Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-06-24
Fruit Trees.

Fruit Trees,
l. When fruit trees occupy the ground
nothing else should-except very short grass,
2. Fruitfuness and growth of the tree
cannot be expected the same year
,. There is no plum that the curculio
will not take, though any kind may some
times escape for one year in one place.
4. Peach borers will not do much dam
age when stiff clay is heaped up round the
tree foot high.
s. Pear blight still puzzles the greatest
men. The best remedy known is to plant
two for every one that dies
e. If you don't know how to prune don t
hire a man from the other side of the sea
that knows less than you do,
= Don't cut off big lower limb unless
you are renter, and don't care what becomes
of the tree when your time is out
s. tree with the limbs coming out near
the ground is worth two trees trimmed up
five feet, and worth four trees trimmed up
ten feet, and so on till they are not worth
anything
9. Trim down not up.
10. Shorten in, not lengthen up.
1 Ii. If you had your arm cut off, you
would feel it to your heart-a tree will not
feel, but rot to the heart.
u. When anybody tells you Of garden
er that understands all about horticulture
and agriculture, and that he can be hired
don t believe word of it, for there no
such to be hired Such a mon can MAXI
.IioIO Chan you can afford TO give him, and if
he has sense enough to understand the bust
ness. he will also have enough to know this
l MORTALITY AMONG VERMONT SHEEr-The
! singular disease of which we gave some ac-
count week before last, appears to be quite
general in the Eastern parts of Vermont. A
gentleman in Vershire informs Dr. Boynton
| that Z" sheep are dying in large numbers in
every direction and there will not be lambs
enough raised to make the number good
Lambs are dying both here and in the neigh
boring towns of New Hampshire, in many
| fiocks to the extent of two-thirds and three
fourth of all that are dropped and he has
information of the same import from other
sections of the Connecticut valley.
| In relation to the effect of the murated
tincture of iron which DR.. Boynton admins
tered to six yearling bucks that were too
weak to stand but few moments at a time,
and could with great difficulty be made to
walk ten rods, and would take little or no
food, he says, in the last Mirror and Farmer :
| We commenced giving them each a table
spoonful of the muriated tincture of iron, in
water, three times day. At the end of two
days could see a marked change. The
rose color began to return to the blanched
lips, the eye was brighter, the discharge from
the nose less, and signs of returning appe-
tite were unmI staka bic.
! OF the six thus treated, / killed one the
second day by kindness-I choked it to death
in trying to feed it some cruel, it was too
weak to swallow the smallest and most fee
Bile one of the lot died the other four are
now so well l have stopped my medication,
and | regard their recovery beyond doubt
TRANSFERRING BEES.-H. B. K. Kinmun-
dy, ILL.,, wants to know the best or readiest
way to transfer bees from old box hives to
new and improved ones. We know of no
better way than that recommended by Lang
| stroth in his treatise on the honey bee.
When colony is to be transferred box
sufficiently large to hold the swarm is provi-
ded and placed on the top of the hive to be
vacated, with an aperture for the admission
of the bees into it. This done, the entrance
holes of the old hive closed and the sides
raped upon smartly with a stick. This con-
tinued for while will cause the bees to escape
up through an opening in the hive to the ex-
ira box, where they can be secured for the
time being. When they out, sufficient
store and brood comb for the colony may be
cut from the old hive and fastened in the
new one in such manner as to keep it in
permanently to the movable frames. This
done, the new hive is placed in the position
on the stand occupied by the Old one, and the
bees in the box turned down in front of it to
seek their new home. This they will gener-
ally do without much remOnstrance, and the
work of accumulation and propagation will
20 on as though the processes had suffered no
interruption by the transferrence from one
domicil to another.-RuraL Ne,0 Yorker.
| KEEPING Fowls IN ORCHARDS pub
lie has yet to learn the full advantages of
keeping poultry. Few seem to appreciate
the service they may do among the trees in
an orchard Let any one try them in an
orchard of quarter or half an acre, where
they may be kept by picket fence, four or
five feet high, putting in say one hundred
and twenty-five fowls, and observe the result.
He will avoid the annoyance in the garden
of which SO many complain, while they will
work among the trees, doing just what is
needed, keeping the ground well cultivated
and destroying everything that can iniure
the fruit trees in the shape of bugs, worms
or other insects, and lay large number of
eggs, which are cash article, to say moth
ing about the chickens, which pay well for
raising at the present time.
| have tried it, and | know it is So |
have about one hundred fowls, which have
worked admirably among my trees, keeping
the ground in good condition, keeping off the
insects and promoting the growth of the
orchard | am satisfied that we have vet to
learn the full benefits which may be derived
from the proper management of fowls, and
it is quite possible that the method have
suggested may offer the best way of getting
our apple orchards into bearing condition
again.-COr. Northern Farmer
! Soil UNDER BUILDINGs.-Wh enever soil
is covered for any length of time by build
ings or other objects which prevent transpira-
ton, nitre or saltpetre is generated, and this
is greatly accelerated if the buildings are oc-
cupied by animals, especially by the horse.
This soil is of great value in compost, and
will well and amply repay the farmer for re-
moving and applying it to his soil. In COM
post it is highly useful. AS a top dressing,
few articles are more efficient, and when APP
piled in sufficient quantities to all light soils,
and in conjunction with lime or wood ashes,
it acts with great vigor, and secures most
healthy and luxuriant growth. The percen-
tage of alimentary matter contained in grass,
manfred with nitrous earth, has been ex-
hibited to be greater than that supplied by
an equal weight of hay grown on land man
ured with putrescent substances simply, 1t
is also more palatable, much moro elastic in
the fibre and foliage, and consequently less
liable to loss, as well as more easily cured.
The soil under tie-ups, lintels. barns, wood
houses and stable floors, should be removed
and saved every three or four years, and re-
placed by muck or some other substance
which will be transformed into manure
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