GOOD AND BAD FRUIT. The remark is often made, that "it is as easy to raise good fruit as bad." This refers to the varieties propagated and planted out. In other words, it is as easy to graft a pear tree with a Seckel and Sheldon, as with a choke pear, or a Colmar d'Aremberg. We may as well raise the Swaar and Northern Spy as the worst imaginable sour and astringent cider apple, so far as the occupation of the ground is concerned. A frost or chicken grapevine will bear no more than a Delaware or Rebecca; a horse plum grows no more readily than a Lawrence, Gage or McLaughlin. Hence all the care taken by pomologists and horticultural societies to import, gather up, prove, examine, and select the finest and most valuable sorts; fortunes have been invested in experiments of this kind, and the expenditure has been well repaid. But this is not the only care and labor needed to obtain the best fruit-if it came without further attention, we should rate it too cheaply, and not sufficiently appreciate the blessing. In travelling through the country, and visiting the grounds of fruit raisers, and examining the exhibitions of pomological societies, a very marked difference is observed in the same variety as grown on different grounds. In one case it is small and poor flavored; in another it is large, beautiful, rich and excellent. The owner of the poor fruit is much disappointed in what he expected to see, and considers himself as “badly humbugged" by the nurseryman who sold him the trees. The successful cultivator takes his specimens to a fair, and sweeps off the premiums with their excellent quality and magnificent appearance. Now the question at once arises, what is the cause of this difference? And it is just such questions as we like to hear asked. 1. The first, and perhaps the most prominent cause, is cultivation. Place a tree in grass land-or give it no cultivation-let the surface become baked hard, like flagging, or allow weeds to cover the surface-and the tree will have a feeble growth, and the fruit, as a necessary consequence, will partake of the condition of the tree. A feeble tree will, of course, bear small fruit. Hence one reason why young trees often produce larger and finer specimens than old and stunted trees. Cultivation alone has often changed both size and quality in a surprising degree. Some years ago a few trees of the Seckel pear were observed to bear very small fruit; they were then standing in grass, when the whole surface was subjected to good cultivation. The next crop had pears at least triple in size. A St. Ghislain tree, on another place, in grass land, bore some of its first crops, and disappointment was felt at the small size and poor quality of the pears. A herd of swine afterwards accidently rooted up the grass and reduced the land to a mellow surface. The pears that year were greatly increased in size, and so much improved in flavor that they would not have been recognized as the same. The Duchess Angouleme, when large and well grown, is an excellent fruit. When small, it is perfectly worthless. T. G. Yeomans of Walworth, N. Y., who has been eminently successful in its cultivation, and obtained $35 per barrel for it, has found high culture of vital importance, and has remarked that when the specimens do not weigh over four ounces they are no better than a raw potato; and this, we think, has generally been found true. There is no question whatever that this fine pear, as well as many other fruits, have been placed on the rejected list by some planters for want of good management, and deficient or no cultivation. 2. There is another requisite for obtaining good fruitalmost as important as the other, and in some respects more so. This is thinning the fruit on the tree. And yet it is scarcely ever practiced. The farmer who takes great care not to have more than four stalks of corn in a bill, and who would consider it folly to have twenty, never thins any of the twenty peaches on a small shoot, and they are crowded, small and flavorless. The gardener be called an ignoramus by his neighbor who at the same who would allow twenty cucumber vines in a hill, would time suffers a dwarf pear to bear five times as many specishould attempt to summer ten cows on an acre of pasture, mens as it could profitably mature. The herdsman who is not greatly unlike the orchardist who allows his apple trees to bear more than the trees could profitably support; and ten starved cattle would be a counterpart of the numerous stunted specimens of fruit. E. Moody of Lockport, a very successful fruit marketer, lately stated before the Fruit Growers' Society at Rochester, that he had found great profit in thinning the fruit on his peach trees; that while he had much fewer specimens in consequence of thinning, he had about as many bushels; the larger peaches could be picked in far less time; and while his fine crop sold readily at a dollar and a half per basket, his neighbor, who did not practice thinning, found it diffcult to sell his for thirty-seven to fifty cents. President Wilder said, in his recent address before the American Pomological Society, "One of the best cultivators in the vicinity of Boston has reduced this theory to practice, with the happiest effect, in the cultivation of the pear. He produces ever year superior fruit, which commands the highest price. Some have doubted whether this practice can be made remunerative, except in its application to the finer fruits. But another cultivator, who raises an annual crop of the best apples, assures us that the secret