Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1861-10-18
OCTOBER.
"But Farmer, look, where full-eared sheav
of rye

For apples; thence thy industry shall gain
Ten-fold reward; thy garners; thence with
store
surchalrged, shall burst; thy press with purest
juice
Shall flow, which, in revolving years, may try
Thy feeble feet and bind thy fiattering tongue.
Whoe'er expects his laboring trees should
With fruitage, and kindly harvest yield,
Be this his first concern; to find tract
Impervious to the winds, begirt with hills,
That intercept the Hyperborean blasts
Iempestuous, and cold Eurus' nipping force,
Noxious to feeble buds."-P PuIL1p's "C1DER"
Brown October is here with its burst
ling barns and full granaries, its falling
leaves and fruit The season admon-
ishes US to plant fruit trees, as we'll as
to gather in the fruit harvest Why is
it, that SO many farmers families are
content to go without fruit, in land
whose soil and climate are SO con genial
to fruit that the humblest efforts It hor-
ticuture are rewarded with success?-
Intelligent promologists. who have seen
the fruit shows Of Europe, tell US that
they do not excel our own, notwith-
standing their larger experience and
skill. The apple grows almost every
where in our broad land, and mos of
the large fruits have quite as wide a
range of soil and climate, though they
are much less abundant. Apples have
been most common, probably because
they were the most common fruit Of the
father land, and were planted by the
first settlers Of the country. They were
found to flourish much better here than
there, and the seedlings which were soon
originated upon American soil, were
Improvements upon any thing ever seen
in England. In virgin soil, the tree
would grow anywhere with luxuriance,
and only needed to have clear field to
yield abundant fruit. The pear was
rather an aristocratic tree, and needed
much more careful culture in England
than the apple-tree. Here the stand
ards flourish quite as well as the apple
tree, and seem to have fewer enemies,
and to be quite as productive. Yet the
market has never been adequately sup
piled, and the finer varieties of pears
bring two aud three times as much as
the best varieties of apples. A pear
orchard of any considerable extent is
still a novelty in the Oldest parts Of the
country. Hundreds of farms where the
apple is as hardy as the forest oak, are
still without a good orchard. 1t is
somewhat amusing to hear the reasons
assigned by thriving farmers, for the
great mistake in their husbandry, of
not planting an orchard?
It is never admitted that they DO not
love fruit. There is hardly man or
woman in thousand that is not fond Of
every variety Of fruit. Every boy sighs
for his neighbor's apples and pear trees,
and not onl breaks the tenth, but the
eighth commandment, in the eagerness
Of his desire Watermelon patches are
proverbial plunder on moonlight nights.
With many the reason Of this failure is
their unsettled condition. They do not
own the soil they cultivate, or they are
expectIng soon to sell ou. and emigrate
The planting ofan orchard is regarded
as work for another generation
Others do not believe that the raising
of fruit pays as well as other depart
ments of husbandry. In the first place,
one has to wait several years before he
can expect any return whatever, for his
labor. In raising corn and potatoes
there is something to sell every Fall
Fruit has many enemies not only in the
shape Of insects but Of bipeds, who Sc
riously interfere with the profits of the
orchard. Some are remote from good
market: and though the depot is within
an hour ride from the farm, they have
never thought of railroad conveyance to
a market. Others admit the advantag ge
Of planting an orchard. and have always
been intending to do it, but they have
had SO much work upon their hands
that they have never quite got ready
Money is scarce, and the nurseryman
wants cash. These objections, however
unsubstantial, are real to many farmers
and possibly to some of our readers.
We have been eating fruit for three
years, from apple-trees planted only
eight years ago, and from pear trees
planted much more recently. They beal
with increasing abundance every year
and it seems to US to be so feasible and
so profitable, to stock an acre or two
with fruit trees, that we cannot let the
season Of tree planting pass without !
word Of exhortation. ...
A home surrounded with we'll grown
fruit trees and vines adapted to the sol
and climate, is one Of the most beaut1
! full objects we meet with at this season
of the year. Every one admires The
!, dwelling, however humble, that look:
out upon the street, with shaded walks
through beautiful gardens and orchards
What can be finer than a we'll grown
pear tree, hung with its yellow fruit, al
q apple whose boushs are bending to th'
e ground with their ruddy burden, or ;
y vine loaded with its purple clusters
t These are cheap and substantial orna
f ments, that any man may plant arount
n his home. The green upon his window
;, and the paint upon the dwelling viii
, require frequent expensive renewal; ev
5 cry returning Spring will bring out tn
S living ornaments in new dress withou
n money and without price.
n There is no greater misconceptlol
1t than the popular notion that fruit grow
+ ing does not pay as we'll as othe
n branches of husbandry. 1t require
) some capital, some skill and patience
/, to wait for returns. But capital an
: skill invested here are certain to hay
their reward. 1t is no uncommon re
n turn for an ac; e in apple trees to yiel
: L hundred dollars, while under favor
II able circumstances and high cultivation
If the yield is two or three times greater
Farmers who have gone most largel
into fruit culture, are generally tn
Il best satisfied with it, 1t furuishe
something to sell from August unit
March. The early apples have to b