Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1864-04-21
AGRICULTURAL.

the best. In fact, the eagerness to procure
org trees at the expense of full proportion of
roots, which it is impracticable to take nm
with such trees, often results not oulv in the
loss OF the trees themselves by death. but it
frequently requires years for them to recover
ana regain their thrifty state. Neither is it
necessary That the tree be as straight as a can
| ole, Tor few years growth fills up the crooks
| IN trunk, and makes i as straight or nearly
so, as any other. The three great points are:
10 have healthy trees-to take them I'D with
as perfect roots as pOssible-and to keen
these moist and uninjured till they are set
out again These three requisites cannot be
easily secured by taking large trees, while
those OF moderate or rather small size will
readily furnish them all. Small trees are
easily dug without mutilating the roots; they
are packed for transportation safely and with
facility; the labor of digging and packing
and the cost OF transportation are much less
than with large trees; they commence grow
ing Immediately, with little check in their
in their vigOr; and, if well cultivated, make
the largest as well as the best trees at the
| end of five years. The late Dr. Kennicott
who was successful nurseryman as well as
! orchardlst said, that of trees which he sold
| to his customers, the full-sized symmetrical
ones, never grew so well as the smaller ones
possessing less beauty of form The reason
was curious one-he could never succeed
IN persuading the owners to shorten in
the heads of the handsome trees, while
he could induce them to prune or cut back
the others according to any directions he
might give.
10 sum up-procure small, healthy, we'll
dug and well packed trees of the best proved
sorts from only reliable nurserymen; let them
be well set out and well cultivated for success
sive years, and they will afford profitable as
well satisfactory result. ...
| INFLUENCE OF STOCKS UPON GRAFTs.-Geo
5. Rawson, Middlesex county, Mass, writes
on this subject to the american AgricsQturist
| For the same reason that an early stock
will hasten the maturity of grated late fruit,
a late stock will retard the maturity of early
fruit. When purchased the land on which
| l now live, there were two apple trees of
| some kind of late fruit. I grated one with
the Garden Royal, a beautiful little dessert
| apple that orig mated in this section, and
| which usually ripens about the first of Sep
TENDER, and decays soon after it is ripe Gut
| those on my tree do not ripen until all the
Garden Royals in this neighborhood are
ripened and gone. The size is also very
much increased by their later maturity, and
the quality is also greatly improved-so much
so that visitors often say they ''never saw
such Garden Royals as mine." . ..
The other tree was grated with Hubbard
ston Nonsuch, and they remain hard until
| they rot. [ cannot see how a fruit grower
| can fail to observe the influence of the stock
| upon fruit. There is no apple extensively
| cultivated but has been changed more or less
! by the stock upon which they have been
grated. Witness the different varieties of
| the Baldwin, r. /. Greening, and Roxbury
| Russet.
A WORD ABOUT OUR HoRsEs-The great
drain upon the horse stock of the country bv
| the war, will unless some care is taken, work
| to the disadvantage and and degeneration of
the race. 1t always has been the general
| fault of our farmers to work their colts too
| young, to work mares with foal too severely
| and to breed from mares before they are fully
matured and therefore fully capable of bring
| ing colts.
| The general scarcity of horses will lead to
these most pernlclous practices, to a greater
| extent than before, unless more than ordinary.
care is exercised. The high prices of the an
imals will lead to an effort to breed them in
greater numbers, and the stock horses On the
| farm being less in number it will fall upon
| the few, whether with foal or not, to do the
work of the many, and since the introduction
| of so much hand labor saving machinery
| horse power is more in demand upon the farm
| creased amount of labor. Give your horses,
| then, the best of care and treatment, and
| breed only to the best of stations. We want
| an improved rather than degenerated stock
| of horses when the war is over-Erai1ie
7. Farmer. " - + t#
| MOVING OFF Strawberry VINEs.-At a late
meeting of the Waltham, Mass, Farmers
Club, Mr.. 0. D. Farnsworth said he had been
trying a new experiment with his strawberry
| beds. ... . ......... .. ...-... ....
| After his bed ceased bearing he moved it
| closely and raked off all the vines, put on a
little guano, and the result was that the
ground was literally covered with the finest
| fruit. The bed which he experimental with
| is now five years old, and he intends to con-
| tlnue this course with it. He thought it
| would not be well to pursue this course if
here were many weeds, as in that case it would
be easier to set out new bed. In setting
bed he would trench II feet deep and manure
| highly. The rows should be 81 feet apart,
and the plents inches apart in the rows
Paths should be dug from Is inches to two
feet apart and filed with meadow hay.
SALT AND CHARCOAL FOR STocK.-Farmers
| who raise stock should give them plenty of
charcoal to eat, and freely of salt both
charcoal and salt improve cattle and make
them in good condition. Salt acts on the
blood. Charcoal strengthens and heals the
mucous membrane throughout the alimentary
canal, and increases the power of the digest
i've organs, healing any unhealthy condition
existing there. 1t prevents worms genera
| ting in the stomach, &c. it absorbs the pu-
crescent gases by which worms are genera
ted and they consequently die. The use of
salt and free use of charcoal will contribute
to protect cattle from epidemics and will
counteract the effect of putrescent or septic
| water. -. ..... .-s
TRAINING THE ToMATo-Knock flour bar
rel to pieces, take one of the hoops and two
of the slaves, sahrpen one end of them, and
nail the other ends to the opposite sides of the
| hoop, set it over the the plant and drive it
into the ground. The vines viii hang over
the edge of the hoop, free from the ground.
| Set the slaves in the next hill at right angles
with those in the first, and let the hoops just
come together, and tie them with string in
such way as to support each other. Thus,
at trifing expense of time and money, you
may effectuaIly train all your tomatoes-Neao
England Farmer. Fe. 1eez leoE rs
! ~ Agriculture feeds us ; to great de-
gree it clothes US without it we could not
have manufactures, and we should not have
commerce. These ali stand together, but
thew stand together like pillars in cluster,
! the largest in the centre, and that largest is
agriculture .-Dania Webster. -s.Es
When a late master Of the Chapel Roy
al heard that distinguished member of the
musicei profession had been knighted, he is
said to have observed-"I suppose it must
be on the score of his merit not on the merit