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a successful practice, without damage to the corn : 

 upon this I have no experience. 



Continue to plant potatoes through this month, as 

 you may have leisure, to stock your fallows. A pota- 

 toe patch, with pumpkins near your hogs pen, you 

 will find very useful, and convenient, in bringing for- 

 ward your hogs. A very little attention through the 

 summer will bring forward your hogs, so as to save 

 your corn in the fall, and thus save your cash. 



Your cions which you cut in February for graft- 

 ing, now begin to expand their buds, and claim your 

 attention. Select the most thrifty stocks, either in 

 your field, or nursery, of 1, 2, or 3 inches over; put 

 two cions into each stock, and if they both grow, re- 

 move one the next year, this will give as much head 

 to your tree as the two, and will heal over sound ; 

 but if you suffer both to stand, they will never unite 

 where they grow, and meet, and when they become 

 loaded with fruit, they will open, or separate, so as to 

 admit the rains, and thus rot, and ruin your trees : 

 you cannot be too cautious upon this head. Never 

 graft two upright limbs upon the same stock, for the 

 same reason ; either cut off the one, or cut and graft 

 below both. Graft always as high as possible, to 

 guard against cattle, and to raise the head of your 

 tree, so as to admit the sun and air, as free as possi- 

 ble upon your undergrowth, whatever it may be ; it 

 will also improve your fruit, both in size, and quan- 

 tity. Mr. Forsythe recommends heading down large 

 bearing trees, to change their fruit by grafting ; this 

 will sometimes answer ; but I have suffered severely 

 in the loss of thrifty, full bearing trees, of 10 or 15 

 Inches over, in obedience to Mr. Forsythe, and can- 

 not recommend the practice, unless you graft your 

 free partially, the 1st, 2d and 3d years, until you 

 have accomplished your purpose, and I can say, that 

 even this is not always safe. 



Guard your orchards carefully against the nest- 

 worms, at this season ; and if you discover any of 



