FACTS FOR FARMERS.
Situate your buildings on an eminence, 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 nothing, but will gain. ]Do you know where things needed in spring work are? It will save you time to find out now. : A smoking manure pile means loss o f ammonia. Open up the pile, or better cart it to the land. jtknvT cultivate any more land than you absolutely have to, wh|ch means better cultivation and less land. Make a study of what will be best for the road before you try to improve it. Sometimes one of the worst things is to build a road up in the center. In tests with. Irish potatoes, deep planting with level culture yielded 254 pushetsfper acre, and shallow planting with hill culture gave a yield of 224 bushels. ' S»0 long as sawdust remains on top of the ground it is all right as a mulch frr strawberries, but if it gets Into th ground it may sour and be injurious.— Wtetern Plowman.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3556, 5 August 1905, Page 4
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192FACTS FOR FARMERS. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3556, 5 August 1905, Page 4
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