FACTS FOR FARMERS.
Situate your buildings on an emin- i ence, and never in a hollow. | The man who lets his work drive him, if he can help it, is a slave. Have the courage to thin your fruit. You will lose nothin", but will pain. Do yon know where things needed in 1 spring work tire? It will save yon time to find out now, A smoking manure pile means loss of gfinmonia. Open up the pile, or better cart it to the land. 1 Don’t cultivate any more land than j yon absolutely have to, which means better cultivation and less land. Make a study of what will be best for the road before'yen try to improve it. Sometimes one of t he worst things is to build a road np in 1 lie center. Jn tests wilh Irish potatoes, deep planting' with level culture yielded 234 pushed per acre, and shallow planting Midi hill culture gave a yield of 224 bushels. So long as sawdust remains on top of the ground b : - ' 1! ’""ht. as a mulch for strawberri . ■ . . : gets into the ground it may sour and be injurious.— Western Plowman.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3527, 27 May 1905, Page 4
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194FACTS FOR FARMERS. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3527, 27 May 1905, Page 4
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