The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-05-30
AGRICULTURAL.

3thU9O tlll experiment. JnuU proved SUE
cessful in grating pear tree of pretty
large size, and which may prove useful
in grating large trees, without so much
expense and time as is generally neces-
sary. He says
al use knife-blade ono-half an inch |
broad, with which l make stab oblique-
" into the side of large limb or body |
of the tree, the knife making sharp |
angle with the tree, passing into the |
wood and between the wood and bark
as near as can, so that when the knife
is pushed in as far as design, it is hid
by the bark about an inch and quar-
ter, and the bark very little broken or
cracked except in very large tree.
The graft is so sharpened that it slips in
where the knife came out, and just fits
with the slope mostly on the side next
the tree. The cut being oblique, the
perpendicular fibre of bark binds the
graft tight, The inner bark of the tree
and the graft has abundant opportun-
ity to unite all along the sloping side Of
the graft and next the wood of the tree;
and as the whole end of the graft is en-
tirely covered, there is no place for evap-
oration. The gratis were only in toler-
able order. The time was April l. A
little wax was used to make sure the
tightness of the union. They were put
in in one-f fifth the time you could put
on bud or graft. They can be put in
almost as fast as the end of the graft
can be sloped off. If only one in ten
should grow, still large tree could be
worked over in this way much faster
than the common way. Whether this
process can be successful later in the
season, do not yet know, but will try
it.
Il fear now that have not described
it as accurately as 1T should be, but it is
pretty hard to do so in every particular
without an engraving. 1t differs from
the French spurs-budding in this very
important particular-the insertion is
slightly oblique, so that a portion Of
strong thick bark made more tense by
the graft being wedged under it, presses
on the graft, keeping it solid and nearly
closing up the wound. And then anoth-
er advantage is, that as the body of
the limb or tree emerges during the
summer, there is no perpendicular cut
to gap open; there is, it is true, an in
cision, but it is very SMALL and not
within half an inch of where the graft
and tree begin to unite"
How TO FEED CHICKENS AND WHAT
TO GIVE THEM.-Corn, wheat screenings,
and occasionally coarse meal, scalded
and mixed with hot water, make up
their food. l never give them corn meal
mixed with cold water-don't believe in
it-in fact think that is one source of
their sickness and disease. All their
food is better for them cooked-but
cooking of corn and wheat implies
trouble. So it does-but it pays to do
it-and does anything pay without
trouble ! However, let me say-whetheI
you feed on raw corn or not-never feed
on raw cornmeal. Now, when I feed
my plan is to walk all over the yard
about half an acre-and scatter the food
right and left two grains never fall ii
the same spot) and Immediately you see
the whole army scatter themselves a!
skirmishers and the yard presents, fol
an hour and more, somewhat the appear
ance of an upturned ant hill. l never
give them as much as they can eat
they always leave off hungry. By m.
system of scattering the food-old ant
, young, weak and strong small anc
iarge-all get their chance and share
and all are kept SO busily and activel.
employed that the very process of feed
ing stirs them about, and keeps then
F from being too lazy to move about
, Clean water (you see emphasize tn
clean part) they must have free to all
, Drinking foul standing water kills NOR
, chickens than nine-tenths of us raise
Occasionally in summer drop luml
, of lime into the water and let them tr
, the lime water, and also make then
cayenne pills whenever 1 notice ther
dropping or their discharges showing
symptoms of diarrhea. Gapes com
from drinking foul water, living in dirt
quarters, and want of good food, prop
erly given. The best cure for this an
: all other diseases chicken flesh is heir tc
: is prevention this case, an ounce c
: prevention being worth a good man
q pounds of cure. Give them good whole
e some food, healthy, clean quarters, pa
some decent regard to their comfor
and my word for it, they will make yo
rejoice in the profitable gratitude the
return you--you will be but little trou
S bled with cholera or gapes, or any othe
pest, except the miserable chicken THE
4 and the best cure for him is sprin
gun, properly arranged to dose hiI
i when he makes his marauding attemp
-RuraL Register.
CARE OF A NEW MILKs Cow.-A
y many people do not understand maI
Il aging new milks COW, will give SON
:. of our experience, which has been yer