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•walnut trees, and that now some of the trees are twenty feet high and 

 six inches in diameter near tlie ground. lie regrets that he did not 

 plant out twenty acres in the same way, because it would have made 

 the land wortli $100 an acre now, instead of ten dollars. Farmers 

 who have bare fields, where slight harvests are reaped, will do well to 

 ponder this fact, as it shows how soon a tall belt of trees may be 

 grown on the windward side of a farm or garden, to shield buildings 

 or fields from the cold and piercing winds 'of our northern winters. 



Osage Oeange Hedges. 



Mr. W. R. Davis, Gallon, Ohio, writes : " Let the plants remain 

 as they grow in the nursery until spring, but protect them by drawing 

 dirt enough around their stems to cover three or four of the lowerniost 

 buds. In the spring, when the ground is dry, raise the plants, and 

 head them off to two buds ; reset them in hedge-rows without allowing 

 tlie small fibrous roots to become for a moment dry. By following 

 this plan I lost only a single plant in a 1,000, while my neighbors, who 

 wintered their plants in the cellar, lost about 300 to the thousand. 



Norway Speuce. 



Mr. J. Glidden, Clarendon, IST. Y., would like to ascertain where 

 seeds of the Norw^ay spruce can be obtained, and also the best mode 

 of culture for the young trees. 



Mr. William S. Carpenter. — Tlie seed can be purchased at any of 

 the seed-stores in this city, but I would advise Mr. Glidden not to 

 experiment with the seed, but to purchase the plants or young trees 

 from the nurserymen. It is almost impossible to raise the Norway 

 spruce from the seed without great experience and skill. The young 

 plants may be protected by ghiss, or in default of this, by sowing 

 barley or oats among them, which shields them from the direct rays 

 of the sun. 



• Adulteration of IIorse-Feed. 



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Mr. J. Y. Eidge, Philadelphia, Penn. — I take much interest in all 

 that is said or done at the Farmer's Club, as I find it reported in the 

 papers, for I used to be a farmer myself. There is one thing that I 

 wish it would take hold of and ventilate, so that the farmers may 

 know how they are being swindled by the dealers in cities. This is, 

 the adulteration of all kinds of food, both for men and stock, that are 

 sold as pure articles to the country dealers, and they retail them to 



