MISCELLANEOUS AGRICULTURAL SUBJECTS. 617 



68. Most food of mature animals goes to make fat and support life, 

 the excess becoming tirst-class manure. 



69. Exclusive of water chemically, animals coming to maturity will eat 

 about one-fiftieth of their own weight per day. 



^Miscellaneous Agricultural <ubjects. 



THE ONTARIO FARMERS' TEXT BOOK. 



1. Be your own nurseryman, by setting aside part of the garden to be 

 laid with } 7 oung trees from your own bush or that of your neighbour. 



2. There are as many suitable plants in the uncultivated clearances of 

 the country as would replant every cultivated acre of the old Provinces. 



3. Do not grudge a piece of cultivated land for tree planting the gain 

 will be more than a grain crop, and in any case you can seed down to hay 

 and permanent pasture. 



4. The objects of planting, or replanting, are : 



1. Immediate shelter. 



2. Ornament. 



3. To assist in regulating rainfall and general temperature. 



4. As a profitable crop, 



5. The best shelter is from fully developed trees standing at proper 



art not from a close body of branchless stems. 



6. Ornament i< secured only by allowing every tree room to gn>\v in 

 accordance with its individual character never by crowding. 



7. To UOSl in iv-j-i dating rain-fall and temperat mv suitable to tin- want-- 

 of the country, we must have a national policy l>a^ed upon scientific and 



t arboriculture! history. 



8. Never plant trees up-n naturally \v-t ground (<>nrhe:r. > amp 

 orts so called are upon comparatively dry spots). 



'ur native trees iv.|uiiv no manurinLT, trenching. r breaking up of 

 irfaee, in preparation for replant HILT. 



U>. Spring planting is ^em-rally more successful than in the fall. 

 11. Choose mild, Calm weather, l.etv. April and Nt ,Iir 



