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Show ' 'JfeKAXI) GARDEN. A -JyVy?y" OF INTEREST TO HygljiXontcuLTunisTB. KHSHSWfeWvp-tn-Ualf. IllnU .tlmnl ml-Rj ml-Rj BBjMJrf1"" "f "" "'" ""' ileMa I j:M8Wr59Jy,t 'Inrlleultnrr, Mtlcullur. and RSBPStf wr"11'''' RJ.' WfLjaHcSHTlaaa "' rrln H.t.. Pbad omy lo contend with werdi to thla country, the task would romparatlvely light one. The brought In from across the have proved to be our greatest ?i'CT3iR5nJnl''" tha most dlnicult tu PeradtiaU The change of oll and ell-SjraaVlLaMlalliti ell-SjraaVlLaMlalliti itemed In man Instances to MtSnjK''Uiihtm Incru-ued powera of living fcSjiK"nJyiIeveloplng Where at home thejr fwSV receive llttlo attention on account of JPiMJK llj?l little aggrcialvoncaa. In their new (flsE-3" Jmbjtat the aprend and take posies-.lrefign. posies-.lrefign. r8 ' the osrth (o such an extent thai KljWjtiJ It'fcmetlmea aeomt aa If man muit be 1 '" .'liviH'(''ililied In hla conflict with them. B$tStJJ' t of 200 wrcda of the UnlloJ , l'i-ftrtpjBaaifi oubllihed In the Year-Ilook of ) t "tituLmt' '0!l t,M'c re ' foreign origin. fj 'rw-.iBaVjM theae ""' Cl ' na"r" f Europe LM(t2tvl-aS' f3" '"'"' con" t0 " nruut l:"" HqCfcHBgeipc. though they probably originated MKKJflHf Alia. Two only of tbeae came to ua iWrrfimM r 'rora A"'' 'rom Hl,uln Amer. 1 uSflKfigVlHB'4 " DTa received about a doien t u 'IIjFTffHMerda. moat of which are at yet known ' lEl ' '" our ,u" ute' A -i HP A" "" 1,r "' ""P"8 ' "ld to hold t -vlcS w,Jr wc,tward, ,u '" weeds aaem lfj "Taj,!0 naTa tendency to work wcalward rlKfii,), SPIinore than eaatward. It la a fact that UM&nEtbe wet'da patted from Atla to Europe & "V&aafil,1d ,rom Europe to America and from M WjlXs America acroaa tha l'aclflo to New S UIESealand an( Auttralla. Lett than half JrrP '0,en American weedt have become N V' aaOiroubleaomo In Europe, which la very sJjHrruiarkaljlo conaldrrlng the fact of our TjL conttant thlpmenta of grain to Europe, M&Only three or fuur apeclea from weat (JnMot the Mlaalaalppt have became die- 4Elfirlbuted through the eattern atatet, and JfiTonly one or two have entered the mvm country from the l'aclflo coast JjJBf'- Tli It may be due lo a number of (M&TjV cauiea. The greateit would aeem to Mtjfjt tha estcnilon weatward of culll- gJKr X ti The newly cultivated K&lSf'aMi 'nl ma7 prove more auaceptlble lo HHBw aeliure by the weeda than tha landt Efl&eXH ""at nT 1)"n tilled for centurlea and Wt&rfXS 'tee. Another caute may be the poor CbujEfc cleaning of aeed from Europe due to in an their poaaeaalon of poorer machinery H SB and the fact that In the advance line K' ' m ' arlculture machinery for cleansing 9 x ' generally poaacaacd that the aeed atj' 1 aent to Kurope contalna few weed mp Jj aeede. A third reaton may be that tJJjL Im there la found leaa watte ground In EUSLW Wurope than In America, on which the $PVRiB weedt can get a foothold, We mutt. Fir however, admit that thcte reotona do , niB)J not otlrely anility ua aa to the cautea VjaE"f of to general a weatward movement of ijKfm U you have a good bed of loote dirt (VMb nd cultivate rfftbt, you can raltecorn, Cjtfflg "' jiuutor to Indiana Knrmer. &nf Tl rr tiling la to break your ground BJKffl vu- incurs ueep. Then barrow and WVO d"c un"' tn' ground la looae na deep jWsSm " 'fou Plowed It, tinleaa It la a heavy L' lift tad; then you don't have to work It 1 pH9 o deep. I would lay the ground oil In K Ifll rowa three and one-halt feet wide and JH make a good furrow with the tingle I H plow. I would plant one grain of corn I fB every twenty Inchea; then take your I fMj ateel aplke-tooth harrow. Go tha flrtt I time the aame way that you planted, JR jutt aa the corn cornea through the ground. Then In about a week, with Hj your barrow, go croaawlte the piece; R (hen take the cultivator and