New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-04-13

rure, covering the groand two or three inehes deep.
We can't over feed gooseberriss currants or roses
Strawberries may be ruined byover manuiIrg. l
have u.ed salt water upon goo.ese,ry bashes with I'D
vantage Some Of our seeding varieties and improved
natives are very excellent and productive IA orna
mental hedge be made OF Wild gooesbery bGshcs-
and IN "A an abundance Of fTui' ID make good plss
To ktep Moths outof Bees. NJ. Disosp Eaton
County, Mch.-I suspended hive by wires and thus
saved the swarms from moths. Inc hivee was sus-
pended about three fourths Of en- inch shove the
bench.
Tyansrlaniing Cab6agr.-Nr. Esros inelsed The
young psnt with dry forest leaf rolled up, ana tne
small end ipseed in the earth, 50 that the psn' saos
as !, in 8 cup made OF leaf, ana tnis h'sPson
all attacks of grub worms. -
SoIoy RoRiSsoS suggested that the same plan VII
probably save the young plants Of neloas, &c. Eom
beng destroyed by huge.
A,ides- on Grdtes.-Dr. CsprRHmL-Any Ind OF
muchirg is good 10 prevent mildew. gale OF wind
don't irjuie grape ynes-they need free eircalascn
Of air. A vineyard a hill exposed 70 the riod is
net likely to be injured by mildew inseots A Vine
yard mast not be inclosed with tight board tense on
anything else TO keep Off the storms Let them coma
and the winds blow their iau force The wait Of free
circulation Of air in cities is the cause Of 80 many fall
The best plan is 10 train single stalks up 70 The
roof ard then cover an arbor, where the grapes vii
grow in great roots growing under me
Ws L,wTos-Almost any tree roots win grow and
perfect the tree and fruit, when entirely paved over
with brick or stone. No one need be wi:hsu. fraSe
who has foot of earth In which 10 plant Young
vine.
Bad Ftcd for Mica Cors.-SoLOs Ropissos-A
letter.wrter wishes 70 call the attention Of the
Club to the following fact:
Cows are very fond of the leaves of sugar maple,
but their effect upon the quantity Of milk is bad -
they cause them to dry fast therefore milk cove
should never be allowed to feed in lots when and
where the maple trees are shedding their leaves.
j. NJ. DMOSD, OF Michigan, confirmed this theory
by stating that he had noticed that his cows always
s on Ps us
though he had never before heard the cause ~
signed.
The Leeds (England) Mercury, which viii read,
as it gives an entirely theory for the Prevention
of the potato disease so easily tried that hope every
person present. and who may read this article viii Try
The condensed facts Of this new preventative are
tbese: Some years ago, some boys engaged IN tho
field Of farmer in Belgium, amused themselves ~
inserting peas into the seed potatoes they were SET
plant In due time both peas and potatoes grew To-
gether producing an unusual yield OF peas, when
beirg gathered the potatoes were allowed to ripens
and upS4 Sss of e
John jackson OF Leeds, in his letter to The Nor
e"y ~ say Ic.eDA Bower chemist, of uns. had r.sd
the account in the papers, and Informed me Of IL Dor
some time before had paid good deal Of attention
TO the subject Of the potato disease, but my inquiries
had certainly not gone in that direction inned,stey,
however set TO work, 10 endeavor to nnd solnto9
| 10 the new problem. submitted many samples OF
diseased notatoes and of sound potatoes 10 carefU
chemical analysis, and invariably found ina. inc
diseased potato es as compared with the heahy ones,
exhibited marked deficiency OF nitrogen and OF nitro
eepzed matter in every instance and also great de.
foiepcy AZ compared with the published analysis OF
the potato, by liebg and others, made some years
before From that result, then, inferred that the
potato was set inherently deficient in nitrogen being
inocuated with substance intrinsicany rich IN that
element as peas are during the mutual decomposHiSn
ara chemical changes of the two substances IN the
| process OF their termination and growth, sufficient
evolution of nitrogen from the pea would take pace,
and being absorbed by combining with and supplying
the deficiency Of that element IN the potato, com-
| municatpg, as it were its equivalent IN that way,
would counteract ITS tendency to disease then trisc
the experiment practically. l obtained pota.ess OF
| several kinds for sets whole; and then took peas
Risbops dwsrsl, and inserted four five ACCORDING
to the size of the potato) deep in the neshy part o.
the set taking to avoid the eyes, then perSed
them in my garden at llunset, IN the usual wAy. nr:
| Bower and several other gentlemen at Hun,let WV
well recollect watching with great interest toe grown
| and development Of the compound crop. Inc resu!
was perfect success had avery extraordinary yield
of peas When the potatoes we're taken up .ney weIo
large yield, with very few small ones and every
POTATO was healthy and free from every trace Of dis
ease. Those potatoes were laid on Q wooden floor IN
q room in my dyehouse where they rsmsised al Wir-
ter until the following Spring. they were then eIen-
ined and found 10 be all sound and healthy and Wero
employed sets again in the same way, with thessme
| result"
| same subject from Welsboro, Tioga County, Pa,
| which lays down the following a1ioms;
| "l The kinds Of pot toes IN moot general cauvar
ton have rotted first and worst. y There 10 no vs.
| re.y Blu. will rot il cultivated in the same locanty
several years in succession. j. Potatoes started nom
the seed balls and not grown the same land more
than two successive seasons, nH not roy me grounc
be tolerably dry and water allowed 10 stand 10 me
hills A. Potatoes grow more mealy, and OF oeeef
size by being started from the seed as FAR nortn -
40 or 40, and worked gradually soushwsra Dc
| ing grown more than two OF three years st moe. "
any one locality. A small soggy red variety, s.sseo
in Northern Canada or Minnesota, and worked TO the
south gradually, WILL by the time 1t reaches Long
| Island or NewJersey have become msaly Pronho
potato c. ..u.S
No the question of strawberry culture, and a.ket ar.
PARDEi, author ola useful strawberry manual TO give
his views upon Peabody's Seeding. He ssid tha$
Pesbody's had not generally succeeded at the North
the past season. but he hoped it would be better tne
present year. He spoke very highly Of Wilson's iced
Ing which ia staIDinste or male plant and nsede 40
other kind for fertilser. IL 10 not very high
| Favored berry. Hooker's seeding is very Fac Hs.
! yored, but not productive as Wilson's. Hoohers
| is nearly a. excellent as Burr's new yne ss4
| much more prolific. Longworth's prolific Is an
| excellent variety. ! would get strawberry plants
| as early in the Spring possible payehzing ne
earth yeiy fine eighteen inches deep. would pat
upon bed twenty feet square the following mgred-
epts one bushel Of unleacbed ashes one peck Of me
and two quarts Of salt thoroughly worked in the scn
a, not TO tread down soft EARTH and never let the
bed be trsmped aftsrward. would mulch the ground
with tan bark or leaves, or salt hay, snA never ag
| between the rows. believe strawbcnies can %
| crown al a cost Of fifty cents busheL The great
srror in strawberry culture is TO allow vines 70 grow
too close together They never should be peImists0
10 erow nearer than one foot apart and never b ms
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