Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1857-02-20
Ior the Democrat.
Rethel Farmers' Club.

fruit raising. lie had lost on ono hundred
trees GG g,r cent. IL costs more 70 SECURE m
orchard tlan most persons imagine. Some
are viutcr.killlcd, sap-lrozen, broken down
by snow, .uavcd by mice, and other causes,
., that tly experience Of must will BE- that
Of much disappointment. H. was raising a
small nursery for his own u.s., and should
not graf, ,iIl they wor, lars, enough togmf,
into the ap. llc presented an appl, raIsed
in Powual in 1855, which was s,ill com.
pamt,cly sound H. grated the -. Cath.
arinc prunc, last year, in the Canada Plum
which dil remarkably well. One stalk had
grown clslt feet during the last year. lie
believe. ifhrmcrs, rcsarllc,. OF Gll theories,
would sov a quantity Of rom.rc In tho TALL,
in some spot where the snow dit not drift,
they would secure orchard. sooner than by
going ~ nrahro,d. Probably ten thousand
,rcc. had been set ont in ,hi, town, within
.iy years, hu, hr had yet 90 s,o a promising
young orchard, except ia frw garden,
whore gr.at pains had brrn iAkcn. Trrc-
require constant attention 60 DO we'll W.
cannot, % drl our father, ia new s3il, .s,
out ,rrs aud then leave i, We have al.,
crrcl IN rrsuius too much, and too -lou,
especially rrlled trees.
=. Chapman, E.q, had 'tar'oi an or.
chard Of 100 trcc.-all dead. They had been
obtained from a nursery in thisc county whore
leachg,l ashes hal hccn used abunlintly 70
fore, them They were brittle and broke %
like pine stick The wood looked black
bat appeared we'll the frs, year. The land
was all unlcrlnincl.
4 : Burbank lo,i - out of blllNius
from the same nursery. llc has since sunk
drain thr,c fcJ, io.p though hi, orchard
j True, EV, of Pownal, had rlisrl nine
husfcl, Of arrI-. from ono ,r.g, eighteen
wears from ,.c ,-1l. Hal set out trr.s 90
year. aso, taken from light sandy s,il o.
lo,m, with much the same result, as ju,,
lr.,rilI
l. il.rey E.q., Il SIuth Paris, hal .st
Out ,r.s, ihrce times and faded. H. ,btuks
that in many cases root ea'iu- from old
trees bal h.cn rraeus,I by uurcymrn,
thu, iulu,,ng disease into the sun Tree,
want time to grow. The idea Of forcing a
growth urbu tTcys must De- t1 n certain cx.
tent given up
AitcT testing the fruit of our host, thesub-
Jet Of Stock was discussed.
Mr.. As burbank had in possession one
animal of the pur, Devon, from the farm OF
tho late Daniel Webster. Calves thus mr
worc ,e-y promising. lie bad just returned
from Au!ro,cossin County. Farmer, ,hrr,
were inclined 70 crop the Durham aud p,-
y5n. lIs aw % Devon IIgiiyr for which sIOu
bad been refused. H. thought ,hc Devon
better adapted % our Ta,luns,.
A. Gr.r, E-l., ha. ,mur,i Hsnnalcr
ami SImrr.,t Counties. IIc thought they
a.l -nr,rIrI remarkably we'll 10, hu
-
'.-'' w.. ''-' ','.' .,''. "" '''
uat. our pastures, anl have NOR pl.iuugr
iu proportion TO our tiInsr
j. Tree, E.l.,-rarmyr. are finding ou,
r,, ,l,n,ir. S,,,r.-, c,r, rr c.I7,,r 4.
b,,,,r dan a. fall ,,,l ogrcs,J. I,.b,glI
b, rlsr.ol N, milll, If jane in driI. q
ouart Of .esd t,ar,I Low ra.,ur, land.
should l, thrown int, narrow lcl, s, that
ca,,Io VIII NJ, tread Il, an. and in order 10
..cur, ,gcs, f,cI. H. had rnrti.,l chang.
in. f.l.,anI rl,turs. un "a farm or 40
,rr.. r.. NOR, than ton remained untouched
by thc How, AMI be had drained the mos,
oft from a virgin forest. He regarded six
year, Jlsturins equal o. dccrut coat Of
dressing. H. thought one great profit aro-a
from god summer grain. Tor vouu. stock
although thry should he well kcp, 900 winter.
Fancy stock must in most ease, have extra
i-sd. .lls though, that sheep raising wls
more Profitable than any other stock At the
present time. lIe had seen the present year
a sheep sold for Sll, aud wethcr for SlI,
for Slaughter.
Mr. II.r.,v stated ,b,, H., Cli F,.,,r
Of Ncwrv. lad s,ld the nett income Of hi.
g,,l m, r,.,y yc,r m, ~ IA NOR bc,l Tb.y
,,or, hon, IN ,,.,J,w b,v which vbor ,n,
.,,ly !. r,.,rJ,J bvm,rv a.mo,c ,,luab,c
,l,n ,pv o,hcr
n, To- L,1 .,,,o.,ior r,om o,o ot
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