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Show Garden a Farm Notes Ensilage costs about two dollars per ton, the lack of It about six. Some flax and some potatoes is better bet-ter than all flax or all potatoes. When the gophers first show themselves them-selves Is the time to poison them. Ensilage will furnish a this year's substitute for the clover crop that failed. Don't let the rush of spring's work take the attention from the breeding stock. Paint In time saves weather-checks and ensures larger checks in the event of sale. A little paint goes a long way toward to-ward making a home out of a group of buildings. Road dust will serve to hold the nitrogen ni-trogen in manure, using it in the stable gutter. The two-horse, low-gear wagon Is largely used by farmers of the New I England States. Sowing uncleaned seed Is quite as sensible as to knowingly spread disease dis-ease among one's stock. The cost of clover and timothy seed must not be reckoned; their value is too great to let them go unsown. While planting your garden give due attention to the color of the (lowers, (low-ers, so that they may harmonize Ashes are best applied in the spring, separately or in connection with phosphate phos-phate fertilizers as a top dressing. A field of rape will make excellent summer pasture for the shoats. Tobacco dust worked into the surface sur-face of the soil just before setting the lettuce will help to keep the aphis away. Keep an eye on the hot bed when the sun shines brightly. Too much heat will make the plants weak and spindly. In setting out rhubarb secure large clumps, dig deep holes, and manure heavily with well decomposed manure from the cow stable. Some cuttings may be made In the first seaon by tills method. |