The Kalida venture. [volume] (Kalida, Ohio) 1841-1865, 1852-04-09

cropJu just set down, would make the year
ly net Product forIy-seyen dollars pei
acre, or more than iwo-thirds the capita
invested. With other fruits, the price il
often much higher. Good late pears, az
ter transportation 10 great distances, sell
in our cities at three 10 FIVE dollars pei
hushel. Single trees, producing eight
TO ten bushels each, have in number
ofinstances afforded prof, of twenty or
thirty dollars. Farms ofa hundred acres
are SCARCELY ever made to yield so much
as a well.managed single acre Of such
pear trees would produce. aa
A few we'll ariested- instances of shc.
cess will show that these es,imates are
no, exiravagant Richard J. Hand. Of
Monroe county, New York, sold in lS45
$40 worth Of northern spy and Roxbury
russell apples from one acre. The land
was well cultivated. Numerous cases
have occurred under the notice Of the
writer where one hundred dollars or more
have been made from the sale Of an acre
Of good winter apples; and number Of
trees Of the Rhode Island greening have
borne forty bushels each a, crop, yield
ing ten dollars from each tree. A fruit
raiser in Orange county, N. Y, sold in
one year more than three hundred dol
lars' worth Of plums from the fourth Of an
acre. These are only few out Of many
instances which might be given.
Now, il is admitted that these are un.
usual cases; but they are so for no other
reason than tha, good cultivation is unus.
ual. No part, in the management Of
trees, receives more general neglect; and
no neglec. results in greater lnss TO the
orchardisi. II seems particularly unac-
countable that while fruit trees furnish
larger returns than anything else on the
farm, they should be the very thing that
the farmer most neglects. Nothing is
more common than 10 suffer trees, both
young aud old, 10 weather the whole
season through with scarcely a moment
Of labor or attention. Each has cost ten
times more originally, and is worth now
fifty times more, than hill Of corn or po.
tatoes, yet who thinks for moment Of
planting hill of corn In grassy field,
and Of leaving il untouched by cultivation
from spring 10 auiumnf Yei This 10 the
treatment Of large portion Of newly
transplanted trees. All the remarkable,
and in some cases almost incredible, To-.
stances Of young trees commine soon in.
10 bearing, and Of older trees yielding
enormous and lucrative crops, have
mainly resulted from the same good
manuring and mellowiDg OF soil which
every good cultivaior gives for his pota-
toes, carrots, and cabbages. q boa ''S
a Orchards which now yield forty or fifty
dollars per acre without care, nigh, Le
doubled in the value of their annual pro-
ducts by the appropriation Of "a sum not
exceeding five to ten dollars per acre.
The advantages Of good treatment are
three-fold; young trees are thrown for
ward into bearing in less than half the
time otherwise requisite; the products Of
large trees are doubled in amount, and
the appearance and flavor are sometimes
improved to degree almost beyond be.
lief. Some varieties of the pear, almost
worthless under neglected culture, have
been rich, melting, and delicious, when
subjected to the genial influence Of a
deep, mellow, and fertile soil. Some
Zines the same pear has been thus ,ripled
in marke! value; and so great has been
the change in appearance, as well as in
flavor, that we have known even expe-
rienced promologisis 10 be deceived into
The belief that new sorts were before
them, when they were really bu, old &C.
quaintauces grow under the mos, fayora-
Bile influences.
Transplansing 1T has been estimated
that OF the hundreds Of thousands of
trees yearly Sc. ou, in orchards in the
United States, not more than one-third
even reach good bearing condition.
The delicacy in the organization Of all
the parts OF q young tree appears 10 be
overlooked or forgotten. The roots ere
mu,ilated when torn from the ground or,
fourffihs Of their length Gu, off hs the
spade. They aye crowded info small
holes, dug in hard soil, and often not
large. enough 10 receive all the roots,
such as they ere, without binding, and
the earth is stamped hard upon them. A
large number necesssfily perish from
such treatment, and nose which survive
often remain in a sickly and feeble con-
diiion, from neglect in successive years.
Very opposite is the managemen. Of
the skilful aid successful cultivator. The
trees ae Carefully lifted from the earth,
securing large cilcle of creeping roots
ard inely branching 6bres;; they are
next immersed in bed Of mud, to coat
the surface, aud prevent Injurious drying;
ample holes are dug for the full ex,en-
sion Of all the roots; fine and fertile soil
is sprinkIed in. while the small fbres
are evenly sptead oat'with the fingers; the
earth isiclosely settled through all the 10.
. u ,:.o. nr tha iroots MT hv p,uc,x;,,-,