of his success is the thinning of the fruit, and he has no doubt of the economy of the practice." These two practices-good cultivation and thinning the crop-are the foundation of the difference between such superb and magnificent specimens of the pear as graced the extended tables, and densely filled the vast hall occupied by the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, and such miserable fruit as we sometimes see borne on the grassgrown, weed-choked, mice-gnawed, sickly-leaved, forsaken trees on the slipshod farmer's grounds-planted out with hardly the expectation, but rather with a sort of dim hope that they would grow and take care wholly of themselves. One of the best things that a horticultural or pomological society could do, would be to place conspicuously on exhibition a collection of such splendid fruit as might be raised under all the favorable influences of good culture and judicious thining; and another collection beside it with all the marks of small size and scabbiness which might be expected from utter neglect. One collection should be marked "FRUIT RAISED UNDER THE EYE OF INDUSTRY AND VIGILANCE," and the other labelled, "FRUIT ALLOWED TO RAISE ITSELF.' Pruning should not be omitted as an important requisite, but so far as its influence on the fruit is concerned, it comes uuder the same head as thinning, and is indeed a useful auxiliary to the latter. A peach tree may generally have its fruit readily and easily thinned by cutting back; and an apple tree that is pruned at the top by thinning in from the outside, (instead of trimming and thinning up from below, and leaving the outside as thick as ever,) may have the proper number of specimens easily TREATMENT OF CREAM IN WINTER. controlled. Or DEEP OR SHALLOW PANS.-In order to determine with certainty the results of setting milk for cream in deep or shallow pans, I have made several experiments, and, although on a small scale, they have been made with accuracy and care. Orchardists have got to take hold of this matter. chards are increasing in number, competition will arise, purchasers are improving in discrimination, and will not be satisfied to pay much for poor stuff. Shrewd orThe milk from two cows was mixed at each milking, chardists, who know how to secure a permanent demand strained into common-size pans, and allowed to stand 48 for their products, as well as to obtain the highest prices, hours. At this time the cream became hard, and was will be first to adopt these modes of manufacturing the skimmed off wholly free from milk. The milk had finest article and unless others fall in they will be left in been measured in each pan when strained, and when the lurch. The next twenty years, if the world moves on skimmed the cream was measured and weighed, but I do as it has done, will witness an astonishing education in the not place full reliance upon the weight, as our common steelyards were used. Believing that temperature has efmasses, in a knowledge of excellent fruit, and in the dis- fect on the milk, it was kept as equal as possible each day. crimination between a poor and a fine article. If they No fire was kept in the room during the night, and I estican be supplied with the latter, they will buy and con- mate the average temperature of the room at 46°. The sume; if nothing but the former can be had, they will re- temperature from 9 A. M. to 9 P. M., was 65°. The posiject it with disdain. This will become true to a great ex-tion of the pans was similar, being on the same shelf. The following is the result: tent, sooner or latter, and the raisers of fruit for market must trim their sails accordingly. I find the following in Dr. J. G. Cooper's report on the mammals collected in the Explorations and Surveys for Railroad from the Mississippi to the Pacific Ocean. The survey was made under the direction of the late Gen. I. I. Stevens, who fell at Chantilly on Monday Sept. 1, while gallantly leading his brigade in a bayonet charge upon the rebels. In pans containing 1 quart, the cream measured 1 gill. do. do. do. do. do. 2 quarts, do. 3 do. do. do. 2 gills. do. 24 do. do. 3 do. do. do. 4 do. do. do. 5 do. do. 3% do. The same experiments were tried twice successively with the same results. For another experiment the milk was allowed to stand 72 hours, but without any addition to the measure of cream. The question will readily occur, whether there would be any difference in the per centage of butter in either of the above experiments. This I cannot say, but I am positive in my own mind it is in favor of the milk in shallow pans. I have experimented in various ways in the treatment of milk and butter-making, and have come to the following positive conclusions, viz: Milk should be strained imThe Dr. says, "In 1853, during the small pox epidemic mediately after milking, and that two quarts is sufficient among the tribes north of the Columbia, the natives, for one pan. No more cream is obtained from milk which frightened, left their dead unburied. These were devour-has been heated, than from that which has been kept in a ed by the Prairie wolves, who shortly became afflicted with a terrible skin disease, in which the hair fell off, and the whole surface of the body became covered by scabs and putrid sores, which, irritated by the sun, wind and sand, were a dreadful annoyance to the miserable brutes, who undoubtedly perished in great numbers." CATTLE DISEASE IN VERMONT-SMALL POX AMONG THE 66 SHEEP IN GREAT BRITAIN. By notice in the Co. GENT. of 23d October, I learn that there is a fatal