the summer. By keeping the otherwise 
waste places filled with late peas, corn, let¬ 
tuce, radishes, etc., he will be providing a 
constant succession which should always 
be the main object in conducting a garden. 
Many gardeners are satisfied by having two 
or three messes of each vegetable in its 
order—just enough to make one want 
more—and the vacated space is at once 
taken possession of by the weeds. 
'A crop of weeds npon which the seeds 
are allowed to ripen is a much greater 
drain on the soil than any garden crop 
would be, saying nothing of the labor they 
will cause in after years by this wholesale 
method of seeding down to weeds. 
NOTES AND GLEANINGS. 
Fruit Evaporating Companies are be¬ 
ing organized in different places in the 
west. There is no doubt but that these 
institutions will afford favorable opportu¬ 
nities for the investment of capital, and 
Fruit Growers in the vicinity of them will 
be benefited by the increased demand that 
is sure to follow for their products. 
It is not perhaps as well known as it 
should be that all bones, which can be col¬ 
lected upon every farm or gathered by 
boys from the surrounding country, can 
easily and cheaply be dissolved upon the 
farm and converted into a most valuable 
fertilizer. A noted Russian experimenter 
describes his method of dissolving bones as 
follows: “To 4000 pounds of bone take 
4000 pounds of unleached wood ashes, 600 
pounds of fresh burned lime, and 4500 
pounds of water. First slack the lime to a 
powder, mix it with ashes, and placing a 
layer of bones in a suitable receptacle—a 
pit in the ground, lined with boards or 
stones—cover them with the mixture; lay 
down more bones and cover, and repeat 
this until half the bones are interstratified 
with the ashes and lime then pour on wa 
ter and let it stand. From time to time 
add water to keep the mass moist. As 
soon as the bones have softened the mass 
can be shoveled over and used to cover 
more hard bones just as the lime and 
ashes were at first." 
Long Horns, Short Horns or No 
Horns. —We notice that there is a strong 
feeling in the New England States in favor 
of Polled Dairy Cattle, and in view of the 
lack of mercy which such animals show 
each other we believe this a movement in 
the right direction. Col. Mead, the pro¬ 
prietor of “Suffolk Farm,” one of the no¬ 
ted dairymen of Vermont, has heretofore 
kept short-horns, and there are some credit¬ 
able dairy and beef stock of that breed 
now in his stables, but believing that the 
“coming cow” is to be hornless, he has re¬ 
cently imported from Suffolk England the 
finest herd of Polled Reds in the world. 
He is so well pleased with them that he 
will sell all his horned stock and turn his 
attention entirely to these. 
They are said to be of a solid cherry red 
color, and are as harmless when herding 
together as a flock of sheep. Never having- 
learned to fight they might find themselves 
at a disadvantage if turned in with a lot of 
horned cattle. 
At the New York State Experimental 
Farm fast summer, seed corn was planted 
from the tips, middle and butts of the ears 
and with results that were unexpected. It 
has been the old time practice of many 
farmers, when preparing seed corn for 
planting, to shell off and discard the seed 
from each end, supposing that the middle 
kernels would bring the best returns. The 
Geneva experiments did not accord with 
this old-time opinion, and now the Director 
has issued a circular asking the farmers of 
i 
the state to join in making an experiment 
upon so large a scale that the answer given 
may be unquestionable and settle the 
matter. 
So the farmers are prosperous; and the 
prosperity of the farmers insures good bus¬ 
iness for the merchants. There was a de¬ 
cline in many kinds of business last Spring, 
and some timid people began to predict 
another panic, but the most sagacious bus¬ 
iness man said, “Wait. Let us see what 
the crops will be like. If they are good, 
business will brighten up again.” The 
crops are good and business is brightening 
up, so that no more talk of a panic is heard. 
It appears, then, that the farmer is the 
