or five rows stand in place, ridged up. 
The rows on each side are dug about No¬ 
vember 1st, and the plants set leaning 
against the ridge of the middle row, with 
tops down. The whole is covered with 
soil. Manure or straw is added before De¬ 
cember, and boards may cover all. 
Rye as Manure. 
The most earnest advocate of rye as a 
green manure that I ever met was Mr. 
Root, Rockford, Ill., who was a successful 
seed grower, and writer for the agricultural 
papers. He claimed to have discovered its 
virtues by accident. He wished one year 
to grow several acres of muskmelons for 
seed, and could get no land that suited him, 
except a piece on which a heavy crop was 
growing. He plowed it under, and the sea¬ 
son proving to be dry, he was pleased to 
find that his land kept loose and produced 
a full crop, while on all the other land his 
crops were short. As long as he lived af¬ 
terwards he practiced sowing rye on all 
land on which he could use it, and was in¬ 
variably pleased with the result. I hope 
sometime to see the following experiment 
in green manuring so thoroughly tested as 
to establish what it would do for land. 
Plow under as heavy a growth of rye as 
possible in May. Then sow buckwheat and 
plow it under in July, or the first of Aug 
ust, and follow the buckwheat with sowed 
corn. These three crops would produce a 
large amount of vegetable matter, and 
would shade the soil completely while 
growing and I doubt not would be found 
exceedingly profitable. As it is impossible 
for the farmer to get enough animal ma- 
mure to supply his wants, and commercial 
manures are expensive and often uncertain 
in their action, it would seem as though 
t here is no field of experiment that promises 
so much as this. There are, without doubt 
countless fields which would not only pro¬ 
duce more grain in three years, if one year 
was devoted to a green manuring such as is 
recommended, but they would also be per¬ 
manently improved. To draw out and 
spread enough stable manure to cover a 
ten acre field, involves a large amount of 
hard, dirty work, even if you have the 
manure on the farm, and vastly more if 
you must go some miles to the village for 
it. All the work in green manuring is 
clean and pleasant, and this is much in its 
favor. I am fully convinced from long ex¬ 
perience in buying manure at fifty cents a 
load two miles from my farm, that I could 
have done much better to have depended 
on green manures, after using what manure 
I could have saved from my own stock. 
Fora number of years I have depended on 
home resources for keeping up my farm, 
and have grown as good or better crops 
than when I bought manure, and at less 
expense, both of cash and muscle.— Waldo 
F. Brown. 
Excellent Poultry Account. 
Whether upon the broad acres of the 
farmer, upon the lawn of the suburban 
resident, or the restricted limits of the vil¬ 
lage lot, around the homes of the industri¬ 
ous poor or the mansions of the rich, there 
is nothing that will afford as much real 
pleasure to its owner as a flock of pure 
bred fowls Their beautiful plumage, dis¬ 
tinct markings and even size at once win the 
admiration of the visitor, and to the fortu¬ 
nate owner they are a source of untold de¬ 
light ; and in many cases they will amply 
repay for both the time and money expend¬ 
ed in providing suitable accommodations 
for their comfort and a proper supply of 
nutritious food. Yet. comparatively speak¬ 
ing, around very few of our rural homes 
are such fowls to be seen. Generally a 
mixed or mongrel race is found, and in 
most cases very little attention is given to 
this part of domestic economy. 
During a series of years great care has 
been taken by me to keep an accurate debit 
and credit account with a given number of 
fowls, the result of which from year to 
year has been given to the Rural readers, 
solely for the practical information contain¬ 
ed therein, and with the wish to benefit 
others, and particularly that class who have 
regarded their fowls as among the most 
troublesome and unprofitable of all their 
live stock. For five consecutive years 
these poultry accounts have been published 
