The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-03-22
Cultiyating the Hickory.


The nuts must be gathered as soon as
ripe and planted as follows: The ground
should be well prepared by blowing
deep the deeper the better then well
bar owed. Now, with a commander,
mark off both ways Zone with the rum
ners four feet apart is the best). Then,
with a two-horse pillow furrow every
other mark east and west, if the grove
is to be used for wind break, if not,
either way will do: then drop one nut at
each crossing of the marker. Trapping
on the nut as dropped to settle it in po-
sition is good plan. Cover with hoe
as deep as potatoes are covered; tramp
on each hill. This Will leave the trees
four feet III the row, with rows eight
feet apart. After remarking that the
cultivation should be the same as for
corn, only continued during the season
$50 long as the weeds grow" he de-
scribes his way of counteracting the ten
dency of the seedlings to send cut side
branches: "My experience in cutting
them off the first, second or third winter
after planting was with grove of two
acres that were cut off close to the
ground the third winter after planting.
sprouts came up from each tree; these
were let grow till eight or ten inches
long, and then all were broken off but
the thriftiest one. All did not start and
grow at first; and some of them that did
threw ont more shoots. I had to 90
over them three or four times before
they we're IN good shape. This of
course required considerable labor. The
first season they grew up straight and
nice from four to six feet, bnt the fol-
lowing year the side-branches came
thick and fast with that peculiar inclina-
ton the walnut tree has on high prairie
land of getting wider than it's height.
Pruning is the only way to make nice
tree out of a walnut. Still I think the
tree will pay for the labor bestowed
upon it. kansas Farmer.
Northern Wheat.
To grow wheat successfully. it is nee.
essary to change the seed at least every
third year and better wheat could be
grown by always getting the seed from
much more northern latitude than
where it is to be grown to produce the
crop. The reason of the above is tina
all vegetation tends to shorten its period
of growth and to ripen earlier when
grown IN northern latitude; hence seeds
brought from a northern to more south
ern situation are inclined to ripen their
crop earlier. This quality of early ma
turity is of great advantage to wheat.
frequently crop of wheat is reduced to
third grade by being few days late
in maturing. This is proven by the fact
that wheat has been frequently sown I'M
der the same conditions of soil and cul-
ture with this one exception of being
sown few days later thus causing the
wheat to mature few days later and re-
sulting in second or third grade, whereas
the early sown was first grade. Now as
even the earliest sown wheat will not al
ways mature before those hot days that
prevent its filling, it follows that all adj
vantage that can be taken to mature
wheat early should be taken advantage of.
Northern grown seed is decided advan-
tage and will have its effect on the crop
of wheat produced for three or more sea-
sons. This fact is also true OF corn and
all other vegetation. Also to get the
best results no crop should ever be grown
from seed produced on the same kind of
soil as where the crop is to be grown.
To get the best results the seed should
be raised in different kind of soil and
also considerable distance to the north.
AS all apples have been produced from
the original crab it follows that the new
! varieties at present cultivated show con