Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1869-03-26
Tree Planting.

! Il ne AeuSOU Is HOW Ut Manu- TOT tile
transplanting of trees for fruit or
shade, and we trust that every citi-
zen of Cedar Falls, and farmers in the
country round about particularly,
will improve the golden opportunity
to adorn their homes and farms with
| fruit trees, shade and shrubbery of
all kinds. One important step In
this direction is to give care in the
selection Of what you desire to plant.
! Failures have occurred for want of n
correct understanding of this initia-
tory step in planting. Get the vari-
cites adapted to this climate. I'm
known and irresponsible tree ped
dlers from other states have cheated
Iowa already, out of too many orch
ards. Its estimated that the trees
purchased in that way have proved
| failures In nine cases out of ten. One
chief cause of this is, that many of
these trees peddled and sold by
foreign dealers have been long out of
the ground and by neglect and bad
management, have been frozen or so
dried out that they could not grow.
One foreign tree peddler sold in this
State during the past year SAL, o00.0 90
worth of these kinds of trees, and
not more than one.eighth of them
would be of any account, even should
they grow.
The President of our State Horti-
cultural Society justly says: "These
things being SO, we must bear In
mind when planting trees, vines,
shubbery &C., to purchase nothing
but what is we'll tested and approved
by our nurserymen and horticulture
lists; if we would insure success: nay,
If we would not voluntarily invlteand
insure defeat. And here / would
say to all who are not making hort!-
culture business, or profession, i
advise you especially to eschew the
innumerable new fruits, or varieties,
with glowing descriptions, trumpted
by an advertisement in our horticul-
tural publications. Remember that
more than piueteen out of twenty of
them, will in the future, as they have
In the past, prove valueless, in Iowa.
BY saying this, 10 not mean To cast
any aspersion upon the originators or
persons owning their ''cracks." They
may all be honorable men; their
productions may in Eastern soil and
localities, be oil and more than what
is claimed for them, but that is not
the point; the experience of cultur-
ist i'm this state, is that you have no
more assurance when YOU purchase
them, that they will be of any ac-
count whatever, than You have when
you buy q lottery ticket, that you
will draw "blg pl.ze," unless they
have been tested ~by our nurserymen
and amatures whose business it is to
keep up with the times la regard to
these matters. TO consult practical
lotrn Horttctdtwists In all cases, is
the only safety for the people gener-
ally, who are engaged i'm other avo-
cations. Unless this caution Is heed.
ed, all such are liable to be imposed
upon at every step"
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GEtEorING CowS.--An experienced
stock raiser gives the following rules
for selecting cows, First, ] get a
broad side view of the animal, at the
distance of about two rods, as have
noticed for years that there was a
great similarity In the general pro.
portion of all tirst-class mixers, be-
ing very small in girth just back Of
their forward legs, as compared with
their girth just forward OF their hips
| have never known first.rate
mixer, of any breed, not thus pro-.
portioned; so that if this form is.
wanting in an animal have recon-
mended 10 me, do not care to look
at her more, unless | want TO breed
for some other purpose than the
dairy. For breeding oxen, Ishould
want COW Of reverse proportions,
4. G., larger girth forward. / next
feel the size OF the milk veins, and
trace them TO their entrance into the
! chest, which, in superior cows, are
large, admitting the ball of the larger
finger; if divided, or subdivided, rs
is sometimes the case, judge of the
size of each orifice, as / care less for
the size OF the vein itself than the
oriiice. Next, examine, by sight or
touch, the udder or bag, which must
be capacious In order to hold much
milk, with teats wide apart, and free
from large seed warts or sores of any
kind. / then inquire how long she
goes dry before calving, as i don't
want family COW to give milk less
than forty.six weeks out of every
| fifty-twO; also, as TO the quality of
the milk; and, to close, / milk her
with my own hands. ~ /.
DUBUQUE Observation-Disclosures call
ed us to Dubuque this week and
while there we took occasion to look
through the new quarters Of the
Herald establishment. The several
departments, bindery, news and job,
editorial rooms aud Office, engine
and press rooms occupy four floors,