290 Ho^'ticultural Seeds — Feeding Stock — Sugar Beet. VoL. IV. 



bees are not as frequently attacked and de- 

 Btroyed by the bee-moth ; there is no neces- 

 Bity of destroying the bee as is the common 

 but cruel practice ; and the store of honey is 

 always at command. The honey bee is one 

 of the most valuable of our manufacturers ; 

 and that and the silk worm almost the only 

 insects that contribute by their industry to 

 the comfort of man. — Cultivator. 



From the Rochester Advertiser. 

 On Sowing Horticultural See(ls» 



Much of the complaint which is made of 

 the failure of seeds, is owing to the want of 

 proper care in sowing them, or to other cir- 

 cumstances, than their bad quality. Many 

 kinds of seeds are very small, and if these 

 have more than a slight covering of earth, 

 they will not vegetate. And, on the other 

 hand, when slightly covered, one or two days 

 of hot sun will dry the earth, so that if they 

 have sprouted they will be inevitably de 

 Btroyed. Some kinds of small seeds will not 

 vegetate well unless the earth is rolled or 

 pressed firmly iu contact with them. (Thus 

 it will be seen that small seeds should be 

 sown in fine earth, covered lightly, and rolled 

 or pressed down ; and the bed should then be 

 shaded from hot sun, and watered frequently 

 in dry weather.) Some seeds have a hard 

 shell or pericarp, and require several days 

 soaking before sowing, in order to cause them 

 to vegetate freely. If these are sown with- 

 out any preparation, and dry weather ensues, 

 they will invariably fail. Othei^ kinds, na- 

 tives of warm climates, will be sure to rot if 

 sown when the weather is cold and moist ; 

 and some even require a good hot-bed to 

 cause them to vegetate. On the other hand 

 some kinds require cool moist weather, and 

 will not grow if sown late, when the weather 

 is hot and dry. Again, sometimes the seeds 

 vegetate well, and before the plants have be- 

 come fairly visible, tiiey are destroyed by the 

 myriads of insects which often infest the 

 ground in summer. These are a few of the 

 many causes which every experienced gard- 

 ener knows frequently prevent the growth 

 of seeds; but the failure of which is often at- 

 tributed to their bad quality. 



Whoever quarrels with a man for his po- 

 litical principles, is himself denying the first 

 principle of freedom — freedom of thought, 

 moral liberty, without which there is nothing 

 in politics worth a groat ; it is therefore 

 wrong upon principle. You have on this 

 subject a right to convince, if you can ; he 

 has the same. Exercise your rights, but don't 

 quarrel. 



Keep a clear conscience. 



On Feeding Stock« 



Little and often, says experience ; in feed- 

 ing all kinds of domestic animals particular 

 care should be taken to avoid placing too 

 much food before them at a time, for it is ob- 

 served that food whicli has been long blowed 

 upon, is never relished afterward, and will 

 only be eaten from the most pressing neces- 

 sity. _ 



It is well known that the exhalations from 

 the lungs of all animals contain great impuri- 

 ties, which have been thrown off from the 

 blood ; and these coming in contact with the 

 food renders it unpleasant if not injurious, 

 and the instinct of animals prompts them to 

 reject all poisonous substances offered them 

 as food. The true maxim is, little and often. 

 Never crowd tlie trough with food, or the 

 rack with hay, to avoid the trouble of soon 

 replenishing them again, if you wish your 

 stock to thrive and do well ; and particularly 

 if you desire to economize your winter store 

 of provender. Lazy boys always fill the 

 trough and rack the fullest, in order to save 

 the trouble of doing it soon again. — Missis- 

 sippi Farmer. 



The Sugar Beet. 



The editor of the New York American, 

 who " dabbles a little in farming," gives the 

 result of his own experiments in the culture 

 of this root. We give the result in his own 

 words : — 



" A patch of three-quarters of an acre was 

 twice ploughed very deep, and very richly 

 manured with stable manure, after having 

 been well limed (one hundred bushels to the 

 acre) the preceding year. The seed was 

 planted by hand in drills, and when the plants 

 were up they were thinned out by hand, so 

 as to leave them about a foot and a half in 

 the drill. The ground- was kept tolerably 

 free of weeds till the plants had attained con- 

 siderable growth, after which they were not 

 much attended to. The beets were gathered 

 during the first week of this monthrand the 

 produce was six hundred bushels — weighing 

 fourteen tons six hundred. The hogs and 

 cnws eat them greedily, either raw or boiled. 

 The horses as yet refuse, although mixed 

 with meal, or sprinkled with salt, or whether 

 raw or boiled. The value, however, of these 

 vegetables for milch cows is very great. It 

 improves both the quantity and quality of the 

 milk, without imparting to it any disagreea- 

 ble flavour." 



Instead of looking down with contempt 

 on the crooked in mind or body, we should 

 thankfully look up to God who has made us 

 better. 



