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Clutha Leader, Volume I, Issue 21, 3 December 1874, Page 6

Potatoes succeed best with thoroughly rotted manure in which no fermentation can take place. A very excellent compost for potatoes in swamy muck, bone dust, and plaster of Paris. One load of muck, 100 lbs of fine bonedust, ancl a bushel (80 lbs) of plaster make a very useful fertiliser when stable manure cannot be procured. Fish g-uano makes a good substitute for the bone. How to restore worn-out. land is thus described by a Farmer : — On a farm I" bought some years ago, there was a five-acre lot that had been cropped until it was entirely exhausted. It beingdifficult to maintain manure, I adopted the following* : plan (it was a hard clay soil): Ploughed the ground eight inches deep, rolled with a heavy roller to crush the clods, planted to corn,. and manured in the hill. I obtained a fair growth of stalks and about forty bushels of ears to the acre. After picking the corn I cut up the stalks close to the ground, and ploughed them under green. The nest spring they were tliorougly rotted. I ploughed and planted to corn as before, manuring in the hill, picked eighty bushels to the acre, and a heavy growth of stalks, which were again ploughed under. Followed the same plan the third year, which gave me a little over. 100 bushels of ears to the acre. The following spring I sowed the ground to . oats, and seeded with half a bushel of. timothy seed and four quarts clover to the acre. I had a heavy crop of oats, and a, finer meadow I never saw than I had on , that ground. I have pursued this plan frequently, and always with success. If there is any cheaper or better plan for enriching land I would like to know it. The corn pays well for the labor bestowed, and the land is rapidly increasing in fertility. An Irish grazier was putting a pane of glass into a window, when a groom who was standing by began joking him, telling him to mind and put in plenty of putty. The Irishman bore the banter for some time, but at last silenced his tormentor with : — "Arrah, now, be off j wid you, br I'll put a pain in your heac) I without any putty." " ' ' '" : J