The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1872-06-06

PLANTING TREES.
As the proper season has arrived for
TRANSFORMING trees, few hints to new
planters will not be out of place.
l. Have your ground in good heart, and
see that it contains sufficient quantity of
the matter necessary to the growth of such
trees as you are about to plant. Apples re-
quire lime, pears phosphate of lime or
bone dust. Good wheat land is well adapt
ed to the growth of apples, and poor soil
should never be laid out for an orchard.
2. Let tie land be high; low lands are
liable to spring frosts, and the fruit bios
SONS are often blighted then. High situa-
tons ere also more easily drained, which is
absolutely essential to the we'll being of the
trees.
8. Pillow the ground deep before planting.
A slight scarifying of the soil will do no
good. Dig the holes for the trees deep if
the ground is not naturally loose. Fill up
with the surface soil around the roots, plac-
ing each rootlet in the most natural posi-
ton. Do not use any barn-yard manure.
4. In selecting trees, choose only such
varieties as are of well-known excellence
and that are adapted to your peculiar local
ity. Young, healthy plants are better.
A large tree costs more in the nursery, but
the small one with a little care will in a
few years outgrow it.
s. The shorter time your plants are out
of the ground, the more likely they will be
to live. If the rootlets are not allowed to
get dry, the tree will be almost sure to grow;
but if these get dried up, the chance of
/ success is less. Some trees will not bear
| exposure of their roots for any great length
of til he and ive.-Ohio Farmer.
GRASS SEEDS.
| AS rule, the kind of seeding that is best
for moving field is the poorest for pas
ture. For the former only few varieties
are desired and those that will come to ma
turity at very nearly the same time. For
the latter, it is desirable to have large
variety, and Of kinds that will furnish a
constant succession of foliage from early in
the spring till late in autumn. To insure
this it is evident that land intended for pas
ture should be seeded very different from
one designed for moving. A writer in
Land and Water; in giving the proper
seeds for an English pasture, recommends
no less than twenty-one varieties of grass.
On looking over the list one finds only two
of the grasses ordinarily sown in this coun-
try, and the proportion of these is exceed
ingly small. If land that was sown to
timothy alone, and that is our fashionable
grass, is to be used for a pasture, other
varieties Of grass should be sown upon it
the season previous, that they may get a
start before stock is turned upon it. If a
slight top dressing of well-rotten manure is
applied, these seeds will be quite sure to dc
well.
But this is not the only time in which
grass seed should be sown on pasture land
If there is diversity of soil in relation tc
composition or dryness, care should be tax
en- to sow, on the several portious, the kline
of grasses best adapted to them. A moist
spot, where white clover and blue grass
would not do well, might produce luxuri
an growth Of red top. Observation vii
help one to determine the grasses best
adapted to each part of the pasture. A
close watch should be kept that no places
become bare of useful vegetation. AS soor
as spot Is noticed where the grass is do
ing poorly, or is dying out, sow it with
seed of another kind, and if the ground i.
poor, apply some top dressing. Sometimes
it may be necessary to loosen the turf Will
harrow or scariter before applying thu
) seed, after which the roller should be used
Weeds should no more be allowed to 90 t.
seed in pastures than in meadows or il
fells of cultivated crops. If they appear
) they should be mown, and, when dry, burn
ed. The growth Of white, red and Ask,
clover may be encouraged by atop-dressns
of plaster, which will also be a benefit t.
the proper grasses. Ashes, too are Of
great benefit to all the grasses, the clover>
included. In short, there is no place or
the farm where manure, either from tbe
mellowed heap, the compost bed, or in the
various kinds of mineral manure, pay bet
ter than on the pasture.-Prdirie Farmer.