The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-09-22
FRIDAY EVENING. SEPT. %. 1871.
New York Farmers Club.

from maine VINO ms Sz,OUU, anu OJilciS
who have less money, ask the advice of the
club, and the club answers: Don't go so
far south as country where the summers
are very hot and the greenheads and mus
quitoes very savage, nor so far north that
you have but five months of grazing. Cat
lie and sheep do best on lands that are high
and breezy. Buy good common cows and
big pure-blooded Durham bull, and do
not depend on wild grasses. They will an
swer as a makeshift like sod-cabin or a
straw barn. Men that went West with So
have made money handling stock and
bought lands of those who went with
thousands. The question is not how much
money you can take out, but how much
grit and how much much thrift?
KITTATINNY THE BEsT.-Dr. TRIM
ble-I want to say one word about the
best blackberry, the kittatinny. My cx-
perience this year shows that it is much
superior to both Wilson and Lawton.
ChairmanAYes, and if you will go up to
the Institute Fair you will find even as late
as this 18th of September, fine Kittatinny
blackberries as sweet and well favored as
| ever tasted. 1t will pay to go just to see
the 225 sorts of pears that Elwanger and
Barry have there, and the apples of Mr..
Ferris, and the splendid array Of house,
plants.
JAPAN APPRECIATES TILE CLUB.-A
few moments after adjournment, lIasakawa
Jungero, the Imperial Commissioner of
Agriculture from Japan, drove to the steps
of Cooper building, and showed letters of
introduction to Tycoon Ely and mandarins
Whitney, Curtis, and Lyman. He was
properly taken in charge, our models and
samples and books were displayed. In the
evening he attended the great Fair, and the
marvels of the mower and reaper, the SCI
entitic slope Of our pillow shares, the cum
ming devices for making and raking hay, for
dropping seeds, killing weeds, and stirring
soils, were set before him and explained
then he was formally introduced to the
board of managers, and requested to sip
Catawba wine and smoke some Connecticut
leaf, which he did sparingly. Then some
of the Clubbists lectured him for half an
hour on clover and timothy, and deep
blowing and mich COWS, and bulls and
big chickens. After which, lIasalawa,
with a smile that was simple and bland,
expressed his thanks, and said he duly APP
preciated the Importance Of all these things
to his island and his government.
SHOULD SQUASH VINES DE SHORT
ENED IN?-Franklin Brown, Choconut
Centre. N. Y: | have two acres Of Hub
bard squashes and they are growing and
setting finely. The laterals are coming out
thickly on the best of them. My expert
ence in this line is limited hence | ask you
for advice on the following point: Will it
be better to let them have their way and
nature take its course, or to allow them to
get as many sets as | think they will ma
ture, and then clip the cxtremites of the
vines and thus keep them subdued? Some
say, let nature take its course, but think
it not practicable in all cases.
DR.. Trimble-This is very good subject
for investigation, and [ would be pleased to
have the opinion Of several Of these learned
gentlemen.
MIR. Bragdon-I always grow the best
Hubbards by clipping the vines.
Mr.. Ely-Mine have run into to my
neighbors' premises, and l havn't had the
cheek to 20 over the fence with my scis-
sors.
Mr.. Nash--If the vines are permitted to
run, there will be many sets, but only part
of them will mature. Clip them, and
there will be smaller crop but better
specimen.
Mr.. Ely-Sound doctrine.
Mr.. Bragdon-Facts. No doctrine about
it. It's so.
SIGNS OF STARvATION.-E. 5. Hulin
Longmire, Washington county, Tennessee,
has bought an old worn-out farm. He
asks the cause and cure for knotted ano
wrinkled peach trees, for black knot on the
cherry tree, for apple tree leaves turning
yellow.
Ansscer.-Dig about them and dung
them.
BONE ON GRAss.-George M. Adams
Deering, Maine: What is the best time Of
wear to spread ground bone on grass lane
for top dressing, Spring or Fall, anc
which is best, bone meal or bone flour, ant
what is its value as compared with stable
manure or leached ashes, the meal costing
about $45 per ton in Portland, and thu
flour sos, stable manure So to 81 per cord
ashes 25 cents per bushel at the samt
place I?
Chairman Ely-Spread it any time wheT
YOU get a chance. Bone is the best appli
cation to give new vigor to pastures tina
have been long fed. 1t can be applied a.
well late in the Fall when the ground il
frozen, and will be there to enrich the frs
growth in Spring. If he can get ashes a
25c. he had better buy them, and he will
get his money back quicker with ashes thai
with bone. Bone does not increase tn
quantity of grass so much as it enhances 1t
value and nutritive power.
CLUB RooT.-Peter Swart, merchan
in Philipsburg, Pa, says his cabbage lool
wited as soon as they get the hot sun, ant
asks what he is to do?
Ansacer.-Salt them make o brine an,
pour it around the roots when young.
hot all the better: be careful not to seal
the plants, but they will stand prett
high heat. 1t kills the worm that make
the club root. You may not save you
present crop, but remember and try it mex
Spring.
VIRGINIA.
There is a very large area of this Stat
that is well adapted to the growth OF tn
apple, pear, peach, and grape. This, cou
pied with the shipping facilities Of Virgin
to Northern markets at low rates of freight
are strong inducements for those who pre-
prose planting fruit on large scale for pre-
fit.
The following list of fruit will be foun
well adapted for orchard and vinegar
planting over wide range in Eastern vi
ginia:
Apples. Summer Pearmair
Striped July, Early Harvest, Early Rip'
Maiden's Blush, York Imperial, Gravesteir