. Popular gardening and fruit growing; An illustrated periodical devoted to horticulture in all its branches. .Dispose of the old and imperfect, and secure thebest blood now. A few dollars expended forgood males, occasionally, will prove a good in-vestment. If eggs are intended for eating pur-poses, and none for setting, however, the maleshad better be removed from the flock, and keptby themselves. Poultry Pickings. Grapevines planted in thechicken runs and trained to the fence affordshade to poultry; and also fruit to the farmer inautumn. The vmes should be trained high should be gath
. Popular gardening and fruit growing; An illustrated periodical devoted to horticulture in all its branches. .Dispose of the old and imperfect, and secure thebest blood now. A few dollars expended forgood males, occasionally, will prove a good in-vestment. If eggs are intended for eating pur-poses, and none for setting, however, the maleshad better be removed from the flock, and keptby themselves. Poultry Pickings. Grapevines planted in thechicken runs and trained to the fence affordshade to poultry; and also fruit to the farmer inautumn. The vmes should be trained high should be gathered daily and stored in adry place, not a cellar. Fifty degrees is a safetemperature. It repays the farmer to properlycare for the eggs and not permit them to remainlonger than a day in the nest. Never use ashrsor lime to mix with hen manure. If either isused—away goes the ammonia. It will pay toshelter the manure. There are people who makepoultry pay largely and others who do not. TheLangshau is in every way useful. It is my pre-ference for utility.—Am. Agriculturist. i8 POPULAR GARDENING. October,. Correepondcnte art urged to antioipate tfu aeaaon fn preaentinp qutstiona. To aak. for instance, on April lb or 2Xitehit Peaa had beat be sown, could brino no anawer inthe May iaaue, and none before June, iphen the answerwould be unaeaaonable. Questiona received before the I2(nof any month atand a good chance of being anaipered in thene:ei paper. Not more than three queationa ahould be sentat ont time. Anaicera to tiuestiona bearing on the com-parative value of Implcmenta. etc., offered by differentdeaiera must notoc earpected. Neither can we promiae tocomply with the requeat aometimea made to please answerby mail. Inquiries appearing without name belong to thename next following. Replica to Inquiries are earnestly requeated from ourreaders. In anawering such give the number, yourlocality and name, the latter not for publication, unlessyou desire. Write only on one side of the
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