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Show Better Tillage. Thorough Ullage should be tho watchword watch-word of overs farmer It is nbsolutcls Impossible to glow an abundnntls largo crop without frequent and thorough till age. How often do we Bee, In the springtime, a field ploughed nnd planted nnd afterward most terribly neglected neglect-ed us to after cultivation S hot Is the result at harvest? Not enough to pns for what little cultivation has been done. AVhat would have been the re-cult re-cult with fiequcnt nnd thorough cultivation? culti-vation? Probably a vers satisfactory crop, one that would have paid well for growing M'ould It havo been possible for Mr. Oeorte M Clark of IligBnum, Conn , to grow UOOoO pounds of cured hay on seven ncres of land, as he did Ihe past season, If he had not the noil moat thoroughly stirred nnd pulverized? It would pa) any farmer to tend u stamp to Mr. Clark for his experience on giuss culture On my own fields I have ul-w.i)s ul-w.i)s been In the hdblt of putting more lahor onto them In tho form of careful ploughing and thorough hnrrovvlng than do most farmers of ms acquaintance, acquaint-ance, and nn, well patlstled that It pass one to do ro The person who tends his garden In the most thorough manner very well knows that he secures a fine crop Then why not corrs this very same tillage to the field 111 It not pay lh,e equal-ly equal-ly well as In the garden? r. II, Dow, ln rami, Flell and Fireside. |