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Show FIELD FARM AND GARDKN. SOt:ND IDEAS OS 1'Ait.MINa. The following views on farming were thrown out fiy Mr. Greeley in his ppeech at Baltimore, and they so entirely cover the ground of successful success-ful culture that we give them a place (or the benefit of our readers : 1. That the area under cultivation should bo within the limits of the capital and labor employed; or in others words, that on impoverished eoils no one should cultivate more land than he can enric.i with maouie and fertilizers, be it one acre or twenty- 2. That there Bhould le alaw compelling com-pelling every man to prevent his stock from depredating 011 hia neighbor's neigh-bor's fields. 3. That green soil is more economi-i economi-i cal than loose pasturage. 4. That deep tillage is essential to good farming.; 5. That the muck he)p is the farmer's far-mer's bank, and that everything should be addeti to it that will enlarge it, and increase at the eame tiruo, its fertilizing properties, 6. That no farmer or planter should drpend upon ono staple alone, hut should secure hi nisei i against serious loss in bad seasons by diversity ot products. A GOOD FEBTILIZER. The tScicittiJic American Eays farm-era farm-era hrve to pay a liit.'h price for an article which, with a little skill, they could make themselves during the Winter months or on rainy days, when they have little else to iio, and gives a recipe ior a cheap fertilizer successfully used by farmers in Pennsylvania Penn-sylvania and Ohio. The mixture is especially recommended for potatoes and wheat by a farmer who has tried it, and who says he has used it with success on corn and other products. It is as follows: Take 1,000 pound of good mold, sieve and screen it to get thegravtj out and make it as tue as possihh; then spread on a lloor,add 100 pounds sulphate ammonia, 100 pounds common com-mon salt, and mix with a rake; when thoroughly mixed, add twe .ty-five pounds pearl ash and twenty-two poundn sulphate of soda, mix well; then add 400 pounds ground bone, twenty-five pounds best Peruvian guano, and 15Q pounds ground plus-. tpr. Mis the whole thoroughly, throw in a pile for forty-eiyht hours, and it is hi for use. If it ia lo be used for potatoes in districts, where potato bugs are numerous, live gal-lone gal-lone sulphuric acid may be sprinkled over the mass. The caution is added that the acid must not be used in a. confined place, as the fumes aro injurious in-jurious tQ health, and that if it is spilled on the floor, water must be thrown on it, as the mixture generates gener-ates great heat. , THE VA.M1LY FltUlT GARDKN, it iu to he hoped that the number Of farm residences (we can hardly call them rural homes), without a family fruit garden, are rapidly diminishing, and will grow beautifully less until a farmer shall no more think of dis-spensing dis-spensing with this important adjunct of the complete home, than he would with a spring or well of water for drinking and culinary purposes. A good fruit garden is not only a luxury of the highest order, but is a necessity to the complete nourishment of a family.JA family can exist on a diet of bread and meat and potatoes, but to bo nourished ao as to fully develop the entire nature, aHectional, intellectual and animal, a rangs of diet must be employed, broad as the providence ol nauirc. A family fruit garden may be so laid out and planted as to be one of the greatest ornamente of tho homestead. home-stead. Unlike the front lawn.it should be made of Btraight lines, and parallelograms paral-lelograms to facilitate ita culture, but care may he exorcised in selecting line specimens of trees in pruning them into proper shape, and in keeping keep-ing tho vines, capes and bushes of the Kinulior fruits pruned and trained in an attractive way. Trellises for grapes and BtakeR tor caneB may be made neat and ornamental, or unsightly and repelling. In arranging the different dif-ferent species of fruits, the taher growing grow-ing should be planted in the rear,nd the shorter in front, so that the garden gar-den may be taken in at a glanco. Tho walks and bordei'smny ho seeded down in Eran and kept short. The latter should be broad enough to admit of tho horses turning upon them when cultivating tho garden. To add to the elluct, graoeiul evergreens, ever-greens, or attractive low growing deciduous trees might he planted at the corners of the plots, and a belt of evergreens along the Dorthera side of the garden. In many others ways that will readily suggest themselves to tho tasteful reader.the fruit garden may be made to minister to the ici-! ici-! thetic r.s well as to the sensuous natureof man. The spil of the fruit garden should, bo good, deep, retentive, naturally or I artificially drained, and worked up dfep and fine beforo plant ng. A eooil manure for fruit, ia a compost of swamp muck, ashes and lime. Rank vegetable manures Bhould not be plowed in so as to come in contact with the roots, in their crude state, but, if used at all should he applied an a mulch, after the trees are planted. plant-ed. In small places where all the fruit is to bo contained in the fruit garden, dwarf apples, peara and cherries may bo admitted, but on a farm, apples acd cherries should be remitted to the orchard. Peaches may be trained low, and kept shoitened in, thus occupying oc-cupying but little BDace. A fruit garden, gar-den, then, designed to grow all of the fruits required by the family, would contain apples, peaches, pears, cherries, quinces, plums, Hpricota, grapes, currantSj gooseberries, blackberries, black-berries, raspberries and strawberries thirteen different species enough lo have one or more kinds ot fresh fruit upon the table, every day in the year. A partial list of some of the most drsirable kinds of the diflwent species of apricots and plums, and of the small fruits. Apricots Must be protected from the curculio tn succeed. Breda, Early (Jolden, Large Early, Moor-park. Moor-park. Plums Coe's Golden Drop, Green Gace, Imperial Gagp, Jellerson, Lawrence's Law-rence's Favorite, Smith's Orleans, Bradshaw, Keine Claude do Bavay, and Washington. Grapes Hartford, Concord, Creve-' liiitf, Delaware, Diana, Salem, Wilder Wil-der and perhaps Croton. Curran ts lied Du tch , Versailes Albert, Victoria, White grape. Gooseberries Dorchester, 'ilson'a Early, KilLatinny, Lawton and perhaps per-haps Snyder. K asp berries The Davison's, Doo-1 little, Mammoth Cluster, Clark, Hud-Kiver Hud-Kiver Antwerp, and perhaps Ganar-argua Ganar-argua Hybrid. Strawberries Nicanor, Wilson, Charles Downing, Green Prolific, Triumph de Gand, Jucunda, and Kentucky. A family fruit garden, filled with such fruits, thriving and productive, would be a blessing to the whole family, and, with the exception of the family sitting-room, the dearest place on earth to the children. It is surprising that the intelligent, prosperous farmers will live ou Irom year to year with such luxuries within with-in easy reach, and yet not put forth their hands to reach them. We cannot can-not help regarding it as a neglect of duty to their families, and a lack of appreciation of the bounties which a beneficient God has offered them. Rural Homn. |