THE GENESEE FARMER. 



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)BY Weather witfi Fbequdnt Hoeinqs betteb 

 g^j Garden Vkqetables than a "Wet Season. — A cor- 

 Jent writes : " The summer of 1854: was very dry, 

 ■ frequent hoeings the weeds in my garden were 

 • ly subdued. The result was that I liad good 

 f all kinds of vegetables. My carrots yielded eight 

 Lels to the rod — 1,280 bushels per acre ; melons ex- 

 oely fine, and, in short, all my crops were very supe- 

 Tlie next summer (ISSo) was wet, and the weeds in 

 garden would grow in spite of all the hoeing I could 

 them. Hoe one day, and the wseds would be grow- 

 all the better for it on the next. The result was that 

 I all the care and attention that could be bestowed 

 1 them, my vegetables looked puny and sickly all sum- 

 and yielded rery inferior crops." 



jBNip Flt. — A correspondent writes that he has, for 



ft ?ast three years, at the recommendation of an expe- 



] gardener, sown a row of mustard seed between 



vo rows of ruta bagas, as a remedy for the fly. 



-alt has been very gratifying. The mustard came 



I . :, aud appeared to be preferred by the flies — at all 



tr ts. they fed upon it till the ruta bagas were out of 



way. Our correspondent thinks it better to sow 



anstard between the rows, because it can the more 



r be destroyed by the horse hoe. Il the ruta bagas 



ingled out in the rows with the hoe — as they always 



d be — we do not see any objection to sowirg the 



ird and ruta baga seed together, in the same drill. 



dps, however, our correspondent is right. 



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N Manure for Onions. — A correspondent writes: 



en onions are coming up scatter hen manure very 



over them, (this is one of the best manures that was 



pplied to onions,) and sift a small quantity of sand 



it. "When they are fully up thin them out so as to 



ijj I but one onion in a place. Keep the ground loose 



,^ -ee around the remainder from the time that they are 



jj ] I they are ' pulled.' A most important thing to be 



(jj in raising onions is to keep them entirely free from 



I, as all farmers know that they will not grow where 



ire choked with weeds." 



RE FOR Garget. — We have repeatedly recommended 

 fdriodate of potash as a cure for garget. It is un- 

 sdly the best remedy for this disease yet discovered. 

 . Fowler, of Yorktown, N. Y., writes us that he 

 «ed it with the most satisfactory results. He pre- 

 it as follows : Put 44; table-spoonsful of water into 

 Je and then add one ounce of hydriodate of potash 

 lake it well till it is dissolved. Giv« the cow a table- 

 ful three times a day in a little warm bran or meal 





5BAOK FOR Stock. — A Canadian correspondent 

 " We have sown about an acre of cabbage of late 

 and con?'der them excellent fall feed for stock. So-^ 

 ed in hills about a yard apart each way. They re- 

 good land with plenty of manure ; but if the «eason 

 favorable they will yield a large quantity of food." 



Iiiiii ame writer also says, "Last year we sowed an acre 

 '•, and found it a great benefit to joung lambs after 



Julfif; them from the ewes." 



Planting Potatoes in the Fall. — My practice of 

 planting potatoes in the fall got a little distvrbtd last ictn- 

 ter. Except when tmusiial pains were taken to guard 

 against frost, they were found to be entirely destroyed this 

 spring. And in view of the whole subject now, my advice 

 would be to any one thinking of adopting my plan pub- 

 lished in the IMarch number of the fienesee Fanner, for 

 planting potatoes in the fall, that wliile raising your pota- 

 toes from seed planted in the fall, would for many reasons 

 be the great disideratura accomplished, still great care 

 and judgment are indispensable, and that tlie safest and 

 best way would be to consider no fall planted potatoes en- 

 tirely secure, unless in addition to a deep covering of earth, 

 the surface is lastly covered with a considerable thickness 

 of straw, wliich wduld be rather too expensive beyond any 

 thing more than for a small patch, such as I intend to plant 

 next fall, and each succeeding one, until a better plan is 

 found. E. A. B. 



Oxford, Chenango Co., N. Y. 



Sprouting Potatoes. — In a private letter, our corres- 

 pondent, S. W., Bays : " It is all a humbug about sprout- 

 ing potatoes to forward them. If put into a box with 

 earth, and buried in a manure heap of horse dung, ten to 

 one they will heat and rot before they sprout. Potatoes 

 planted the 2.5th of April have no longer sprouts to-day 

 (14:th of May) than the potatoes left in the cellar, yet they 

 will go ahead of those in the cellar if the lalter are planted 

 to-day. Warming potatoes in the sun before planting, 

 enables them to sprout quicker when planted." 



Carrots ow the same Ground evert Year. — Our 

 esteemed correspondent, H. H. Taylor, of East Rodman, 

 Jefferson Co., N. Y., says : " I have raised carrots four 

 years in succession on the same land, and believe it best 

 to set apart a piece of land for this purpose, if manure can 

 be obtained to put on every year free from all kinds of weed 

 seeds. The longer you grow carrots on the same ground 

 the cleaner and mellower it will be, provided they are pro- 

 perly cultivated. My fourth crop was better and easier 

 raised than the first." 



Correction. — In the article on the Cultivation of In- 

 dian Corn in is.entucky, in the April number, there is a 

 material omission in the fourth line from the bottom. It 

 reads thus : " the bar or shear, as the size of the com will 

 admit, is run next to the corn for the first time." Whereas 

 it should read, " the bar or shear, as the size of the corn 

 will admit, is run next to the corn, and the dirt is throvm 

 from the middle for the first time." 



Sowing Mangel Wurzel in the Fall. — A corres- 

 pondent at Guelph, C. W., says : " I have grown mangel 

 wurzels for the last two years, and think them the finest 

 roots grown, for breeding ewes, milch cows and pigs. I 

 sowed four or five ridges last fall, and will inform yon how 

 they succeed in due time." We hope our friend wiH 



do so. 



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Water Lime mixed with skimmed milk is said to mabe 



an excellent drab-colored paint. It will adhere well to 



wood, stone, brick or mortar, where oil paint has not been 



used, and is Terj hard and durable. 