disease among cattle in Vermont," and that there is great danger in skinning the dead cattle or working the hides at the tannery. Such being the facts, the greatest caution should be used in the disposition of the animals after death. They should be deeply buried beyond the reach of dogs, swine, &c., as in all probability it would be death to all animals feeding upon the flesh of these dead creatures. By recent accounts from English papers we also learn that there is a fatal disease prevailing among many flocks of sheep in England. The disease is termed "small pox among sheep." Probaby dogs or other carnivorous animals feeding upon the carcass of sheep dying of small pox, it might have the same effect upon them that the feeding upon dead Indians by the prairie wolves had upon room of the proper temperature. Cream should be kept at the same temperature after being skimmed, as before, during cold weather; also it should be stirred twice a day, and a little salt stirred in two or three times while being gathered for a churning; this will prevent the white particles of curd seen in butter. Forty-eight hours is sufficient for the milk to stand before being skimmed, if proper treatment is pursued. For churning the cream should be warmed gradually. This, Mr. Editor, is in my humble opinion the best method of treating cream during the winter months; for summer my method is somewhat different. A FARMER'S WIFE in The Homestead. TURNIPS FOR MILCH COWS. Milo Smith of Northampton, in a communication to the Homestead, made the following statement: "We tried one of our best cows in milk recently, that was fed half a bushel of turnips a day in addition to her other feed, by weighing her milk carefully for one week. We then left off feeding the turnips, while her other feed was precisely the same. She dropped off on her milk from two to three quarts per day, and on returning the feed of turnips, she came back within three days to her full flow of milk. This difference in the quantity of milk, as we sell ours, makes the turnips worth from 15 to 18 cents per bushel, and I think they can be raised for much less than that." BOILS. A correspondent of the Prairie Farmer gives the following recipe to those suffering from one of Job's curses. It is intended for " finishing off" the bolis, after they have attained their heading: Take a glass bottle, fill with water as hot as the skin can bear to have near it, empty the same out, and apply the nose of the bottle to the wound while hot. In a second or two, such a rushing out of the causes of all this trouble will make short work of Mr. Boil. Of course, the buil should be ripe for discharge. Don't fret on account of your bankruptcy. Your creditors will do it for you. [For the Country Gentleman and Cultivator.] Wintering Cattle---Cut vs. Uncut Feed. MESSRS. EDITORS-I was a good deal interested during the past winter, in reading the articles in your valuable paper, on the subject of cutting feed. Upon this important point as on stabling, I am sorry to differ with such a practical and experienced agriculturist as JOHN JOHNSTON, Esq., and yet, as it regards the latter, if I had a small stock, and could arrange my sheds so as to shelter them perfectly, I do not think that we would differ very widely on that point. Even then, however, I should prefer the sheds enclosed, and a loose box for each animal. But with a large stock, and where you wish to keep as many as your room will accommodate, my judgment is that the most economical way, both for room and feed, is stanchions. Since my correspondence with "OLD HURRICANE," I have expected to see him, as he accepted my invitation to visit this good old Dutch town. I looked for him during last summer and autumn, but "could'nt see him," and have now almost given up his coming, but have not given up cutting stalks, although J. L. R. of Jefferson county, has come to the conclusion that he would not give a man his board for performing the labor of cutting stalks and straw for a large stock. He farther states that he has been in the habit of cutting much feed, but during the last winter he cut none at all, and he does not think that either himself or his cattle have been the gainers by cutting. In describing the feeding of his stock in a general way, he says he should think they had not consumed any more fodder, and with as little waste as when it was cut for them. ing it they contrive to get those "tasteless dry corn-butts " so coated that they eat them nearly all. From one stable of 30 cows I am confident we did not waste thirty baskets full per month. Now if J. L. R.'s cattle will eat stalks as clean as that without cutting, they will do more than ours; and although he is so weak in the "spinal column and animals that will eat cornstalks six feet long as clean withweaker in the faith," I would like him to show me the out cutting as they will when cut and crushed for them. I do not call the above high feeding, but our cows have been fed regularly-have had pure water twice a daythey have had no bedding, and the only mistake I have made is in not selling some of them for beef before they approached so near the time of calving. Many of them were good beef in May-at all events I am willing to compare stock with my friend J. L. R., and compute the cost per day of keeping them, or I will next winter start 10, 20, 30, 40, or 50 head of cows. I will feed cut feed by weight, and he shall feed long feed by weight-fix the price of hay, stalks, and straw--also of ground feed, and then carry them through to May 1st, and see who can do it the cheapest and have the best looking animals. KALABARAGH. FARM IMPROVEMENT-"L. W.," in the Boston Cultivator, mentions the case of a farm that, when bought by its present owner, "would not subsist summer and winter, more than six head of cattle, which will now keep thirty head and leave hay to sell besides." It has been made productive by using manure and peat compost, (so at least we understand his statement) and the draining and culti vation of swamps and waste land. If every farmer in like situation would invest in these improvements, their farms would soon double in productiveness and value. B. Now this is simply a wholesale denunciation of a system, which, having been tested by actual experiment, has DIGGING POTATOES LATE.