Connecticut western news., 1880-05-26
FARM AND GARDEN.
APPROVED MODES OF GRATING.

APPROVED MODES OF GRATING.
 Generally speaking, all gratis succeed best on trees of their own species or those closely allied to them. Experi- ence has taught that there must be for best results close affinity between the stock and graft. It is folly, for instance, to graft an apple or peach or a cherry or a pear, though the pear, apple and quince, a naturally allied group, have been with more or less success worked upon one another. In many cases the peach and apricot have been grafted with beneficial results on the plum, and the pear on the quince, stronger growing species and varieties on weaker ones, and vice versa, by which desirable modi- fications are wrought, not only in the size and fruidulness of the trees but in the quality of the fruits. The following rules contain the whole matter in nut shell: In favorable climate and soil, where the greatest growth, duration and development in any fruit are desired, choose @ stock of closely similar nature to the graft, as an apple seedling for an apple and pear seedling for pear. If, however, dwarf trees which come into bearing very young are required, then employ for stock an allied species of slower growth, and if the soil and eli mate be unfavorable use stock adapted to the soil or one which will by its hard fer roots endure the cold.
 THE DAIRY INDUSTRY.
 The Mayor of Indianapolis submitted an essay upon the milk-producing indus try, which bristled with figures, from which we gather that 52, ,OOO,OOO acres of land, 650,000 men, 800,0OO horses, and 13,000, 900 COWS are engaged in the pro- duction of milk; the total money invest ed in the business is s, 239, ,29O; the feed consumed in it equals 28, ,362, 200 tons of hay; 84,37O,OOO bushels of corn meal {; the same of oat meal; 1,250, ,000 tons of bran 3O,OOO,00O bushels each of corn and oats, with pasture added. The whole reaches value of $34S, 429, 400. From this is produced 5,79S, ,OOO,O00 gal Ions of milk, worth $695, 760, 900 per an mum. This milk is the equivalent of II, 500, 900, ,OOOpounds ofbeeffree from bone, which would require 26, 1850, 900 fat steers of 1, 400 pounds each to supply it. Ofthis milk, 27, ,OO0, 900, ,000pounds are made into butter, ?, $50, GOO, 900 pounds into cheese, and 20, sos, ,325, ,0OO pounds consumed as food. With the buttermilk and whey is lost annually l,2OO, 100000 pounds oi milk sugar, which is of more value than the entire sugar crop of Cuba. After digesting these figures, the convention immediately adjourned for years rest.
 cU1TIvAT1Na SUGAR BEETs.
 MT. John B. Morrison, of Pennington, Me-, gives his experience in the cultiva' tion of sugar beets as follows "In Octo. Der, 1877, plowed land which had been planted with beets the preceding year, twice, in all sixteen inches deep without manure In the month of May, 1878, ] spread on the soil well-rotted barn-yard manure, at the rate of eight or ten cords to the acre, and plowed it in from four te five inches, then narrowed the surface perfectly fine with common harrow. marked it off in rows twenty inches apart with the teeth of my cultivator, about two inches deep. I then strewed super phosphate in these marks at the rate O about three barrels to the acre, covering the superphosphate with a hoe abou half an inch deep, drawing the hoe rap idly along over it. I then marked by hand one-half iuch deep in the mark ovel the superphosphate, and planted tho seed by hand, in a continuous TOW, abou twelve pounds to the acre. I then cover ed the seed one-haf inch deep with tin' tooth rake as fast as I could walk, the1 passed over these rows 0 wheel abou ten inches wide, which packed the eartl down upon the seed.
 "By deep blowing I got rid of m. weeds, so that the next work was to thi1 the beets, which I did when the plants were about three inches high, leaving one plant about every eight inches. afterward hood them once only. l dit this by running a cultivator between th' rows, regulated so as to go close up t' the plants and throw the earth toward them, sometimes having to remove thu loose earth from them by hand. Thes' beets I planted on the first day of June but should prefer to do it at least two weeks earlier. In the fall I pulled then right out without digging, my mode o cultivation having formed ridges around the beets so that no digging was neces sary. My crop was full forty tons t' the acre. I attributed the quantity o crop principally to the depth of blowing In 1877 raised crop equally large ol the same ground. With the exception of blowing I do not consider the cost o raising an acre of beets, as have don it, any greater than raising an acre o potatoes. ."-Anaerico,e CultiUator.
 ,1 SEEDING A MUCK MEADOW.
 } It is not necessary to SOW any graf with grass-seeds to protect the latte from the sun. The sunlight and warmtl will help the grass to grow, and will no iniure it. To seed any ground success fully the surface should be made yer fine and mellow, and the seed should b r sown and covered very lightly with
 brush or light harrow. This should b done when the ground is dry. For low moist ground, the best grasses are time , thy, redtop, fowl-meadow-grass, ol chard-grass, and yellow oat-grass. Flo