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Show FARM NOTES, Interest in alfalfa growing is rapid ly on the increase. Water the hard-working horses fie fluently during hot weather. Before barns or other outbuildings trees make a beautiful screen. Walks should be kept in repair, and should be perferably of cement. It is almost a universal rule that a weak hive of bees has a poor queen. From the view point of the scientist,, coal ashes are considered as having very little fertilizing properties. Bees can be smoked too much, particularly par-ticularly when queens are to be introduced intro-duced or when searching for them. This is the season or the year when accidents from driving heavy thresh-ing thresh-ing rigs over rotten bridges begins. The beauty of a place is enhanced if ail fences are covered with vines. Or. if possible, replace the fences with hedges. How deep and how many times potatoes po-tatoes should be cultivated for best results has been a mooted question among growers. When bees cluster on the outside of the hive it is a sign that you should give them more room for work or they need better ventilation. It is possible that Canada or Marrowfat Mar-rowfat peas, used in connection with oats, may be one of the surest, and perhaps one of the best, for the common com-mon farmer. The grass should be kept neatly trimmed, whether the lawn be large or small. The lawn is more attractive if all shrubbery be planted at the side or in the rear. All unavoidable unsightly places, such as wood or barn lot or chicken yard, should be screened by vines or shrubbery, burning bush being excellent excel-lent for this purpose. The Early Ohio potato is easily the most widely grown variety in the United States, being of excellent table quality and adapted to various soils both north and south. Wood ashes make an excellent fertilizer, fer-tilizer, and can be sifted on the lawn every few days. Th9 grass receives the benefit and the back yard is spared the unsightly ash pile. Many of our best beekeepers do not have such pretty yards of bees as some, but the product they produce shows that they have the principles of scientific bee-keeping well in hand. |