Show 13 L 7 71 THE OLD earm FARM HOUSE BY MRS L L DEMING at the foot of the hill near the old red mill in a quiet shady spot spots just peeping through halt half bid hid view stands standa a little moss grown cot and straying through the open door the tiie sunbeams sun beams play on the sanded foor floor the easy chair chairs all patched with care Is placed by the hearth stone with watching grace la the tle aare fire place the evergreens ever greers greens are arg ari strewn and pictures pl cures hang on the whitened wall and the old clock ticks in the cottage hall more lovely still on the window sili till the T dew flew eyed flo fio flow reta ret rest I 1 while the leave leaves on the moss grown baws the martin bands builds her and all day long thi th bummer summer breze brez Is whispering love to the bending trees tree s r over the door all covered oer oser with a sack or of dark green baize balze lays a musket olda old oid whose worth la Is told folds A relic of other days and the powder pouch and the hunters hunters bunters horn borry nave have hung hang beside for or many a morn vive yive years have fled with nol noi noiseless seless geless tread like fairy dreams away and left in their flight all shorn shonn ot of his might A father old and kay gray rray I 1 and the soft wind plays snow white hair As the old man bleeps india in his easy chair in ln at the door doors on the sanded floor floors light fairy footsteps glide and a maiden fair with flarea hair I 1 kneels by the old mans maas side an old oak oat by an angry storm while the ivy clings to 10 its trembling form native versus foreign grapes the american agriculturist for july jul jui which vye nye e received by the last eastern mail contains the following truthful article articles which we copy for or the special perusal of those who are such ardent advocates of almost anything 0 that comes from abroad and who are somewhat apt to lightly esteem however excellent whatever is produced at home the question is frequently asked us why all this ado about raising native grapes when there are foreign varieties already tested and proved to be ot of the ery ery cry finest ityl the native grapes with hardly an exception are poor things fit only for clowns and coarse grained people why not take the delicate and refined grapes which europe offers us and then to enforce this appeal we ave are occasionally shown a bunch ot of black hamburg or sweet water or royal loyal muscadine which has been grown in the open air and the question is put again in a sort of imperious tone why not plant these in preference to your coarse foxy natives to all of which we humbly reply that the facts acts are not as our questioner assumes under favorable circumstances a foreign grape may inay succeed in our climate for a few years say two three or five brit after that and even before it is liable to be destroyed by mildew or other diseases but a native grape will with fair treatment flourish fifty or of a hundred years in full health most foreign grapes too pretender are tender and need protection protections from the frosts of winter A good way to convince any one about this matter is to show bim him two lots of 0 vines standing side by side sides he ilie one native the other foreign and lie he will generally find the foliage of the first bright and healthy while that of the latter is yellow and falling orf off and the fruit fluit crac erac cracked kedor or covered with mold arid and here we ve are reminded of the inquiry of another correspondent viz iz whether if cuttings vere were taken from foreign vines which have been long browing crowing in this country and so become they would not be as dard bardy yand and healthy as natives our Oui friend be referred to the simple fact that as a general rule all vines of foreign extract extraction ton if grown in the open air of as this country soon become the prey of 0 mildew they machold out a while but soon succumb they canam be relied on so that you can not get to start wit hand if you did can ran not change their constitution it is the ofin ofanio opinion io of some that mildew is itself atlant tie growing upon the vine the roots penetrating the caries canes absorbing their vitality and presenting thir their healthy action salon as this pa lasite parasite can be kept off the foreign kinds will do tolerably well native americana americans have llave so io firm bark and wood that the mildew can not grow aswell aa well weil upon them but one word more with our first inquirer yon yoa misstate the case when ahen you say that our native grapes ate are coarse and unfit for refined mouths months to eat this may have been partly true many years ago but it is not now the diana delaware rebecca isabella catawba etc when well vell grown arid fully ripened bulfer suffer nothing in comparison with an equal number of european grapes and we are likely to improve even upon these now there is no need of trying to grow the uncertain certain and sickly bicky foreign kinds we could wish that every gardener pardoner would plant a f few ew seeds annually of his best grapes and so have a race of new sorts continually coming forward out of them all we should get some important additions to our stock of superior grapes one good native like the delaware would ie be worth fifty of the green milky and delicate exotics exotica the time is not far distant we confidently believe when it may be said of our northern hill sides the vine too here her curling tendrils shoots hangs out her clusters glowing to the southy south and scarcely wishes for a warmer sky sty the su suggestion L estion contained in the last paragraph we consider valuable but little care 1 has hitherto been given to propagation 0 of the grape from seed we are of opinion that 9 good and perchance more hardy stocks than the original might be raised from the seed of the california varieties now generally cultivated here so far as we have been informed regarding a the success attending the introduction of choice hardy varieties of the grape from the eastern states to say nothing of importing exotics exotica very viry little of an encouraging 0 character has ye yet t been accomplished the concord the catawba the isabella and other well known and highly recommended hardy varieties have been forwarded here in airtight air tight cans and when opened have appeared green fresh and lively and being planted have in many instances put forth shoots but from some cause or causes have subsequently withered and died we doubt not however thai tha there is yet a possibility of success there are a few vines of these varieties growing in several gardens in this city whether they will prove as hardy here and as thrift thrifty y and full fuli bearing 0 as in the east remains to be seen whatever success may in future attend the introduction and growth of eastern grapes in in utah to us it seems that there is a profitable and aad reasonably sure field now open for the operation of the horticulturist as well as the amateur in the propagation of the grape from seed while cuttings are used the variety remains true to its kind but from seed other varieties perhaps hardier and of better flavor may be raised are not the delaware the catawba the concord the isabel and the hundreds of others of ike like precious names the choicest plants selected from an almost innumerable number of seed seedlings lins t what then is there to hinder utopians from having as many choice varieties of the grape as the inhabitants of other sections of the union soap suds the value of soa soap P sud sias an article to be used in irrigating plants pap jap appears pears not to be generally appreciated sods contain the food of plants in a state of solution and when applied its effects are more immediate than those produced by any other stimulant that can be used for irrigating gardens especially during the summer it is unequalled unequal led but when used for this purpose it is advisable to let it stand till it becomes putrid as it will in that condition act with greater energy and prove much more nutritive and salutary in its effects upon the plants if I 1 your garden beds are infested by insects fresh suds from the laundry if sprinkled over them will prove highly beneficial in arresting their ravages 0 it should be applied early in the morning mornine a to culmiferous vegetables and perhaps the early morning is the best time to apply it to all garden plants generally working ot of butter batter mrs sirs II 11 jessup of chautauqua I 1 cou county rity N Y writes writer to the american d as follows I 1 after the butter is removed from the churn put pub water in the working bo bowl to rinse off the lub lut buttermilk in another d ish dish chave have cold water and arid a linen cloth free from lint wring the cloth out dry spread the butter batter out with the ladle and press the cloth gently on the butter and remove all the drops of moisture continue this process ss until the butter is ready for salting keep the water clean for rinsing the cloth often any one trying this will re ve surprised to find bow much it facilitates the preparation of butter to salt line tine we clip the fol foi following lowin from the california farmer farmers our irish friends frienda can boast of some most glendia s splendid stock the sale of the live stock of the e late charles james knox esq jackson hall cole raine toek place there oct when very high prices were obtained the fine cow carnation carnations calved march 1855 broue brought bt guineas one year old white rose hose 50 guineas and a calf calved on the of may 1859 named pocata Po cata sold at I 1 1108 los ios guineas these were prime animals but the rest of the stock went at proportionately high rates by the interest they take in stock we do not wonder ve ITS hear bear so much about irish bulls bulis |