The Farm

Mnritime faoraer. r Alternating clover with tiie wheat erop is another means of increasing production. The clover 3 estcemed in England as the best preparation of the land for wheat, and a good clover sod is the best fertüizer. Messrs. Lowes and Gilbert, on a portion of unmanured experimental tield, tested the valuo of clover as a preparatory erop for wheat. Wheat grown after clover yielded twenty-nine and a half bushels per acre, while on an adjoiniog lot, wkere wheat follovved wheat, only iifteen and a half busjhels were obtained. A Soi t ïern farmer Imd a larga iield which ytulded only ten bushels per aero. He seeded it to clovor, mowed tho clover for hay ono year, aud pastured it tho second year, then plowed and sovved wheat in tho autumn. The result was ihat hc harvested an excellent erop of wheat, yielding at tho rata of twenty busliels per acre. Dr. Voclcker, chemist to tho Koyal Society of Engli.nd, condneted a series of carcful invostigations to determine the cause of the henelit of a clover erop as a preparatory erop for wheat. The conclusïons arriveel at aro that during tho growth of clover a largo amount of nitrosreneous matter accumulates in the soil; this accuniulation, which is greatest in the surfaco soil, is due to tho do cay ing loavos dropped d uring tho growth of clovor, and to Mn abundancoofroots containing f rom 1 to per cent of nitrogen; and that the nitrogenoous matters in tho clovor remains and oa theii gradual decay are iinally transformer iuto nitratos, thnsaflbrdingacontinuous sourco of food on which cereal crops specially delight to grow. By removing the clovor roots froni a square foot oi soil, analyzing them, and calculating the total quantity of an aero frora that datum, Dr. Voelcker found that in tho bou of an aero of clovor land, mowed once for hay and aftorward left to aeod, there woro 3,622 pounds of roots which containcd ilj pouuds of nitrogen. This amount of nitrogen would bo sullicient for a largo erop of whoat. Mnch of tho wheat land in this country which yields only ten or twelvo bushels of wheat per acre, ruight be rendercd much inoro productive by alternating tho wheat with clovcr occasionally. I tenia lor the Farmer. It is never advisable to transplant bearing raspberry bushes. Young roots if put out in tho fall vvill come in bearing quite as soon as those that have been in bearing, and will reuiaiu healthy muoh longer. If the young clover afler harvest is not pastured, it will oíten cut a load of hay per acre, worth for winter use even more than the sutunier erop of hay, and far more valuable tban the pasturage lost. If by neglect the wild mustard or charlock has been pulled trom ñelds of spring grain, it should not be taken to the barn. Better mako a stack of the grain, that the weed may be kepi in the lield where grown, and Dot carried over the farm. It is never safe to plough among trees when in full foliage, unless it is done wiih the purpose of root pruning to induce fruit fulness. In spring or fall, when tress are bare, if roots are cut or torn by ploughfng the injury is very quiokly repaired, with usually an increase in vij;or. A farmer who so repects his calling that he alwas takes his bat off when his work is very hard, or when the weather is very hot, says that he never heard of any one being sunstruck who was in the habit oi workingout of doors in hot weather, entireJy bareheaded. He proves his faith in his theory by working at haying without a hat, when the thermometer srands at 02 in tho shade. In somc parts of the West burning the stubble of the preceding erop ii, the usual preparation for wheat. Tnis has the advantage of destroying the eggs of the insects that prey on wheat and if successive crops are to be grown vear after year it is probably the only sucesssful policy. But it would be better to plough the stubble under, grow agreatcr diversity of crops, and not be ruined by the failure of any one of them. If the leading shoots of bearing trees are pinched during the summer it will induce the formation of fruit bixls and greaterfruilfulnessof tho following season. An exchange says that tho nests of the tent Caterpillar can be destroyeel by a swab aflixed to a long pole, and wet in spirits of turpentine, andit wili also kill all the insects it touches. The rust on wheat is not apt. to do much damage unlesa it attacks tho stalks. Whoro this is the fact it is called "black rust," and the more quickly tho graiu is cut tho better for tho borrv. A Now Jersey peach-gi'ower says he "caros nothing'for tho yollows. Giro the peach trees a good (loso of potash all over tho ground wliere the roots feed, and wash the hodies each spring witli lye, and tho yellows can not only be preven ted, but cured." Professor Am oíd offers a cautiou against straining after largo yields of butter. The Jersey cow, he says, has been ovor-rated becauae tho tendeney of this animal to turn all it eats into the ereanj pot makes into butter what in sorae other breeds would go to tallow. It is, in fact, a naturally made oleomargarine. If ono of the most valuable proporties of land piaster is to absorb and hold iimmonia until itcan be taken up by tho plant, and if many plants have the power of ab&orbing ammonia froni the atmosphere througli their leaves, nay it not be the most proütable way lo uso piaster to scatter it over the leaves of the plants while they are damp? Dr, Üarlingtou of (Jhoster County, Pa , who is a very close observer, saysthat he has proved the abovo to bo the best method oí using piaster. The practice of feeding whey to cows in Herkimer county. N. Y., proved inurious to choese, and has been disconiinued. The Michigan Farmer mentions a successful farmer vvho makes it a rule to ahvays raise twice as ruany potatoes as t will bo neerled for his home deniand; then if the prioe is high he has them to sell; if low, he gets a good valué for them by feeding them out. A shipment of 300 bushels of red oak acorns has been made to Grrmany for [jlaatingouuutillablelandsandhiüsides. This tree is found to do well in Europe, and its rood is valuable. The acorns were gathered iu Missouri at an average cosl of SI a bushel.