New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-07-17

| yeows until the tr-e, have borne two q, ,
neavy crops and beed quite neglected. They " al
then begin to dwinda. away, not all at ones -
S graz. any, q trs@ n re- and there when wo
SIuD theu up, new plantation coming on near h
ana IN no way troubled with the yellows That.
~ disease 10 be avoided ia true bu il u not bais
| so DAD az many writers would have us believe III.
| yeiIOws does no; prevent us from having n snner
abundance OF peaches, anu the pear blight nni
makes pears more plentiful and hardly worth pi~E,
ing ami the apple crop ~ quite large enough eesni1
! the cankcr worms"
Mr.. +. ID. Coburn. who has written a nsef,,
book ON SWINE. suggests in The BreederS Co,ee.
that champions and defenders Of the "mucbm,
lgned hog" who maintain that he is the "cleanest
or all domestic animals il he only has a fai,
chance" might as well tell farmers who really know
his habits that he is a SINGING bird or works we'll in
harness. The truth of the matter appears 10 la
about as follows:
" He cannot be induced 10 eat so mnch p,psh .
sweet milk that he Will not be willing In trsm ni
some distance 10 Interview the carcass OF muie or
cow deceased a fortnight before | suspect thar he
would abandon the laughing brookIet at any tims
iof an hours repOse IN a bath OF mud fnortar
mar IRE ana naslness Of such consistency a. he
iikes vi course this all very shocking az well a.
new To some folks, yet the hog can do all these
lh.hgs and slll be more clearly than most dogs or
y goo" many people. lie has his little pecularities.
and meat"
Not an original but timely hint to young
people, and children of older growth" is given by
The Connecticut Farmer in reference to APPLE Curl
osIuEs. We have heard OF their production, %,
pecially the etered ones in considerable quantity
for profitable sale in city markets at the Christina,
season, variety of initials and other devices beins
selected:
" Just now is the time to grow fruit in bottle.
Insert an apple into bottle, bringing the neck OF
the tile up TO the limb which the apple grows.
tying the bottle il will not drag the appeand
IN the fall there will be bottled apple. A httls
later cnt ont your initials and gum them a red
apple just 1t is getting rosy aud in the fall By re-
moving the papers you will have your initials In
light color to surprise those who see"
Mr.. q. A. Gilbert writes to The Maine Farmer
that that State never before harvested 80 many
Baldwin APPLES in one year as in 1881, and they
brought an unprecedented aggregate the pucs
ranging from 50 to So per barrel OF some points
established he says:
Early apples for home use alone is the lesson
from the experience of every year. The practicei ia
now prevailing of storing the fruit for winter in
Dnlk IN large BINS or CRIBS In precisely the manner
OF storing pot atoes 1t is found to keep better than
10 barrels; Rns'ets, however are an exception as
they are liable to wther II exposed to the air
Neither Is a dry storage cellar now considered de-
Slrabe. Late experience Is proving a damp cell
lar, with low. even temperature, the best storage
room Tor keeping fruit"
Mr. D. NJ. X. Phillips Manchester, y. H., has
Il
high pressure of heavy manunng, thorough tillags
and intense cropping. OF the practice with DANDE-
LION, BEET AND LETTUCE The Mirror and Farmer
says:
Great reliance is placed upon good dandelon
seed of home production, and improved by selec-
ton. Enormous crops of this or are grown, and
some days many sixty bushels sold. Ths
past season single plant weighed GA pounds,
proving that good seed and high cultivation will
tell even i'll "A dandeliOn. DandeOns for Open-ar
culture sowD between the Of beets early in
June. The beet rows being only II inches apart,
with the dandelons between, make close work at
first wedding, but rs soon as the beets are largo
rnOngb every other row is taken out and sold tor
greens. The REMAINING rows thlnned when large
enough for punching and thus the second crop gees
To market. The third crop goes off in the fall,-he
table beet crOp-and still there another left 10
occupy The ground This last is the dandeiOn crop
and will be sold early next season and then fol-
lowed by one or more OF the rotation. Under glass
dandeiOns are folio ed by lettuce, and in some IN
iances tomatoes and then cucumbers follow let
Iuce. We noticed some of the finest specimens OF
lettuce here, showing remarkable tendency 10 full
heads even when growing up for seed, and we con-
cluded that some OF the plants won d outweigh tho
3l4-pOund dandelion. This variety has been pro-
duced by crossing two we'll known sorts and he has
secured a remarkably large, thick and finely curled
lettuce"