Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1842-06-01

work. The soil is afeTward cross |
ploughed once or twice by small one
handled plough. which turns no furrow
but cuts the earth tolerably deep-(his
plough is drawn by one or two yoke Of
oxen; the oxen in Persia are a slinted
punyspecies, but capable Of performing
considerable labor.) The surface is then
smoothed over with bushy drag Or with
a harrow. The small trees are set out in
rows, in the style of orchards in America.
The soil between them is usually sown
with clover at first, though. sometimes il
is sown annually with grain, until the
trees attain size % shade the crop and
destroy tit is never sown with grain
after the trees attain their full growth.
The orchard annually MowN. The
trees begin to bear fruit in four, five, or
f six years after being set out. The labor
Ioftaking care of them is but little, and
l!his is performed with SPADE. A small
conicaI mound, about foot high, is usu-
| ally thrown up around the trunks OF the
trees and they are irrigated in connexion
with The clover and grass among which
they grow.
In harvest time, single laborer may
pick ten bushels Of the ripe fruit in day.
selecting from the trees only what is ripe
land another laborer with two large bas-
kets slung one on each side of donkey,
will carry it to market. Usually most of
the family live in the orchard, during the
harvest, all feeding on the fruit, assisting
in gathering it, and watching it by night.
They have n small shelter in their or
chard, though they sleep in the opeE air,
there being no dew. Besides gathering
the fruit, they also dry considerable part
of i for sale and expectation, and for :heir
own winter use. .....
( 4. How deep is the earth moved?
| When small trees are set out, about 2
IL feet deep. afterwards lin digging
about ,hem) about or 10 inches.
5. What manure and what quality is
usedi
When the tree is set out, stable manure
is used, perhaps bushel is mixed with
the earth in the bed ia which the tree is
placed. This is not always done 10 set
ting out, and subsequently, no manure is
used in the orchards
6. How often is the garden irri gated!
| Ii the soil inciines to sand, every week,
lit not, every three or four weeks
z What climate in the United States is
best adapted 10 such cullivalion2
| should think the Middle States-as
the staple productions of Ooroomiah re-
semb!e those of the Middle States, being
wheat, rice, cotton and tobacco. H.. 49,
! Grapes and melons are used as food by
all classes in Ooroomiah, and particularly
by the peasants, even more than plums
and apricols. There are as many as
twelve kinds of grapes in that district, and
several ofthese are very superior.
| For the vine, the sell is first prepared
| with the plough. in the same manner as l
have described for the orchards. The
vine is set out in rows. The space about
Is feet wide between the rows, is sown
Two years with cotton, the soil being pre-
pared with the plough each year. The
llrd year, that III which the vine begins
10 bear, the soil is thrown up into ridges,
about three and halt feet high. The
row of vines stands usually on The north
side OF the ridge, that it may be shielded
from the concentrated heat of the sun.
They run up over this ridge and the
| grapes lie on the top and the opposite
side. Vines near the high mud walls,
with which many of the vineyards are
surrounded, often run up over the side
and over the top, afording striking illus.
trations Of the Scripture illusions, where
Joseph is compared TO vine. The vine
/ IS irrigated USUALLY twice in a season, by
turning stream of water into the alter.
nate bitches, between the ridges. In IT.
| rigating the cotton while the viue is young,
the latter of course secures irrigation.
The ridges are dug up-lhe soil being
moved with spade to the depth OF s or
10 inches once every spring. An acre OF
vineyard thus cultivated often yields an
nually 1000 or 1900 bushels Of grapes.
These are eaten very extensively in
their SEASONS They are also very extern
sivsly braided Nv their stems, in long
strings and hung up in dry places, and
kept toierably fresh during the winter.
Immense quantities are also dried (bv be-
ing spread in sunny place on tie ground,)
for sale and expectation. and for winter
and summer use. Immense quantities are
also made into molasses. the principal ar
Iicle of sweetening used by the peasants;
and immense quantities OF the inferior
Grapes and the gleanings are made into
Wine and Arrack, (Asiatic Brandy which
are an incredible scourge TO all classes of
the people of Persia.
MELoNs.-The musk.melon is ia:
greater favorite among the PersiaEs than
the Watermelon. though both are abun.
dant. Preparatory to planting the mel
ons the field is first ploughed with the
small one handled plough above describ-