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Show FARM AXD GARDEN. . MATTERS OF INTEREST. AGRICULTURISTS. Borne TO Hints About Culthe Soil aud Fields Thereof Horticulture, Mticullme and floriculture. te tivation of dation for all systems of training, they can not he ignored without more or less injury to the plants. (1) The amount of fruit which a vine can bear and mature in highest perfection is limited: when this limit is exceeded the fruit deteriorates. (2) Upon the fruit the effect of overproduction is to reduce the size of the berries and of the clusters, and probably also to impair the quality; the vine makes a poor growth, the foliage is small and the vigor of the plant i3 generally reduced. When a vine has been allowed to overbear, especially when it is young, years may sometimes be required before the vine returns to its normal condition. (3) A plant that is carrying less fruit than it is capable of maturing generally produces a very heavy foliage and an excess of wood. This may probably be explained by the supposiiion that the energies of the plant are directed almost entirely to vegetive activity. (4) The most difficult and important feature of grape pruning is to be able to judge of the kind and amount of wood which should be allowed to remain upon the plant. This amount is dependent upon soil, variety, climate, character of the season, and to a limited extent upon the method of training. The paramount importance o having a properly balanced top and root system is most fully realized by American vineyardists of long experience. Years of study, especially the study of the variety of grape and of the soil upon which it is growing, are brought to bear upon each individual vine when it is pruned, and in no direction can the skill of the vineyardisi be more clearly demonstrated than ,d questions regarding the amount and kind of bearing wood that is alio will covto remain. No er a living and sensitive organism for in pruning judgment the grape-vinmust be exercised at almost every step. But it is fortunate that considerable variation may be allowed without serious consequences or the profitable culture of the grape would indeed be a hopeless task. Yet the less the reliance placed upon this allowed vn.iaujn tae better will be the vine. Around the Farm. Last harvest, owing to the wet weather, a certain flat in one of my fields was so wet as to measurably drown the oats which were sown upon it. There were more or less oats, however, all through it, and a huge crop of sour grass and various sorts cf weeds. I cut and stacked it. Today the slock prefer it to bright, threshed timothy. I had sown the flat to timothy and clover and wanted the land clean, which was the chief reason for mowing the mixed oats, weeds and sour grass. I shall never despair again of getting some good out of even a stand of weeds. The blanket of snow has prevented the ground from freezing to any extent. Hence fence posts can be driven with less labor than in the fall. The cracks through the fields made by the drouth I see are closed, and the ground Is damp a foot down or more. This is cheering, for the cracks prevented the flow of water to the reservoirs. In my opinion the farmer will keep over a few hundred bushels of coz at least until he is reasonably sure of another sufficient crop. Also, he will save a few tons of hay. There has been a slaughter of rabbits this winter beyond any other season within my knowledge. The taste for fried bunny is on the increase among the people. I am glad of it. It will save blackberry gardens and young fruit trees, for, singular as it seems, many farmers neglect the ounce of preventive so long in such matters that they are compelled to use the pound of cure. The only objection any farmer can have to gunners hunting rabbits in his fields is, he dont want them to kill his quails, and he wants them to be careful about shooting towards stock. A neighbor had two valuable Angora Getting Wild Honey. goats killed this winter by tireless usual The way when a bee tree has gunners. In an adjacent neighborhood I am been found is to cut it down, stupefy as well a3 may be, credibly Informed that some a?rt of a the bees with smoke This, of course, their take and honey. Is off the rabbits; that pest killing of sweet harvests future all many dead ones are daily found. It destroys swarm. or tree Possibly that from may be they are mistaken. TTe dead of rabbits are perhaps those w! T:h have Daniel Johnson, an old bee hunter, a better discovered has Me., Dedham, been wounded and escaped, aud afterwards died. The neighborhood, how- way. The bees provided against their tree being