Year: 1873

we cull the following from our exchanges

 TRANsPLASTISG oP EyERoREESs.-Howy This Is the question. In the first place, recollect dead trees never grow, and # the roots Of eyeryreens are once exposed to the sun and air they are dead Throw them away and not lose your time in car ing Tor them, nor your patience in seeing them witber where you have taken 60 much trouble to plant them. Then we say again, get live trees. pine tree with its roots all out of the earth, will die as soon as a fish out of water No device of a rascally nurseryman, in dipping lhelr roots in liquid mud, after they have been exposed, will ever bring back life. This is The only great SC. cret In the successful handling of this class Of trees. Get live trees and keep them alive till you have them well set out. Then keep them clear Of weeds and the ground above them moist, and you VIII have grove or belt Of trees that no price would purchase. The most efiectual way to keep moist Is to mulch with hay, straw or leaves. But keep down the weeds and grass. Eyergreens should not be set deep, nor is 1t profitable 10 pile stone in the bottom of the hole or on top of tue ground. These are only intended to draw mois- ture.- The Evergreen and Forest Tree Grower.

 RoTATISG CRoPs.-It Is evident that a regular systematic rotation of crops should be pursued by the farmer If he desires 10 reap the most bene- fits Of his tillage.

 Cereals have minerals ln the soil for their viz. orous growth next corn and fodder crops par take Of tbat element and also phosphates lastly, The roots of crops, requiring no minerals aud eX. iotlnS on superpbospbates and alkalis. From this it VIII be seen that the plots must be so arranged that only at one time should crop be grown on single plot Thus wheat will exhanst all the mineral agencies of tue soil, and as a root crop does not need these elements in it's construction the soil Is enabled 10 them anew Were every kind of crop required to exist on a mixture of mineral and phosphate elements, the soil would be completely exhausted.

 complete illustration may be had in the breaking up Of piece of meadow land The soil Is rich with minerals. The fret crop will be corn which r.quires these clements The result Is "A heavy crop. This could be continued for three seasons before exhaustion would ensue, but a wheat crop follows and this completely exhausts lhe soil of minerals, but does not disturb the phosphates. The next iOowing will be a root crop. Mark how nicely a crop Of turnips can be grown on exhausted soils, which, after all are only exhausted Of minerals which they do not re- qulre. By this arrangement there can be no com. pletc prosiratOn. All this time tue constant TO- taiion at last robs the soil of both phos pbates and minerals and fertilizers must be applied Clover, aboundiDg in mineral agencies, when plowed under, restores minerals root crops con. tlinlng phOsphates can be applied to the soil in the form of manures after having been fed to the cattle. lt requires a constant admixture Of prov. ender, roots and garden vegetables 10 secure the best iertllzlng elements for the field, and thus tue necessity for mixed food for stock Is apparent.

 We would add, as to the evidence of the pres ence Of minerals in sOlls the fact that top dress ing Of clay subsOil on exhausted land inmedi- ately restores iis fertility.

 PLASTINo PorAToEs.-The depth to which DO. tatoes should be planted depends upon the kind of soil and the condition of the land. fl the ground Is light and porous plant deep. fitis dry, plant deep; but II the soil Is compact and hard, put the seed down about three inches and heap the earth on top about two or three inches When the ground is dry and the soil light, such ar sand or gravel place the seed down beneath the snriace ai least six Inches and step on top Of the hill or press it down with hoe. When the ground Is wet, do not press it, but leave as light as possible.

 ARREsTISG DECAY IN PorAToEs-Varlou. plans for arresting decay in potatoes after digging have from time to time been made pablic such as dusiing with quick lime gypsum, charcoal dust etc Prof Church, Of Chichester, England, tue eminent agricultural cheInist, announces that sul. phate Of lime appears 10 exercise a very remarka. Ole Influence in arresting the spread of decay in potatoes effected by the polatOe disease. In one experiment the salt was found dusted over some tubers, partially decayed from fhis cause as they were being slowed away Some months after ward the potatoes were found to have suffered no further Injury. similar trial with powdered lime proved 10 be much less effective.