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two acres set last season — they are bearing 

 two-thirds of a crop this season, and from one 

 picking earlier than the Thornless — fully as 

 large as Miami, of good fair quality for a red 

 berry — firm and fully equal to or superior in 

 productiveness to our best Black Caps — very 

 strong grower and as they propagate from the 

 tips, it promises to be a profitable and popular 

 market berry. J. B. Jones. 



Ti-ansplantiuff Beets. — H. A. Tripp, 

 Maine, writes the New York Tribune : — 

 Seeing some inquiry about the transplanting 

 of beets, I will give my method, which has 

 never failed with me, nor within my knowl- 

 edge. Make a hole in the ground two or 

 three inches deep, fill it with water (if cold 

 all the better), put the beet into it as far as 

 you wish it to go, then fill in with dirt, press- 

 ing it firmly around the plant. That is all ; 

 so much and no more. This method might 

 be too expensive and slow where the plants 

 were started in a hot-bed ; but where they 

 are sowed in the bed in which they are to 

 grow, I know of no way so good. I have 

 transplanted tjiem in this manner in a clear, 

 hot, sunshiny day, with no loss. A garden 

 trowel is the best tool to use in transplanting. 

 I prefer to have the plants from two to four 

 inches in height at the time. Last year I 

 traiLSplanted cabbages in the same manner 

 that were not over two inches in height, and 

 did not lose one. 



Onion Maggot. — The New England 

 Farmer mentions the successful practice of 

 an onion grower at Salem, by planting the 

 seed as deep as it will bear, as the young 

 maggots can not go far down, and the root 

 will have time to make a larger growth, and 

 thus afford more food than they can devour. 



Straivherry Fertilizer, — A writer in 

 the Rural New Yorker says : " The following 

 recipe was first tried years since, with appar- 

 ently high satisfaction ; the growth was vigor- 

 ous, the crop abundant, and the berries large. 

 It was therefore very highly commended as 

 fitted to secure admirable results. Old beds, 

 under the treatment suggested, are said to be 

 even better than new. The proportions are 

 for a bed thirty by forty feet. Commence 

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using the fertilizer when the new leaves are 

 being put forth, and apply it towards night, 

 three times, at intervals of a week between 

 each application. It should be dissolved in 

 thirty gallons of rain or river water. Indeed, 

 if anything be varied from this, let the propor- 

 tion of water be larger : 



" Nitrate of potash, sulphate of soda (or 

 ' Glauber's salts '), and sal soda — of each one 

 pound ; of muriate of ammonia, one-quarter 

 of a pound. Keep the bed well weeded. 

 Tried on old beds even, the results, as above 

 hinted, are highly gratifying." 



Lima lieans — A correspondent of the 

 Practical Farmer gives some particulars 

 about the raising of a large crop of Lima beans 

 by a Pennsylvania farmer : 



The ground was a low piece, which is fre- 

 quently overflown from a creek close by. It 

 was manured broadcast with stable manure, 

 and plowed in. No manure of any kind was 

 used in the hills. Hills planted four feet 

 apart each way, with four beans to each hill, 

 which were made on the level surface, and 

 covered one inch deep. Planted May 10, 

 worked and kept clean with horse and culti- 

 vator ; poles not put in till runners of beans 

 were twelve to eighteen inches long. No 

 pinching process was practiced, they being 

 allowed to run at will, and made a very large 

 growth, completely covering poles, and run- 

 ning from one to another. When the frost 

 came and killed the vines, they were loaded 

 down with beans quarter grown. The beans 

 were not started in a hot-bed at all, a-nd not 

 soaked previous to planting. 



Value of Walnut Timber. — As an illus- 

 tration of the increa,sing value of walnut lum- 

 ber, the Indianapolis Journal notes that the 

 standing walnut trees on a half-section of land 

 pn Eel River, in Miami County, Ind., were 

 recently sold to a lumber dealer for $17,000. 

 There is a large amount of other timber on the 

 tract, which is not included, only the walnut 

 timber being sold. Walnut lumber is coming 

 more and more into use throughout this coun- 

 try and Europe, and at present a very large 

 business is done in preparing and shipping it 

 from Indiana. 



