Year: 1875

Please give good plan for maxim


board cover for hay stack. II
s., Rockford, Ill.


The best way we have found t
preserve the valuable qualities @
clover hay outside of barn, is to pu
it in a rick as long As may be desire,
and built as high as convenient. Th
width of the stack may be determine,
by placing two planks upon th,
ground with the ends together, and a
such an angle as you think the roo
over the stack should be, and measur
ing across the base of the angl,
formed by the planks, leaving some
thing for projection of the caves.


The hay must be piled up in the
center, slipping up from each side, and
built out well at the ends, to form full
gabl,s. Place a scantling along the
ridge, spliced. if too short, and sup.
ported at the ends by sharpened stakes
rammed into the hay, which forms
the apex of the root, with another
support two thirds of the way down
each side, or similar pieces, and it is
ready for the roof


The first side should be placed even
with the scantling Oh the ridge, and
the other side higher up to lap over it.
In this way the roof settles with the
hay, and gives no opportunity for the
wind to blow the rain under, or to
lift the roof Off Western Rural


BUDDING PECANs UPON THE HICKORY


A writer to the American Agricult-
urist, from Florida relates the follow
ing as his experience on the subject ::


About a year ago | budded u pecan
into vigorous hickory sprout of the
same seasons growth The bud re-
mained dormant until the following
spring when the sprout was cut back
to the bud. a shoot grew from the
bud last summer, which measured
nearly ten feet This shoot has also
thrown out seven laterals, measuring
from two TO four feet each. Last
winter ! cut down a number of my
hickOries, some Oe them measuring
nearly foot through, and this SUM-
mer have budded the sprouts from
them with the pecan. l use annular
buildings j. e., ring of bark with
bud upon it, put in place of d similar
ring removed from the stock. 1t is
very seldom bud fails to take, and
the few failures | bad are occasioned
by small grub, which works between
the bud and the stock, which can be
prevented by the application of graft
ing wax.


VILLAGE TREE PLANTING.


Our enthusiastic young minister,
with an eye and heart for what is
beautiful! and good, devised the plan
and it was executed to the letter The
sturdy f.rmers, old and young,
gathered ON au appointed afternoon
and planted goodly number Of trees.
elms, naples and evergreens, about
the church.


At the close Of the day, the ladies
provided sumptuous repast, and the
evening was spent in social enjoy
ment. Years have passed away, and
so have many of those whose hands
wrought so worthy and cheerfully ON
that autumn day. The youths and
maidens of that time are mature men
and mstrons now. Fifteen years Of
toll and care have sprinklcd grey
hairs on many head; but those trees
are growing and increasing in vigor
every ycar-and now, in their youth
ful prime. cast grateful shadow over
man and beast.-Conn. Courunt.


A sCARECROw.


1t is well known that blue and
scarlet colors in juxtaposition cause a
dazzling effect On the eye. These
colors strung on line and placed
over strawberry beds produce a puz-
zling effect on birds, and no bird will
enter the garden while these colors
futler in the air. Pieces of blue and
scarlet should be cut about one and a
half feet in length, and tied to a line
one foot apart. This line is to be
supported by poles six feet in height
from the strawberry beds. To sup
port Strawberries, keeping them clean
and enabling them to ripen all round,
take o piece of stout wire q yard in
length, bend it at right angles ten
inches from each end, ben the space
between the right angles into curve.
Stamp these two ends six inches in
depth into the earth close to the straw
berry plants. then draw the fruit over
the wire, each plant requiring two.
10 prevent rusting, place the wires in
creosote three or four days and then
dry them.-G0rdener's Magazine.


SALT FOR PEAR TREES.


My father found two young pear
trees in fence corner, which he took
home, and planted in the yard. They
grew very nicely and commenced to
bear some five or six years ago. The
variety is one which begins to ripen
the last week in September. The
trees were every year full of pears,
but more than one-half would drop off
before they were ripe. In the spring
of 1874, l took fish and pork pickle
and sprinkled five bucketsful around
the two trees, to a distance about ten
feet all around, and the result was
that my trees have been since so full
of fruit that the limbs nearly broke
down. | don't believe that one
hundred pears fell off before they
were ripe. 1 think salt and wood
ashes are the best fertilizers for pear
ltrees that we can get.-D. n. KERN.