AGRICULTI'RAL APHORISMS. 1207 



diseased carcasses deep and solid. The early tobacco plant 

 lost only its head ; the late one half its body. Plant potatoes 

 largely when they go begging. When sizing the potato patch 

 remember that every hog is an Irishman. The big potato grew 

 early on fall plowed land. The potato tuber should carry an 

 umbrella; rain or sun quickly injures it. Raise your own sweet 

 potato plants from perfect seed planted a month before the plants 

 are wanted. Puddle the roots of sweet potato plants before 

 transplanting, and firm the earth about them. Sow rye between 

 crops for pasture and manure. Pumpkins are good stock med- 

 icine. Sow turnip seed after a rain. 



A tree planted will blossom with pleasures, and fruit with 

 profits. Good corn land is poor fruit tree land. An orchard 

 does not make a good mule pasture. Fruit trees, like grain and 

 stock, must have food and care. Commune not with the fruit 

 tree agent armed with colored plates and an oily tongue. Plant 

 fruit trees one or two years old. When selecting new varieties 

 of fruit, consult your neighbors. Hogs in the orchard furnish a 

 case of mutual benefit. Keep a young orchard in low, cultivated 

 crops; an old orchard in clover. Neglect never made a success 

 of fruit-raising. Make a bush of the raspberry by pinching the 

 cane off when two feet long. Precede strawberries with clover. 

 Good taste made his fruit attractive, and got the highest price for 

 it. The doctor sighs over a full orchard and a good garden. 



Put the garden on rich, warm, well-drained land, free from 

 weeds. When a man tells me he can not have a good garden 

 I know that his hoe is rusty. You can not make a fence hold 

 more health and money than by putting it around a good garden. 



A strong plant is the best remedy for insects. The cut- 

 worm is sure that the birds should be killed. When the Hes- 

 sian Fly turns agricultural writer, he will make his first article 

 against late sowing and a fast growing plant. Fall plowing, 

 frequent harrowings, and many birds, form the combination to 

 which cut-worms, white grubs, and wire-worms succumb. The 

 apple tree borer is one of the few things which will not endure 

 soft soap. The black bird acknowledged the corn, but proved 

 it had an appetite for grubs. 



