FARM AND GARDEN.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4386, 6 April 1893, Page 2

FARM AND GARDEN.

Life of the Agriculturist

" In a moral point of view tho life of the agriculturist jb," esjs Lord John itußsell, " the most pure and holy of any class of men j pure bcY cause it is the most healthful, and vice \ oan hardly find time to contaminate i it.and holy because it brings the Deity ' % perpetually, before his view, giving him hereby the most exalted notions of supreme power and the • most fascinating and endearing view of moral benignity. The agriculturist views the Deity in his works; he contemplates the Divine economy in the arrangement of the seasons, and ho hails ."((lu re immediately presiding over every object that etrikes'his eyes; he witnesses many of her great and beauteous operations and her reproductive faculties. His heart iusencibly ( expands from his minute acquaintance with multifarious objects, all in themselves original, whilst that degree of Jk retirement in which he is placed jroinjjfl the bustling haunts of alive in his breast his tions, unblunted by an perpetual intercourse with iHBHH more enlarged, and thercforVßS|H more corrupt, state of habits become his principles, mHSH is ready to risk his life to mfH^B Marketing Fruits. It is a fact, well-known to producers and dealers, that the produc-. . tion ot fruits, some seasons, increases ■ faster than the demand. Wo do not'' mean to say that the produotion of fruits, at any time, has exceeded Uncapacity of our people to comuoiojßw without detriment to their digedriJMM seasous than would sell in ttreJHHH kelsin which it was offered, JH9H that would faiily ducers. At the same confident that had the iliicfd in the most bun properly distribuMHHßHH possible consumers, it hHhBJH have begun to satisfy ( Two prime causes bring about this cong<fl[Hßß|H| in principal market unremunerative prices are sold at such ducers neglect the home marked, ducts upon the ' ea( a consequence, such centres in can be consumed,fl^HflHfl|^HH fore decaying, a towns and in th supplied. tween thspriCfHSHHHHH and paid by < hence which j|j|H|BpBBBHBH munerated sumers sr^BHH|^^H^HBH l as £ re^'»9B^HBSHSHBI us the^^K^B^^HHH branch Adelaide, said sheep very M. Webl, o°H^HhH| a reply f (01 he said:—" of rape on simply pl oll S n harrowing 81b of seed to 28rd Docember to futten, accidentally, b ut wMßßllj|lflflflßM abundance of f° ol fiHßHHßffiS for a fortnight, OUBHffIHH| market, and have 9t^9|[9B^^^Bj 500 on the same sheep have all rou g u about 200 acres of not had the rape sown have fattened. golds nor kale will ever, without some dry'IHHH|HH on also. I find that r grow well in winter,but I wonderfully fattening above result will shew. \ ■HBH

Green fodder crops may be 9HH extensively as required, UnajHHH favoring influences of heat ture they will advance rapidly land is in a proper condition of ffIHHH ity. We may remark here that itWHH never pay to starvo any kind of crfHH If Nature is treated liberally she vSHB give handsome returns, but not otheßH wise, The largest profits can onlflHK bo realised by the most liberJßfifl outlay. Jerusalem artichoi&SafflH a most exHiw.'. food for <4flHfl| especially swine, A planting now be made, setting the tuJBRH fully three feet apart each mwBB Cabbage and kale for Block feediHßH are too much neglected. They &gß| excellent, both for the nutriment yield, and their health preservinlNH properties. Thoy should be plantowKß out largely for autumn and wintetflH