Show ube be farin vand aliz doine ollie orchard cultivation tho beat tillage in i orchards ie is that which begins early in ill the men BOU soil and which keeps tho surface stirred until late or early fall and the tile bt bast fit implements are chobo which B curt thia this result with the kaat amount of tuno time and labor for tho the cirit te few airs it is generally advisable to turn tho the land rather deeply with it plow at thu the first spring culli cultivation aaion there ire are many styles of clod truy hiTS spring tooth harrow lut ut and smoothing liar harrow roNis which will adapt theia them ethes readily to the cult cultivation nation of tho the particular soil in quention question in all friable or loose boila shallow cultivation is alwa always s preferable and in theme some form of cutaway or smoothing harrow will be found to be efficient ethcie nt NN hen the land ia 11 in goof good condition but little effort find timo time are required to run through the orchard crust should never be allowed to form upon the surface and weeds eeds should be hilled killed before they become firmly ibe entire surface of e orchard should stirred as often am once onto in lit ten tell day das in general apel if v el culture ie is beet best this is secured by plowing one year to the trees and the following year aay aft ay from thorn thom ono one ear north and south and tho the next year ear east and wet west it is some what bat difficult to plow away from large trees however and with the cultivators or lian aws now in use it ie is easy to work the file soil away by subsequent cultivation allowing the tile furrow to be thrown toward the tree each spring but is is always FAvi advisable sable upon fairly level ground to plow the orchard liard in opposite directions ions in alternate years ears the d difficulty of borki working ng close to the trees has had hall the effect of encouraging cou raging too high pruning there ib Is a tendency to start tops too high rather than too low thereby exposing posing great length of trunk to injuries of eun sun and wind and elevating the top be beyond botill reach of ot pickers and of sprays s for most trees the ideal length of trunk is under A 4 feet rather than above it and implements now in the market allow of this lowr training trees which have low tops tells or which hang low with fruit can bo be reached by separating the halves balos of any of the double harrows by means of a long double tree so that flie halves when ada adjusted run from 4 to 6 feet from each other A cutaway harrow rigged in this way will work away the back furrows from under the trees during tho the season all cultivator cultivators or harrow li arrows with high handles wheels or le lovers ers should be discarded if orchard sare worked when the limbs bend bond low with fruit farm notes A californian grow e fodder enough on less than t two 0 acres of around round to winter winter his team und a cow he lie irrigates the land and keeps the cul ivator busy all small fruits in be bene fitted by a heavy mulching of manure which protects the root roots against frequent thawing and freezing of the soil ei new now england farmer cor respondent feeds 20 pounds of pumpkin per day to each cow first remo removing Ting the seeds and he finds a satisfactory increase in the milk flow tho the seeds will reduce the flor floy tho the man who merely selects his beed from the best cars cam in hie his bin makes a mistake for the cars he be selecta may be from the less prolific stalks seed corn should always be lie rulof n in the fied field and the lower ear car from which bear two taken our domesticated animals seem to be nil all fondon fond of wheat though they aro are not used to ll 11 it is relished relie hed best beat in ill the tho form orm of coarse meal Q and nd it is then in a condition to be be attacked by the digestive processes whether thoroughly masti bated or not and it gives the best results when two fine itis it is pasty and not so bendily eaten ir if england and scotland the farmers raise large whole bocks flocks me averaging raging overa pounds each ally alive and when a wether ie is killed for family uee use that which ie Is not desired immediately ia is corned wa sm ll bieda bleeds are not raised in great britain and the barmess pay no attention to wool com computed pitied with mutton feeding wheat lun iu a wheat fetting experiment last winter john A craig of colorado makes the following deduc bioni wheat mii i found of more value than audi such food aa as linseed cake cale it linseed ike and ott totton calo mixed allied outs mid aud barly or than oats and bealls bt ans mixed till bung bling soft certainly affords a pro bitable means for tho the reduction of the wheat output been ecu at p ebent prices for lainas in III estimating wheat for sheep feeding it has lies been inferred that tho tile laruba coull coul I 1 be bought for three cents a pound an as feeders und and old sil i at four cents a pound tile mail who liaa bas good antigo for raising fee derti can find it tu to sell them for three cents and tile inan mail who can call buy ut at three auts cute and st sill 11 at four cents hae hag aa good a chance chanco to make a profit the i v alue of the other fobb foods in tho the ration that was fed to the slit ep wad put at 2 a ton for the swedes and 8 L ton for the hay bay to determine the value of the wheat it will be to charge tho the sliced ith the market cost ot of the other foods the ite ond and then it bec becomes onles fair to altri attn buto bute to alie wheat the difference that is produced between tho the value of tho the sheep at tte bi beginning ginning of the experiment