Agricultural Brevities

So far as soil and climate are concerned, it seems to be settled that New York state is well adapted to the commercial growing of sugar beets. A western New York hortioulturist who has sprayed his orchards as many as five times in a season expresses the opinión that, oomniercially speaking, it does not pay to spray more than three times - flrst, when the buds begin to swell; second, just after the blossoms have fallen, and third, when the fruit is about pea size. The Horticultroral society of Vermont bias recommended the Baldwin, Rhode Island Greening, Fameuse and Northern Spy as the best apples for market in that state. Now is the time to keep the hoe busy in the garden. No weeds and a well stirred soil that will conserve moisture point to snccess.