American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1867-10-09
farm, earasn & Aollsehotd.
PLANTING Apple. Orchards.

aPp.nort Many farmers look upon
x Y apn pn.ce usually occupied by or
cbards as almost so much waste
Thsv T saw we get so little fruit from
.ba ground taken up by the trees, ana
ws @ cannot cultivate the orchards, as
we should like, from injury to the
roots &c., SO that we are torceu' On
the @ score Of economy to abandon ap-
nIe raising. Now practically an 0reh-
pprdsIould be an orchard only. hx'
ceot for grass, it should pc iei1 uh- N,
cntt;vated. after the trees have reach
e,I saw about four inches in diameter;
We can see no reason why a gooa
.ron = of grasses, should not be con-
tinuously produced for quarter t! or a
.h;rS of q century, without disturb
anee. A Atop-dressing of manure once
in two or three years, ace E''o'0' mas
produced fine yields of grass annually 1..I
pe9 .mO crons The trees have little
~ ~ no influence upon the crop ofgrass
indeed i, ne if they possess any, it is affOr-
auo q heavier swath under the trees.
T Hence, instead of setting out young
orchards thirty and thirty fye feet e.
anart, reduce the distance 70 o
aBo'a a twenty feet, in the quineunx
s"rm sOv" and If at any time the trees
should threaten to become a ntsle
sro erowded. prevent it by additional
nruninp. This is our theory. !,
The leading purpose of an orchard
should be to obtain fruit; next the crop
that will do the least damage to
tbs trees. This is grass. Grass
however. 1 will not do any damage to
the apple trees, but the contrary.
1t keeps the soil moist ana OF a u0i-
form temperature ure-protecting the
roots in summer against heat and
drought. and in winter against severe
effects of alternative thawing anu
freezing. Lo,od N
It should also be remembered IN
setting out young orchards TO get
trees as ow-branched as possible
They will generally not grow SO ~ hign, z
while the low boughs will protect the
trunk against the intense rays o. Of the the
sun in the summer months, which are
frequently very injurious to the
health and productiveness OF the
trees.-Germang'On Telegraph
SELECTING SEED Corn. llh-
nois correspondent of the Independ'
ont writes "Last spring and early
summer there was some discussion
about selecting seed corn. Some ad-
v;sed shelling the tips off and reserv-
ing the middle of the ear for planting.
One man said one grain on the same
cob is as good as another. Had he
beer a raiser of corn he would have
known better. Some ten years ago
| planted an ear of corn to test the
difference between the produce OF the
kernels of both ends and the middle OF
the same ear, ,and will give you the re-
suit. The soil was just alike, the cul'
tivation the same and the crop very dit
ferent. / planted the first two rows
from the large end of the ear,the next
two rows from the middle, and the
last two rows from the tip or small
end; and planted all the same morn
ing. The large end produced far
sized ears, with irregular rows,
much as you will find them at that
end of the ear. The middle ker-
nels produced large ears, mostly
straight-rowed and fair. The tips
brought forth nubbins only; there
was not fair ear on the two rows OF
corn. This is an experimental fact
which you may use as you please.
I have raised corn more or less for
forty years and now plant only about
half. or at most two thirds, of the
kernels on each ear of corn and
generally raise good crops.
This agrees with an experiment OF
can Old Farmer" whose communi-
cation appeared in the last German
town Telegraph, and is simply in ac-
cordance with natural causes and COM
nonsense. 4
SAUSAGE Houskeepers will do
well to preserve the following first
rate receipt for sausage;
To every twelve pounds of meat
take three tablespoons of salt not
much heaped, three tablespoons black
pepper, eight tablespoons of sage and
a teaspoon half full of red pepper.
Good sausage is SPLENDID with
buckwheat cakes in winter, and got
isrecipt from friend whose saus-
auge is always good as long as it lasts.
BIG CRoPs.--A, Farmer near Law
renee, Kansas, raised this year SO
acres of corn, with SO BUSHES to the
acre 20 acres wheat, 80 bushels to
The acre and 10 acres Of potatoes;
$50 bushels to the acre. Value oil
the crop, $5435. So says the Law.
renee Journal.
EQUAL parts of the tincture of per-
chloride of iron and compound tine.
ture of gentian, makes capital ton
ic for horses SUFFERING from general