The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1871-08-01
Thinning Fruit.

The taste Of a good gardener is to be
found in how he thins his fruit Your
sboddy fellow takes all that nature will
give him he buys the largest trees he
can find, because they will bear fright
away" and he expects not merely spe-
cimen or so of kind, but pecks if not
bushels from newly planted trees. But
as he becomes among the refined and ed
ucated in the pursuit, he gradually learns
that nature loves best the patient waiter.
He learns that good luscious fruit-truit
truly enjoyable-only comes from healthy
vigor, and that this never follows q tree
which bears too much. Even good gar
deners often say that if a tree is healthy,
it may be PERMITTED to bear all it will ;
but that kind of tree is very rarely seen,
Certainly half the trees which bear fruit
every year, would be benefited by having
half the fruit taken off as soon as it is well
set; that is after they commence to swell
little. Tho grapevine suffers from over
bearing two or three punches usually
come out from each frut-bearing branch.
We should always cut away one, the one
farthest removed from the main stem
and in many cases leave only onc-the
nearest one-to mature. When this is
decided on, cut away these superhuous
punches at once.
Fine rich color is always esteemed as
one Of the criterions whereby to Judge Of
the excellence Of fruit. Sun light is Of
first Importance but it is not generally
known that this is injurious when in excess.
In dry atmosphere, with great sun heat
where the evaporating process goes on
faster than the secretive principle, what
should become rich rosy blush in fruit
is changed to a sickly yellow; and the
rich jet black of a grape becomes foxy
red. Some grape growers Of eminence,
in view of the facts, shade their wineries
during the coloring process; but others,
instead. keep the atmosphere as close and
moist as possible.-Gardener'S Monthly.
How little land will keep n Cow.
On the first day of June last com.
menced cutting clover for one COW con.
fined in yard enclosed by a high tight
board fence, Wild stable attached in
which she has been fed. She had no feed
but freshly cut clover from the first Of
June to the fifteenth of October and all
taken from one-fourth of an acre of ground.
She has averaged eighteen quarts OF
strained milk per day, from which my
wife has made eight pounds of butter per
week, during the four and a half months.
The COW is five years old and cross Of
the Ayrshire and Durham. She has
given more milk, more butter, and of a
better quality, than she has ever done on
pasture. On one-eighth of an acre have
raised $50 bushels of sugar beets and
carrots, which with the two tuns of hay
will keep her handsomely the balance of
the year. The labor of cutting clover for
the COW is less than the driving her three
fourths of a mile to pasture besides, the
manure saved is quite an item. In the
dairy districts, the usual estimate is four
acres to the COW, on the hay and pasture
system, whereas by soiling and arising
roots fve-eights of an acre is said to be
sufficient. | will state further, what |
believe from nearly thirtp years expert
encc is, that there is no crop so valuable
for soiling as clover, no crop so many
pounds which, and of equal value for milk
and butter, can be produced from an acre
Of ground. Sweet corn is good crop for
late feeding, where clover will not grow,
but not profitable for Winter feeding
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