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if composted. Green manure, if it does 

 not injure the crop, will produce stalks 

 rather than fruit. It should be com- 

 posted to produce fruit, but if foliage is 

 wanted may be applied green. 



He believed in applying manuie as 

 fast as made ; but would not object to 

 spreading on snow, but would object to 

 free spreading on frozen ground on a 

 steep hill. He had seen water colored 

 by manure washed into a hollow, when 

 the crop did not show any more. He 

 would apply manure on the surface, 

 harrowing it in, but never ploughing 

 in unless he ploughed a second time. 



If manure is applied in autumn, and 

 the ground is ploughed in spring, it 

 brings up the soluble portion that has 

 washed down. — Discussioos of the MafiS. 

 ffort. Societi/. 



COST OF RAISINO MAX(40LDS. 



The gi-eat objection most farmers 

 have to growing mangolds, is their sup- 

 posed cost of production. Some writers 

 on the subject sa}' that the lulior bill 

 alone is more than the whole \ alue of 

 the crop. But my experience proves 

 (to my own satisfaction at least) that 

 the growing of mangolds is not only 

 profitable, but that it is tlie most profit- 

 able crop for a dairy farmer to grow in 

 this section of the country. This year 

 I put in one acre on land that was in 

 very poor condition, having been leased 

 to a person for the last three yeai's 

 whose interest it was to take all he 

 could out of the land lieforc his lease 

 expired. 



I ploughed the laud ;is dec}» as a good 

 strong team could do it ; put on three 

 bags of artificial manure broadcast ; 

 harrowed it in thoroughly ; ridged it 

 up 20 inches apart : rolled the ridges 

 with a two-horse I'oller ; drilled in the 

 seed on the top of the I'idges, and then 

 rolled it again. With this treatment I 

 think eveiy seed germinated. They 



were hoed twice and cultivated three 

 times. After the last cultivation the 

 earth was thrown up to them with a 

 double moiildboard plough. The yield 

 was 26 tons of large solid mangolds, at 

 a cost of $1 33 per ton. as follows : — ■ 



Itent of land $4 00 



Seed 4 00 



.Manure 15 00 



Hoi-.se lalx.i- 5 00 



Hau.llalH.r 8 00 



Total $36 00 



Allowing GO pounds to the bushel, 

 we have 906 bushels, costing less than 

 4 cents per bushel. When we take into 

 consideration the fact that half a bushel 

 fed along with the usual rations, will 

 increase the milk yield two quarts per 

 day, besides keeping the animal in good 

 health, we have, in my estimation, one 

 of the best crops that can be raised for 

 feeding dairy cattle in winter. — Cm'. 



THK WKALTHY APPLE. 



The Wealtliy is a Aery thrifty but 

 not very rapid grower, in this particular 

 being iinich like the Duchess of Olden- 

 burgh, the trees of the two varieties 

 looking very much alike both in nursery 

 and orchard. The cliief reason for its 

 rather slow growth is easily found in 

 its eai-ly and abundant fruitfulness. 

 Trees six and seven years set have often 

 produced each a full barrel of market- 

 able fruit. It is a i-egular bearer, and 

 has fruit when any apple tree in the 

 neighborhood has any. The Wealthy 

 and the Duchess are about equally 

 reliable in this partictilar. 



As regards quality the Wealthy 

 leaves little to be desired, it is a better 

 dessert fruit than the Baldwin because 

 it has softei- fiesh and a more delicate 

 flavor, :ind for these reasons it is in the 

 same proportion inferior for cooking 

 purposes. In this it resembles the 

 Fameuse. As to marketable qualities 

 I never knew an apple to take the eye 



