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bearing can be propogated from cuttings as 
well as layers .. 
Mr. Lovett writes us that he finds ground 
bone the best of fertilizers for raspberries. 
Mr. Mitchell feeds his chicks on hard- 
boiled eggs and stale bread the first two weeks 
after hatching, and then he recommends good 
sound wheat, discontinuing the egg and bread 
diet after the third week. 
Onion tops are an excellent green food for 
poultry.... 
Report your mistakes.. ... 
Mulch the strawberry plants to keep the 
fruit clean and to preserve moisture. If 
mulched last Fall merely rake it off theplauts, 
leaving it between them and between the rows. 
Don’t dig or plow deep over the roots of 
small fruits. Give shallow cultivation. 
Mr. Mitchell finds Partridge Cochins the 
best winter layers; Light Brahmas next, Dark 
Brahmas next, and Plymouth Rocks next.... 
ginia is of that much-to-be-desired medium, 
surpassed only by that of the Pacific slope: 
the mean temperature of the mountain and 
Piedmont region is a little lower than that of 
the middle and tide-water districts, but the 
difference is not great. The Winters are suffi¬ 
ciently miid to admit of much farm work 
being done. Stock require less food and shel¬ 
ter, and are turned to grass earlier than in the 
North and West. The Summers are long, 
but uot hot. Though along the rivers in the 
lower regions of the State malaria exists, yet 
it is of a less virulent tjpe than in similar re¬ 
gions in the Southand Southwest. The health- 
fuluess of the Piedmont, the valley and the 
mountain regions, is fully attested by the 
thousands who yearly seek them for health. 
\\ heat, rye, corn, tobacco, and cotton, thrive 
excellently, the latter in the southern part of 
the State. In 1872 the shipment of "truck” 
from Norfolk alone, was estimated at $1,500,- 
000. A few years since a farm of 1,200 acres 
in Essex County was sold at a moderate price 
—perhaps our Northern farmers would have 
thought it washed and worn out, but a neigh¬ 
bor bought it low for cash. The first year’s 
wheat crop paid, within a small fraction, for 
the land and the cost of cultivation. Another 
farm in Clarke County by oue wheat crop 
paid the purchase money. 
It should be remembered that but a short 
while since Virginia was for four years a battle 
ground, over which the tide of war swept, 
leaving nothing but desolated, fenceless fields. 
Industries of all kinds were paralyzed, and 
there was no money to build them up. 
Lately political complications have retard¬ 
ed, to some extent, the influx of foreign capi¬ 
tal, and the old Virginiau seems satisfied with 
lus old ruts and quiet ways. Twelve years 
since, I moved into Virginia and bought a 
farm at $10 per acre: two year's ago the addi¬ 
tion of an adjoining tract was procured at $30 
per acre. Upon my first coming to the neigh¬ 
borhood there was scarcely a large estate f rom 
which quite a respectable sized farm might 
not have been bought, aud now I know' of no 
property in this immediate locality for sale. 
I am uot a native Virginian, nor have I land 
to sell. As a place of residence, no part of 
the Union, in proportion to population, is bet¬ 
ter supplied with churches than Virginia. Iu 
the school report for 1883 we find a school 
population, white and colored, of 555,807; 
there are 4,359 white and 1,715 colored schools, 
employing 5 997 teachers, with a school pro¬ 
perty valued at $1,442,481 98. In addition to 
the above, we have innumerable ladies’ semi¬ 
naries and private instructors, besides eleven 
colleges for higher instruction of young gentle¬ 
men, headed by the University'of Virginia, 
which ranks co-equal with any in the United 
States. 
In conclusion, he who seeks a home in this 
old Mother of States, will at least not be burnt 
out by forest fires, swept away by the angry 
floods, or desolated by the wild tornado, nor 
yet eaten by the glass hoppers. He will only 
have to contend with a corporal’s guard of 
potato bugs, and they came from Colorado. 
Earquior Co. claude Baxley, m. d. 
Ferrol, Augusta Co., Va.—Eleven hills of 
Blush Potatoes produced 75 huge and small; 
weight 20 pounds. Shoe-peg Corn planted ten 
days late, badly used by wire-worm, makiug 
it still later, ripened a gallon or more; some 
of it flinty and mixed. The water melons did 
not grow.very large, but in quality we thought 
them excellent. The flower seeds were appre¬ 
ciated, especially Phlox. P. M . s. 
Pennsylvania. 
Leasurkville, Butler Co., April 10.—Last 
year wheat hereabouts was a failure; this 
year it looks well. Grass, oats aud potatoes 
were good crops. Com a failure. Fruit about 
oue-third of u crop, B . s . 
My apple orchard had got so large and thick 
that I have just removed one-half the trees, 
leaving the balance 40 feet apart each way. 
1 his may be a little too far, but it is better 
than too close. H . M j 
Texas. 
Denison, Grayson Co.. April 7.—At the last 
meeting of the North Texas Horticultural 
Society, the members exhibited branches of 
peach trees with sufficient fruit set on most 
varieties to make a full crop. It was also the 
opinion of the meeting that apples, plums, 
grapes and blackberries gave promise of an 
abundant crop. Strawberries were looking 
well, showing half-grown fruit, but they were 
needing rain. We have had no rain to do any 
good for four weeks. Potatoes and com are 
up and looking well. j. u., sec. n. t. n. s. 
implemen ts and paeftinenj 
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NOTES PROM EASTERN DAKOTA. 
In my estimation, no other place iu America 
offers the dairyman so much prospective profit 
as this section of Dakota. The Cheyenne is 
one of the loveliest valleys in the world, one 
mile w ide, with abrupt bluffs on either side 
l’>() feet high, a portion of which is covered 
with a heavy growth of oak, ash, and other 
kinds of valuable timber, with innumerable, 
never-failing springs of pure water, which 
never freeze iu Winter. The bottom lands are 
not overflowed, aud are richer than the Mo¬ 
hawk \ alley. They, completely protected 
from the winds aud adjacent prairies, are not 
excelled for the production of grass aud all 
kinds of grain. Good oak fence posts cost 10 
cents each, and wire fence can bo built for 40 
cents per rod. It is only necessary for pas¬ 
tures, as our herd laws protect the g rain fields, 
which are too large for the owner* to thiuk of 
fencing. Near a big spring in the valley I 
have erected posts to support poles which 1 
have covered with straw, thus making a hovel 
of ample dimensions for the winter protec¬ 
tion of cows, which are fed on hay 
that has cost but two dollars per toil 
and is fur moro nutritious than the best tame 
hay. Such a shed, covering even an acre, 
costs virtually nothing, and fills the whole 
bill—as it never rains here iu Winter—aud 
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April 15, it Showed quite hard; so much fell 
that at this time t he north sides of the hills are 
still dotted with the banks. Since then it has 
beeu drizzly and misty which, without wet- 
tiug the grounds much, has caused every 
wheat aud grass root, even if on top the 
ground, to take uew life anil commence to 
glow, and now the wheat is looking extra 
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I went over the wheat fields this morning, and 
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Mediterranean; though having the same treat¬ 
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best. The buyer to whom I sold my hogssome 
time ago, asked me to day to hold them into 
Muy, feeding them only lightly, so they would 
not get so I at. 1 told him 1 would hold them 
till May if he wished, but that I could uot 
afford to stiut them on feed, for I should then 
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