The Plymouth pilot. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1851-1852, 1851-05-14
Facts for Farmers.

Facts for Farmers.
II won't do TO hoe great fell for lit
tie crops. nor to NOW twenty acres for
FIVE loads of hay. Enrich the land. and
it will pay yon for il.
Better farm twenty acres well. than
! fifty acres by halves.
In dry pastures dig for water on the
brow of hill; springs are more fire.
quent near the surface on height than
in vale.
Experienc ed farmers think it bes. to
cut wheat before it is fully or dead ripe
When the Straw Immediately below the
grain is SO dry, that Oh twisting it no
juice is extracted, it should be cut-for
then there is no circulation of Juice to
the ear. Every hour that it stands UNI
cut after this stage, is attended with
loss.
Accounts should be kept detailing the
expense and product of each field.
When an implement is no longer want
ed fol the season. lay it carefully aside,
but first let it be we'll cleaned.
Cultivate your heart Alright as well as
that shall he also reap.
Don't build an extensive house, nor
spacious barn. until you have some thing
to store in it.
Keep notes of all remarkable events
on your farm. Recording even your err
rors, will be OF benefit.
Good fences make good neighbors.-
RENE Der that.
Experiments are commendable, but do
not become an habitual experimenter.
Sheep put into fresh stubble are apt to
be killed by eating too much grain.
Sow your clover deep: it secures it
against the drought.
Make your soil rich; pulverize it we'll,
and keep it clean, and it will generally
produce well.
Cows we'll fed in winter, will give as
much milk as in summer.
Get up your winters wood at spare
times during the summer and fall; cut it
up the right length, and pile it away un-
der shelter near :he kitchen door; your
wife will like you all the better for it.
LARGE PEAR TREE.-Mr. c. Cone, sen..
has in his front yard, on the banks of the
Miami, about two miles below Venice,
Butler co., Ohio, a pear tree measuring
ten feet in circumference near the ground.
Mr.. Cone set it out near fifty years ago
The body of it is solid and nearly round.
1t has been grated and bears various kinds
of nearS The was ,1leaSure1 on Sa
urday last. It's not as high as pear trees
usually grow when of tina, size, it not be-
ing over fortyfve feet. In New Hamp
shire and Massachusetts they grow very
high. and are apparently as onglived as
forest tree-some Of them being one
hundred and fifty years old. But the
one at Mr.. Cones is the largest we have
ever seen. Brookville American.
! COMPOST FOR FLUlT TREEs.-FIuit tree s
must be fed. if we would have them
thrive and bear. Decaying leaves or
the scrapings from the forest form one of
the best ingredients for compost designed
for any kind of fruit trees. Mr.. Down
ing. distinguished fruit culturist and
editor of the HORTICULTURE gives it as
his opinion that the best compost adapt
ed for general use, with fruit trees. is
that composed of swamp muck, or the
black decayed vegetable waiter to be OBJ
tanned from low grounds. mixed with
wood ashes, at the rate Of i've bushels of
fresh ashes or twice that quantity OF
leached ashes to a MACON load. This
compost he would modify as follows, to
to adapt it to the different varieties oil
fruit trees:
For apple TreeS.-To every cart load
of muck and lime mixture. after it has
lain fortnight, add two bushels of all
Stacked lime.
Pear Trecs-To every cart load of the
muck and ashes mixture, add bushe! Q.
ground or dissolved bones, and a bushel
Of eached ashes.
Plum Trees: To every cart load OF the
muck and ashes mixture, add half bush
} ell of lime, half bushei of ashes, and a
peck of salt.
Grape Vines: To every cart load of the
muck and ashes mixture, add bushel o.
gypsum or plaster.-Maine Farmer.
AsHEs.--Take especial care of all the
ashes made on your place--don't permit
them to be exposed to the weather, bu
/ keep them under cover. Five bushel!
of ashes, mixed with two double horse
cart loads of marsh river mud, muck o
{ peat, convert the whole into good ma
nure. A hogshead CT two of soap sud-
would do the same thing--therefore
among your other things, save and utiliz,