Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1860-03-10

Look glad In the set of the sun,
heed not our strength then shall never decrease
My country be never undonel
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HOW TO RAISE GRAPE VINES.
Rev. d. j. WALLER, in the month of
last March, presented the Editor of this
Journal, with bundle of some twenty five
cuttings of the "3toom Grape" We made
a trench in our Garden, about ten feet
long, otoot wide and near six inches deep,
into which we planted the cuttings, two
abreast, some six inches apart, leaving
only one eye or sprout, above ground
Now, we have the satisfaction of owning
about twenty beautiful growing GRAPE
VINES, (out of the twenty-five cions, } in
good order for transplanting, and only state
the fact, that others, wishing supply of
these valuable esculents, may emulate our
example with similar success.
TRANsPLANTING WHITE CEDARs FROM
THE SwAMp.-This may be done in win
ter. Select those most exposed, so that the
change to the windy upland may not be so
great. Cut off the roots and sod in cir.
Gle from one to two feet from the trunk,
according to the size of the tree. The best
time is when the ground in the swamp s
but little frozen. The freezing of the earth
about the roots after removal does no harm,
and the trees may be left on the surface
where they are intended to be planted the
next spring.
How TO MAKE EXTRA BRANCHES
GROW ON PEAR TREEs.-A writer in the
Virginia Farm Journal states that he has
succeeded in starting branches on his pear
trees wherever he wishes limb to grow.
He says: "a careful examination will
show plenty of dormant eyes, or knurls, on
the stock. To produce shoot, slit or
cash is made over the eye, and into the
wood, with knife or fine saw, which, by
checking the flow of sap, starts these dor
mant eyes into life, and in three cases out
of four branch shoots forth"
lNsECTs on SroCK The C1Untry Gen
tlcman says: We'll kept stock, housed iu
clean, well-littered, whitewasheI stables
are rarely, unless they ta>e them from
other cattle, rroublel with vcrmine - but
pulverised copperas and sulphur, in the
proportion OF Que teaspoonluil ot coppcras
and two OF sulphur, with little salt mix
in hall bushel of mea', given twice a
week for three weeks, to ITO herd OF cattle
or hogs, is said to he a complete remedy.
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Day- During February aud March all
tender trees and shrubs will be liable to
injury from frost. La the earlier 1onths
of the Wiuter they were in so deep a slum
Der, that there was little danger Of their
being awakened by the bri hes and war.
NEST sunshiue. But now, they have had
a good nap, and are ready TO be aroused
and the sun has rised higher in the hea>
veDs, and shines with greater power. For
these reasons, tender vegetation is liable
TO injury. Therefore, if any one has hith-
erto neglected to protect his tender trees
shrubs and vines, let him now do SO with-
out delay.
| Dep CULTIVATION. Deew cultva'
ton turns the drouth itself to good ac
count, and renders mulching and irrga
ton comparatively useless-or, if used
more eilicacious. during a dry SPELL and
in trenched ground roots strike deeper il
search of food and moisture, becomes more
extensively ramifed, and soon find the
! rich loan and manure intermingled deep
ly with the soil. The loaching process, as
/ it is called, is reversed, and takes place
upwards more than at any other time-or
in scientific phrase, capillary attraction il
increased. As each particle of moisture
is evaporated from the surface, it is sue.
ceeded by another, and the whole soil i
filled with the ascending moisture ant
gases, which are appropriated by the nu
merous rootlets, as they have need.
( $500
naS- A shrewd farmer urges the expe
dieDcy of keeping sets Of farm accounts
aud gives his own experience "Gver,
evening during the past "working season
have posted up record of the labor,
of the day, giving my best estimate of the
money value TO each item Of work, and Il
everything used oil the farm. AS eac
crop was committed to the earth gave i
an appropriate heading, and transferred tt
its page in my book the items of labor
seed, manure, &C., belonging thereto, an
since harvest have "closed the account
with the several crops, or brought ther
so that | can see yery nearly their co.