Show FARM ARM AND GARDEN plantations pruning grapes the growing of beets five or six years is the average term of duration ot of raspberry plantations if retained longer the fruit ie is email small and but little of it ae As it takes a year or two for the plants to r reach ditch ahw th et 1 I r best bearing it i well to make a new plantation every third Ye year arand and avus have two plants plair ts one coming coining into full bearing as the other ie is going out plants can beset be art in fall ur or spring vices vicks Alega magazine zide the parenia is is one of n our best root roots and requires a deep moist loam the ground be pro lre pared shout the same an at for car apts the seed should I bm sown in rows two feet apart spart aud and ha tzanu Tl anU thinned in ill the row to three inches apart thia this mot properly carril carf fa r will produce from three lu to four h hundred barrel barrels per acre the IA long smooth white ie is the bk bt st variety it should he harvez harvested ted iu in he the same manner ue as carr carrota ts the mangel mangol burcl esthe i fill I 1 variety of ufim grown fir catle t requires a deep luiba it eluam am the tile ground should be plowed in iu the early part of 1 l may alay and anti nl ut the tile rite rate of corda COMO of manure per acre the rows should ba be two feet apart and the plant plants thinned to 0 o eight in inches 1 elies apart in itt the row use the hand hoe to destroy the weed between the plants the horse hoe may be used until the leaves leaves of the plants cover the ground when the work is over unil til the harvest this crop will yield thirty or forty bons per acre ere in order to tit fully develop the milking qualities of cows they should be well fed when dry alan many Y farmers suppose that poor hay bay such as cows in in in milk ilk w will i 11 not eat or wale swale bayis all that is required ed for a dry cow but the draught up on the cow by the calf should b be considered and if tho the condition of the cow is kept up it will be in tain vain that we try to increase the flow of milk by extra feed afterwards A cow can not digest enouf enough h when in milk to both increase in in flesh and nd at the same time give a large sow flow of milk feed such et do not laake make them fat but keep them in good condition and when they come in in your extra feed will all show it itee liin the milk pail beets can be grown on more shallow foil soil than most roots almost any good soil plowed and will grov the crop pre parette pare the land as for carrots and para parsnips par snips nips sow in in rowe rows fourteen inches apart if sown in iii the early part of april they are ready for marketing in july if harvested in july there can bo be another crop of beets or flat turnips sown on the same land the fame teason beets for winter use should be a sown own from the last of juno june to the first of auguet the best varieties arieti eis are arv flat dark red egyptian for early earl for later Dt wings E eary arly turnip blood beet the last should be harvested by the middle of octo her ber as us frost injures them sow fifteen to twenty aoun pounds a of seed per acre A correspondent of orchard and garden practices pruning grapes at any lime time after the leaves fall whenever we have roost leisure do not think there is much choice in time of pruning between fall amt it er spring if pruned in the fau fall we r leave on more wire wd than in a spring ir ing tf taking king oft off the mr plus plug in the spring alter after the cold we weather abber is over D do not think it injures a grapevine to be pruned while the wood is frozen if the wood that is to be left 01 on the vine ia is not broken or injured by hinding the canes do not think it injures cut cuttings tige to be made while the wood is frozen I 1 cannot say lay who ther fall pruning lehds to make vines vines more moret vigorous and slid doubt if it makes much difference do not think vine is injured by spring pruning as much as ie is often thought to be the cate p no single crop rem removes oves from the soil all the fertilize fertilizing liz ma aerial a applied in the manure while all I 1 crop crops remove the came in dif different proportions there have been many ex ments the direction of det deter erin mining bow how many seasons a single crop could be grown on a particular field with remunerative active results re As A a test or in pursuit of tion don this t may any all be well but in farming for profit or for the improvement pro of the soil the continuous raising of one crop on the same P piece bece ot land for a series of antra year conducted to advantage can ver be all nation nations that have attained pr prominence eminence omi nence in progressive progress ivo agriculture have adopted ai a system of rotation in crops modern agricultural science has revealed to ome some extent the necessity for rotation it hu taught ua us that there are fifteen a or sixteen elementary elementary ele mentar substances in various combinations which are required for plant lant food wh while ile no two dissimilar similar plant plants remove the game same proportion from the soil oil american america cultivator |