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J"t�rm Notete.
For every load of manure dra
tbo orchard, the orchard will ro
yon with a load of fruit.
Nothing is ganged by buckling
peach on plum stook, The
will often do well ou petal stn
however,
Give your fowls n ellauge of f
they do not lilru to bo Befit on
seine article of diet any better
you would,
When applying whito•waslt to
bodies of trees es a prevention of
juriOue ioseote, season the limo,
er with a small quantity of earl)acid.
"When the leaves begin to
is the best tune to set out Ir
They will then get well establis
in their now quarters before wi
and go through safe. Late se Wu
rather more risky.
The borer is like a bad fe
SVhan 0008 established the knife o
can effect a euro and prevent seri
damage, and the sooner the knife
applied the hotter. But the was!
prevention is bettor than the k
of euro ; soft soap bettor than h
metal.
Pasturing hogs in orchards is
advautage to the hogs. With all
windfall apples they want to eat t
lay flesh rapidly and keep healt
It is au advautage to the trees
more than one sense. 11 kills
eodllug cloth and other insects, a
in after years yon will see a gr
impruvewent iu your fruit.
it is usually the ease that wh
the wheat crup is a praetioal fail
that of buck wheat is larger than
urtl. There is time after tuo o
come of wheat is evident to sow but
wheat. Bub, as Ibis crop hangs
the soil for one or two telecasted
grain crops, it i8 not popular wi
the best farmers, and much less
now sown than was formerly the ca
in uur best farming districts,
It will astonish most farmers to
into a field whore turnips are bein
pulled, and see how large a crop o
be grown with little labor. Ecce
harvesting, the work is trifling, an
even at a low priors per bushel ill
crop is one of the most profitable btu
a farmer can grow. They need not
bo grown near a market, but mee t i
any city, or village a ready sale
from twenty-five to forty cents pe
bushel.
Western farmers have learned t
keep their hogs in yards until 111
dew is off the grass. The theory i
that the germs of hog cholera are col
lected in the dew and are very liabl
to bo taken by the hog while gram
early in the morning. It is quit
possible that the care which thi
treatment implies is itself a safegnar
against cholera. Most Western hog
receive unlimited corn but little car
of any kind.
The Guernsey breed of cattle ha
been overshadowed by the greate
popularity of Jerseys, but they fir
well worth of more attention. Givin
as rich milk as the Jersey, they yiel
a larger mese and are also consider
able larger thomeolvoa. Size is an
important point in most farmers' eyes,
though wido•awalte farmers begin to
understand increased size moans
greater coat or keeping, and for sono
breeds it is difficult to get a propor-
tionably largos yield of milk. But
advocates of the Guernsey believe it
can bo done with thus breed, as also
in the case with Holsteins.
The English farmer plows one acro
per day in ridges, not flat. Tho men
are obliged to spend one huur per
day with the horse in carrying and
ether atteutiou. The I;ugliali farm-
ers use lime very freely, believing it
to be the key which unto/sits the dif-
ferent coustituente of vegetable mat-
ter. They do not repent the mistake
of heaping the lime, bit now mix tae
limo with the soil, Oommou barn-
yard manure ie the bust fertilizer.
Salt is a good fertilizer, but lime iu
England takes the premium fou util-
izing the Boil to the best results.
NO of the reasons why apple oroh•
ards are not more productive is be-
cause the differs/It kinds of trees of
which the orchard is generally coni.
posed require very dii%rent treat.
lueut. Usually the Northern Spyo
apple ie late in tinning into bearing.
This is on account of its extremely
vigorone growth while 11 is young,
eausiug it to run Leo 010011 ii1 foliage
and wood, But a pipiu. or Spitzuu•
burg can hardly have too /ugh cutt-
uro or to much' manure. The habit
of growth of the Baldwin apple tree
seems best suited in the average treat -
moat which roost orchards received.
.Uonce it has gained the reputation of
being most profitable, while, perhaps,
with different treatment other variot-
ice of equal or better quality would
give more profitable grope. If a young
troo is planted in an old orchard to
fill a vacancy it should be of some
very Nereus variety,
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