Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-04-14
AGRICULTURAL BREyITIEs.

One Of the editors of the Southern Guilt
Vator says he put three table spoonfuIs of salt
and as much hard wood ashes, under each hill
of corn and got satisfactory results.
The Valley Farmer says the Hungarian
grass needs good soil-good enough for corn
or potatoes. For hay bushel of seed should
be sown. For seed eight quarts is enough
Twenty or thirty bushels of seed is often rails
ed, and two or three tons of hay. 1t NAV be
sowed from the middle of May to the middle
OF June. Its introduction in the United States
was, in 1858, by a native of Hungary A
gentleman, then residing in Illinois, procured
small handful of seed from the Hungarian
exile and took it to Iowa, and sowed it first on
the pralries of the great West. Col. Joseph
Bond, of Georgia sold 1920 bales of cotton
the other day, for $100,000 all raised by him
self,
I'D. p, in the Southern Cultvator saws !:
Take one bushel of salt, dissolve it into bar
rel OF water with it slack one barrel Tor two
and half bushels) of lime mix the Stacked
lime with three cords of leaf mould, muck
rich top soil from virgin woods, or any veg
etable matter put it under shelter, and in a
few weeks it can be used as may be needed
This is good compost for corn and cotton, as
well as for the grape vine.
The editor of the same gives the following
directions for grating the grape Common
splice grating succeeds very well but the plug
system which follows, is more certain Re
move the earth, and cut the old root off, saw
two inches below the ground, by horizontal
cut; then take gimlet just the size of the
graft or scion to be inserted, and bore from one
TO three or four holes, according to the size of
the root, and insert the scions, first removing
the loose bark. The holes should be two or
three inches in depth, and the scions should
lit Accurately RpDlapn tho aortb no %
and around the scions, and the work is done
Prot Buchanan of England found in a pint
OF clover seed, which was sold for clean seed,
16OO weed seeds. Farmers little know how
much weed seed they buy.
A plow has been invented in New York,
which promises to be very efficient in pulyer
ling the soil. Instead of the common share
and point, there is a screw-shaped projection
under the beam, which rotates as the pillow adj
Vances, rolling the soil up and cutting it to
pieces at the same time.
A writer in the Horticulturist saws :-'oThe
first requisite in grape culture is a sufficient
depth of porous soil. A free percolation of
water through the soil is indispensable. Mere
richness of soil is only of secondary impor-
lance; no amount of surface manuring will
secure profitable crops on retentive sub-soil y
A sandy loan is the most suitable although
proper draining and trenchng will render even
clayey loans adapted for their profitable
growth. The soil should be broken UP at
least eighteen inches in depth, so that the roots
may ramity in medium somewhat exempt
from external Influences, and ensure uniform
healthy growth from the opening buds to the
rlperlng of the crop. Having thus prepared
the SOIL we would commend the following gen
eral routine of management Procure plants
not more than one year from the cutting, prune
them down to couple of eyes when planted
The treatment during the first season will con-
sist in simply securing them to their support
ing trellis. In winter prune down according
to vlgor; If the canes have grown to ten or
twelve feet, prune down to about half of that
length. Most of the buds will produce fruit
ing shoot; allow not more than two punches
on each shoot Tying up to the trellis is all
that will be necessary until the period for win
ter pruning arrives. During August and Sep
TENDER 1t may be necessary to dust the vines
with sulphur in order to prevent or check the
spread Of mildew. The great secret in grow
ing is to preserve the foliage healthy and unim-
paired until the crop is gathered.
Let the winter pruning be directed to the Sc
curance of young growths; the renewal sys-
TEN of pruning best encourages the growth of
young strong shoots, which invariably produce
the best fruit.
There is no danger ofthe plants overbearing
if pruned Understandings during the winter,
and "let alone most severely" during the peri
cd Of growth. Summer pinching and pruning
weakens and retards growth, and dimnishes
the foliage necessary to ripen the fruit