NOTES AND GLEANINGS. 
If a farmer wishes to get the full benefit 
of manure on his orchard, and quickly too, 
let him draw out a load to every tree that 
shows promise of fruit so soon as blossoms 
can be seen, spread it as widely as the tree 
extends on either side, and if possible it is 
better to leave it on the surface. The crops 
that can be grown under a bearing apple 
tree are not worth the labor of cultivating 
and harvesting. They cost in injury to the 
tree’s productiveness more than the best 
crops grown in the open field are worth. 
A correspondent of Gardening Illustrated 
says: “Wash the cabbages well with strong 
soot and water, and on the first dry day 
dust the ground about the cabbages with 
quick-lime, and pick as many of the cater¬ 
pillars off as you can find; and during the 
winter gas-lime the land and leave it in 
ridges to catch the frost, and very few insects 
will trouble you again. The odors emitted 
from gas-lime are so pungent that neither 
moth, butterfly nor mole will remain on 
land that is dressed with it.” 
Seed Corn. Is there any traceable rela¬ 
tion between that old-fashioned log house 
and the vigor of seed corn ? Years ago, 
when log houses were plenty and joists 
numerous overhead in the kitchen by the 
chimney, the seed corn was brought in and 
“traced up” and hung on pegs by the huge 
chimney, and was thoroughly dried out, 
hanging there for months. Now the mod¬ 
ern house has no chimney, so to speak, and 
no joists on which to hang the ears ; braid¬ 
ing up the ears of seed corn has gone out of 
fashion, and now it is a yearly lament that 
seed corn is poor, lacking in vigor, etc. 
Planting from corn-cribs explains the mat¬ 
ter. The corn does not get dry, as it used 
to when hung in the warm rooms by the 
big chimney, and frost injures the germ. 
We don’t hanker after the log house or the 
smoke stained joists over the living room, 
or yet festoons of seed corn, but there must 
be a way to dry seed corn in the fall, and 
know that it is dry, or else We will be 
forced back into the log houses to live, or 
give up growing corn —Planter and Stock- 
man. 
A practical gardener says he kills or repela 
wire-worms with spent gas-lime, largely 
mixed with manure. He procures a wag¬ 
on load of gas-lime, and mixes it with three 
or four times as much strong and short 
manure, mixed with about an equal quan¬ 
tity of good soil. This is spread late in au¬ 
tumn over the ground and plowed in. The 
next spring root or other crops are planted 
on this ground after it has been thoroughly 
stirred, and no wire-worms are to be seen. 
The quantity is what would be termed a 
moderate dressing of the manure; too much 
gas-lime would injure the crop. Farmers 
who live near gas-works may easily try 
this on their fields infested with wire- 
worms. 
On some of the farms in England the 
average yield in beets is over twelve tons 
per acre, and the average quantity of sugar 
in the roots reaches thirty per cent, cor¬ 
responding to a product of one and a half 
tons of crystallizable sugar per acre, which 
pays a fair profit. 
“Ah ! you flatter me,” lisped a dude to a 
pretty girl with whom he was conversing, 
“No, I don’t,” was the reply. “You couldn’t 
beany flatter than you are now.” 
It is not generally known that the average 
value of an acre of celery in the region of 
Kalamazoo, Mich., is $600 and that the 
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