The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-04-04


Seeds buried too deeply receive def
cient supply Of sir. AS rule, seeds re-
quire 10 be sown more deeply in proper.
portion TO their size and the lightness Of
the soil.
"Ten acres properly cultivated are worth
fifty half DONE" was wisely said by the re-
firing President oithe New York State Ag-
ricultural Society at the last annual meet
ing
The woody fibres which 60 10 make up
the bulk OF timber tree are nothing but
cells Of particular form thickened by the
deposit Of woody matter in their interior
and aggravated in special way.
Many Connecticut farmers have been
successful in raising early amber cane, and
getting Il good quality OF both syrup and
sugar from it. The yield has ranged from
100 to 800 gallons OF syrup per acre, at d
cost Of about 20 cents per gallon.
An excellent vegetable is satisfy or "veg.
etable oyster" 1t Is not grown as generally
as 1t ought to be, and 1t Is often hard to
obtain. 1t should be sown early in the
spring in deep, rich, mellow soil, and not a
weed should bo suffered to dispute the
ground with it.
The incubators at Hammonton are still
working successfully. Mr.. Ezra Packard's
second hatch resulted in his securing 27G
chicks from 3l6 eggs, or about 81 per cent.
Two failures have occurred from accident,
but otherwise the operators are well salts
fled. Several are due to hatch this week
the prospects seeming good.
A correspondent OF the Country Gentle,
man gives It as his opinion that, in regard
10 scalding, boiling or steamine, an expert
ence Of five years with steamed food for q
dairy OF from thirty to fifty cows led him tc
the conviction that II compelled to take biz
choice and pay for it be would pay more
for the exemption than the adoption. He
is convinced that cutting the long forage
pays better than any other preparation In
well.managed dairy.
In applying fertilizers OF soluble char
acter It is economical to manure the plant
rather than the soil. The practice Is espe
cially applied to crops sown in drills, WHERE
the plants are considerable distance apart
in the rows. The manure Is deposited by
the drill along the line Of each plant row
and Immediately covered in. Manuref
which are not SO readily soluble produce
the best effect when intimately mixed with
the soil.-American Cttlipator.
Tomatoes raised in poorish light soil will
ripen ten days earlier than those raised in
rich soil. We know this from the actua
test during the present season. II large
snowy tomatoes are wanted, regardless O
flavor or time OF ripeping, then the rict
soil and the rank growth are needed. Cut
ting of all but one or two fruits OF thu
clusters while they are small and green vii
also cause those remaining TO grow to {
large size. So says the Rural &elU Yorker.
The commonly received advice to orch
ardists to scrape the rough bark from al
apple trees has been contradicted, somt
having tried 1t, and concluded that the prac
tice did more harm than good. The rougt
bark Is a protection to the tree from audder
changes OF temperature. The benefit otter
claimed from scraping the trees comes from
the greater attention paid to them in otheI
respects by men who take this trouble
withdrawing apple trees is equally incl
tectual for good.