Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1858-07-16
AGRICULTURAL.


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We have met witt many experienced persons
who have never seen the grape vine grated :.
The process is so easy, that thousands who arc
anxious to possess the newer varieties, Should
especially take care of their old roots and IN
sert scions Of the new. No clay OF covering Of
the grated part is necessary. beyond the natu-
raj soil, below which the graft is to be inserted
Saw off your stock and put in your scion With
two or three buds, wedge-fasbion, as IN the
cleft grating of fruit trees, and then cover up
few inches, leaving one or two bads above
groupd; where the stock is very large and !rAs
convenient to split, a gimlet bole, so made as
to bring the two barks together, sns~ers Tee
sprouts of the old stock, as they spring up to
rob tie graft, must be pulled OF Crafts often
bear some 6ne clusters The Erst season Of growth
and many more the second. Ia this way, the
old stocks of wild grapes removed from the
woods are very useful with due care. We have
lately seen an old CataWba vine that was want
ed for shade forty feet off, lsid down for year
till it had rooted we'll, and then was grated
with perfect success, and fruited the first sea-
sop.- Horficuitarist.
One good way to keep hams IN summer is to
put layer Of coarse salt in the bottom Of a
barrel, then lay in ham and cover it with salt
and then another, and so on, till the barrel is
filed. OF course this salt should be dry, and
the barrel should be kept in dry place.
Another and better way, is to sew up each
ham in coarse cloth bag, then give the whole
a coating Of whitewash, and hang up the bag
In smoke house, or any dark, cool place,
nert ssB5s EJs, q n bae them as before mentioned,
and bury the bag in the ash-hole, taking il out
as wanted.
We hare known them to keep very well By
simply wrapping ir several thickncsses of news
paper, and hanging IN an open garret. cor
respondent says they also "keep perfectly, as
he has proved, BY packing in sweet dry hay
run through hay cutter. Then wrap them
with single thickness of newspaper, and sur
round each ham with portion of the hay tie
the whole in large cotton bags, and hang IN
drv place-.4mericaa .4gricuiturist jane.
FARMERS OF AMERICA Look AT THIS Pro-
ruRE - In Great Britain about $4,000 families
own all the territory, which Is occupied BY over
27 millions of inhabitants. Five noblemen ),
the Marquis of Breadalbaue, the Dukes of
Argyle, Athol, Sutherland, and Bueclouch, own
perhaps, one-sourth of all Scotland. The es-.
tate of the Duke of Sutherland, comprises
| about roc. .000 acres, or more than one thousand
, square miles, The domains of the Marquis of
Breadabane extend 100 English miles, and
i reach nearly from sea TO sea. By far tie
wealthiest proprietor in the lowlands OF Scot
land, is the Duke of Buccleucb, whose estates
G cover several counties, and whose palace at
Dalkeith, is an establishment of regal magnif-
Gene.
Il BLOWING UP STUMps.-Select sold place
: in large root, near the ground If an oak or
any stump with tap root, and with an inch
4 and quarter augcr, bore in slanting down
: ward, tc as near the heart of the base Of the
: root as you con judge; then put in charge OF
one or two ounces of powder, with a safsty-fuse
and tamp in dry clay or ordinary tamping ma
terial, to Gil the hole, soae six iacies above
the charge; then touch 6re to the fus, aad ge'
out of the way. The blast will usually spl''
;. the stump into three pieces, and make IT hop
right out of the ground. If the charge is rui
too high mp the blast viii only split the Top q
Q. the stump without lifting it.-t@Aso -
ter.
: wo,us ~ ionsEs.--Tho best remedy
- ! .nis: Feed your horses with plen-
:: :. sr ashes and tobacco cnce week, and wi
= guarantee that they will never more ts troubles
with worms or bolts. Tobacco kills them an,
ne ashes carries them away. | handle goo-
- !, many horses, aud this is my remedy. noYe
:. had horse troubled with bolts or sick wit
worms Correspondent Of Prairie Farmer.
= Soar SUBS should never be wasted. /
10 winter, or when not needed for the grape vine
or flower beds, they should be thrown over h
n manure heap. Rascs and grapes are muo
benefited BY fre4ehs afTiicstions o. susa' an
proper trial is all that is secf ssary to 'onv'ne
unbelievers.