cut down and their stores ever, says no to this suggestion. which Renters seem determined not to pay destroyed by selecting a tree tree If the ravine. a deep cash for land. They are willing to overhung the fall into would cut down were it a give larger share of grain than hithtree and the destroyerto. Some are now willing to give ravine, smashing half the crop. The rule hitherto for ing the honey. So he inserted a gas near the ground, eome years has been in the pipe from a hollow until the honey tree the it up running bushel and crib and half the hay. That he built a fire at is what I have rented for a number of was reached. Then the foot of the tree. So soon as the years past. I have made careful esti- fire warmed the honey inside, it began anone find with mates and year that, run to down, where it was caught in other, I have done as well, and someIt nearly filled a barrel. Mr. pails. times better, than those who have he has a permanent thinks Johnson rented their land for cash. I have had bees on that tree so long as it of hive one renter seven years, and he has done succumb to the effects of fire as well by his portion of the farm as does not He thinks there is enough roots. its at I myself would have done. The great to winter the bees, and that left honey is renters with trouble many they hog will go to work and fill the land over. It runs down under their next year they combs. But it is very posthe empty hands. The fences, the house, the heat sufficient to melt honey and orchard sible that killed barn and the door-yar- d the bees, and that the has comb look as if a very poor widow lived there of honey this year is the last he barrel and had no help whatever. This kind will get from that tree. of farming makes the owner harder in his demands than he would be if the Canada Thistles. renter took a little pride in keeping of The Farmers Review reader Any the place in good condition. I have no that can answer the question will use for a slovenly renter. oblige G. L. Having several patches of EDWARD B. HEATON. these plants in a pasture of two hundred acres, we know those thistles to ines. Training Grape be rich in sugar; cut, too, within the E. G. Lodeman, Department of Agricattle prefer them as fodder betspring on the other culture Report: Training, rank grass. We have known ter than hand, is almost wholly a natter of mice to climb the main stem, to field does net affect It convenience. the seed in its capsules. Thistles eat the or the vine of the value of strength the crop in any essential particular. and grass growing together cut with a scythe in mowing will make excellent The training of a vine refers to the disof the various hay for cows, increasing their flow of posal or arrangement of after vine the pruning has milk; that produces sweet butter. The parts taken place. The method of training dry spines being sharp, are very disahands. When stacked adapted determines the operator to greeable to bare in large barns the saccharine matter leave certain growths in certain positions, not because more or better fruit sweats vigorously and sometimes fires the stacks by spontaneous combustion. is expected, but for the reason, perhaps, that the fruit may be harvested If the sod containing thistles is then broken by plowing, planted with potawith greater ease, that a laborious operation may be wholly dispensed with, toes for two seasons thistles are deor that there may be less danger to the stroyed. In Great Britain many persons use them for edible greens, before maturing crop from winds or other natof method The ural agencies. training cabbage comes.RICHARD BAKER, JR. is the a largely by vineyardist adopted edor of result of personal preference Monument to the Potato. A curious ucation, although soil and variety are monument has been discovered in the of the important factors in the selection of a dense undergrowth eystem. The health and vigor of the Brandhai, in the Upper Hartz. It is a vine are rarely affected by the method granite block, about 7 feet high, resting in which it is trained, and although on a stone pedestal, and on an iron tabsome system of training must be adoptlet attached to it is the following ined in every vineyard, still altogether scription: the y'cir 1747, the Here, too much weight has been laid by most first trials were made with the cultivahorticultural writers upon the peculiar tion of the potato. The German peasmerits of the various systems, while the ant at the time did not take Kindly to actually ruinous effects of bad pruning the potato plant on introduction to the have not always been sufficiently emcountry. It had, however, a great friend in