The Yale expositor., 1896-01-24


must be different varieties of wild rab--
bits, for the kind that lived in his vicin-
ity began to gnaw the trees as early as
July.
Mr.. Gilbert protects his trees by using
only common wrapping paper, such as
can be obtained in any grocery or dry
goods store. He tears these papers into
strips eight inches wide. These he
wraps around the tree on the bias, be-
ginning near the ground, and stopping
twenty inches above it, where he ties
the paper.
A discussion arose on the value OF
the yellow transparent for commercial
orchards Some believed it q mistake
to plant largely of this variety on ac-
count OF its poor keeping qualities.
However, when in good shape. it sells
readily, and men from Southern I'LL
nois expressed great faith in its COM
mercial value.
Much time was devoted to the discus
sion of the efficiency OF spraying, and
successes and failures were reported.
The prevailing opinion was that the
| failures were due to ignorance in do
ing the work.
Question.-How many have expert
nented with spraying mixtures?
Twenty-seven replied afiirmatively.
Question.-How many recommend
spraying?
Thirty-fve votes were cast for it, and
none against it.
The growing Of small fruits was dis
cussed, and the growing of Strawberries
in hills came up. While hill culture
gives large, fine berries, yet growers
on a large scale do not follow it, as
it does not pay for the extra trouble.
The question of fertilizers was dis
cussed at length. The most impor-
tant point developed was that the ey-
tensive use of barnyard manure made
| it possible for the soil to use q greater
mass OF chemical fertilizers than il
! IL were not used at all. Thus in the
neighborhood of large cities the market
! gardeners are enabled to use immense
| quantities Of commercial fertilizers be-
cause they also use immense quantities
of barnyard manure.
| Mr.. Morrill,, of Michigan, spoke on the
marketing of fruit. The first requisite
is to have something desirable to mar,
ket. He could not tell man how TO
market undesirable fruit. The great
necessity with farmers is to learn how
to cooperate in the sale OF goods. The
cooperative organizations have largely
| failed for the reason that there seemed
a jealousy against any man being paid
to look after the work. He believed
the time to be approaching when farm
ers would use more business-like
methods.
The superintendent of the insane asy-
lum at Kankakee spoke on the great
success of irrigation at that place. The
water for the irrigation works is
pumped by steam engines that can sup
ply from 100000 to 100000 gallons per
day. The cost for this pumping is only
three-tenths of a cent per thousand
gallons. During the last season they
had raised vegetables worth over Sc 900.
BY vote of the society the life mem.
bership fee was reduced from $50 to
S.
The election of officers resulted in the
| following choice: President, Mr. Good
RICH vice~president, Lem Small Sec
rotary, Fl. NJ. Dunlap; treasurer, Ar
thur Bryant.
The next annual meeting will be held
at Springfield.
William Gould spoke on the cult
walton of grapes. He plants SKIS or
7x9, which gives about 200 vines to the
acre.
Sulphur for Shcep.-The American
Sheep Breeder says: While sulphur is
indispensable for sheep, as furnishing
one Of the important elements OF the
fleece, it must be given in such a way
as to be available for this purpose. II
must be liz the food. 1t cannot be given
in the crude form, III which it is not a
food, but an active medicine, producing
a laxative action on the bowels and an
excessive excretion through the skin.
1t is this which makes it useful as an
antidote to all kinds of parasites. the
sulphur thus passing through the skin
being extremely offensive to all in
sects. But it's action on the skin is to
open the pores and thus make the ami
NAL more subject to changes of the
weather, and especially to injury by
rains. 1t is thus not desirable to give
sulphur as food or nutriment except
in the food, such as white mustard or
any other plant of the turrip and cab
bage tribe.
Transplanting Large Trecs.-Garden-
ing gives this method, and we can GER
tify to its being good one: We prefer
doing this in the spring, and would pre-
pare for it now. IL you want to move
a moderately large tree, say four, five
or even six inches in diameter OF trunk.
next spring, head in its top now all
you think ought to be done at planting
time, then mark ring on the ground
around and four, five, six or more feet
away from the stem, the distance away
depending on the size Of the tree. Now.
along, but outside of this ring mark.
dig q narrow trench say three
feet deep, the object being to cut away
all roots projecting beyond it, and fill
up the trench at once with the same soil