The National tribune., 1882-11-23
WHAT KNOW ARoUT JERUSALEM ARTI-
CHOKES,
NOTES AND EXTRACTS.
Digest of Information Collected From Various
Sources.
MAKING RAIsTNs.

/ Sources.
MAKING RAIsINs.
We find it costs 50 cents per box for the ex-
pense of curing, packing, selling in San Fran
cisco, etc. For one ton 100 boxes the ex-
| pense would be $50. The grapes shrink 663 o
i'll drying, taking three tons Of grapes to one
ton of raisins. Three tons of grapes at say $50
per ton. would be $50 for the grapes, which,
added to the $50, aggregates Sl40-the total cost
of one ton OF raisins delivered in San Francisco,
including expenses of selling. l have made
five shipments the present season, for which !
have received $275 per ton Immediately on
their arrival in San Francisco. From this we
Will deduct the $40 per ton expense, and we
have Sl35 clear profit, equal to 500 per ton for
cur grapes. Raisin grapes in full bearing will
yield from three to SIX IONS per acre, about the
same as the average varieties of wine grapes
7. C. Fhjie, in Pacific Rural Press.
A FRUIT HOUSE.
An Illinois horticulturst has constructed
fruit house, which is to be 4 protection alike
from summers heat and winters cold. Two
rows of posts are set in the ground, two and a
half feet apart, boarded up inside and out
and the intervening space filled up with
straw, packed in as closely as possible. Two
sets Of rafters are then put on, the upper set
three feet above the lower, which are boarded
on upper sides, and the space closely packed
with straw, after which cheap board roof is
put on. On the lIth of last August with the
temperature go in the shade in it was as cold
as an ice-house, and contained a quantity Of
apples as sound as when taken from the trees
ten months before.
RABBITS IN ORCHARDS.
Mr.. George W. Sloan, of Wisconsin, writing
to the Gardeners Monthly, says that he protects
his apple trees from the depreciation Of rabbits
by making ropes Of straw, commonly known as
thumb ropes, and winding them around the
trunks of the trees from the roots to the first
limbs in the fall He leaves them on during
the following summer, taking them Of in the fall
and replacing them with new ones. His trees
are healthy, free from damage by rabbits, free
from fungus and all diseases. and yielding an
abundance Of fruit He thinks that the pro-
lection of the bark from the cold winds in
winter and the hot suns in summer is of fully
as much value as is the protection from the
rabbits.
GRAFTING-wAX.
There are as many different ways of making
grafJing-wax as there are nurserymen. One
of the Oldest and most popular recipes is the
following: One pound of taIlow, three of bees
wax, four of resin. Put into kettle and melt
slowly until all the ingredients are combined
If to be used in the open air in cool weather,
add quarter to one-half pound more tallow.
Some persons leave out the beeswax altogether
but we prefer to have it, and always use it.
CAREFULNESS.
Many farmers injure their farm implements
more by exposure to the weather than by use
on the farm. An implement which with good
care would last twenty years, WILL when ex-
posed to the weather, become useless in five
years, or even less. A farm cart, which, with
good usage, would last almost lifetime, will
last only few years when exposed to the SUM-
WATER IN WINTER.
One of the best methods of watering stock in
winter is TO have cistern in one corner of the
barn basement. If enclosed on all sides with
double wall, it will rarely freeze in the coldest
winters The water that falls on a 3Ox4O-feet
barn viii supply ten head Of stock through the
winter.