Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-01-29

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H.. ,1Vvu oIchard, which Will cons ist
Of 5000 apple trees, 10000 peach trees,
5000 pear trees, 2600 cherry trees, 1860
Chickasaw piums, acres of ounces, 26
acres Of Strawberries, 20 acres CT Tssp-
berries, acres OF blackberries and IS
acres Of grapes.
The more honey bees have on hani in
March and April, the faster they will
rear young bees, and the more workers
will be ready to gather the harvest fcOm
fruit blossoms.
That great English experimenter, Mr.
Lawee, states that 500 pounds Of barley
meal, where iJ is made sole feed for
swine, win increase the weight of pig
from 100 to eco pounds.
The expense of threshiug wheat with
ten-horse power thresher and cleaner
amounts to IS Is cents per bushel, while
the cost with two horse power thresher
is but cents a bushel. The former will
turn out 400 bushels per day, and the
latter $50 bushels. Besides this, the
small machines work on barn floor, aud
all the grain IS saved, while the large
ones are operated out of doors, and at
tended with considerable waste.
A writer in the Southern Planter and
Fcynler, published in Richmond, states
that g gentleman of Charlotte county,
Va, tested the comparative results of
white and black labor last year. He
furnished thirteen negroes with mules
aud implement and provisions TO raise
crop, and at the same time furnished an
outfit to two white men. The negroes
raised ninety-four barrels Of corn, sevea
sacks Of oats aud five thousand pounds
Of tobacco. The two while men, with
little negro girl to cook for them, raised
one hundred and twelve and one half
barrels Of corn, ten sacks of oats and
eight thousand pounds OF tobacco. The
negroes returned the mules in poor,
emacisted condition. The white men
returned theirs over fat and sleek. The
negroes worked four mules and the whites
two. The gentleman referred t. will,
this year, work white men exclusively.
Ia speaking of strawberry culture the
New Orleans Picoylne says:
One Of the greatest difficulties with
those who attempt to prOdEce fruits in
this country is, that they attempt too
much. If a man hears that a successful
strawberry man has made $1,000 or $1,000
per acre in a season, he at once goes to
work to plant ten or twenty acres. He
is not likely to have experience or knowl-
edge of the mode Of culture. Could be
take few plants aud study them well,
he would learn all the art of culture, and
could then practice it. A quarter, or
even an eighth Of an acre, would do to
study on. The next difficulty is, that
when so much land Is tried st the start, 1t
Is not well prepared, nor the plant
well set out. Then they need shading
and watering, probably, at first, and this,
where there are so many, Is not done.
The consequence il, that most OF the
plants die, or liveisickiy aud unprodUctive
Another mistake is in putting negroes to
work on them, and negroes are destruc-
tion to garden.
1t is very true that Mr.. Virgins, OF
PonehatOula, has eight acres In straw
berries, aud that he has this year had
them ak months, three In spring and
three in fall, in full bearing, and that next
year he hopes to have them eight
months, and that he is setting out grape
vines, with the expectation of increasing
also his strawberry area to twenty hve
acres, and of having one hundred acres
Ia those two kinds Of fruit, and That
when he accomplshes this, his one
hundred acres Of piuy woods land viii De
more profitable than any three thousand
! acre plantation in cotton and sugar but
| he gives bis own personal, daily atten-
| tiou TO these things, and employs 10
negro to do 1t for him. If he has any one
| it is white man. But, says some one,
| this market is too limited one. In that
case he can send to New York and chi
/ csgo, and the railroad companies viii
| furnish express trains TO carry the fruit
as is done by the roads of the North,
West and East.