ABOUT FRUITS, FLOWERS AND FARMING. 95 



cooking. As we were meditating whether to enter, such a 

 squall arose from a quarrelling man and woman, that we 

 awoke and lo ! it was a dream. So that the man who left 

 his plow out all the season, may live in the neatest house in 

 the county, for all that we know ; only, was it not strange 

 that we should have dreamed all this from just seeing a 

 plow left out in the furrow. 



SCOUR YOUR PLOWS BRIGHT! 



FARMERS may be surprised to know that their crops will 

 depend a good deal on the color of the plows ! yet so it is. 

 Bright plows are found to produce much better crops than 

 any other. It may be electricity, or magic for aught we 

 know ; we merely state the fact, leaving others to account 

 for it. But very much depends upon the manner of doing 

 it, for merely scrubbing it by hand with emery or sand is 

 not the thing it must be scoured by the soil. It is found 

 that the subsoil scours it better for wheat, than the top soil 

 for a plow kept bright by very deep plowing affords bet- 

 ter wheat than a plow brightened by the surface of the soil. 

 It is the same with corn. In respect to this last crop, if you 

 will keep your plow bright as a mirror until the corn is in 

 the milk, you will find that it will have a wonderful effect. 

 We appeal to every good farmer if he ever knew a rusty plow 

 to be accompanied with good crops ? Iron rust on a plow- 

 share is poisonous to corn. 



A young- fanner of about twenty years of age said to us 

 the other day : " If anybody wants me, he must come to 

 my corn-field ; I live there I am at it all the time I have 

 harrowed my corn once, plowed five times, and gone over 

 it with the hoe once." "Yes," said his old father, who 

 eoeiiied, justly, quite proud of his son " keep your plows 



