Show FAEM AND GARDEN MATTERS OF INTEREST TO agriculturists tome tp t 0 at about cl cal tl littlon of the tile holl boll and yields T tl ere att f viticulture iti culture and nil ik I 1 ar sit I 1 the tile k hunu arm last ban bar est 0 ow ing to the wot wet w u eather a certain flat la in one of my iny fields was as eo so vet met as to measurably drown the oats which were bown iown upon it there were more or less oats however all through it and a huge crop of pour sour grass and various lus sorts of weeds I 1 cut and stacked it today the block prefer it to bright threshed timoth timothy I 1 had so sown n the flat to timothy and closer an ani wanted anted the land clean which was the chief reason for mowing the mixed oata weeds and sour graeb grass I 1 shall never neer despair again of getting some good out of even eien a first class stand of weeds the blinked of snow has bus the ground from freezing to any extent hence fence posts cin be driven with lees less libor than in the fall th the e cracks through the fields made by the drouth I 1 see are closed and the ground Is damp daniff a toot foot down or more this la is cheering for the iracks racks prevented presented the cow of water to the reservoirs in my opinion the wide awake farmer will keep keel oi ei a few w bull hundred ired bushels of corn at least until he la Is reasonably eure sure of another sufficient crop also he will faie fate a few tons of hay there has been a slaughter of rabbits bite this latair beyond any other teason season within my knowledge the taste for fried bunny is on the increase among the people I 1 am blad of it it will save blackberry black berr gardena 1 and young fruit trees for singular as it seems many farmers neglect the ounce ourice of preventive so long in such matters that they are compelled to use the pound of cure the only objection any farmer can have to gunner gunners bunting hunting rabbits in hie his fields ie Is he dont don t want ant thi ahm ni to kit kill I 1 his 13 qualls anil and he wants them to be careful abbit abo jt shooting towards block stock A neighbor hid two valuable alu able angora a goats killed this winter by careless gunners in an adjacent neighborhood I 1 am credibly informed that some sort of a pest Is killing on oil the rabbits that many dad ones are dally daily found it may b arf they are ral mistaken staken ahe dead balb ts are those which have been wounded and escaped and afterwards died the neighborhood however says no lo to this suggestion renters seem determined not to pay cash tor for land ahey are willing to give gle a larger share of grain than hitherto some sortie are now willing to 1 give ive halt the crop the rule hitherto tor for borne some years has hits been two fifths in the bushel and crib and halt the hay that la Is what hat I 1 have rented for a number of ears cars past I 1 have hale made careful estimates and find that one vear ear with another I 1 have done as well nell and some times better than those who have rented their land for cash I 1 have base had one renter seven years and lie ie has done a as well mell by hia big portion of the farm a all I 1 myself would have done the great trouble with many renters Is 1 they hog bog the land over it runs down under their hands the fences the house the barn and the dooryard door yard and orchord look as it if a very poor widow its lived ed there and bad no help whatever this kind of farming makes the oscr harder in his demands than he would be le if the renter took a little pride in keep iril the place in good rendition condition I 1 have hale no use tor for a slovenly renter D training grape mac E G lodeman department of agriculture report training on the uber ober hand li Is almost wholly a matter of convenience it doa not affect the strength th of the vine or the value alue of tb the crop in any essential p particular the training of a vine refers to the tile dis dig 1 osal or arrangement of the lall oils parts of the vine after pruning has taken place the method of training adapted determines the operator to lye certain growths in cervile positions not because more or better fruit Is j expect expected od but tor for the reison per haps laps that the fruit may be lia harvested rested with greater ease that it n laborious operation may be wholly dispensed with or that there may be less danger to the maturing crop from w winds or other natural agencies ibe the method of at training adopted by a vin eardist Is largely the result of reri regional onal preference prefer enic or of education uca tion ii though soil and variety are important factors in the selection of a system the health and vigor igor of the vine are rarely affected bv by the method la in which it Is trained and altho although agh some system of training rout must b bo idoft ed in every vineyard still altogether too much weight has been laid by most horticultural writers upon the peculiar merits of the various systems w hit alla the actually effects of bad pruning have not always been sufficiently emphasized pha sized A vine properly trained Is de deidra bar but a properly pruned vine line li Is essential to the highest success the importance of thi this subject a what detailed statement of the principles which are vitally with the proper pruning of the vine sine these principles serve also as the toun foun dation for all systems stems of training and they can not be ignored without more or less injury to the plants 1 the amount ut of fruit which a vine avine can tear bear and mature in highest perfection Is limited when alien this limit li Is exceeded the fruit deteriorates 2 upon the fruit the effect of oer o er production 1 lit to reduce the size of the berries and of the clusters and probably also to impair the quality the yin ln makes a poor growth the foliage ie is small and the vigor of the plant la IS generally reduced N vohen ben a vine has been allowed to overbear especially when it Is young years may some 1 tine le t quiren before the vine return returns to its normal condition ta I 1 A plant t that ie Is