The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-10-30
ern -citizens-for the South is a
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of clover, the venerable Daniel Lee
(who, by the way, is a "Yankee" by
birth, and one of the sort of Yankees
! whom the South welcomes heartily
says, in the Southern Cultivdtor: "Now
as to tap-root plants furnishing food
for other plants. Nature has 80 per-
fected her work that no two distinct
species of either animal or vegetable
life feed wholly on the same variety of
food, although consumed and digested
by the same process. Horses, cattle,
sheep, hogs, goats, ETC., will each find
something in pasture to suit their
taste, which has been refused by the
others. The same is true of a variety
of grasses and clover sown on the
same soil. One plant will find food that
another has left or partially used up.
We see this clearly demonstrated in our
forests and our prairies where Nature
did the entire work-the various kinds of
growth on the same acre of land. One
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BY this means one acre will carry as
many plants as two or three acres would
if all demanded the same kind of food.
The refuse from one plant will often
furnish better relished food for another
plant" This generalization of Mr..
Lee is a valuable one, and one that
will bear much reflection. 1t is not
going to be 80 difficult to keep farm
land from running out, or to make
farming pay, when we are able to get
all the meat there is in such facts as
these.
MARKET APPLEs.-Says the Maine
Farmer "One has only to travel
through the apple-growing sections
of the state to learn what vari-
cites to grow for the market. The
whole story is written out in the or
chard. Go where you will, and the
Baldwins are the trees that have the
props under the limbs. 1t is surprising
how this variety will pan out the apples.
There is nothing that will match them
throughout that part of the state where
the winters cold is not too severe for
them. Baldwins should be grated in
the branches on Seeding trunks. Many
understand the reason for this course
to be that the Baldwin wood is not
hardy. But this is only half of it, and
hardly that. A further and more i'm
Baldwin variety is so brittle, so free
rift, that tree trunk of this wood
cannot hold together under its weight
of fruit, and is liable to go to pieces
when the winds blow and the strain
comes. We have seen many wrecks of
this kind after the trees have become
large, and their burden of fruit heavy"
This is also the case with the Wealthy,
which takes the place of the Baldwin
farther north. The Farmer goes on to
remark upon other commercial apples:
"The old and reliable Rhode Island
Greening comes next in order in bounty
of bearing, and we are by no means
sure but in series of years it will fully
match the popular Baldwin. This tree
stands up under its load of fruit better
than the Baldwin. 1t sells as well
abroad, and also in our own markets,
and by no means should be overlooked
in view of any of the new sensations.
The Gravenstein is making good rec
ord for itself this year. In quality it is
the best fall apple grown, and the
markets well know it, and pay high
prices for it as long as it can be reached
There never yet has been enough OF
this variety grown to supply the de-
mand. High quality always holds its
price on the market, and it is the heigh
of folly for fruit-grower to place his
efforts on any variety that does no
possess it. The Milding is variety
that is worthy of wider attention thar
it has yet received in the state, particu
larly in those sections where only TIT
harder kinds can succeed. Mr.. o
l.. Larabee, Levant, near Bangor, say
} it is the best apple he grows. W.
! found it in Washington county last fal
3 at several points where it was intro
duced by the present editor Of tn
Farmer several years ago, and in ever.
A case with high estimates of its value
, In our own orchards (Androscoggil
county, it is bountiful bearer. Gu
j trees were loaded year ago with al
they could carry, and with the excep
I ton of a single tree are again this yea
giving like bounty. The fruit is me
dunn to large, and, with no undersize,
= ones to throw out, is snowy and of higl
quality" This notice of the Mildin,
e will not be without value to many Yer
0 mont and New Hampshire orchardists
', who live on the line between the Bald