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Tlie Farm,
Alsike Clover.
Alsike clover is supposed to be a
cross between the common red and
white clovers. The seed was brought
to this country from Sweedcn. The
Alsike partakes of the nature of both
clovers, and many farmers are adopting
this fiuer variety in place of the old red,
to a considerable extent. In some parts
of the couutry an insect has appeared
in the red clover fields which is greatly
damaging the plant.
The Alsike is more inclined to vine,
and has a much liner stem than the red
and farmers who have tried the Alsike,
universally speak favnrabl}' of it. Stock
ofa 1 kinds arercpi<ented to be vcry ( fond
of it. deserting the red to graze on the
Alsike pasture, when a choice is give*
them. For bees it is superior to white
clover, yielding as fine white honey and
in great abundance. Every farmer who
keeps even a few bees, delights do have
a fine yield of delicious, white honey,
which with a field of Alsike he would
seldom fail to receive. In short the A'l
sike is represented to be in most re
spects equal, and in some superior to
the red clover, and for honey, a field
of it proves a bonanza. The seed costs
about tw'ice the price of red clover seed,
but like the white it is small and one
half the quantity required of red clov
er seed, is sufficient of Alsike for an
acre. The Alsike is best sown with
the common red or with timothy, these
coarser plants serving as a support for
the most, slender stem of the Alsike.
The first crop of Alsike is the seed crop.
Probably this is on account of the bees
fertilizing the blossoms of this clover
as soon as it appears in bloom. The
honey bee cannot work much on the j
red clover, and the bumble bees are the
only fertilizers which visit the long |
corollas of the red. The latter bees are j
comparatively scareetill the second crop i
of red clover is in bloom, when their j
longer tongues enables them to work on i
it. We strongly recomend farmers to j
try a few acres of Alsike clover next ;
spring. Four pounds of seed are sutfi
cient, for an acre, and it is advertised
for sale at 20 ets. a nound.
Orchard amd Garden.
Notes from the Fruit Recorder.
It is a good plan to wrap a piece of
tarred paper around bodies of trees
through wiuter to keep rabbits away.
Put a teaspooful of salt close aronnd
each raspberry plant, sow.
Scatter manure and ealt freely on the
asparagus beds in the fall.
With all the information we can get,
we believe not one half the amount of
apples will be evaporatod this as )a-?t j
year, and our advice is not to bean any
hurry to sell.
Tomatoes may be had for weeks after !
a frost, by picking a large quantity
green and putting them away under I
shelter and lay out in sun to ripen as
needed.
If you have an old grape vine that,
yields poorly and has “seen its best j
days,” cut it entirely ojf close to the j
crown, manure heavily, and let it throw
up two new leaders, and the following j
year you will i ee that “it’s as good as !
young.”
Severe Pruning.
I often hear fruit growers say, after j
five or six years of fruit bearing, that
they must pull up their peach trees, as j
the quality of the fruit toes not pay. '
My peach trees have been regular bear- 1
ers for fourteen years past, especially
since I adopted the cutting back plan i
which I have done for the past eight.
I cut off all the ends of the limbs front
six to nine inches during the month of
February, from the 15th to the 25th,
every year, keeping the tree compact
and low. If center stems shoot up be
yond my reach I lop off from two to
three feet of each limb. I place bard
coal ashes around the trees as far as
©ain branches ex eLd.
Elanohing Celery.
Those of our readers who may have
! more or less celery in their gardens.
I which is imperfectly blanched or not
1 blanched at all, may easily blanch it
perfectly after it is taken up. Lift the
plants from the ground, leaving a little
soil adheriug to the roots- Take com
mon flour barrels, put about two inches
of sand in the bottom and on this place
' your celery in an upright position. Pack
1 the barrel full, of course putting only
one layer in a barrel. Sprinkle the
sand before you put the celery in Then
put the barrel in a cool cbllar, cover it
’ with hoards looosely, so that light is
kept out, and in six weeks your celery
’ will he blanched to the tips. Examine
■ j it onec in a'while and if it seems to be
| sprinkle it with water. Care must he
; | taken not to wet it too much, as it is
apt to produce rust- — Orange Co-, lar
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Ash.e-3 for Fruits.
Among the most common and most
valuable of special manures I place wood
•ashes, says Prof. Kedzie. The amount
of ash and its relative composition vary
with the kind or part of vegetable burn
ed, but we may safely take the ash of
the body of a poach tree as representing
the average composition of wood. One
bushel of ashes represents about 21 tons
of dry body wood- Wood ashes contain
all the required elements of plant nutri
tion except nitrogen. 100 pounds of
| wood ashes contaiag 1G pounds of pot
ash worth 80 cents, 31 pounds of soda
worth 2 cents, 67 pounds of lime and
magnesia worth 8 cents, and 5} pounds
of phosphoric acid worth 26 cents. It
we had to buy in market in the cheap
est form, the manurial materials contain
ed in 100 pounds of ashes, the cost
would be $1.16. Can you afford P>
; throw away such valuable materials, or
| sell them for sixpence a bushel to the
i soap boiler? No argument is neeeded;
- here is the value and there is the selling
price. Draw your own conclusions.
