The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-12-04
lnRs TIL spring wells round again
EXPOSING POTATOES.

Or, before the blazing yule-log
Sings till spring wells round again.
EXPOSING POTATOES.
It is great mistake, says the Ladi-
ana Farmer, in handling potatoes to
allow them to be exposed to the sun,
especially when the potatoes are ten
der. In digging have baskets of con-
venient size at hand, and, as fast as
you can dig, put in barrels and cover
up; transfer them fresh to market or
to room where they they may be
emptied out upon floor to dry in the
shade. Potatoes exposed to hot sun
when packed in barrels and shipped
will speck and rot; oftentimes the ship
per will lose an entire shipment, and
potatoes stale and frequently t1nged
with bitter taste.
HOW TO PLANT TREE.
When planting don't dig hole like
bowl cistern, but dig it just as deep
as the soil is, and no deeper make the
bottom of it one-third larger round
than the top, and loosen up the very
bottom. Then as the tree is planted
| throw in first an inch of good, fresh,
rich soil; set the tree, holding it with
one hand while on your knees you
spread its roots carefully with the
other let the assistant drop the dirt
u
sieve, and as it is dropped in, do you
WHO hold the tree upon your bended
knee work every root carefully out
straight on a level line with the point
or the junction of it with the main
stems, use the fingers outspread in
mingling the fine dirt with the roots,
and be careful that not an air space is
| left at the bottoms, and also that the
earth upon the lower roots is packed
the hardest or tightest of any. AS you
reach the upper roots only see that each
root is surely surrounded with earth,
and then let the last four inches of
earth be sprinkled on with a spade or
! shovel, without pressure of foot or any
| thing else, don't even fat it with the
shovel, and be sure to keep your own
| and Paddy's feet off, for every pressure
will destroy the natural position of the
roots Cleveland Leader.
TRITE TRUTHS.
know farmer who bought lumber
wagon now almost thirty years ago, and
to-day it is nearly as good as new. It
has been in constant use, but always
kept under shelter when not behind his
team in the field or on the road. A
neighbor of his bought one at the same
time and made at the same shop, but ia
consequence of always leaving it out of
doors it went to ruin years ago, and
now he has bought new wagon for the
third time. This is fact, and the men
are living to-day, one successful farm
er, with plenty of money to use and to
loan, the other an example of the worst
effects of the opposite system. This
one instance alone is sufficient to sfpoint
moral" It should teach lesson to
every man engaged in the pursuit of
agriculture. To be constantly buying
farm tools is more than a farmer can
afford. Implements are expensive. and
they should be made to last by being
cared for. Every farmer should have 8
Toulouse, and when q tool if not in
use it should stand or hang in its place.
A careful inventory of such tools occa-
sionally would do much toward keeping
them in their place and in good repair.
Industry, economy and system will be
of as much service to farmers as to any
other class.-COr. ~. Y. Tribune.
J IMPROVED CORN CRIBS.
Our common Russian rat burrows in
the ground, and never makes nest in
the corn crib, though he has no objec-
tions to going into it for his meals but
he also likes to have his burrow under
| some rubbish, buildings, or similar
.. protection, where the dogs cannot reach
I him but, in this crib, which is on
posts two and half to three feet from
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to burrow, as the rat would be exposed
7 to the spade or to the dogs, and the re-
J suit is that he never burrows in any
! such open places. The cribs may be
eight feet wide, and of any length. On
l this farm the cribs are thirtytwo feet
long, and with posts ten feet high,
3 though twelve feet would have been
| better. The outside is of stock boards,
, battened with fencing planed and split,
t making the battens three inches wide
The space between the cribs is twelve
: feet wide, with floor overhead, with 6
9 trap-door in the center for shoVelinl
s up through. The inside of the crib
: has common fencing put on horizon
tally, with spare spaces for airing the
corn on the inside, and the bottom
floor is of three inch strips, placed al
a inch and half apart to allow the al
s to pass up through the corn, and t.
3 prevent molding. On the inside it i
boarded below the CRIB in order to ez
q clude pigs and poultry from enterin!
v the space between the cribs, and sid
i ing doors are used. The crib is thu
n weatherproof on the outside, and ye
Q by opening the doors free circulation
J., of air is obtained, as well as the up
}. ward ventilation up through the bot
r tom of the slat-work. Any corn tina
# is shelled off in the crib passes dow
n through these Stats to the ground, an
,r yet it is under cover, and is good foo
l. for the poultry and pigs, if the latte
,s are permitted to visit the premises
Il If the cribs are near the ground, til