The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-09-07
FARM n FIREsIDE.

COFFEE GROWING AT THE SOUTH s
according to the report of the Bureau I
f Commences and Navigation, the con- {
umption of coffee in the United States ]
n 1872 was 2S9, 1885, S9 pounds, at a. ]
,~aluation of $26, 140, 3s9, the larger por-
ion, 1914, 21S, oil pounds, being from
Brazil. The large sums which we pay
annually bring in little or no reciprocal
returns, and it is proposed that we shall
attention to the culture of the
berry in our Gulf States. Coffee derives
its name from Kafa, a district in South
ern Abyssinia, where it grows wild and
has been in use since remote times. The
plant grows at an altitude as high as six
thousand feet above the sea level, and
thrivesi in warm situations upon the slopes
of hills, easily drained, but will not
flourish where the thermometer is below
ffty-fve degrees, and the coffee-produc-
ing belt of the world lies between the
isothermal lines of latitude twenty.f five
degrees north and thirty degrees south.
There is a cold in Abyssinia from
October to FEBRUARY, with a mean tenn
perature Of ffty.eight degrees, and the
soil produces barley, oats, wheat, maize,
rice, cotton, and sugar. In Georgia and
Alabama, in the southwestern section of
one, and the southeastern of the other, is
a soil that produces all of these as readily
as in Abyssinia, and would, nc doubt,
grow coffee. The climate is similar, and
the soil is a red, sandy loan, capable of
easy drainage. The effort to establish
the culture of coffee in California is
making Roadway, and if the crop gets
fairly established there,it will become
in a few years agreat and permanent in
terest. The same thing can be done on
the Atlantic coast.
PLANTING TREES IN THE FALL.-P.
Barry writes in the American Rural
Home: The question as to whether
spring or fall is the better season for
planting has been much discussed, and
the conclusion reached has generally
been that in Western New York and
similar climates one is about as good as
the other. My experience with hardy
fruit and delicious ornamental trees isin
favor of fall. 1t is true that we have
an occasional severe winter when fall
planted trees suffer, but these are of rare
occurrence.
Last fall, quite late, after the hurry of
the season was all over, I planted several
hundred dwarf pear trees. After plant
ing, the earth was drawn up around the
base, say siysor more inches above the
level of TIE ground, to give protection to
the roots and stiffen the tree against the
force of the wind. May p; Ihad the
earth around the trees removed to the
ground level, and find vigorous new
roots, three to five inches in length,
spreading in all directions from the
ounce stock. The tops are also pushing
rapidly, and in the whole planting
three hundred trees there is not a
failure.
It is easy to see what an advantage
these trees have over those planted this
spring, even under the most favorable
circumstances-for the latter. In spring
planting it often happens that a long
period of cold weather and drying wind;
follows the planting, and the trees gel
seriously dried before the growing season
opens, or a dry and warm period comes
before the roots have acquired yigol
enough to sustain the tree; under such
adverse influence they either die or lin
ger along feebly all summer.
We must take some risk in plantingai
any season, but, on the whole, / thinl
the. chances are in favor of the fall fol
hardy deciduous.
IMPORTANCE OF PROTECTING Ma
NURE.-The practice of keeping barn
yard manure sheltered from the weathe
is continually gaining in favor will
farmers. To accomplish this object sue
!, cessfully covered sheds are found indis
pensable. In England this plan is yer,
widely .practiced. The animals are fe,
and Uttered in covered stalls in whie,
the manure accumulates throughout a
entire season. These stalls, ten fee
square, are placed in a shed of any dc
sired length, open at each end, but whel
: OCCUPIED closed by'doors. The stalls ar
separated by movable bars, SO that whel
they are taken down a wagon can b
,]driven THROUGH the shed to remove tn
manure The floors of the stalls ar
: sunk about four feet below the level c
the ground, and the cattle are not take
out until they are.sold or slaughtered
, During this time the manure accumu
! lates, mingled with litter cut to a lengt
of a few inches. AS it is trodden dow
! closely the air does not gain access, an
: consequently it does not heat. 1t decon
poses gradually, being kept moist by tn
> liquids discharged. All the fertilizin
elements are thus preserved without los
from washing or evaporation.
The cattle fed in this way are not onl
] fed with economy but maintained i
7 good health. They are daily carded, an
!, kept clean, and being well supplied wit
? water manifest entire contentment. TIL
increased value of the AMI by thi
plan has been repeatedly proved. Th
experiments of Lord Kennaird showed
: result in ~wheatequal to ffty-6ve bushel
per acre with manure thus protected
7 against forty-two bushels with commo
; barnyard dung; and in potatoes the siel
: per acre was four hundred and.seyenty
= one bushels with protected manure
= against two hundred and n%inety-sevel
!, bushels with the usual kind. These re
suits clearly show that the gain in ms
nure by this method is much more thai
sufficient to counterbalance the extr
, cost.