carrying le less fruit than it Is i capable of maturing gener generally ll produce produces a very heavy folt foliage alre ind and an edless of v this may i 1 rob ably be explained enplaned by the supposition that the ener derkits Der Kita givs of the plant are tit ill reeled almost entirely to vege eg etive activity I 1 4 the most dilli difficult cult and important feature of aripe u pruning Is to be able I 1 to judge it the kind and amount of 0 wood alit vs hi if ghouls be allowed to ie main upon the plant lant I 1 ibis his amo iut jut Is dependent upon soll 11 variety ariet climate character of the eason and to a bilm tied extent upon the method of train ing ahe importance of rut having a pio peri balance balati ct I 1 top and root not eat ld mt not fully realized by american amerlan alnea tries dests of long exie exle 1 t f baud especially the I 1 study fully of th variety of drape art aril I 1 ut of the soil up 0 U iiii gulih it ie is grot growing lug are brought to lal upon each vine wh nil n it ig Is and in no dl fit rectum 11 the skill ut of tae vino trall be more il ll ally aily thab aa n q lesti oll holding the amount and kind of leu ii nood taut la is alloi to remain rem un nu no rule of thumb will mill cover coyer a livi ib ih a kensit v it ism ar the grape line in pruning judgment must bt LL euri laititi at almost ter step hut but it ie ia fortunate thai that sar variation lation may way be allowed without pe e ricus or tho the profitable culture of 0 the grape would andee I 1 be i v hoi bope hodess ess ss task net ct the ithe the tle reliance placed cuputi thi this allowed ill lilt tat batter will I 1 ie e the vine file eti attini liiK 11 is ili ll 1 uy the bual dav a when a bee tree haa has been found Is to cut it down don stupefy the bees ath with smoke aa as well as its may be aad and take their honey this of course destros deB troa all future harvests harNs ts of sweet from that tree or swarm daniel johnson an tin old bee hunter of dedham me has disco discovered ered a better way vay the bees pro I 1 ild against ag iffat their tree being cut down and anti their stored stores destruel des by electing selecting a tree which overhung a deep ravine it the tree were cut down it would tall fall into the ravine smashing mashing ti the tree and detroy aig li g the hone so ho he inserted a gaa gas pipe from a hollow near the ground running t up the trie until the honey I 1 was mas reached then he built a fire at the foot of the tree sn so soon ag as the fire warmed the hone inside it began to run down baere it aa was caught in palls it nearly filled a barrel mr nir johnson think thinks he has a permanent hive live of beert beu on that tree so lone long ae as it does not succumb to the effects of alre at its roots lie thinks there Is enough honey loney left to wlater winter the becj and that next year ear they will go to work mork and fill the empty combs but it Is very cry pos sible that heat sufficient clent to melt honey comb bag has killed the bes lites and that the barrel of honey this year ear Is the last he will let from that tree I 1 no advice h ci miLer good can tike take the place of experience there Is n no 0 11 a that the not novice lee in poultry keeping can become efficient except by experience many people think they have experience but later find to their cost that they had not obtained for a number of i ears cars has a little touch of poultry diseases cures the troubles with ease and imagines that be he knows all all about them and tint thit he can fight oft oil anything that comes IN ben any of his net neighbors ebors has a like trouble be he cheerfully gives them his advice and knows or thinks he does that it if they follow the recipes thea the will lit have hae ro fertl er trouble but later he lie finds that he knew less than he be supposed one of the same diseases attacks his flock again he ile tries the old remedies and finds they will not cheik chelk this new now invasion the enemy comes on fearless 1 iv and creates linvol in hia his yards he now nom gets a little more experience and perhaps comes down dohn to the old remedy the hatchet thereafter he be says that there Is no curi curc for this or that dl III case la Is he right who U ho knows we all neel reel more exper experience lence and more investigation canaida Tid tIve any reader ot of o t the farmers review that can answer the question will oblige 0 G L having several of these plants in a pasture of two hundred acrea acres we lie know those thistles to be rich in sugar cut too the tpring spring cattle prefer them as fodder better than rank grass N e have known held mice to climb the main stem to eat the seed in its capsules chatles Th atles and grass growing together cut with a in owing will make excellent ha for cows increasing their flow of i milk that produces sweet lutter butter the dry spines being sharp are very disagreeable gree able to bare bands hands hen I 1 I 1 in large barns the saccharine matter I 1 SA sweats eats vigorously and sometimes cirei the stacks by spontaneous combustion if it the sod containing thistles ea is thel broken by b plowing planted with anta ota coett for two seasons thistles aro are di III strayed in great britain many per sona ons use them for edible greens before cabbage comes jit JIL to the potato A curious monument has been discoli discovered ered in the dense under undergrowth crowth of the so called hal in the upper hartz it li is a granite block about 7 T fet high resting on a stone pedestal and on an iron tablet attached to it Is the following in 1 here in the year 1747 the brat trial trials were made with the cultivation of the potato the german peasant at the time did not take kindly to the potato plant on introduction to the country it had bo however wever a great friend in the king frederick 11 II who s waa as convinced of lie its value but who was obliged to uie use forcible madures na ma aures to ret get the p people o of Po and silesia to plant it ex why Is to a woman a 8 husband lesa less dear to her man her hu husband i wife A |