The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-08-01
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Apple Blight.

h. TWO Years, blight has attacked
~, ucc,, Of Il peculiar character.
Nt.,h ain experience OF thirty Years
have not met with it before. TO
. casual and even close observer
H. disease commences at the
uuts of shoots. When they have
Jo from eight to ten inches
ovlh. farming black and DIVING
hack to the old wood. The fruit IN
ill.,. limbs dry up and fall off. Close
an c.I-t.nt observation prove this
II-eLt To- commence on the bodies
ofthe trees. When first seen the
bark Wa, discolored becoming dark
b. the thin bark scaling up OH the
north side about three inches IN
lcugth : in twelve hours it spread
bound up and down the body. The
young shoots dying on the SIDE
where it first appctrcd. Cut,.n% ami
burning the limbs had no effect.
4IinHs 50 cut show water or poison
.ap between the inner bark and
#vood. The heart of the limb IN
8most c.s"s being black. This dis
8,ac first appcaed III Il tree planted
lin atlirsty situation. February last,
du" Il trench wide and deep
..sound the tree, filling up with rich
trth and we'll supplied with water
na-ulso mulchcd to retain moisture.
NHrn the buds commenced swelling
washed the body and limbs of the
tree with II strong mixture OF soft
,o...sulphur and tobacco water;sul-
rhur was also inserted in the body
hi the tree i'm February. All this
luI no effect. The blight com
mrucing in this + first. This
.yuar the disease RACES from the last
week in May to the first week III
Dads. II it is caused by any parasite
or fungus it is 50 minute us to be
invisible to the naked eve; excess
NJ neat and moisture does not
oss-y il.
/ trust some OF the many CORES
pondcnts of your valuable paper
may give some cure for this blight.
WILLIAM III. HAMILTON.
Auburn, y. c.,
JuIy 2tth, 1873.
A Review Of the Great Re-
suits Accomplished Under
a Liberal Patent System
and Their Value to the
Countrywide Triumph OF
Mind Over Matter Illustra-
ted.
| have been greatly interested III
a book OF 400 pages, just issued
from the government printing
office. 1t is entitled ''ArgumentS
Before the Committee Oh Patents
of the Senate and House of Repre-
scltatives." These arguments were
made for and against the bill of last
session t q amend the statutes IN IA
Iation TO patents. This book is
fall Of strange facis and interesting
details or the subject of patents,
and | confess that | have had nO
conception OF the importance oil
this interest. The Arguments show
wonderful knowledge of the sub
lect. The address OF {. G.. Coffin
t"CarIeton," of the old Boston
JounaD is particularly instructive.
lie was cent by Il number of gentle
men, largely interested IN mven-
tons and the manufacture OF paten-
ted articles, on Il tour of obServa-
ton, with Il view of studying the
industries of the country. lie sent
several months in the West and
East and seems to have omitted nC
chanrcl of information. In his az
gument befole the committee he
rccounts his travels and eXperien-
ccs and begins with Il history of tho
plow, which he thinks is the foun.
datlon of all wealth and the basis
OF all civilization. He remember.
The pillow his father used, which
was about twelve feet long and re.
qulred ten oxen to draw 1t. There
was great difficulty years later IL
introducing the cast-lron pillow, fol
The reason that farmers thought II
would poison their land. Consider
able space is devoted TO the steam
Plow, but it is the conclusion o.
Af. Coffin that the steam pillow l:
vi In he imruntuL Snrnra mil