Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1866-11-24
AGRJCUETURAE. 3
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.


of the Rural American, who has been
very successful in making butter IN
winter, gives the following good adj
vice as to the care OF the COWS and of
the mix and cream
Cows should be kept warm and
clean, in addition 20 plenty of sweet,
early, cut hay, milch COWS should be
treated with warm Stops and bran
mashes, varied by roots and neal
They should have plenty of pure air
and xercise, ande be. salted regular,
once week The stables and cows
must be well cleaned before milking,
and the treatment of COWS ruled by pa
thence aud gentleness The milk when
strained should be brought to a scald-
ing heat aud set in warm place where
il will not freeze. The cream should
be taken off before the milk thickens,
and kept in cool place as can be with
out freezing. Cream managed In this
way will be very thick, and when put
into the chnrn needs diluting, which
should be done by adding warm milk
till, when well mixed, the temperature
OF. the cream is such that q drop APP
piled to the forehead will feel neither
cold nor warm"
FACTS ABOUT GRAPES. MIR. Editor;
Knowing that you and your readersviil-
ne facts more than theories, / present
the following:
In the Spring of 1865, / planted
grape vines on the southerly side of
close board fence six feet high. The
ground was thoroughly worked the
depth-of a shade blade, and the vines,
which were hardy plants from layers
of 1868, were planted one foot from the
fence as follows. One Isabella, one
Diana, two ConcOrds, one Hartford
Prolific. The distance along the fence
was fifty feet, and the ground was
''mulched" for a distance of three feet
from the fence, with lawngrass, leaves
of garden vegetables, corn husks &c.
Good canes were made from. ten to fif-
teen feet in ltngth. These were tackled
tuthe fpnce, and in the Spring of 1866,
trimmed and fastened with strips of
leather To the upper fence rail, running
horizontally about four feet from the
ground. The product of 1866 was as
follows:
Hartford Prolific, yield fair, in good
eating condition August Goth, perfectly
ripe August % h. Every grape ripened
perfectly; quality not first rate, but
quite luxury from ripening so early
Concord. yield large, in good eating
condition September 1st, perfectly ripe
September 10th. Every grape ripens
perfectly; quality first-rate.
Diana, yield III good eating condition
September 9Th, perfectly ripe Septem-
Der ID. Some clusters ripened perfect.
ly, and some dried on the stem, and
the grapes wilted and became Worthless,
perhaps one-fourth were thus lost, qnal-
ity of those ripgned first-rate. q. 9-la
Isabella, yield large, III good eating
condition September, 10th, not yet per-
fectly ripe. A few clusters ripened uni
formly, most OF them ripened, perhaps
half the fruit, is now quite green, no
prospect for rpening; quality of ripen-
ed fruit fair. Ta 81. III.
These vines are all of the same age,
having had uniform treatment, have
all had very fine growth of canes this
year. Next year shall carry one line
of canes along the upper fence rail- as
this year; another two feet higher along
the line Of the top of the fence, making
them fast with strips of leather All
fruit bearing branches this year were
allowed to hang down, and about July
LIST, were clipped off at the third leaf
beyond the last cluster. A large por-
ton of the grapes hung near the
ground, some clusters actually touching
the .smulching," but all were uniformly
good when of the same variety. L may
add that vines on arbors near by, had
their fruit entirely destroyed In June,
by a steel-colored bug. Mt one was
seen on the vine by the fence. Next
wear 1 intend to extend this s'board-
fence grapevine arborl about a hundred
feet, and add Telegraph, Delaware, ca
tawba, and Clinton vines from layers of
1865. Germdntotrn 1etegropk.JEq s'd so :.
CULTURE OF CRANBERRIEss- ATessrs.
Editors I'm reply to your West Dur
ham subscriber, i will say that L have
had considerable experience in cram
berry culture. The vines are very
hardy and will live most anywhere
where anything else will grow. = But to
be successful, we must study nature,
and improve on it as much as we can
Cranberries want poor, porous sub
grow in, and if nothing else will grow,
so much the better. A piece of ground
that is naturally wet orscan be made
so, is indispensable, though stagnant
waters will soon kill the vines, .conse-
quently, stagnant ponds or puddles,
having no outlet, should be avoided. =
CLAY soil is not fit to set the vines in !
with any hope. of success. A sandy
loan will answer, the poorer the better,
though a soil of pure muck, is the best
that has yet been found, providing you
can remove all other vegetation, or
keep ID from growing. For that pur-
pose clean sand is the best / have a
meadow OF about ten acres, on the
softest pant of which there were three
acres that grass did not grow well, 1T was
not worth cutting except for. bedding,
being mostly fine brake. / removed
turf to the muck and set 1T to cranberry
vines, kept weeds and grass ont all
could for two or three years. The last
two years they have not done so well at
| / expected. The cause, L think, is IN
not flowing them enough, as the dam
built gave ont three years ago last fall.
They ought to be flowed during colo
weather to protect the vines. also quite
often in warm weather to destroy the
insects that prey on. the vines OF, berry
/ think good rule would be to flood a
soon as they begin to blow, and once,
month till the berries are ripe, . Anss
then they ought to be picked by baud
as it is .wasteful, slovenly way to rak'
them, unless you merely rake9lthen
enough to break the berry from TIL
vine, and gather them by flowing. The.
will keep in a cool, dry cellar bette