Show on X alib ab ollie farm notes A manitoba farmer lias has a gardyn patch pa t C h the soil of which he im tin pil punted test bodily froni front a warmer ell matt mato on it ho he grows groa a vegetables ege tablet chic chub etire are entirely foreign to his n neigh eight I 1 it 1 is 14 4 a good thing to sprinkle the iii anure pilo with bait salt hen used in ill small fait salt promotes fermentation and at the same time its capacity for attra attracting Aing anois turo ture is to present fire fang ing fratis transplanting planting tomato flints seve ral tunes before they are bet tet out in lit ducts due is a kurung growth there will be little or no wilting N after the final retting setting it if water be poured in the ilia holes hols lit bifaro foro planting and the earth bo be drawn lightly up to the plant it lias has only been a few months since ice tho the feeding of wheat lif at to ewine swine attracted att at tuition Lution but it is lepor tod that lie suggestion has met with it favorable response ns ponee wheat being largely used for the ilia purpose hua thus increasing the demand for it it will surprise o many to learn from recently published agrical Agn Agri cul tural returns that london haa has under tinder crops exclusive of gardens and that there uru uro practically within sound of bow bells I 1 aw pigs 5 sheep and nearly in lit ad of cattle the in writer riter in lit it turf journal gi gives ea the following rule tu to estimate the height a colt will ill grow to take a colt nt at an all timi time lie tween 0 03 weeks and one year ear stand him on OIL a level surface so that he lie will stand natu rally rail then measure the distance from the ilia hau halt of his hig hoot hoof to his ilia knee joint und and foi every inch or friction thereof lio lie measures he will bo be b hinds bind ind high when matured if he lie measures it 15 iti inches elies he be will grow to be 15 hind hands high if 15 inches he lie will grow to tobe be 1 hands high and so on oil two tao cars ago says a writer in the cultivator we tried an in lit feeding newly set tomato plants with a very email small dressing of nitrate of soda which wag thoroughly nixed with the soil around them thein the ground was ly fertile before the aepli cation not only kiil was tho the growth of the plants greatly stimulated but their prudum in eness u also the fruit was unusually large and fair and anti it ripened several so eral daas before that on oil ins to which we a did not apply tho tile nitrate As a a special manure for the he tomato crop nitrate of soda anti nn not be excelled work in the garden girders D not wait for anything but alt to work a ork in lit the garden patch pata sie ste that it atia is of goodly dimensions well fertilized thoroughly culli abed and pulverized if this is done now it will eave save many trips if tn the store for gro groceries eries when the i it time tile for harvesting and other heavy work in is on liand hand it is far better for a farmer to spend a few days ila a on an acre garden that will be worth from to to him than it is to spind the same amount of time on a wheat field that will not make for him more than ten to twenty five dollars at buit and probably run luni lint behind remember the garden apple spot tho the main I 1 point eints to be a kemem bared berecin in connection with apple spot aro ari that it ie is caused by a minute parasitic pa fungus a low form of plant life billi bil li by living on the and fruit of the apple prevent prevents prevent prevents aul it in 11 in the former and the tile development of 0 the ilia latter it ie is not eo so generally gene raly known that the same fungus attacks both the leave leaven rind the fruit A few acta facts to ba remembered in connection with successful treatment are 1 that it is perpetuated by spores which tako take the place of needs seeds 2 that these spores formed in the autumn live oer winter upon the old leaves fruit and oung branches 3 that these theme germin to te in the spring na ie boc an conditions are fao favorable rable which ie is usually about tho the time the young foliage is ie I 1 de ve loping the efficacy of the copper remedies has now come to be gene rally recognized end and the tile grother who doe not uee remedied reme dieH diet in tilla m simple precaution in direct dires t opposition position up to hie his beat interests o 0 copper carl cliatt mixture ture half H length I 1 tile ni now the lending leading fule tiles fur apple applet and unil pear scab wab and jiame i ape milded sorghum for hay ha sorghum is being inthia exten ciely grown in the ea eastern terii and southern states andus and edmi hav bay it it 1 in lit drilli i on oil light sandy sand boil about tune june andrul ti abed tho ilia at ae the quantity required exl fir for an all aero niro is from front one half balf it to one 11 after planting roll the tile gr tind solid abiol nd let lot the hied sled germinate ger gari 1 lit hui it about three as fet et high ilia ie Is cut and allo allowed weI to cure s mowing mathine ie