Milford chronicle., 1883-09-01


I 8. prune in autumn to insure growth
but in spring to insure fruiiiulness.
6. Plant your vines before you put NJ
irellises.
z. Vines, like old soldiers, should
have good arms.
s. Prune spurs to one developed bud,
9. Those who prune long must soor
climb.
10. Vine leaves love the sun-the fruit
/ the shade.
II. Every leaf has bud at the base,
and either a branch or a tendril oppo-
site it.
-. A tendril is an abortive fruit
branch-a bunch Of fruit productive
tendril.
18. A bunch Of grapes without a
healthy leaf opposite is like ship at
sea without a rudder-it can't come to
port.
PorATo SEEDING. II. W. Dewey,
Sidney Centre, New York, to test a ques-
ton Of potato seeding, planted side by
side eight rows of Snowflake tubers diff
ferently cut, gave the same fertilizer and
care to all, and the crop convinced him,
The Orange County Farmer says, that
"the larger the potato the larger the
yield"
Row 1. Whole large potatoes, with
all eyes cut out except two on seed end,
gave five and one-half bushels large,
half bushel small.
Row 2. Six eyes, three pieces, pielded
large, two and one-half bushels, small
one third bushel
Row 3. -Four eyes, two pieces, yielded
two bushels large, one-eighth bushel
small
Row 4. Two eyes, seed end, two bush
els large, one-ninth bushel small.
Row 8. Two eyes, stem end, yielded
one and three-quarters bushels large,
one-ninth bushel small.
Row 6. Two eyes, one piece, yielded |
one and one-third bushels large, one
eighth bushel small.
Row 7. Two eyes cut from potato |
yielded one-tenth bushel in ALL
Row 8. Two eyes cut from potato two
weeks before planting yielded one-tenth
bushel in all.
A CHEAP Smo,-Last year a farmer
a small silo by sinking a mo-
Iasses hogshead into the ground in his
barn cellar. He cut up all his corn fod-
Ter with a hay cutter, supposing he had
enough to fill about four hogsheads, but
IN packing it, found it would not fill one.
He then bought of neighbor as much
more as a horse could draw, and still
here was room. He then cut up the
talks from piece of sweet corn, and
With lot of rowen managed to fill his
lOgshead. He made a close fitting ,
over, and, with a jackscrew set under
me of the floor timbers, pressed it down ,
S tight as possible. In the middle of ,
December he opened his silo, and found {
he corn as sweet and as fragrant as when !
mt in. From the hogshead he fed one r
ow half bushel of ensilage morning i
nd night for two months, and considers 7
the best producing food that can be 7
ed. This year he proposes to fill the
with oats cut just as they are
/ the milk. If a silo on so simple a }
Ian is practicable, there is certainly no y
3ason why everybody should not have o
ne, and satisfy himself of the value of
le ensilage system. NaShGW TeIe- Il I
rGph. q
LESSONS IN DRAINING LAND.=I mis- a
lkenly undertook to dry a fiat piece of u
round at the foot of hill by putting l,
4 underdrain along the base. But =
ter, when ditch was put through the u
iddle Of the fiat where the water set ,
ed most the water was carried off and J.,
le land was made dry. My theory =,
Dout cutting off the springs and water = =
'urses at the foot of-the hinhi 50 as t0 =
axe the bottem!land dry, proved to be =,
expensive mistake. In my early ex- q.
9rlence 1 was taught another fact :.
at water will work its way down hill y
rough the ground rather than follow =,
Fch with a slight descent running on -
e side of the hill, parallel with top and p ?.
'ttom. In this case, as in the other, ~
1T holes were made dry by running Al.
tches through them with as much di- ~ ~
ct fall as possible. There are bitches u
the farm, with a good fall made of ~
me, which have effectually drained t' ~
It places and are now in good repair. ~
ut were put down sixty years ago. ": ":
me of them have furnished supply so W
water in the fields where they are To- %
led. Ditching is a kind of work which
pays to do well, and when once done uT
will last life time, and change a poor riV
Id to a good one. know Of number we
fields which had always been boggy clt
unproductive, that by the expen- lo'
ure Of $15 or 500 per acre were made
liable land, and capable of producing ms
? kind of crop. In most such cases an
first crop will pay all the expense of foC
improvements, and it would really an
good economy for a farmer, if he
Id not do otherwise to borrow the po
ney and pay the interest on it, to mi
Ike such lands productive, rather than mo
2 taxes on them year after year with
receiving any return. There is a the
d within sight of my door which by era
expenditure of 500 could be made atn
til 800 per acre for a meadow, or to sid
e grain. 1t now produces worthless
grass, which grows three or four brC
high, showing the strength of the ma
, and other conrse grasses which cat Gee
will not eat. When a farmer ex-
DIS money to increase the productive a 81
! of his farm, he is not only adding the
is capital, but to his income, on the tril
pie principle that the more land will its
luce the more it is worth. 1t isn't 6
expenditure of money in this way yer
ever injuries a farmer, but the buy. not
of unnecessary things and permit for1
waste.-F. d. Curtis, Kirby Home but
d, N. Y. con
ALL FLOWING. crops will soon abl'
Il harvested and teams comparatively ior
When the rush is over there will t'rl
ime for fall plowing, and the only lori
der is that farmers generally will
practceit. consider fall plowing of
t benefit, especially to heavy lands &c