Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1874-01-16
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ORCHARD AND NURSERY 1rteS.-If
trees were not ordered early in the fail or
der at once, so that there will not I've any
delay when the time tp plant arrives. Ii
there is Il nursery near bs il will often be
best to pay an extra price for the privilege
of digging or selecting the trees ones SELF
In selecting varieties, attention must be
paid to the purpose trr which they are
wanted, whether for market or Tor home
use. Ii for market, select such as are
known TO succeed we'll in the immediate
vicinity, with fair proportion of early and
late sorts. When SELECTING for home use
MANY can be plauLed which are of fine nna-
T,r. scanty hearers or poor keepers.
MAP THE ORCHARD.-1n winter even
ings and during very cold days when out
of door work is impossible a map of the or
chard should be made, giving the position
and name of each variety. This is inlpor-
tant, rs labels are liable to be lost. and if
map with the names is made it will be an
easy matter to replace them besides, place
with the trees correctly named will bring a
higher price in the market should i. ever
he offered for sale.
CionS to cut when the wood is not frozen
as a larger proportion are likely to live if
cut at this season than when left until
spring, as the severity Of the weather often
Injuries the buds. Take particular care to
have every variety properly labeled and
packed in fresh sawdust or sand where
they will not dry out during the winter.
| Tent Cate7pillars. out now for the
eggs of this destructive insect. When the
! trees are leafless the little bands of eggs
glued around the twigs, usually near the
extremites, can be readily seen and re-
moved. If this matter is attended to at
once much time will be saved when other
work is pressing in the spring.
| Rabbits and Miee.-L0ok out for these
animals. When light snow falls they
will often do great deal of damage in
short time. Tramp the snow firmly around
| the trunks to prevent the mice from injur-
ing the bark. Blood sprinkled upon the
trees will prevent injury. from rabbits.
Though January will not be thought IA
vorabe month to attend to work in this de-
partment, yet on a second consideration
many operations which can be done now
will suggest themselves TO the wide awake
orcbardist. There will be
| Injured Trees.-Lirge limbs are often
broken by ice and snow they should be
] looked after, and the wound carefully
smoothed with sharp knife, and coat of
melted grating wax applied.
Root Grating can be done at this season.
Graft at the ''collar, "and never on the tips
of roots. The best tying material is waxed
cotton twine.
Nurseru Stock.-Head back aad prune
into shape during mild weather.-Ameri-
can Agricuituralist.
| GOOD BUTTER Butter is scarce now
good butter is rare white, streaky, grea-
sy, strong butter is more plentiful. The
bad sells about as high as the good. This
is Offering n premium for the bad article.
| The cause pS-puch butter being short,
white. and stsa :, is owing TO the haste in
churning. - Some buttes is ehurned in ten
minutes. This can be done by artificial
at-by scalding it to death. Good but
ter is made BY long, careful churning. We
get our regular rich, tough, yellow, sweet
butter-it keeps sweet long time-our
butter woman tells us she churns 1t one
and a. half hours, and doeG not use scalding
water. Good feed is also required to make
good butter also the quality of the COW
has something to do but careless butter
making will spoil the best butter.-fork
(Pa.) Gazette.
To HAVE APPLEs EvEY YEAR. - A
correspondent of the New York Tribune
tells three ways ofhaving apples every year,
as follows:
1. Take scions from tree in 1873 and
put them into good, thrifty tree, and do
the same in 1874, and you viii get fruit in
alternated years.
2. If YOU cut of the thrifty trees the
growth of 1873 in the last of June, leaving
three or four buds that would come out
in 1874, you would force out The next years
buds and gain one year.
8. fyou remove all the bearing year you
will have fruit on that half the odd years.
These things have done successfully.
have now in bearing the Victory apple OF
the odd year produced In this way; next
year the scions of tho last year will bear in
the regular order. .aler-