The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1860-08-23
agrlrulturaI, &c.


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Farm Hints and Farm Facts.
Never set out an orchard with view
that, in future, it will take care of itself.
Remember first to subsojl, aud like your
hills Of corn aud potatoes, manure the
laad heavily from season to season plant
with potatoes or carrots to keep the earth
mellow avoid grain crop as IN ripen-
ing, it reflects too intense heat for young
trees. This was my experience in win
ter wheat field two successive years.
Never plants trees on poor soil, and
expect thrift with large fruit.
Never crowd your trees, which is a
very common error. Calculate their
spread when fully grown, so that good
crop of hay may be taken off. Give them
the full range of SUI and atmosphere.
Never cultivate caterpillars instead of
apples-the crops are uncongenlal. One
is money in the pocket, the other dirty
destructive and Improbable. Give the
arm-boy penny nest, start him with
the rising sun, and my word for it, his
eagle eye and love for pennies will clear
away this orchard pest, and return to you
five dollars for every penny out Of pocket.
They are easily seen when the nest is
found.
Never cease to fight the canker worm !;
while the lion and tiger are easily slain,
this inferior creeping thing has success
fully batted and out generated the whole
staff Of hoticultural wisdom. Would not
the fumes of fire and birthstone mixed
with tar be good application when the
worms are feeding?
Never move among young trees with
out heavy iacknite in your pocket, and
an eve upward to redundant limbs; cut
ting here, saving there, and giving shape
early for the futHre. always remembering
that the displaced limbs and twigs are
by root and sap made up at once to the
remaining branches. The Porter or
Northern Spy incline to spiral or distaf:
tops the Greening and Russell to spread
Jug branches the Baldwin and Hub
bardston Nonsuch to close brushy tops
Here the pruner must exercise judg-
meut; how much easier to gather fruit
where the tree is well opened, how much
larger and fairer the fruit. 1t is the sun
that draws out the full blush and gives
the full flavor Prove this by eating the
apple or peach from the sunny side or
the shady side.
Never cultivate shade trees in your
fields by the road sde-rather make them
fruit trees, that blossoms and fruit may
charm the traveller and reward the farmer
with good round income. Anything
out Of place Is not ornamental Give the
Shade tree a place in the roadway and
around your buildings especially; it
shows taste and refinement, The New
England towering elm is the unriyaIed
emblem Of majesty.
Never neglect the little ounce tree
that can grow in inches and corners cul-
tivate it as a tree, and not, as usual, as a
bunch Of bushes. 4 fine stone wall in
rerEued with ounce tree hedge at eight
feet distances is highly ornamental and
profitable. How easy to grow ounces
Never forget the birds whose music
awakes you at. early dawn, and who sing
you to sleep in the late, lingering twi
light. Give the robin an extra cherry
tree and d strawberry bed. Build a house
Tor the wren, the martin and the swal-
low; help them to feed their twitteriug
Young. How much are they daily help
iig you. Cultivate their land all BIRDS
acquaintance socially, not as enemies, be-
cause their tastes are so refined as to love
Your strawberries aud cherries.
The crow ofends by pulling up your
corn, yet he is the unpaid scayeuger in
removing ofaI and numerous vermin that
annoy you. The hawk atfectionately dips
into your chicken brood, showing a de.
cided relish for uncooked poultry, but he
has been hunting and sailing all over
your premises for snakes and mice to sat
isfy lis hunger, and found none
The owl robs your hen roosts in the
backest night. Educated thieves 90 to
prison for this: same offence Whica OF
the two are the better members Of socie-
ty Cor. Ne,o Eag'aad Farmer
Stirring the SO7l i'm DrOuth.