Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-12-12

Gathering Bush Beans.


ceiVer This consists OF a pole or stick
one and one-fourth inches to two
inches thick, and pointed at both ends,
with holes bored through it at inter
walls of one foot apart for the recep-
| ton of sticks or wires to serve as
supports for the deans to rest upon as
they are strung upon the receiver.
The first stick or wire should be one
foot from the ground after the re-
ceiver is set in the ground String
the beans as puued, filing the receiver
with beans and support wires alter
| nately, so that Une beans will not pack
too closely on receiver. When beans
are thoroughly dried in the sun take
them off the receiver and hull.-M. E.
NJ, in Practical Farmer.
Manuring Orchards.
1t is a we'll known fact that lands
that are covered with timber increase
in fertility every year, but it does not
follow that this is true of orchards.
Numbered lands are usually thick
enough to prevent the winds from
blowing Tie leaves away and these
form a valuable fertilizer when left on
the ground. A crop of trees is a pref
ty heavy load for a piece OF land to
carry and if nothing but leaves are pro-
duced and these leaves blow away, the
draft on the soil is a severe one. Ii
to the crop of leaves is added the eX-
ira strain of a crop of fruit the neces-
sity Of fertilizing orchards becomes at
once apparent.
The best way to fertilize an orchard
is to spread manure under the trees in
the fall, covering the surface, as far as
the branches extend. During the win
ter the plant food will reach into the
soil and be ready for use when the
growing season begins again. Every
orchard should be kept in regular cul-
tiyation for best results, and fertiliz-
ing should be regularly attended to-
Farmers Voice.
Fall Treatment of Cane Fruits.
Various opinions exist among fruit
growers in regard to fall pruning OF
berry bushes. For instance, one grower
near here does not cut back the new
wood at all, while another cuts back at
least one-third and claims to have
proved by experiment that the trim
med canes come out better in the
spring. It is our practice here to trim
out all of the old wood in the fall and
bend down and cover with earth all OF
the new growth, no matter how much
there may be Of it. Even with this
treatment many varieties will die back
to quite an extent and the necessary
pruning may be better done IN the
spring. 1t is quite task sometimes
to cover large plants of Gregg or Col
umbian, but we want to save every
possible inch of frliting wood. Grape
vines should be pruned late IN the tall
and covered the same as berry bushes.
It has been very well demonstrated in
this state that winter protection OF
berry bushes and grapevines is neces-
sary in order to insure crop. Some
growers practice covering the tips only
depending upon snow for protection,
but a better plan is to cover the entire
plant with two or three inches or
earth.-American Agriculturist.
Bartlett Pears.
Though some may complain OF THIS
old-time favorite having too musky
flavor, the Bartlett is and always
will be a popular favorite. Its pro-
ductiveness and also the fact that the
Bartlett comes very early onto bear
ing, even when planted as a standard,
and the fact, too, that it is always
large and fair, makes it in greater de-
mand for planting than any other. 1t
is an English variety originally, and
was in England known as the civilians
Bon Christian, or Good Christian, but
in this country Bartlett, the name of
it's introducer, has entirely superseded
the other. 1t comes at a season when
parents are likely to be exceedingly
careful not to give young children
much ripe fruit. But an experience
with a child who had been sickly until
he was 18 months old satisfied us that
there is little danger in a ripe Bartlett,
and that it may be, as Improved in this
case, just what was needed to enable
nature to throw off disease that had
before baff1ed the skill of doctors. So
if young children get hold of Bartlett
pears and eat them ravenously do not
fear. It may be that this was just
what nature required. Cul-
tivator.
The Garden.
Coal ashes around gooseberry and
current bushes keeps down the grass
and weeds, and prevents troublesome
insects from finding a lodging in the
bushes.
Coleus plants should never be
planted in the shade. Their beauty
needs bright sun to bring it out. The
more sun the better, provided plenty
of water goes with it.
After the garden crops are all off
cover with manure and SOW rye. This
will not only hide it's nakedness, but
it will furnish a good green crop to
plow under in the spring.
Rhubarb, current, raspberry and
gooseberry bushes may be set in the
fall or spring. Gooseberry and cur