The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-05-20
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

MADE LAND.-The reclamation of a
very valuable tract of land upon one of
the Scotch rivers was made in very
simple manner quite recently. Stakes
edge at the regular distance parallel to
the course of the river. Between these
stakes branches of trees and brush were
thickly matted or interlaced. This
simple contrivance resulted in the
deposit at every high water of large
quantities of silt and mud, until at last
an embankment was thrown up without
any further expense, sufficient to keep
out the water except at high floods. The
land thus reclaimed was sown with
grasses, and is now used for grazing cat
tie and is valued at $500 per acre for
this purpose alone. There are thousands
of acres alongside of our rivers, both
upon the coast and inland, which might
be reclaimed in this or similar ways at
very little expense.
How BUDS FoRM.-Buds do not form
wholly from bark, nor from any special
part of plant, though, of course, in a
general way they appear with consider
able regularity in fixed places. They
come out anywhere along the willow
stem although they appear in the. ap-
pie from the axil of leaf, they are
formed anywhere along the surface of
root of an apple when they are propa-
gated from roots, as by nurserymen they
often are. Again, in the horse chestnut
growth never appears except from an
avillary or terminal bud in ordinary
cases but ifa branch be cut off between
the nodes an immense number of young
buds will appear from the new cells
which form the new layer of wood on the
exposed surface. Some curious cases are
also on record by DR.. Masters where
buds have formed in the pith of the sea
kale and also in the interior of a potato.
In some instances several small patatoes
have been found inside large ones, from
buds which have developed there.
To OBTAIN FRUIT FROM BARREN
TREEs.-A correspondent of the Ameri-
can Agriculturist says: 81 wish to de-
scribe to you a method of making fruit
trees bear that / blundered on. Some
fifteen years ago had a small apple tree
that leaned considerably. l drove
stake by it, tied a string to limb and
fastened it to the stake. The next year
that limb blOssOmed full, and not another
blossom appeared OH the tree, and, as
Tim Bunker said, it sot me thinking
and / came to the conclusion that the
string was so tight that it prevented the
sap returning to the roots; consequently
it formed fruit buds. Having couple
of pear trees that were large enough to
bear, but had never blOssomed, l took
coarse twine and wound it several times
around the tree above the lower limbs,
and tied it as tight as could. The next
spring all the top above the cord blossomed
as white as a sheet. and there was not
one blossom below where the cord was
tied. A neighbor, seeing my trees loaded
with pears, used this method with the
same result. / have since tried the ex-
pertinent on several trees, almost with
the same result. think it much bet
ter way than cutting off the roots. In
early summer, say June or July, wind a
strong twine several times around the
tree, or a single limb, and tie it, the
tighter the better, and you will be pleased
with the result; the next winter or
spring the cord may be taken off,"
SMALL FRUITS ON THE FARM.-To ad-
wise a farmer to grow small fruit fer
market, and at the same time carry on
his farming operations, is something we
will not do. But there are hundreds
and thousands of farmers who have a
natural taste for fruit-growing, and to
whom farming has become a drudgery-
especially that class who are not strong,
to whom change is desirable and neces-
sary.
To these we say, if you are liv-
ing within three or four miles of good
home market, and cities not far away by
rail or steamboat, change to fruit
growing will be both profitable and
pleasant. The first thing to do, is to rent
out most of your land, or let it out on
shares, reserving your home, and say ten
to twenty acres of land for your fruit
growing operations, and if you have a
love for the business and go at it sys-
tematically and energetically, you will
make more money from ten acres of land,
than you have ever made from your
farm, and that, too, with less real hard
work.
Plant only of leading. we'll tried-sorts
that are hardy and productive, give them
good cultivation and plenty of mulch,
and you will reap large reward, and,
too, this kind of work makes less hard
work for the women folks, and besides,
supplies the table with fruit daily
throughout the year.
There are farmers who have no liking
for growing fruit; but as rule, these
have sons or son who have, and who do
not like farming. These are very anxious
to keep their sons on farm, away from
the city. To such we say, let such son
have the use of few acres to grow small
fruits; and the longer he is engaged in it,
the more he will like it, and consequently
his attachment for home strengthened,
and, too, by this the table is supplied
with luxuries you would not dispense
with after one eason'sexperience. There
are so many inland towns and cities not
supplied with fruit and vegetables that
| wa advise the readers of this paper To