FACTS FOR FARMERS.
Situate your buildings on aa 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 meami loss of ammonia. Open up the pile, or better cart it to the land. Don't cultivate any more land than yon absolutely hare to, which means better cultivation and less land. Make a study of what will be best for the road before 1 you try to improve it. Sometimes one of the worst, things is to build a road upin the center. Ia testa with Irish potatoes, deep
planting 1 with level culture yielded 254 pushela per acre, and shallow planting with hill culture gave * yield of 224 bushel^. Bo long as sawdust remains on top of the ground it is all right as a mulch for strawberries, but If it gels into the ground it may sour and ho injurious.— Western Plowman. ,
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3563, 22 August 1905, Page 4
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192FACTS FOR FARMERS. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3563, 22 August 1905, Page 4
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