The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-06-03

1 y
for home use for two weeks, and
plenty to camp
Any land which will raise corn will
raise strawberries. Plow up q strip ten
rods long and one rod wide. Put it in
good condition, and with small plow
lay off three rows the entire length of
the strip. Send to one of your reliable
nurserymen and get 800 plants. Be-
lect 100 Crescents, 100 Bubachs, and
100 Captain Jacks. These varieties
are quoted Mt 81 per hundred, or S3
to S5 per thousand. If over hum
dred are ordered, tho plants are Sc
cured at the thousand rate. Put 100
plants in q row, spreading the roots
out well, and pressing the earth firm
ly about them. Ten days after they
are set, cultivate them with o two
horse cultivator, and continue this
every week for eight weeks. You may
have to 60 over the patch once or
twice with hoe, and be sure to pick
of all the buds and flower stems, for
it will not do to let them fruit the first
season. In the fe4f cover with rye
straw, -end5Tt tine spring rake the straw
I Between the rows, and my word for it,
you will have all the berries farmers
family can eat, at cost of less than
three cents per quart.
Currants and gooseberries can be
raised as easily as corn. l have tried
some six or eight varieties of currants,
and find the Red Dutch the only kind
which gives q good crop every year.
/ would plant ninety two-year-old Red
Dutch, and ten two-year-old White
Dutch. Set in one long row, and cul.
tivate as you would corn. The second
year from planting, fair crop will
be obtained. Mulch we'll in summer.
They will then retain the leaves, which
protect the fruit and give it a chance
to get we'll ripened. Plant 100 goose
berries in row, selecting fifty Hough-
ton and fifty Downing. Ii we'll culti-
waited, they will give halt crop the
first year after planting. Red Dutch
currants can be had for three cents
apiece, and gooseberries five to eight
cents. With little trimming each
spring, 100 gooseberries and 100 cur
rants will be all one family can use,
with some to sell.
Grapes can be produced at less than
q cent pound. Put out two rows in
some lot or field near by, fifty vines
in each row, six feet apart in the row,
and the rows eight to ten feet apart.
Buy twenty Moore's Early at eight
cents apiece, thirty Worden at six
cents apiece, and fifty. Concord at
three cents apiece. You can hardly
make mistake if you buy all Con.
cords, but the Moore's Early comes
first, then the Worden fills in the
space between Il : early grapes and
the Concords, a.. you will have
grapes for six weeks. AS support, set
good oak posts, and attach to them
three good wires. Sometime in Feb
ruary, cut back the new growth to
four or six buds, plow and cultivate
we'll.
The est and cheapest fruit of all is
the Early Richmond cherry. The trees
are cheap, and they will grow and bear
we'll with but little care. The fruit
sells readily if more is produced than
is desired for home use. Good trees,
four to six feet high, can be had at
large nurseries for $40 to S12 per hun
dred. If you have only six or eight
bearing trees, the birds and boys will
annoy you so much that you will have
to pick them before they are ripe.
But get fifty trees, set them along the
garden fence, and in some fence cor.
ner where nothing but weeds have
been growing for years. We do not
realize that every square rod of land
on our farm has eight to ten tons OF
choice soil capable of raising fine
cherry tree. Look around your farm,
and see how many square rods are 60
ing to waste which might grow q
cherry, peach or plum tree. When
the trees arrive, cut off the ends of the
: roots, making q clean cut. Pack the
earth firmly about the roots. Keep
the ground about the tree mellow by
, cultivating or hoeing. If this cannot
be done, mulch the tree with hall
, rotted manure. After two or three
/ years the cherry tree will take care Of
, itself, and you will then have enough
, fruit for the birds, the boys and your
| own family use. One of the drawbacks
of farm life is securing help in the
: house when a little extra work is re
, quired in picking and putting up small
4 fruit. 1t is, however, nearly alwayI
l possible to find some poor women ol
3 children in your neighborhood who
> will be glad to do few days work
= and take fruit as pay. Start some small
K fruit on your farm this spring, set il
, long rows so that it can be cultivated
f Buy at wholesale rates of any good
= reliable firm, and in the end you will
find more pleasure and profit than il
n anything on the farm. New Englan'
p Homestead.
. Landscapes Made Of Postage Stamps
Y Most of us have read of rooms whic
y have been papered entirely with can
;. celed postage stamps, these rooms ez
It listing, writes philatelist, in two we
It known cases at inns which are yer
q popular near London with stoppin