Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-04-25
Farm, Garden and Household:
Fruit Garden.


Every garden, says the AgriculturiSt,
should have an abundant supply of
currant bushes, as with proper care
they may be made to yield large crops
of fruit, both for market and home use.
Plant cuttings in rows two feet apart,
and the plants six inches in the rows.
In two or three years they will make
bearing plants. Versailles and White
Grape are the best varieties for general
cultivation.
Strawberries need to be set out as
early as the ground can be worked.
Give the newly planted beds, as we'll
as the bearing ones, good mulch of
cut hay or straw, or even leaves. Set
the plants in hills Is inches apart, with
the rows two feet. Do not allow the
newly planted beds to bear before the
second year, as the plants will then be
stronger and better able to bear good
crops afterwards.
Raspberries and blackberries must be
set out early this month if the ground
is dry. -Four feet each way for rasp-
berries, and six to eight feet for black
berries.
Set out grape vines one year old in
well drained soil which has been en-
riched by ashes or ground bone. Do
not use heating manures, as they cause
very rapid growth, which is so pro-
longed that the wood does not have
time to ripen properly before cold
weather commences hence the wood is
readily injured by frosts. Select a
proper proportion of early, medium and
late sorts, so that there will be a con-
slant succession of fruit throughout
the season. Cuttings preserved in the
cellar since last fall should now be
planted out in rows Is inches apart, set
ting the cuttings four inches apart in
the rows, and pressing the earth very
firmly down around the base of the cut
tings. f.
A handsome pyramidal ounce bush
can be secured if properly trained and
pruned as usually seen, they are not
ornamental objects.
Orchard and Nursery.
If not yet cut, attend to cutting cions
at once, as it will not do to cut after the
buds have started. Preserve in sand
or sawdust until needed.
Plant root gratis in nursery rows as
soon as the ground will allow.
Seeds of fruit and ornamental trees
should be sown as soon as the ground is
in good condition. Peach-stones, nuts,
etc., which were buried in boxes in the
open ground last fall should be planted
at once before they commence to grow.
Do not commence grating until the
lc 1ofI IL i.
bark slips so readily that there is dan.
ger of injuring the tree by peeling.
In tree planting, do not attempt to dc
it hastily; one tree planted we'll is
worth dozen poorly set. Take pains
to break all Jumps which come in con,
tact with the roots, and, besides, make
the hole large enough to allow the roots
TO lie straight in their natural posi-
tions.
Insects will need looking after, as
eternal vigilance is the price of healthy
trees and good fruit. Wash the trunks
and larger limbs with lye or soft soap
suds if not already done; this, if done
with stiff brush after the old bark has
been scraped off, will destroy most O.
the eggs of insects. Look out for the
rings of tent-caterpillars' eggs on the
ends of the twigs they eau be easil,
seen and destroyed now.
Mending Meadow.
I have purchased meadow which
brings me less than ton of hay to tn
acre and then wheR it has on y beef
seeded two years, and is also quit
rough. To try an experiment with i
in the fall of 1872, run over a part o
it with light short tooth harrow, AM
on part of it sowed bone No. 2 in tn,
fall, in part sowed clover and timoth,
in the spring, on another part put barn
yard manure in the winter, on anothe
part put muck in the spring. The re
suit was bone, manure, and mucl
caused the grass already growing t.
spread SO as to almost cover the ground
and about doubled the growth of ha
and grass-that during the past yer
dry season. Where I sowed grass see
and clover, [ saw no change. The barr
yard manure has been the most effectua
thus far.-B. We8tcheSter Co., NY.
ChiIbiain Remedy.
When chilblains manifest themselves
the best remedy, not only from pre-
venting them ulcerating, but overcom
ing the tingling, itching pain and stin
ulating the circulation of the part t
healthy action, is the thinner
of belladonna, two drachms the lin
ment of aconite, one drachm carboli
acid, ten drops /; to collodion fexil
one ounce; painted with camel
hair pencil over their surface. Whe
the chilblains vesicate, ulcerate c
slough, it is better to omit the aconit,
and apply the other components of tx
liquid without it. The collodion fexi
forms coating or protecting film
which excludes the air, while the sed
tive iniments allay the irritation, gel
orally of no trivial nature
Buying Things.
A farmer should never go to tow
without carrying something to sell
butter, eggs, potatoes, poultry, or eve
load of wood. BY so doing his i,
come is quite sure to exceed his on
goes. There is no more miserable al
poverty stricken way than to keep sen
ing to stores and shops, and havin
things charged, with the expectation
paying for them when special crol
come.
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