The Russellville Democrat., 1880-07-15
FACTS FOR FARMERS.
Transplanting at Night-Hay Caps-Pond
 Lily Cnlture--The Grape 2 General Notes.
rRANsPLANTING BY NIGHT.

F. TRANsPLANTING BY NIGHT.
 A gentleman anxious to ascertain the effectiof transplanting by night instead | of by day, made an experiment, with the following results: He transplanted | ten cherry-trees while in bloom, con- meDcing at o'clock in the afternoon. Those transplanted during daylight shed their blossoms, producing little or no fruit, while those transplanted in the dark maintained their condition fully. | He did the same with ten dwarf trees after the fruit was eone-third grown. | Those transpIanted during the day shed their fruit; those transplanted during | the night perfected the crop and showed no injury from having been removed. with each of these trees he removed some earth with the roots. The incident is fully vouched for, and if few similar experiments produce a like result, it will be a strong argument to horticltur- ists, etc., to do such work at night.
 lsaa HAY CAPS.
 .s Our Eastern farmers, who are most careful in haymaking, and with whom hay is more valuable than in the West, think highly of hay caps, They cost little and last years if cared for, and not left to milldew and rot. Stout cotton cloth or sheeting yard and a quarter or halt square makes the best. Strings at the four corners two feet long, with stone tied to each, or light stake will prevens'the wind fl om blowing the caps of. We have found them useful, but where one handles large crops the force employed can be so divided or centered, as the case may demand, as to keep the l field well cleaned. When cocks of half cured hay are thrown up and caps put on, they must be removed as soon after the shower as possible, to allow the free | escape of gases. Hay will mold under leaps sooner than without them. They are especially useful to protect against a sudden, shower, or when hay must be left afield some days they may be em- ployed to prevent bleaching from the sun and dew. aH M 9fsi at8 a A4} ha FOND LILY CULTURE.
 | { A tub of some kind, some garden soil and water are all the requirements. A tub may be made from a portion of a cask, and if desired it may be sunk in the ground. Place, in the tub good soil enough for the roots, perhaps a quarter full will be sufficient; put in the plant. It is net necessary to, plant it., merely | pressing the stem into the soil will answer.f The big affair which passes for the root is really the. stem, which lays along the bottom of the pond, One side of this produces roots which take strong hold ofthe soil, ,,as every one who has tried to take up one knows, while buds producing the leaves and flowers are on the upper side. When the tub is filled with water no further care is re- quired during the summer, except to supply water as it may be needed, as it 1 is not likely that the rains will make up 1.-the loss by evaporation. Unless the tub can be so protected that it will not freeze solid, it should be removed to the cellar at the approach of cold weather. l Only enough water need be left in the tub when it IS mooyed to keep the soil moist.
 .., .owztl TIE GRAPE bad eae .e ss We have about seven hundred vines on trellis, and about fifteen hundred on | stakes, and have had for the past, ten years, and we prefer the trellis, although we admit that the trellis culture is a | failure oftener than stake, for the reason -that so many persons do not study the nature, habits and awants of the vine. On the stake, necessity forces them to keep the truiting wood near the source of supply (the root,) while on trellis they may let them grow ten, twenty or even forty feet from the root, and then they are like an army drawing its sup plies a long distance through an enemy's country. The grape only fruits on the last years growth of wood, and, if a I leader be continued from year to year on the end of the vine, it grows a great way from the root, and all side laterals | disappear from near the base, and it only sets fruit near the extreme end. But the leader or end of the vine should be cut off as soon as the vine has l acquired sufficient length, say four to SIX feet; that win throw out side late- rals, which will form fruiting spurs one l year by cutting them back two buds, and in turn those two buds will produce fruit and form wood for two fruiting spurs the following season. There should never be more than two or three | canes from one root, and that should be replaced with new cane, either from the ground or as near the ground as good one can be had. Our vineyard has been in bearing eleven years, and there are very few, if any, vines four years-old hor more than eighteen inches above the ground. a speias aFAntt, 2" w.
 GENERAL NOTES. ,s. a md. r
 TIE seventeen-year locust has made its appearance in some parts of Ohio.
 TIE cattle drive ofTexas will be larger this year than for several years past, amounting to at least 300,000 head.
 JUNE is good time for pruning. Larger limbs may be cut away now, cov- ering all cuts with yarnish, paint or melted grating wax. -.-,..
 IRON plugs set into plum trees and struck soundlv with an axe or hammer is said to be the most effective means of bringing down the curculio, and is much better than the padded mallet.
 JAMES K. DODGE, in his investigation | of sheep husbandry in the South, reports more than 100000 killed by dogs last year, or more than five per cent. of the entire number,in that section. .a. y IT is anticipated that the peach crop
 will be very large this year, and 1t IS doubtful about finding a ready market for all of it at remuneratiye prices. Growers should therefore take steps in time to save the surplus that will not pay to ship by drying W5w g aas
 WAISTS nests are frequently ignited by some chemical action, supposed to be that of the wax upon the paper-like sub stance of which the nests are formed
 Spontaneous combustion of this nature . is belleved to have been the cause ol many mysterious fires in haystacks and farmers' buildinps