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treated with coal tar to keep the goats from biting them. At lirst 

 they looked as though they would all die, but now their appear- 

 ance is healthful. 



Mr. J. B. Lyman. — In the first place, Mr. Gates, you do not 

 want the same manure that you require on grain, for apples con- 

 sume little or no nitrogen. But you want substances rich in lime, 

 in potash and having some sulphuric acid and some phosphorus. 

 Plow the whole orchard thoroughly, as well close to the trees 

 as a foot or two distant, harrow, fine and smooth, and under the 

 trees sow ashes and plaster, and half a bushel of lime to each tree. 

 Harrow this in and around the roots for a space as large as the 

 shadow at noon covers; put rotten straw, dead weeds, sawdust, 

 tanbark, anything that will keep the surface soft and moist. Try 

 this on fifty trees first, at the same time trimming off dead limbs 

 and suckers, and if it does no good, then the climate is against the 

 Connecticut apple orchards. Call to mind the parable of the bar- 

 ren fig tree. 



Mr. Sylvester. — In Western New York we have a splendid crop 

 of apples. The region seems to begin with the western line of 

 "Wayne county, and extends to the Niagara river. The following 

 item, from one of our papers, will give some idea of the import- 

 ance this crop has assumed: 



" Mr. S. W. Smith, the energetic secretary of the Orleans County 

 Agricultural Society, gives the number of barrels of apples shipped 

 East the past season from that county, as 181,999, of which 71,000 

 barrels were shipped to New York, 46,000 to Boston, 33,000 to 

 Philadelphia, and 6,000 to Providence. The average price per 

 barrel was $3,06, raaldng the snug little sum to the farmers of that 

 small county, for apples alone, of $556,917.94. There are, prob- 

 ably, 50,000 barrels reserved in the county for home consumption 

 and spring sales, which will mjike the crop worth three-quarters 

 of a million dollars." 



CELERY. 



Ml'. T. C. Corbit, Penn's Grove, N. J.— What kind of soil is best 

 adapted to celery? How should it be planted, and how much ought 

 to be raised from an acre? 



INIr. John Crane. — I refer him to Henderson's work on garden- 

 ing, whence may be obtained all the information required. 



Mr. Thomas Cavanach. — We commence setting our plants the 

 last week in June, on Long Island, and manure with refuse garden 

 manure, put in a trench and watered with house-slops. The plants 



