The Massachusetts spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1831-1858, 1832-06-27
DESCRIPTION OF A METHOD

!" "'t"S cuCH TeeS, DtIh q cletO
st Pregenf fheir premature decay; confrme
% cyme experience Of forty:fue gears, in De-
i oa1dre State and the western parts of Penn
l. $ycania. BY Thomas Coulter, Esq, 0
IS bedford County, Penn.
ne death OF young peach trees is princi
II paily owing to planting, transpanting, an,
, piuhihg the same stock, which occasions
y 70 ne open and tender, with a rough bark
~ consequence of which, insects lodge ant
II preeu IN 1t and birds search after them
"ieieoy wounds are made, the gum ex.
: naes' and IN few years the tree is useless
prevent lhs, transplant your trees as
. young as possible, if in the kernel it will he
{ oest, as There will then he no check OF
CROWN Plant them l6 feet apart. Plough
and harrow between them for two wears
, without regard to wounding them, bu,
AVOID tearing them up by the roots, In the
month OF March or April, in the thin, year
"i'er trahsnlaniinn. lnf ibep, all off hy the
5 ground, plough and harrow among them as
: before, bat with great care, to avoid wound
ing or tearing theW. Suffer all the sprouts OF
} sclons to grow, even if they should amount tc
| half dozen or more they become bearing
t trees almost instantaneously, on account Of
, the strength of the root. Allow no ami
mails but hogs to enter your orchard for
tear OF Their wounding the shoots as a
substance drains away through the least
wound, which is essential to the health of
the tree and the good quality oil the fruit.
1t the old stock is cut away the third
year after transplanting, no more shoots
will come to maturity than the old stump can
support and noursh the remainder will
die before they bear fruit, and may be cut
away, taking care not to wound any other
stock Inc sprouts, when loaded with
fruit, will bend and rest on the ground in
every direction for many years; all of them
being rooted as if they had been planted,
their stocks remaining tough and their
bark smooth for twenty wears and upwards
If any of the sprouts from the old stump
should happen to split off and die, cut them
away, they will be supplied from the ground
by others, so that you may have trees from
the same for one hundred years, as be-
lleve. | have now trees from one to thirty
six years old, all from the same stump
Young trees, formed III this manner, will
! bear fruit the Second year but this fruit
Will not rlpen so early as the fruit on the
older trees from the same stump. Three
years after the trees are cut off, the shoots
will be sufficiently large and bushy to
! shade the ground so as to prevent the
growth of grass, that mil ht injure the trees
therefore ploughing will be useless, and
may be injurious by wounding them.
! IL is also unnecessary to manure peach
trees, as the fruit of MANFRED trees is al
ways smaller and inferior to that of trees
which are not MANFRED By manuling you
make the peach trees larger and apparently
more fourisbing, but their fruit will be of
bad kind, looking as green as the leaves,
even when ripe, and later than that of trees
which have not been MANFRED, Peach
trees never require rich soil the poorer
the soil the better the fruit; a rniddlinD
soil produces the most bountifu crop. The
highest ground is the best for peach trees.
and the north side of hills is most desira-
able, AS it retards vegetation, and prevents
the destructive effects of late frosts which
occur in the month Of April, i'll Pennsylva-
MA. CONVINCED by long experience, of the
1 truth OF these observations, the author wish
es they may be published for public benefit,
and has been informed, that Col. Luther
Martin and another gentleman, in the low
er part of Maryland, have adopted similar
plan with great advantage.
CHILDREN IN BRITIsH FACTORIES. In
England thousands of parents are obliged
to send their children to WORK in factories.
If they refuse to do so, they are refused all
relief out of the poor rates. The children
: thus employed are denied the advantages
which the brutes of the field enjoy.
; member of the House of Commons.
during late discussion upon "the Regu-
lation Bill of Factories" stated, that it
rarely happened that any of the persons
brought up in factories, lived beyond the
age of forty, and the consequence is that
the manufacturing districts are filled with
orphans. The labor of children, even oil
the weaker sex, had been so oppressive
that adults must sink under its lnhumar
pressure. The hours of labor had from
time to time increased until now no con
situation, however robust could withstand
its exhaustion. The mortality among chill.
dIen so employed is much greater than the
mortality among any other classes of chill.
dren: it is as one to 800. The average
longevity in a worsted mill, employing 400
females, does not exceed ID years! At q
factory in Wales the children are employ
ed from SIX in the morning 10 seven in the
obliged to work all night. For the nigh
work they receive .fve pence. The children
are allowed scarcely sufficient relaxation
for eating their meals. A surgeon VIII
travelled through the manufacturing dis
J tric;s, found at Manchester, out of l67 chill
drcn at work in a factory, AZ who were de
formed or mutllated in consequence of IN
: cessant labor. If the children are foun
idle during hours of labor, they are chastls
: ed-whipped with a thick double stral
made of well seasoned leather.
The above facts we take from the speec
Q already referred to. Let them serve 10 b,
u get spirit of contentment and thankfnlne.
IN the minds of those who are employed
similar establishments in our own free ar
u happy land.-Portsmoui Herald.
" THE LIoSs OF PARIS. A respected CORE
Il pondent has sent as the following anecdol
II which was related 10 him by gentleman lat
" ly arrived from Paris we give it in his oy
l. words - Wandering near the Palace | W
" saluted with Would Monsieur like TO see /
king will show him for frame Thou
surprised how one so mean in appearance cot
realize his promise, | accepted the offer, a
4, paid my franc. My Friend Immediately CO
o. menced shouting at the top of his lungs, Lot
If Philippe, Louis Philippe keeping up rattli
~, accompaniment with his stick against the il
10 ratings. The crowd collected, and joining
,, the cry, the welkin echoed with Louis Pl
~ ippe, Louis Philippe when the obedent M
40, arch thus summoned, made his appearance
,ir u window, bowling repeatedly to the crowd
n =, More mortified at INV cOnsnCuous 0DDear0