-Editors Country Gent.— been proved to be both economical to the feeder and The practice of your Morristown, N. J., correspondent of beneficial to the animals fed. I am fully convinced, and am fully prepared to demonstrate that the same amount digging potatoes late, is also the practice here. It is of coarse fodder will feed nearly twice the number of cat-known that potatoes left in the hill till late, will lose all tle, after it is properly chaffed, that it will in its long their rotten ones. These will decay, and that rapidly, state; and with cornstalks alone it will do fully that, if and leave only sound ones, though it must be confessed not more. I wintered the past winter sixty-five cows, one that sound ones are few and far between some seasons. pair oxen, eight horses, two colts, and thirty-five ewes. From the time we commenced feeding, about the middle This year the crop is a good one, with few rotten ones: of November, to the first of March, we did not feed two and the rot is late. The peach-blows have just comtons of hay to the whole stock. They all eat cornstalks, menced to rot. F. G. Starkville, N. Y. cut and crushed by one of Hickok's large machines, and our cows continued to eat them up to the 9th day of May. CARE OF HORSES.-Believing that prevention is in all A good farmer told me the other day, that "stalks cases better than cure, one of the most eminent Veteriwould do pretty well to winter cows on, but they wouldn't do to spring them with." Now if J. L. R. is of that nary Surgeons in Scotland has been pointing out to farmopinion, I should be glad to show him the animals. I did ers some of the causes of disease and death among their not feed them on stalks only,-nor have I mixed meal horses. One of these might be taken into consideration with what he chooses to style this nearly worthless article by some in this country, and if due warning is taken, a of fodder, but I have given each cow that was being change of management would result. The cause of dismilked, a good mess of brewer's grains and four quarts of ease referred to, is turning out horses to pasture after buckwheat bran and canail ground together, and four quarts wheat bran (which was light,) per day. The wheat working all day, even when warm, and also whether the bran and grains I consider nearly worthless except for nights be wet or dry, cold or warm. milk. As soon as a cow was dried off, we took away her be often chilled, and are thus exposed to diseases of the grains and wheat bran, giving her cut stalks and four lungs, and to rheumatic ailment. quarts buckwheat feed, and then she would improve in condition. Horses must thus A. FOREIGN GRAPES IN THE OPEN AIR.-I have been tryDuring the winter while we were feeding nearly a hund-ing for 15 years to raise foreign grapes in the open ground, red baskets full of cut stalks per day, there was not an and have failed in pruning and protection all the time. average of five baskets full wasted. These stalks were not grown for fodder-they were nearly all cut up by the ground, and large stalks from which some good corn had been taken. Our method of feeding cornstalks is to have the mangers so divided that each animal has a separate box for its head. After they are in the stanchions and begin to eat, they can neither see nor be interfered with by their neighbors. The stalks are thrown in dry, and the bran for the mileh cows being wet, they receive their portion on the stalks. Of course they eat the bran first, but while eat This year I have succeeded. I have had 46 fine large bunches on one vine, the growth of last year. I have employed French, German and English gardeners to graft the foreign on the wild and common grapevine. They have all failed in my grounds. This spring I have succeeded as easily as on the apple. The only science is to know when to do it. Some time I may write these things out for you. J. C. J. Louisville, Ky. [We should be very glad to receive full details of the experience of our correspondent. Eps.] THE KERRY CATTLE. KERRY COW. Considerable attention has been attracted to this Irish breed, especially to the cows, as good milkers, hardy, light feeders, and well adapted to rough and scanty pas. tures. They are usually jet black in color, but not always; about the size of the Jerseys, of compact and symmetrical form, "combining the fore quarters of the Devon, with the hind quarters of the Durham." Of those imported a few years since, and shown with their descendants, at the recent Norfolk Show, the Boston Cultivator remarks as follows: "Of distinct breeds, there were on the ground seven of the Kerry herd of Arthur W. Austin of West Roxbury. The lot consisted of two imported cows, three yearlings and two calves. From a statement furnished by Mr. Austin, it appears that one of the