The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1872-12-12
Fruit Trees and Planting

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There can be no apology for owners OF
landed estates failing.to put out fruit trees
and vines and shrubbery. Every fruit tree
planted adds twenty times its cost, II no, Of,
more, to the value of the farm; If in IN any
event the owner or his heirs have reason TO
sell. the same truth will then he fully real.
led EEyerp body is fond of fruit and the
man of. family who neglects to provide 1t for
his household is not doing his whole duty to.
them. ANY observant or intelligent man,
contemplating settling on an estate, Will
make it one of the first considerations with
him before purchasing whether or not 1T has
on It an orchard of fruit; he has no 3otlon
of waiting several years for SO healthfui and
toothsome an addition to his home comforts,
and doubtless many sale has been defeated
bv the lack Of this luxury, or rather this me-
cessary portion of food. Besides these home
considerations, fruit is now becoming in ma
nv quarters the largest source OF proht to the
owners Of plantations, and ifthe liner qnail'
ties arc produced and attention is PAID TO
the proper varieties and the times ana sea-
sons for their ripeuing and gathering, there
can be no more profitable crop raised than
fruit 80. :.
Prepare your land BY plowing deeply, and
ifit is subsoiled, so much the better. II not
rich; make it so by. ad ling we'll rotted ma
nure and work. this in but it the manure
is fresh, spread it upon the surface after the
trees are planted Dig up the trees careful
". preserving as many of the roots as posi-
ble,' - and rc.plant, only setting as deep as
thew we're before Be careful to have the
earth worked in among the roots and firmly
pressed down, after which it. may be well to
stake each tree in order, to hold it firmly IN
its place and prevent the wind from swaylng
the tops about and loosening the roots we
should also advise pruning the branches, ell
ther cutting out portion entire, or shorten
ing the largest e.. !. -.
Each kind Should be planted by itself
cherries in one plot or row, plums in another,
the dwarf pears separate from the standards,
The distance apart will depend somewhat on
the varieties, although for garden or small
orchards the following will answer, Apples,
standards, 25 feet each way; crab apples, ~
feet; cherries. large growing sorts like the
Bigarreaus, 25 to; 80 feet; plums; II to 10
feet: dwarf pears 10 feet, II a man Will
attend tothc pruning properly the trees may
be given one-third less space and not be-
come cfewded Lifetime but -iaTthls
country we have so much OF the spread
earle"'i in our composition that we take more
pride in the size of trees than in their capa-
city for producing crop Of fruit. :. ) .n,.
THE VALUE oFsPUMpK1Ns.--Last year l
raised twenty OK cart loads of pumpkins, with
corn from an acre. The cart would shold
twenty bushels of potatoes. consider them
a valuable feed for cattle, taking into con:
sideration how cheaplv they can be raised: 1
undertook to dry some in my apple-drying
house for market, and was offered fve,eents
per pound. I found that green pumpkin
weighing from fifteen TO- twenty pounds,
would make about one pound of well-dressed
dry pumpkin, and that it would pay better
to dry them for my hogs Gas it could be done
very cheap than it would be tosell,
isoaked the dry pumpkin in milk, and fed
the same to the hogs-they gained very fast.
I also dried quite an amount and barreled 1T
to feed them this summer fed my sheep
upon the green ones for two months, and it
did very much toward fattening, forty which
I sold for mutton, and the forty which l
wintered never did better. commenced to
feed my cattle in September, and fed some
every day till February, It saved q vast
amount Of feed. / am planting but small
piece of corn, and wish to raise very large
amount of pumkins, so plant them with my
early corn, which will let the Esun give the
pumpkiusa chancetb grow * Maine Farmer.