Show FOR FARMERS iri AND GAMERS GARDENERS I 1 FRUIT STEALING has commenced in earnest wherever fruit ia is sufficiently ripened to be at all palatable we were not a little disappointed on friday last ath dinst when on going to look at some choice apricots apri cota in mr G D watts garden we learned that on the tb thursday u ay previous w while hil hll e mr watt was at fast meeting the tree free was st stripped tipped of its ita delicious fruit oily otly oily olly a few small gren greem ones remaining on the saine same night the de predators came and not content with taking the worthless apricots left in the mo mornin morning ruin villainously broke down several of the main branches of the tree this tree was grown from english seed came into bearing this season ana in size were superior to any we have yet seen what would be the best mode of checking chec king kirg this evil we hardly know down east various methods are adopted thoy thol in some parts fruit is so plentiful that all one wants to eat may be obtained by simply asking for it i and even here where fruit is more rare there is not a who would not gratuitously supply those who are unable to purchase rather than have his fruit robbed from rom him and his trees wantonly broken down but it if any engage 1 I in this practice from sheer maliciousness to chuckle over and vaunt about it afterwards it ia is too gross gros a to go unpunished A former acquaintance of ours in the east used to ingeniously dose the miscreants who pilfered his choice early fruit with which to our certain knowledge 11 not of course from our own personal experience operated most effectually whether such doses would prove as efficacious here we have serious doubts the Amed canA agriculturist gives the following account of a ruse invented b by y a down east yankee to secure his bis fruit from these depredations A tall grees green yankee accosted me at a country falej fair having baying a alne looking apple in hl hla hia hand band and begged me mo to tell its name it I 1 could I 1 tasted it but shade of pomona of all the sour apples I 1 ever ate this capped the climax it was worse than trian or four sour plums or unripe persimmons after I 1 had regained my iny composure 2 I 1 ventured to ask what might be HIS nis name for this invaluable fruit whereupon with a sort bort otsa otga of satirical smile stealing over his otherwise sober features he replied wal geow stranger strangers the most useful apple on my hull bull farm I 1 call it the yankee apple appie cause it cant be beat it look i BO so good any yet Is so barnal sour gour that I 1 use it only to grat on all the lower limbs of my lay appie apple trees standing near the road the upper limbs I 1 put to Greening Greenl greeni ngi il 8 baars and such like good apples geow the boys scein sich good lookin opples handy bandy jump the fence seize the fust lust fair one oue they can reach reachy take one bite but I 1 atter alter one bite they never naven wail wait to take another but run right ofir coffas as tast fast as legs can cin carry themy them to deacon simmons orchard to get one of his bis good baldvins baldwins baid Bald wins to take the sour soar taste out of their months lly ily orchard has a bortul tepu reputation tation tallon with the generation and sa so I 1 save my fruit now it 1 this ere Is riot not a very useful apple IM id like to know what Is when all other remedies fail fall a little cold lead is sure ture to be effectual if rightly administered the above however is not the only instance of fruit stealing that we have heard of fruit growers will it not pay to guard your premises inasmuch as there is such a reckless disregard of all rights manifested by a certain class in our midst As robbing together with the usual catalogue of concomitant crimes seem to be the ilia order of the day our exhortation unto all is WATCH the pear mania is said to be raging razing in portions of the states stales its culture being very profitable gewant we want to see this excellent fruit more generally cultivated here tb the e only specimens of this fruit that we have seen in this territory were in the gardens of diess Aless rs W woodruff andr and cahoon on quince stocks the pear succeeds well at the east and this would probably be the most profitable use that could be made of the quince trees growing in our midst as they do not seem to bear fruit at all As to the treatment of the pear we may have moie more to say hereafter wine making la Is thought by some to be unprofitable in this country because labor is BO so much higher than in europe but it is stated by good authority that win wins raising is at this instant the most profitable branch of agriculture in Anie anle america rici 11 the cultivation of the grape in clil california bids fair ere long to transcend in importance the working of the gold mines of that state A letter from cincinnati says that the grape vines of that re relon region realon ion lon have this season had the fullest blossoms known since the vineyards were planted N Chloro tani fari says a writer in the boston medical journal has been successfully given to horses the performance of difficult burg turg ical operations |