Show grafting 11 As the time will wili soon be here when grafting is in lri order we repeat our former advice that every farmer should do his hla own grafting it is a very earsy easy operation when once understood and this is readily done by seeing it done A sharp penknife pen knife and a good fine saw are indispensable splitting the stalk so BO that the bark shall not be bruised and shaping the scion wedge fashion both w ways nys ays preserving also the bark uninjured and placing the km tio of the wood of both stock and scion exactly together so that the sap can In gle there is no danger of failure if properly waxed we ive make a shoulder ia to the graft draft and think it adds adda to td the certainty of success though probably it weakens it we prefer also two eyes or buds to a graft and would rather have llave ionly only one than more than two oue oile year old wood should always be used when it can be obtained as aa it is more certain to take and grows more vigorously and the graft should be cut from bearing branches we wish to remind these those preparing gralli grafting 19 wax that we have found four par pay ts of t resin one part dart cart of beeswax and one part beef tallow to be the best bea pro portions melt M them to together h e r in A a s skillet k I 1 I 1 which is the besta besto be 8 ye 0 a if tin fin n cup and mix well tt itta Itla bould should remain in the vessel and be used need as needed twenty or thirty seiona belons can ean be waxed with ode one ono heating up when much grafal grafting ag is to be done a little fire for heating the wax should bo made on the spot between two bricks pr or stones atones we have he been 1 en various preparations preparation S for making grafting wax and we believe we have tried them all but pieter prener bur ur own appl applying ing it warm or hot does no injury to the graft the object to attain in the proportion is that the wak wax will not hot crack ernek in cool dry weather or run in warm weather if however upon trial different proportions b be required the forgoing can be al altered err ear e ad though after using them in several ways we have come back to these ex |