeny with its own type
rAmcrican Farmer.
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