The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1868-10-29
Aaritnnutol.
FARM, GARDEN AND pOUSEmOLD.

New York Tribune, relative to the fruits of
Germany, will be repd with interest
This ~ the most bouuteouu year for fruit
which has been known in u long time.
The iucessant cold and rain during june
and July does not seem TO have had any
effect upon the yields. The orchards here
are generally small and confined 10 the
neighborhood OF the villages, but all the
highways, branching far aud wide over the
country, are planted with cherry, apple.
pear and prune trees. The other dav /
drove from here TO Souderhuusen, a dis
lance of abuut forty miles, the fruit trees
on the way averaging forty feet apart, would
number more than ten thousand On
many Of the trees there really seems to be
more apples and pears than leaves, aud
the people inform me that a strong wine
(which they prayed might not Gomez would
break all the laden boughs. From the
Golden Mead, down the valley of the I'm
strut 10 Naumburg-at least fiftymiles fur
theT-one seen nothing but prunes. In
some places there were pyramids of this
delicious fruit heaped on the gr und, thir.
ty feet square by ten IN height. They are
dried in II Il temporary ovens ofcluy, and
exported to all parts Of the world.
1 believe this fruit has been introduced
into the United States, but very little at
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, but there is a
large supply of the prevalent kinds. Large
as 1t ~, IL never exceeds the demand
which is n lesson ior US. Our consumption
of iruit will always keep pace with the
production.
WHAT l SAW. Yesterday | took "A walk
Asar4 q. sv.sv.. e.. III .. IL H..
sold to emigrate farther West, aud get a
new and larger farm. lie could not gather
any profits from the farm of sixty acres he
had just sold. Could hardly make a living
for his family Of five persons. The orchard
was in grass; two-taitd5 Of tho trees dead;
one-half Of the remainder might AS we'll be.
They had been barked by the pillow, whihle-
trees and cattle, until they had well nigh
given up the contest for life. With bark
lice, n tough grass sod nddeicient fertility
in the soil, they can hold out but O little
longer A feeble attempt had been made
to fill out the vacant spots LEFT by the dead
trees, by resetting. But between the grass
and cattle, the poor little trees cut a sorry
looking figure.
The corn field looked as ifthe small kind
was planted. 1 could not help thinking
If the yard had been scruped and the re-
SUIT hNNAltlcu Oh luE COIN utll, n DGllGI
story would have been told. Ii the wheat
field did not give II satisfactory nccount Of
Itaeli in grain, 1t bore a most splendid crop
Of weeds, prominent among which was the
wild ont or barn gtass. The fences were
poor; ditto the VOWS. Three could not
supply butter enough for family use. The
house was n shell scarcely tit for n stable.
\ %ncighbor told me that the grain had
been stacked in the field up 10 within four
or five years, and the straw burned to get
1t out OF the way.
Here M u man with sixty acres of nat
umlly very fine land, with a healthy, Wig.
orous family, aud good markets. who
could not get ahead in the world; has not
been able to mIse enough of the farm IN
the last dozen years to build him IA decent
house land all paid for; sober and indus
trious. A screw loose somewhere ! Reader,
can You guess where 1t was?
L. L. FAIRcHnD,
ROLLING PRAIRIE, Wis.
OCTOBER HINTS. Earth up celery as il
requires; cut down weeds, destroy insects
everywhere; rake up leaves once Il week
and put them IN the mauur heap, or by
themselves and scatter soil over them 20
prevent their being blown away aud their
decay will make leut-mould for pOt-plants
next year. Tie up dahlias, c%hrysanthemums,
tube-roses, and such other lowering plants
that may need 1t. Admit IA much light
and air 10 the grapery IA possible, to ward
oti mildew and ROT; tender budding plants
that ARE To he preserved in lower-pots in
doors all winter may be dug mp and plant
ed in pots the latter end OF the month. -
Green-house plants may be housed this
month; keep the green-houae cool only
guard against frost Mt nights. - Practical
Farmer.
Boys, did you ever think that II potato's
skin was dcsigned to protect the meRly part
from tue action Of the atmosphere, much
as your own skin protects the more sensi,
tive parts from the ain, aud that You ought
to be about as careful not to break the skin
OF a potato as you ARE not to bark your OWL
EnucEles, or to bruise your choice winter
apples But who cares for u potato skin
And so they are knocked aud bruised, and
barked, and people wonder they don't
come out mealy and sound. IN E. FT,
mer.
Is Middletown, VT, is u single tomato
r plant ten feet high and eight feet in breadtl
which had upon it one bushel of fruit, som,
Of them weighing a pound each, and all o.
/ them Of large size. They are called the
ItllGNAtu loLluADt are lnlCh-llthleu
have very few seeds, and always grow large,
DR.. Burke has been very successful in the
: cultivation Of the tomato plant, and Otter
!, picks tomatoes weighing twenty-sever
ounces.
| A FRENcHAIAS, who saved from earningI
at the Springfield armory and in othel
r shops two thousand 1--WE hundred dollars
I several years since, lent it to the town O
1. / r.Vu.Wv H. IIa..l.-- - A. A-..
ton was not recorded till after three day
r had expired, and therefore the town refus
ed to pay 1t. 1t was carried to court, ant
on account of this informality the case wa
: decided against the plaintiff The cost
: amounted to five hundred dollars; and Il
= pay this he is now working industriously
When ARE GRAPES RIrE2-A CORES
pondent of the Rural New Yorker, il
, speaking of people who tell of their pro
duets ripening at such and such Il time
n says that no grape can be counted as eve
approaching perfect ripeness when tn
stem does not exhibit a deadened an
shTlyeled, blackened character for at leas
three-iourths OF an inch from its I'M
ton with the branch on which it grew.
v EVERY farmers family can find goo
! use for the SCOT which is usually so abuI
II dant in their stove-pipes and chimney
Twelve quarts of water, well mixed wit
SCOT, will make n powerful liquid manur,
which will improve the growth OF flower
garden vegetables, and root crops. l
II either a liquid or a solid state, it makes a
excellent top-dressing for grass or ceret
crops,
NJ, +, SCBAToN, of Dundee, Mich, late.
sent 10 this city a box of Alpine strawbe
d rie8, gathered from his garden, The plan
ot which produced these berries were origi
. nllY hrnnnlt from Meyicn mud hnva Il