Show FAKM AND dation for all systems of training and they can not be ignored without more or less injury to the plants matters of interest (1) The amount of fruit which a vine can bear and mature in highest perfection Is limited when this limit is ex‘ ceeded the fruit deteriorates ' Some ‘nint About Cul' (2) :Up6n the fruit the effect of tivation of the Soil and Yield' is to reduce the size of the Thereof — Horticulture Viticulture' and berries and of the flusters and probFlorlcnltare ably also to impair the quality the vine makes a poor growth the foliage is small and the vigor of the plant is Arouud the Farm Last harvest owing to the wet weathgenerally ’reduced When a vine has er a certain flat In one- of my fields been allowed to overbear especially was so wet as to measurably drown the whin it is young’' years may someoats which were sown upon iti 'There times be required before thej vine rewere more or less oats however all turns to its normal condition (3) A plant that is carrying less through It and a huge crop of sour fruit than it is capable of maturing and grass various sorts of weeds I cut and stacked It Today the stock generally produces a very heavy foliage prefer It to bright threshed timothy and an excess of wood This may probI had sown the flat to timothy and clo- ably be explained by the supposition ver and wanted the land clean which that the'energies of the plant are diwag the chief reason for mowing the rected almost entirely to vegetive acmixed oats weeds and sour grass I tivity (4) The most difficult and important shall never despair again of getting feature of grape pruning is to be able nome good out of even a to Judge of the kind and amount of stand of weeds The blanket of snow has prevented wood which should be allowed to rethe ground from freezing to any ex- main upon the plant This amount is tent Hence fence posts can be driven dependent upon soil variety climate with less labor than In the fall The character of the season and to a limcracks through the fields made by the ited extent upon the method of traindrouth I Bee are closed and the ground ing The paramount importance oi 1b damp a foot down or more This is having a properly balanced top and cheering for the cracks prevented the root system is most fully realized by American vineyardists of long expeflow of water to the reservoirs rience Years of study especially the In my opinion the farmer will keep over a few hundred bush- study of the variety of grape an-- of the soil upon which it is growing are els of coi at least until he la reasonably sure of another sufficient crop brought to bear upon each Individual vine when it is pruned and in no diAlso he will save a few tons of hay There has been a slaughter of rab- rection can the skill of the vineyardist bits this winter beyond any other sea- be more clearly demonstrated than n son within my knowledge The taste questions regarding the amount and for fried bunny Is on the Increase kind of bearing wood that is allows will covamong the people I am glad of It It to remain No will save blackberry gardens and young er a living and sensitive organism for in pruning judgment fruit trees for singular as It teems the grape-vin- e must be exercised at almost every step many farmers neglect the ounce of preventive so long In such matters that But it is fortunate that considerable they are compelled to use the pound of variation may be allowed without secure The only objection any farmer rious consequences or the profitable can have to gunners hunting rabbits in culture of the grape would Indeed be a his fields is he don’t want them to kill hopeless task Yet the less the reliance his quails and he wants them to be placed upon this allowed vacation the better will be the vine careful about shooting towards Btock GARDEN to agriculturists te ‘ over-producti- on first-cla- wide-awa- ss ke rule-of-thu- A neighbor had two valuable Angora foats killed this winter by careless gunners In an adjacent neighborhood I am credibly informed that some sort of a pest is killing off the rabbits that many dead ones are daily found It may be they are mistaken Tin dead rabbits are perhaps those wLih have been wounded and escaped aud after- wards died The neighborhood however says no to this suggestion Renters seem determined not to pay cash for land They are willing to give a larger share of grain than hitherto Some are now willing to' give half the crop The rule hitherto for some years has been in the bushel and crib and half the hay That is what I have rented for a number of years past I have made caref ll estimates and find that one year with another I have done as well and sometimes better than those who have rented their land for cash I have had one renter seven years and he has done as well by his portion of the farm as I myself would have done The great trouble with many renters Is they hog the land over It runs down under their hands The fences the house the barn and the door-yar- d and orchard look as if a very poor widow lived there and had no help whatever This kind of farming makes the owner harder In his demands than he would be if the renter took a little pride in keeping the place in good condition I have no use for a slovenly renter two-flft- EDWARD B HEATON Training Grape Vines