The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1853-03-26
farmers prpurtnlent.

March WoRK.--SMALL FkuIT.-Plant
out cuttings of grape, gooseberry, cur.
rents, Sc, as early as practiblr, but II
they have been kept in moist place
during winter, and are plump and we'll
conditioned, they will soon make roots.
Those OF the gooseberrv and current
should have all the ewes removed; rX-
cept thre" or four at the top, as by this
means they will produce no single stalks
ard throw up no suckers. Grape cut
tings should be planted two eyes out,
and all cuttings should be partially
shaded, or they will not take root with
certainty. This is particularly true with
the grape.
Currents, gooseberries, and grapes,
two years from the cuttings should now
be transplanted in piacs, and in putting
them out, be sure not only TO dig the
holes as large as you intend the roots
to expand, but also to a depth Of at least
two feet. filling up the space previously
occupied by the subsoil with good
earth. Manure freely, but not with
termenting manure: for small fruits it
should either be we'll dsintereated with
muck or charcoal dust, or of a quality
not liable to heat. The gooseberry is a
rank feeder, as we'll as the raspberry,
and is capable of appropriating large a.
mounts of animal manures to its use.
Standardization, dress and fork
the beds.
Grape rines.-Loosrn the earth about
their roots and give them manures.
Swamp muck which has been decom-
posed by the salt and lime mixture an
swers a good purpose. Whole ZONES
buried near the roots of grape vines
will soon be appropriated, and during
the summer rest, little potash water
will hurry up their action. (Sec Cut
tirat1sn of Isabella uad Catawha
Grapes, vol. l., page 12.)
QWnces.-Do not believe the old
story that ounces will take care ofthem-
selves. Manure them well you want
fair fruit.
PROTECTIVE FARNlNG-In a treatise
on Productive Farming, just issued from
the press the following observations &C.
CUR
at is in vegetable as in animal life:
a mother Grams her child exclusively
with arrow root--it becomes fat, it Is
true, but, alas! it is rIcketv, and gets its
teeth very slowly. and with difficulty.
Mamma is ignorant, or never the thinks
that her offspring cannot make bone
or what is the same thing, phosphate OF
lime, the principal bulk Of bone-out Of
starch. 1t does its best; and were it not
for a little milk and bread. perhaps now
and then a little meat and soup, it
would have no bones and teeth at all.
Farmers keep poultry; and what is true
of fowls is true of cabbage. a turnip, or
and ear Of Wheat. five mix with the
food of fowls a sufficient quantity OF
egg.shels or chalk, which they eat
greedilv, they vii! lay many more eggs
than before. A we'll fed fowl is dis
posed to lay vast number Of eggs, but
cannot do SO without the met"riais tor
the shells. however nourishing in other
respects her food NAV be. A fowl with
the best will in the world, not finding
any lime in the soil nor mortar from
walls. or calcareous matter in her food,
is incapacitated from laying any eggs
at all. Let farmers lay such facts as
these, which are matters Of common OBJ
servation, to heart, and transfer the anal
ogy, as they may justly do, to the hab-
its of plants, which are as truly alive,
and answer as closely to evi! or utlici-