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site and set the trees of the new state trial orchard at Wausau, of 
which he still has charge. 
Mr. Philips is worthy of special commendation for the deep in- 
terest he has taken in the College of Agriculture. Many of the 
young men who have reaped the benefits of the ‘‘short course” in- 
struction received their first knowledge of the advantages of the 
course from Mr. Philips. Not only in his own county but in all 
portions of the state, Mr. Philips has been an earnest advocate of 
agricultural education. During the past seven years he has visited 
the college annually and addressed the students of the short course 
at their literary meetings, always giving them fatherly advice and 
kind words of encouragement. The students now look forward to 
his annual visit with a great deal of pride, and try to reciprocate by | 
extending to him the marked respect and cordiality due one who 
is laboring faithfully for the general welfare of the young men 
from the farms. We are in need of many like Mr. Philips to help 
promote the agricultural industries of the state, and no better 
method can be pursued than by earnestly advocating agricultural 
education. R. A. MOORE, 
In charge of Wisconsin Short Course 
INTENSIVE GARDENING IN THE WEST.—In the spring of 1894 the 
writer undertook some experiments in intensive farming. A piece 
of land with aclay loam soil and a clay subsoil containing much 
iron, with a porous stratum at a depth of four feet, was heavily man- 
ured with coarse manure and plowed under. Then the field was 
well covered with finely rotted manure taken from the hotbeds of 
the previous season. Then wood ashes were applied at the rate of 
about four hundred bushels peracre. The fine manure and ashes 
were well harrowed in, and the land set with early cabbages planted 
sixteen by twenty-four inches, or over 15,000 cabbage per acre. 
Then with a Planet, Jr. seed drill, spinach was sown between 
the rows. After the spinach appeated above ground nitrate 
of soda was sown broadcast over the field at the rate of three 
hundred pounds per acre, and a liberal broadcast dressing of land 
plaster was given. The land was worked frequently, and notwith- 
standing the severe drouth the crop of spinach was very luxuriant, 
excelling anything of the kind my customers had ever seen, and 
my cabbaye and cauliflower were the wonder and envy of the 
neighborhood. In 1895 a portion of this cabbage field was twice 
manured, as before, and sown with alternate rows of spinach and 
onions in rows only eight inches apart. The crop was cultivated 
and weeded twice. The spinach crop was very fine, and the onions 
yielded nine hundred and sixty bushels per acre. The onions were 
sown in long rows and at both ends of the rows the land had been 
ruined by scraping off the surface soil to fill up a hole which was 
previously too low for cultivation. It is probable thatin the mid- 
dle of the field the yield of onions was in the neighborhood of 1500 
bushels per acre, and the yield would no doubt have been heavier 
with more thorough cultivation.—O. J. Farmer. 
