Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1873-05-24

in Oswego County, N. York, describes |
a process by which, even in that CHI
mate, he has "splendid success in raising
melons," The description is somewhat
lengthy but as its length results from
its exactness, we will let him convey to
the reader all the particulars, without
condensation, He says:
Soon as the ground becomes a little
warm | plough, and then, selecting a
place where the ground is sandy, uig
holes about 20 inches in diameter ana
IA to l6 inthes deep. Have the holes
about feet apart each way. Leave
them open day or two to allow the
ground to warm ut the bottom; then put
into each hole nearly half u bushel OF
mannre-fresh horse manure preterie
Stamp down the manure, cover 1T with
the dirt dug out, about p inches deep,
and pat down with the hoe. The mll
will now be quite oishing, asy 4 inches
or more. Now place near my melon
patch a cask, into which put small
wheelbarrow load of fresh cowdriipiig
and couple shovelfuls of night SOIL
Into this cask put the soap-suds and
keep it full. If the weather is dry oo-
casionly moisten the hills from the cask;
evening is the best time. About the
20th of May cut up thin, tough sod
and place it, grass side down, i'll an old
tin-pan, and sprinkle about half an inch
/ in depth of fine sandy loan upon it. On
this put my seeds, Uery Wick; then,
put upon these another sod, as large as
the pan, grass side up. Upon this /
! pour tea-kettle of boiling-hot water
Al. Al
will keep warm Each. morning pour
on little more hot water. In about
. three day the seeds will have sprouts on
e about half inch long. Now remove
! the upper sod, shake the pan a | tic, and
I the seeds will rise from the fine dirt put
e on the lower sod. Put twelve or fifteen
seeds in each hill after slightly scratch
ing the dirt. Handle tie seeds c0TcfWt
IN so as not to Jredk Me sprouts. Cover
about three-quarters of an inch with
dirt BY taking this course your vines
will in two weeks be as far advanced
; as they would be in four or five planted
in the usual way. Let the seeds grow
9 in and about the hill as "A protection
from bugs and worms. The vines vii
grow rapidly, and of course somewhat
tall and spindling. If the weather is dry
moistcn from the cask two or three
ut times Il week, dtseays at ecening. This
ID will keep the manure moist and in a state
of fermentation, causing considerable
heat. When the vines have grow
about four inches high remove the long
81 weeds, and perhaps some of the vines
and fill it with dirt nearly up to til,
: leaves. BY and bye in moist day re
"a M move the weeds from the hill, lcaviu.
10 them growing around the borders Thii
is out the vines to five or six. leaving som
in for the worms. Keep the dirt well II,
to the leaves. Your hill will he ncarl
level. Finally. thin out to three or fou
of the most thrifty vines. Rcmemhe
tie c0Sk. Take away the old dirt wit
your fingers and add fresh dirt two .
three times Il week The hill will 500
become crowning. Make a small ditc
around the hills, say two or the inchc
- deep, and fill this occasionally with sud
- from the cask. After the vines nearl
cover the ground, and the melons al
well se and of pretty good size, cut q
the end of the. vines. In this way tn
melons will grow much larger rails
= as large and fine melons here in Ambo,
Oswego County, ton the eastern bord,
of Lake Ontario,) as | ever saw on Lon
IL Island or anywhere else. 1t of cours
demands labor and care; but let any on
try this plan and he will find his effort
amply rewarded. | follow the sam
w. rule with cucumbcrs as with melons.
Captain Hall published book con
& tanning narrative of his first visit to I'll
i,,,A l.,, q h..
=" newspaper account was given of the Sc
. ond visit, in which he discovered Il
fate of the Franklin expedition
- From the time of his return he was g
ger to secure provisions for II third TT
to the far North, and no signs were civ,
of a book account of the second journc
1t now appears that II diary and 9TH
memoranda for such n volume. were le
in care of parties in New York to be d
lvercd to Mr.. Henry Grinnell in case
accident to Capt. Hall, and these will II
doubtedly be given to the puclic in son
shape.
a SCENE IN THE SIERRAs.--Californ
is country unlike any other. Natu
here is rs rude and inchoatc, rs untinis
ed life. The people seem to have con
here thousand years too soon, and b
fore the great hostess was ready to +
ceivc them. The forest vast, silen
damp with their undergrowths of giga
.ir tic ferns, recall a remote carbonifero'
DDS epoch. The trees are monstrous, somb
and monotonously alike. Everything
new, crude and strange. The gra
blades are enormous and far apal
There is no carpet to the soil, even &
few pine flowers are odorless and
zarre. There is nothing soft, tender II
pastoral to the landscape. Nature ;
fects the heroic rather than the bucolit