cows has given sixteen quarts of milk a day, by actual measurement, the present season. Others in the herd have given nearly as much. The young stock have thriven well, and the whole herd show that they appreciate the advantages which this country affords them over the rough, bleak mountains of their native land." Hon. John Wentworth, writing to the Prairie Farmer of the same herd, says: "They are remarkably gentle, and their hair is uniformly very thick, showing their ability to withstand the severest winters without shelter. Mr. Austin has experimented with them upon different kinds of pastures and expresses the belief that they are emphatically the "poor man's cattle," yet it is likely that they will be monopolized by the rich for some time to come. Whilst I will say that they are exactly the breed of cattle for the mountainous pastures of New England, I will also say that if I lived out in the open prairie, had no barn, could keep but one cow, I would prefer a little black Kerry cow to all others." NOTICE TO DEVON BREEDERS.-The Committee on Devon Pedigrees, appointed by the Association of Breeders of thorough-bred neat stock, will receive pedigrees for publication in the American Devon Herd-Book up to Dec. 3d, at which time the committee meet at South Wilbraham, Mass., to examine pedigrees and prepare them for the press. Other agricultural papers will confer a favor by noticing this fact. South Wilbraham, Oct. 29. H. M. SESSIONS. OSAGE ORANGE HEDGES. In the report of the Committee on Farms, of the Illinois State Ag. Society, published in the last No. of the Journal of that Society, we find the following description of the Osage Hedges on the Farm of Mr. S. B. Turner of Warsaw : The great feature of the place is its Osage hedges, which, with the exception of some twenty rods of post They are well made, and proof against any and all des and board, to cross a piece of low ground, is the fencing. criptions of farm animals. It is handsomely trimmed in the obtuse conical form, which gives it an ample base, and at the same time exposes the leaves to the sun. The most of the fence is made with a single row of plants, but Mr. T. prefers two rows set alternately thus: This gives at once a better base, but for farm purposes we doubt if it is better than a single line set four inches instead of two lines at eight inches; the same number of plants are used, and the cost of the setting about the same. Mr. Turner's hedges are all perfect, that is, there are no breaks in them, and but one place where a small dog could get through, and that was for the purpose of letting the ratters through into the next field. The fences are a perfect mass of verdure, armed with its bristling thorns concealed beneath the leaves, but ready, on the approach of an enemy, to dispute his passage. The hedge should be trimmed twice a year, the first in June and again in September or first of October, but never during a drouth-this has reference to the full grown hedge. Mr. T. uses a short scythe; one man can trim a hundred rods a day on both sides, and do his work first rate. Trees should not stand in the fence line, especially when young, as the shade retards their growth. Along side of a timber belt it would be different, for there the hedge would have the sun during part of the day. PREMIUMS ON FLEECES OF FINE WOOL AT STATE FAIR. -The report of the committee on 20 fleeces of fine wool, awarding the first and second premiums to GEORGE after the list of premiums was published. The commit BROWN of Phelps, Ontario county, was not received until tee report that the fleeces, (40 in number) were very superior in quality and condition, and were accompanied by the statements as to feeding and weighing the sheep, &c., as required by the Society, and Mr. Brown is justly enti tled to the first and second premiums. B. P. JOHNSON, Sec'y. AGRICULTURAL Rooms, Albany, Nov. 6, 1862. tage we are obliged to pay on the two papers respectively to the Canada lines. CLUB SUBSCRIBERS need not all be located at the same Post-office. THE CULTIVATOR. Pfice. ALBANY, N. Y., DECEMBER, 1862. TO THE FRIENDS OF THE CULTIVATOR. UPON THE LAST PAGE of this Number will be found our terms for 1863. 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But if remittances are in American currency, they will add as heretofore, six cents per copy for THE CULTIVATOR, to the published terms, and twenty-six cents per copy per year for the COUNTRY GENTLEMAN, as that is the amount of the pos cellent plan; each subscriber, as soon as he pays his Fifty Cents, receives one-half the money back in a Twenty-five cent book, and the Agent has no farther trouble in the collection of the money. THE REGISTER POSTAGE FREE.-We shall prepay the LUTHER TUCKER & SON, HIGH FARMING." We positively believe," remarks the Agricultural Editor of the N. Y. Evangelist, "that the majority of farmers would be better satisfied and more richly rewarded, if they would feel their way cautiously, but not very slowly, to a higher style of farming-one which undoubtedly they would find more expensive when they reckoned by the acre, but which we verily believe would prove less costly when reckoned by the qualities produced; less profitable perhaps the first year of trying it, but pretty sure to be more remunerative the second year, and still more the third, and onward." It is a fact proved in hundreds of instances, but as yet but half believed by the majority of farmers, that "high farming, with large crops, is more lucrative than low farming with consequently small crops." |