The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-04-26
AGRICULTURAL.
STANDARD TRAINING THE PEAR

buds from the base TO the extremity
| AS the sap always seeks the highest
point. Aose NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. are attne end
viii grow most rapidiysAIf the shoot
has been strong. lsaA8H4d carry the
lin Sloi tile treeasssoi shighg ard leave
1.-The stem Observation-Disclosures it is
tcHs back 10 the height from which 10
Is desired to have tfse highest limbs
Start, WHICH sitouid be from two and
ha t Go three feet. 50 "a ~, aFGN
/ At the close OF Lac second year the
Iyeung tree will present astrunk from
which four shoots or-branches have
| proceededs the 1centEai9one being the
highest. At the pexU Winters prun-
ing the leading @ highest branch
must be cut back considerably, and
| also the other three branches; but the
| lower branches must be left rather
the longest, because the force of sap
tends upward, and these will elongate
slower. The next summer dthe buds
| upon these limbs are pinched to three
or four leaves, except two at the ends,
| which are allowed to grow. AT the
end Of the third there are n or two
additional branches grown from the
first four branches. AT the third
Winter these two are to be very much
shortened. The same course should
be pursued until the tree has attained
about twelve feet, when these ter
minal shoots, which are allowed to
grow during the Summer to draw up
the sap into the fruit buds below
them, are cut back to one eye every
year.
1t may be suggested, how can such
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40 feet in hight? The answer is, that !
a good cultiyator will not allow his
trees to attain that hight. While the
Summer pruning generally holds the
vigor of the tree In cheeky yet it is
sometimes necessary to resort to root
pruning, which we will give some des-
eription of hereafter. After the tree
has arrived at full size, all the prup-
ing which IS essential is, cutting back
the growths upon the end of each
limb, and trimming the spurs. M
The method of pruning the dwarf
pear is the same as that upon the
standard or free stock. Byeproper
training, the latter can be planted as
near as dwarfs, and will succeed as
well as when alta greater distance.
SPRING SEEDING.
Spring WAeot.-As a general prac-
tice in a majority of seasons, the
farmers of Ohio do no need to cul-
tiuafn SnrinnEwhaat INIT III nraetica
years, andthe crop has proved a profit
able one to those who have raised it.
The past winter has been exceedingly
favorable for Winter grain. and where
farmers have enough of Winter grain
on the ground, it will hardly be adj
yisable. for them to put. In . field of
Spring wheat. But, owing to many
failures heretofore experienced, some
farmers did not pat in much. it any,
Winter wheat, last Fan, and If they
raise a crop at all this year it must be
Spring wheat, and we advise such to
go in for the Spring crop.
Cloucr.-We believe it is conceded
On all hands that red clover is best,l
sown In the Spring. and this is the
best Spring you ever saw for putting
in red clover, and now is just the time
to put it in. Red clover. as an alter
mating crop, is and is to be the great
regeneratOr of our soil. As ii forage
crop, it is uurivaled by any of the class
of legumes to which it belongs, being
not strictly one of the grasses. There
is nothing better than red clover for
a Summer hog pasture no kind of
hay better fer cows aad horses than
properly cured, and no better
green crop 20 plow under for wheat
land. AAgood deal more might bel
about red closer, and kew nicely
it comes3in with sheep raising, and We
all farsaers haying land suita
bic Tor this erOpato spitet4tright In now
and sew lots efreRLl8yer.
10 Cats.-There is-a val ely If opfn-
ions ahgptEt the PsapEpty of ralsings
oaG as q general I4rp cf9pi ~ many i
tafnieISIsWAl scoiittttte to- Cultivate
ansltiie grain oEioats will very
properly continue 10 be Il staple feedJ
Tor horses. whenever it can be dhad.l
The best time t4eputIa eats is rs ear
ly In the spring aS. the ground is fit to-
be worked, and rEier than farmers
geuera1ly thsnk best to work land for
other ss| umHiera Z eops.siO Oats may bel
IN the. mud. ifoshe mud Is ofaafa
Kidd that will netturni to3,brick bytheI
operptionradfTn4 80 .a1ow szsB va 5 Il
aq Grinding Tools. HI III w. Il.
Il More than half the wear aud tear,
and bother of dull tools,
zones from a 2 lsck of propefsknow-I
ledge and practice in grinding All /,
steel, however highly refined is COM
posed of individual fbres laid length
in the bar, held firmly together
by cohesion, aud in almost all farm
of the cutting kind the
steel portion whica forms the edge,
IT from assertion of a bar, laid In and /.
welded to the iron longitudinally; so