Ashes In The Orchard

D. W. Kaufman, of Des Moines, Iowa, write8 to the Iowa Ilomestead that asnas are worth one dollar per bushei to put libout fruit trees, and that he would not ell his ashes at thatprioe and do without their use in the orchard. He hasused ashes about his fruit trees for fifteen ears, and in that time has never seen a jorer where ashes were used. The borer s a terrible pest to the fruit grower, and f all other impedimenta to successful rrowing wero as easily overcuine and completely controlled as the borer, then ruit-growing would be very tsuccensfully jracticed. At the recent meeting of the Pruitrrowers' Association of Ontario, Mr. tfoodie stated that he had been in the ïabit of using unleached ashes as a mauure for his fruit trees, and that he valies thera more highly for this purpose ;han barnyard manure. If our farmers cnew the value of wood ashes for the garden, and orchard, and farm, they vould not sell them for a few cents per jushel. The ashes that they barter for i few pounds of soap would, if applied o the soil, so increase their crops of fruit md grain as to yield ten times theamount if Talua thoy now gat for tbata.-Mertiultvritt.