Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1868-11-05
Agricultural.
FARM, GARDEN AND pOUSFaoLn.

New York Tribune, relative 10 the finits OF
Germany, will be read with interest
This i5 the most bOnnleous year for fruit
which has been known in long time i
The iucessant cold and rain during June
and July does not seem 10 have had any
effect upon the yields. The orchards here
are generlly small and confined 10 the
neighborllood of the villages, but all the
highways, branching iH aud wide over the
county, are planted with cherry apple,
pear and prune trees. The other day
drove from here TO Souderhausen, dis
tance ofabout forty miles, the fruit trees
on the way averaging forty feet apart, would
number more than ten thousand Oh
many of the treesthere really seems to be
more apples and pears than leaves, and
the people inform me that strong wind
(which they prayed might not otcome) would
break all the laden boughs. From the
Golden Mead, down the valley of the I'm
strut to Nanmbmg at least fifty miles fur
ther -one sees nothing but prunes In
some places there were pyramids ag tl.is
delicious fruit heaped on tho gr gnd, thir.
ty feet square by ton in height They are
dried in rude temporary ovens Of clay, and
| believe this fruit has been introduced
into the United States, hut very little al
pears are inferior to those OF France. pro-
badly less on account Of climate than def
cheney OF culture, The range of fruit is
therefore rather limited bnt there is
large supply Of the prevalent kinds. Large
as II IL, 1t never exceeds the demand
which is lesson for u.s. Our consumption
of fruit will always keep pace with the
production,
WHAT SAW, Yesterday / took walk
over prairie farm. The owner had lust
sold to emigrate farther West, and get q
new and larger farm. He could not gather
any profits from the farm of sixty acres he
had just sold. Could hardly make living
for his family Of Ave persons. The orchard
was in grass; two.thirds OF the trees dead;
one-half Of the remainder might as well be.
They had been barked by the plow, whifie-
trees and cattle, until they had well nigh
given M The contest for Ito With bark
lice, a tough gTass sod and deficient fertility
in the soil, they can hold out but little
longer. feeble attempt had been made
to MI out the vacant spots left by the dead
trees, by resetting. But between the grass
and cattle, the poor little trees cut sorry
looking Rgpru,
The corn field looked as If the small kind
was planted. could not help thinking
II the yard had been scTaped and the re-
suit scattered on the corn field, better
story would have been told Ii The wheat
field dad not give satisfactory account of
itaelf in grain, it bore most splendid crop
| Of Wppnq nrnnn1nanf xuIao a
wild oat or barn grass The fences were
poor; ditto the cows. Three could not
supply butter enough for family USE The
house was shell scarcely fit for stable
A neighbor told me that the grain had
been stacked in the field up to within four
or five years, and the straw burned to get
it out of the way
Here was man with sixty acres of nat
urally very fine land. with healthy, Wig
orous family, and good markets, who
could not get ahead in the world; has not
been able to raise enough off the farm in
the last dozen years to build him decent
house; land oil paid for; sober and indus
trious A screw loose somewhere Reader
can you guess where it was2
L. L. FARoHnD,
ROLLING PRAIRIE, Wis.
OCTOBER HINTS, Earth up celery as it
requires; cut down weeds, destroy insects
everywhere; rake up leaves once week
and put them in the manure heap, or by
themselves and scatter soil over them to
prevent their being blown away-and their
decay will make leaf-moula for pot-plants
next year. Tie up dahlias, chrysanthemums,
tube-roses, and such other towering plants
that may need it. Admit as much light
and air to the grapery as possible, to ward
of nildew and rot; tender-budding plants
that are to be preserved in fower-pots in
doors all winter may be dug up and plant
ed in pots the latter end of the month. -
Greenhouse plants may be housed this
month; keep the greenhouse oOol-only
guard against frost at plghts Practical
| Fd1mer
Roys did you ever think that potatoes
skin was designed to protect the mealy part
from the action of the atmosphere, much
as your own skin protects the more sensi-
tive parts from tie air and that you ought
to be about as careful not to break the skin
oi potato as you are not to bark your own
lmuckles or to bruise your choice winter
apples1 But who cares for potato skin
And so they are knocked aud bruised, and
barkod, and people wonder they don't
come out mealy and sound N E. FIR.
mer, ~+
In Middletown, VT, il single tomato
plant ten feet high and eight feet in breadth
which had upon it one bushel Of iIuit, some
of them weighing pound each, and all Of
fbp1n of larna uiya Tbat, o,o naIlal A. -
Perfected Tomato" are thick-meated,
have very few seeds, and alwaysgrow large, |
DR. Burke has been very successful in the
cultivation of the tomato plant, and often
picks tomatoes weighing twenty-seyep
ounces
A FRENcHMAN, who saved ifoIn earnings
at the Springfield armory and in other
shops'twe thousand five hundred dollars,
several years SINCE lent it to the town of
Conway, New Hampshire, but the tyapsac-
ton was not recorded till after three DAYS
had expired, and therefore the town refus.
ed TO pay it. II was carried to court, and
on account OF this informality the case was
decided against the plaintiff The costs
amounted to FIVE hundred dollars. and to
pay this he Is now working industriously |
WHEN ARE GRAPEs RIpE2-A cores
pondent of the Rural New Yorker in |
speaking of people who tell of their pro-
ducts ripening ut such and such time |
says that no grape can be counted as ever
approaching perfect ripeness when the
stem does not exhibit a deadened and |
shriyeled, blackened character for at least |
three-fourths of an inch from its connec-
ton with the branch or, which IL oraw