Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-03-15
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151ji;aoAY TyEN'a.. MARoH IS. 1888,
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- reearded az permanent and mostly
nbound In clay mounds, after being grazed
HoWu thOroughly are restored most knee
aoop, in from five to six weeks. We
as not hesitate to say that nowhere has
lime more marked effect and can be used
With better results than in the renovation
Of Old pastures.
Grazing the Common Cherry Tree
It Is not commonly known that the COLE.
uBcn black and red cherry, which are RI.
earded q Wild" can be easily grated
With other and the best varieties-that If,
q easily grated as cherries usually are,
which every one knows who has tried 1t
Il more difficult to make grow than any
other fruit. The scions, however, If not
already cut, should be secured at once and
before the buds swell, and the grating
should be done as early as possible. Many
Of these trees, which produce the poorest
kind Of fruit-in fact, arc nearly all seed
and skin. ARE worse than nothing to have
upon ones premises, unless when very
large to be cat down and sold for cabinet
making. These trees can all be top
grated and may be made to yield an
abundance of excellent fruit. Only
healthy trees should be selected for graft
ing, and the scions should be in the best
condition. Where the stocks in which the
scious are to be inserted are large, the
method to be adopted is that mentioned
in another article in this column /; but
where the stocks are small the usual mode
of grating should be pursued. We sug
gest to our agricultural friends who have
some of these trees upon their farms-and
they are to be found upon nearly all Of
them of any size-to employ good graf
tor to do the work, and report to US the
degree of success which may follow.
Grafsfng Old Trees.
In selecting eld apple and pear trees for
the purpose of grating, care should be
exercised to take only those that retain
their foliage late in the autumn. This will
insure the growing of the graft sufficiently
long to firmly establish it and cause it to
remain unaffected through the winter.
In every instance that we have tried to
raise fruit from CRAFTS on old trees which
shed their leaves early, we have failed.
They would grow for few years, bear
few specimens, and then die.
In grating old trees boughs six inches
in diameter can be used. But such boughs
only should be selected as have a smooth
bark. Saw it at al angle 50 that all
moisture viii run off 4; split the bark
down an inch and a-half sharpen the
graft 6m one side only {; let the slant be
the fdM length of tie slit of the bark !;
raise the bark carefully and set the graft
with the cut side next to the wood then
tie up with a cotton string and wax 50
that neither air nor water can penetrate.
The waxing should be examined in few
weeks to supply any defects, sc. Let an
inch or two of bark remain, uninjured,
between the CRAFTS as they are set round
the stump. When the stem is not over
two inches in diameter, four CRAFTS can
be set by splitting down the stem the
usual way twice. If all grow, and are
too many, cut out the two less promising
ones. With care, every apple or pear
graft ought to grow, and never less than
nine out of ten.
icarIy Potatoes.
Besides commanding high price, there
are other considerations that come in to
make the early crop of potatoes valuable.
The early rose continues to be as good
as the best, not only for the early but the
late crop, and always fetch remunerat-
ing price in the market. Bat there is this
additional advantage in the early crop it
can be harvested and removed and the
ground put in good order for fall crops.
4hC UCoU GuI ulpo NO udtC CScI huONu
came out of a piece of ground first cleared
of early potatoes. Indeed, We do not
know of a more profitable arrangement of
crops than to have turnips follow pota
toes. The ground usually has to be pretty
good for potatoes, but it is not essential
that the manure be very much decayed.
Some, indeed, contend that long strawy
manure is all the better for potato crop.
The turnips, on the other hand, must
have the manure very well dccayed, in or
der to give its best results. Hence, after
the potato has done with its fertilize CT,
there is enough left for the turnip to
thrive upon. Wheat and rye also thrive
very well on land which has been previ.
ously well manured for potatoes. La all
these cases the early potato has a great
advantage over the late one. They allow
of much earlier preparation of the
ground for the subsequent crop.
There is still another advantage in an
early potato. In this part Of the country
at least, the plant is subject to the attacks
of the stem borer. They usually COM
mence their ravages about the end OF June.
They bore out the whole centre pith of
the stems, and before the end of July the
plants are all dead, being dried up before
the potato is matured. In such cases
there is not often fifty bushels of potatoes
to the acre, and Of these half of them arc
too small to be saleable. By getting the
potato early in the ground. and using
varieties which mature early, the tubers
are Of pretty good size before the insects
gsttn FORK, ansi thus there is a great gain {.
It seems to us we can almost do without
any more late kinds. We say nothing
here of the depredations of the beetle, as
it has been SO completely met and over
thrown as hardly any longer to be consid-
cred as serious injury to the crop, early
or late.