Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1886-10-06

And, Billy, little rest remaiLs
For You and me, my pony.
Aha, a stranger pauses here,
With clinking gold beside us,
And he would take you, Billy dear,
If ducats could divide US:
The wretch-he does not understand
Exactly where my heart is:
Not all the wealth at his command,
My Billy-boy, could part us.
The Current
INFLUENCE OF STOCK On SCION.
Pomologists we'll know the difficulty in de.
termining the variety of a fruit defnitly as be
tween two specimens of a variety brought from
different orchards. There will be differences il
color and marking due probably to situation
and exposure; differences in the season Of ripen
ing, clearly due to latitude: and there will b.
differences in shape and flavor. This is nov
conceded by many good pomologists to be largel!
due to the influence of stock and scion, one OF
the other, the influence of the scion, of course
largely predominating in the integrity of thu
fruit.
There ought to be no difficulty in determining
defnitly just about how much influence the scio1
has upon the graft and that of the graft on the
scion. II true it will rot only
show in minor differences, but occa
siona'ly clearly, as herdity in live stock
Thus in grating in-and-in a given variety could
grated in another tree II the scion were in.
auenced by the stock this should be shown less
and less with each successive marking, and
vice versa whtre a scion was used in grating
back on to an original stock, producing various
grades, as in live stock.
Mr.. T. H. Hoskins, in Vick's Magazine, as
serts that this is true according to his Observa-
ton. He states as his experience that, as a boy,
being extremely fond of Sop-of-Wine apples, he
induced his grandfather to graft scions of that
variety into branches on half q dozen trees.
These sclons were watched anxiously for fruit.
and in three or four years they all bore. But
this fruit, though externally appearing to De
Sops-ot-wine, was hard, green-heshed, and mis-
cradle to eat. There was but one ption,
and that was upon a Pound-Sweet tree, the 9TH
ers being upon Russets. This Pound-Sweet
graft bore very large, handsome, and excellent
Sops-of-Wines, but the rest were worthless.
The late Albert Noyes of Bangor, Me-, is also
quoted in the same article as saying that he had
observed many similar experiences, especially
in getting extra sized fruit for exhibition by
grating upon ALEXANDER, all varieties seeming
to grow larger and handsomer when so worked.
But this size was got at the expense of quality.
Among other testimony presented is that of
Mr.. X. Dibble of Brantford, Conn. He, it is
stated, wrote in 1873 as follows:
About forty years ago my father had a large
and thrifty apple-tree which bore exceedingly
sour fruit. 1 helped him graft a part of it from
a very sweet apple standing near. The second
year we grated another part from the scions
set the previous year. The third year we graft
ed the rest of the tree from the second setting.
These gratis produced three different kinds of
fruit, all differing from each of the original
cfrob0 Thn G-rt tr@~..J -
apple, but we're only moderately sweet. The
second were slightly striped like the sour apple
and neither sweet nor sour, while the third were
clearly striped and q moderately-so apple.
Mr.. Dibble Is also recorded as saying; mo
man can graft a Rhode Island greening OH q
sweet apple stock and another from the same
on a sour stock and have the same fruit in ap-
pearance and taste as the original from each
tree, To say the least, l have never been able
to do it. l have a number of them, but no
two are alike.
DOMESTIC TRIALS.
1 knew an old woman so clever and kind,
v hen things went amiss, she said ''never mind, ,
She never was Cross, but she always was tired,
And gave as a reason, that help wasn't hired.
She washed and she ironed, she baked and she
Drewed,
She roasted and fried, she broiled and she
stewed,
She swept and she sewed, till her head it die
whirl,
she wanted "a rest,' and she needed it too,
For like elderly ladies. she sometimes felt blue,
She wanted to enjoy the ''loaves aud the fshes,'
And have somebody else wash all the dishes.
And so she kept waiting and wishing beside,
That a change would occur, by which she nigh
glide
Into regions more blest than any che knew,
Wnara aha c0r1A Sif 1Dxur o-1 ho-o r~rhSr~ <<
do.
Another old lady, with dignity rose,
To comfort her friend, by ~reciting her woes,
Both morning aud night. she also was tired,
From trouble she had with help that was hired
gray.
All caused by the worry she had every day:
The maid she was saucy, and cross as could be,
The cook was 80 dumb, so antidy was she.
The tables which once were 80 clean and &C
white,
We're spotted all over, and in q sad plight,
The Goor-knobs were sticky, and SO were the
And things went contrary to the old lady'l
wishes.
She tried to be patient, and calmly endure
Those things SO annoying, which she could not
cure,
But she found it was hard, though ever so tired
To be 80 dependent on help that was hired.
THANKSGIVING TURKEY.
Th season is now 80 we'll Onward the crop OF
turkeys is safe from danger until about a weei
or go before Thanksgiving day, when many Of
them will be attacked with serious throat affec,
ton, which invariably results fatally, while they
lose all their feathers soon after. This disorder
o~nrraf tnrHAuo 10 NJ uo11 hnoun ~ noo1 mi
describe the cause of the disease, nor sugges,
remedies. The turkeys, At this season of the
year, are well grown, il hatched early, and are
as hardy a. can we'll be imagined. The dry
spring and early summer has been just the thing
or turkey r~aisers, and there should be an abun
dant harvest during the holidays. Where they
have the range of = large farm, especially i.
grain and grass farm, they will get most o.
their living in the fields, but should be fed ever
evening, not merely to induce them to come
home every night, but to induce the greatest
measure Of growth q: that season Of the yea
when the food 'stells' better than it will during
the cold weather of late fall and winter. !
TIL experience of the best turkey breeders
goes to show that the best results are obtained
by feeding literally ali through the season, and
not leaving it until . couple Of weeks before
killing to do the fattening. One feed daily, and
that in the evening, is sufficient. during tbi.
season of the yeaF; the birds soon look for j
then, and come home regularly at feeding time,
and always reost near the bsrn and outbnildings.
tits impossible to induce them to FOost IN I
poultry house, but where large focks are resred
each season. it will pay to put mp cheap, open
sheds, where they can be Taught 70 roost q
night, sheltered from the inciemency Of the
weather and moderately cafe from those noe
Viaitbrs to hen roOete who have d pen.