Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-11-05
Farmer and Gardener.

This is the mnEtI!-that is any time he
fore hard freezing sets into prunc the
raspberry canes "nd hY Mem doTn-wlIich
means to cover them with Il few inches Of
soil. Where the canes are al!ttlc too strong
Tor the ordinary covering, put double the
quautity of soil near the end, or lay Il
stone upon them, or tl:,naix them with 4
fOrked stick. The canes should not be
left longer than from thrcc TO three and !,
half feet. This pruning and covering
should bc applied to all rlSnbcrricS,
whether laii-haruy or not. Il will be
found to hc 4 great benefit to them in the
next years crop. When they are taken
up in the spring they willb seen 10 he
green and fresh to the very tip, aud will
have suffered nothing from the weather,
however severe i: may have been. Tie
Hornet and ilcrs:cinc. :l.c two best yaric-
ties We have, will yield enormously. us W.,
uniforml" found them 10 do, WHEN thus
treated.
Orchard i'ro.iurts.
We find III rri;I / statement, Mhcl. is;
apparently reliable, tha; the orchard pro
ducts OF the United States have :. market!
value annually of sic, G,G0G, ,O0t These are
chiefly apples, which. crop has become Z,
regular export TO foreign Countries and is
highly esteemed and in great demand in
Europe. is the nniy one of eur orchard
products That has thus risen to the hi.hcS,
level commercially, and the trade is u per
mancnt one. and likely tn increase in pro
portion to The progress oi the production.
The orchards of the Northern states have
for many years past received a great
deal of attention both from practical
and scientific farmers and hurticultur-
isis, and The results are seen in the OK
cclicEcc nt !he iuud-cr"p>. and more c>-
rccially in the magnitude Of the American,
apple trade. III is; Only within u few year.;
past that our trunk linc railroad cri!l.r, .
nicS have deemed it advisable to cultivate
this trade. in the same way as they have
done the commerce in h!ra.l.;u!S cattle.
fresh meat a:s;l pr"vSiors by multiplying
facilities for wavcl.nu~iiIw and slipn.cnt al
Boston, New York. Philadelphia and Bal
timorc. In rrnport ion as these facilities
have been augmented and multiplied. the
production OF apples in the Nor, hcrn and
Western states has lccunc more extensive,
an! prciitabIc. thus :i,!in" materially il
the lvc,Sitic:.t:on OF oar a.ricuitur...
American apples are highly appreciated in
England, and always lncc: will, Il reg
ular demand from The leading British,
markets.
Small roia.oes
A correspondent of lcalin: publication
writes that he made ali experiment the
past season which he thinks fully cXpl"icS
the theory that small SEED potatocS will
"nly return 4 small crop Of s,nal! potatoes
Any theory OF that kind was cXpln,lcG We
suppose bcior" the writer was born, and
the w!,c!c letter il, All admirable i!luStr,
tiOn cl Il class who are continually fancy
Ing they are cNplo;li:," when there is
really nothing 10 explode.
Still there l.; some iSanprti:cn%ivi as
to this small! potato scct! lisinrSs, a;.d it
may ID" worth while 10 set it right IL is
not the size "i The potato, t;:!t The viynr
and strength OF the eyes on the potato.
that makes up the ease. These are often
as large on 4 potato nf moderate size as on
4 very large one. II the eyes are of the
same strengthen equal vi%or--it is The
same as if they were all cut from tiln same
tubcr. \ strong eye starts t. grew and
almost immediately sends out roots OF It's
own. and has 10 farther dependence on The
Old piece. it gels It's food wholly .r,,.:, The
earth. II it is = weak, puny SnInut. of
course it takes u whole season TO oct
strong. and in the mc;,ntiinc can only send
out very veal: threads that must, i.a able
I" form nothing but very small potatoes.
IL it were 4 question Of the potatoes
size. and not Of the strength Of the eyes
in the potato, the correspondent would
not even yet have ''eXnio.leh the theory.
Let him plant real small neutrality-suspicious.
about the size Of bcanS--pu!atUcS will.
small weak eyes, and tLcn he will find
that small potatoes arc small potatoes,
first. last ami I'll The iilc aud 10 mistake
His crop will be in proportion to t!to sizc
Of the seed used.
Aside from this. iluwcIcr, IL is wholly ::
question Of tl,a st!ongt!t ni the cycs, and
these are likely 20 hc quite Il, good Oh
avcragc-SiZcd tuicrs, such as arc generally
l-ncyn rs seed lntatocS, as on larger
ones. L is Grom :, want Of II recognition
Of this fact that makes Su muc. barren
discussion rs to the proper size Of sets TO
plant.