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CAFADIAiY HORTICULTURIST. 



method of eradic.itinp; weeds. A large, 

 raature orcliaid, overrun with wild 

 c-urols, CcUiada tliistles, and a score of 

 other weeds, was turned into a sheep 

 pasture ; or possibly it might better be 

 called a sheep-yard, as about lour times 

 as many sheep wore put into the 

 orchard as could be pastured without 

 extra feed. Tliey wore given a liberal 

 allowance of bran and oil meal, with a 

 little corn daily. This method was 

 continued for four summers, at tiie end 

 of which time the orchard liad more 

 than doubled in the quantity of fruit 

 produced, while the quality had been 

 much improved. The ground was then 

 plowed and planted, but no thistles or 

 carrots, and but few other weeds, ap- 

 peared. 



Mr. J. S. Woodward has about thirty 

 acres in apples, wliiih have been treated 

 in like manner, with the exception of 

 the plowing. hie found that he could 

 keep his sheep cheaper by this method 

 than by hiring pasture. And now the 

 result : Last year he sold nearly $7,000 



worth of apples. And this is not all ; 

 the sheep kept in the orchard were 

 bred early, and the lambs sold at an 

 average of $9 per head ; and these are 

 not isolated cases. I met Mr. B. from 

 Virginia, a few hours since, and he gave 

 $8 per head as his average for early 

 lambs last year. 



As I came home from the State Fair, 

 two days since, I saw a dozen starved 

 and weedy orchards, and a hundred 

 fields that seemed to cry from very 

 hunger. Yesterday I purchased five 

 sheep and two hogs, and how can 1 tell 

 you how thin they were ! True, they 

 were just what I was looking for, for 

 experimental purposes; but what rea- 

 sons can these men give, in the world 

 to come, for half starving their animals 

 in this land of 19,000,000,000 bushels 

 of corn and hundreds of thousands of 

 tons of bi-an, oil-meal, and cotton-seed 

 meal, and millions and millions of acres 

 of land that would laugh with a 

 hundredfold crop if only a little more 

 brains and manure were used. 



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CLIMATIC RANGE OF TREES (Continued). 



By Forester. 



some extent, I would hesitate very 



BESIDES the scientific interest we 

 may take in the growth of foreign 

 trees in our climate, there is a very 

 material interest likely to be affected 

 by the ultimate result or profit to bo 

 expected in a large plantation. 



Knowing that the English Walnut, 

 Pecan-nut, Filbeit, Ailanthus, Catalpa 

 and Locust are natives of a warmer 

 land than Canada, and that some of 

 them at times have been induced to 

 grow here, and may bo called hardy to 



much to set out a large plantation here 

 for the sake of the timber. In that 

 part of Ontario called the Lake Erie 

 counties in the Ontario Bureau of In- 

 dustries,and probably from Hamilton to 

 the River St. Clair, the following valu- 

 able trees seem to be at home : Black 

 Walnut, Chestnut.Tulip Tree, Hickory. 

 Buttonwood, and yet a very little to 

 the north they are no longer found 

 wild, and the limit within which they 



