The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-04-08
AGRICULTURAL MATTERS.
cuLTIvATNG ORCHARDS.


A young orchard should always be kept
under cultivation; it viii make an excellent
potato field for several years, provided it Is
well manfred, and when it has become 50
shady that potatoes viii not grow, then
keep it for a summer retreat for rather small
hogs, large ones are apt to bite or rub the
trees too much. The hogs viii keep in good
health upon the poor apples that fall from
the trees, and the worm that calculated up
on resurrection IN the form OF codIng
moth or a curcuio. finds naueht but ami
hilatiOn in the Jaws of thee swine. Jhere-
fore the result Is. after q few years if the
seasons are favorable. fine fruit without
wormv apples. But when viii the time
come again when we shall have apples and
peaches, a. well as pears and small fruIt?-
Echo answers when:
MINING MANURE WITH TN SOIL.
A very great loss which most farmers sus-
tain is from q want OF thorough admlXture
Of manure and soil The manure is thrown
on the land and spread ia large luD-ps; the
plOw, perhaps, but half covers them. anu
forms only a mixture of clods and unbroken
masses OF manure. entirely untitled for the
fine Gbres Of the roots Of plants. one OF the
most useful practices i 70 harrow the sur
face Of the ground from eight 10 twelve
times after the manure is spread, and before
it's ploWed it. thus breaking il up a. timely
as possible, and mixing it with the fine pull
verified soil We are Of opinion that ma
uurc Is thus of more than double the value
of the first crop that il II IN the usual way
Of blowing in. w hen Il can not be ploWed
Immediately after spreading, the narrowing
mixes it and prevents evaporation IN the
air.
THINNING PLANTS.
The thinning of seeding crops is very
necessary thing 10 be done in time before
the young plants have drawn up so much as
10 become weak. All plants grow stronger
and riDeu better when the air circulares
b-T and the not
vented from am immediate influence. In
timing close. as onions, carrots. turuips. &c-
be sure they are not left too near, for instead
ofreaping n greater produce it would as
srredlv be less. When they stand too close
they VIII make large tops but smallerroots-
ASHES FOR PEACHTEEEs.
We advise our readers who have peach
trees to place ashes around them at the sur
face of the ground particularly close to the
stem or trunks, not leached but new ashes.
And they will also do good against bOrers
II put around ounce, pear or apple trees
since all of these are more of less subject to
the attacks of WORMS at the surface OF the
earth.
PRUNING AND THINNING APPLE TEEEs, &c.
We must be careful, in the West at least
about doing these TOO much. Our expert
encc shows that the largest, sOundest. and
best fruit grow rather in moderate shade
than when exposed to nearly a full sum-
Peach trees viii bear a very little more pru-
ming thon apple trees. Hard pruning
leads to barrenness and slight pruning leads
to productiveness,' according to Lindley.-
A second well known law is that the re-
unoyal OF one bud or branch strengthens a.
other; a third law teaches US that to stop
branch by cutting away the extremity,
compels what is left TO produce side branch
cs which might not have otherwise appear
ed Buds too many may be pinchcd OIL
Al trees. even in the warm climate OF the
West should be moderately lighted snd air
ed Some varieties of fruit trees will re-
quire more than others and some less. It is
better to do most of the pruning in the
young tree.