The daily gazette., 1878-10-07
Farm and Garden.

Sdcing Cabbdges TiI Sprin1.-We
know of no better way to preserve cab-
bages through the winter than that which
we have recommended for number of
years. 1t is to plant or set them I'm i'm
rows as they grow-that is with the roots
down-fill in with soil pretty freely, then
make covering by planting two posts
where there is fence to rest on, or four
where there is not, allowing for ditch
to carry off the water; lay bean poles
opposite the way Of the pitch and cover
with corn fodder or straw or boards. In
using through the winter avoid as much
as possible the sun side, and close up
again. We have kept our cabbages for
about twenty years this way in perfect
state through the winter and into the
spring, and could even up to the first of
May, if desirable. We see other methods
recommended, and they may answer just
as well, but as to our own we speak
from long experience.
KEEPING APPLEs.-A correspondent
asks us how he can keep his winter ap-
pies until late in spring, say to the end Of
| May. There is but one answer to make:
Ist, the apples must be good keepers, free
from bruises or blemish. I'd, they must be
spread out on shelves or packed in bar
reis, and kept in ana'mosphere of from
forty to fifty degr ees, better from forty to
forty -tive-that is, at a temperature as
equable as possible. Some cellars are
Just the thing and preserve them beauti-
fui. Others are too moist. When this In
the case few bushels of stone line should
| be used. Sliding shelves, six inches
apart, latticed bottom with single layer
OF fruit, are extremely convenient, as
they allow of constant examination v it'll
out disturbing the fruit. A friend in
formed us some years ago. that with a
large stand OF these shelves in his cellar,
| with few inches of lime on the bottom
of the cellar, he kept bis apples into May
| in perfect condition and good flavor.
| CURRANT CUrTINGs.-we notice that
| some very careful directions are given
about setting out currant cuttings in the
fall. But why in the fall? We should
say that spring was much to be preferred.
II set out in the fall they are liable 10
become loose in the freezings and thaw-
| ings of winter; but if in the spring-say
early in April for this s4ction-there Is
| no difficulty about it at all. If the new
wood is only taken, set firmly inuthe
ground six to eight inches, well pressed
| with the foot, watered when necessary,
and mulched VIII, hot suns come, nine
ty-nine out of hundred will grow. But
| remember if you want to raise trees cut
out every eye going into the ground; but
If bushes which are the most lasting as
well as most productive, set the cuttings
as you take them, and from every eye
branch will come forth. This is the way
we do in our gardens Properly set out
cuttings will bear fruit the proceeding
year.
| AUTUMN ToP-DRHssING-We notice
in several agricultural journal strong
| recommendations to to-dress grass lands
| in autumn. Now, while we have no
doubt of the efficacy of this suggestion,
in general sense, and have often adj
vocated it, we think there are some grass
lands which would be better if this appli-
cation were made early in the spring. In
fields where the grounds has tendency
to heaye, throwing up the grass and ex-
posing tue roots to the direct action of
The frost, autumn top-dressing, which
will protect the ground, is much TO be
preferred, and the application can be
made either with the aftermath, straw or
manure, as the condition of The soil may
seem to require. If the ground is NOT
liable to heave, a coat of manure rs early
IN the spliDg a. it can be applied will in
sure "a larger crop of grass. There need
be no fear of the manure interfering with
the moving of the corp or the making OF
the hay, inasmuch az we have found that
it is soon beaten down by the rains and
is quite out of reach of the operations of
| harvesting by the time that period ar
| rives.- Germantown Telegr0ph.