Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1886-04-29

Prom the Germantown Telegraph
In tho early spiing the fruit garden should
receive attention, especially so far IN relates
10 small fruits. The mulching should be re-
moved from straw berries but not until the
ground IL settled. Tracking among straw
berry plants should be avoided while the
ground is soft and unsettled. IL a lengthen-
ing of tho straw berry season il desired the
mulching may lie allowed 10 remain on "A pOr
tion for "A longer time and II quite thick will
retard the development of the blossom stalks
40 as tn make quite an apprecisble difference
in the ripening of tho fruit IL there il a
farmer who has not a little patch of straw
berry plants for family use he should be guilty
of such neglect no longer, but should at once
decide To deal justly by his own. But when
the fruit Is grown don't be tempted to tax @ IL
all tn market because IL finds a ready sale.
We know Of a farmer who said to his hired
man in the spring, Gwen attend to the straw
berries, and by .and-by we will have straw ber-
Tiss and cream" The season passed, but not
a single rawberry appeared upon that farm
er's table. II that is an enjoyment of the
things OF this world we fail to sec it.
Provision should be made for future crops
by setting new plants, which should be done
upon u well prepared soil. The raspberries
should also be attended to-the old canes re.
moved and the new ones properly shortened
in M as To secure a full development of the
fruit. Attention should also he paid to the
black berry, gooseberry and currant bushes,
plus branches heading back where necessary.
These little matters OF attention sometimes
pay iourfold. In all cases providing for the
future should lie felt so be a necessity. The
period OF profitable existence of small fruit IL
limited, and so for continuance OF the fruit
provision must be made by setting new
plants, and If this ia attended to from time To
time there will come no interruption in the
furnishing of the fruit When a farmer once
realizes the pleasure resulting from small
fruits, he will carefully attend to tho supply.
Early Planting.
From the Germantown Telegraph
la some instances, for the purpose oi 81
curing an early crop, farmers will plow the
ground when, AZ they have expressed 1t, the
plow would "run on top of the frost" The
aiVisability OF such course is questionable,
notwithstanding some very good arguments
in favor OF 1t. On the ground that to plant
potatoes under such circumstances is getting
iarm work advanced and out OF the way, the
course might possibly be justiiiablo, hut vet
at the same time upon most farms there is an
abundant opportunity for the performance of
necessary labor that can as we'll be performed
with frost in the ground as out of it, and al
though some hard crops may DO planted even
with frost in the ground the question arises
What is gained thereby?
Heat Is one element of life, and its absence,
or perhaps more properly its diminished de-
gree, represents In tho vegetable world a state
Oh uofinancy. so acertaln degree Ot temper
ature is necessary To awaken even the potato
tuber into life activity, AZ exhibited IN
growth, the same "a in the case OF various
seeds, and il planting Is performed when the
soil has absorbed some little amount of heat
the process OF growth can go on at once,
which cannot be the case II the soil IL still uu-
derlaid by stratum Of frozen earth. The
planting Of potatoes may well be performed,
however, at the earliest possible moment,
when danger from late irosts is passed.