hand. Nor is the use of the horse confined to the hay-field, 

 but every year it is found that some new work can be done as 

 well by horse as by man power. 



For instance, many men who raise large crops of potatoes 

 cover them with a light plow drawn by a single horse, thus 

 doing the work rapidly and well. I find that even on heavy 

 land this method works well, if a little care is taken to go over 

 the ground and level the top of the furrow, where lumps of 

 earth or stones rest upon it. 



It will be seen that if a change of this kind can be made, 

 and this branch of work quickly disposed of, attention can be 

 given to other work and thus a start obtained on the season's 

 work, that will be appreciated as the weeks pass. Another 

 point on which opinion is changing is in regard to the amount 

 of land it is best to plant ; the old custom of many acres and 

 medium crops is giving way to the system of Europe, and con- 

 forming to the practice of the gardeners near our cities, which 

 is to put on to one acre all the manure and labor the old way 

 gave to four, and getting a crop equal to the larger lot. 



The old story of the man who left his sons a treasure buried 

 in a field, which they were to find by digging, will apply to 

 Essex County as well as elsewhere. Some recent writer has 

 said that most men reckon only the superficial area of their 

 farms, as if tliey had a title to but a few inches in depth, for- 

 getting that often a soil may be made much more productive 

 by cultivating below the level at which it has usually been 

 worked. 



The author of " My Summer in a Garden " says he derived 

 great pleasure in thinking that though he had but a small piece 

 of land on the surface of the earth, yet he owned clear through 

 to China. Even if we do not care to go in quite so deep as he 

 did, we may with advantage work deeper than many of us 

 have been in the habit of doing. 



I find that so fully are some of our best nursery-men con- 

 vinced of benefit resulting from deep culture, that they take 

 pains to trench the soil of the beds in which they grow their 

 sample plants and shrubs to a depth of two feet, claiming that 



