Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1868-07-16
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FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.

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Heretofore, planting evergreens among orr
chards of fruit has been deemed incong1uous
and undeserving the attention Of the plant
ers. OF as presenting q careless waste of
land without system or order in arrange
ment From some observations we have
made this season, however, and from rec
/ ords Of several Of our correspondents, we
fprediet that but few years Will find many
orchards interspersed irfegularly with ever
green trees Closer planning than hereto
fore recommended, we have no doubt will
prevail, as our fruit growers studNdthe de-
yastating effects Of too great exposure of
the young trees to wind and sun In most
sections this year, while fruit bloomed and
set abundantly, gradually, little by little, 1t
has dropped until many q grower. who in
early summer counted on bushels eannow
count fruit only by the dozen. We have
watched this fallingof the fruit pretty eare9
fully, 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 par
tally shaded and screened, by evergreens,
or by close planting with other trees, have
retained their fruit, as q rule better than
those exposed to the full rays Oh the sun.
at all points, and the whitening blasts OF
winds, no matter from what quarter Hor-
ticulturists at the west have for some
time advocated hedge sereent as protec-
ton TO their orchards, and we have no de-
sire to undermlue them, but would increase
and extend them, while at the same time
we would, in planting an orchard of five
hundred trees, make one-fifth tile humber
evergreens. Again; believing in closer
planting, we, a few years since, set ont a
dwarf pear orchard, four by eight feet, and
an apple orchard OF standards, twelve feet
apart The pears are, it rs true, growing
one way pretty closely together, yet they
are all healthy, and this season. have re-
tanned theirfruit better than others which
are more widely separated. -,Horticdltgist
TREATMENT OF CLAY LAND. II had A
patch of hard. clay land in one of my
fields containing about half an acre; it was
80 hard that we could not ,plow it with two
horses, and when it was plowed, it came
mp in Jumps from one foot long TO three :;
the harrow would bound and bounce along
over it, and you could not see where it had
been; we could not plant it for the Jumps.
1t was source of trouble and yexation to
me, and / determined to do something
with it; so went to work. put large
blind drain through the middle of the
patch; this was my main drain, Then
ran from the main drain small ones each
way, twenty feet apart to the outside of the |
clay patch. / laid in a two inch tile drain |
Then l drew on large amount of corn
cobs and coarse manure; then summer fol- |
lowed; then in the fall, drew on large /
amount of well rotted manure, and sowed |
wheat, and it was by far the best wheat
that had in the field, andI never after |
wards SOW any clay humps in the patch to
speak Of II was the best land to plow |
that had, and raised the largest crops,
and | am satisfied that if farmers would |
drain and manure their clay lands heavily, |
it would richly repay them for the trouble |
and expense, and be saving in horse flesh |
and harrow teeth. y L6r. Country Gent
WEEDS IN FENCE CORNERS. One of the
greatest nuisAnces in farming is the way
weeds are encouraged and projected in the
crooks and vicinity-of fences, from which /
places their seed is scattered over the sur
rounding lands, The extent to which seed
is scattered by high winds proves that the
negligent farmer may annoy hundreds of
Others by failing to exterminrte the foul
herbage. Could the evils be concentrated
on the farm which nurses the weeds the
consequence would be q proper punish
ment for his carelessness and criminality-
for criminal is any man who nutures nui-
sances that thus injure the surrounding
farmers. The fellow who keeps bulldog
that annoys if he does not bite the passing
travellers, may be reached by the law that
is powerless to repress the injury occs-
stoned to his neighbors by the nurseries
of foul weeds which are harbored about his
premises, especially in the 7icinity of his
fences, National Examiner. az
The CURRANT, Currants flourish best on
rich, deep SOIL somewhat heavy and moist.
The rows should be six or eight feet apart
better eight than less on rich ground-to
allow Of the thorough cultivation and high
manuring and although no supports for the
bushes are essential, yet a single wire
stretched along therow allows Of spreading
of the plants, fan form, thus admitting sun
and air and developing the most perfect
fruit. The grower will find his reward for
his pains-taking in the larger.prices which
extra fine fruit always commands. The
only pruning necessary is the thinning out
OF old wood. In some regions the currant
worm is a troublesome enemy -abut white
hellebore is assure and rather easily applied
remedy The yield should not be less than
one hundred bushels per acre, and prices
will usually range from three to six dollars
per busheL --Rairdl Nel0 Yorker 4sg
INFLUENCE OF TIE GRAFT UPON THE RooTs.
"A correspondent on the Rock River, in
northern Illinois, makesthe following query
and statement; u III 3pl 3r'N aFrr
a Have you ever observed the effect of the
graft ON the roots Of the stock? You may
for instance, the Yellow Bell
flower on rootb Of Seeding stocks, taking
them at random just as they come; and you
may graft the Fall Pippin on, portion of
the same stocks, and Cultivate the young
plants in the same manner When you
come TO take up the young trees at three
years old, you will find all the Bellhowers
furnished with mass Of fibrous roots; and
all the Fall Pippins viii have few sturdy
roots and not many fbres upon them.
Other varieties are provided with roots that
are more or less Characteristic Of EACH
American journal Of Horticulture
THE LIVE STOCK of the United States,
aSSOtuluS W buo ItceHb reports OF the Ag-
rgultural Bureau, at Washington has di-
to an extraordinary extent since
1850. In these reports it is stated that the
numbel of milch, COWS in the country is
now smaller by five per cent. than it was in
1850; the number Of working cattle is less
BY thirty per cent; in horses seventeen
per cent. in swine nearly twenty-five per
cent. This diminution is not very per
,eptable to the inhabitants Of the loyal
states, but it should be remembered that
N the course Of the rebellion all the do
nestic. animals Of the cotton states were
When the war was ended there
we're hteTallyno oxen, horses, asses, mules,
COWS or swine left in 1.-THE south. aaa |
PIxNrfNS ls1RkwBERRtrs The journal
Of Horticulture says, that though many 4
advocate the setting of strawberry plants
in June or July that it, isl satisfied after
many years. experience that spring is the
best time Of the wholeryear in which to do
this work. The frequent and genial show
srs of that season. areofayorable to the