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mulch, shielding the roots from the parching rays of the summer 

 sun. 



By the last of June, growth has ceased, and seldom do the trees 

 retain even their foliage unimpaired through the succeeding 

 month, when the starved fruit droops for nourishment, and never 

 recovers sufficient vigor to ripen perfectly. 



The truth of this is recognized by the Long Island farmer, wha 

 never plants root crops to grow through the summer. Potatoes 

 are hurried into the ground almost under the snow; experience 

 has proved that they will not mature and produce tubers profita- 

 bly when planted in the season most successful in more clayey 

 soils. The beet and carrot are seldom successful. 



The Russia and flat turnip scarcely commence their growth 

 until cold nights have come. 



Every vegetable as well as fruit, seems to recognize the want 

 of carbon and alumina. 



These must be added, costly or economically, the law is im- 

 perative, if the Long Islander would raise fruit once more. Pro- 

 vidence, or nature, if your creed likes it better, rarely shows us a 

 want without a means of supply. 



The plan tain- weed grows wherever a venomous reptile crawls. 

 No part of the world is better supplied with deposits of carbon- 

 aceous matter, spread over some part of almost every square mile 

 of its surface, than Long Island, and with but little labor fitted to 

 become both the nutriment and the retainer of nutriment for 

 plants. 



Professor Mapes announced that the new digger, by Gibbs and 

 himself, was ready at his farm in Newark for trial, and w^hen the 

 frost is out of the ground he will put it in operation for the ex- 

 amination of gentlemen who desire it. This digger pulverizes the 

 soil deep. The Professor has placed his newly-invent3d sole 

 plough in advance, but connected with the digger. This small' 

 plough lifts the soil a little, so that the action of the digger is- 

 more complete The whole work, as the digger advances i& 



