The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1863-02-14
FARMERS DEPARTMENT.
FARMERS, MEETINGS.
INTERESTING DETAILS OF ExPER1ENc

take from the Topeka Record extracts con-
tanning the most important portions of the
proceedings:
Mr. McIntire, of Lyon county, said that
a neighbor of his raised good cotton on the
Neosho bottom, in the season of 186O-the
dry year. Dry weather does not seem to
more damage than the dry weather.
should soak the seed if planted late, but not
if planted early.
The President said saw a proposition
from Senator Pomeroy. made to a gentleman
in Lyon county, to furnish gin to the
county if enough was raised to warrant it.
The price of gins varies from $50 to $3.50,
according to the size and number of saws.
believe an acre of land will yield crop as
valuable as hundred sheep.
Mr.. Harrison, of Butler county, planted
some cotton seed last April, which ripened
and was all out some time before frost.
Mr.. Steele, of Shawnee county. had seen
cotton crop raised by Judge Miller, near
Lawrence, and his crop of half an acre was
equal to an average in Carolna-would
make at the rate of 800 lbs. to the acre, in
seed.
The subject of fruits was taken up.
Mr.. Russell, of Douiphan, said he was
more a student than practical neyardist;
but that grapes were his hobby horse.
Farmers should not be deferred from raising
grapes through fear of their proving a fail
ure. Unless the ground is trenched two
feet he found that blowing twelve inches
prepared the ground very well, and in set
ting the grape he ran the pillow twice in the
same furTow. In his own vineyard the vines
were set four feet apart in the rows, the rows
six feet apart. He advised planting in the
fall-coVering the canes over with earth.
To be uncovered in spring, so as to leave a
hole around the cane, half the length of the
cane in depth, which should be filled up
gradually during the summer. He advises
setting cuttings in a nursery, and trans
planting to the vineyard rows in the fall.
The cost of vineyard is far less than is
generally supposed. Select a side-hill, if
to be had, sloping to the south, east or west;
don't be afraid of it being too steep, though a
very gentle slope will answer, but the steep
er the hill the better the wine made from the
grapes. Plow the ground nell, at least
twice, and once with sub-soil ploW-then
run the plow twice in the same furrow,
turning the earth both sides, and set your
vines carefully, spreading at the roots well.
Then cultivate as well as you do corn, and
you will make money raising grapes. Cut
tings cost, in Cincinnati, $1.6O per thou
sand, and the freight to st. Joseph is
81 thousand. One-year selected Catawba
roots are worth, in Cincinnati, $12 per
thousand; Isabella, one-year selected roots,
$50 per thousand; Delaware, one-year Sc
lected roots, from single eyes, CT the third
3class, $25 per thousand; of the sixth class,
very fair for vineyards, $12 per thousand.
Best Delaware roots may be bought of DR..
g. W. Grant. Peekskill, N. Y. Don't set
vineyard of anything but Catawbas or
Delawares. If you wish to get the best in
structions, send one dollar to Dr. Grant,
and have him send you landmarks" be-
ginning with the first number; there you
will find instructions accompanied with
plates ~
Of Strawberries he considered Triomphe
de Gand and Bartlett best, but advised cul-
tivating in hills, keeping down the runners.
/ Mr.. Ellis, of Miami, wished to know if
there was any remedy for the borer, which
is cutting down our apple trees, and as to
the effects of the frost on peach trees. His
appeared killed, but the warm weather has
changed their appearance, and he hopes
they are alive.
- Mr.. Buck, of Jefferson, said: Ny expert
ence has been this for years Brought trees
from Illinois, six and seven years old. l
kept a part of my trees clean, and had no
borers; but where / sowed blue grass, l
found borers.
I have an orchard of 1000 trees; have
taken excellent care of it, planting nothing
with it. They have done well until this
year. Ny peaches are killed; buds looked
well, but trees are dead
had large expectations. and planted
large, and am little disappointed; yet /
say to every man, Do not stop-we want
the experience of cultivators. There is no
crop that will compare with the profits Of
fruit culture. Forty eight apple trees to the
acre, at FIVE years old, will yield profit; and
1t increases as the trees grow older. If any
farmer wants quick profit, and can get it
4 from cotton or tobacco, let him go on and
get out of debt; but put in the orchard
also. advise every young man to try it.
In Illinois, my neighbors called me crazy
when planted 400 apple trees. In eight
years they yielded me $500 to the acre.
am not afraid Of too many orchards. II
bad 10000 trees would believe myself the
richest man in Kansas.
set out 4,OOO apple trees IN the spring
and lost 100 of them; in November Set out
400 large trees, which had bloomed in tht
nursery, aud not one died. The dry season
went to Missouri and got peach trees
twenty feet high. and set them out In No
vember. All of them lived. If ground il
/ in good condition you can plant IN the fall.
Have had grapes since ST. and not
vine killed by frost. Have had Isabella
grapes up to November this fall on the vine
would set ont APPLES as early As tn,