New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1844-04-24


about planting one The profit and convenience
OF an orchard, are almost invaluable to thu
fdrmer-good fruit will always sell If he happens
to have surplus, and a plenty of fruit takes
away the appetite for intoxicating drnk-this is
a fact which cannot be too often repeated.
To him who has great plenty of land, and
great variety of surface, would advise for an
orchard vale ybctwccn hills if possible. so that
the wash from the land surrounding may always
tend TO the orchard-and the winds may he I'M
pcdcd, by tho hills, from visiting the orchard too
roughly.
There has been great diversity OF opinion upon
the distance of planting trees from each other
some have con;cndcd that the distance should be
four rods, that the sun and air may have full in.
fluencc on every tree, and every part ofit-others
have contended that distance much less is bet
ter My own experience and observation are in
favor OF close planting. so that by the time the
trees have got to their usual SIZE the limbs OF them
shall minglc, and inerock each other, and the
ground underneath will be perfectly shaded
Trees thus growing will produce larger and finer
fruit, and ground thus shaded, will not be likely
to be sapped with the growth of grass or weeds
nor parched or dried by the sun.
A young orchard should always be kept under
cultiyation-it will make an excellent potato
field for many years, provided 1t is well manu7ed,
and when it has become 80 shady that potatoes
will not grow, then keep it for summer retreat
for your hogs. The hogs will keep in good health
on the poor apples hit fall from the trees, and the
wo,,n that calculated on resurrection in the form
of curculio, finds nought but humiliation in the
laws of the swine Therefore the result is, after
a few years, fine fruit without wormy apples.
Although the last season was very good one
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State to supply the demand, and $4,000 barrels
were brought down on the Western Railroad 10
supply the demand at Boston. We can raise as
good fruit and can afford it as low as the farmers
in New. York. If our lands are not so good ma
turally, we can make them so artifcially-and
we too have Railroads to trundle them off to our
hearts content.
We never need fear raising too much fine fruit
for when such a contingency happens, by the
aid of steam we can seek market to the islands
of the ocean, or across the Atlantic, where Yam
kce fruit is always chccrfuy and well received.
Taunton Wing.
STRAWBERRY BEDs.--You may set strawberry
vines in April or in September. You can set
them in rows or drills like rows of pcas--you can
make hills fthcm, like bills of beans-or you can
set them so close that they will soon cover the
whole ground, and after the first year they will
need but little wedding.
The principal objection to this close setting, is
that your ground will soon be bound out by the
multitude of roots Interviewing with each other
This difficulty is obviatcd by subvertng CON-
plctelv one half the bed at q time, vines and ALL
once in three years.
Take spade in August, and go through the
bed turning the soil to the depth of six inches and
of the width Of your spade, and bury up the vines
Then leave the next breadth Of six inches
touched. and 90 through second breadth like the
first Thus you will subvcrt one half the bed, and
leave the alternate rows to reset that portion Of
the bed that you have turned.
In the following August turn the other half of
the bed, ard let the running vines reset what you
now turn. Perhaps this is the best mode Of ma
naging strawberry beds in garden where the
plough is not used, and where the soil is not
rocky. For field culture, hills or drills are pre-.
ferred. Hills arc more easily kept from weeds
In either of these two modes of cultivation, is
important to keep the soil covered with hay
straw, or leaves These check the weeds, keep
the soil moist and light, and the berries clean
OATs.-This crop should he got in az early as
ground is sufficiently dry to afford dry bed :;
and if you desire TO have such crop rs you
would not be ashamed TO tell the bushels per
acre, YOU must SOW in good ground, or manure
it; for 10 man ever yet reapcd remunerating
crop of oats from poverty stricken soil. If no
animal manure be at command, sow on every
acre you may put in oats, a bushel of plasterif
YOU apprchend danger from the cut worm, in ad-
dition to the plaster sow two bushels of salt per
acre. In preparing your ground, plough deep,
pulycrize thoroughly, harrow it in, and roll the
ground; if it should need it, run water burrows
so as 10 keep the crop dry. If your ground he
good, SOW from % to bushels per acre, and i'll
no event SOW less than 2 by heavy sowing you
exclude weeds, and secure TO the oat plants the
exclusive benefit Of the pabulum of the earth.
Germantown Telegraph.
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