Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1858-04-23
AGRICULTURAL.

The FARMERS HoME.-The bust |
ness of the farmer is at home-his plea |
sures are home pleasures, and his enjoy
ments are the enjoyments of home. The
merchant may get along without home;
he may spend his days in his Office or
counting room, or in the exciting marts
of commercials evenings in contriving
new schemes, deep plans for accumulat-
ing wealth, or averting anticipated loss.
Too seldom are the hours or days he
snatches from business cares for recrea-
ton devoted to quiet home pleasures
they do not satisfy the ever-feverish brain
that Graves excitement, even in its re-
pose. The watering-place, the concert,
the theatre, the convivial party, the
wine-cup, constitute, in too many cases,
the pleasures of our men of wealth. 1t
is stated that a merchant who recently
failed in one of our large cities, on being
asked what he intended to do, replied
that he should first 90 and get acquain-
ted with his wife and children" This,
perhaps, was an extreme case !; yet too
many are strangers at homei How hap
Ply the man who feels that he has true
home the temple of his household gods,
where he reigns as patriarch, priest and
kirg-a refuge from envy and malice, a
shelter from the storms of life, that no
loss of wealth, no change of circumstances
can effect-a rose without a thorn-a
sun that knows no setting.
EVERY AGRICULTURIsT should also
be a horticulturist. Horticulture rend-
ers the tilling of the earth a more at
tractive enjoyment. 1t is more elevating
and refreshing to the mind. 1t qualities
US to surround our homes with those Or
naments and luxuries which render the
farmstead so inviting. By knowledge
of horticulture we may produce such an
endless succession of fruits and vegeta-
bles, as to almost reproduce the first gar
: den. Then let US combine agriculture
with horticulture, and we may render
l our farms and dwellings SO beautiful and
attractive as TO win the hearty respect OF
all classes.
HAVE YOU A CHOICE GRAPE CUT
. TING THAT YOU WANT TO GRow?-
Then 60 TO the woods and dig some roots
Of wild grapevine, cut them into piece:
= of about six inches long, cut your choice
grapevine or cutting into pieces of only
one, or at most, two buds; insert The
lower end by the common cleft grating
method, into the piece of wild vine root
plant it in the earth leaving the bud o
: the cutting just level with the top of thu
ground. Every one so made will grow
and in two years become bearing plants
ARTICHoKE.
Plant in spring, three feet apart eacl
S way--They are propagated by roots
IF They increase very fast.
e ASPARAGUS.
Sow the seeds as soon as the frost i
II out, in drills one inch deep, and lively
'0 inches apart. In two years plant int
IL permanent beds, which should be wei
MANFRED put the roots four inches dee
~ and twelve inches apart; make the be-
N' four feet wide. Salt is a good manure.
BEANS.
i The early kind plant in drills tw
-, inches deep and thirty inches apart, i
II April and at intervals every two week:
W Late kind plant in drills or hills, tire
a. feet apart.
" BEET.
ie Sow the seeds one inch deep, in drill
and fifteen inches apart. The early kin
be sow as soon as the frost is out, the late i
~ June.
h, CABBAGE.
II | sow the seeds in hot bed, in Eel
lis ruary, for early, and plant the plant
At. twelve inches apart each way. The lat
SOW the seeds in the ana,1 c~ct,,.4 :