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wood of next year. A three-year old Concord vine should not be 

 allowed to bear more than from twelve to fifteen bunches. A Dela- 

 ware not more than six or eight. 



Mr. J. S. Burgess recommended to remove some of the canes as 

 soon as the leaves have fallen in autumn; after this, to dig up the 

 soil around each vine, and apply a liberal dressing of liquid manure. 

 This treatment, he thought, would secure a good and healthy 

 growth. 



BARREN RYE. 



Mr. James H. Bell, North Nassau, N. Y., sends a number of heads 

 of rye, with very few, and some containing no kernels, and asks 

 what he shall apply to the soil. 



Mr. S. Edwards Todd. — It looks as though his ground has been 

 so impoverished by a long succession of exhausting crops, that there 

 is no material left in the soil for producing the kernels of grain. 



Mr. W. P. Peck said one of the first things that should be done, 

 is to renovate the soil by an application of bone dust, or wood 

 ashes. 



STRIPED BUG. 



Mr. Jonas Hopkins, St. Joseph, Michigan, writes that a perfect 

 remedy for the striped bug, is to put a hen and chickens in a coop 

 near the cucumber vines. 



Mr. Wm. S. Carpenter stated that hens and chickens are not 

 essential, as the bugs cannot descend into a box. Therefore, a box 

 will exclude the bug most effectually. 



Mr. J. M. Allen said he makes small boxes, and covers them 

 with a pane of glass. 



The Chairman said that old cheese-boxes can be bought for five 

 cents each; they will last for years, and are better than anything 

 else. 



GAPES m CHICKENS. 



Mrs. J. K. Hartsler states that, by feeding her chickens corn 

 cake, made of coarse cornmeal and water, she had found a remedy 

 for the gapes. 



Mr. Wm. S. Carpenter. — I feed my fowls cracked corn, and they 

 are never troubled with this disease: but besides this, I take the 

 pains, eveiy year, to get a male bird from a distance. There is 

 scarcely a doubt that the great majority of the diseases of poultry 

 is owing to breeding in and in. 



