The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1882-10-14
Agricultural.


ton to the compost heap.
Canada thistles should always be
cut when in blossom, or before.
In their native climate century
plants bloom when nine years old.
The English harvests will fall short
of what was expected two months ago
Indiana is making claim to the
largest yield of wheat over any other
| State.
Variety in feeding does more for the
animal than excess of one kind of food
A hedge that is not thick at the bot.
tom is no hedge at all. Keep it cut
back.
Honey should be kept where it is
perfect" dry if desired to be in prime
| order.
Coal oil should be used carefully
around fruit trees, as it sometimes
kills them.
A Massachusetts farmer claims that
Paris green kills the birds when APP
piled to vines.
Prune in autumn to insure growth,
an in spring TO insure fruitfulness is
grape max m.
When manure begins to heat too
much turn it over and sprinkle it with
plaster while so doing.
Dnll r,orao 70 fh of
no trace of blight of pear or apple trees
can be seen in Europe.
Lancaster county, Pa, ranks as the
banner county of the United States
for agricultural products.
The value of the agricultural pro-
ducts of New Jersey exceeds that OF
any other State in proportion to area
cultivated.
Charles Downing says it is not safe
to give decided opinion concerning
any new strawberry or raspberry short
of five years trial.
The creameries of Iowa now aggre.
gate upward of 900. while the high
price of dairy products this year will
cause an increase in the number for
another season.
Pastures given to excessive moisture
should, as far as possible, be avoided
for sheep grazing, excepting, perhaps,
in the middle of the day, when the
surface moisture is dispersed.
A correspondent of the Rural Neu
Yorker claims that the Washington
oats are identical with variety INTRO
duced some years ago into western
New Y York, and known as early Som
ersetshire.
Many western farmers are substitut-
ing nlillet and Hungarian grass for
oats, the latter crop being lis ule to in
jury from severe droughts, to fall
down and be of little value on the
black soils.
By constantly removing decayed
flowers before seed pod can swell,
the growth of the plant and the con-
tinued development of new buds and
flowers upon the new growth are mat
ters of course.
The Agricultural College at Hanover
will admit women pupils at its next
term, who will be given special
course of study, including butter aud
cheese-making and dairying generally.
We believe this is move in the RI ht
direction.
Root Pruning.
The experiments were made on the
apple and pear. A vigorous apple
tree, eight or ten years old, which had
scarcely made any fruit buds, has
done best when about half the roots
were cut in one season aud half thr, 9
years later, by going haf way round
on opposite sides in one year and fin.
ishiDg at the next pruning, working
two feet underneath to sever down.
ward roots. 1t has always answered
well also to cut from such trees all the
larger and longer roots about two an
half feet fIom the stem, leaving the
small and weaker ones longer and
going half way around, as already
stated. The operation was repeated
three or four years later by extending
the cut circle a foot or two further
away from the tree. By this opera
ton unproductive fruit trees become
thickly studded with fruit spurs. and
afterward bore profusely. This short
ening of the roots has been continued
In these experiments for twenty yeqrs
with much success, the circle of roots
remaining greatly circumscribed. The
best time for the work has been found
to be in the latter part of August and
beginning of September, when growth
has nearly ceased, and while the
leaves are yet on the trees, causing
greater increase of bloom buds the fol-
lowing year than when performed
after the leaves had fallen.
The Princess Louise has returned to
Victoria, and the Marquis OF Lorne