Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1855-09-27

ready in the FALL and set them the frost out IN the
Spring while the ground SOFT If they can not De SGT un
they should be kent cellar cool place, to keep them
from growing them late june and had them 40
well bot they ought to set early the first of May o
Planting, This is very simple OPERATION anu NH
very aborious vsn ground mellow But perhaps some will
not know what that planted not seed nor
&c nees When a Ss land sDS Cuttings are
plant mark out the land in about three feet apaana %
% nS make y ss Da wi Es ai
and will be mucaser cuvang thm and look much BETTER
to have them than to have them cooking about and run
ming into each though those who set them were not
brought up under @ influence of the Maine Law But sup
posing that n your land marked of straight, you put
pail of cuttings your left stick them foot apart in
the and be sure stick the right end down. leaving but
an angle Of forty five degrees if is any easier than them
perpendicular 1t viii require about $4,000 cuttings to set an
CuiuaOn-They should be cultivated Wcu the first year
small barrow cuao should be through them often enough
that with the help Of the hoe the ground would be kept loose
and free from weeds and it would be we'll the cnltyato
few times through them tho second yeaunt they would be
damaged breaking down the tops After the second they
will generally shade the ground they require cultivation
Citing binding tceThe willows can be any time after
the leaves fall before thebuds begin to swell in the spring They
cut with knife with hooked instrument made for the
purpose They should be within inch two of the old
stock every year. Bind them into small bundles and be careful
get the lower ends AS as begins to be in the
spring. them in sufficiently deep touch the lower ends
Of all and there let themsand until they will peel which will be
in May and june in tbsatude If you have brook running
through
ing flow level piece and then poles once
feet for them to Lean agar 80 . s sun r may shine on
is brook convenient small piece Of ground in some low
place be ved and after making as tight possible bring
of water into it with sputs pipes 1t costs about five
dollars per to cut and bind them. .. ...
Peng md Preparing for Market-In peeng willows by hand
they always haze been peeled necessary handle them
all twice at time which made it very slow business
qang the labor of and peel hundred pounds in
day but there no longer necessity Of peng them that
way would be needless to describe the operation With the
and quickly done the operator takes small bundle of the willows
and feeds them into the machine he would bundle of grain
thrasng machine and they passed through and
out peeled at the rate of from to per day. There
should be trough vat of placed that the rods will fall
into they out of the machine and often the trough
is full rinse them it the water and spread them dry When
they sufficiently dry which will be few hours after they
peeled they may be tied bundles ready market
In binding them put of the thick ends both ways that
the bundles will be large end the other and get
them tight strap with buckle end and draw them
together tight as possible then tie with strong twne three
four bands bundle They very slippery things if not
well bound liable work loose and thus be and
The object of having them a they of the
machine the slime thus preventing them from turning
color, as it very desirable to have them white -.
The Martet-rhee no fear about finding ready market for
quantity of willow 1t can be used for such great variety Of
purposes that there calculating the that will be used
this country when can be obtained do expect that it
will aDaw command the price it doesneithe had it ought
TO- Now that be peeled by machinery exceed
ing ten dollars per and the whole raising and peeng
hundred and fifty dollars But will be long time before the
market be supplied to reduce the price, and will
be reduced that it will not better than other farm CROP
for there limit the amount that will used when they
be furnished alta reasonable price The amount annually imported
into this country from France and Germany varousy stated to
be from five six millions of dollars worth 1t will take
time produce that amount in this country and any
that tho price cannot be much reduced until this Importation is
stopped At present. New York monopols the whole willow
trade but they will find ready market when offered any city
in the Union The present price from hundred to
hundred and sixty dollars tom according to the quality In
st. Louis and all the western cities they worth cents per
pound than the eastern cities As fairly get
raising willows there will be wAow byer who will through the
country the they do purchase other farm produce
they may be commission merchant and he will advertise
and sell them at the highest market price, readily he would
butter cheese
The amount produced dcreTb of VARIES with
every other crop. The first years crop will not to much
unless wanted for cuttings to increase the plantation The second
year they will produce about half CROP and the third and every
year thereafter whole crop which will according to the land
and cultivation, from to five six tons acrebu these
highest figures only be obtained the very choicest
Two three may considered fair average yield in such
situations and with such cultivation described in this circular
have endavored in this circular give short but clear do
scrpton of the whole process Of cuyang Basket Willows from
choosing of the right kind land until the money poketed
for the There nothing difficult about any part of it, and
succeed who has suitable land and disposed engage this
and profitable business had room might 60 and describe
the variety Of uses to which Willows can be applied and the uses
various other useful purposes But it the Willows that am af
the bark for muchng fruit trees and think pays
prepared to furnish cuttings large quantities. at the fol-
lowing reduced prices, delivered at Jonesvile Depot
For less a 18th than 10000 cuttings, $500 per 1000
For 5000 more, 2,06 d"
Cuttings also be obtained Of Erasus Parker Waterbury, w.
at the rates.
They be safely sent winter my distance Orders by
mail will be promptly attended and the cuttings sent directed
GEO. j. COLBY.
Jonesoue, August, 1855. s.st
As Mr. Colby has referred me- in relation to his Machine for
Peeng Willows, would say, that affords pleasure
that Ihave the Machine work and fully satisfied that it
will perform the business for which it is intended the per-
feet manner. E f. IA r
In the
fully satisfied have been the business three years. have
four growing of which last Spring and in
tend to connee enlagng my plantation although land very
valuable for other crops. ERASTUS PARKER.
Waterbury, Sept, 1885,
Any publisher of newspaper in this State who will give all
the above relation to the Basket Willow insertion shall
eve dollar sending copy Of the containing
= it, ERAsTUs PARKER