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8UCCP89. Now it would seem that each one might 

 settle this question for himself, by tre iting the 

 same f ekl, with the sime kind and amount 

 of manure, ilrst by plowing under, and second by 

 first plowing, and then spreading the manure and 

 working it down two to five inches by the plow, 

 cultivator, horse-hoe or liarrow. An experiment 

 of this kind instituted upon each part of the farm 

 where the soils vary, would produce such results 

 as to satisfy most persons what particular pro- 

 cess they ought to pursue with regard to the 

 depth to which manure should be placed from 

 the surface. 



Steei'ing Seed Corn. — The blackbirds, crows 

 and cut-worms have ruined the prospects of many 

 a fair field of corn, and obliged its owner to de- 

 vote it to some other crop, after the beautiful 

 blades had come up and made a fine start. To 

 prevent this, the attention of the reader is called 

 to several articles on the subject, recently given in 

 these columns. Steeping the corn in salt-petre or 

 copperas water, will give it such a taste as to 

 make it disagreeable to the birds, and it is saidal 

 80 to the cut-worm. Soaking the corn in water 

 and then rolling it in tar and plaster will also act 

 as a preventive. 



Green Corn for Summer Fodder. — Sow south- 

 ern corn as early as the ground will permit, a 

 few rows at a time, and continue at intervals of 

 one or two weeks, and you may help out the 

 parched pastures and keep up a liberal supply of 

 milk. The soil should be deeply plowed, and gen- 

 erously enriched. 



Grafting. — Treat the old trees gently — keep 

 oflF the hob-nail boots, axes and hatchets. Graft 

 the topmost branches this year, and leave tlie oth- 

 ers to assist nature in carrying out the operations 

 she has begun. Dig about the trees — feed them 

 with a dressing of good compost, a little ashes, a 

 few handsfull of bone dust, scrape slightly and 

 scrub their old trunks with soap and water, and 

 then stand by and see how they will yield you in 

 five or six years — sometimes they will in three or 

 four — the delicious Baldwin, Ilubbardston or 

 Northern Spy. If some of your young trees have 

 been injured, have contracted a stunted habit or 

 are in any way deformed, ovorliau-1 them thor- 

 oughly about the roots, then cut off close to the 

 ground, and insert a Hunt Russet, Sweet Bough, 

 or Morrison's Red if you can get it. 



Take up one hundred of your little nursery 

 trees — if they are half an inch in diameter they 

 will answer — cut off the tap, and most of the oth- 

 er roots, keep them in moist earth and graft at 

 your leisure ; then set them in nursery rows and 

 cultivate well, and you will so(m he supplied with 

 the best of trees for continuing out your orchard. 

 TuE Corn Crop. — See article on "Profits of 

 raising corn," in another column, and in the 



weekly Farmer of April 22, by B. F. Cutter, 

 Esq., of Pelham, N. H. He makes it quite clear 

 that his corn cost him but 53^ cents per bushel, 

 ^V^e know Mr. Cutter so well aa a pains-taking 

 and careful man, that we have no doubt whatever 

 that his statement is correct. Well, then, kind 

 reader, "go and do likewise," and make money 

 out oi your corn crop. 



Small Fruits. — How did the raspberries, cur- 

 rants, strawberries, gooseberries, blackberries, &c.j 

 succeed that you set last year ? Add a few more 

 to them this spring — you will be convinced by-and- 

 by that there is profit in it. 



The Garden Generally. — Get in peas to suc- 

 ceed those sown in April — plant an asparagus bed 

 if you have none — sow lettuce, parsley, onions, 

 and all tlie vegetables desired for the table. 



Carrots. — There is no certainty of a good car- 

 rot crop unless they are sown early ; the moment 

 the soil is suitable in May, get in the seed. And 

 now one word for 



•The Ornamental. — If it has not been done be- 

 fore, strikeout a simple plan for a garden which 

 shall be in some degree ornamental, and at the 

 same time not much obstruct the operation of the 

 plow. Work constantly tg this plan, and it will 

 soon grow into beauty under your hands — and the 

 beautiful will really be a hcarV s-ease in your gar- 

 den. We do not urge anything intricate, expen- 

 sive or extravagant ; simply a path or two, and a 

 pleasant border from which to look over upon 

 your fine beds of garden sauce, tomatoes, and 

 melons, and squashes, and sweet-potatoes, and 

 egg-plants, and savory herbs. The conception of 

 the thing is the most difficult ; when this is 

 done, the job is half accomplished, and you at once 

 determine to indulge a little in The Ornamental. 

 I'Whoa! gee a little, Billy," great caro is necos- 

 sai-y among these young trees ! 



E.XTRAORDINARY Cow. — We published a few 

 weeks since Mr. Hobart's statement relative to a 

 cow which he has — three and a half quarts of 

 whose milk produced a little more than one pound 

 of butter, being a better yield of the butyraceous 

 qualities — or, considerably exceeding the statement 

 made a short time since in the Plovgliman hy its 

 editor, j\Ir. Buckrainster, concerning his extraor- 

 dinary Devons — these yielding a pound of butter 

 to four quarts of milk. Mr. B. however msut 

 yield the palm to our neighbor, Mr. Ilobart, who, 

 by the way, has at our request furnished our i"ead- 

 ers with the following additional statement, rela- 

 tive to his extraordinary cow : 



Mr. Editor: — Sir, In answer to your inquiries 

 in regard to my cow, I reply: — She is of the com- 

 mon native breed, dark red color, medium size, 

 weighing, I should judge, between six and seven 

 hundred pounds, and is ten old this Spring. Her 

 only keeping has been corn stalks, and common 

 English hay. She had no meal or any other food, 

 than the aliove mentioned. 

 — Amherst Express. R. B. Hobart. 



