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Notes from a Maryland Garden 
A correspondent iu the best wheat- 
growing county ou the Eastern Slmre of 
Marylaud writes in reference to my ad¬ 
vice to got manure out on the land as 
soon as possible after it is made, and 
says that his county agent agrees with 
me. lie asks what would be the loss on 
hard, frozen laud there. He says that, of 
course. I know their land in his section 
is the white oak clay soil, and very 
heavy. I am perfectly familiar with that 
kind of clay, and know that it is not 
smooth, clean clay, but really very line 
sand, combined with clay enough to make 
it get very hard in dry weather—‘’freezes 
in Summer," as some suggest. This land 
lies very level, and bat little elevated 
above the salt water, and is iu a peculiar 
physical condition because, as a rule, it 
is higher next the bay and salt estuaries 
than it is back from the water. Hence 
its natural drainage is deficient and is 
imperfectly made by open ditches. 
Itidge Mountain range. One Winter I 
was spreading manure ou a steep hill 
where the grass was getting thin and was 
to bo renewed as soon as possible. The 
whole field was one bluntly conical hill, 
about as steep as could easily be worked 
by liorse power, and on which a mower 
could not be used, aud where I had a 
wagon tip over three times with a load of 
hay before we could get to the gate. I 
assumed that there would be waste from 
the manure washing down hill in frozen 
weather, therefore I stopped spreading 
the manure about 40 ft. from the base of 
the hill. The absorptive power of a clay 
soil deceived ine. even on such steep land. 
The field was planted in oats and seeded 
down to Red clover aud Timothy. I 
never was aide to discern any beuefit 
from the manure below the point where 
I stopped spreading it. while it \va> well 
marked where spread and to the very line 
where the spreading ceased. I assumed 
that loss from Winter washing would be 
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Horticultural Notes 
Y 
The picture shows how. years ago. grain 
van separated from the straw by using 
m old-fashioned flail. It is hard to find 
mch a tool now. In the case represented 
),v the picture if was necessary to thrash 
nit a small quantity of grain for a 
,-ariety test. Years ago. however, prac- 
ically all the grain used for hread-mak- 
ug was thrashed in this way. The thrash- 
;rs flung the flails over their heads and 
jrought the stick down upon the straw 
ivitli a sharp blow. During the Fall this 
ivork would be done on the barn floor, 
ind on clear, still days the sound of this 
rUorough tile drainage would be of ad¬ 
vantage if a good outlet, is available The 
Treat need of this laud after drainage is 
iuimus or organic decay to lighten it and 
make it more retentive of moisture in dry 
weather. If there is any less on such 
[and from spreading manure during Fall 
and Winter, it is uot perceptible. 
I read years ago an account ot an ex¬ 
periment made, I believe, at the New 
Hampshire Station. A plot of laud was 
divided into three portions. < >u one por¬ 
tion manure was spread in the I all aud 
at once plowed under. Du another third 
the manure was spread and let lie all 
Winter on the surface. On the third 
piece fresh manure was spread iu the 
Spring and the whole tract prepared and 
planted to corn. The plot where fresh 
manure was spread and plowed under in 
the Spring made the smallest crop. The 
plot where the manure was plowed under 
in’ the Fall made a higher yield, and the 
plot where the manure lay on the surface 
all Winter made the heaviest crop of the 
three. 
I have found this true in farm and 
garden practice for many years. W hen l 
was managing a 1.200*aere stock farm 
and working mainly for big hay crops, I 
found that, with the amount of stock I 
kept, there was a wagonload or more 
cleaned out every morning. This was 
spread every morning when it was prac¬ 
ticable to get ou the land, and was spread 
on the sod that was to have hay mown 
from it aud then turned for silage corn. 
This on steep hills right under the Blue 
regular pou tiding would do onrriod for 
miles. Amateurs would sometimes eottV-’ 
out to the farms to show farmers how to 
do it. It looked easy to swing that flail 
over the head, yet many a flippant ama¬ 
teur has had the enneeit knocked out of 
him by striking himself a blow on the 
back of the head with the swinging flail* 
If the graiu for the world’s bread-making 
today bad to be beaten out by hand in 
this way. there would be hungry people, 
and perhaps the farmer would stand 
higher in society than he does now. Who 
knows? 
trifling even on such steep hillsides, aud 
none at all on the flat lauds of the East¬ 
ern Shore of Maryland. Even ou our 
sandy soil here I find that letting the 
manure lie on the surface all Winter 
gives far bettor results than spreading it 
in the Spring. 1 never hesitate to spread 
manure rather than try to preserve it. as 
some say. A manure pile is a costly 
thing to preserve, and you are losing in¬ 
terest on its value the longer you keep it 
oft" the cultivated acres. 
W. F. MASSEY. 
Sulphuring Apples 
.Tust a few lines in regard to sulphured 
apples for Winter use. in response to 
question on page 1022. I can tell Mrs. 
•T. II. B. how E care for apples with 
sulphur. They have been kept for two 
years, and were as nice as when first 
sulphured. I pare and slice apples, put 
into doth sack. (1 use 5-lb. sugar sack.) i 
Take a box or a barrel (L use a 50-gnllou I 
milk can that is no good for milk 1. 
Prepuce au old can or kettle, putting 
dirt in bottom, and next put in a shovel 
of good live coals, and set in barrel <>r 
box, and put a tablespoon of sulphur on 
hot coals, llatig apples in barrel as s<>on 
as you can. the same as if you were going 
to smoke hums or bacon, and cover 
tightly With au old quilt or anything to 
keep the fumes of sulphur iu. Leave 
apples iu barrel for two hours, thou pul 
into jars, and cover with a plate aud a 
doth over top. so flies cannot get in at 
apples. In a few days they will he cov¬ 
ered with juice. If you do not have a 
jar full at one time you can till it at any 
time. I had some that were a year old. 
and finished tilling the jar. and it kept 
all right. 
I sulphured a three-gallon jar of apples 
this forenoon. mus. m. m. s. 
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