Year: 1870

mails about the "sixty pound Marble


head Mammoth Cabbage" that all tha


was necessary in the culture of this veg


etable was just to procure ten cent pa


per and SOW the seed. and sit down and


wait in faith, believing that in due time


their plate would be filled with the mic


est and whitest cabbage, or that theiI


tub would be full of kraut. But it aim


so. Good plants, rich ground, and good


culture, are absolutely essential for sue


cess in cabbage culture. 1 have more


confidence in an abundance of good


well rotted manure than in a printed la


bel on the package of seed. Yet both


are necessary.


On good pasture, will need no further


feed. But we must not forget that they


require the regular amount of salt.
Judging others by my own, the cellar
at this season is anything else but the
tidy, snug apartment that it should be.
All rotten apples, and decaying pota-
toes, Or anything else that can breed
disease, or offend the sight, should be
removed. Open doors and windows,
and admit plenty of fresh air, and you
need fear no trouble from the cellar
causing sickness.


May first, dogwood in bloom, and
nice weather-and hence it is corn plan
ting time. However, if it should be q
little cold and backward, any time be-
tween now and the tenth will do quite
we'll We often get in too much of
md do tho Ornnn3
as it should be. If the weather contin-
ues dry, the roller should be used
wherever the ground is cloudy. Roll
BILE injury. It does appear to me that
we should use more "machinery'' than
we generally do in complaining. The
short season for planting makes il nee
essary that we should use all possible
dispatch in doing this job. The men
plant twenty acres Of corn in a day on
the praries, and why not in the timbered
portion of our State, where the stumps
have been removed?


The old fashioned, thick, heavy, dull
iron hoes, set with the blade at right
angle to a clumsy handle, forms but a
poor contrast to the light, sharp, bright,
we'll adjusted steel hoes that We now
have. The hoe should, when in use, be
kept sharp by filing OR grinding, twice
q day, and should never be allowed to
remain out of doors during night, or a
shower in the day time. And when put
away, should always be cleaned and
dried, which will keep them bright, ma
king it pleasure to work with them
Yet some people deprive themselves of
such pleasure altogether, and never fret
about it.


have had large experience with rats.
By building against them, and doing
have pretty well rid the place of these
pests. My last s'bout'' with them was
in filling their holes with fresh Stacked
lime. AS they have to go nose fore
most, when they are digging, they can't
dig for snuffing. Remember the lime
must be dry and fine, and they will n OF
trouble it long. If you want a little fun,
Just fill hole that is frequented with
rats, the first one that comes to dig in
it will get little in his nose, which on
ly makes him snuff and sneeze more,
which serves to stir up more dust, and
Mr.. Rat retires to dig in more conge-
nial soil.


Everybody knows how tedious this
plant is in coming through the ground.
and everybody ought to know that by
iudicious scalding with hot water that
t can be brought up as quick as Indian
corn, and thus take an evan stat with
the weeds which generally gets the bet
ter of it. Put the seed in water as warm
as you can hold the hand in, and let
them remain in this temperature for
twelve or fifteen hours; then pour off
the water. only keeping the seed damp,
and keep in a warm place until they be-
gin to sprout; then plant, and the young
plants will soon appear through the
ground.


THE APPLE ORCHARD.


The idea prevails with most folks that
when an apple tree has been deprived
of it's bark, half or three-quarters of
the way around its body, that the tree
is irreparably lost. This need not nee
essarily be so. Ii is often the case that
young thrifty orchard trees are troub-
led with the bursting of the bark at the
collar of the tree; or it may be that the
tree has received an injury from some
other cause which deprives it OF its bark
for half the distance round it. ALI such
cases. without they are very much ag-
gravated, are entirely within the reach
OF treatment and ought to be saved and
rendered sound and thrifty. This is
done by inserting young scions, extend
ing from below the injury to the sound
bark above it. Take scions as for ordi-
ffo IL,
30 as to admit of slipping under the
sound bark above and below the wound,
and admit of laying close to the body
Of the tree The work should be done
as soon as the bark will lift readily from
the body of the tree, and if we'll done
and neatly waxed the success of the op-
Grafton is complete. l have tree trea-
led thus that is now loaded with bloom
and promising an abundant Weld of fruit