Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1880 — Farm Notes. [ARTICLE]

Farm Notes.

afterwards the large weeds were pulled. i’T&b <B the peH of the animal, if killed at home, the (oodhnt manure from its droppings, u 4 the riddance of the paatim n from wneis, to which aheep an destructive foes. Witty of Att^kSSyWlled*^*i allude band in an hour, and in the warmest weather it can be readily disposed of bdbee it spoils. Science and experience both declare it the healthiest kind of meat, and a foolish prejudice alone prefora pork, which, whether fteah or salt, is the unhealthiest of all. The beat fertiliser to oae ia setting fruit trees of mil kinds is partially or thoroughly decomposed chip dirt. We made use of tbs material for the first time some twenty yearn ago in planting an orchard, and it was a wonder to those not in the secret what caused the trees to make each a fine growth the first season, and afterwards, too, for that matter. This experiment was so satisfectory that when we set our new orchard we made a liberal urn of this material, with the same satisfactory result. Them trials hare proved to our satisfaction that chip dirt ia the very best material to mix in the soil as yon plant the tree that can possibly be uskL for the reason that jt holds moisture, and is fall of the elements of plant food; therefore, it promotes a most luxuriant, natural and healthy growth. Repeated trials have satisfied me that a tree is not only more sure to live, but will make doable the growth the first year, (especially if a dir season,) if some two bushels of of chip dirt axe properly used in its setting, than it would without it. A tingle trim will coovinoe the most skeptical that the best possible use that can be made of this valuable material is to apply it to the soil in planting trees in order to push them forward during the first precarious stages of their growth.