Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1841-09-14
AGRICULTURAL.
From the Cutivator
MULBERRY HEDGES, YELLOW To-
GUST. &c.

MULBERRY HEDGES, YELLOW LO-
GUST, &c.
MEssRs. EDIroRs-Fye years ago,
emsrated to the Far West, and after spcn-
ding the summer in Illinois, purchased a
fractional quarter Of 175 acres of govern
ment land in the county Of Knox. The
August following moved on it; the next
spring enclosed it with rail fence Ms
land is prairie, and situated two and half
miles from the nearest timber. | have
drawn my building and fencing timber
above three miles. have now, however,
neatly three hundred rods of the white
mulberry in hedge rows, Of one and two
years growth, embracing probably above
eight thousand trees, all Of which have
been produced in two years from few
hundred seedlings. Ny hedges have been
cut off at or near the ground, some once,
others twice. The mulberry grows very
rapidly on our prairies. | have seen the
second years. growth from cuttings grown
from the ground, that measure seven feet
in height.
| wish TO inquire through the Cultivator,
the best mode to cultivate them, having in
view both the raising Of silk and the ma
king Of live fence. Also some Of the best
varieties of the apple TO cultivate for the
feeding of swine and neat stock.
| am cultivalng the yellow locust for
timber. plant the seed in a nusery near
a dwelling, to prevent the destruction Of
the young plant by the prairie hen. In
the summer Of 1889, they entirely destroyd
five acres for me, planted in the field.
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growth in rows, four by six feet, and cul-
tivate the first season with the pillow, after
the western manner of cultivating corn.
They make a growth Of tho first season
after TRANSFORMING, from five to nine feet,
and send out such u multitude of branches
that it is with difficulty man can ride
through the widest rows in the fall on horse
back.-They will bear transpanting from
the time the frost is out Of the ground until
the buds have eXpndcd; not one in two thou
sand will fail. They may be propa gated
by cuttings, and by cutting the roots into
pieces Of an inch or two in length, and
planted the same as the, seed, only cover
deeper; the seed should never be covered
more than half to three fourths of an inch.
lost the seed and planting OF two acres
last season by covering little over an inch.
replanted, and took particular pains TO
cover less than three-tourths-sa seed
and preparation, and scarcely hill failed
have the whole worke OF the Genesee
Farmer, and can truly say | would not
part with it for more than its first cost. |
find it valuable book Of reference, and
many an evening have spent pleasantly
in its perusul. | have probably read all
that has been written on the subject Of the
transmutaton Of wheat into chess, but |
always disbelieved the doctrine, and as
had commenced on Il farm new and clean,
and none hadever grown withinthrc miles,
| resolved | would begin the raising of
wheat on a small scale, and SOW clean seed.
| accordingly purchased one bushel, and it
was called pretty clean seed wheat.
picked it over by hand, and found about
three pints Of chess, which | carefully
burned. On harvesting my first crop.
found only one stool Of chess, and thought
had done my work pretty efItctually that
found no more. The second crop, from
the heading of the wheat to lie cleaning
II for market, with close and CAREFUL exami-
nation, | found none. | have the third
crop on the ground, and if that, the same
wheat produces chess on my farm, | will
inform you.
Last season | received from the East a
few small Rohan potatoes, not to exceed
one sixteenth of a bushel, planted them
one eye in a hiIE the potatoes were large
and fine, and measured a little over TWEEN
tv-fve bushels. | have annually grown
the carrot, wurt2el and ruta baga; the two
former have harvested at the rate of more
than one thousand bushels per acre-ruta
boga, from five to eight hundred. The car
rot wurtzel suffer the least from drought.
and think are the most profitable crops.
think they are all superior to dry corn for
mich cows and other stock have win
tered hogs with them to good advantage.
The common hogs of the country are of
the Landpikc and Alligator breeds. and
their crosses; think they must soon give
way for the noble Berkshire, as some fine
specimens Of that breed have been brought
from Albany 10 this country. l.. r.. Jr.
HENDERSON, KNOX co. Ill. Sd mo. 10Th.
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