E G Lodeman Department of Agriculture Report: Training on the other hand is almost wholly a matter of convenience It dees not affect the strength of the vine or the value of the crop in any essential particular The training of a vine refers to the disposal or arrangement of the various parts of the vine after pruning has taken place The method of training adapted determines the operator to leave certain growths in certain positions not because more or better fruit Is expected but for the reason perhaps that the fruit may be harvested with greater ease that a laborious operation may be wholly dispensed with or that there may be less danger to the maturing crop from winds or other natural agencies The method of training adopted by a vineyardist is largely the result of personal preference or of education although soil and variety are important factors in the selection of a The health and vigor of the system vine are rarely affected by the method In which It is trained and although some system of training must be adopted in every vineyard 6till altogether too much weight has been laid by most horticultural writers upon the peculiar merits of the various systems while th actually ruinous effects of bad pruning have not always been sufficiently emphasized A vine properly trained U desirable but a properly pruned vine is essential to the highest success Tho Importance of this subject necessitates somewhat detailed statement of the principles which are vitally connected with the proper pruning of the vine These principles serve also as the foun Gutting Wild Honey Aylesbury Dock V Fkln I am often in receipt of letters concerning the Aylesbury Ducks I wish to say at the beginning that they are the champions for feathers Experience For ten years I has taught me this have been engaged In duck breeding As handled nearly all varieties is a good duck but being black is objected to by some The lark pin feathers giye them a bad appearance when they are prepared for market Yet the Cayuga takes on fat well and I think no duck is better if I see that Mr a nice roast be desired James Rankin is giving his Peklns quite a boost as being the only ducks that are fit for broilers or for quick md have The Cayuga It Is desired to put them the market at an early age and he says that there Is no breed good enough This country is to cross them with full of Mr Rankin’s Imperial Peklns growth when on I have had fifty a or more of them my- But I have disself for long time and think of last them the posed of that I will never own another I will agree with Mr Rankin when he says that there is nothing fit to cross them on I am sure that I would not like to ruin any of my breeds by crossing The Pekin is them with the Peklns all right to sell by weight when you do get one fat as they are of large frame But they are slow to take on fat But to get the feathers fit for dress is where the pinch comes Every lady In the land will tell you that the little duck is better for feathers than the Pekin When the Pekin feathers are ripe they are as coarse as hen feathers and there are about as few of On ducks them the are other good that The usual way when a bee tree hai been found is to cut it down stupefy the bees with smoke as well as may be and take their honey This of course Utilizing the DandeUon Harvest destroys all future harvests of sweet The following is from the National from that tree or swarm Possibly — Daniel Johnson an old bee hunter of Stockman and Farmer: Question We dandeal of have In a this locality good a Me better discovered Dedham has delion that comes early in the spring their bees The provided against way tree being cut down and their stores and is splendid for the bees to build up store a surdestroyed by selecting a tree which on But theythatfrequently honis desirable not it from overhung a deep ravine If the tre plus I off the by ey Could surplus keeping would into the down cut fall were it ravine smashing the tree and destroy- arrangements Induce them to swarm earlier so they will fill the hive from ing the honey So he inserted a gas the dandelion and thereby be ready to near hollow a the from ground pipe running it up the tree until the honey store th© surplus from white clover? was reached Then he built a fire at Would the swarm be likely to be as the foot of the tree SO soon as the strong as if they were allowed to store fire warmed the honey inside it began a surplus before swarming? A S W Answer— You can do something toto run down where it was caught in ward a Mr filled barrel It inducing earlier swarming by nearly pails Johnson thinks he has a permanent giving the beeB less room But if they hive of bees on that tree so long as It swarm early because they’re crowded does not succumb to the effects of fire you can easily see that if they had at its roots He thinks there is enough more room and didn’t swarm they honey left to winter the bees and that would become stronger and so would next year they will go to work and fill throw off heavier swarms' Probably the empty combs But It is very pos- it would be a little difficult to get the sible that heat sufficient to melt honey bees to swarm so early that the swarm comb has killed the bees and that the would fill up their brood combs with barrel of honey this year is