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The Rata Baga Tarbip can now be sown. 

 A half poond of seed will be.safficient for 

 an acre of land, and then thejr will reqnire 

 much tbinning; for when they grow 

 they shoald have at least eight inches 

 '^ ground to extend on. The English make 

 great nse of this root in fottening cattto 

 and sheep. It produces immense crops in 

 favorable seasons;— -snch as the present 

 seems to promise. 



The middle of this month is time enongh 

 to sow turnips. Tarnips hare a mortal 

 «nemy that often takes whole fields; . a 

 little fly, which cats off the plant as soqi^aB 

 it appears above ground. ' ; '^' r 'V'" 



' It is said that the fly will not attack the 

 tnrnip when the seed is soaked in a solution 

 of arsenic. 



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Buekwheat 

 This shonld occupy good ground, — light^ 

 rich and well prepared. There should be 

 no green manure put upon it. The seed 

 may be sown as late as the middle of July. 

 When ripe, it should be cut and placed in 

 small stacks, where it will not heat, and 

 threshed as soon as the hoalm and grain 

 are dry. The houlm bad better be cat 

 than torn np by the roots, because in the 

 latter case it is filled with dirt and entirely 

 nnfit for grinding, or market. Three pecks 

 is enough seed for an acre of ground. 



A Sinpltr DiMovery. • 



In 1853, a few grains of wheat Were dis- 

 covered in the tombs of some mummies 

 found in the south of France, supposed to 

 have been two thousand years old. These 

 grains of Egyptian wheat were planted and 

 produced, to the surprise of every one, 

 1,200 to 1. The Government took the 

 affair in hand, and couaigned the manage- 

 ment of it to the farmers of the Govern- 

 ment farm at Rambouillet. The result has 

 been most astonishing. Each year the pro- 

 duct has been multiplied in such an immense 

 proportion over the preceding year that the 

 Minister of Agriculture in now enabled to 

 distribute over France a large quantity of 

 wheat to each of the departments gratuit- 



onsly,"witHlnstraction8 from the .Govern- 

 ment farm as to the best mode cultivatioB. 

 At a late meeting of the Aeademy of 

 Science, the Baron de MenneviUe prcsent^^ 

 several jstalks of tMs regenerated. Eg^ 

 wheat which were six feet h^, and bore 

 each several fine ears. A French lady «3E- 

 plained ia my hearing the other dtjiy thifl 

 great multiplying power of the Egyptiaa 

 wheat loT the long rest it had. It If a 

 great and important discovery Torvthestcudj 

 of agriculturists.— [Cor, H. /^ 'X^U)a]B^%:u< 



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; - Faming Near Inge Citicfc 



- No profession more sternly requiref the 

 exercise of economy than thatiif the farmer, 

 and durii^ the-lflet'ten years the' improve- 

 ments in methods of culture hate been so 

 rapid, that those who have, not kept pa(^ 

 with such advance in economic culture, caa 

 scarcelycompete wlt¥ their more energejtic 

 neighb(»rs. Enterprising farmers- rea(£ng 

 near large cities, are becoming. loofe Jike 

 merchapts, and'are adapting themsf^vea %o 

 the growing of such (^ops as pay large 

 profits, and such as cannot be brought from 

 great distances. It is quite curion^ how- 

 ever, even at this date, to observe many of 

 the farmers near large cities and towns, who 

 still continue on in the old style, to groir 

 hay, oats, com and potatoes, thels^tter not 

 often inclnded, for fear too many will be 

 raised for the demand, while an ., energetic 

 gardener in their neighborhood will realize 

 larger profits on two or three acres of root 

 crops, than does the farmer of one hundred 

 acres with his regular crops, as he would 

 call them, being an exact copy of the crops 

 pf his great-grandfather, before the demand 

 of the city called for tho&e of a diiSer^t 



character. ■,,; " .:^,.^.-^. rfc.=v' .;,^. :;;:;\>, k; y 

 Fifst, then, the farmer ^hbnl<i iaqnpi 

 what crops are wanted at the highest prices, 

 or rather what crops will give the greatest 

 amount of produce per acre. If he can pb' 

 tain 50 cents, or even 30 cents per bushel 

 for carrots, he cannot afford to raise hay at 

 $30 per ton for sal'', Jf he can get 75 

 cents for potatoes, he cannot afford to.ratM 

 oats at 50 cents per bushel, nor corn at 80 

 cents. If beets eafi be sold at 60 cents pe; 

 bushel, or onions at $1 per bushel^ or eab^ 

 b«ges at $4 per huadred, he cannot^ ^^4 

 to raise wheat or rye at the usna]^ man^et 

 prices. If he be a stock groover , he ^wm 

 have a market at home for many o( the root 

 crops, at four times the pfo^t%hTdh ^"^Id 

 possibly accrue from the same^nd (f|f8|^ 

 t3 whai are usually termed, ^helstai)^ ^^Bph 

 and to those who tSiS^ to ' slt^ '^^^s 



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