FACTS FOR FARMERS.
Situate your buildings on au eminence, and never,in a hollow.
The man who Iris his work drive him, if he can help it, is n slave. Have the courage to thin your fruit. You will lose nothing, ’out will gain. Do yon know where things needed in spring work are? It will save yon time to find out now. A smoking manure pile means loss of ammonia. Open up the pile, or better carl it to the land. cultivate any more land than' you absolutely have to, which 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 i| the center. In tests witli Irish potatoes, deep planting with level culture yielded 254 pushels per acre, and shallow planting with hill culture gave a yield of 224 bushels. So long ns sawdust remains on top of the ground it is all right, as a mulch for strawberries, but if it gets into the ground ft may sour and be injurious.— Western Plowman, *
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3564, 24 August 1905, Page 4
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190FACTS FOR FARMERS. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3564, 24 August 1905, Page 4
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