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the grain starts much ahead of the small seeds it
proves & strangle crop and the “catch” of seeds is
weak ané thine We have hopes that sweet clover will
make good as a means of furnishing summer ~ sture.
It makes coarse hay. Sunflowers are hardy and pro-
auctive in most sections and hold promise of proving
out as an ensilage crope

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"The climate is not particularly adapted te the
cultivation of field roots although turnips may usually
be grown with a measure of success.

"Of potatoes we have had as high as 450 bushels
per acre. The crop is not a safe one on all lLanés but
the majority of settlers may grow their own with con-
siderable success, if they will, +

{a) Choose en early variety such ac Early Rose or
Early Hortherns

{(b) Plant early in Hay on good land, preferably fall-
owed for a part of the previous season.

{c) Plant shallowly so as to keep the seed in the warm
top soil where it will sprout promptly.

(a) Keep clean, Bill early and moderately deep.
{e) Dig before the ist of October.

"Of vegetables other than potatoes, one of the
surest and most productive crops is garden pease, a
few rods of which should be sown quite early with one
or two later seedings to prolong the season. Gradus
and Those Laxton are good varieties. Cabbage, caulie
flower, “ohlrabi, brussels sprouts all do well if
started in the hotbed and sometimes if starteé in the
opene He have eut seven-pound heads of cauliflower
in August. Carrots, turnips, beets, Sviss char and
other vegetables of that class have usually produced
paying ereps of choice quality of sown on rich land
well prepared the previous season and only Lightly
raked or harrowed in the spring of sowing the seed.
if worked deeply then it is iiable to Gry out te a
Gcpth below that at which small sesés should be planted.

"Onions seldom produce large bulbs unless secded
one summer and left over winter to mature the next
Seasons

"Currants, Paspberries ané strawberries promise
exceedingly well. They should be planted on very clean,
well prepared ground and well mamred. The strawberries
should be muilched in the sutumm ané it is better to lay
the raspberries down in the fall, covering lightly with
lumps of carth. Hed, white ané black currants are doing
splendidly. A windbreak is extremely desirable in grov-
ing these small fruits. They seem to endure frost better d
than wind. Chinese lilacs, Caragnas and Nanitobe maples
are proving fairly hardy at the Station, which is situated |
on high land, somewhat saferfrom frost than the average
of the district. Sweet peas and pansies bloom very avun- \i%
Gantly, blossoms of the latter having been found almost 4
as soon as the snow was gone. Linaria blooms late in (i
the falls In addition to the flowers and vegetables men- ie
tioned many others are being grown with more or less success il