Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-04-11
never comes back in the increase of
crops.-Plougbman.


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portant.
Good fences and buildings improve
the farm.
Flowers and shrubs make home
attractive.
Drilling is preferable to sowing
broadcast.
Have you selected good seed in
abundance?
Plan ahead; brains often help more
than muscle.
Plant fruit trees .-- they grow while
you're sleeping.
Choose for Matching the largest and
best shaped eggs from the best layers.
Pigs, before they are weaned, and
for a week or two afterwards, should
have warm food, say as warm as new
milk.
DR.. Sturtevant says that potash,
whether in the shape of wood ashes, or
in the form of sulphate or muriate, is
special fertilizer for melons.
Watch your grapevines closely, and
if you see signs of the steel-blue beetles
so destructive to grape buds in the
early spring, apply paris green.
Don't get afraid of seeds unless there
is pretty good ground for it. Good
seed will often not sprout because it
does not receive moisture enough.
New rope for halters may says
the ohio Farmer, abe rendered per-
manently timber and soft by boiling
two hours in water and then drying in
a warm room.
A correspondent of the Ne,D England
Farmer says that where the land new
and rich in mineral elements there
need be no fear of black knot in plum
and cherry trees.
If farmers could see and realize the
marked advantage which produce in
nice, new, neat, uniform packages pos
sess in city markets, there would be a
revolution in packing butter, poultry
and fruit Consumers are inclined to
Judge the quality of farm produce by
the character of the package.
Seedlings generally reach their full
size during the third year from seed,
and many of them even earlier. Yet
the permanent character of a Seeding
becomes not fully developed until the
fourth or fifth year. A Seeding potato
which does not show decided vigor and
health in it's second and third years will
rarely improve in this respect in after
years,
Mr. r. Greiner in the Farm and
Garden, says that the easiest and quick
est way to destroy the weeds that
generally start about the time when
the potatoes are up, 50 that the rows
can be seen plainly, by thorough
use of harrow or drag. lie places
great emphasis upon this, and deems it
far more effective than the cultivator
and hoe, at less expense.
AS to fertilizers, there is nothing
equal to wood ashes, and they should
be sown broadcast Immediately after
planting corn, or applied liberalir
about the plants as soon as they are
up. Corn is potash plant, but re-
quires the phosphates. Fertilizers
should be sought which contain both,
and, when sown broadcast, they may
be used unsparingly with profit.
Mixed husbandry is the only sure
way to success in farming. Repeated
cropping with single cereal will bring
a waste of the plant-food elements in
the soil, that will, in the end, so reduce
the yield as to entail certain loss upon
the land owner. This fact will do
more toward forcing the Dalrymples to
cut up and dispose of their immense
land areas than anything else, though
they may not now see it in that light
In answer to the inquiry for rem
edy for barrenness in plum trees, Mr.
Henderson states that fumigating the
trees with sulphur while in blossom
has, with him, been successful. Also
that driving a few nails into the trees
has been productive of good. AS tt
the latter remedy we think a top-dress
ing of Stag from iron foundries o.
spading it in the ground as far as TIT
roots extend would be the better plan