News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-03-23
FARM AND GARDEN,
FARM TOPICS,

corn, a correspondent of The Maine
Farmer suggests plan of cooperation
which is not new but excellent in theory
and difficult but not impossible in prac-
tice: "If you will plant sweet corn, COM
bine with your neighbors and put it up
at the least possible cost. Do not plant
for man or a company who will
cheat you out of your honest due or
perhaps fail, and you must lose the
whole amount; allow no man or COM
pany of men to stand between you and
the consumer and take the lions share.
Do with this crop as with any other
which you have to dispose of-put it
up and on the market yourselves, do
ing the labor mainly yourselves, and
receiving the fnll price the market
affords. In this way the producer can
receive a fair and honest compensation
for his labor-and I think if the far
mers knew and understood this the
large corn shops in the different parts
of the State would have to start up some
other industry. understand that small
corn shops are being built by near
neighbors combining and putting up
their own corn, doing all the labor
themselves and putting it upon the
market. Where this has been done the
farmers have received quite double the
price paid by the packing companies. "
Professor J. L. Budd, of The IoaOa
Homestead, quotes the experience of
one of our correspondents on girdling
trees to promote fru1tfulness, especially
in the off years of apple orchards, and
adds these cautlonary comments: "We
think Mr.. Bundy will find that girdling
will intiict permanent damage, and that
in few years he will discover that he
is procuring early ruit-bearlng at the
expense of the life of his trees. That is
the effect that generally follows in this
climate and latitude. Hon. J. N. Dixon
and other experienced fruit growers
who have tried the girdling process to
hasten the fruiting of young orchards
have become convinced that it is ruin
GUS 80 the trees, lnficting serious dam
age which often results III entire de-
struction of the trees thus treated"
A writer in the British Garden who
has experimented with ''much-lauded
grease and patented nostrums for
interpreting boots finds nothing equal
to the fat of fowls ''When these are
dressed any fat to spare is put into
jar for the purpose and from time to
time is melted down. / think its water
proofiug qualities are superior in the
natural or unmelted state, but so used
it does not sink into the leather as it
does after being melted, and SO is not
so clearly, being liable to rub off; any
how those having supply of this article
need not wish for anything better"
Mr.. Josiah Hopes wrote recently in
the Tribune against deep planting of
fruit trees. A correspondent of The
Ohio Farmer relates experience to the
same effect: mature can do the best
work, and it plants the seed near the
surface. 1 have an orchard in which
part of the trees were set very shallow
and the other part too deep, and there
is difference in favor of the shallow
planted. I have some old apple trees
blown out by the wind; the trees that
have been very deep have small roots,
and in cluster about the size of corn
basket, aud the other trees have very
large roots that run out on the sIisss
and are much the best trees.
Mr.. Parker Earle, Golden, Ill. writes
to The Farmer and Fruit GroaUer that
when fencing young orchard several
years ago he tried "many plans for pre-
serving posts" These were lately taken
up and examined with the following re-
suit, and reflections 'Those set with
no preparation were decayed an inch or
more in thickness. Those coated with
thick wash of lime were better pre-
served, but were quite seriously attacked
by worms. Those coated with hot tar
were as perfectly sound as when first
put in the ground. Those painted with
petroleum and kerosene were equally
sound and as good as new. In future
we shall treat all posts in the following
manner before setting: Let the posts
get thoroughly dry, and then, with
pan OF cheap kerosene and a whitewash
brush, give the lower third of the post,
the part to go into the ground, two or
three good applications of oil, letting it |
soak In we'll each time. Posts so treated |
will not be troubled by worms or in
sects of any kind, but will resist decay
to remarkable degree. This we fiud
to be the simplest, easiest, cheapest and
best method of preservation"
The PASTURE Water In pastures is
necessary, and unless the supply is per-
manently abundant it should be made
so. Nearly every summer and winter
the local news in the papers tells of
dearth of water in the nearly level Sec
lions of the country. Cattle are driven
away to water, and their thrift and the
owners comfort disappear together.
Sometimes few hours spent in digging
in place where water appears will
iberate spring that will run continu-
ously. Horizontal digging into hill
will sometimes reach water as quick as
digging. The drainage
If swamp lands will sometimes give a
supply, yet all these are I'M
certain, and the farmer who is con
tantly annoyed by lack of water wants
! sure way recommended. That sure
way is pits or ponds. In all our country
aims descend that cause q surplus of
water upon the surface of the ground;
he SHOWS melt and the water runs upon
he frozen earth through the low places
)r into depressions. Save this water
Until the dry time comes, instead Of let
ing 1t run away to the lake and then
irving the cattle for it. Large pits, as
zig as a cellar, can be dug in a short
lme with team, pillow, and scraper.
GREEN SAND MAR1 AND MUoK.-The !
econd annual report of the New Jersey
State Agricultural Experiment Station,
or the year 1881, gives the result of
made and work done l
Inder the supervision of this station,
which is located at the State Agricul-
ural CnlIaoa of Nam P-,,pe,u;oB