Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1878-09-27
FARM AND PRESIDE.

y THINNING OUT ERUlT.-lU Is d we'll.
1 known fact that the infexible law of sup
ply and demand governs the prices of plo-
| duce of all kinds. This fact being remem-
bered, it is only necessary to lear III mind
that the quantity of ordinary or inferior
quality of produce is always in the excess,
and when the ''glut" appears in the mar
ket the purchasers very naturally CRAWL
tate toward the best, which they can buy
at fair prices-prices which pay the produ-
cer-even though they can get poor or Or
binary quality of the same at their own
figures, which is, as a rule, below the cost
of production and marketing, bringing the
producer in debt instead of returning him
even merely a fair profit on his produce.
There are very many ways to increase the
size of fruit, such as only planting those
varieties best suited to your soil and eli
mate, cultivating thoroughly, and thin
ming out the fruit at certain stages of the
growth. Thinning out apples, especially
in large orchard, to make them grow to
larger size, is but rarely resorted to, on
account of the tendency of the apple to
come to nearly perfection under the best
system of pruning and cultivation, and the
comparatively small price obtained for.
slightly larger specimens produced by
thinning the fruit. The case, however, is
different with pears; for the amount pro-
duced annually is far less than with ap-
pies, and the price per basket or busheI is
considerably higher.
To enable pears to grow to larger size,
and to make size and quality rank ahead
of mere quantity Though we believe that
nearly the same weight of fruit is obtained
by judicious thinning out, but in fewer
number Of pears), the pears should be thin
ned out about two or three times during
the season-in all to about one-half or
more of the number of pears fist set on
the trees. About two weeks after the
blossoms have dropped, go over the trees
and sort out few of the poorest specl-
mems, and carefully remove them from the
tree, having care not to disturb those re-
naming. In from two to four weeks later
go over the orchard again, and remove a
few more of the inferior ones in the same
careful manner; and again in about the
same length of time give the orchard
third visit for the same purpose, which
generally constitutes the last thinning out.
Some pear growers merely go over the
orchard once, during June. and then cut
the fruit. -Methodist Protestant.
A NEW DIsINFECTANT.-U this til
tie, DR.. John Day, of Geelong, Australia.
recommends for use In civil and military
hospitals, and also for the purpose of de-
stroying the poison germs of small pox,
scarlet fever, and other infectious diseases
a disinfectant ingeniously composed of one
part of recti6ed oil of turpentine and seven
parts of benzine. with the addition of five
drops OF oil of verbena to each ounce. Its
purifying and disinfecting properties are
due to the power which is possessed by
each of it's ingredients, of absorbing at
mospheric oxygen, and converting it into
peroxide of hydrogen-a highly active OK
idizing agent, and very similar in It's ma
ture to ozone. Articles of clothing, furni-
ture, wall paper. carpeting, books, news
papers. letters, ETC., may be perfectly sat-
urated with it without receiving the slight
est injury; and when it has been freely APP
piled to any rough or porous surface, it's
action will be persistent for an almost in
definite period. This may, at any time, be
readily shown by pouring few drops of
solution of iodide of potassium over the
material which has been disinfected, when
the peroxide of hydrogen which is being
continually generated within it will quick
ly liberate the iodine from its combination
with the potassium, and give rise to dark
brown stains.
RECIPE FOR RENQV TIM. Rr s.n1 e