Connecticut western news., 1879-08-13
FARM AND GARDEN.
:. SECOND THINNING oE.,FRUIT.

FARM AND GARDEN.
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 SECOND THINNING oE.-FRUTT.
 Those who have not already attended to thessecond s-tAinning out of pears shouM how attana to it without delay. There are some varieties that uniformly overbear, and VI remover this happens to be the ease, they should-be carefully thinned out, if the treesare not too large to do so, Pears in punches sell dom mature perfectly. oae or two of them are either sfunted aH>attacked by the worm, which~will attack the others probably, too, n-not removed. All i'm perfect, mishappeh specimens should be removed. Specimens smaller than the average, though they may appear healthy, will seldom riaen we'll or retain the flavor of the variety. The truth is, growers should not be afraid to thin out resolutely. Two full.sized, perfect specimepsH are surely better than three or four small ones. x. As to grapes, we all know what overbeasing results in. Don't be afraid to cut away from heavily bearing vines onesthird to one- half of the punches: Werrefer to out door grapes. With in.doar;grapes even the berries have-to be thinned out to give large, perfect, delicious fruit. This pains cannot be expected to be given to outdoor vines except where there is only limited mber.-Germa'.toe0'a Telegraph. +-!
 FOR cABBAeE woBM. ,~
 A correspondent writing from Green castle, Ind, in the Indiapa FaraaG', says, "Last yeak was vesY bad one to e get cabbage to head, the cabbage wVorain was Jsosbad. Below I give remedy that Is sflre death to thena.t. For evefy hundred head ofecabbage take quarter of a pound of black pepper and put it in bezaarge~ enough ta-sift out we'll. Go into the patch before the dew is off and pepper them! well. Two or three Rtimes will be sufficient. The worms go through the leaves and die.R
 APPLIES.
 "Please answer the following ques- tions and oblige, boy-farmer 1st. What will keep apples frombeing knotty on young and thrifty trees? 2d. Should the suckers be / allowed ito grow on sorghum?" s .,
 ANswER.-The curculio is doubtless the cause of thejknotty- fruit. IfSthe trees are not too large try, the sheet and jarring process. The only other thing to do at this late season is to turn hogs into the orchard if practicable as soon as the diseasedfrfit begins to drop, or carefully gather it all up as it falls and before the worm has an opportunity to escape and makeits way into the ground i; E also tread the earth firmly around the tree. An occasional farmer insists that smoking the trees by burning gas-tar under them for two or three minutes in handled pan is an effective pre- ventive or cure, though pomologists gen orally do not put faith in such appfica- tions for this special pest. When this method is practfoea, it is begun as soen as the fruit beginsito form and it is con tinued every week or ten days during it's growth.a-The syrup from sorghum is liable to have bitter taste when the cane=is permitted to sucker. enmofe thanlthfee or four1stalks are left in Iill the cane inclines to sucker. -It
 H. A. L., ASHLEY, PA" Which the best method of keeping grapes dur ing the winter? How shall pack or box them and in what material?
 ANSWER. principles to be ob. served in preserving grapes fresh are to gather the most perfect fruit on dry, windy day and maintain uniformity of temperature, neither too warm to dry the berries nor below freezing point to congeal them. This last is effected in some instances by hanging the punches in special cases, which latter are sus- pended in an ordinary room of the desired temperature. A correspondent who keeps, grapes,, successfully packs them ill small, shallow boxes about two inches 1n depth, with sliding covers. In these the grapes are placed ill single layers. We'll ripened fruit, picked when dry and handled carefully, can also be preserved long time bypacking in dry, clean and finely-cut straw, not allowing the clusters to touch one another; nail up close in light box. Others, again, place layers of paper between the layers of fruit. Among the good keepers are tho Isabella and the Catawba.
 IMPROVING PERMANENT PASTURES. \
 While both Peruvian guano and nitrate of soda are largely used by the farmers of Great Britain as fertilizers for grain crops, the application of arti- fcial manure to permanent pastures, it appears from tLe "Record of Science and Industry for 1878," is often disap- pointing in an economical point of view. As rule, no artificial mixture gives so favorable return on the pasture as good farm-yard manure, or the manure pro- duced by the consumption, of decorti- cated cotton-cake. In many cases the most profitable returns from permanent pastures have been where the grass was fed off by cattle supplied literally with the decorticated cotton cake. On the whole, farmers who make @ rule of ap-' plying farm-yard manure to pasture land and artificial fertilizers to root and cereal crops derive greater benefits from this practice than others who reverse matters by applying manufactured manures to pastures and horse manures fn narpal and rnnt crnns