An onion-grower, of considerable experience, says that he destroys the onion maggot in the following manner: As soon as the maggots are discovered at work, remove the soil from the sides Of the bulbs, by making a shallow trench with the corner of a hoe; then pour into this trench soap-suds made by dissolving two or three gallons of soft soap in a barrel of water, pre-viously adding one pound of copperas in the soap Rural New Yorker.

Onion Maggot #1

The New England Farmer mentions the successful practice of an onion grower at Salem, by planting the seed as deep as it will bear, as the young maggots can not go for down, and the root will have time to make a larger growth, and thus afford more food than they can devour.

Strawberry Fertilizer - A writer in the Rural New Yorker says: "The following recipe was first tried years since, with apparently high satisfaction; the growth was vigorous, the crop abundant, and the berries large. It was therefore very highly commended as fitted to secure admirable results. Old beds, under the treatment suggested, are said to be even better than new. The proportions are for a bed thirty by forty feet. Commence using the fertilizer when the new leaves are being put forth, and apply it towards night, three times, at intervals of a week between each application. It should be dissolved in thirty gallons of rain or river water. Indeed, if anything be varied from this, let the proportion of water be larger:

"Nitrate of potash, sulphate of soda (or ' Glauber's salts'), and sal soda - of each one pound; of muriate of ammonia, one-quarter of a pound. Keep the bed well weeded. Tried on old beds even, the results, as above hinted, are highly gratifying."

Lima Beans - A correspondent of the Practical Farmer gives some particulars about the raising of a large crop of Lima beans by a Pennsylvania farmer:

The ground was a low piece, which is frequently overflown from a creek close by. It was manured broadcast with stable manure, and plowed in. No manure of any kind was used in the hills. Hills planted four feet apart each way, with four beans to each hill, which were made on the level surface, and covered one inch deep. Planted May 10, worked and kept clean with horse and cultivator; poles not put in till runners of beans were twelve to eighteen inches long. No, pinching process was practiced, they being allowed to run at will, and made a very large growth, completely covering poles, and run ning from one to another. When the frost came and killed the vines, they were loaded down with beans quarter grown. The beans were not started in a. hot-bed at all, and not soaked previous to planting.