the king, Frederick II., who was conphasized. A vine properly trained desirable, but a properly pruned vino vinced of its value, but who was obliged is essential to the highest success. The to use forcible measures to get the peoimportance of this subject necessitates ple of Pomerania and Silesia to plant a somewhat detailed statement of the it. Ex. principles which are vitally connected Why is a womans husband less dear with the proper pruning of the vine. to her than her husband's wife? foun as serve also the These principles first-cla- wide-awa- ss ke , rule-of-thu- e; two-fift- so-call- ed i- Aylesbury Dock V. Pekin. As I am often in receipt of letters .oncerning the Aylesbury Ducks, I wish to say at the beginning that they are the champions for feathers. Experience has taught me this. For ten years I have been engaged in duck breeding and have handled nearly all varieties. The Cayuga is a good duck, hut being black, is objected to by some. The dark pin feathers give them a bad ap- pearance when they are prepared for market. Y'et the Cayuga takes on fat well, and I think no duck is better if a nice roast be desired. I see that Mr. James Rankin is giving his Pekins quite a boost, as being the only ducks that are fit for broilers, or for quick growth when it is desired to put them on the market at an early age, and he says that there is no breed good enough to cross them with. This country is full of Mr. Rankins Imperial Pekins. I have had fifty or more of them myself for a long time. But I have disposed of the last of them, and think that I will never own another. I will agree with Mr. Rankin when he says that there is nothing fit to cross them on. I am sure that I would not like to ruin any of my breeds by crossing them with the Pekins. The Pekin is all right to sell by weight when you do get one fat, as they are of large frame. But they are slow to take on fat. But to get the feathers fit for dress is where the pinch comes. Every lady in the land will tell you that the little duck is better for feathers than the Pekin. When the Pekin feathers are ripe they are as coarse as hen feathers, and there are about as i The t'Hr-scf frica. Major Lium.'i, the African evplorer, declares that tie t.ur ir. flic in Africa is an utititig ., .1 curse, and calls cf II igland, upon the got err some to md feme Germany l';:.r.e t ill it t:rne effectuagreement vl.ff-of the iiriortation ally prrl.i'rlL liquors. . ni-a- ts u j few of them. On the other hand, the Aylesbury ducks are good layers, take good cars of their young, are hardy and nearly as large as the Pekins. Their feathers AN OPEN LETTER TO MOTHERS. We are in the courts our rff-to the exclusne i sc .f tilt won! and FI l'CHKiZ S CAST OKI A. as our Trade Mark I, Dr. Samuel Pitcher, of liyanms. Massachusetts. was the originator of PITCHER'S CASTOUIA, the same th..t has borne and docs now lx ar the st. nature of CHAS. H FLETC'HEIt on wrapptr. This is the eiry original "PIT! HER S CASTOUIA which has been Used in tae bonus of .he mothers of America for over thirty yt ars. Look carefully at the wrapper and see that it Is the kind you have always bought,' and has tho signature of CHAS. H. FLETCIIEK on the Wrapper. No one has authority from me to use mv name except The Centaur Company, of which Chas IL Fletcher is President. March 8, SAMUEL PITCHER, M. D. asM-rtinr- ht fac--iin- SAIZFK'S CRGslS AND CI.OtEKS. Are warranted, 'lhey produce! We are the largest growers in America. Lowest prices. Seed Potatoes only $1.50 per barrel. Big farm seed catalogue with clover and train samples (worth $10.00 to get a start) sent you by the John A. Salzer Seed Go., La Cros.e Wis., upon receipt of l('n and this notice, w.a.m. lltmtli from Irink. After running over the statistics ot death from drink, published in the various countries, after attending for some years the clinique of the great Parisian hospitals, after consulting the registry of cases admitted to homes, one becomes perfectly convinced that alcoholic poisoning is a more muder-ou- s plague, perhaps, than the great epidemics which at different epochs have devastated humanity. The pest, the cholera, the yellow fever, break out suddenly end decimate a village, a province, a whole country, but their Alpassage is transitory in essence. G. Dr. no holiday. coholism takes Marty. Seven Kentucky colonels were quaran Did you ever know a man to kill a littl6 tiued in Alabama recently, and it was bear or catch a little iisli ! dry tov, u, too. Calamities of Liquor. It has been said that greater calamities are inflicted on mankind by intemperance than by the three great historical scourges war, pestilence