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Show FARM AM) GARDEN, BOOT Ab X FEUTILIZER, To tbOBe of our readers who have not yet taken down their Gloves wo would suggest that they be careful and collect 113 much soot fa 'possible for uso in their gardens. Dusting the plants with Boot is said to ha not only an excellent preventive of cabbage cab-bage and turnip iieaa, but a very good fertilizer. Now, when you have occasion oc-casion to clean out your chimneys, stovo pipes or stoves, save all you can and put it asido in some dry place for lime of need. Put all your line, dustlike dust-like ashen in with the soot; sift out the lumps; and add no equal quantity ot dry earth or sand to the pure article. arti-cle. To every barrel oi ibis com pound add one pound of powdered sulphur, thoroughly mixing it thorugh the heap. Keep dry and under cover until wanted for use. This mixture will bo found excellent for dusting over tho cucumber viuca as well he iho turnip, cabbage and tomato plants. TR A S3 r LAN 11 X O STRAWBKRBIEi. The strawberry ia so tenacious ol life tbat it m;iy be transplanted with care at almost any season; but thero aro times which are especially favorable. favora-ble. In northern latitude! spring undoubtedly is preferable, while at the far south October and November nre the best months. In spring, the ground is moist, showers usually abundant, and tho impulse ol growth is Btrong. At this cool season the plants do not heat or dry out during , transportation if packed with ordinary care. Land that is to bo set with strawberries in spring should bo thoroughly prepared the fall before, il possible. November ploughing is especially beneficial where thu ground is inclined to be at all wet or heavy. The earlier they are planted the better. bet-ter. I make it a rule to set them out 1 as soon as the ground ib dry enough to work. Of course this lorm : "early" is relative, and also depends 1 uljuu Lbo butiGuu. in 100 iiiuo cou u 1 bo done in the open ground before May, and yet in other years I have had excellent success with plants set out in March. February is a spring ' month at the far south, and April a : winter month iu high latitudes. The 1 safe ruio in every region is to plant as soon as possible after the ground is dry enough. Rjc's Small Fruits 1 Manual. A BUTTER MAKERS' SCHOOL. An opulent citizen of Mussachu-eetts Mussachu-eetts has established a school, a few miles out ot Boiton", for teaching cookery meeting an acknowledged, pressing want. While rejoicing in the means for accomplishing eo much good, I am led to inquire if there is - anything more needed than a school for butter-making, and if it is not possible to havconc established. The article made in factories or creameries cream-eries may be good, but thiB is a matter mat-ter of very little momont to the gen-, eral public, whose main sources of supply are the innumberable private dairies scatteied over many of the northern and middle states. Good butter always has been and always will be mado, but under present conditions, in limited supply, and this I contend will continue to be the case unless pains aro taken to instruct a race of butter-makers. The project . is feasible, and only needs to be tried. - It is not to our credit as a people that r so largo a portion of this essential to . good living should literally bo nothing , but greaso butter. The butter ol prime quality that has bcon made in ; years past was from the milkofordi nary cows; but now that the improved breeds are attainable by the majority of farmers, to say nothing of the great improvement in nearly all the implements and methods of manipulation, manipu-lation, t hers seeniB Jess excuso than ever for the wretched article so ofton produced from the best materials. Will not Bomo of the improving agricultural agri-cultural societies take the subject into consideration? Cor. Country Gentleman. Gentle-man. TO DRIVE WEEDS I'KOJI THE GARDES. A contributor to the New England Farmer, commenting on the proposition propo-sition made by many persons to drive weeds out of their land by planting cabbages there, says: "But the ditlicuity will arise in the minds of most farmers, especially those at a distance from market, what shall we do with the cabbages? Wo can feed a portion of them during tho fall, but, in our cold climate, it is expensive to store a larpe amount for winter use. There is another crop, which I have had some experience in growing for the same purpose, tbat I think every farmer will know how to manage, that ia, Indian corn grown for fodder, green or dried. I once planted a portion of my garden, that had become be-come very weedy, in drills, so thick that it almost wholly prevented any foul Btuft from ficing to seed, and 1 found it quite easy, ia alter years, to keep the upper hand, while, in previous years. I had found it almost impossible. Had I piaated it with corn the second year, I think I should have cleared tt almost entirely from foul seed. 1 havo nearly thrce-tourtbsof thrce-tourtbsof an acre on the ground now, of the common field corn, in drills about sixteen or eighteen inches in-ches apart. It was quite weedy 000 after it camo up. I went through a part of it with tho hoe, but it soon pot so large and dense that I think but very few of the weeds will runt ure sc?d." I |