FARM ANT GARDEN.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 10330, 11 June 1895, Page 4

FARM ANT GARDEN.

JO ,hE. fCorresponcl3 to Deer imber in Great Britain.l KitchsN Gabde- o-Sbow the ei.rly kinn o£ peap, broad be A&g. pasDjpa, radish and lsttuce. Continu s tba earthing 1 of celery ; proceed with digf and trenching every vacant space ; k .eew the hoe at work in advancing croDS ,- plant cabbage and early potatoes in wanrj ( «lry situations. Obchabd. — Pi aiming should now be pro ceeded with, bu ttl\f 8 operation is freqaecitly overdone by attumpting to bring bushes, or trc #& wliich have been ne^lected' at once , into, the operator's fuvorite shape, Bu* / the safe practice is to prune modaiately 4$ fi re i f and by dogrecß.it will reach the < Weired form. Transplanting "of fruit trer & Cj shrubs, gooseberries, currents, a- jlj raspberries, may now be p r o seeded w jth . plant,- strawberries and figs ; jaince a 81O uld be plaated ia low"inoiwt ■oil, M^ the 'guava in a dry bat warm Jit " a .tfon. X LoWaft Gabden. — Continue transplant* °f /,nnd attend to the cutting plaoteflast 11 oath ; bulbs and" herbaceous plants old ; nwba should be put out where they are to remain ; take up ani dry dahliac Advantage shooll re taken this monlh to lay down lawns, plots, and croquet grounds. The best grass to bear treading are festiica duriii»cula (hard fescue) and the doeb India. The Farji.— DuriDg this month overy opportunity should i c taken of fine and op^n weather to dig and minure vacant lacd. All who wisli their land to remain continuously fertile must bear in mind that although stimulating maaurea, rich in ammonia and carbonic acid gas m r iy yield a few good crops, a time will co>ne wben the soil will evince symptoms of exhau^ tion. from the mineral constituents from coDSlant cropping have been removed. Ihe fo 1 lowing law of natoro cannot be too strongly impressed upon the raindu of all concerned in the cultivation of land. The supply oE stimulating mannreß can only favour the develoainant of vegetation in so far as alkalies, silice, phosphates, and sulphates are supplied by the soil. Wnen, by the addition of guano or bone earth to the average soil, a very heavy crop— say of wheat — is obtained, we are not to expect that a repetition of the same treat ment will produce the Ba*ne effect. There | h one certain rule by which the land may be kept in constant heart, and that is, as ftr as possible, through the medium of the manure, to restore to the soil what has been taken away by the off coming crop, and this ir.ay easily bs effeotel by our earth close' b, pig styes, cow fheds, and sables. Tin cultivator of land near the sea beach hive an of expend ing ihe rotten proc tii in their coinp st heaps, deniei to those further in the interior, b, being ilbk to obta-'n a small supply of Seaweed. This, from the rapidity willi which it decompose-, may bo con sidored unixc-Uent addrion to piled ma Ldre Blood' from th* slaughter home wrjuld answer— tt very little would act in a Kimilar mannar an yeast whsn added to » solution of sugar Ia the light soil of Taianaki, from the ptcuiiar state 'of the <ron contained in them, tho rotting pronesß \i erccedingiy slow,, so that any- luateriulthat will tend to lm^ten~ it, must be of great value. Regarding the proJuelive powers of a soi', a very good jodg _ raent nay be formed from 'itn existing vegetation. Should the predominant plant be the huwkweed, or some similar deep rotted p'ant,,we may assure ourselves ihat tho.surface has been exhaunted df it tniu iral constituents, and that those plaits can only flourish that have moans of drawing nourishment from a nepth .If,' on the contrary, thorois a luxuriant vegetation of shallow rooted phvnta, the surface may by depended upDn as 'being in good heart. ( Land evincod powers of fertility from a ' lich arowlh of iern requires can ul treat ment, as fern, from the blownesi witli which it rots, takeu up as much valuable aiatter as if an oxijauntivo crop ba-i be n taken from the soil. Where the mcanß are available, there cap be' no better system of manuring these light porua soils than by ! folding sheep, digging or ploughing the ground before it becomes hard by exposure-