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indeed, three OF Cnem ulu HUI "elSn,
four months later, as much as the milk
fed pigs did at the end Of the expert
ment. ."-American Agriculturi&.
Farm and Garden Notes.
Poultry will not thrive in wet OF
damp place.
Confne the number of acres to your
ability to till.
Pine sawdust in nest boxes is said to
keep lice from fowls.
Large growing trees should not be
planted in small yards.
The codling moth has got to Nevada
and become squatter.
The value of manure from one hun
dred fowls is about $50 per annum.
Nasturtiums should be on every farm.
They furnish luxuriant show of color,
and their seeds are valuable in picking.
In selecting few flowers for door
ward culture, chose those that bloom at
different times, so far as to have sue
cession of blossoms.
Mr.. Strong, of the Massachusetts Hor-
ticultural Society, thinks very highly OF
clcth as substitute for glass in raising
vegetables, and expresses the opinion
that it mi ght be used with great advan-
tage in forwarding crops.
Mr.. E. s. Golf, horticulturist of the
New York Experiment Station, found,
as the result of long series Of tests, that
the productiveness of any strain of pota-
toes can be materially increased by the
continued selection for seed of tubers
from the most productive hills.
The farmer who will succeed the best
in growing crops will be the one who
prepares the land the best. We now
have so many improved implements for
stirring the soil that there is really no
excuse for planting land that is not we'll
pulverized. The manure should be so
thoroughly mingled with the soil that no
portion of 1t shall be without fertilizer
within few.inches of it.
The best way to get more corn is to
get increased yield from the same acre.
age. A poor corn crop necessarily costs
so much labor that it rarely pays profit.
But if the land is manured highly and
cultivated thoroughly, the crop rarely or
never fails to pay. It is easily possible
to double the corn yield on the present
acreage, and that, too, without coming
near the large yields which have been
obtained in special cases.
On suitable soils root gratis will usual
ly prove as successful as buds. This
mode of growing apple trees is largely
practiced by all of our leading nursery
men with very satisfactory results. 1t is
a very common practice, also, to cut the
roots into pieces instead of using the
whole root. There is difference of
opinion as to whether budding is the
better mode. Either is good. For pears
and plums, the whole root is used.
The influence of the moon upon vege-
tation is an interesting problem await
ing solution. A recent writer upon the
sub ,ect mentions that wood-cutters in
Cape Colony and in India insist that
timber is full of sap and unfit to be cut
at full moon. Another observation of
lunar influence in Cape Colony is the
rapid spelling of meats and other pro-
visions when exposed to moonlight,
though this may be due to the fact that
the light serves as guide to insects.
In working land early it will be dumpy
and must be worked fine. w. D. Phil
brick advises. in american Cultioator,
that especially in preparing the land for
deep-growing roots, like parsnips and
horseradish, it is necessary to run the
plough very deep and take narrow slice
and, after narrowing, plough again and
rake fine. Quick-growing crops, like
radishes and lettuce, spinach, ETC., do
not require so deep working of the land,
but will usually well repay the extra ex-
pense of two ploughings and often of
two manurings.
Large pansies are comparatively mod
ern invention. In Harrison's Flori.
cultural Cabinet, in 1s4045, the first
large improvements are painted. In ten
years they had advanced to their full
development, and no larger; little
larger ones have been raised since. In
1850 the rust took them, as it subsc.
quently did the verbena, and the raising
of new named kinds was discontinued.
Seedlings revived their health, and pansy
seed instead of pansy plants came to be
popular. Modern Improvements have
been in the line of new races rather than
increased size.
The asparagus bed should be we'll
manured and dug over early in the
season: if there be any grass in it, ii
should be all carefully cleaned out, for
it is not half as much labor to keep an
asparagus bed entirely clean of grass and
weeds as it is to keep it half cleaned out.
1t is not good policy to manure with
barn manure, because of the weed and
grass seeds. Ground bone and muriate
of l:otash applied few years will enable a
good farmer to be rid of his load of weeds
and to be able to neglect cultivation
during the period of cutting. Some
neglect cultivation and keep the weeds
down by the liberal use of salt, but tn 8
is very poor policy, the asparagus is not
as large or as good flavor, whatever may
be said to the contrary.
Dental TranSpiantati0n.
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