Morning journal and courier., 1885-11-19

RAohSNeSA substance that prevents injury from change in temperature other conditions; they are more like the roots of trees, susceptible to severe injury if kept too dry, too hot or too cold while dormant. Too much heat causes sprouting, and this taxes the vitality of the tuber in Q way that will lead to a weak in- stead of vigorous plant. If kept too cold the plant germs in the eyes may be destroyed and no growth follow. To be dried up dur ing the winter is in its way as bad as either of the other defects of keeping named. To simply provide that no such extremes shall be permitted is the right course. Health i'll the tuber is the most important of all con alterations when its use for seed is had in view.
 Ice for Farming Use.-The materials nec- essary for constructing an ice house are of the simplest and cheapest kind; the putting up can be done by anyone that is at all han dy with tools. Where house is contempla- ted the mode of building should be gotten under way i'll good season so that all may be ready when good crop is available. As to site, if one that is sheltered from the wind and shaded from the sun, as under trees or larger building, can be had it will be found the best, but any location may answer. Good drainage is needed to carry the waste from melting off, but there must be no inlet of air through the drain. If pipes are used they should be trapped for preventing this. The walls of the ice house may be made of narrow plank two inches thick. These should be placed at wide intervals with their lower ends on sills that are supported by founda- tion. On the outside the upright plank may be covered with boards and battened, with clapboards; on the inside with any cheap stuff. The spaces in the wall should be packed with saNdust, tan bark CT chaf. A roof of any description that will keep out rain will answer but this much it must do. Provision for air from the top must be made; this can be done by ventilator or hood in the roof, or by small openings in the end at the top. The doors should have double walls with sawdust between. In filling start with a layer of sawdust similar material nine inches deep. On this start the ice, leaving space clear of ice one foot wide next to the wall all around. This space must then be packed with sawdust as the filling proceeds. Finish at the top with heavy coat of like material. Ice weighs 57.5 pounds to the cu- bic foot. Calling it fifty pounds to the foot IS piled it is easily estimated how large the building should be. Some allowance must be made for wastage; one-half would be safe. ORCHARD AND GARDEN. Pruning is in order.
 Put down saurkraut.
 Revise the orchard register.
 Cut scions for spring grating. Fall-planted trees must be staked. A warm fruit room makes lnsipid fruit. An eleven pound beet was raised in Penn sylvania.
 Dig horseradish and preserve in sand in the cellar; save the small roots for planting next spring.
 Borers can be kept from young trees for & time by wrapping some cheap muslin around them at the collar. This will last several years.
 Now save up the coal ashes for the land instead of the dumping grounds; they bene- lit any kind of soil, but especially such as is heavy.
 Make Some Cuttings-If you have no srapevines you can get some that will fruit in three years from cuttings put into the ground now. Let the cuttings be foot long with a bud at each end. Plant firmly in light well drained soil, and at depth that will show but the upper bud above the surface and barely that. Cover over with a light coat of hay, straw or leaves. Most of these cuttings will grow next spring. The same course will answer also for currants and geoseberries. Considering the ease with which these and all of the small fruits propagated, there is excuse for any home being unprovided with abundance. FLOWERS AND THE LAWN. Double violets are in.
 Take in baskets and vases.
 Gather leaves for compost.
 Shower the plants once week. Young pansies should be lightly covered. light now.
 Lily of the Valley beds need attention oe- casionaliy in order to do their best. If close ly matted take out some spade-wide squares of the plants here and there and fill the spaces with new soil Then scatter some ma nure over the bed and a great improvement in the bloom will be visible next spring.
 Ferns in the House-There are few plants that grow more readily in the window than Pteris tremula and Pteris lineata. They like shade: if only they are kept properly watered they get along we'll almost anywhere. Never let them get dry at the roots; dry soil with sun will cause the fronds to turn brown, inn pairing the beauty greatly. When the plants are large and the pots small they need good deal of water. Still it is not necessary to have water in the saucers all the whlle There is possible danger also of having the soil of ferns too wet, causing 1t to turn sour and stopping the growth. Some kinds are quite impatient of wet
 The New London Telegraph very properly thinks that less than justice has been done to the Newfoundland dog which was the sole survivor from the sunken dredge in the Race November 1. The Telegraph says: ''When the dredge went down. it was very l dark and raining in torrents, and the tug | was unable to render the slightest assistance, and under these circumstances the dog Rover began his swim for life The accident 1 happened SQOrIlJ aItof II O cIOCh, duo tilc 1 tide was the latter part of the ebb, and l as it runs very strong, must have carried the | dog five or six miles out to before the | tide shifted and brought him back through | the race again; and during the six-hour TUT | of the food tide Rover must have beer brought well up into Long Island Sound be | fore the tide commenced to run out again and probably got to the northward of ths l strength of the current, as the next fooc | landed him on Crescent beach, one of tht shores of Mantle Bay. When Rover reached l the beach he was unable to stand, and could not crawl out of the surf running at tha
 sheltered place and would, in all probability | have been drowned after his brave struggle for life but for ths fact that MT. Gates, oi
 Mantle, happened to be near the place witl
 his own dog, who spied Rover, and MT. Gate
 helped him to dry land once more Rove
 was rescued at about o'clock Monday after l noon, consequently for nearly eighteen hour the poor brute maintained the fearful strue
 gle, and at time when the waters were 8
 rough that even large coasting schooners di
 not dare venture from the harbor. Tn l distance from the scene of the wrec
 to where Rover landed, in straigt line, according to the United States charts, !, fourteen miles, and it is certain that Rove | could not have taken the direct cou1se, for
 he had the ebb tide would have taken hll 1 as liar out as the flood brought him II he was out in one ebb and two flood tlde
 and it may be set down as fact that h
 swan the whole distance"