and famine. This is true for us, and it Is the measure of our discredit and disW. E. Gladstone in the House grace. A Perfect Type of the Highest Order of Excellence in Manufacture. " of Commons. Breakfast The older a man gets, tho more of a iool he thinks a bov is. Why is a man who is really good usually looking so sad ? are first-clafor the purposes for Headache Quickly Cured. which such feathers are desired. They never fails, 5c have a heavy, thick coat of feathers Dr. Davis' which ripen up evenly and which are in Ulysses S. Grant is a very easy to pick. But they are un- Kansas City. like the Pekin ducks in that they must for Fifty Cents. have a pond or pool to swim in. Show Guaranteed t baeeo habit cure, makes weak me a duck or goose that does not care men strong, blood pure. 50.:. il. All druggists much for water and I will show you You may lose your temper, but others a bird that has poor feathers. Now, 1 do not wish to injure the business of will find it. Mr. Rankin, but if the Pekin duck is Star Tobacco Is the leading brand of fit for anything more than to sell on the world, because it is the best. the market like a fat pig I do not know In the number of murders Italy leads Euwhat it is. II. c. HUNT. rope; in the number of suicides Russia is Tazewell county, Illinois. ahead. ss Anti-Headac- grain-weigh- Utilizing: the Dandelion Harvest. The following is from the National Stockman and Farmer: Question We have in this locality a good deal of dandelion that comes early in the spring and is splendid for the bees to build up on. But they frequently store a surplus from it that is not desirable honey. Could I, by keeping off the surplus arrangements, induce them to swarm earlier, so they will fill the hive from the dandelion, and thereby be ready to store the surplus from white clover? Would the swarm be likely to be as strong as if they were allowed to store a surplus before swarming? A. S. W. Answer You can do something toward inducing earlier swarming by giving the bees less room. But if they swarm early because theyre crowded you can easily see that If they had more room and didnt swarm they would become stronger, and so would throw off heavier swarms. Probably It would be a little difficult to get the bee3 to swarm so early that the swarm would fill up their brood combs with enough dandelion honey so the clover honey would all go into the sections. But you might compass your purpose in a little different way. Give the queen all the room she will occupy during dandelion harvest, either by putting a second story under the hive, or by taking away from the hive combs filled with dandelion honey, replacing them with empty combs or frames filled with foundation. That would give you strong colonies and strong swarms, and when the swarms were hived you could give them the extra combs of dandelion honey, and that would be practically the same as if they should swarm a little earlier and fill up on dandelion honey themselves. Impending Russian Famine. As a result of the short wheat crop in Russia a famine is threatened in several districts. Statistics lately issued leave no doubt that about fourteen governments will this winter suffer severely. In the famine of 1891 twenty governments were affected, including those which suffer this year. The preliminary statistics of the harvest of 1897 show a deficiency in rye, wheat, oats and barley of one thousand million poods compared with the good yield ol The last two years have also 1894. been below the average, and in addition to the hay crop other cattle foods, as well as potatoes, give a very poor return this year. As the result, the peasants must sell or kill their cattle and horses, leaving themselves absolutely helpless. It is further noted that this autumn has been so dry that in many districts the seeds, which should have been sown by this time, are either not put in the ground or give small hope of a satisfactory yield. These preliminary figures are based on returns from a thousand correspondents in all parts of the empire. English Exchange. Do not feed freshly slaked lime to fowls, It Is too strong. Absolutely Pure, Delicious, Nutritious. ...Costs less Ban BE CENT a Cup.. Be sure that you get the Genuine Article, made at DORCHESTER, MASS, by WALTER BAKER & Established CO. Ltd. 1780. THE RECORDS SHOW CURES OF THE USE OF BY ST. JACOBS INFLAMMATORY OIL OF CHRONIC CRIPPLES AND OF CASES. THERE'S NO DENYING, IT CURES. Every Package of Schillings Best tea is a sample. Your money back if you dont like it. 603 THERE IS SCIENCE IN NEATNESS. BE WISE AND USE Ij ( 1 s m THE BOVELO. 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