Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1869-01-14

FARM, GARDEN AND HOUsEHOID.

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newly planted orchards do not flourish AZ
well as those put out by our grand@therss
nearly oil arc willing 70 admit, II they
come into hearing earliers and produce
fruits OF q superior quality, they are abort
lived and extremely liable to disease The
old trees and old tree planters we're igno-
rant Of many Of the ills that have befallen
those that have since occupied their places.
Many persons think that climatic changes
have much to do with bringing about this
"decline and fall' In the prosperity Of the
orchard, but there is little that tends to
show that such is the case. Others who
have moved from the old apple regions OF
the East think there are no soils here
adapted to successfully growing the apple
tree; but the truth is, the raising Of apple
trees in the East has become even more
difficult than in the West
For very many years, Maine furnished a
vast quantity of winter apples that did
much, not only to supply the market in the
Southern States, but in California and the
West Indies Orcharding became SO profit
able that many new trees were planted out
TO take place of the old trees that were
planted out seventy.five years ago, which
bore as seedlings for long time, and we're
then engrafted with the Black and Yellow
Russet and Rhode Island Greening.
But these new orchards, as rule do NOT
flourish. For several years pastlapples ir)m
Michigan have come into competition with
those grown in the valley OF the Kennebec.
while old Connecticut and New Hampshire
hard cider drinkers have drawn their sup
ply from the same source 1t is within the
memory ofthe writer that apples were SO
plenty in many parts Of New England, that
far cooking apples could be obtained for o
dime q bushel while cider went beg
ging at seventy-fiye cents a barrel Apples
were then an important article Of food for
milch COWS and stock hogs. Vinegar from
cider was the only kind in use. while apple
brandy was distilled in large number OF
towns.
What is, the matter that the new apple
trees do not flourish as Of yore in the old
Pine Tree State, which was an Apple Tree
State as well There are the same bleak
winds, granite hills and crystal streams as
in the days when Knox and Dearborn
planted out their cider orchards We be.
lieye the reason may be found in this: The
old trees were put on new land, from which
the forest had just been cleared away,
while the new trees are put into old worn
out soils that have been cropped from fifty
to hundred years. The roots of these
young trees seek in vain for sustenance in
soil from which not only the mineral salts
but the vegetable matter has been abb
stracted. We have o Scripture injunction
not to put ''new wine into old bottles"
and sound discretion should teach as not
to put new apple trees into old land.
We have lately seen quite number of
orchards set out in the West on lands that
have been sown to wheat till they have
failed to return anything like remunera-
tive crops. We believe the plan to be q
bad one. There is good deal Of expense
incurred in setting out and tending for a
series OF years an orchard of apple trees,
and as ii is intended to furnish fruit for
more than one generation, il is important
that ii be put on the best land that tho
farm affords. One life is not long enough
to make series of experiments in or
ehard setting, after several failures have
been experienced. Prairie Fdrner.
RABBITS AND FRUIT TREES. Having not
ticed several different methods proposed to
prevent rabbits from gnawing fruit trees
and shrubbery, all Of which remedies are,
no doubt, good; but as most Of them are
attended with more or less labor and ex-
expense, herewith give cheap remedy,
at the same time quickly arphed, and
which has, with myself and others, so far
as my knowledge stands, proved entirely
successful
Take dead rabbit; let it be partially
frozen, and with itrub each tree as high up
as the little pests are likely to reach, rub
bing hard enough to use up rabit 5on n
few hundred trees.
AS the rabbits are strict vegetarians and
wholly averse TO meat diet especially Tdb-
bh-they prefer to find supper some-
where else" have mover known rabbits
to disturb fruit trees much until the
ground is covered with snow, and other
forage shout from their reach; accordingly,
the above remedy should be used immedi-
ately after the snow falls. Call
IMPORTANT TO CHEEsE FACTORIES. An
important question to cheese factories, has
just been decided by the Commissioner of
Internal Revenue, as TO the liability of
those factories to pay q tax on their quar-
terly sales as manufacturers, under the act
of March, 1858. The Commissioner in de-
Gliding the question says;
II reply, that the tax in question, ap-
plies to the sales of manufactured goods,
wares and merchandise made by or for the
manufacturer The business OF making
cheese at factories as it is largely carried
on at the present time, is manufacturing
By reason of special exemption in the law
q special tax [licensel as manufacturer is
not required of any person for the manu-
facture OF butter or cheese. But where q
sale is made Of the products, return of
such sale should be made for taxation, un-
der the provisions Of the act Of March 81,
1858, by the owner of the factory, agent,
committee or superintendent, as the case
may be. F" .-L... 1.,
ADVICE TO Wool GRowERs. We have
been practical wool grower over third
of century. We have seen good many
ups and downs in wool production. The
present depression is long and severe
ones- II is as certain that it will pass
away when the normal conditions Of sue
cessful trade are restored, as that oil sue
ceeding depressions have passed away.
And when that occurs If the present tariff
can be retained, there is every reason TO
believe that the wool growers will have a
long and probably uninterrupted career of
prosperity. The man who has spent any
considerable portion of his life or capital in
establishing choice fiocks is exceedingly
unwise to abandon or sacrifice them now,
when depression has reached its climax,
and when every change must be for the
bet or. DIR. Randall. ''i h'3fft
RUBBER MoUNTMos FOR HARNESS 1T is
said that the use of India rubber mount
ings for harness has been almost wholly
abandoned by the best manufacturers, for
the reason that when the rubber comes in
contact with leather, the latter 10 sure to
rot and become worthless--a result dan
gerous in the extreme, " Aen ii is consider
cd that the rupture Of single strap in a
harness is not unfrequently the cause Of
serious injury to persons and property,
and sometimes the occasion Of loss Of
life. ,sf
SEEDS, especially Of the stone fruits,
must not be ellowed TO got too dry, They