Show elijh as oz a 01 ass wee mss bt THE HOP llop gardes GARDEN A agriculture sayar s ay R it richardson richards oh in the coa Cou couil nl gentleman was the thelie of tle the first did poem in the english t language b this poem was wag written aritte 4 n by tabe r bind rind first published in 1357 1557 it consisted in jn a mitrI metrical cai cal ar arrangement 0 nt oe of dimple lales rules for practical farming its title was wag A liun hun dreth points of husbandry and was subsequently enlarged ed by other writers down to the year jear 1710 when the la last st edition appeared five hundredth Hun dreth points of good husbandry the following coture nel rel extracted from this thia curious poem while ft it irl iri av be rard regarded ed aa as an interesting redic relic r elc bic of the past will also be found foundas las nat applicable appi cable ilow liow now as it was three hundred years ago THE nop HOP GARDEN whom whoa fancy ancy aman ammas ammis other crop crops TI ta hiye bare toy tot hise his hit pending ot of hop mittit of choices to chose chore suga suea lessant approve approved dj i the do d use 0 round gravelly sandy and mixed with clay ia U naughty for tor tk of way oi ot it tibo rains ming iltz 1 l with rubbish and etude for vor dryness sod baren barea nw let it etione loue lone choose fot tot ibo iho th hop of the ibe rottenest rott enest moud mond well danged and wrought aa as a garden plot prot should sot rot the waier wafer but not overt lown fown this lessen well weli nite no teals me t to be known the inq in the south or else ese southay andrest ni west 2 Is I 1 joy to the hop as rt right welcome gness buei gnei bue i bat wind la in the narth or else northerly bast east ta to the hop Is isu tsu 3 inas luas a tay lay ay la in a least test Met Meet plot piot for tor a hop rard jard once as Is tolaf told make thereof account accounts as of jewet jewel or rold kold nw naw dig it and lesve learo it the sun BUH for to lo burn ant and afterwards tence fence it to serre serve for or that turn the hop for his profit I 1 thus do exalt it drink drlak art sat ajillo it malf mil and being vell reli e brewed long iong kept it will laft latt ani aal aa l drawing aulle if lf ye draw not too faso taso fast wire WHEN MILK 1 is RICHEST sr Profess sor boe boo cle cie clecker decker cLer an eastern chemis chemist tp has recently completed a series of experiments conducted on al quite alte a new principle by which he has reached the conclusion tk that at the mills milk of or the evening is richer by 3 per ce cent nt than that of the morn ing ins inthe 0 latter containing 10 per cent of solid matter and the former 13 per cent gent on the other aser band hind the water contained in milk diminishes minis ninis hes by 3 per por cent in the course of the day in the morning morning it contains 89 per cent of water and oni only onit r 86 per cent in the evening the ile fatty particle js increase Inc iacre ase gradually as the day wears oh on in the mardrg they iliou amount i nt lo 10 per cent to and in the evenin evening 0 to 4 32 per cent the gaseous hartcle part cie cle s are also more abundant in the evening thaniel than in the tbt morial morning gig fig from 2 24 they increase to per cent cen t but the quantity of albumen diminishes from 44 44 to 31 31 the serum is less abundant at mid uld midnight night than at zit noon ngon be lie 6 I 1 ing g 41 41 p per er ce cent nt in the former ca case seand and 5 ja in the last or TWO FIRST CLASS arrles the original trea treb oe the newtown pippin of worldwide world virld wide repute was a seedling which grew near a swamp in newta newtown wn long M island about 1703 orr the estate of girsham moore and we fruit was called the girsham moore pippin for a longtime long Iong time the tree trpe lasted over a fc hundred ye years arsand and ani finally died rort erces olva olve cutting cuttin gr it having been beeh m ch resorted for scon econs to graft with the baldwin joew nevy En glands lands favorite originated in wilmington Wilra ington near boston more than a t century ago it grew grew on the farm of mr butters in the of the town called somerville and was known ii as the e buttera butters apple also known knevin as J the woodpeckers apple e the woodpeckers biving perforated orated the tree being bein g disseminated col coi ol 01 baldwin ans itaas called calle d apele apale L 11 how OW oua OUR NEIGHBOR BECAME stirn is a neighbor oe ot ours over the way who commenced lire life as a poor farmers boy ile he is now rich when he was asked the other day how he hali hall acquired his riches he thus replied my aly father taught me never dever to play till my pork york work for the day darwas was finished and never to spend money till tilt I 1 had earned it it I 1 had but half a hours work to do I 1 must do that the first thing and it iu half an hour I 1 formed the hibit habit of doling doing every thing thin in its ita time and it koon became easy to do dr so it is to this that I 1 owe my prosperity tire THE tiie NEW agricultural department washington is to have a botanist a chemist an ah entomologist mial a translator a draughtsman M statistician and ap end of alera flers fler fier s with fa a lanies laries TRAINING CURRANTS an eastern agricultural writer says that currant bushes bashes can be trained and madeko grow in any desired form either as a bush tree or upon a trellis if trained as a bush only three or at most four shoots should start erqin from the ground at once after b bearing earda two years allow one ortho strong shoots to start from the bottom to take the pace of one or two of the old one ones 3 w which shi sil should ouid bo cut away One shoot may be al lowel afterward to grow every year alt ait an old onu one and ind thus the plant will be er entirely renewed every three or four years the tree trie form it is undeniable can be cevelo develop ed ea as easily as any other it consists in simply trimmin trimming off the lateral shoots one or twi jt from the ground thus leaving a stock or trunk to support the fruit bearing top or head select t the e chol choi choicest rest kindseth kinds hinds th that at ch can cah be found ana an d 1 set them out alonce at once wherever the ground has become conditioned for working A YOUNG toung STOCK laiserin in passing a farm firm a traveler seeing 91 a boy at work kork in the corn cornei ald fi eld by the roadside road side blie and being of an inquiring ili til turn of mind he stopped his gioisa ho escand scand a ild jid thus addressed the youth eliy elly my ron ton whose farm is this pads 1 was the laconic reply does your father raise any stock 1 yes lot iota of pem lem eia SI wll wit what a t k kind ina ind continued the str stranger a nger Coin stalks mostly inos tj was the reply as ile lle hii hel proceeded to hoe a hill lull of the article alt ait T ti icle cle and ana the thel stranger 0 went on his way musi musing ilg tig |