Monongalia mirror. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1855, 1854-10-14
DOMESTIC ECONOMY.
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A correspondent ofthe Neso Englana
Farmer says If9
Thirty years ago purchased an estab-
lishment consisting Of dwelling-house,
barn, carriage and wood.house, calculating
to make it apermanent residence. There
was attached a little land for garden, on
which were just five apple trees, and in
front oflhe house were three trees ofthe
balm Of Gilead; the trees were all about six
inches in diameter at that time, but two
ofthe apple trees were hollow, and cut
one Of them down, after trying TO make it
do something and finding l could not.
Well, all the appleptrees bore some
thing for fruit, but SO grabbed and sour
they would make pig squeal. At this
time was engaged as atrader, and had q
country store to look after, which occu.
pied about all my time, but as time went
on, the stage-coaches and railroad cars
succeeded one another, l had more time;
for can now travel as far in four hours
as | could then in two entire days with
my team. Well, for amusementI graft
ed all the four apple trees gradually, or
year by year, cutting, off the old branches
and grating the limbs with Roxbury rus
sets, New York russets, Baldwins, &C.,
&c., all the best kinds Could find. Now
for results: | have had about ten barrels
of good apples, annually, to put up for
winter for three or four years past, besides
all we used in the family Of FIVE, and we
have used them freely, all we wanted, till
time to gather the winter apples.
lhave yard in front of my house about
forty feet square, in front Of which are
two of the balm Of Gilead trees before
mentioned, which are now large trees
and l have left them outside Of the front
fence; but inside Of the fence sci out a.
bout ten years ago, three trees of the COM
mon summer pear, which now give US all
the pears we want for they have borne
we'll for about four years. From the pear
trees to the house, l filled the space with
flower-beds and have had many varieties,
say twenty kind Of roses, and nearly one
hundred kinds Of flowers; [haye planted
on the south side Of my buildings, next to
the passage to the barn, plums, peaches,
and grapes. The peaches have notsuc-
ceeded well, nor the plums, so ! cut'the
plum trees offand grated them with the
green and purple gage only three or four
years ago, and now ! have plenty ofthe
finest plums l ever saw, SO that have had
TO prop the small branches. My grapes
beganto bear last year; had abou, BUSH
el, and should think might get double
the quantity thisyear. lhave set out some
ounce trees, but they do not bearyet.
Beside the tree and grape vines, ] have
annually raised about ten or twelve bush.
els Of potatoes, six or seven bushels Of
beets and carrots, some English turnips
and ru,a bagas, and few cabbages and
onions, as many as our folks warted TO
10 use. We have also had beans. peas,
and corn, what we wanted to use green
and | have annually had about three or
four bushels Of dry corn, say two bushels
common yellow corn, one bushel pop.
corn, and sweet corn enoughto plant my,
ssIf and'supply oil nynsighvcts. Alspl