Show OUR RURAL READERS SOMETHING HERE THAT WILL INTEREST THEM great claims mode made for the adama corn new whiffletree for abree morse horse plowing hondy scaffold dc c tice Sli allow plowing for barley I 1 the adonis corn C 11 augur of connecticut writing in tile the american Ameri ciu agriculturist sas s my M exper loice le leads 1 11 ds me to believe tint thit barly dwail adams R coin will alve le I 1 4 r r better results thin than li icy ady flint vil variety rieti I 1 ua r V tills this corn was fist I 1 I 1 N brought lirou glit to my it 1 teri tion thirty the aj 4 1 P bears oats a aco eo a saw sad 04 ale being sent mr ine from michigan I 1 under tinder the name ot of I 1 squaw carn corn it was recommended recommend eJ I 1 us its till extra early carly I 1 table variety it ir lias has been Im improve 0 by ot of careful I 1 election it n D t I 1 I 1 now dow I 1 think it h is I 1 s I 1 I 1 no superior f tor 0 r I 1 either cither the extreme I 1 I 1 T north or the extreme a i I 1 south 1 as I its k early ripening makes it desirable FARLY adaid arf cow of car in both section for other sections ot of the country while it t may not excel other varieties it certainly can lose nothing by compa comparison ilson it is a general purpose corn if such it 11 thing exists As early if not earlier than the iho earliest sweet variety it has large handsome ears cars that are tender arid and toothsome on the table and sell readily in III the market not at only will its size se earliness carll ness and general appearance sell SC 11 it but those bah iah who a leave lia T e tried it its quality ire are ready to huy buy again it his has unusual vigor arid and will grow sturdily on very moderate fertilization it is a haiar hard y variety and can be planted safely a week or ten idys earlier curlier than the sweet varieties there abc four types of the ada adaina ms dwarf farly karly ea 1 I y late and zigzag adams tile the gorden garden a help to good llvine the farmers fan ners garden is not only tile the best paying piece 0 it land on the farm but it Is the one that it if managed as it should be best bhone what advantages farra farm life may offer it Is not creditable trad etab 0 o to farmers that tile the residents of cities and villages village are able to secure cheaply better supplies or of fresh garden vegetables than ran can the farmer it ought not to be so a kven even in ili the matter of Il lOSS tt it Is within thin the power of tile the farmer barnier with a 11 good greenhouse to compete for his bis own table with the market gardener rard onor even in III the winter and early eaily spring rut bill it if ili he does not care to go to this expense lie ile will nill lie inexcusable if lie does docs not provide an in abundant variety of eNery everything thing that can be grown in the garden in the open nir air if the farmer was VIS obliged oblige as lih wife is to provide tile the material throe three times a 1 I day clay for wholesome oil and palatable meals lie he would pay more att attention eDtion to the gaiden than lhnn lie he does lu in arly any wall ni ell ordered family amity f the garden ought to furnish half of what Is oaten caten during the summer and in fall months and add the half that will give the greatest pleasure to perverted tastes arid and appetites new Whittle trec A jig ilg that beats them all for three horse hors e plo plowing is shown by farm and homo home the advantages es are the team teala Is close to tile the plow a and iid the plow boam beam needs but very little shirting when lien us ITS ing a two horse or a three horse tean team va fasten stell a standard IS inches long at right angles up and doi down n to the end of 0 the plow beam it may lie of wood mood or 1 lainee whiffletree iron put a single tree at tile the upper end of the standard for the middle horse borse and a two hoise trio tree to the bonner low elend for the outside horses the s standard landard must have 12 inches a bove above a and cid 1 G I inches below the plow beam tu to equilie equa lii lie the draft between tile lie middle and the hie two tio outside horses to measure the right length of 0 the e sener place tin fill three single trees in line on a work bench let alie middle tree lap 3 inches 4 over inside ends of outside ingle fingle tires s cut tho the elvner just long cli enough ough and you will i ill have 1 a I compact I 1 ilg ig t shallow hallow elowina tor for the roots of barley do not run deeply and the plant makes a antich more vigorous birly gi growth awill if the surface surf nce nee soil is merely cultivate instead of being turned to the bottom iia torn of a furrow with a plow the only objection to shallow plowing for spring grain rain Is that it makes the plowing harder for teams arid and plows when the spring still stubble Is turned over in the fall i ill for sowing to winter grain nut but some farmers fir have bave found that here also the shallow plo plowing NNIng succeeds best deep plowing of stubble land only keeps tile the so loose to a greater depth allowing it jr ic absorb more water avater and thus inel liso the injury to the crop from winter freezing rind and thawing selling tourig pia PI zia there Is no dukker way to get money in pork than to keep a few breedin breeding sows and ell 11 their pigs when ready to or soon after thore there Is always t bood demand for such pits plas and at