Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-03-11

Piles. I bought farm which had a
small orchard on it, [ took care of it put
fence round it and thought | should
have fine lot of apples, this was the
year 1868, the next year they all died
/ have not had very good luck. but
think we can raise apples here; we have
/ got to use good deal of vigilance to
keep the worms and borers from destroy
ing them. l am very fond of currants,
and think there is no fruit compared with
them in their season, but the worms
have pretty much used them up and
have found nothing that would kill them.
III. Cass.-I have been successful in
! killing the currant worm with copperas.
/ A. j. Smith, have taken poke root
and stepped it, and sprinkled the currant
and gooseberry bushes with it and it has
killed the worms, and have not had to
repeat it to keep the bushes free from
them.
4. Horse i would like to know if
any of the preparations would kill the
apple worm. When we get trees we
ought to 60 to the nursery and select them
if we order from the nursery they will
send us some poor ones. l paid some
sixty dollars for trees and they sent me
some very poor trees; | should have
been the price of the trees better off if |
had gone and selected the trees myself
G. T. Sprague has been my
experience I bought some trees and
they came all right, but the roots were
done up in moss, and there was some of
the trees that didn't have any roots. |
hope as Mr.. Morse says, the worms and
borers will run out, but think something
worse will follow. When | lived In
Peacham, there was man who cleared
up farm went to Connecticut and
brought back on his back apple tree roots
and set them out, and the first cider that
was made in town was from apples
grown on his trees in twelve years from
this time he raised eight hundred bush
els of apples, and in about twelve years
they were all dead, and this orchard
starved to DEATH and there is one hun
bred to one trees that starve to DEATH
In Massachusetts, they could not raise
fruit if they done as we do; they take
care of them, manure, prune and look to
them. When the apples are ripe they
are carefully picked and some of them
are sent here, and we pay five or six dol
lars a barrel for them. We do not care
to raise fruit to export, bnt should raise
enough for our own use; almost all the
trees in these parts starve to death. |
have nursery, and this spring | found
, borers, | think they will head me off !;
l think in setting out trees we are too
, stingy; set thirty OF forty trees, some
of them grew in thirty years two inches
in diameter | read that we should dig
six feet in diameter and two feet deep,
put the tree in the center, and the dirt
taken out first put in first; have tried
this way, trees done we'll. | have known
of trees which never produced an apple,
5 to be made to bear by putting a dead
) lamb under them. | tried this, took a
| dairy calf cut it in four quarters and put
a quarter under each tree, and the dogs
came and dug up every one, if they do
, it again will kill the dogs and put them
t under think we ought to raise grapes,
| [ think we could raise them on the
Black River; the Concord grape is very
hardy, and could be raised here. [
tasted some cider made of crab apples,
| and it was the best ever saw. Iplant-
ed some crab apple seeds, and one tree
, has hung so full this year that the limbs
, hung to the ground, they are too small,
but they have kinds which are large and
| hardy.
Il. Morse.-Mr Bryant told me to
. dig hole three or four feet across and
r put in some kind of compost others say
5 put in the tree without manure my
5 trees have done we'll | had three trees
4 of Mr.. Bryant labeled Northern Spy,
; and they have produced crab apples most
D as large as plums. Soft soap is good to
t wash trees with to keep off the borers,
| and it does not hurt the tree but does ii
e good.
!, President.-I have seen soap recon-
e mended they used to advocate white.
v wash, now they say it shuts up the pores
y and hurts the tree. l had some apples
!; from tree this fall that l used to gel
S apples from forty years ago, but they
t do not taste like the same.
e Geo. Nelsm.-A year ago last fall
It was the first year that l have not had
: apples all that [ wanted, l got about ;
e bushel and half of small wormy APP
e Piles. | thought must do something
e for my trees; | put ashes and liquiC
e manure round the trees, and then
e thought would pillow the ground wher,
a put the ashes / found the bark of the
n trees green and looked like new bark
G thought ashes would stop the borers, bu
r they worked below the ashes This las
s. fall had quite a number bushels o
apples, and they were not wormy thi
G spring the caterpillars took possession
re and | could wing half a painful from tn,
@ trees in short time, and in few hour
h there would be as many more. | bough
+, three trees of Mr.. Bridgeman two year
7e ago, two of them have done nicely, som'
3 claim we can manure trees too much
n have a very rich piece below my hooper
Is and thought it would be too rich 70
E. trees, Mr.. Bridgeman told me to set GU
I some trees there, and he would give IN
h two trees for every one that died.
ID think soap suds is good to water tree
d with.
II H. Cass-I think some water thei
" trees too much.
CLOVER.
,e William Frasier and Aaron Skinne
ID have snapped farms. Frasier payin
"a $500 to boot.
IS On the eve of the 5th Mr.. Foster ha
e at his hotel social gathering of friend