Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1893-04-27
THE HOME AND FARM.

gent fruit-grower who props the limbs
of his trees when the trees are over
loaded with fruit. The proper plan ia
to thin out the fruit, and it shonld be
done while the fruit is small. When q
tree bends with the great weight of ex-
ira duty in supplying food, while the
fruit will not be as good as when but a
partial crop is borne on the tree. Thin
ming the fruit gives more attractive
fruit and better prices.
There is rough land on almost all
u farms where it would pay better
to plant nuts, both for timber and for
the nuts for market than anything else.
A large farm with these trees set on
the roadside, perhaps thirty feet from
the center of the road and twenty-five
feet apart, would sell enough nuts an
nually to pay the taxes and leave a
surplus for each picker sufficient to
pay for the picking. Just why farmers
should neglect to properly care for
for such trees and suffer loss thereby ia
strange.
To intelligently locate roads for a
county, for instance, there should be a
map on a large scale showing water
courses, railway stations, towns and
their population and the population per
square mile for different stations.
Having determined the general direc.
tons and extent of the road, the pro.
blems of grade, drainage, adaptability
OF the soil for road purposes and minor
considerations may present themselves
before a definite location may be deter
mined. The amOunto of grade in a coun
try road should properly depend upon
the character of the country and traffic.
Grades should never be level and never
very steep. 1t is better to go around a
steep hill than over it. Steep short
cuts may be convenient for neighbor
hood roads, but neverf for main through.
fares. Clayey surface may be helpe /
by the addition of sand and sandy sur
face by the addition of clay. With re-
gard to drainage, ample and we'll grad
ed side bitches with abundant outlets
for storm water should be supplied.
The effort should be to construct a
narrow good road-nota wide common
road. The layout should be wide, but
the graded portion narrow. Ground
surfacing with good and broken trap
rock still better. The road surface
should be, in fact, a traffic bearing,
waterproof roof over the dirt road,
slightly yielding or malleable under
heavy loads, but sufficiently firm not
to reak.-Minneapolis Tribune.
1T DESTROYS VINES.
The grape vine flea beetle Is an ex.
ceedingly destructive insect. Like
most insects it has a ravenous appetite,
and although only some three TWEEN
tieths of an inch in length it will devour
a bud containing three or four punches
OF grapes at a meal. If there are
many OF them, therefore, an entire crop
OF grapes may be doomed.
The beetles that appear in early
spring are those that have hibernated
in the rubbish and decayed leaves a,
the base of the grape vines, or in their
immediate neighborhood. After they
have fed awhile On the expanding
buds, and as oon as the leaves of the
grapes begin to form, they deposit
their eggs on the leaves, and in time
these hatch into small black larva
with six feet, which begin to feed on
the foliage, riddling and devouring il
very much in the early period of its
growth. The larvae are usually quite
numerous, and continue feeding OF
the vine for some weeks. When they
attain their full growth, they descend
to the ground and enter the chrysali,
state, where they remain till the aut
umn, when the beetles escape from tn,
chrysalis and hibernate in rubbish ant
among the dead leaves.
Keep the neighborhood of the vine,
as free as possible from rubbish, ant
we have found nothing better for ap
plication than while hellebore. l
will need to be applied several times
Holding cotton sheeting, that has beef
saturated with kerosene oil, underneath
and Earring the vine, has beer
recommended. The kerosene kills tn,
worms.-Farmers' Voice.