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|20 a ton, then it may not answer to feed cows which afford no 

 milk. But hay a little way from the city could not generally be 

 sold for over $10 a ton. It will take one and a half tons to 

 winter a cow. Cows which at the beginning of winter are worth 

 not over $15, are worth certainly $30 in the spring. That pays 

 for the hay, and leaves the manure and what milk they have 

 given in 'winter as profit. I believe under such circumstances 

 farmers can afford to feed hay. 



Prof. Nash. — It may be bad policy for Long Island farmers in 

 the vicinity of New York, to feed hay instead of hauling it to 

 the city, but I should not have much faith mthe statement if all 

 of them said so. I know one rnan, on the south side of Long 

 Island, who, by a small outlay of labor in gathering sea-weed, 

 grows 125 bushels of strawberries per acre. He has neighbors 

 who sell hay and buy manure, and grow corn with more labor 

 than it requires to grow his strawberries, and their land never 

 produces half the value of his strawberry crop. 



FOUR SORTS OF APPLES. 



Mr, Robinson. — Notwithstanding all that has been published 

 in relation to the best varieties of apples for cultivation, a gen- 

 tleman, residing between Seneca and Cayuga lakes, asks "what 

 are the best four varieties of apples for that region?" 



Mr. Pardee answered this question by recommending as first 

 in order the Rhode Island Greening ; second, the Baldwin ; 

 third, the Tompkins County King ; fourth, the Roxbury Rus- 

 set. I resided between these two lakes for many years, and 

 know that the above are the most suitable kinds. 



HOEING WHEAT. 



A. Br Travis, Oakland county, Mich., says he has tried experi- 

 ments for several years in the way of hoeing wheat in the spring 

 between the rows which are drilled in, and it has proved very 

 profitable. It does not hurt the growing wheat to be partially 

 covered with fresh earth. The heads upon the rows had grown 

 much larger — the kernels larger. The wheat weighed more per 

 bushel, and made more flour to a given weight of grain, than the 

 same wheat upon unhoed land. The hoeing is most profitable 

 upon clayey or heavy soils, and Mr. T. thinks that upon such 

 land, hoeing will increase the yield 25 to 30 per cent. Finding 

 hoeing by hand slow work, he invented a machine by which it 