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Commercial Fertilizers in the Gar
den.
General or special fertilizers seem es
pecially adapted for use in the garden.
What we care most to secure in the
garden is quick results,a nd by using a
good grade of commercial fertilizers in
the proper manner this can be readily
secured. To me they seem to act rather
as stimulants, and give the plants in
creased vigor even when growing in
what would be considered good garden
soil.
One item of importance in the appli
cation of manure in the garden, is to
j secure that which is sufficiently fine to
work well. Garden culture implies
( securing the soil in the fiiKrgt condition
I possible, and in order to secure this and
i keep it so, whatever is applied in the
shape of mswiure or fertilizers, should be
in a condition as to work up readily and
be taken up 'by the soil, and thereb}’
come in reaek of the feeding roots of
the plants. More upon this account
I than any other is the use of commercial
i fertilizers desirable.
b-tOt-a
Failure of Old Orchards to Bear
Good Fruit.
The ground is allowed to grow up
! with grass and weeds, and this drinks
! up all the moisture falling on them, so
the tree is deprived of its necessary
i drink. In the first place, spread heavi
| ly, manures from the barnyard and sta
; hie- Get all the leached ashes from the
house-yard aud from the ash-hopper
Put all around the trees, and then tun
it under as deep as a large plow wil
turn it. Continue to do this ever;,
spring, aud the trees will never cease t(
boar full o? fruit; nor will they los>
| limls or be cumbered with moss. Tin
crops raised under them will repay all
! the labir richly, such as peas, potatoes
and roots of any kind. — Spirit of the
Farm.
THIS Mil ISLAM JHUEIAL.
Planting.
In planting, set, early as possible.
Rootlets will grow until frost stops them.
A newly set tree wants all the roolets it
can get. No matter how well we ma}-
work the earth in about the rootlet
there will be many where earth does no 1
touch, but the growing rootlet pushes
i in and the earth is in contact over its
: whole surface.
After earth has been perfectly filled
in the spaces, ramming is a great bene
: fit. It presses the earth in so that it
j must touch the roots. It is best to ram
; i such a tree as if it were a post, but if
ihe earth be not well worked in among
■ the roots, ramming may be an injury.
. Pruning out some of the branches is
: often a benefit. It lessens the evapora
, tion till the roots get enough moisture
! to supply the waste
i Watering trees at transplanting is
rarely a benefit. In most cases it is an
injury, as the earth is taken away from
the under surface ot the roots by the
sinking of the water in the soil.
Evergreens planted in exposed places
are benefited by screens from the wind
where they are likely to suffer. A rare
evergreen may often be helped by hav
ing a bottomless barrel placed around
. it. It is wind, not frost, that is the
great enemy to evergreens.
Small things as well as large do better
planted in fall,-if they can be protected
from being drawn out by frost.
Plants draw out by frost, because
they are lighter than the thawed earth-
The earth and that which is in it ex
pands—rises—by frost; when it thaws
the heaviest sinks first, and the plant
gets left. Any light covering above the
plant that will keep it pressed down
when the thaw comes, is therefore a
| guard against thawing out.
Roses, and many similar plants that
J are half hardy, die in winter only be
! cause their juices dry out. Pent down
; and covered with earth, the evaporation
is prevented and the plants successfully
j protected.
Hyacinths and tulips may be set out
[ in the beds devoted to summer-flower
ing bedding plants, as they will, in a
great measura, be out of flower before
the bedding time comes around, when
they can be either taken up and trans
planted to an out-of-the-way place to
ripen, or the bedding plants can be set
in between where the bulbs grow, with
out either much interfering with the
success of the other. As a manure for
these bulbs, nothing has yet been found
superior to well decayed, sandy cow ma
nure ; but where this is not convenient
ly at hand, well decomposed surface
soil from a wood will do as well. — Gar
deners' Monthly.
Potash Fertilizers for Fruits.
At the Massachusetts Experiment
Station somo trials have been made to
determine the value of potash fertilizers
for fruits. The results are reported as
follows by Professor Winthrop E. Stone:
Potash fertilizers have decidedly im
proved the desirable qualities of fruits.
Wherever the per ceutagc of this ele
ment has been raised, the change is ac
companied by an increase of sug; r and
decrease of acid. This, it is hardly
necessary to say, is an important and i
desirable change—a matter of dollars
and cents. Otrur things being equal, i
ihe .fruit with the largest per cent, of |
sugar will bring the highest price-
Moreover, less desirable varieties may !
be brought up to a higher standard, j
thus giving value to some good qualify. ;
as hardiness or prolific bearing. The
fact that the quality and character
garden and orchard products can i e
modified by the effect of special fertil
izers is of immense importance in its
practical as well as specific bearing. (
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