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to 347 of tlie annual report of the Department of Agriculture for 

 1808. Some of the States have appointed commissioners to attend 

 to the restocking of their lakes and rivers. Their reports would be 

 interesting reading for Mr. Seaman. Let him address, with stamp 

 inclosed, the Hon. Theodore Lyman, of Boston, or Mr. William Clift, 

 Mystic Bridge, Conn., or, Dr. John M. Crowell, No. 273 Fulton avenue, 

 Brooklyn, N. Y. The two last mentioned generally keep trout eggs 

 and small fish for sale. Every man who has a good clear brook or a 

 deep pond under his control, possesses the basis of a small fortune in 

 fish if he will but acquire the necessary information, use the proper 

 skill, and exercise due kindness and patience. 



Broom-Coen. 



Mr. Koah Dear, Montezuma, Ind., and several others have written 

 to know how to begin with this crop, and how to cultivate it. 



Mr. J. B. Lyman. — Begin with two quarts of seed, put it on your 

 richest corn laud, leave eight stalks to a hill, and cultivate just like 

 corn. If the land is cold and late, you want some rank manure, as 

 hen dung or guano, on the young plants to give them a push ; other- 

 wise they will look sorry and pale all through June. When the seed 

 is formed, but before it gets full and lieavy, " table" it ; that is, bend 

 the stalks over toward each other about three feet from the ground. 

 Then with a sharp knife cut off the broom, leaving a foot or two of 

 stalk below the bush, and lay in small bunches on the table as a scaf- 

 fold to cure. There are several ways of getting the seed off; none 

 of the machines are costly. You need some shed and barn room in 

 which to complete the curing. It is of no use to put broom-corn on 

 any but dry, warm ajid rich land. 



Distance of Trees in Ordiiaeds. 



Mr. Sam. A. T. Anderson, Bear Lake Mills, Michigan. — We wish 

 to derive the greatest profit from both land and trees, and ask the 

 Club for its opinion. 



Mr. John Daws. — If his land and climate arc right for peaches and 

 apples, I will tell him how I do and he may follow it or not. I find 

 my profit in it. I set my peaches and apples in alternate rows 16 

 feet apart each way, keep the ground wholly clean and sow nothing 

 but buckwheat. On the strongest land and with the use of manures, 

 I put in a row or two of potatoes and perhaps tomatoes, till the young 

 trees are big enougli to shade the surface. Bj that time the roots 



