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When it was fairly up, so as to show the rows, he put a small quantity 



of old leached ashes on each hill ; carefully hoed it once, and thrice 

 worked it with a cultivator — once each way of the hills — cleaning 

 out all weeds. "When it had a good growth, about two feet high, he 

 went through it and carefully cut out all but two stalks to the hill, 

 leaving the stoutest stalks ; and what was cut out more than paid for 

 the time, in best kind of food for his cows. From this treatment 

 he harvested, as above, 100 bushels of good, sound corn to the acre, 

 at about two-thirds the cost of corn per bushel, where only sixty 

 bushels to the acre were harvested. The second year, that is, soon 

 after harvesting the crop, he again covered the ground with manure 

 and ploughed it - under the same fall ; then, next spring, ploughed 

 again, an inch or two deeper than the fall ploughing ; planted and 

 treated the seed same as first year and obtained the same yield. Two 

 acres of potatoes were treated in the same manner, except not soaking 

 the seed, but planting them in furrows (not hills), dropping two 

 pieces every sixteen to eighteen inches apart in the furrows, and then 

 covering them with the plough by running it along and covering the 

 furrows back over the seed. When they were dug with the same 

 plough running a furrow under them. The yield was 500 bushels 

 per acre for two successive years. 



Bee-Keeping. 

 Mrs. Ellen S. Tupper, Brighton, Iowa, the accomplished apiarian, 

 forwarded the following facts and suggestions, which were thankfully 

 received : Many letters have reached me the present spring from 

 persons who are in bee-keeping, asking information on various points. 

 Most of these I have answered, but some have neglected to give 

 their address, and these perhaps may be reached through you. One 

 question repeatedly asked is this : " Will bee-keeping pay one who 

 has no experience ? " To this I answer, that it will, undoubtedly, if 

 one is contented to begin in a small way and only increase as they 

 gain knowledge and experience. Begin in this as in anything else — 

 by degrees. Purchase one or two stands of bees, take care of them 

 yourself and study their habits, and experience comes as rapidly as 

 the bees increase. Be contented to take the counsel of others as 

 your guide until you know something yourself by actual observation. 

 No enterprise requires less capital or experience in making a successful 

 beginning. The trouble with most who commence is, they find it so 

 much easier than they expected, that they are soon too confident and 

 go faster than more experienced bee keepers dare advance. I have 



