Litchfield enquirer., 1840-08-13

slowed on oXcn or horses as beasts of draught; and both sides have contested the point with too much prejudice, and some i::n"s with too much aninoSitv this is ore reason why tfle question has never yet hecn decided, and why no positive results have yet been arrived at on the subject. -
 Inc preference may certainly be given to horses or the following considerations:
 They are capable of all kinds ot agricul- t'Iral labor, they adapt themselves to every road. and to every degree oi tempcraturc.- Where horses are kept there is no occasion to select the particular kind of labor to which they may be applied, they may hc employed in any work which presses itself, and attached to all implements. 'fhcv per- form all kinds of work very exrcditiouslv, and are capable of sustaining their speed for a considerable length of time; conse- quently the conductors are kept fuller em- ployed while working With horses, than when working with oxen. Although less steady at heavy dranght than oxen, the ra- pidity of their motion and their spirit ena- bles them to overcome obstacles of shCEt du- ration, which would frequently stop team of oxen. t..s. -'7 '.gs nl 5
 Oxen, on the contrary. have thc following advantages in their favor: .s-&s
 They can execute most of tho agricuitu- ieI opcTdtloitS, plOuSilliiS, CfauSHt, NC' equally as well as the horse, and hen well fed, are capable of enduring almost as much fatigue. Many persons consider that they are more useful in ploughing in corn than horses.
 Their keep is much less expensive. The original price of an OK is generally far be- low that of horse their harness also is much less costly; their food is much ChCa- per.
 Oxen, so far from diminishing in value when they are well fed and not overwork- cd, frequently become more valuable, ana on being sold often fetch more than thcn original price, thus almost paying the inte- rest on their capital whereas horses de- cline in value as they grow older, until they are worth little more than their skins, and the capital expended on them is thus completely absorbed. Oxen are also less liable to accidents and diseases.
 They require less cleaning and attention a cowhcrd can take care of thirty oxer, when other men work with them alternate ly.
 Lastly, they produce greater quantity of dung, and the manure derived from them is generally more useful than that which is obtained from horses.
 We shall be able clearly to demonstrate that which must already be apparent, that even the portion of agricultural labor which can be properly executed by means of OK en, will not be executed so cherply by them as by horses. If all the operations on a farm were of such nature as to be easily performed by oxen, these animals only ought to De made use ot. Although ! the operation of narrowing is far better ex. ecuted by means of horses than by oxen vet this does not, in my opinion, form | SlIffi F.inpf in ipiIlrp tho DIDr. ton of the former. But in most farms there are many operations which oxen are sill less calculated for, or at least which they perform exceedingly slowly. This would be a sufficient motive for keeping n certain number of horses, regulated of course by tho amount and extent of these operations.
 Taccr1atirc or Crctt,ng in the Bud d--r,,~ buds 10 be used in this process are to he ta- ken from thrifty scions, the growth of the present year-the largest buds, or the first settings on the scion are preferable. The scions of the present years growth or of the preceding are mos, suitable 10 be negotiated Small trees of the size of a common ra.tar may be inoculatcd to the best advantHge- though larger are frequently inoculnted.- = | In my observation have found that cherrie' and plums do best when inoculated as early in the season as practicable; as genera l rule, say, when cherries are ripe, and a' long afterwards as the sap is free and tht bark is loose, which is usually the case while the tree Is growing. Peach trees and nee tnrincs may be budded until late in Septem' | ber. ''' '.."~ -.." '
 The process is very simple. Any pcrsor that can use penknife and tie a string car perform it. Various methods for inserting | the bud are used with success. ] have sue 1 ceeded well in the following manner = 1 To separate the bud from the parent scion. place the knife quarter of an inch or more | above the bud, then cutting it in a slopinl manner under the bud, and rounding ii on | below so that the bud with the bark is usual l " about an inch long, carefully extracting 1 the wood from the inside of the bark ant leaving the stem of the leaf on the bud. Ir inc scion 10 be inoculated, cut the bark round-ways wide enough to receive the bud and downwards the fnll length of bud tc be inserted, raising the corners with the pen. knife. then press the bud downwnrds m der the bark, to is place, fastening II with | string above and below the bud. The string is to be removed in the course of two oI three weeks; and the scion above inc inocu iation must be cut of the following spring. Farmers 6Gzeffe.
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