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day, and with convenience and attention they | 
will yield a good many blossoms during the rest j 
of the wioterand spring months, aDd in Sum¬ 
mer too, they are not sparing of their brilliant 
blossoms. So long as you can keep bouvardias 
healthy and growing vigorously, so long you 
caD get blossoms from them We raise young 
plants from cuttings of the roots or voting 
growths, started in a brisk temperature in 
early Spring. Plants one year old do not 
yield such good root cuttings as do those two i 
years or more. When root cuttings throw up 
sprouts an inch or so high, they should be 
potted off siugly, as you would rooted cuttings 
of vernena or other plants, only they should 
be kept very warm. About the end of May 
plant them out in rows 12 inches apart and 9 or 
% inches asunder in the rows, in a warm, shel¬ 
tered spot in the garden. Keep clean.cultivate 
freely, and as they grow up piuch them in to 
make them stocky Early in September lift 
them very carefully, preserving ail the fibrous 
rootlets as you would those of a young tree, 
also a hall of earth, and put them iDto pots 
in proportion to the size of the plants. The 
bouvardias will now be bushy, well-set with 
flower-buds and some of them n bloom. As 
they are very brittle, put a stake to each 
plant. Remove to a sheltered, faintly shaded 
place; give a good watering to the roots and 
sprinkle overhead two or irree times a day 
for a while, to prevent flagging Do not take 
them into the house so long as you can safely 
trust them out-of-doors. Last Fall we had 
130 nice plauts. After being potted, I set 
them on shutters under the faint shade of 
some oak trees. About the end of September 
I removed half of them to a cold frame, leav¬ 
ing the remainder under the trees A bout the 
middle of October (we did Dot have frost till 
the end of October) I removed them all to 
the groenhouse. Those in the frame lost a 
few Inner leaves, those left under the trhes did 
not lose any. The more advanced I put into 
a moderately warm bouse and the rest into a 
cool house. In the warm house they were m 
full bloom in November; in the other house 
they lasted nearly three weeks longer, but in 
point of health the cool house plants bad the 
advantage. Thus I am convinced that bou- 
vardias, although tropical plauts, are more 
injured than benefited by a high temperature 
while they are yielding their first or main 
crop of flowers. Then I put them all in the 
warm house and started them to grow, and 
they have kept on blooming ever since. 
Unless you have plenty of young plants, do 
not throw away the old ones; but unfasten 
their roots a little and plant them out in Sum¬ 
mer, aud lift and repot in Fall. They will 
bloom very freely. And if you wish for bou- 
vardia blossoms in Summer, it is no use de¬ 
pending on your spring-struck cuttings for 
them; whatever flowering shoots they may 
throw up should be shorteued back for busi¬ 
ness 1 sake; but old plants will bloom plentifully. 
In the bouse or greenhouse while bouvardias 
are iu blossom the> should be kept dry over 
head and in a bright, sunny place Alfred 
Neuoer, double white; President Garfield, 
double piuk; Diantha. scarlet; Jasmmoides, 
white; Hogaitb, carmine; aud The Bride, 
pink, are pretty and useful sorts. 
Glen Cove, L. I , N. Y. w. falconer. 
tarni Ccmvonuj. 
FURROWER FOR POTATOES AND 
CELERY. 
The Rural’s method of preparing the 
trenches for potato sets, as I understand it, is 
to open them five inches deep, then loosen and 
mellow the soil in the bottom before the sets 
are planted. The yields obtained at the Ru¬ 
ral Grounds emphatically prove that the prac¬ 
tice is an excellent one and applicable to all 
varieties of soils, especially those of a clajey 
nature; but when a large area is planted it 
involves an enormous amount of labor, if per¬ 
formed wholly with hand tools. For this rea¬ 
son many farmers will be deterred from 
adopting it. 
In studying bow tbe work could be done by 
horse power, I devised a simple implement— 
a marker or furrower. to be drawn by two 
horses—which I think will answer the purpose 
admirably. The furrower is similar to one 
used for opening celery trenches, with the ad¬ 
dition that the subsoilers, which are placed in 
the center of the furrows, as shown in the 
sketch. Fig. 43, run deeper aud loosen up the 
soil in the bottom of the furrows as they are 
opened. 
