Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-09-09
FARM AND GARDEN.
USEFUL HINTS FROM GERMANTOWN
TELEGRAPH.
Collecting Fail Waste.

USEFUL HINTS FROM GERMANTOWN
TELEGRAPH.
Collecting Fail Waste.
Many persons feel the want of manure,
and indeed there are few who have more
than they can use. Where it is scarce,
the first thought is to buy, and often this
is the best plan /; but in many cases
one might make considerably by a
little care for articles which usually go to
waste.
We know that there arc many things
recommended that are of little account
things which involve hard labor and yet
realize but little in the end. Such are
often found in the various schemes for
making manure out of tan bark, saw-dust,
swamp muck, and SO forth, which once in
a while and under peculiar circumstances
may pay for themselves, but are as gel"
eral thing little more than time thrown
away.
But it is always good thing to keep
all parts OF ones place i'm 4 neat and nice
condition, and the material gathered to.
gether in this way into the compost heap
will generally pay for itself. However
careful may be farmer or gardener to
keep things clean, there will often be odd
corners that will be left by the pressure
of work to grow up to coarse vegetation.
II this be cut when leisure time comes it
will generally pay in the compost heap.
At this season Of the year, especially,
there is often a great quantity of vegetable
refuse of one sort or another lying about.
1t will pay to collect it and especially is
this true of leaves when they arc in any
great quantity and not far away.
We have known persons with pretty
good judgment to hesitate abO ut taking
second crop from apiece Of grassland IN not
very good condition because they thought
it would be running the ground too har d
to do SO. They Soy it is best to leave the
vegetation on the ground to rot. This all
very well if it did rot but little of it does.
It mostly dries up, and the best matt ter is
lost. 1t would pay much better to NOW
and put into the barnyard or compost
heap, and then return in the shape O; top.
dressing afterwards. The extra labor in
a case like this pays very web.
Above all is it good thing for those
who have no horse or cow-no barnyard-
to save the little waste material for a COM
post heap. Every garden might have ono
in some by-placc, not exposed to view. 1t
is an inducement to have clean place,
and then there's profit in it.
Keeping Apples.
l. is we'll, perhaps, to touch upon this
subject, a. the time is approaching when
we must prepare room to store the winter
apples. In this, rs in almost everything
else, people differ as to the best method of
keeping apples through the winter as we'll
as into spring. In fact they are frequent
ly kept until June, with the flavor very
little impaired. OF course the utmost care
must be taken in gathering them from the
trees, then sorting them and putting them
lightly into dry -four casks. The barrel
should be hcaped somewhat, and the head
ing pressed down firmly, being careful not
to ,bruisc them. These casks should bc
left under Il dry, open shed until as far
into November rs the liOst will admit of.
Light freezing weather will not harm the
fruit in fact it is only when there is dan
ger of freezing that it should he removed.
The barrels should then bc taken into q
fireless room where there will be no dan
ger of freezing !; or, which We would much
prefer, a cold, dry cellar. When carefully
disposed OF in this way, there is little risk
of apples becoming unsOund throughout
the winter aid spring, provided they arc
of fair keeping variety, such as Smith s
Cider, tine CarthOuse, the Baldwin, the
Rhode Island Grooming, the Spitzenburg,
the Northern Spy, &c.
It must be remembered, however, that a
barrel, say of Baldwins, from one tree and
one locality will not perhaps keep rs well
as a barrel from some other. 1t may be
from some popularity of the soil, though
perhaps rs likely to be from somc consti-
tutiOllal defect in the tree. One thing is
we'll ascertained, that fruit from an old
and worn out tree will not keep as we'll rs
fruit from the same variety Of which there
may he but 4 moderate quantity on the
tree. 1t seems, therefore, that fine large
healthy looking fruit of any one kind
should have the preference rs long keep
ers.
If these precautions arc taken tho apple
is not hard to keep. Most fail from keep
ing them too warm. The usual store
room Of the house, where they arc gener-
ally put, is not the best place for them.
They need to he kept rs cool as possible.
Indeed, rs VIC have already said, a little
frost does not hurt them, provided this
low temperature is regular. A frequent
change from cold to worm is fatal to the
keeping quality of any fruit, much less the
apple.
If any of the thousands of farmers and
fruit.growers who read this paper have
any views, or better views, 70 advance on
this subject, We shall be gla to hear from
them.
lsaw and Advanced Crops.
It is estimated that the annual produc-
tion of wines in France amount to $780,
OOO, 900, from five millions of acres planted
with grape vines, which is nearly twice the
value We derive from the entire wheat t
crop Of the United States in average sea
sons. The reason of this difference is that
the French grape crop is manufactured
into its most advanced product-wine
ready for use-while the immense proper
tions Of our wheat crop is exported in
bulk, not even manufactured into flour :;
and so eager and short sighted are we in
our haste to ship this crop that We
invest millions of dollars in great
railroads, grain elevators, marginal faciI-
tiles for export, piers, docks aud steam
ships. leaving the most of the profits to
the foreigners who manufacture this
grain into -four and who sell the flour to
consumers. 1t would be rs sensible to
export iron orc into England and bring
back the m sLu cacturcd pig iron. For the
grain We ship to England comes back to
us in the shape Of hardware, drygoods,
rails and fancy articles of every kind. Our
importatiOns Of foreign wines are 50 large
that it is worthy to note that California