Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1864-11-24

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SUITABLE. TREES FOB PROTECTIVE BELTs-I
fully coincide with :" Il. P. B., that shelter
| ing gardens and orchards is subject not only
| worthy of the attention of cultivators but
| one whose Importance IS becoming more and
more evident in. each successive year. | do
not know that the atmosphere in these lat
! ter DAYS is in any more commotion than for
merly, but it is evident that the effects of
! winds are more severely felt now than they
| were even dozen years ago. This NAV
| probably be owing to the removal of growing
timber during that period, for it is fact Tat
! iii the few last voar5uany of our wood lots,
/ even the mountains have been shorn of their
| burdens, thus allowing the winds almost I'M
impeded progress over the land.
We know, too that where trees have been
set sufficient length Of time to form shell
| tiers from the wind the temperature has been
astonishingly modified, and that some plants
and fruits which could not oe raised in
such localities before, are raised with COM
| parative ease now.
While we fully agree with Mr.. B. in the
! Importance and advantages of the object, we
must in our locality, dissent from him in the
| choice of some OF the trees for etfecting it,
| The chestnut is tree of quick growth but
unless pluned in, its branches are intolerable
rambIeTs-so that if allowed to grow for
few years they viii shadow wide territory.
SO are the roots ramblers, and in due time
will push out three and four rods on each
side of the tree, absorbing nourishment which
in sheltered grounds ought to be attainable to
other plants.
The Wild cherry is probably good tree for
| the object i'll Mr. BIS locality, or he would
not recommend It, Here at the east We
III, Of }
| Of worms nests, we'll inhabited, to shelter our
| trees, as Of setting out wild cherry for the
OBJECT for wherever these trees grow, the
worms "a worse evil than the winds, are sure
/ to bCid their habitatons, from which they
| speedily colouze on apple and pear trees,
unless prevented from doing so, until 10 green
thing femaius on.them. Many of our farmers
who had cherry trees growing by the fences,
where they naturally come up, have removed
them Ito get.rid Of the insects they collectO
with a fine effect upon their orchards.
To the maple, If the deciduous trees are to
be used, we'h5lve no objection. 1t is clean
tree, with not a very spreading top.
The elm is a fine tree for the park or the
| waysde it being natures noblemcn among
| trees, from its towering habits and srmmetric-
ally formed head The lower branches of the
elm, with us, are very apt to die of as the
| tree rises in height so that where they stand
alone IN open fields the distance from the
distance from the ground to the branches va
ries with the age of the tree from slrOPC one
to many feet. This disposition to form
naked trunk, in our section renders it wholly
unfit to employ as q screen or shelter 10 lands.
The whole family Of poplars have propen-
aity Of throwing up shoots from the roots,
which makes. them sure thing to set out to
form,nesr plantations OF wood. The roots are
o ! L. tl e
soon show how far they have travelled by
sending up a sucker as "a landmark With
these habits we leave il for those concerned
to Judge whether it IS adapted to become d
belt or border tree
BIT why plant deciduous trcesto form pro-
tective belts? Do we noG wish to give our
grounds this protection in late autumn and
early spring, and even in midwinter, as much
as in the months of vcrdure Deciiuous
trees may be planted so thckly as in a meas
ure to give this protection, yet one row Of
thickly planted evergreens will do it more
effectualiy than three rows Of deciduous
trees, occupying three times the quantity of
land
The pines and various species of frs make
excellent belts, yet the hemlock, as despised
as it has been, is preferable to either from
the fact that its branches are shorter more
compact and viii bear shortening in better.
1t seldom attains so large growth in open
fields as the other trees, but is amply large
for the purposes. An advantage in resinOus
trees is that they exude a fragrant resinous
odor hea.thful to man, but disagreeabIe to
most insects.-0ceAsIoNAL CORRESPONDENT
Co,entyy Ge,,aensa',. .....
DECAY of ANIMAL CoNsTITUENTs.-T con-
ditions Of putreiactiOn should be generally
understood. At very low temperatures ami
NAL substances do not purely, and it is the
same with them at elevated temperatures
An elephant VAS found in good state Of
preservation in Siberia, among ice, where it
had remained perhaps for thousands Of years
In the warm dry climate Of South America
cattle are killed in the open air, and in a very
short period the flesh dries and may be kept
In that state for months without becoming de-
composed. A condition essential to putre'
faction is moisture. When flesh is carefully
dried by a current of warm, dry air, it re-
sists decay, and retains its nutritive powers.
The various forms Of gelatin and abumcn,
when dessicated are ifnperishable, but in the
solution Of water, or in a moist state, they
are the most perishable Of all animal proxi-
mate principles, Air promotes putrefactiVe
changes, but flesh may be preserved fresh in
some cases, such as the dcutoxide of nitrogen
for months. When meat is immersed in
water that has been boiled to expel ali the
air from it, and is covered With a LAYER &c
sweet oil, it may be kept FRI sh ior a long
tine.s In warm weather therefore meat must
be kept in dry, cool place The most IA
vorable temperature for putrelaction ranges
from seventy to one hundred degrees.
LTEEEs MosT AFFECTED BY LIGHrNIYG.-Fig-
trees and cedars are rarely struck by light
ming The beech, larch, fir and chestnut are
obnoxious to it; but the trees which attract
u most are the oak, yew, and Lombardy pop
lar. whence it follows that the last are the
trees most proper to be placed near a build
ing, since theywill act Ike 20 many lightning
conductors to il. Again, the electric fluid
atta IS IA preference such trees as are yerg-
ing TO decay by reason of age or disease,
NEW METHOD OF .GRoYIyG CABBAGEs.-Cab-
bage plants may be raised'easily from sprouts
thrown out by tie old stumps. They merely
reqaiTe-to he cut from the stump with por-
ton OF is bark pertaining to them, and to
be planted in roYs ike rooted seedlings, and
to have the usual watering It is the mode
of raising cabbagesl universally adopted by
the Chinese ssa - -is.zEs sfe -er
RATs.-The Cincinnati Gdzettes English
; correspondent writing Oh the 26th alt saws
The proverb says rats leave "a sinking
4, ship" The restest. quantity of Southerners
I are arriving in q gland. The --latest arrivals
I that have heard of are John r. THOMPSON,
sometime editor Of the Southern Literary
Messenger, Richmond, and Captain Fairn Of
Alabama. They talk very despondingly OF
the issue in America, but swear that the
Southerners will die in the last ditch nal7l1tS