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farmer's wife can tell by the taste of the curd, and any one that can- 

 not tell by the taste had better not try, for she will spoil the cheese. 



Raising Two Crops of Early Rose in One Season. 

 Mr. James Eolph, Stockton, 1ST. Y. — Early rose potatoes will pro- 

 duce two crops in a season. Last April I planted some in my gar- 

 den. They ripened in August, when some of the tubers began to 

 sprout. I took some of them from the hill and planted them. They 

 came up immediately, and produced vines a foot and a half long, 

 from which I dug, in October, potatoes as large as hens' eggs. 



Improving Poor Lands. 

 Mr. R. S. Iiinman, Riverside, Conn. — Not being able to attend 

 Farmers' Club personally, will you be so kind as to present the 

 following inquiries, and report answers, I am trying to improve 

 some of our Connecticut worn-out or neglected land, and have this 

 summer a piecethat I have cut the brush from, ploughed, and intend to 

 sow with peas, and 100 pounds of guano per acre. Can you tell me 

 what time I can most profitably plough in the crop of peas? I want 

 to sow rye on the lot, and want it enriched sufficiently to keep the 

 rye from winter killing. Ten loads of compost, made of barn-yard 

 manure and muck, per acre, will accomplish that. Will my 100 

 pounds guano now, and the pea-vines, should they grow well, accom- 

 plish as much ? Will clover take well after ploughing in peas ? Guano 

 isn't natural manure for clover. I can't well get ashes, and plaster 

 does not work wonders on my land. Should like the cheapest way 

 to get a crop of clover, with land a little too cold for it to grow 

 naturally. I propose this fall to sow the adjoining field with buck- 

 wheat, and seed with clover, putting on compost enough to make the 

 clover take, and next year repeat the operation, ploughing in a grass 

 crop every year. Will that make fertile land ? I shall plough but 

 once each season ; shall try the same plan with turnips, except that 

 I shall possibly add phosphate or guano, to increase the crop of tur- 

 nips. Is there any special manure that can take the place of barn- 

 yard manure, in seeding down land for pasture or meadow ? Will 

 bone-dust do it, and do it profitably ? I have heard a Connecticut 

 farmer say that $100 worth of ashes at twenty-five cents per bushel 

 was profitably applied to pasture land, per acre, to his knowledge ; 

 that said land carried a cow per acre, and continued to do so for 

 years. Is there any manure in the market that can be profitably 

 applied that way ? In other words, are there any marketable manures 



