Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1872-08-07
Agricultural.
Agricultural Notes for August

na hbsns of the hm and garden au.
ring the month o. August, gill be quite
as urgent = apypther period Of the grow
ins,Psssa Let - maze a memorandum
Of frw Of siose duties which are liable
to- nfglecice. beeause many Of the iii.
let'ef ibe sOil DO not perceive the dam.
age incident to nsglecting certain Jobs a,
the propcf'fim -
lovcrs Of gcsl cabbage have been OBJ
sifVPay, during the summer thus far,
inNsS York aud Brooklyn, ten TO TWEEN
ty cents per head. IL good cabbage plants
are put out 10 rich ground the first Of
Augas. aud thoroughly cultivated, the
heads will be large aud 6ne before cold
westher arrests their growth. More than
lO,seO heads If planted two feet apart
each wy, can be grown on one acre.
Il isbol too late to plant part Of an
acre, or more, with the seed of late tur-
nips. &c the ground is rich, plant after
barley, oats or early potatoes. Dress the
hills with -four of bone or superphOsphaie,
andes, seOn as the young plants appear in
thetbc,l-leak let ashes be sifted over then,
to Fepel Che insects aud you can scarcely
fail'to produce a fair crop. You need to
catturnips in your family every day dur
ing the winter and spring. Your horse
needle q half peck, at least, daily. Your
cow'wahts tarnips aud there is nothing
better ior sheep. Thousands Of bushels
canbo raised just as well as not, if the
ground is only prepared and the seed put
in mar. Ell r".i . A" .l.. .s.... ..
Those Young apple trees, pear trees,
peach trees and plum trees, need pruning
no1t, more than at any other season Of
theyear There are great many gratis
which, have been growing for more than
month, with several gormandiziDg sprouts.
which sprouts are now choking the CRAFTS
and robbng them Of their proper nouIish- '
mcnt If not attended to before the end
Of the growing season. the gratis will be
seriously Injured. In most instances, ex-
cept theolranohes are large, it will be bet a
ter,to pinch the robbing sprouts back, so ,
that they will be shorter than the CRAFTS. !
Then the gratis will take the lead. If the
sprouts are cut entirely off close to the
stock, thesdppy Of sap for the graft may y
be quite too abundant. In case the graft n
is mslNAga feeble growth, let all the OIL
sprouts be cut off smoothly, close to the
stock 3 At young trees of any sort are
throwing out long and slender branches,
let all the terminal buds,-about half an OF
inch of the cnd,-be pinchod off. This
will cIgck t9e Aow,of sap, or the determi- 4
nation OF it, to the .extremities of the
and cause them to become more
'tocky, cause the buds to develop, and 4
make the wood mature before cold wealth. Il
'r. Young trees are like children-they
'equlre training every day, or at least ~
very fey days. This practice is much bet.
er than to let them run rot,-grow at
andom, during the most favorable peri
I'd to form the tops and branches, and then O"'
It the end of the growing season, give
hem an unmerciful overhauing. There DE
science 10 pruning fruit trees correctly.
Don't neglect the grape vines at this
oasonof the year, and let the canes and
ranches grow at random and ad Hbatuna.
hc,injury of the fruit. Keep piuching
II thedermlnal buds of all the shoots that
eem disposed to grow long and slender.
irape, vines need to be pinchcd off at the
rowing ends, frequently, for two purpos. TRI
5: l. 10 induce the wood to mature
nd harden before cold weather and 9. and
direct more ofthe energies of the vines II
the Perfection of the fruit. A great ''0o'
ANY vines are allowed to grow themselves
nearly to death that they bear no fruit. AN
We have in mind a farmer who owned on. r
one'Rlne, which yielded a fair crop of
until the canes and branch. $50
hadeovered every tree. bush and fence '''
spreading over much ground, for
YER eighty feet IN one direction. Thus it
as allowed togfow for several years, !,
aklnQ more and moro mood Ia, II
eldlg1g''a single bunch of fruit. At length -
cntit away, simply because he did not w
now how to manage it to make the vine (.
cid several bushels of fruit every sea.