The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1877-08-23
FARM IND HOME.
Farm RdEifagS.

No PLACE is ever q" finished" as re-
CARDS the garden, its fruits, and its sur
roundings. A few trees are to be added
here; some choice shrubs there; choice
grapevine or two are needed; or some
other fruit; and so all our places tax us
yearly more OF less.-Elisabeh Herald.
FoRCING barren trees can be done by
pruning, from the 25th of August to
the 18th of September If the tree is
very vigorous, root pruning may be
necessary. The reason I assign for
pruning at this time is, that the fruit
buds are formed at that season, and if
the flow of sap be turned from the wood
1t Will go to mature the fruit-bud.-
Prairie Farmer.
The famous peach belt of Michigan
is more limited than for years. This is
largely due to the change in climate
produced by denuding the country of its
timber; but there will be no peach belt
at all in a few years if peaches are con-
tinuously marketed from the orchards
with no provision made Tor returning to
the soil the equal of that which is sold
in market. Free Press.
The Fruit Recorder thus describes
the process of transplanting young rasp-
berries, when ONLY six or seven inches
high, and in full growth, in the early
part of the summer. The work is as
safely performed as setting tomato
plants, and they make fine growth the
same season. Take a pail to hold the
pie nts while digging them, take up with
q fork, so as to to save large part of the
cross roots; mud the roots we'll, and set
out near evening or on a cloudy day.
The mudded roots, packed in moss, may
be sent long distances by express.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Southern
Farmer thinks if it were not for the
$40, ,0O0,0 900 loss by hog cholera, and the
confused and corrupt Legislation, im-
properly controlled by political lawyers,
that Western farmers would be rich and
Independent people. Notwithstanding
hog cholera, the hog products of the
West are steadily increasing, and the
lawyer element in our Legislatures, is
pretty well held in check of late years.
Western farmers as class are feeling
pretty well just now, in spite of hog
cholera and lawyer Legislation.
Farmer.
CRoss- PhowfNd.-Adam Kali, living
on Mariposa creek near Plainsburg,
last year fallowed some ground late in
the spring, about ten acres of the ground
having been previously plowed early in
the winter and cross-plowed when the
spring plowing was done. 1t was all
planted to wheat this last fall. The ten
acres double plowed now look well and
will yield at least ten bushels to the
acre; the adjoining land, single plowed,
is totally bare, the wheat having been
dead for month. The rainfall of this
season has not wet this land three inches
deep, and the grain seeifs to be grow
ing upon last years moisture e.-FreSno
(Cal) Republican.
A New PoTATo-BUG PICKER. Me-
Gainesville On. Y. inventor has patented
combined potato cultivator and bug
picker, which has been used by several
farmers in his neighbofhood, and is Said
to work effectively. 1t consists of an
ordinary triangle cultivator, surmounted
by an open box about six inches in
depth, to which are appended rotary
fans, which in their revolutions incline
the plants toward the box, and tumble
the beetles into it by a sudden shock.
The fans can be raised as the plants
grow, thus enabling the machine to be
used throughout the season.