The implement should be made of oak stuff, 
strongly bolted together. Any good black¬ 
smith can make the subsoilers. They are 
shaped like a scuffle hoe, and have a strong 
shank. The points incline downward some¬ 
what, and the rear should have a lift of about 
1)4 inch. They may be set to run 1V£ to 3 
inches deeper than the furrowers. The fur- 
rowers are V-shaped, as shown, four feet long, 
the rear end being eight inches wide. For 
stiff, heavy soils, they should be somewhat 
shorter. The driver will ride on the imple¬ 
ment as in marking celery trenches. By re 
moving the subsoilers the furrower will do for 
marking celery trenches or corn rows. 
FRED GRUNDY. 
FRAME FOR HAULING CORN-FODDER 
AND BRUSH. 
A short time ago I saw a man drawing in 
corn fodder, and afterward brush, upon a 
frame like the one shown in Fig. 43. It at 
once struck me as being the best thing for 
tbe purpose that I had ever seen. He loaded 
three shocks of corn fodder, sixteen hills 
square, upon it with tbe greatest ease imagin¬ 
able, and could have made room for one or 
two more, if necessary. 
Tbe bed-pieces are clear pine, two by six 
inches and fourteen feet long. They are con¬ 
nected by six oak cross-pieces each one-and-a- 
balf by two inches, upon which rests tbe 
bottom of loose boards. The upright pieces 
Bre two by three inches, boiled to the bed 
pieces, and held firmly by short stay rods 
conceding them with the cross pieces. The 
slats are of ash two inches wide by one inch 
thick. 
A novel and useful feature was the step- 
ladder, shown in the sketch, which could be 
luiDg upon staples fastened on either side of 
I the frame by means of ihe iron hooks attached 
to its sides, Tfie man could take a large arm¬ 
ful of fodder, walk up these steps and place 
it where he wished, thus dispensing with a 
loader. In loading, the fodder was set upon 
end until the frame was filled to the open 
space in the middle, then it was laid cross-wise. 
“PICKET.” 
Pig Hucksters —An Ohio breeder warns 
the public* against those who buy and 
ship for sale as breeding stock, by the 
car load or otherwise, pigs upon repre¬ 
sentations that the buyer has no means of 
verifying. He claims that the pig huck¬ 
sters, tree peddlers and cow speculators are 
three of the irrepressible curses to the enter¬ 
prising farmers of moderate means. They 
buy pigs, cows aud trees of desirable names, 
but undesirable qualities, and untrue to name. 
The result is, says F. D. Coburn, in Country 
Home, that genuine well-bred auknal3 must 
bear the odium that, attaches to them from 
such deception. 
A Disadvantage of Polled Breeds.— 
Tbe Kansas Industrialist says that the advo¬ 
cates of the polled breeds love to dilate upon 
tbe many advantages of the hornless charac¬ 
ter, but the writer notices that this is by no 
means an unmixed good. He finds that it is 
very diffloult to secure polls safely in the 
barn. An ordinary halter is easily drawn 
over the moderately-protruding frontal bones, 
and a rope about tbe neck is easily drawn 
over the head. Moreover, they strike vicious¬ 
ly with their mallet-shaped heads. 
A Wonderful Butter Yield.— That 
was certainly a marvelous butter record of 
the Jersey cow Mary Anne of St. Lambert, 
belonging to Valencey E. Fuller, Hamilton, 
Canada. In seven days, beginning Sept. 23 
and ending Sept. 30 last, she gave 36 pounds 
12)4 ounces of DUtter, salted at the rate of one 
ounce to a pound, or 35 pounds 8% ounces of 
unsalted butter. In view of the fact that 
two pounds of butter a day is a splendid 
yield, what shall we say of over Jive pounds a 
day? When in full flow of milk a year pre¬ 
viously she recorded 27 pounds 9)4 ounces in 
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