the last he enough dandelion honey so the clover will get from that tree honey would all go into the sections But you might compass your purpose Canada Thistles In a little different way Give the Any reader of The Farmers’ Review queen all the room she will occupy durthat can answer the question will ing dandelion harvest either by putoblige G L Having several patches of ting a second story under the hive these plants in a pasture of two hun- or by taking away from the hive dred acres we know those thistles to combs filled with dandelion honey rebe rich in sugar cut too within the placing them with empty combs or spring cattle prefer them as fodder bet- frames filled with foundation That ter than rank grass We have known would give you strong colonies and field mice to climb the main stem to strong swarms and when the swarms eat the seed in its capsules Thistles were hived you could give them the exand grass growing together cut with a tra combs of dandelion honey and that scythe in mowing will make excellent would be practically the same as if hay for cows increasing their flow of they should swarm a little earlier and milk that produces sweet butter The fill up on dandelion honey themselves dry spines being sharp are very disaImpending Russian Famine— As a greeable to bare hands When stacked result of the Bhort wheat crop In Rusin large barns the saccharine matter sia a famine Is threatened in several sweats vigorously and sometimes fires districts Statistics issued leave the stacks by spontaneous combustion no doubt that aboutlately fourteen governIf the sod containing thistles is then ments will this winter suffer severely broken by plowing planted with pota- In the famine of 1891 twenty governtoes for two seasons thistles are de- ments were affected including those stroyed In Great Britain many per- which "suffer this year The prelimisons use them for edible greens before nary statistics of the harvest of 1897 cabbage comes show a deficiency in rye wheat oats RICHARD BAKER JR and barley of one thousand million Monument to the Potato — A curious poods compared with the good yield ol monument has been discovered in the 1894 The last two years have also been below the average and in addi- dense undergrowth of the Brandhal in the Upper Hartz It is a tlon to the hay crop other cattle foods granite block about 7 feet high resting as well as potatoes give a very poor on a stone pedestal and on an iron tab- return this year As the result the let attached to it is the following in- peasants must sell or kill their cattle the yeir 1747 the and horses leaving themselves absoscription: “Here first trials were made with the cultiva- lutely helpless It Is further noted that tion of the potato” The German peas- this autumn has been so dry that in ant at the time did not take kindly to many districts the seeds which should the potato plant on introduction to the have been sown by this time are either country It had however a great friend not put in' the ground or give small in the king Frederick II who was con- hops of a satisfactory yield These previnced of its value but who was obliged liminary figures are based on returns to use forcible measures to get the peo- from a thousand correspondents In all — English Exple of Pomerania and Silefia to plant parts of the empire change it— Ex Do not feed freshly slaked lime to Why is a woman’s husband less dear fowlB it is too strong to her than her husband's wife? GRASSES AND CLOVERS They produce! We are the largest growers in America Lowest prices Seed Potatoes only $150 per barrel Big farm seed catalogue with clover and grain samples (worth $1000 to get a start) sent you by the John A Salzer Seed Co La Crosse Wis upon wnm receipt of 10c and this notice Death from Drink AN OPEN LETTER TO MOTHERS We are asserting In the courts our right to the wor(1 "CASTORIA" and PIlLHER S CAS LORIA” as our Trade Mark I Dr Samuel Pitcher of Hyannls Massachusetts was the origiuator of "PITCHER’S CASTORIA" tho same that has borne and does "After running over the statistics oi death from drink published in the various countries after attending for some years the clinlque of the great Parisian hospitals after ’consulting the of cases admitted to homes registry now hear tho signature of CHAS H one becomes perfectly convinced that FLETCHER on every wrapper This is the alcoholic poisoning is a more muder-ou- s original "PITCHER S CASTORIA” which has plague perhaps than the great been used In the homes of ihe mothers of epochs America for over thirty years Look carefully epidemics which at different at the wrapper and see that It Is "tho kind you have devastated humanity The pest have always bought” and has the signature of the cholera the yellow fever break out a CHAS II FLETCHER on the Wrapper No suddenly and decimate a village one has authority from me to use my name exa whole country but their province cept The Centaur Company of whioh Chas H passage Is transitory in essence AlFletcher is President coholism takes no holiday” — Dr O March 8 1897 SAMUEL PITCHER M D fac-sim- Marty Seven Kentucky colonels were quaran tined in Alabama recently and it was dry town too Did you ever know a man to kill a little bear or catch a little fish? 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