considerably more than their pork fork value vallie it la is known by everybody I 1 that hat the yo young ung pl pig makes more growth with the same feed than it will at any later period of its life hut the seller ot of the lie tile the advantage of this without pl pig gets being it at any eapen expense se to care for arid and teed feed tile the animal thel re lila his p profit crofit Is greater ill than that of ili ahr man mad who buys from him the jarly planted pl potatoes Iota potatoes will grow at a mi much ch lower temp temperature grature than corn but it is none the less a 1 I mistake miscall e for the early planting to put the sots sets in deeply while the ground 1 is cold and As wet ot cut potatoes thus thur planted rot vety en easily lor all parly early planting we ave should use uc whole potatoes cutting out all but two or three of tile the vigorous eyes this will make a niika stronger growth I 1 than ban the whole seed not thus prepared three indies inches is deep enough to plant on heavy ground round though after the soll soil has been warmed to greater depth potatoes will do best it if glinted pl alc J four rind and a half to live inches dee deep P such potatoes will not need to lie hilled billed to keep the crop from growing out of the ground and the deep planting Is rilo ril o to some extent a menus means of preventing the rot which ns as it comes from spores speres brett bred on the potato leaf Is most apt I 1 pt to attack the tubers nearest the surface sui face seed secil corn j A ce cc are every year so many complaints and losses from poor wod corn that tile the only safe way is to test it by planting somo some under cover and in a moderately warm place tills this la Is not dot itol 1101 it ol a test of how many seeds will grow when planted in the open ground but it will at least show whether the seed hiis has retained its vitality and under favoring conditions can he be expected to make inako a 1 crop kenov ing that his can be depended on the farmer call lie savaii the loss sure to occur if he be puts in more seed than is needed with the expectation that some will not grow this to loss Is most serious of till nil for far th the e seed with little vitality usually mak makes as a weakly growth find and the num dum loor of plants in it a hill makes it impossible that any ally of them shall produce more than nubbins bubbins nub bins A handy scaffold i device perhaps the cast end lid of the house or barn needs liyeds cementing or re plastering if so and nd you dont want a 1 quantity ut of lumber used make nn an angle of 3 by 4 scantling as ag shown in ili the illustration and slide it up ill against the wall with i 1 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 K E I 1 I 1 alf I 1 I 1 1 I I 1 11 1 it SCAFFOLD FOP 1117 arp PAIRING stout pole or scantling fasten it at the bottom ur or lot let the end still sink into the earth and the more height eight you put upon it the mole moie secure it will become you will want at least leant two of these ingles angles arid and a board across them stone ai I 1 wherever a stone leap heap ins ha laid a few years the soll oil lien vaili ali will be found more ore fertile this is especially tile the case where the hie or in pirt of the lea hen is com compo soil of limestone tile the disintegration gration of the lie stone Is in part for ahls all rains anil and snows sonic some carbonie carbonic acid gas makes them a 1 I booi good gooi solvent it Is from stone that hat tile the earthy por portion tiona of ill all soils Is A were ere originally formed another anil and in somo some cases the most important in limi benell elit to the soil from the hie stone heap lying above it is that the stories stones act as a mulch shading the soil soft arid and this enabling it to disintegrate tile the insoluble particles find and prepare tb jhc thc lr ir plant foot food to be taken takei up by the roots of plants plin ls too Kani Itani pant grape vine growth many american grape vines villes especially mose that aie in pait from the native soils require much more room than ban do tile the grapes grow gronn il n in kuro euro unless given considerable niclos at pruning time the of the few buds that are arc lert left by close pruning g enill ill bo be too much this is a 1 frequent enriqe chii ie or unfruitfulness in such varieties as I 1 lie rogers II 11 brails there is such nn ain excess of sap flowing into ile ibe shoots that when lilo the tendency to wood grow ill Is so strong as to prevent setting the billit such T varieties I 1 should lie pi lined long on and if too many buds buda pull out every one after the fruit has fully sot set and the ho danger dalager of growing only has pas passed cd remove dead lanoit Lino it abete is some evaporation going on even from limbs that havo have ceased to put foith faith leaves anti anil are dead they should be cut off down to the live and in it a plaster be put pill over the wound so as to exclude the he air anti and let nature form a 1 new covering of balk baik over tile the stump more or lobs less 1111 limbs Is will be found lead dead lu in orchards ds even of thrifty trees every spring pring when new nev leaves fire are put forth unless the dead Is promptly removed ul lie he trees are sure to become unthrifty anti and the dead portion will thread to other portions it tons until it embraces the bentive ti tile irre le |