Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-11-27

Correspondents have so abundantly Ia
vored us that we must postpone our prom
Used article, "The Road to Prosperity"
until next week, in order to give place to
their communications. This we gladly do,
and hope for a continuation of these accept
able contributions from the pens of our
readers. First we give place to
LOST NATION WHEAT.
Mr.. Erastus White, of Williamsville, in
quires of Mr. Fisher, in regard to his wheat
crop: Was it on hill or river land you
raised it how good condition was the land
in when you began with it last spring and
how much manure or fertilizer was used
to the acre? / should like to know all the
particulars"
To this Mr.. Fisher responds as follows
The wheat was raised on hill farm,
opened by my grandfather some eighty
years ago, and not half worn out yet but is
rather growing better. 1t is black loan
soil, the stones, lime and granite. 1t slopes
to the southeast, and has been well titled
and fed. Two acres of the wheat were land
| that was in turnips two years, crop one
| thousand bushels per acre. 1t was MANFRED
each spring, lightly, with dung, Cumberland
superphosphate aud muck in the row. The
other acre was on land following corn and
potatoes. light coat of green manure
from the barn cellar was spread on both
pieces and narrowed in. The ground was
plowed late in the fall, and the wheat sown
| April 10th. never SOW until the ground
works WE'LL use a Shave's harrow that
cuts five inches deep. After the grass seed
is sown, ! put on lighter harrow with
thirty teeth, which, followed by roller
smooths it off very well. Seed, two bushels
to the acre, prepared by running it through
Queen of the Harvest tanning mill, and
sown dry. A few days after sowing, ! sow
on three bushels of Liverpool salt to the
acre. which helps the wheat very much.
With this treatment we get crop of wheat
and some heavy grass for several years"
| BLAcKBERRIEs, GRAPES AND PORK.
Reader" of Calais, says, "Please give
an article on the cultivation of the black
berry. Have you tried the Lawton and
Kittitinny, also the cultivated raspberry
How do nurserymen start grape vines
How much pork will bushel of corn, fed
alone to good breed of hogs, make ?
Would the pork come to near the present
price of the corn, with pork five cents a
pound dressed ?"
Replies Jy the Editor-Nothing is easier
: than to make blackberry bush grow-the
great trouble is to stop them from spread
ing all over your land. The Lawton and
~. e.
The hardest kinds we know are Sable
r Queen and Snyder. No blackberry, moi
D even the wild, will give crop after very
cold winter, unless they were covered il
some way. AS we would not scratch ourself
as we should have to in trying to lay then
o down, for all the blackberries we could grow
q we plant the bushes along the lee side OF ;
4 fence, where the snow covers them b!
- planting hardy kinds, topping during growth
y so as to keep them low, hoeing off the suck
7, ers and leaving only three or four stalks II
It a HILL we grow some blackberries but tn
a truth is, the blackberry cannot be proftabl
cultivated on or near the Atlantic coas
% north of New Jersey,--nor indeed south o
,e there, either for where they do well tn
e. wild ones are so plenty as to destroy a.
10 profit from those cultivated. Nurseryme
start grape vines from single buds unde
70 glass, or from three or four bud cuttings
re cut in the fall, kept in moist sand or saw
b. dust during the winter, and set sloping i
!. the ground, in the spring, with only the to
bud out The dirt must be strongly presse
10 to the cutting, especially at the bottom
10 Some grapes, like Delaware, do not gro
e. well from cuttings. These are layered IAN
is kind may beg, branch being pegged dow
in a shallow trench and covered, leavin
80 only the end sticking out. A vine will gro
at from every bud, which may be cut apa
n next spring and set out.
of II is generally reckoned that bushel {
-, corn-meal will make ten pounds of pork, bl
it more often doesn't than does The prof
10 can be figured by any one. Now that v
Ie- have breeds of cows that come in at tV
an years, we think it will pay best to raj
n ns calves instead of pigs.
as SALT FOR CATTLE AND SHEEP.
in ga" of Williamstown, wants to kno
err what we think about keeping salt by your
~ cattle and sheep in cold weather AS ply
IS, ician, we know that salt is necessary for 1
Ike health of all animals, and is rarely found
VI sufficient quantity in the ordinary food,
~. far from the sea as Vermont. Therefore
eel always keep it where they can get it, us
OF the great Jumps of rock salt which are N,
en- sold in grocery stores. One weighing four
en-, five pounds placed in the manger will last
ue COW two or three months. Some get a luz
1t that will weigh thirty pounds or more, a
'ye set il on block under shed, where she
,od or young cattle can get at it. 1t is the b.
he and handiest way we know for sailing sto,
its HARDY APPLES.
SO Henry j. Baker, of Enosburgh, asks TO
the list Of apples that will span the year, &
ais be hardy in northern Vermont Our
ing would he Tetofsky, Duchess of Old
oy, burgh, Peach Apple, Pringle Sweet
SER Lawrence, Plumb's Cider, Wealthy, Mag
( it Red Streak and SCOTS Winter. This '
cover from the middle Of August until
" first of June.