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manuring for wheat. 



Mr. James Goodwin, Bridgetou, N. Y., inquired whether, on sandy- 

 loam, it is best to plow in long coarse manure before sowing wheal, 

 or to apply it afterward. 



Mr. John Crane. — I should plow and cross plow, and turn the 

 manure under lightly. 



Dr. Isaac P. Trimble. — Surface application of manure is con- 

 sidered best in these days. The theory is, that nothing is lost by- 

 evaporation, that rains wash the fertilizing properties into the soil, 

 and that being on the surface it acts as a mulch and prevents winter 

 killing. 



WHAT IS A GOOD YIELD OF HONEY. 



Mr. E. G. Halcomb, Brasher Iron Works, St. Lawi'ence county, 

 N. Y. — Thinking to draw out something on the subject, I send a 

 report of a few of my best hives. The spring was very cold and 

 backward. Soft maples blossomed the 4th of May. The 25th 

 was the first warm day. Plums were in blossom the 30th; apples 

 the 5th of June; white clover the 9th. My best hive gave me 179 

 pounds cap honey; others 132, 117, 110, and so on doMTi, without 

 swarming. My two best new swarms made 104 and 103 pounds, 

 respectively, beside filling their hives, which have sixty pounds 

 honey in each. These were all black bees, except one swarm, which 

 was a cross with the Italian. I had two stocks of Italians, and got 

 one swarm and seventj-two pounds cap honey. "With me they 

 have proved decidedly inferior to the black or common species in 

 everji;hing, except robbing. Now you will find them trying every 

 hive in the yard, and they are worse in the spring. Of course, I 

 don't raise queens for sale. My whole apiary averaged forty five 

 pounds surplus honey to the hive, old and new. 



HOW TO RAISE A LARGE CROP OF INDIAN CORN. 



Mr. S. Edwards Todd. — The right kind of management is as essen- 

 tial to the production of a large crop of Indian corn as to raise a 

 bountiful crop of wheat. Some farmers will raise just double the 

 number of bushels of grain on a given soil that can be grown by 

 other men. Tliis is a fact that cannot be refuted, and the reason 

 for it is to be found only in the system of management adopted by 

 those who cultivate the soil. Indian com likes a ^y, lively and 

 warm soil, in which there is an abundance of fertilizing matter. 

 It is the height of folly to attempt to grow a heavy crop of Indian 

 corn on a cold, damp, heavy soil, which is not in good state of fer- 



