The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1885-02-26
A Useful Table,

York Herald.
A Useful Table.
The following table will be found very
useful to farmers, showing, as it does,
The proper distances for planting various
fruit trees:
Standard pears, OF pear stocks, for
orchards-twenty-five feet apart.
Pyramidal pears on pear stocks, not
-pruned-twenty feet apart.
The same root pruned-ten feet apart.
The same on ounce stocks, not root
pruned-six feet apart.
The same on ounce stocks, periodically
: hfted-four feet apart.
) Bush pears on pear stocks, periodically
lifted-six feet apart.
Bush pears on ounce stocks, periodi-
cally lifted-four feet apart.
Pears on pear stocks, trained horizon
ally on walls or epsaliers eighteen feet
apart; the same to be root-pruned as oc!
casion may require.
Pears trained in vertical, oblique OF
horizontal Gordon fashion, may be
planted, if upon walls, eighteen inches
apart, or more or less as the taste of the
planter may dictate.
:: Pears trained in horizontal Gordon, to
form edgings to walks, or quarters of the
garden, should be planted ON stems one
foot high and trained on galvanized
wire, trained and supported On iron pins,
single shoot only being made use of.
Pears trained fan-shape and root
pruned-ffteen feet apart. The above
distances will also do for apples, cherries
land plums; these last, when trained as
ipyramids, require to be grown with stems
eighteen inches to two feet high, as, if
cut Shorter they will throw out so many
strong branches just above the junction
of the graft and stock that it. will be
found, with the greater number of sorts,
SO much cutting will require to be done
that the trees will gum and die, and pre-
sent great difficulty to form them into
nice pyramids.
Peaches, nectarines, apricots, plums
and cherries, when planted against walls
are generally and best trained fan shape,
and should be from twelve to fifteen
feet apart, and kept periodically lifted
and replanted on the surface, merely
covering the roots with few inches of
the soil.
Bush trees of pears on ounce, apples
on the Paradise, cherries on the Mahaleb,
and plums, may be planted about the
same distance apart as gooseberries and
currants, that is, five feet apart in the
rows, and i've feet from row to row.
They should be lifted biennially, or as
often as required, in November, and
they will then form charming fruit
garden.
Farm Prices OF the Crop Of 1884.
Farm prices of the crop 1884 are
reported upon by Slatistician Dodge.
The records of the series of farm prod.
ucts are made in December and are the
basis of value of the crops of the year.
The tendency to lower rates is observed
everywhere as to most crops. not only
from abundance of production, but in
sympathy with the general depression in
values, of all commodities.
The average price of corn is 364 cents
which is one cent lower than the average
for 1879, when the supply in proportion
to population was quite as large. It ha.
been lower but twice in ten years-ir
1877 and 1873, after two previous years
of abundance. It is the highest il
Florida-S0 cents per bushel-and tn,
lowest price is 10 cents, in Nebraska
Kansas, 90; Iowa, %; Missouri, 26
Illinois, 81; Minnesota, SO; Indiana ani
Wisconsin, 81; Michigan, 40; Ohio, Al
Kentucky, 49, It is So in Pennsylvania
"a in New Jersey and 60 in New York
The range of values in the Soutl
Atlantic States is from 4
in Delaware to 6S il
South Carolina and 80 in Florida, in
creasing in the order of movement ex
cept that Georgia reports 20 cents. Ii
the more Western States it is As cents il
Tennessee, 81 in Arkansas, 81 in Ala
bamma, So in Mississippi and Texas
and 81 in Louisiana. The difference i
the value of corn in the counties OF tn
same State are very wide, owing to rels
tive abundance OF scarcity, transports
ton facilities or other causes. For in
stance, Kansas returns 90 cents pc
bushel as the State average, and yet i
some counties corn is worth but 1
cents.
The average price of wheat is Is cent
yer bushel. against 81 cents last Decen
Der. The December prices in thrice
years has previously been below 81 pc
bushel but FIVE times-in 1874, 1878