SEEDING. One of the most important ope rations of the farm, is the equal distribution of the seed over the land, whether in drills or broadcast, so there shall be no bare spots, and that each plant may have equal room, meas urably at least. In the old way of seeding by hand this was a difficult matter, even by the most practiced sowers, either from an inequality of the several casts, and especially from the con tingencies of wind, and other causes beyond the control of the operator. In this direction, agri cultural ingenuity has fully kept pace with invention in other directions, relating to the farm. We have now machines adapted to sow ing the finest grass seeds iu accurate proportions per acre, or the most bulky grains and seeds, either in drills or broadcast, and at any given depth, and in the case of drills, from the most minute garden seeds, one drill at a time to the young field seeder, which will finish twelve acres a day, leaving the seed covered at any plant, etc., should be cut and dried in the shade. If possible do not wait until the seeds are all ripe. ,If you do, many of the best seeds will be lost. Corn should be plucked as soon as the husk
begins to dry and hung up in the air to ripen. Tomatoes and other pulpy fruits should be allowed to entirely ripe and then broken, and macerated in water to separate the seeds. Cucumber seeds should be washed in this way. Do not allow undue fermentation, however, as it blackens the seeds. In cleaning wheat, oats, barley, and other mall grain, save only the best for seed. The time to save the seed is when you are marketing your grain. Pot herbs should be cut while green, carefully and thoroughly dried in the shade, and then laid away in paper bags for future use. It will pay every farmer to grow vegetables, and also to save some of the more important seeds'thereof.
required depth, and the drills exactly equi-distant one from another. Above we give a cut of a combined seeder and cultivator. In the plant ing of seeds in hills or check-rows, there would seem to be little desired, the better class of check-row attachments doing away with all marking of spaces previous to planting.