plow H deeper the flrtt time than any other: H Iho aecond time a little ehallower than 9H the flrtU I would plow at many ai 5'U live tlmeaj onco every week. I prefer ,11 level cultivation. Then, after I am ' D through plowing, and when moat of R our farmera have laid their cam by, I1 I take a drag that weight about 100 pounda and la three feet wide and run f through every balk, every other week ,itll my corn beglna to get Into hard -r roaatlng-ear condition, , I rrunlna and Tnnilantliia Toung Tree I I From Karmera' Itevlew A large f- proportion of the treea tha are loat - ' In roaettlng die brcauae they have beau f injured when tbey wero taken up. In I ' j-.'ttlRnIng up the treca the aurfaca aoll I 'a'rioulil be removed to the root ayatem, I I then a trench dug around the tree out-Bff out-Bff atdo the niota of roota; then by cutting Blfi under the roota with a eharp apade HI on each aide, the tree may be looaened HI from the aoll with a good aupply of HI young, growing roota. It the tree la HB large, Iho trench mutt be made around HH tha roota to the depth of the lowest. HH and Iho roota gradually looaened and 1 freed from the aoll. No matter how i carefully a tree la dug, many of the HjE young feeding roota will be Injured n or deatroyed. Thua only a amall Hb amunt of aap can be aupplled to the l branchra and buda, which nevertheleaa Hlt continue to evaporate a large amount HI! of water; thua the tree often atarta HI very atowly, and aometlmea fatla en-HKI en-HKI llrcly. Uy removing the branrftn -and HH1 buda In proportion to l&rftfjury of the HEC roota a balance fa maintained. AH In-Bagf In-Bagf jurcd rooli thould be cut off clean HKX with a knife, and the wounda of largo HK rooU ahould be painted over with tome fiHrcK waterproof covering. When treea are Bftt , planted the roota ahould have a fine, HI mellow bed of toll, which ahould be H'B preasei' Irmly In contact with every KV Bber, !.' vine no lr apaco around them, 'l' and alt .itioutd be apread out In nat-1 nat-1 (irnl poaltlon. The aoll ahould be awMR1 nrtaied very firmly around all the U, vvto. to that the new roota will be R tncl uraged to make a rapid growth. Hjr" ( til0 ,oll In which the tree la planted H . u the aame aa the one from which It B hi UVn, the tree ahould be aet the HHhLlL- tame depth aa It waa befor i,,'ejJtV moved. If the toll It heaV, iV-?" ahould be ehallower, If lighter, It thould be placed deeper The aurface of the aoll which la over the roota ahould be fine and light, becauie the capllarlty la then broken up and the molttura cannot eecape Tlia toil Crop. Krom Karmera' Itevlew The lot lag of Mill year'e rrop may not be an unmitigated calamity to the fruit grower. If he glvea hla orcharda the right kind of treatment. In a ytir from now he will tee that they will be In better condition for further bearing than they would have been bad they been allowed lo go on and bear their utual heavy crop. Hut thla will largely large-ly depend upon how the orchard la managed, and there are a number of thlnga that muit be attended to. llrat, all the dead wood met be cut away, and tome that la not dead, In order that the remaining parte of the tree may be able to make a more vie oroua atnrt In the iprlng. Second, all the pruned-off wood, whether In the orchard or amall fruit plantation, ahould be burned to de-atroy de-atroy any Intecl or dlaeate that may Infect It. Third, the apraylng mutt not be abandoned becauie the crop baa failed. fail-ed. Ilegln In time and apray jutt it faithfully aa though eipectlng a big crop of fruit. Spraying la likely to bt very effective tblt year, If the dlrec-tlona dlrec-tlona on pruning and burning are carried car-ried out, becaute the parte of the tree carrying the dlicatea and Intecta have been largely deatroyed. There will be, conaequently, fewer enemlea left