Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-03-02
AarItnItnraI.

spOndsnt Of MOore's Rural Nsw Yorker,
writes as followsl a0 LIS
For some years the osier willow trade
has attracted much attention, from the fact
that the importaBons from Europe have 80
| largely increased, Amounting we are told.
the past season, to over $2O00,O00. Now,
while we have so large an amount OF low
land, comparatively useless for anything
else, and which might be applied to the cul-
ture Of the osier, il becomes matter of
policy with the owners Of such soil to ascer-
tain the most profitable use TO which they
can appropriate It. But why speak Of
swampy soil alone, when It will grow Just
as well on rich soil, as can be demonstrated
to the satisfaction Of any one who doubts.
have seen in the town of Seneca Ontario
Co., several patches, all on different varieties
of soil from creek bottom TO some of the
iLe ridge. lands which adorn that section,
and are all fourishing finely. That the
willow will flourish on dry soil, is evident
from the fact that so many fine willows-tIees
are to be seen adorning rural homes all
through our country. In Seneca County, on
clay land, may be seen some as fine patches
as can possibly grow.
Now, why not use them for hedging.
Their rapid growth, making in some in.
stances, from seven to eight feet the first
year, and the fact that stocks will not browse
them, is certainly evidence that they will
make an excellent fence. And then, in trim
ming the hedge, the. owner has a fine crop
for market, which will bring, when nicely
peeled, from $l0O to 1920 per tun in New
York City. Here is chance to make our
fencing the most profitable part of the farm,
instead of being q tax upon us. Let us
think of a few articles to which willows are
already applied. Willow cradles receive us
when we first enter the world; willow
covered bottles refresh us; willow rattles
amuse us; willow wagons draw us; willow
chairs support us; willow baskets carry our
dinner to SCHOOL, and from these infantismal
or homeopathic uses, we soon begin to in
dulge in allopathic principles.
The PROPER DEPTH FOR MILK PANs.-A
correspondent of the Dairy Farmer inquiries
what is the best depth for milk pans, all
things onsidered-material, durability, &c.,
and adds:
1t was formerly asserted that two inches
| in depth is as much as ought to be put into
! pan Of any size at one time, when cream
or butter is the object but lately it is thought
by some that evaporation and greater waste
more than counterbalance the advantages of
| this depth; while ii is asserted, from the re-
suits Of some experiments, that six inches of
milk will give more cream, in proportion,
than one or two will, and that the butter is
| Of more uniform color and consistency, by
avoiding one source of white specks," in
| part, at least, from the dried particles or
| sporules of the cream, which may be seen in
the form of a tough skin upon the cream,
| often. times so hard that they are not suffi-
ciently broken in churning to form perfect
butter. sta.
Some may think that this is rather
small affair to seek information upon, but
let me assure them, if any such there are,
that it is by observing the minutia, in every
branch of business, is the only way to emin-
ence yet found worthy to be pursued.
In an old volume of the Genesee Farmer
there is an account of three carefully con-
Quoted experiments, for the purpose of de-
termining whether more butter is obtained
from given quantity of milk, when set in
pans parity filled, than when full. Contrary
to the expectations of the experimenter,
from the same quantity of milk in the full
pans, some three or four per cent. more but
ter was obtained than when set in pans half
full. @
EXPERIMENTS IN WMTERING SHEEP.-A
farmer who wintered eighty sheep last
| Winter with the loss of only two, which he
says were old enough to die any how; who
| raised without trouble forty-four lambs from
forty-seyen ewes, and whose feeces averaged
over three and half pounds, gives in the
Ohio CultiUdtor the following lively descrip-
ton of his experience in keeping sheep the
previous seasen, without the comfortable
Shelter his flock now enjoys:
tin the Fall of1659, started into the Winter
with about eighty fine sheep without any
shelter. But OF how | came outl Against
Spring opened up, l had sixty-six. But that
was not all. had gone to the expense and
trouble of getting two very nice bucks; and
from about fifty ewes raised about half a,
many lambs, by raising four or five by hand
Was this all !? No; When l sheared them
put what wool had got off my dead sheer
in among my other wool, and then my sixty
six heeces did not average three pounds"
METHOD OF DESTROYING APPLE-TREI
WoRMs.-This communication is from thu
Rural NeW Yorker:
. wish to inform the numerous readers o
your valuable paper, my method of destroy
ing the apple-tree worms. They were verJ
destructive in many places in Sandy Greek
and Oswego county, in 1859. G. S. Buel
orchard was most entirely stripped of it
leaves, and ours badly injured. As this i
the time to kill them, take the opportunit,
to give hint on the subject The egg of tn
worms are now waxed on the ends of tn
limbs, about middle way of the tree, tn
most of them, so that they can not be NOR
than eight or ten feet out of reach.
take pair of shears, made for the pur
pose, with handles about seven or eight fee
long or longer. Make coarse edge on you
shears by filing, and have them made strong
and then in a sunshiny day you can g
around the tree and can see the nests ant
clip them off at your pleasure. II cut Of
now and left to remain until Spring on tn
ground or till time to hatch, there will
nothing left Of them. l cut them from ou
cherry trees, and the next summer not on
| was seen.
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, nests, and if they had been left that summe
they would have ruined the tree. Now
the time, in January and February, to XII
the worms. They are very plenty on all th
! trees have noticed this winter, and ne1
season will damage the orchards much, ifnC
got off. If left on until Matched out, it
four times the work to get them of, and ca
:. not be done thoroughly, besides OF that tin
: we have plenty of other work, and the leavi
hide the worms.
AN ORIGINAL ICE-HoUsE.-The Winstel
G Comm Herald gives this account of Il
manner in which Mr.. Goodwin, of Ne
n Hartford, fills his ice-house
t, Mr.. Goodwin is supplied with excellel
d water from spring at considerable eleV
b ton above his house. Connected with
t, pipe which supplies the latter is a branc
) pipe leading to the ice-house, across which
J, is extended. Within the ice-house this piI
/ is pierced by twenty or thirty small hole
d from which as many fine jets of water ri!
k TO the roof, falling back in drops over IL
:, whole bottom surface of the house. Thes
n jets are only let on when the weather is col
d and the doors and yentilatOrs being ope
: the water freezes as it falls, and in a fe
/ days, or weeks at the furthest, the house
filed with a single block of perfectly pu
IS transparent ice. MIR. Goodwin's ice keel
It through the entire season, with much le
h waste than that packed in the ordinary wa
n 1t costs him nearly nothing.
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