The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1868-03-29
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1t has been matter of surprise that 9
little has been done in our city and it's vi
cinity in the way of gardening. The exo1
bitant prices exacted for the commones
vegetables must be apparent to ever
family, without an attempt ut remedyin
the extortion. That remedy lays in thei
own hands. There is scarcely lot whicl
may not be made productive ut a trifiin,
outlay of money and labor. We have raised
the most delicious butter beans, and il
quantity affording supplies for severa
months, on piece of ground SO small q,
to be almost incredible, were not the fac,
demonstrated on our own table, and tina,
OF our neighbors. We append paragraph
in point:
| PROFITS OF GARDEN.-A correspondent
OF the Northern Farmer says that havino
been frequently told by farmers that much
gardening would not pay, he thought he
would test the matter with certain piece
Of ground. The expense of soil, labor. and
manure was $24 IS. The return in various
products was $5S 70, equaling, as he thinks.
aclear profit of $4 "a. The products of even
small garden, well-tilled and properly di-
versified as to kinds of articles to be grown.
are not only a source of comfort. hut Of
profit also.
PEACHES WITHOUT SToNEs.-An- apricnl
turist has, it is said, tried with success the
following method of making peaches grow
without stones: Turn the tops of the trees
down, cut off the ends. stick them into the
ground and fasten them so with stakes: in
year or two those tops will take root. and
when well rooted cut off the branches con-
Meeting these reversed and rooted branches
with the tree proper, and this reversed
peach tree will produce fine peaches with
out stones The same experiment. nav he
tried with plums, cherries, and currants.
ExPEDIr1oUs MODE OF PLANTING PorA-
ToEs.-A correspondent of the Farmers,
GaSette thus describes his mode of accom-
Plishing this object: have the field first
cleared of weeds and narrowed, so as to
leave no obstacle in the way. keep seven
horses at work, two opening and closing
drills as fast as they can go, the other five
being principally in the field.) put two
men to assist the cartmen in filing the
carts, SO as to occasion no delay. keep also
two men in the field to assist in unloading.
one working at each hind corner of the cart.
The driver, standing in the cart, with his
grape (fork) throws the dung into the mid
die drill, the two others maturing their re-
spectlye drills on each side of him. Three
drills are thus dunged, while the horse is
slowly moving onward.-After them have
three women spreading the grapefuls thus
deposited, and three more dropping the po-
tatoes about ten inches apart. 1 have in |
this way, in one day, put in nearly three
acres, the one pair of horses opening and +
closing. The great thing is to have oil
hlngs ready before commencing, SO that no
line may be lost, and also to have sufficient
lands, SO as to prevent the horses from
'eIng kept unnecessarily idle.
PEAT MANURE.-Peat as q manure con.
aims the elements necessary for the forma-
ION OF a rich fertilizer when proper SUBJ
tances, such as lime, mari, ETC.. are added
o 1t, to decompose the fannie acid, and
asten the decay Of the vegetable matter.
Alone and unprepared peat appears to have
% fertilizing property; but when properly
ried and burned, the ashes have been
ound good manure for grass lands and tur
Ups; for turnips they are found to answer
est in wet seasons. Quicklime will de-
ompose vegetable substances, including 9
eat, and the following will be found .
God proportions for making an ex- Il
client top-dressing for clover or grass:
ne cart load OF quickime, the largest
lmps to be not larger than the fist, six
art loads of peat, and a quarter of q ton of
ut the whole to be mixed together, and
} lie in heap six or seven months, and to v
3 turned over two or three times during
lat period. Another capital method Of s
'nverting peat into manure is by mixing
with fresh horse dung, and checking the
'cape of the ammonia during the process
fermentation by decomposing the carbon
e of ammonia, and converting the ammo
o into sulphate by means of sulphuric -
i'd. Prepare your heap thus: Four loads IN III
peat, to be mixed in layers with two Jc
ads of fresh horse dung, and, if great heat a
evolved during the decomposition of the ~
70 bodies, cover up the heap with fresh
ould amongst which has been mixed por- y
On of sulphuric acid. -
WEIGHT OF Corn PER AcRE.-A cor
spondent of an agricultural paper has re- IA
ntly published an account of the weight