Show hop planting improved from an article articie in the country gentleman we learn that a valuable discovery in the cultivation ti of hops has just been communicated to the paris Aca academic demie like most agricultural improvements says the writer y it has been the result of observations made by ala boring peasant it consists in making the plant run in a horizontal hori horl al direction instead of climbing a up the pole this is managed 0 by means of a low trellis work of the simplest construction the advantages of this mode of culture are numerous in the first place it enables the grower to investigate the plant while growing tp and cleanse it from the numerous insects which injure it to so vast an ex extent then it is protected from the sun which always destroys the upper shoo obviates the great destruction of hops hopi in stormy weather when the wind lays low whole hop grounds from the height of the poles and nd most of 0 ablit enables the gathering of the cones to take place without uprooting the plant besides permitting 0 the sele c fion jion of the ripest ones at first and pre venting the great loss which arises from the necessity of tearing down the whole plant to get at the ripest blossoms y winter treatment of trees mulching of at the commencement of winter is recommended by b y those experienced in these matters especially ally those young trees liable to be injured by cold and arid which require hi high gh culture culau the i country gentleman particularly recommends i this practice for dwarf pears and says that the best time in the year to manure trees is late in autumn if applied early it prevents proper cultivation and if in spring its projecting protecting influence is lost and the liquid portions do not become so well diffused through I 1 h the soil by uy the time that growth commences the manure should be short not necessarily old or rotten to prevent a attracting mice or if short manure cannot be had a small cone of fresh earth should be raised around each tree eight or ten inches high which will effectually exclude the mice in the spring the I 1 manure is spaded in if in a garden or worked under by means of a gang 0 plow if in an or chard kept clean by horse horsepower power 12 dutch cheese balls J C collins of vest west turin lewis county N Y made last year large quantities of dutch cheese for the new i york market his method is given in the last volume of state agricultural Z transactions the cheese finds ready sale at 30 per thousand balls ile he says that twenty five cows furnish skimmed milk enough 0 per week for a thousands cheeses made as follows after the milk becomes clobbered lobb ered it should be put in tubs or barrels near a fire where it will gradually become warm when the curd will separate from the whey in the same way as if rennet had been used the whey is is drawn out at the bottom of the tub and the curd taken out into a cloth strainer placed in a sink where the whey can run ruh oft off bring the corners of the strainer together around the curd as ti ht as possible and place a weight upon it after afier it has drained what it in a hoop and press as you would a cheese after pre pressing asing I 1 two hours take the cheese out and crumble it to pieces sprinkle in a little caraway seed work it over and make into balls that will weigh a fourth of a pound i these balls are dried on a shelf fortio for two erthree or three we weeks eks when they are read ready v for market Potash No vines can produce fruit without potash dye woods and all color giving i plant sowe their vivid dyes to potash with 1 1 out it we cannot have a mess of pea where it exists in a natural state in the soil there we I 1 f ind find leguminous ligum inous plants growing wild and I 1 in n i such places only we find wild grapes all I 1 the cereals require potash phosphate of magnesia end silica which is dissolvable in in a sol I 1 I 1 altion of potash it is this dissolved sand j that forms the hard coat of stalks antt anit gives them the strength to stand up against 0 the blasts of wind and rain while ripening it is this substance that gives bamboos their strength and beards of grain and blades of ofa i grass their cutting sharpness no coreal ever I 1 canle canie came to perfection in a soil devoid of potash silica phosphate of lime carbonic acid I 1 i and nit nitrogen rogen |