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THE FARM AND GARDEN. 



(iOI^l^ESPONDENGB. 



R., of New York City, asks how to grow 

 English walnuts from seed. Answer — Gather 

 the walnuts and bury them in sauil in the cellar 

 or out of doors where not too wet, and in spring 

 plant early about 2 inches deep in a clay soil, 

 deeper in a sandy soil, and they will vegetate 

 freely. If the walnuts are kept too wet the seed 

 will rot, and if kept too dry will fail to vegetate. 

 When kept dry it sometimes takes two years to 

 vegetate. English walnuts are also often budded 

 on common walnuts. 



+ 

 S. W. Williams, of Atchison County, asks : 

 1. — Can sugar-making be made at a profit from 

 Amber and Orange cane in Kansas? 2.-Will 

 fruit growing be likely to be profitable? An- 

 swer: l.-We believe sugar can be made at a 

 Srofit in Kansas. On the dry soil of Itio Grande, 

 '. J., the culture is profitable. The cane is 

 richer and the sugar better when grown on a 

 light soil, and in a dry season rather than a wet 

 one. 2.-Yes; Kansas must become a great fruit 

 State. The apples an- finely colored, and the 

 cost of freights to I'liiladelpliia and New York 

 are as low as from near points in New York or 

 even New .Tersey. The cheap freight rates on 

 fruit in car-load lots make Kansas as near in 

 point of cost of transportation as some points 

 within one hundred and twenty-five miles of our 

 large Eastern cities. Your success in fruit grow- 

 ing will consist in cheap transportation. 



Subscriber, Tenn. l.-\Vhat is a safe cure for 

 colic in horses? 2. -Cure for worms in horses ? 

 3.-What to do for a swelled hock joint, caused 

 by accident. 4. -Can peanuts be grown as far 

 north as 40° north latitude? 5. -How to tell 

 when citrons are ripe? Answer: l.-A hafv 

 cure for colic is liot water ajiplied externally by 

 taking a thick sack and welling it in hot water, 

 and putting it over the animal, and as soon as 

 cool |>our warm water over the sack ; this remedy 

 is safe and easy of ajiplieatiffn. Exercise the 

 animal while applying the water. 2. -For 

 worms give a handful or two of gooil wood ashet 

 to each feed daily for a week ; if not .successful 

 try aloes. 3. -Apply liniment, rnb well, and 

 bandage loosely. 4. -Yes, if t^oil and conditions 

 are favorable. .5. -Preserving citrons are fit for 



fathering as soon a-s the rind changes color, 

 hey are ripe when the seeds are fully colored. 



+ 

 H. G. McGonegal, New York City, asks: 1.- 

 how to propagate cucumbers from vine cuttings. 

 2. -Where eggs can be obtained for hatching jiui-- 

 poses. Answer l.-Cucumber vines will make 

 cuttings that will take root when set in a warm, 

 moderately wet soil. Pieces of vines are taken 

 and cut into lengths of six inches or less, and set 

 in pots in a hot house, with only a small bud 

 above the sand. In a few days, if the heat is 

 regular, the cuttings will have taken root and 

 grown finely. In garden culture in the spring, 

 plants may be thus increased in open air. 

 2. -Eggs as sold by dealers in our city markets 

 have often been kept for a long time in pickle, 

 or in cold storage for months, and will n(»t hatch. 

 Your only chance to obtain a sujiply of fresh eggs 

 for your incubator, will be to get, in some local 

 town near you, an agent to purchase for you eggs 

 especially for that purpose, and have them 

 shipped to you in Stephen's patent egg crates, 

 for if sent in bulk, if one should break, all the 

 eggs soiled by the broken one will seldom hatch 

 well, even if well washed. 



D. S., of Cumberland County, N. ,T., asks: 1. 

 How to make good barnyard manure. 2. -Will 

 it pay to purchase commercial fertilizers? An- 

 swer: 1. -In any good market for beef and mut- 

 ton, manure is best made by purchasing stock in 

 the early fall and pasturing them, selling all the 

 animals ready for market as soon as fatted, if 

 prices are favorable, and the balance fed on grain 

 in the stable, using a change of hay and corn 

 fodder, and selling when a ifair price can be ob- 

 tained. Sheep are often more valuable to keep 

 for spring lambs, and selling the ewes, when fat, 

 after the lambs are weaned. Raising the lambs 

 takes more pasture land, but when they are dea:- 

 it becomes profitable. A large amount of excel- 

 lent manure is made in stock feeding. 2.-Com- 

 mercial manures often nay in the start — they 

 give crops, regardless of other benefits. Thus, 

 an application of 300 pounds of some commercial 

 fertilizer may give a start to a field of late-sowed 

 wheat that will insnre a crop, or it may give a 

 set of young clover and make a good stand of 

 grass. In either case the value might be in the 

 start it gave the crop. We hope to give the sub- 

 ject of commercial fertilizers the attention it de- 

 serves in the next spring numbers. 



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