Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1852-02-25
M | s CE LII "A N EOUS,
WINTER FRUIT.


In the abundance of summer fruit, whe,
man is reveling in all The 60 cd things show
cred upon him from NATURES prolific hor,
of plenty, he is too apt to forget, in the opu
lence Of the present supply, ,ha, drear,
winter is coming, when the generous hsnt
nf our common mother will be temporarl,
closed.
Man should be wiser than the beast. nav
as wise as the bee and the squirrel, and b,
the aid Of his superior reason, adopt mean.
to cultivate and preserve many kinds of frui
for winter use.
Man can subsisi, il is true, on the variou.
grains, sailed meat, potatoes, dried fruit, Sc
bu, how much more delicious is fresh fruit
SO far as ii can be kept in this condition
and how much more like Icing is il, to have
one perpetual summer, even in our rio orous
climate, by continuing through the season
OF frost plentiful supply offrui. ,ha, it may
be constituent in every meal?
1t is not enough to tumble quantity CT
bruised apples, shaken rudely from the trees,
into large bin, in some warm, damp cellar,
10 mold and rot, allowing only such use
OF them as can be snatched during the few
weeks or months that they may keep in
such state. They should not only be
carefully cultivated from The fines, varieties,
but carefully picked by hand, and placed
in cool, dry place, in such manner as
that every decaying one may be readily re-
moved.
With such skill in raising, and proper care
in preserving, every householder in the
country and in the city, may be able to re-
gale himself with choice and delicious fruit
il is nothing uncommon for us to have
apples in good preservation for weeks after
strawberries and cherries become plenty in
our market. If the farmer can raise apples
,ha. will keep good after long journey to
our large cities, until the next years straw
berries are brought to the same market. il
is self-eviden, that the grower himself might
have them as home luxury even longer
than his city customers.
The truth is, there is not one-fourlh as
much frui. raised as there should be. MOI
only should every farmer have it in abund-
ance the year round, but every viIlsger, who
has an acre or two Of ground, should raise
a full supply for himself, and then those
having large farms should turn sufficien,
land, labor, and attention to fruii-growisg
of all kinds comparatively cheap, and abso-
]utely abundant in all our large towns
How many millions of acres of rough, un-
iillabe land have we, east Of the Allegha-
nies, nowlying waste, which would produce
good crops Of win,er-apples, pears, peach
es, &c.?
Good land will give as profitable crop,
for the labor, in fruit as in anything, and
although rough rugged land will yield less
of fruit than good soil, vel how much more
will The broken, rocky land yield in fruil
than in any other crop. Thousands Of
farmers there are, who grub on an unwilling
soil to raise corn and other grain crops, and
by dint of clearing off the stones from few
acres of land, that it may be moved,
while they leave the rocky hilsides, which
constitute great majority of their entire
domain, 10 grow up to rank weeds and
bushes, to furnish poor apology for pas
ture; when, would they turn their attention
to planting those hills and rocky glens to
good fruil-trees they might no. only live
more easily than now, but make money and
live like lords.
If any of our readers, and there are doubt
less thousands of them, who are now, in this
cheerlesss month Of February, living with
on. fruit, and who mus: continue TO 90 SO
until next June, let them resolve to p!an
some fruit trees as soon as The lros' IS on
Of the ground. Now is the time to make
the resolution, when you feel the value anc
importance of the subject, to select your
ground, make the purchase Of your trees
and establish the determination to effec
this good object a. the earliest available
moment.
And those who live in the cities and pay
as now they do, from three to six dollar
barrel for apples, will thank US for tn
suggestion bu. the farmer far more, wh'
will put it into practical execution. w
want fruit so very plenty as to be so chea
tha, all may have it in abundance; an
when this good time shall come, the Who'll
people will form the hab, Of using it pro
fusely, minis,erlng alike to the advantage c
their own health and happiness, and to 'h
sure sale of tho article and the profit of th
grower