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Day
7
Month
July
Year
1897
Copyright
Public Domain
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Suuday oleara awaj' the rust of the whole week. "Little and often" is the rule for oiling the mower. There are many cornfields that wonld be the better of thinning out ; better for the erop of grain. We do not think it a waste of time when the work is done early, say three or four weeks after planting. You can sow millet this niouth, a bushel tq three acres, and harvest while the seed is soft. Eed top is the grass to sow on a low, damp meadow. Timothy will tlirive if not very wet. It is not easy to get rid of daisies, but as a help to this end we suggest mowing the grass in which they are very early, before the daisy seed is mature enough to grow, and then plowingand planting fodder corn. The proper sanitary and commercially profltable disposal of liousehold waste, (especially nightsoil in rural districts,) is a question of perennial interest. Dreer's new book, "Open Air Vegetables," intimates that it is also a question of moráis, as well as of money and health. Chaptersix of this little book quotes authorities to show thé unwisdom of either poisoning the surface or subterranean water supplies of that farm, or of hoping to be safely rid of fecal matter by burying it in deep pits. The danger of disease is supplemented by a waste of nioney in all deep cesspools. The proper place is the surface soil, and the proper receptacle is a shallow pit, with cemented sides. In a deep pit there is always a putrid, unwholesome fermentation, with a waste botli by leaching through the soil and by the escape of volatile gases. In the surface soil, on the contrary, the work of humification goes forward rapidly. There is no fermentation ; no loss by soaking away into the soil or by escaping into the air. Everything is quickly turned into humus or plant food. In a word, buried waste is buried danger, while the same matter put upon or within a few inches of the surface of the soil is literally money in bank. ]f a meadow needs re-seeding try plowing as soou as the grass can be cut, hariow fine and sow to oats three and a half bushels per acre, fertilize with atable manare or phosphate, and calcúlate you will have an ideal pasture for calves all the fall. Experience proves such a erop of oats a most excellent feed for milk cows in the fail. Plow in spring and plant to corn. Try it. It may be that Our Folks do not all know how to kill Canada thistles, burdoek, narrow leaf doek, etc. An easy way is to take a spade and cut the crowu offjust at the surface. Hold spade down quite flat and leave top of crown clean cut. Now with a large, spriug-bottom oil can put on enough kerosene to wet the top. Two gallons of oil will kill an acre of thistles. In regard to the cultivation of corn, one of the Farm Journal editors wishes to say that it sh.ould be close, frequent, and deep, until the plant reaches the shouldersof the horse. This will start a root growth deep down in the soil and great number of short feeding rootsnear the surface. When the soil has been thus made mellow by thorough working and the plant obtained a good start, let the cultivation be shallow. We never use a plow in the corn field, nor make ditches in it with broad hoes. - Farm Journal. Thero in a cteriiteal dude i:i town Avho cairrdes a larg-e surplus of affected style, wihio tth.vough some. ïneoms succeeded iia gebtjng recognición and baskiing ün. the BiwillgTxlt of good society. Among the acquaiintances th!.'B dudáca-l clerk formad, iis a young lady Iliat he seem'ed to be etri&ken an, but lie was toard to Penmark : "Sfoe is a niice giel, bufe wfolsut a pirtsyi hr fathr ware a bluo BMrt." Fdor fello'w ; aad tluey do sny tiiat he mea-rly) hiaJ a rmv Witib a tiaiLOT over, an artiistdie patea that he wiSlied to: liave placed i)n the seat o( MH paataloons ffln, tLnie ta attsnid thO musical' val. Whiat a

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