Proceedings of the Farjiees^ Club. §87 



require to be forked over every week or ten days, or they will fire- 

 fang, and spoil, therefore to enclose in a pen will be worse than use- 

 less. 



Mr. Jas. A. Whitney. — There is little value in grass as manure 

 beside the mineral elements, and these are in small amount. If 

 gra&s is used at all it will be better dried. 



GRowI^T^T Chestnut Trees. 



Mr. Wm. Bakei\ Hillwood, Knox count}^, Ohio, wishes directions 

 for planting these trees. 



Mr. IST. C. Meeker. — Xot much has been done in jjlanting chestnuts, 

 as they are found difficult to transplant. The nuts must be kept 

 moist until planted, when the ground should be planted in soil near 

 the condition of that of the forest, b}^ preparing a wide sandbed mixed 

 with leaves, and they should be transplanted the next, certainly the 

 second, year.- Probal)ly there is no more profital)le fruit tree than 

 this, and with fair management it should come into bearing as soon 

 as an apple tree. 



Rhubarb Pies in Winter. 

 Mr. F. K. Phoenix, Blooming Nursery, Bloomington, 111. — Place 

 some strong rhubarb roots in the warmest corner of the cellar, in the 

 fall, and then let them sprout, thus having most delicious, fresh 

 rhubarb pies during the winter. 



Seeding "Wheat Land. 



Mr. Hugh Roberts, Gwynedd, Pa. — Having made several experi- 

 ments with a view of ascertaining the proper quantity of seed, I am 

 convinced that farmers, generally, not only w^aste the seed, but injui-e 

 the yield of grain and grass by putting on too much seed. If tlie 

 land is well manured, or otherwise in good condition, I think one and 

 a quarter bushels of wheat sufficient. My neighbors, most of them, 

 sow one and a half, and some two bushels. In drilling wheat, two 

 years ago, I set the drill to put on one and a half bushels, but having 

 finished one acre, found I had put on only one and a quarter bushels, 

 I thought it would be too thin, but at harvest found it abundantly 

 thick, and have been very particular since. I find three quarts of 

 timothy enough. Most farmers here sow six to eight quarts, and so 

 with clover seed. Corn might as well be planted two and a half feet 

 each way with a view of doubling the crop. Some seedmen's cata- 

 logues recommend twice as much seed as is necessary. 



Adjourned. 



