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Show FARM AND GARDEN. "my mixture for seeding." Seeing a request in the Farmer about oeeding grand land, I wiah to give my method. I put to each acre nflimf.thv tv Imlf hnhet nf rpd-fnn four pounds red clover, and two pounds of alaike clever, which makea a Tery nice hay, and I think, there ie none belter. I wish to add that red-top red-top and alaike are very good, hardy : grasses on moist land. I have sowed ; orchard grass, but with very poor eucceas, Jor it did not yield as well &r other grasses, and cattle would not eat the tall ted very well. Letter to New England Farmer, BEAN3. Bcatia do not bear very early planting plant-ing in the open ground, as they are liable to rot when the ground ia too wet or too cold; those who wish to get their orop into tho market earlier than their neighbor gardeners are advised to mix their beans in dirt about a week or two before they wish to plant out in the ground, and Bet them in a warm place in the house near a stove, or in a warm frame in tho sun, and when tbey are sprouted they may be planted out in the open ground, and they will not rot even though a cold spell of weather should come. PROVIDE RYE PASTURAGE. Cows pastured on rye will fatten aod give a greater quantity of milk than tbey will when pastured on tho wild range or fed corn in (he ear. Even in winter the butter has a nice golden color, and sells well. If sown early on well prepared land, rye will a fiord more pasturage to the acre, during fall, winter and spring, than blue grasd or timothy. Kye pasture is cheaper and easier to be had in winter than root cropB, and grows faster in the early spring than the usual pasture grasses. Sow in May for euoimer pasture, aod in fall for spring pasture. Exchange, BREAKING DP A MEADOW. Meadows aftor a few years are apt to run to stools, unless eome fresh seed is sown upon tbem every year and a top-dressing of soma fertilizer, such as wood ashes, ia given. When this has been neglected and the meadow is very "patchy," it would be better to plow it up and re-seed it. If this is not convenient, we would harrow the ground well, and sow bo me fresh seed at once, and give a dressing of wood ashes after the aeeding. In the epriop, when the ground is Btill soft, the meadow should be well rolled. A dressing of barnyard manure that irom horsta fed upon grain atd hay is generally free Irom weedB would be useful once in a while. Green Mountain Freeman, H0VT TO SOW SEED. The most successful seed Bower we ever knew lets his garden ground get a little dry before sowing. Then he Blretches the line along where the seeds are lo go, sows the seeds on the surface, and then walks aidewue along the line, pressing the seeds with his "flat foot." He Bays he never has a seed to miss, and so sows them thinly just where every plant ia to grow. There U not only no wnsto of seed, but no waste in tninning. There ia no raking in of the seed, and the whole is ae simple as possible. Hia wife is a good flower-gardener. flower-gardener. Her mignonette and phloxes always grow, a 10c. paper being enough for the whole garden. She bows on the surface, "pats" down, ss she flays, the earth with the back of her caat-eteel trowel; puts the stick with the name in tho centre of the little patch, and they sprout at once. This plan is an excellent one in moist or heavy soils iu low lands; but in light, leachy Bections the eurer nay is to give a slight covering of aoil, varied according to the strength and the size of the seed. Amateurs at flower culture are generally sure to plant Email seeds too deep until experience teaches them better. Springfield Un ion. 1VEED3. Weeds are like Banquo'a ghost. They will not "down at your bidding." bid-ding." No matter bow much you mulilate tbem and disturb the soil under tbem, if you leave them on th surface in a raioy day (hey will btill persist in growing. They cling to life like cats and some other aoimala, which, strange as it may seem, proler to live rather than die. But no tender-hearted eentimentalism must be allowed to come in to weaken tbe efforts of the agricultural army iu ite war of extermination against the weeds. No lopping oQ here and there a leaf or a sprout will amount to anything. No half-way work will answer the purpose; the evil muat be removed root and branch, prohibited, suppressed, obliterated. If you adopt the false theory that mild measures are best, and merely cut oil the topa while the roots are left in tbe ground, you will soon find them springing up with more vigor and power for mischief than before. Radical measures, and no others, are in order amouK June weeds. It is not necessary fur the legislature to proclaim a prohibitory law against tbem. The law of nsturo and self-preservation self-preservation requires that they be exorcised, ex-orcised, banished, put down, and this law must bo enforced, or they will get the advantage of the corn and potatoes pota-toes and when harvest time comes there will be nothing tut weeds to harvest. Vtrmont h'caord and Farmer, |