Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1866-08-15

MULCHING FRUIT AND ORNAMENTAL TREES.
The past season has afforded fine opportu
nifty OF testing the merits OF the mulenlng #
fruit and Ornamental trees, and more especia Ily
OF newly planted ones. OF lis utility there
can be no doubt. The excessive drought which
prevailed during the hottest months over near
iy the whole country, proved very destructive
to newly planted trees, and TO many that rad
had the advantage of 8 years setting ort.
Where they not killed outright, many
were badly damaged and received back set,
from which it will take them years fully to re-
cover. On the other hand, we have seen
young <eyergreens as furnishing and healthy
during the severest prevalence of the drought
IS though the season had been the most iavora-
bic. Inc same may be said of fruit and de-
clduous ornamental trees.
But mulch is not merely useful in summer.
Newly planted trees, If set out in he f4ll, should
always be u!ched, and to a good thick ness at
that. The mulch not merely protects the roots
from the Injurious effects OF alternate freez-
ing and Having, but It encourages them TO
>hoot regularly 10 the spring. Those who have
Young orchards will do well to profit by these
suggestions. The results will ambly reward
the labor and expenses required.
How RAISE NY FALL PIGs.-Whea the
pigs Two weeks old put the SOW and pigs
8 10 the pen or yard with the fattening hogs, al
owing them, of course, to have all the swII,
and they eat. Ordinarily, however,
1 boil potatoes and pumpkins, with liberal
seasoning Of mea, for the first two or three
weeks OF teediDs which is better for the sows
than corn. ln the meantime have a hole in the
pen large enough for the Juveniles to go through.
and there provide side dish for them of sweet
3 milk, with little meal or shorts added to it.
Ia you 90 not have milk enough for the
and pigs both, give TO the latter by all
means.
Previous to the setting in of the cool weather,
they should have access { both old and young)
to a grass-ploi, but after hogs get hs.hy and
are full led, they will eat but little grass.
BY the way, it is surprising how small .
grass-plot viii suffice tor swine often they
have been fed upon it for year or two, and it
has once become fully enriched by feeding on
II The writer has the present season kept Six
aud seven fui-sIz=d hogs on plot of tribe
/ over al eighth OF an acre, and for the most
part the feed has been sood.-W. J. PErTEE
Salisbury Ct, IN Country Gentleman
ORDER IN FARMING.-Much is said about
order in farming, and it is of the highest impor.
lance that observe 1t. For instance, TO lei
/ jour crops get ri pc about the same time, is an
lnJnry. 1t crowds your work it over-ripen'
our grain and you have loss in consequence
!. !, yourshay by getting it too ripe; il
brings you out Of season with your grain, End
with your business generally-and much per
y pIexIty and great loss in many ways,as the result
4 But the loss is not readily perceived as sc
I much money ont of the pocket would be it i
therefore not so much regarded. Shall We
continue this bad state of things? We repeat
How many hay crops have been lost by crowd
ing then into -fhe ripe condition; how man,
grain crops do We yearly over-ripe anc
rneasuraDy destroyed. These are common &C.
currences Hundreds OF dollars are lost il
/ this way every farm yearly. A little arrange
ment, andno extra expence, would remedy this
Is there not most fragrant wrong here is
not all unnecessarily We are not careless mere
we are lazy. Let US mend this matter. aut
h-neft ourselves and the country.-Rur0
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