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< jLEANlNf; UP. — One of the tifst things 

 for the orchardist to do, as soon as the 

 iron grip of winter has become relaxed, 

 is to gather up the accumulated rubJjish. 

 E\ery busliel of ashes, wliether coal or 

 wood, .should be utilized, the forniei- 

 being useful as a niulch, especially for 

 trees in sod ; the latter as a special 

 fertilizer for the peach and the gra])e. 

 The closets should be thoroughly 

 emptied of their contents, mixed with 

 either tine dry earth or coal ashes, ajid 

 then applied as a most valuable fertilizer 

 to the young orchard. Indeed the best 

 possible mode of making nightsoil in- 

 odorous, and easily handled, is to have 

 the vault well built with stone or brick 

 walls, with a door in the rear by which 

 it is accessible, and of sucl) a size as 

 to receive all the coal ashes from the 

 house. Of cour.se this applies only to the 

 country outhouses, but it is a most 

 satisfactory method, if only for sanitary 

 reasons. 



Another manure too often neglRcte<l 

 on our country farms is the accumula 

 tions of the poultry hou.se. It is oiie 

 of the most valuable of manures, and 



should be mixed with dry earth, or 

 plastei', and used to the best advantage. 



The lawn and garden will need a 

 general raking over and tidying up at 

 this season. No stray brush, leaves, 

 rails, sticks or stones should now be 

 left to disfigure the yard for neg- 

 lect of giving the few hours' time that 

 is needed to impart to one's home .sur- 

 roundings a thrifty, tidy appearance. 



The Bkusu. — Unless the limbs cut 

 off in pruning are early gathered, press 

 of spring work will cause the orchardist 

 to neglect them until late in the season, 

 a disgrace to the premises ; and then 

 less easily removed owing to the growth 

 of grass and weeds. There is no time 

 for this work equal to the present, and 

 there is no better plan than to burn as 

 fast as collected, because it .saves a 

 second handling. Our own method is 

 to use one hor.se and a long, light built 

 drag about ten feet long and three feet 

 wide, with four upright and removable 

 stakes, one at each corner. On this the 

 brush can be most readily collected, 

 and drawn to the burning place to be 

 devoured as fast as unloaded. JTlie same 

 drag is most useful in gathering up the 



