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crops such as rape, white mustard, scar- 

 let clover, etc., are also used. These 

 should be plowed under just before full 

 blossom. 



On the whole most soils will improve 

 best under a combined treatment of 

 green manui'ing and fallowing, where 

 resort is necessary to such treatment. 

 — From Bulletin IX., Ayricultural Col- 

 lege, Gitelph. 



LIQUID MANURE. 



There are quite a number of farmers 

 within our acquaintance who save all 

 the urine of their stock, and find a pro- 

 fitable use for it by applying it from a 

 sprinkling cart to their grass fields. 

 But they have found that some precau- 

 tions are needed. The best time to 

 apply it is when the young grass is 

 starting vigorously, and there are fre- 

 quent showers — or, say, about this 

 season of tbe year. Four or five hun-, 

 dred gallons to the acre, applied in this 

 way, will give a very heavy growth, 

 without other manuring. The rank- 

 ness of leafage and the dark color which 

 the grass almost at once takes on, indi- 

 cate an over-supply of available nitro- 

 gen in this urine, and a continuously 

 urine-dressed grass plot tends to run 

 into a rank, weedy growth. The ti-ou- 

 ble here arises, as we have shown in 

 previous articles, from the excess of 

 nitrogen over phosphoric acid in lU'ine. 

 A field laid down to grass, with the 

 view of applying liquid manure as a 

 top-dressing, should have about 400 

 pounds of finely ground steamed bone 

 per acre harrowed in on the furrow 



before seeding. 



* * * 



In beginning to use a new fertilizer, 

 we must be sure we are using it cor- 

 rectly, before we hasten to condemn it. 

 There is abundant evidence of the ferti- 

 lizing properties of liquid manure. 

 Many gardeners depend upon it almost 

 wholly to force forward their crops. If 



at first an experimenting farmer does 

 not succeed, we advise him to look the 

 matter over, and " try, tiy again." 

 There is a great deal to be learned 

 about farming yet, even by the oldest 

 of us, and both brains and knowledge 

 are necessary to enable any of us to 

 keep near the head of the procession. — 

 Br. Iloskins in Rural Vermonter. 



Paris Green, says the Chicago Inter- 

 Ocean, should be used with the utmost 

 care, when applied to the potato vine, 

 as it does sometimes poison the tubers. 

 The eflect upon persons eating a potato 

 so poisoned is to produce dryness of 

 the throat, intense thirst, and violent 

 pains in the stomach. 



We doubt whether such danger need 

 be feai-ed except in cases where the tu- 

 bers are above ground, as the arsenic is 

 neutralized by the soil as soon as it 

 is mixed with it. Have our Canadian 

 growers any caution to give us 1 



®pen fetters. 



Encouraging. — Sir, It would give 

 me much pleasure to see the circulation 

 of the Horticulturist very lai'gely in- 

 creased. I have seldom let an oppor- 

 tunity slip of saying an earnest word 

 in its favour, having found it exceed- 

 ingly interesting, and quite practi-al 

 throughout. Yours, 



Leonard H. Wilder. 



Cooksville, Ont. 



Wylie's Seedling Plum. — Sir, I 

 send two or three of my young red 

 plum trees that I wrote you about last 

 fall. If you will plant them you will 

 find them grow very fast and be very 

 productive, and the fruit is large, juicy, 

 and pleasant. It does well here in clay 

 loam, and bears early. Fruit ripe in 

 August. I will send you some fruit as 

 a sample this year. 



