Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1883-09-21

| that early fall ploughing is the bec, we
! would rather do it late than not at all.
The Barberry as a Hedge and Orna-
mental Plant.
| From Rural New Yorker
Perhaps good many readers of tha
Rural New Yorker nave never seen
Burberry hedge, or have never heard
| of this useful plant. The Burberry is the
best shrub for hedge. It never winter
| kills; it grows on any soil; lives over
| hundred years, and will turn cattle,
horses, sheep, hogs, and even chickens,
| if planted in the right way
/ have a Burberry hedge eight feet
high, loaded every fall with beautiful
scarlet berries, which make the very
best of preserves and iellies. I have
| made very good wine of the berries
| every fall The yellow b lessons they
bear in spring in the month OF May and
June are very sweet-snle]ling. The gold
en- yellow roots are used for dyeing.
My hedge is eight years DID, has never
been pruned yet, and is to-day as close
as | want it to be. Last year I raised
from Is 600 to 10000 plants, and about
ten bushels of the berries. This year
my hedge will be, if nothing han ems,
loaded again with scarlet berries. There
is no hulnbug about it. L can RECON-
mend the Harberry hedge to every farm
er in the country living either in tim
Der or prairie. 1t saves good deal Of
hard labor in making those costly rail
fences which always need repairing and
always cause trouble from cattle or hogs
that push their way through. The Bar
hnv-u bnfl,ra hos oh
as q protection. Even if it is destroyed by
fire, it sprouts out from the roots again
and makes as nice hedge as ever. That
it can be planted in new or old ground
| know, because I have tried it. The
richer the ground the smaller the yield
OF fruit. 1t makes a beautiful ornament
al hedge around town lots.
The best time for sowing the seeds or
planting the plants is in the fall or
early in sprinz. The seed grows better
if subjected to the action of the frost.
During November or early in spring is
good time for sowing the seed in nurs.
cry bed in rows two feet part, covering
the seed from 1-2 to two inches.
have planted Burberry seeds as late as
the middle Of April, which made nice
plants. The plants can be put in during
September and October. and even as
| late in the spring as the 18th of June.
The young plants need no protection
whatever during the winter months.
OF course, 'a!l planting gives them an
early start in the spring. 'The Burberry
is very hardy and is sure to live when
transplanted; it IS very seldom that one
plan: in thousand dies if planted in
the right manner.
Farmers Short Rows.
The Country Gentlemen recommends
planting English ivy On the bare ground
under trees where grass will not grow;
adding that where the winters are too
severe for it when trained on walls 1t
will often remain uninjured on the
ground. Plants should be set within
four or five feet Of each other and plen-
tv of Old manure given.
A great many farmers, says Seed Time
| and Harvest, believe tElat the breed of
hogs is determined by the amount Of
| corn in the crib. 1t is true that the best
breed Of hogs require the most liberal
feeding. In fact, it is one OF the adyan-
tages of good breed that it will make
better use OF the greatest amount of feed
than poor animal, but a starved pig of
AO CSG1 6AVSo - LAaS NOAoo AAiAN ~ q
scrub. ~.
A Tribune correspondent says that
young horses should never have shoes
imposed upon them until it is we'll
| proved that they cannot do without
! them. He predicts that the day is not
far off when some humane benefattor OF
his kind viii produce breed Of hvrses
having such firm, tough feet, in addition
TO all other good qualities, that sshoeing
will be unnecessary. = r. H..
! A writer in the country gentleman re-
| commends the soaking of the wood COM
posing summer house in crude. petro-
leum, styling it will make any common
wood nearly or about as durable as
cedar, besides imparting to it a rich.
brown color. It would be an excellent
idea to apply the same preservatiye to
trellises, etc., on lawns. ].*s.~. b. ss
is. Gold, Of West Cornwall, Conn,
says that the worm which produces
gapes in chickens is propoegated in the
ground. He has grounds 50 infected
that it is impossible to raise one out of
a dozen chicks when allowed to range
on it, while adjoining fields are entirely
free from the malady .ss.. $=#
Oliver Baker, Of Fulton county,