THE PRACTICAL COUNTRY GENTLEMAN 



planted by machinery built for that purpose, at 

 the rate of ten bushels per acre, the fertilizer 

 being distributed at the same time. As soon as 

 the green shoots appear it is well to begin cul- 

 tivating and to keep it up until the leaves meet 

 across the rows. Level culture Is best until the 

 time comes for cultivation to cease, when a 

 winged-plough may be run through the rows 

 throwing up the soil around the plants. Blight 

 and insects can be controlled by spraying with 

 Bordeaux mixture at least five times; and start- 

 ing when the plants are five or six Inches high, 

 add Paris green for insects. Bordeaux mixture 

 is made by dissolving four pounds copper sul- 

 phate in hot water or by suspending it in a sack 

 In a tub of cold water for two or three hours. 

 Slake four pounds of caustic lime in another 

 vessel, adding water slowly that it may be thor- 

 oughly slaked, then add enough water to make 

 five to ten gallons. When both are cool, pour 

 the lime into the copper solution, straining it 

 through a fine meshed sieve or burlap strainer, 

 and thoroughly mix. Before using, add 

 enough to make fifty gallons of the mixture and 

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