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Show FIELD, FARM AND GARDEN. I'OliS LT'l.Tl'lil-:. J. C. C, in the Rural Mo,,, SpC;,k-iug SpC;,k-iug of corn culture Buys: I have kept up and practiced planting corn alter nately even" other year on tne same ground, allowing the land cultivated in corn one year to lie idle the next, thereby resting my land and improving improv-ing it by plowing under a heavy coat of wceda, while green in the lall on the land which lies idle this year and which I expect to put in corn next year, I firmly believe this plan pays me better than to rent my ground for the third of a crop. By plowing my laud in the iaII and turning turn-ing under a heavy crop of vegetation, it seeps my ground light and loose, and as a general rule does not uccil rebreaking in the Spring; thereby I am enabled to get my corn in the ground as early as 1 desire in the Spring. And in my own experience in corn growing, the early planting, it properly put in and cultivated, is in : nine awes out of ten tho best corn. ' V7XU-6 I'll; I "HEMIC MS. Col. S. D. liarrid, in a re-cut communication com-munication U) the Jlti'kri- I'nrmrr, says: Tho common practice of farmers who compete lor premiums at the agricultural fairs in the i'all, is to put off all concern in the matter until a few days before tho fair is held, and then if they have anything which is extra good in the way of a farm crop they will select a sample- and take it to the fair. This is not the way they should do such things, as there is no practical credit due to a man lor an accidental good cro,). The real object of premiums is to stimulate- peoplo to work for them; it is a very lew motive-when motive-when a man competes lor a prize only that he may win the money which ie offered; he should strive, not so much for the mere object of taking tho premium pre-mium as to show what can be dono in the way of raising crops by trying for it in earnest. And now is the time to plowing the land, while you arc put ting in the seed, while you arc tending tend-ing the crop, and at the time of harvest har-vest il will be no small gratification, that you took goal aim at sueceas and hit the mark, UL'oT l.S WHhAl". All farmers who have much experience expe-rience in grain raising and who have any fear of their crops being damaged bVrust, will watch the lower placed, the sinks that aro without drainage and that receive the surface moisture from the surrounding land, to discover the iirst attacks of the fungus known as rust. So long as the grain on these places escapes, all is sale. It was noticed that a soil in England Eng-land most always produced a good stand of straw, but tiiat befitto maturity matur-ity (lie Icayes and stalks were nearly always attacked by rust, and greatly injured. Some of this soil was submitted sub-mitted to a careful analysis by J)r, Snrfliipp.l. and was found to show tho presence of iron Baits, and marc pspecially of the phosphate of iron, in excess of other soils adjoining, on which the- grain was not afleeicd by the niBt, It was found that the soil contained over a half per cent, of phosphate of iron, with only a trace of limo, uncouibined with silicic acid. This fact being discovered, the fact that free lime will combine with phosphoric phos-phoric acid suggested the remedy, ami K trial proved, it most effectual. The new combination formed phosphate of lime, and left the iron a mero harmless per-oxide of iron, while the phosphate of lime became a valuable grain fertilucr. The sinks and low places we have spoken of, if their soils were aualyied, would undoubtedly he found to contain, con-tain, as tho soil in England did, an excess of phosphate of iron, and the application of common lime would have the samo effect as in the aue-mentioned. aue-mentioned. The experiment is worthy wor-thy of a trial. KilslNti ARTICHOKE. 1 planted about ouc-fouith acre with aloul one-half bu&hcl, cut very small, dropped in furrow's two feet and a hid I' apart, and alcove eleven inches apart mi lows; give them about tho same attention :w potatoe-". Early in SepUin'tOr I cut them, before frost, and used the stalks to reof my stable, thinking they wero good lor nothing else, but 1 found it very" diillcult to keep my horse trom eating himself out of doord. Ho would leave corn and hay for thcue stalks. I think I had about fifty bushels on the one-quarter acre. Top the stalks once or twice in the course o( the season, in orucr wj mane incm stocky, cut before frost, shuck as corn, when cured, stack, and cut them in machine, mix with bran, iitcam or cook them ;ts convenient. J think they will furnish a large amount of valuable feed. J think the roots or tubers will grow all winler, when the ground is not frozen. l)ig in the Spring, or turn your hogs in to dig for you. They are choice fc;d fori milk cows, and coming as th'jy do, early in the Spring, when succulent food in scare, help the yield of butter. Cor, A.a'1. Fiirmcr. TKANrLA.SriN.; LVElioULfc-Nrf. There are but few persons who do not like evergreens al-out their premises, prem-ises, and but few who know how to manage them. Nothing useful or ornamental is to be had without proper labor. Most evergreens need, in the tirsl place, a proper initial cultivation in the rich sod of the nursory, as the Balsams, Spruces, Arbor-vit;e, and should lc transplanted for two or three years in succession, and headed back when very small and the side limlM cut back to multiply their roots and Hide shoots, and give them low and thick furnished foliage in a conical shape. At one, two, threo ur four feet liih, alter such treatment, treat-ment, they are lit for transplanting to the ground where they :tc I" btand. Ml;uvm R'(ll-. Hover wash strawberries or raspberries, rasp-berries, they are intended to be eaten aa.ivwA fruit. If they aro so gritty as to require this process, keep litem oil" the table. You will certainly ruin the flavor beyond repair if you wash them, and as certainly induce instan'. ferment) tion and endanger the coaLs uf the outers' stomachs; if, alter pru-failing pru-failing the eiijiiisito delicacy of the fruit to this extent, you complete the evil work by covering them with sugar, and leaving them to leak their lives sourly away for one or J.wo hours. 1'uttheni on the table in glass dishes, piling thein high and lightly, sent! arounu powdered sugar with i.hcm and cream, so that the guests may help themselves. It is not economical econ-omical portions, but it is a healthful and pleasant style of . serving thorn we had almost, said the only decent one. Never allow (lowers to be watered or Bprinklcd with cold water, especially especial-ly in cold weather. Tepid water is alwavs belter, even in Summer. |