FARM AND GARDEN.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4431, 30 May 1893, Page 3

FARM AND GARDEN.

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This month may be generally calculated on ob the most tempestuous ol tho twelve Gains of westerly wind Moompanied with bnil and sleot, and wiving rain Wing its usual characteristic. Kitchen garden work ii now entirely suspended. All prcparations for spring should now bo oom« pitted, so that advantage may be taken of any fino weather that may occur to further the operations ol transplanting and removal of trees. If any opportunities oocnr hedge seed may now be sown. Wintor pruning on established treeß should now bo performed,, It is impossiblo to give accurate. directions for pruning in print, A lesson from a Bcitntifio hand is worth more than all that can bo written on the subject. The operation consists simply in cutting out ortain..shoots or branches of a plant for the purpose of modifying ita form, increasing,: its fertility, and stimulating particular partsjatercat vigor. A plant.may be maoi'r&ossunio almost any .form if it is regularly and frequently pruned from an oarly stage,... Mulch all.newly plantfd trees "o matters not how coarse or strpn"g : ;th.o, manure is for mulch ;"iin'd" it v isnhe very best method of Many amateurs fall iiito terror-Uy

~.- ; r ...... -j putting mannre to the roots: /pf. trees when phmting, aroid this.'.anfJTesort to mulching with good Rtablqiiijinure. Experimntsy:witli:;:;SeeP : " dfytatoes;'"" The following reVult'spftiji'ilsatthe' experimental ..grounds .-Whangnroi, with seed pnia'oes.are;piiblisheil by a conteni|)ornry.: ; : ;'rhn/:pntatoe's";' ;were imported by '.heDep'artnieni of'Agrf-' ■ culture in Octoheri : dß!)2f 'Tbofriajs were ■:- No. t \^flfiium Bdniim, five : plota, 141b to /:. pi aiiteil■. ■Od toli e.r ft!,. 1892; lifted in. M»rch,'-ns.were the whole of tlie ; lot.", .oxceptinq No. t, No manure ■gave;;] 1211m'of"tubers; guano, 1251b, bolnedußt;:l3slh; potato, manure, lC3lb;;kaini(,;i.o9il). '" No. 2; Bruce?five; plpfs, .13lb-'io ■each, .planted November..'2.-' No Jiiannro gave 1181b.-.tubers'fgua'iiQ, 1241b; bonedust,l'l2lb j'ipotato miin-. ure, 2031b; kaipit,- : ' : No, 3; kidiiey;j five; plots, 141b lo each",planted.'November 0. No 1161b; bonediißt,'.l27lb;}.()oiato: manure, 1541b; kaimt,7jlß!b.^ No. 4: Imperaiorjfive plots,l3Jlb I to each, plan ted; November iC.. ;Nb I manure gave. C4lbUubers.j guano,: 1061b; nure, 1561b; kainit, 72-b. v 7; :\. No. 5: Sutton's Early ■ Regnht, .iiyo j plots, 41b to each,"planted ■'November'' 5. No manurosgayeV;22lb; : •'tiibcrsi 1 guano, 321b;. bonedusl, =4Glb :• ; pptuto: manure, 501b 331b; No. 6; Sutton' s. J. nb ii ii dan co,. .five; plots, 2i!b."td:p"ach, placed. Jpyomber 5 No manure gaVb^dlb;;tub'erbj : guano, 181b; bririedustj;22ib; potato; manure, 241b; kainit.l 01b;;. - ; .'-.-, The total weight'of sets-.wasjSOal.b: while the aggregateweightof produce was 27141b..;■ The'soil was mostly. good volcanic.: .In','each'..case- ilie manure applied ■ whi^at.^tlie/^rato.. of about Scwi to (^4;/;' Heavy ruins r after.'Nos. : .3 : ,aiid 4 were planted,' Cdusine' tho ;spil ,tb getsodden, The'secd o[- : ;N6.b;. -5 and 6 was cdnsidorably.bruisod.qnWtival; In every instance, as 'will bo: seen.-:by* the above report, potafo-ruanure'.gave the beet returns of,, tubors, : boned list coining next, while kainit appeared to' be of "no use at oil.-" :;, V\.'-.,': ! v:' Trickery injtieißutter Trader A report lias reaebsd ■nj| exchange) from a source wliieh appears, .to be fairly truatwort Jiy j ;.of; a" iii-w; form of enterprise in "thei.butter trade. "Victorians have, long been, celebrated for their smart;; ticks-iir;tra(lei. .bat if our information, iaV;to;. b;e" : fuliy trusted,' they haye^displayed;jri\rrs'-. pectto the butter.indiistry;;a form pf enterprise w bicli ,ecl ipsta.l all efforts in ■thiß : direction;:i::;ltis;;weir known, that for Beveral yeatepast the Government ,;of..;:yiotoriaj.;.liayeVbee,n . giving lo exporters of butter produced in that colony-,a,bonus;;put'?pfgt|ie public pnrsc, By this means the'ex-' I ',.; port cf butter ; ,has.been: Jargely'viex--i ■ tended. Latterly, it seems that but- % ter has been finding, its wayfrqm'New. ''\ Zealand lo Melbourne, ontl, nccbrding . to our the arrival of a ,■.-. noticed that ■ brand upon the; Now '.Zealand Skegs .'■,: was at once planed off and a Victorian brand substituted.;. For what purp'ose was this butter from■;N.ewr.Z.palarid : intended? If for ~flse 'in., a wrqpg was done, to the: New Zealand manufacturer ; and' if intended aa ultimate export to London;as Vic. . torian butter a double; ¥ wrbng';was done—the New Zealand'iroakerhwas injured, and the Victorian.Government would be mado,to.pay.forotbe export of that which ;waß no; Victorian produce, 7Truly.: tyeijiyo'lii a ' ■ peculiar world.^^^^'-vf