to combat Fourth, the cultivation thould be thorough and good, Thla la necettary In order that the tree may have aunlclent food aupply for the vlgoroua growth which It ahould make. Theae attentlona are all necettary to atalat tha tree In Ita recuperation. A riih I'on.l. Prom Farmera Itevlew, Since the lo ha gone from my pond I have aeen a number of good-alted calflah In tht edge of the water dead. There were alio the hrade of a number, the rett of the flah being gone. The dead fltb can be accounted for by the long-continued f reeling which made Ice two feet In thlckneaa. The beada are per-hapa per-hapa the remalna of aome mink or turtle feaat. They were eaten cloio up to the barbela. Them aharp thorna would certainly be In the way of devouring de-vouring the head, In the fall there were aeverat clouda of theta flah playing play-ing up and down the pond, and aa I have not obterved any of their alio amonj the dead, I auppoae the pond la yet well atocked. A flah pond la a profitable Inatltutlon, It furnishes an (xre)lent paatlme, for there are but few who do not delight In angling. Then the finny brood are a choice dlan on the table, A pond does not occupy much room and It a Wetting to the atock when It auppllea a tank where they can drink whenever they are Inclined, In-clined, It would Burprlte many to know how often atock will drink when they have free acceta to a trough al-waya al-waya aupplled with water. Lack ol water will ahrlnk a cow foster thnn anything elae within my knowledge A pond, too, can eatlly be made a thine of beauty. Mine la In a wooda patturo and down to both Ita marglna grow the young oaka of varloui apeclea, and the baxel. In Ita bordera I have planted calamus, cat-talla, akunk-cabbago, and while helleboro; In Iho deeper flood lilies. Wild fowl ot many klndt villi It, and It la full of varied life. Had I no natural grove lu which to locate a pond, I would aur-round aur-round with treea and ahruba the one I would make In the open field. I don't think I would fancy alttlng In the tun to angle, llealdea, flah ars fond ot tliaJo lu the heata of aummer, I'otaah In the Boll. The farmer who uaually puta on 20 loada or tone ot atable manure to the acre may think It would be eipcntlvo to add to that a dreatlng ot S.O00 pounda ot ncld phoa. phate and 1,000 pounda of potaah aalta, but It ahould be remembered that In the above eatlmate no allowance la made for phosphoric ncld or potaah In tho aoll. Very few tlelda are to del-tltute del-tltute ot potaah aa to need the full amount Indicated. The fermenting or rotting of ao much manure lu the aoll would liberate potash which la now In an Insoluble form, ao that the planta could take It up, and we may leave It to future generations to aupply aup-ply It when we have exhauated the aoll aupply. Ex. Bugar-Curing Fork. Allow the hog to thoroughly cool before cutting; carefully trim hama and ahoulderaand apllt the aldea In two lengthwlie. Bprlnklo bottom of barrel with fine aalt and rub each piece ot meat with ealt. Pack In barrel with hama on the bottom, ahouldera next and aldea on lop, After three daya cover the meat with brine made aa followa: Water, 8 gallona; aalt, IS poundt; sugar, S pounda; aaltpeter, 3 ouncea; concentrated lye, 3 teaspoontuls. Boll alt together and skim. After cooling, pour over the meat I-eave In brlno from four to alx weeka, then smoke at desired. Tho brine should be strong enough to bear up an egg. Wallaces' Farmer. Killing Mealy num. I have the city water, and I put It on with a good deal of force, and that kills mealy bugs. It waa a very bad Insect years ago until we discovered that we could uso kerosene emulsion, and alnce then I have discovered that water, put on with conaldcrable force, will kill It W. F. Parkin. Arrangements ahould be made for saving all tho poultry manure. |