FACTS FOR FARMERS.
Situate your buildings on an eminence, and never in a hollow. The man who lets his work drive him, it he can help it, is a slave. Hava Jhef courage to thin your fruit. You wilHose 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 of ammonia. Open up the pile, or better cart it to the land. Don't 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. forr (dimes one of the worst, things is to uuim h i oad up in the center. In tests with Irish potatoes, d'eep planting with, level culture yielded 254 pushels per, acre, and shallow planting with hill culture gave a yield of 224 bushels.. So long as sawdust remains on top of the ground it Is all right as a mulch for ■ ' fcut if it gets into the ■and it sour and be injurious.—- ‘ sfenr 'Plowman...
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3595, 7 November 1905, Page 4
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191FACTS FOR FARMERS. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3595, 7 November 1905, Page 4
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