and their value at the end of days tho the daily ration was found to be twenty pounds of swedes one fourth pound of hay bay and tb three roe fourths of a pound of wheat for each sheep the lambs cost 3 21 2 ild sold at f 65 transplanting trees if every needed preparation has been made and a tree is properly lifted and bet tet it can call be demoi removed ed successfully as a long as the ground continues enough to insure the tile output of fresti fresh rootlets in auth clent ci ent numbers to supply the water which ie is wasted from the trunks and brandies branches by evaporation dur ing the winter but whether or not a tree will be belamy likely to survive that is whether its chances of life barely outweigh tho the dangers of death in the opera operation tiou of removal is not the question which an nit enter priming planter ought to discuss he will not be satisfied with a tree simply because it has vitality enough left to put forth leaves what ho lie wants is a tree with an constitute 11 1 a vigor oua ous life a promise of longevity and conditions which insure its bastile be best stile de in size in beauty and in characteristic expression small trees cabbe can be moved successfully cess fully at any time tinie of 3 ear by one who knows just how to do it but in thia this latitude the transplant ing of trees ought not to be postponed until late aa as the middle of november certainly no tree ought to be transplanted after this date unless the ground has been thoroughly and intelligently prepared J hand oba if trees must be dug I 1 biased now it is bet ter to heel t iem jern in carefully and at once begin to prepare the tile place where they are to lire permanently relief for heaves heaves tho the common coin nion name for brok broken wind inthe in intlehouse the bouse house is susceptible t of great by att n tt tion I 1 oll to the character and quantity of food to be eaten by tho the animals as everyone every one knows sa aaa s the tile farmers voice if it a horse suffering from the disease ie ill allowed to distend his sto macli at his pleasure with dry food entirely and then to drink cold old water ad libi tum he bo is nearly worthless but if his food be moistened end ord be he be el allowed lovied to drink a moderate quantity only at lit a time the tile disease id is much less troubIe Bomp astill Aie till further alleviation may bo be obtained from tho the use of balsam of fir and balsam of copaiba four ounce ounces each and mix with in ameis sufficiently thick to make it into balls and giro give a middle sized ball at night and morning torn for a alek or tea ten das this gives good satisfaction lobelia wild turnip turnips cle elecampane campane and skunk cabbage equal part to each sinic into balls of common inize eize and give one for a dom or ur make inake a tincture by patting putting to fo ir ounces of the mixture into two quarte quarts of spirit and after a week put two tablespoonfuls in their afef feed d once a day for a month or two remedy ie is also BOOI gool A common mistake stake the mistake ie is often n made ild of ap p plying the water upon tho the hurbace in irrigating trees and it la is made inada worse vorse by jo ic practice of atee ii it or so at a tune titine ami repeating it dail one ile or een two palls of u water ater thrown it oil the tilt ground under a freewill tree will at boat only wet et the tile soil to th alu depth of an all inch or so and ad as thia this docs nut tarry arry it d wn mit to the routs roots little ur or no good will result in fad faa it in 13 i atad it ad to harm us its a rust III forai curtit particularly upon a hem heay y soil suil and not only will tin tile wit A it r unit ailts 1 lilts bt bieu en applied but the lose loss of the water witter alread already in the soil will be ha it if the tile application is its it will A ill result in making lad bad borbe orse instead ut of applying tl tue 0 every night for it weak 1111 ii id tile saine amount of water plied at one time and the tile arrange ments been such that it would into the tile roots the tree would have bf been en amply supplied in all proba ability and no further application would have been nece tiry for ten felt das or more radishes for winter may be stored in lit land in the cellar hoot crops may also bo kept in this man mail ner in nearly all case cases there should bon bo R convel colvet con vet t pr tike connected with the bleeps winter quarters as it is not a good plan to confine the ewes too closely they need opportunity port unity for exercise ex erciso and a good plan of management is to open the doors wide at leaah during the da so they can run in and out at their pice pleasure sure testing the soil dr H J wheeler of the rhodes island experiment station says there is e ery reason to believe that thousands of acres of rhode island connecticut and massachusetts soils are sufficiently acid tube to be de bene fitted by the applina tion flea of lime any farmer may easily test his own soils to ascertain if I 1 lime would be beneficial mois ten half a teaspoonful teaspoon ful of soil with water until it will stir up into a thick paste and let it stand five or ten minutes take a piece of blue litmus paper cheaply obtained of any apothecary insert one ead end of tl tj e 6 paper into tho the soil paste without touching that part of the paper with tho tile fingers after a minute or two remove the paper ringe it with water and dry it if after drying the litmus paper lias has changed in color from blue to red it will show allow that soil acidity other than that caused by carbonic acid exists and indicates that that soil might be beni bent fitted by ly an application of lime |