Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-05-20
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nQre ABOUT the rOOIs. HOW the roots
are generally to be got at in this way
we cannot see. What better can bs
desired than applying the same liquid
soak in? If the surface is very hard, il
should be lossened. Or, what we con-
Itend is still better top-dress the surface
as far as the branches extend with good
barn-yard manure, ami the substance
will soon find its way uniformly to the
roots " ith the assistance of the rains"
/ Many fruit-trees which have been
considered valueless may be recovered
by being manured in fall and winter;
and during warm days, when the surface
! of the soil is net frozen, even stimulating
manures may be applied with impunity
and covered with earth. Thus Peruvian
guano, applied in the fall, will be so di-
vided in the soil by spring rs not to in
ljure the young spongioles from the roots
when they resume growth; whereas, il
|applied after the spring growth COM
mences, the spsngioles would be injur-
ed. Lime, ashes and other manures ap-
propiiate to different soils and trees may
be applied in similar manner
SELECTIONS OF SHADE TREEs.-i. Sc
lect trees of different varieties, SO that,
if one fails from disease, insects, or other
causes, all will not perish.
| 2. Selsct trees OF cleanly habits. The
Mountain Ash sheds its berries all
through the fall, and is Objectionable as
a shade tree. Some trees are infested
by worms or beetles, that cause them to
shed their foliage premsturely, and
hence are not fit for borders and walks.
8. For clusters, select trees OF divers
ity of shapes and foliage A tall white
birch, standing with other trees, often
lgives to them a peculiar beauty.
| 4. Evergreens may be thrown in
among decidHous shade trees, 50 as to
produce a good effect. The American
Pine, or Norway Spruce, standing by
itself, with a space for its long branches
to put out on all sides, is always a strik-
ing object.
5. Select trees of medium rather than
large size for transplanting. But, if
compelled to take the latter, head them
in well before setting out, and stake
well at the roots after it Is done.-Csn-
gregationalist.
Roofing APPLE TREE LIMBS AND
GRAFTS.-A correspondent of the New
England Farmer writes: my method
is to lay the limb of small tree, and
cut slanting cut toward the top, and
pin the limb down with the top stick
ing out of the ground. I have some
thirty or forty trees well under way,
treated as abeve-soms large enough to
bear. My object il to get tree that is
what we might call full blood, and not
wounded by grating. I have another
method of getting full blood as call
it; and is to take small tree and run =
sharp knife or chisel through the body
| of roinfa fnur al inohAo anart. than
insert scions; lay the tree in the ground
with just the top of the scion sticking
out. Let them grow one or two years,
and 1 generally find roots enough that
have started out of the scion above the
old stock to support the tree. If SO, cut
the scion on young tree above the old
stock and you have nething but full
blood left"
LINE ON PEACH TREES.-Mr. w.
Bailey, of Illinois, in the last number of
the Western Rural, gives us this impor-
tant information. which agrees with
what has always been known and be-
lieved: II saw in your paper an article
on lime being injurious to peach trees.
will here state an experiment tried by
myself on trees last spring. In cur gar.
den there were six trees. They all
bloomed and looked well. The fruit set
nice, but on some the leaves did not
start. thought there was something
wrong; on examination, the bsrer was
there. 1 trimmed off the bark, found
the insect as described in the paper,
took air-slacked lime and put it ali
around the stem, then put back the
dirt. The leaves came out, and the
peaches got ripe. The trees looked
well. Those where l didn't put lime
died"
BIRDS THE FARMERS FRIENDs.-An,
intelligent farmer boy in Illinois obs
served a small flock OF quails ccmmenc-
ing at one side of = cornfield, taking
about five rows regularly through the
field scratching and picking around
every hill, then returning and taking
another five rows, till, thinking thsy
were pulling up the corn, he shot one,
and then examined the field. On the
ground they had been over he found but
one stalk of corn disturbed, but in the
quail's crop he found one cut-worn.
twenty-sne striped vine-bugs, over n
hundred chintz-bugs that he could dis
tinctly count, and a mass apparently
consisting of hundreds of chintz-bugs.
out not one kernel Of corn. During the
past five years the quails in that vicini-
ty have been decreasing, and the chintz-
bugs increasing.
The common practice of using pads
or sheep-skin under a horses collar in
Objectionable, especially In warm wealth
er, because it accumulates heat and
makes the breast tender. A better way
is to take 3 piece of thick and smooth
leather, cut it out just the size of the
collar, or little wider, and let it lie fiat
on the neck and shoulders. 1t will lie
smooth, while the collar itself moves
about, and chatting will thus be prevent
ed. 1t is also well to wash the breast of
a working horse every night with clean
water.
COOPERATION OF THE WIFE.-There
is much good sense and truth in the
remark that no man ever prospered in
the world without the cooperation of
his wife. If she unites in mutual en-
deavors, or rewards his labor with an
endearing smile, with what confidence
will he resort to his merchandise, or to
his farm, fly over lands, sail upon the
seas, meet difficulty or encounter dam
ger, if he knows he 10 not spending his
strength in vain, but that his labors
A BEAUTIFUL CUsToh.-A beautiful
custom with the Nsrwegians is the eiy-
ing Of dinner to the birds on Christ
mas Day. On Christmas morning every
gable, gateway, barn-door, and paling
is decorated with sheaf Of corn, fixed
on a pole. Even the humblest peasant
will Save up by the handful something
for the birds; which, il net pecked on
this day, is allowed to remain to helm
them through the winter. There ia |
lesson in this from which many might
take thoughtful hint.
ASHES FOR PE.s.-The Rural Now
Yorker says: "A woman sends us the |
following from her diary Of her market
garden: TN the spring Of 1866, in SOW
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