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thinned the plants and top-dressed them with good manure dur- 

 ing the first year, transplant them. Set the plants two feet apart 

 and the rows four feet. Have the soil at least two feet deep, well 

 fined, with ten inches of good barn manure in the bottom. Cover 

 the roots with at least four inches of well-fertilized earth. As 

 soon as the berries show cut out the plants bearing them. Culti- 

 vate often, and cut but few times the first year, and fertilize well 

 with potash. Wood ashes or muriate will furnish the potash. If 

 one wants but 100 plants he may buy them and thus save one 

 year's time. But do not buy roots more than one year old. 



What will prevent " club-foot" in cabbage? 



Mr. Van Alstyne. — The best thing I know is not to set cabbage 

 on ground where club-foot grew? I know of no cure for it where 

 once it appears in the crop. It is said that it were better to plant 

 the seed where the cabbages are to grow and not to apply hog 

 manure. The turnip, cauliflower and other members of the cab- 

 bage family, when conditions are favorable, are attacked by the 

 disease. i 



Dr. Smead. — Avoid heavy feeding with barn manure for either 

 of those crops. 



Mr. Van Alstyne. — Heavy feeding with commercial fertilizers 

 will not have a tendency to cause the disease, because there is 

 nothing in them to contain the disease germ. 



How deeply would you plow a clover sod in the spring, for corn? 



Mr. Litchard. — That would depend on the character of the soil. 

 I would not plow a heavy soil as deeply as I would a dry, light 

 one. Mine is a light, chestnut and oak soil, and w^e plow it about 

 seven inches deep for corn, the same depth for potatoes. 



What is the best all-round farm fence? 



Mr. Eastman. — Not any; I don't believe in fences, except on 

 particular occasions. Sometimes we find it necessary to fence, 

 in a new^ field, then I use wire. 



Mr. Litchard. — The best fence I know of is barbed wire; the 

 last work I did at home last summer, was to build CG rods of 



