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results. The honest seednien have a repu - 

 tation at stake, and when he sells any kind 

 of seed, he expects to retain the customer, 

 hence does not palm off that which is 

 worthless. Cheap corn for seed will yield 

 poor returns, even if the land has been 

 thoroughly fertilized. If the seed grown 

 in one locality is transferred to another 

 the crop will be better. 



Corn may be planted in most sections, 

 during the month of April, but can be put 

 in every month until August. Some vari- 

 eties ripen in ninety days, and even tke 

 earlier kinds may be cut for fodder in fifty 

 days. A hand planter is the best for plant- 

 ing a .small acreage. With this the corn 

 can be dropped three to five kernels in a 

 hill about thirty inches in the row, after 

 the field has been furrowed out to three 

 to four feet between rows. After the 

 plants are six inches high, all but two in 

 a hill should be pulled out. If the field 

 is to be irrigated the water should be kept 

 off until the tassels appear in the plants. 

 Under ordinary conditions two irrigations 

 will produce better corn thao frequent ap- 

 plications of water. 



Dried corn for the market may be pre- 

 pared by drying in the sun of by using 

 ordinary fruit evaporators. It should be 

 well boiled on the ear, about thirty min- 

 utes being sufficient, then cut from the 

 cob with a sharp knife, and put on to dry- 

 If the sun is used, a scaffold like that 

 used for fruits, may be covered with cot- 

 ton cloth, and the corn distributed over 

 it about one fourth of an inch in depth t 

 This can then be covered with a light 

 cheese or butter cloth to keep out the flies 

 and dust, and the corn will dry nicely. 

 Evaporated corn is more saleable than 

 that dried in the sun or stove oven. The 

 fruit evaporator can be used for this and 

 every ear be successfully harvested. 



JOEL SHOMAKER. 



OUR AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY 

 ABROAD. 



The importation into England of foreign 

 agricultural machinery, principally from 



America, and intended for transshipment, 

 is constantly increasing. During the past 

 few months the steamships of the "Wilson 

 Line have landed in Hull unusually large 

 quantities of agricultural machinery and 

 implements. Practically the whole of it 

 is sent to Russia, which a few years ago 

 was supplied almost wholly with the En- 

 glish made article. 



FORESTRY SENTIMENT 



IN THE NORTHWEST. 

 From the St. Paul Pioneer Press. 



The hearty welcome given by the people 

 of St Paul, ending with the banquet re- 

 cently to the visiting Congressmen on their 

 way to the pine forests of the Xorth to in- 

 spect the region it is expected to set apart 

 for a national park, bears witness to the 

 deep interest taken by the people of the 

 State at large in the objects of this excur- 

 sion. It is chiefly due to the enthusiastic 

 efforts of Col. Cooper, of Chicago, that so 

 large a delegation of leading Congressmen, 

 representing widely different sections of 

 the Union, were moved to participate in 

 this tour of investigation. He has suc- 

 ceeded in giving the character of a national 

 movement to what was before a purely 

 local project, initiated by local organiza- 

 tions, which had with diflculty enlisted the 

 co-operation of Congress and the State 

 Legislature in setting apart a park of 35 

 miles square around the sources of the 

 Mississippi. The aid of Congress is now 

 sought in extending this park so as to in- 

 clude the still virgin forests, which, under 

 treaty with the Indians, have already been 

 provisionally condemned to destruction, 

 and rescue them from the .doom which is 

 impending over them. This will require 

 perhaps another treaty with the Indians, 

 under which the timber cutting can be 

 confined to the larger trees aod subjected 

 to intelligent forestry regulations. 



It ought not to be difficult to procure 

 the consent of the Indians to this, if their 

 consent is necessary to what is merely an 

 economic regulation of the timber cutting. 

 The scheme of a continuous series of 



