MUSTARD. The mustard family crucifera3 includes many most valuable plants to man; among them nasturtium, water cress, cabbage, turnip, the radish, horse radish, pepper grass and mustard. The varieties of mustard cultivated for the seeds which are ground into the mustard of commerce, are the white, &nap& alba, and the black, S. ndgra. The latter makes the stronger mustard, but the white the handsomest. The wild mustard, or charlock has come to be a most common and noxious weed in the West, infesting the fields of slovenly farmers until some of the oat 'fields are yellow with the blos soms. It has come in generally by sowing the seed of badly cleaned flax, and following with oats, and then seeding with oats just as they come from the thresher. Thus for want of a little care in cleaning seed grain, fields have been overrun at a great expense to the outcome of crops, to say nothing about the unsightly appear ance over large tracts of land. The seed may be eradieated by two successive crops of Indian corn kept clean, or by a clean kept corn crop and a summer fallow. The cultivation of
the seed for manufacturing may be either broad cast or in drills, the latter preferable. A rich deep, moist, and mellow, sandy loam is prefer able for the crop, though it will grow well on any soil of average fertility, if warm and tol erably well drained. Iu drills the seed should be sown rather thin, the drills two feet apart for ease in cultivation. If an implement is had that will work in an eighteen inch row this distance is preferable. When a majority of the seed is ripe or the pods turned yellow, cut with a rea per, and set it uplike flax or buckwheat. When dry thresh immediately, having tbe bottom of the wagon rack covered with a cloth to catch the shelled seeds. Broadcast it may be sown a peelK to the aere. In drills six quarts is ample. It will reseed itself, and to rid the land of it, plow under the crops when in flower, and follow with COT11.