Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1867-10-26
AGRICULTURAL.
FARM, GARDEN AsB HOUSEHOLD.

EvERGREENs AMONG ORCHARD TREES.
Heretofore, planting evergreens
among orchards of fruit has been
deemed homogeneous, and undeserving
the attention OF planters. or as present
ing careless waste of land without
system or order in arrangement. From
some observations we have made this
season, however, and from records CT
several of our correspondents, we pre-
di, that but few years will find many
orchards interspersed irregularly with
evergreen trees. Closer planting than
heretofore recommended we have no
doubt will prevail, as our fruit growers
study the devastating effects of too
great exposure of the young trees to
wind and sun. In most sections this
year, whiIefruit bloomed and set abund-
antly, gradually, little by little, 1T has
dropped, until many a grower who in
early summer counted on bushels can
now count fruit only by the dozens.
We have watched this falling
of the fruit pretty carefully, and,
while we have no doubt that too great
an amount of bloom impaired the vi
tality and was the first cause of failure,
yet observation has Taught us that trees
partially shaded and screened by ever
greens, or by close planting with other
trees, have retained their fruit, as a
rule, better than those more exposed to
the full rays of the sun at all points,
and the whitening blasts of wind, no
matter from what quarter. Horticul-
turists at the west have for some time
advocated hedge screens as protection
to their orchards, and we have no de-
sire to undervalue them, while at the
same time we would, in planting an
orchard of five hundred trees, make
one.fifth the. number evergreens. -
Again: believing in close planting, we
a few years since set one dwarf pear
orchard four by eight, and an apple
orchard of Standards, twelve feet apart.
The pears are, it is true, growing one
way pretty closely together, yet they
are all healthy, and this season have
retained their fruit better than others
which are more widely separated -
HorticultTist.
HARVESTING CARROTS. The Massa-
chusetts Agricultural Report contains
the following method for harvesting
EhEEbbEs
Agriculture, by Mr.. Ware, of Marble
head:
"Our method is to top them, either
with IA hoe or shOvel-we generally use
a shovel-and then use a subsoil pillow;
and SD far as my experience goes, it is
the only use 20 which subsoil pillow
can be put to any advantage in our
country. Previously to blowing, the
tops are raked off the field. so as to be
entirely ont OF the way. We then run
the subsoil pillow dIreccly by the side of
the roots, which lifts them out of the
ground about two inches; then with
potato diggers, forks or hoes, We go
along and rake them ont, so as to lift
them from the ground and throw them
inward, leaving room for the team TO
go through again.
eve first turn back furrow in the
centre of the piece, and go round that
back furrOw, drawing the carrots into
the centre, and leaving space for the
horse or OK to travel. without treading
upon the carrots. That leaves them
spread all over the surface of the
ground We do that in the forenoon;
we pick them up, throw them into
carts, and put them into the cellar;
that gives about half days time for
the carrots TO dry; and IN picking
them from the ground and throwing
them into baskets, the dirt is mostly
shaken off; so that, If the weather is
dry weather onght to be
chosen for the harvesting OF roots
they will go into the cellar dry, which,
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VALUE OF GRASS LANDS. The time
has not yet come when farmers appre-
ciate, as they should, the value of grass.
Every year diary products ace becom-
ing dearer, because the grass region is
limited, and only few years will be re-
quiTed TO give any farm natural for
grass value which now would be
thought excessive. Ii l wished to buy
a farm for my pOsterity, which would
continually increase In value, certain
ly should choose it in the region of
grass. For / do know that, during the
course of ones life, a grass farm will
bring more money and comfort with
less work than any other farm, whether
on the Sciota, the Wabash, or the Mis-
sissippi bottoms; nor can a farm of
equal value be selected and made any
where within the belt formed by the
tropics, the whole world around. N. @.
NJ, IN " Y. Tribune.
SonING Cows VS.. PAsTURINe AN
was made by member of
the Royal Academy of Agriculture of
Prussia, extending through seven
years, - test the comparative merits
of soiling stable feeding) and pastur-
ing. The pasturing averaged 1880
quarts per COW, for the whole seven
years; and the average of the soiling
plan for the same time was 3, 442 quarts
per COW, the COWS in both cases being
about the same in natural production
of milk.
This, of course, does not prove that
such a great difference could result
from sOiling generally. The quality of
pastures, or the feed, care and treat
ment of the animals when subjected to
stable feeding would produce different
results; bnt it is a well established fact
that a good deal'more milk can be OBJ
tanned by soiliDg than by pasturing,
and at considerable less expense, taking
the value of manure saved, use of land
for pastures, &C., into consideration.
Wisconsin, Farmer.
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