is biti tho the sin it aa as for an tin other grass glnn tho ali leaven bt bacomo onto dry enough to rattle tho the liny hay is ready for putting inid into bulk the u p should not dr in lit thu ilia stalks bo be fore stacking int put it up tit in lit large largo and it will not lot mold if allon allowed ed to frt ebo stalks N will ill bt 6 collie sour and mint until for use sto k feed rH it lit lebr february uary and afan marih li keeping it liay hay to prevent freezing early earl is ij the tile best arieta ari aric ety ty AN lien I 1 lie rt st i d ia is in the douget iri is the befit atine for cut ting tin it if the tho malks groi rank oa 01 it may bo be abot ked wi corn and thu kept till into late in lit ho tile fall it is ut used 1 I t etc list ely for fet feeding 1 I I 1 ng balth and greedily gret dily aten b by thein them durnik during tho tile cintel wintel barele carelee fruit grower growers one of tho the most encouraging facts about fruit growers is 1 ex pressed ly by the nebraska bartner when it says that tho the careless and slovenly growers aro are being surely weeded out of business bu einess there is no money in lit trying to grow poor fruit cheap allowing baturo to do all and man mail nothing what nature does in lit such cases is to multiply insect t and fun gus diseases if nature is to do all then nature will toko take nil all and lea leavo 0 lazy members of the firm nothing on the contrary ar if man will work with till nature roin batir insects and diseases diseases ilia fruit will be so much finer filter that it aills 11 itself at good prices while tho poor fruit can call hardly hardi bo be given away the he best fruitman fruit fru itcan can now careful treatment be produced more cheaply than it was as in n state of now it can be guarded so aa as to be pretty sure of a crop every ear in the olden tune time the good and the poor crops rapidly alternated with many more poor than good ones kind of fertilizers As a general rule the beat best lizera for a farm are tho the barnyard barnard manures this varies aries however according to conditions of land and crops salt is ig a fertilizer and a splendid article artilo for destroying weeds limo lima IB is used successfully on 0 some lain lani where other bertili woud be of no value the commercial fertilizers fertilizer 4 sold in the markets aa ati land plasters are valuable on oil cl q i boil soil much of the land requires potash which is contained in thu the prepared fertilizers one good and e method in making land fill tillable ablo and product ise e ig i drainage I 1 agany fields unde to get the land in condition to be pulverized ovar irrigation causes good land to come unproductive e surface cultivation without sub BUD soiling ia is another cause of 0 non chiess thorough dr drain am age and deep cultivation ia is us usually bally what it is moat required in irrigated allds plant irrigation small plants do not need much irrigation many of them are in aured ared more bv b early than by dry weather beans icil corn and potatoes pota should not be I 1 irrigated grigat ell much till thoy they arc are in lit care should iw he it A t to all allow ow any water to touch the ilia vine vinci al as it will rauw enuse rust ruit and find prevent fruit falness do not cultivate email small plants after they lave bave ix en irrigated r mit run ru n n lit ill destroy them all pinell ro require moistures but not waiter if tho tile eur sur face Is dry arv and there is mo lature at tit the boota deelo the water away it will do more harm thun loud wj if up plied aheu not rot needed nead farm book keeping have aheady bem allow the carefully tare fire full fully kept books oan of farmer who owns anti tilla tills a little place of only fifty i rt not having much land to look aou a see u lie ho liar tune to keep keel 1118 Hicou IlL counts ntH some men A ban 0 largo farms lim 0 nu no tuno for forS sULli fillish toniy th thil iks lut but inn this in 18 mia lie hi books paa better than if iut put upon iN working an su much more land be 1 laust ho lie says pa 8 it enables him to all toll nil till timo time what croppi ai at I 1 A lint fields hf ids and what stock py puy hini luni lut but that la it oil a theor theory you iee u these book farmere furnieri are theoretical but him its fifty aerts ilia ne acio Lounts unta bagin with nil nit inventory of the land and 1 er thing on oil it at the beginning of tho tar at ilia clofie close of the tar waa mas another and in lit taI tidie ieNer ery attern donn atlate abut there waa was an in creaso of stock andrup 11 diio to about the tile suit salt a s from the farm during ane 3 ar tal been M in excess of the lie pur ebisch for supplies sup and the pay ments for labor Beti idee sides tins this there was e ei cry evidence that the family biad lived well had hall enjoy enjoyed ed all reasonable comforts and had not bet ii oer overworked worked the total of sale salea had hall been made u up P from all tho tile product a of a general fanu farm aa as the owner wits not a specialty far iner mer |