EED-T1ME AH© HARVEST. 
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much practical importance, the saving in 
fuel being balanced by the impaired draught 
and the danger of the escape of poisonous 
gases in the house to the destruction of its 
contents. 
How to Grow Onions. 
On my farm I keep a heavy stock of pigs 
and sheep, and make a large quantity of 
rich manure. By this I mean, that the 
pigs and sheep are fed on malt sprouts and 
other food, particularly rich in nitrogen, 
phosphoric acid, and potash. Notwith¬ 
standing this fact, I find great advantage 
from using, in addition to the farm manure, 
a liberal dressing of superphosphate and 
nitrate of soda. I am not a business man, 
or I should probably keep these facts to 
myself, and let some men, whom I have in 
my mind, go on floundering in their ignor¬ 
ance and prejudice. It would serve them 
right. They think they know all abou 
manures, when in fact they know nothing. 
They put on commercial manures costing 
one hundred dollars per acre, when they 
could get the same effect for less than half 
the money. Market gardeners sow from 
one to two tons of commercial manure per 
acre, costing fifty dollars per ton. They 
think that it pays. I do not deny it. I 
only claim that they are working in the 
dark. It might have paid the Chinaman to 
set fiie to the sty, w T hen he wanted roasted 
pig. But we have discovered cheaper and 
better methods of preparing food for the 
table. And we have discovered cheaper 
methods of manuring our land, than apply¬ 
ing one hundred dollar’s worth of commer¬ 
cial manure per acre. Try this experiment 
the coming spring. Get two tons of ‘blood 
and bone fertilizer,’ costing one hundred 
dollars. Sow it broad-cast on an acre of 
land prepared for onions. On an adjoining 
acre, sow at the same time: 
500 lbs. superphosphate, at, 1 14 cents per lb. $ 7.50. 
000 lbs. nitrate of soda, at 2}4 cents per lb. 15.00. 
$ 22.L0. 
If it does not produce as great a growth 
of onions as the two tons of raw bone 
manure, 1 am greatly mistaken. On my 
own farm we sow the nitrate two or three 
times during the growth of the onions. I 
never saw a finer growth of onions than we 
had last year and produced in the above 
way. There was not one scallion in a hun¬ 
dred thousand. American Agriculturist. 
Tilings to Kuow anti to Do. 
BY PHILIP S. BORLAND. 
The best way for the farmer to get mon¬ 
ey is to have something to sell. 
The time to trim apple trees is when 
they are in full leaf, always applying paint 
to the wound. 
Give a sand knoll a top dressing of clay 
in the fall or winter; in the spring sow to 
flat turnips and turn the sheep in to harvest 
the crop. 
Take up parsnips in the fall, pit them; 
and as goon as the frost gets to them they 
are ready for use. 
Purchase a wheel hoe for use in the gar¬ 
den. 
Always put out an acre of cabbage for 
feeding the cows in the winter, they are 
very fond of it and it pays. 
The best butter worker for a farm dairy 
is an inclined table, a ladle and a fine soft 
sponge. 
Cats, properly taken care of, are of more 
profit than dogs on a farm. 
If for one dollar a week more you can 
get a good teacher for the district school, 
give it, it will pay ninety per cent, and will 
give better satisfaction. 
Set out a few shade trees around the 
house; make home pleasant for the boys 
and girls. 
You can only take one trip through t his 
world. 
A stove in the cellar is better than bank¬ 
ing. 
There is more lost in the cellar from 
beat than from cold in the long run. 
Buy a Jersey Bull. 
Raise young stock for the use of the 
dairy. 
Setting the milk in deep cans surrounded 
by running water always makes gilt-edge 
butter. 
Allowing your neighbor to be annoyed 
by your friends or household, or any one 
whom you could prevent from doing so, 
is very little better than if you annoyed 
him yourself. 
