The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-02-28
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plowed a field for corn the worms killed |
The corn he then concluded to SOW 1t to |
wheat in the fall for that purpose, pillow
cd it three times more before the first of !
September, making foar plowings that |
year. lie sowed the wheat the winter
killed the wheat, and, last spring, he plow-
ed the land and,sowed barley, and the result
vested 1913 bushels, He offered his men So
each for all the quack stalks they could
find while harvesting, and one OF them
found one shoot. He says that his process
will eradicate quack, no matter how wet
the season. He has closely watched the
growth ard formation Of quack, and his
conclusion about deep and shallow blowing
ie, that when plowed deep single root will
grow to the uffacc, and then branch ont
into large number Of roots, again quickly
covering the ground that shallow blowing
keeps the grass near the surface, and the
whole mass constantly agitaled, leaving no
roots to grow at leisure deeply down. Shall
low blowing keeps it more compact and
more easily under control, and moro expos
cd to the elements, with much less root
hold.
NOW THAT BIG .oEor OF EUREKA POTATOES
WAS RAISED.
IpiN SiNVo NV BiOS'co III bNeNiitih ti4p
London Garden, by which he raised ,0S2
pounds from one pound OF Eureka pota-
toes. The soil was very rich, and was in
creased iu fertility by applying six car
loads of charcoal dust besides lime rubbish
and liberal dressing Of hOt-bed manure,
all on a space of "a feet by 80. The pota-
toes were planted on the ridges thrown out
by trcnching this ground for celery--,he
two crops not interfering much The seed
potatoes were first placed with the root end
upward, so as TO encourage the growth of
all the eyes alike, and syripged daily with
warm water. When beginning TO grow
the center OF each eye WAS carefully re-
moved with the point Of knife. Several
shoots sprung up in its place, and the pota-
toes were then cut 50 as to leave piece to
each shoot. From the pound Mr. Ford
hus made 252 plants some of the pieces
wsro not larger :han horse beans. These
were placed two feet apart on the ridges in
April. Twice they were dressed with gn-
auo. The tops grew so luSuriantly rs to
meet over the celery rows In July, and they
were then kept in bonds by stakes BY 81
lowing more room, the crop doubtless
would have been larger and if the came
result would follow from ridsing as with
IT,, the crop wac still farther reduced by
hesping the earth over them. AT the ends
Of the rows, the product of each plant was
between seven and eight pounds, the aver
age being four and one-half pounds. IL
plenty of space had been given, therefore.
we do not see why the product of the
pound Of seed would have been much below
n ton. The cutting and planting WAS done
in the presence of several witnesses. This
mode OF increasing new and rare sorts may
be valuable but we should much prefer
experiments to determine no large q crop
could he raised from an acre. as being OF
more general value. In the above instance,
over half ton was obtained from less than
Il tonth of an acre, besides the celery, which
doubtless occupied more than half the
ground. This would he about $50 bushels
per acre-not an extraordinary Productive
plants being two feet apart on the ridges. -
American Agriculturist.
A vENMoSTER or suGAE-MAKISG.
have but little choice between tin and
woll-painted cedar tubs all things consid-
ered perhaps, would take tin. | use two
kinds of spouts; round tin which drive just
outside the incision, and fiat tin. A three
eighths bit is large enough to bore with
never use wedge-shaped nails, as they
check and injure the tree ross the bark
llsutiN dbu WIN ~ Dpei ~ tdttuCb
or ak. Keep the storage tubs under cover,
that the sap may be exposed to the sun az
little as possible; gather often and convert
it into sugar as soon as settled. The sugar
house should be large enough for storage
tubs, boiling apparatus, wood and there
should be clean, cool room tor syrup ana
sugar also partition between the storage
tubs aud arch. A separate arch is an alb
solute necessity for sugaring off. For boil
ing, Corey's evaporator is the best thing |
ever used IL works on the right principle,
is easy to manage, makes better sugar, and
saves at least one-third of the wood. The
arch should rest on good foundation, that
the evaporator may be kept as nearly level
as possible The sap should run through
course strainer into the feeder, and frem
there to the evaporation through a fine one.
Within two hours after starting your fire,
draw off syrup after that, once in thirty
minutes turn it into tin cans when
fairly cooled and settled, drain off, strain
through flannel, and sugar off in small
catches as rapidly as possible. Let it cool
IN the pau, string very little, and, when
Just right, it will tprn out without adhering
to the pm but little. The longer you are
sugaring off, the darker will be your sugar;
hence, in common pan | would put syrup
enough for 40 or so pounds of sugar, build
lire enough at the start, and in 30 or 40
minutes il will be ready to take Off, nine
times out of ten. without using ladle or
sweet cream. 1t is better TO clean the pan
after each batch; the risings OF the pan
aud settleings should be boiled by them
selves or made into vinegar. When boil
ing continually, the substance called inter,
which collects in the the back end of the
evaoprator, should be removed every SO
hours, or the sugar will be injured thereby.
Clean the holders and drawing tube often,
and, when the tubs begin to sour, it will
pay well to rinse them out. The wood need
not be sound, or of the best quality, but 1t
must be dry. If possible, before leaving
the sugar-yard, get your wood for the next
spring If not, make it the first business af-
ter springs work but never wait until
late fall or winter How often we hear the
remark, ait does not pay to sugar, when
ca n buy for six or seven cents pound" II
paws me TO sugar, and generally pays the
best when sm ready to commence as soon
as the sap begins to run; for one pound of
the fret is worth two or three of the last.
In the spring Of 1868, while many were
waiting for the line storn, and what else
cannot say, | tapped 1000 trees, and in a
few days had one thousand pounds of nice
sugar sentit to Montpelier, and received
ten cents pound cash, the highest price
paid for maple sugar up to that time. Well,
the line storm forgot 10 come therefore,
many did not sugar that spring Last
spring tapped 200 trees, and made 1890
pounds the spring before | made G, 800
pounds from 800 trees, and for the last
four or five years 1t has averaged me about
IL cents per pound.