The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1869-06-03
AGRICULTURAL
CELLARS,

and possibly more. Butt does not get IT,
Now and then there is Q clean cellar, you
meet 1t and are surprised. 1t Is pleasure
TO be in such ascellar. But such cellars are
rare even woman reputed neat is shy of
her cellar.
Now the cellar with its odo.s is a breeder
Of mischief. This has often enough been
said but our cellars remain as they we're.
There is much sickness, especially In the
spring; but people never think Of their cell
lars, they do not lay it to the edors that arc
constantly cmanating from them, and enter
the rooms. There is little escape out door for
the pestilcnt air before 1t first afflicts the
family. Here then is malaria and poison
constantly entering the room where the fam
lily Is, and into the other rooms till up into
the garnet where 1t is held But the first act
fresh from its haunt, Is in the rooms occupied;
and this is breathed all night steadily, in'the
morning the same, and during the day; there
is no radiance.
This odor Is perceived every time the cellar
Adoori openeds IF applies prevail, apples
will be the smell, If cabbage, the poisonous
scent OF that plant rotting will invade your
oliactories and invade your lungs. There are
potatoes rotten, foul enough, and perhaps
carrots and turnips, and onions, and what
not. Mold Is universal and mixes with the
rest poison it Is as well as tile restA And
there is the air ITSELF confined, perhaps, al
winter. enf4e.Y 81
How many cellars do not answer to this
description Is this as 1t ought TO be? No
sensible man or woman will say it is. How
comes 1t that each man or woman owning
such cellar is ashamed oft, excuses it
We dread to go into cellar in the spring
Fruit kept there, and kept sound, and the air
fresh and sweet; all mold kept out and
vessels of all kinds wiped and kept dry, the
walls lined. aud deodorizers constantly EN-
ployed this is a different thing. Once In n
while you meet with such a cellar, and you
want to stay in it. There is . scent, but It Is
such scent as you delight in. The fruit is
ripening, telling you by the escape of its scent,
and by the rosy cheeks 1t exhibits. There may
also be ground smell when you approach
the roots, and the boxes that hold your
scions, etc. This is not offensive. but
putrefaction In ell its forms is and especial
ly the advanced stage oft. $3.50 aDGJf)
Such a cellar,pure, sweet, healthy is source
OF comfort In house. Every time its door
opens Gin spring. you are reminded of what
not even the apple-blossoms themselves can
do-take you back to the earlier times. the
dearer domestic, closer than all outdoor life
cellar, therefore, wants attending to as
much as any part of the house, and more; it
aAs : IA :. 3.
nlence-orccding, In warm. constantly
warm part of the house dnring the winter.
Attended to properly, here is the place to
keep things. OF course you wanr different
compartments, set off for different purposes
some kept warmer. some kept cooler Butter
will stay sweet In such q cellar. so will
cream. cooked dish, after cooling in the
open air, will not absorb bad odors here.
sweet.odors rather. From such cellar YOU
can set your table with what is always appe,
tizing, and you set what is an excellent ex.
ample Corresponding Prairie Farmer.
GIRDLING FRUIT ;TREEs.
Something over year ago we published
the results Of some experiments In girdling
barren fruit trees as means uf bringing
them into bearing. These experiments were
made upon apple trees, with entire success.
The directions were TO remove q narrow ring
OF bark about three-quarters OF an inch wide.
entirely around the tree, just below the
limbs, being careful not to injure the wood
the girdling TO be done while the tree is In
b oss"n 1t was also stated upon other au.
thority that tree might be entirely girdled,
or the BARK stripped entirely off from the
trunk, in July, and sew bark would form.
and the tree keep on growing. Flu
We tried this last experiment on a single
limb by cutting out a ring three quarters of
M inch wide, carefully avoiding cutting the
wood. The result was that new wood and
bark built on from the end Of the outer side
OF the ring, but the season was not long
enough for the growth to extend across the
ring and form junction with the inner side.
and though the branch retained It's green
leaves as any other last fall, it was dead In
the spring. Another and larger limb we
girdled by whiting Off the bark with a knife.
and this healed over directly. Probably
little shreds of the inner bark were left w
the knife.
b. The other experiment we tried last year
upon two barren wild plum trees while in
blossom, by stripping off the bark around the
body, leaving occasionally narrow strip of
the old bark, peeling Off strips from one to
two inches wide, and six to twelve inches
long, clean to the wood. At this time, all
those strips laid bare are covered with new
delicate barb, except where the drawing knife
scraped the wood, and there no bark was
formed. The effects upon their bearing was
but partially successful. But this does not
prove that IL would be successful upon apple