Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1884-09-19
Agricultural Items.

California hortic,,lturists are dis
c11ssing the important question of in
creasing fruit shipments East. It is
said that fast time on the railroads and
a freight rate Of 5000 per carload,
would soon result in the dispatch Of
train Of fruit cars daily, When cars
cost 5000 and $500 for freight the price
of every pound must be materially in
creased. California fruit, particularly
apricots and grapes, would sell in i'm
mense quantities in all the large cites
of the Atlantic coast if only they could
be furnished at about half the present
rates. &C. FL. Shinn.
Parker Earle, the we'll known fruit
grower Of ILLINOIS, believes that the soil
on which Strawberries grow has much
to do with their shipping qualities. His
experience teaches him that berries
GROVE on poor, sandy soil will hardly
endure shipping hundred miles, while
the same varieties of berries from
stronger, better land possess great
shipping capability. He also calls at
tention to the fact that purchasers, as
% llV, pay llOl5 Lux D6lIltS Ol tGCIhCG-
i've appearance than for flavor, al illus.
tration OF which is the Monarch, of high
flavor but poor color, which is rejected
for Wilson Or Captain Jack, both sour
but well colored. American Garden.
A correspondent of the New England
Farmer SAYS that q New York farmer
observed that some Of his apple trees
that had been dressed with unbleached
wood ashes bore apples which kept all
winter without rott!ng, while the rest
of the fruit rotted badly. His trees
were infested with apple tree blight.
He finally applied wood ashes at the
rate of 200 bushels to the acre, to his
orchard, and washed the bodies of the
trees with lye. The orchard recovered
from the blight, and the apples would
then keep we'll in al ordinary cellar all
winter,
Summe> Celves. Midsummer is the
most dangerous time Of the year for
COWS to drop their calves. They are
more liable to be in flesh after June
than after winter, and this along with
the heat may open the way for pueper-
al fever. A COW in high condition be-
fore calving at this season, should for
several weeks before the event be kept
in cool stable during the heat of the
day, and given no food here. In the
evening she may be turned to pasture
for while, but On the whole only a
low diet should be allowed, with view
OF reducing flesh. After calving she
should be kept out of the sun for three
or four days, from which time on there
is little danger to be feared from the
disease.
Wood-lice or Sow bugs.-In growing
delicate plants like primroses, cinera-
rias, etc, from seed at this season, the
seed leaves may often be devoured as
the seedlings come up, and only sharp
eye will detect that termination ever
took place, To prevent such mischief,
a simple remedy is to sprinkle tobacco
dust over the surface of the soil. Where
the pests are numerous their numbers
may be considerably reduced by placing
8 boiled potato in a little hay at the bot
tom Of q flower pot and laying the pot
on it's side near their haunts at night
n In the morning shake the wood lice out
Of the hay into boiling water
Root pruning to Induce Fruitfulness.
This operation often has favorable
effect, through reducing the growth Of
leaves and BY the means aiding the for
nation OF fruit buds for the next year.
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