Show lew low ski IKI 4 f T iff v k 4 EVERY AR jf if prices are aro to rule as high the coining coming geason season as they have ruled for a year and more more past it stands every man in hand to raise all that he can from the soil and manure at his command and what soil is there in the city it may be asked where there is hardly room in in the back yard for a clothes line but if there is room enough for that there can t be found vacant spots for a few beans or peas which occupy but little standing 9 room for tomato plants that can be trained on trellises or stakes or fences for cucumbers and squashes that would ornament the sides and roof of a shed or outbuilding in for beets and lettuce and perhaps tire the grossest of all feeders the cabbage might mig t do picket duty in some exposed corners where cucumbers and tomatoes would be gobbled up by boys the old saying where there is a will there isa is a way I 1 will hold good here as elsewhere so let every man bestir himself take a survey of his premises th thadlie atlle atlie out of doors and see what can be doneta done to make them productive of food for his own use if he sets about it in good earnest he will be surprised if h ha e has never tried it before e to find at the end of the season how much he lid has saved from his market expenses and how much nicer and fresher articles he has raised than those he sometimes is obliged to buy he will find too a double reward not only a saving of expense but a saving of health the exercise out in the air Js worth more thanell tha than nall nali all ali the homoeopathic or allopathic le medicines that can be poured into a man if he can get out mornings and evenings with a spade or a hoe and scratch chand and tickle that little spot of mother earth that he calls his own she will laugh away his blues and make him glow with a sense of strength and manhood that heretofore were strange to his flesh and bones ali ah but where are we to get geft the manure to fertilize that little spot of earth as the man said when it was told him that he could live for a sixpence a day but where I 1 am to get the sixpence here again I 1 1 if ff onedis but look at af all the house resources ho he would find that he was better off than he expected the sink drain the washtub wash vash tub the hencoop hen coop the ash heap the debris 0 of f the house houser generally would furnish a good capital to start at farming on a small scale only try it and go it at once make a strike not for oil or higher wages but for garden sauce generally and then in the fall when your baskets are full to overflowing just bring to the printer a thank offering for his good counsel and we shall feel abundantly rewarded dalenz register RAI ral RAIDING POTATOES POTATOES BY lly HORSE honse POWER Pow iIi ili lii at the late new england agricultural fair three machines from potato growing maine were exhibited which were worthy of the attention of the extensive potato growers in the west vest they are thus described the first is trues potato planter you m may put a bushel or two of whole seed ica ih a box boe and start your horse and as he moves forward the seed is cut and planted in a furrow opened by the machine and covered and rolled firmly in the earth then comes chandlers chandless Chand lers horse hoe the two long iron wings of which straddle the row and pile up the loose earth as much as you may wish to form a ridge when the crop is ready to harvest koks potato digger does the wo work rk as fast as a horse can walk A plow I 1 aw share runs under the potatoes and drifts rifts lifts the soil and seed all together upon a number of iron fingers which are shaken bya chain and mmel wheel on the beam so that all the tubers are left upon the surface with these three machines potatoes can be effectually grown by horse power PLANTING PEAS DEEP The editor of the utica herald says deep planting in is not generally resor resorted tei tel I 1 to under td the impression that the seed wili will will rot in the ground this is a mistake peas covered six or eight inches deep will produce produce twice as much as those bovere covered but ut an inch they will continue flow flowers e ing longer and the vines are more morle v vigorous rous and do not die down as is often theo ewhen cas shallow plantings are made maae we have tested this matter and therefore know from experience that if it is desired to get a large crop the seed must be buried deep in the soil A suitable piece of ground which had been enriched enric enri chei chef heuthe heathe the previous year was deeply ploughed sloughed Iou lou glied hed in the fall and again in the spring and put in fine one half of the piece was marked out in drills and the seed covered t two w 0 inches deep on the other half the plough was sunk sunke and the eed scattered at the batto bottom m of the furrow and covered by making the second furrow in this way one half the piece gilece was gone over and afterwards merely le level levei vOled led leaving the seed at least eight inches below the surface the peas that were ploughed sloughed hed in were a little longer in making their appearance but they shot ahead of the others the vines were more thrifty and vigorous and produced treble the tha quantity of those in the two inch drills by their side the seed used was of the same lot the champion of england variety and the soil time of planting and culture excel except t tile tiie the manner of putting in were precisely the same for both pieces this experiment convinced us that peas flourish best in I 1 n deep planting and we have repeatedly repeatedly had our attention called to the fact inoa in observing different crops and learning the manner of culture t protection protection BY ELDER LEAVES the leaves of the elder elden if strewed among corn or other grain when it is ii put into the bin will effectually preserve it from the rava ravages es of the weevil the juice will also alson kill kili bedbugs and maggots Un insects sects never nevert touch elder bushes the leaves of elder when scattered over cabbages cucumbers squashes and ind other plants sub subject jenet jeret to the ravages of f insects effectually shield them the plumard plum and other fruits may be sav edby placing on the branches branc brane lles lits and amon among 9 them bunche bunches of the leaves i I 1 LANDSCAPE GARDENING mr nir H H hunnewell has given the sum of 2000 to the massachusetts horticultural society as a fund for the encouragement of the art of landscape gar gardening denini mr nir hunnewell in his letter to the society hopes the money will be an accey acceptable addition to the means of the society gln tin in gin meeting a want not now supplied and will tend to the dissemination of ofa more correct and refined taste for elegant rural improvements than now exists in laying out and pI planting our country places which he fears are wre often the result of chance rather than any well directed plan |