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THE WEEKLY ERA
WEEKLY ERA.
AGRICULTURAI.
Planting Peach Trees.
To (he JZlitors of the American
farmer :
I have iust now read in the Octo
ber number of the American Far
mer vour article upon 44 Planting
Orchards," and for planting peach
trees. I take the liberty of disagree
in? with vour system of shallow
planting in toto, and offer my prac
tlrot afrninst vour nrecent. hiffh as
I acknowK diro the authority to be
I diir hole three feet in diameter,
from 18 to 20 inches deep; have the
surface sod laid aside carefully:
have the f-ubsoil scattered around:
make a mound in the centre of the
hole about 3 or 4 inches high; set
the tree upon the mound and spread
the roots, ana mi tne noie exclusive
Iv with surface earth, outting in
-sods and rubbish, if at "hand, and
raise a mound 5 or 6 inches around
the tree.
I planted 403 trees in April, 1872,
and 220 last year. The weather, as
vou will remember, was extremely
dry both seasons in Baltimore coun
ty. Of the planting of 1872 I lost
:9, and of 1873 I lost 3. In Novem
ber, 1868, 1 planted 3oO trees, and
lost but one. The crop upon these
trees last year was quite too abun
dant for the welfare of the trees.
The land upon which I was com
pelled to plant my little orchard is,
in my judgement, very illy adapt
ed to the growth of the peach tree,
being a cold, hard yellow clay, flint
.soil, with a southern exposure, yet
I can'show you trees now ; in their
fifth year, that measures, many of
them, from fourteen to over fifteen
inches in circumference. Many of
the trees planted in April, 1872,
measures from five to over six
inches in circumference. The trees
planted last April, I think, without
any exception, have put out young
branches, three to six on every
tree, which measures from throe to
nearly five feet in length. In planting
my trees I have never used any nn
nureor fertilizer of any . kind er
description whatever. Alt ray
peach tre s ptand erect; not one had
.a stake t support it.
I fihali be much gratified if you,
or any of your friends who contem
plate planting peach trees the com
ing fall and spring, will call and
.seo my little orchard, 14 miles on
the Liberty turnpike road.
, lu W. G.
Balto. Co., Md.. Oct 11, 1873.
From Golds bo ro Standard.
The Duke's Lesson.
The following article is so well
suited to a majority of the farmers
of this section, that we hope it may
do some good, since the raising of
all cotton and but very litte, if any
corn, has worked so disastrously.
Does not every farmer know that
one bushel of corn in his crib is
worth to him two if he has to go
abroad to buy it? Is there a farmer
in Wayne, or any of the adjoining
counties, who has raised his own
supply of corn and meat, whose
farm is mortgaged? Not one that
we have heard of. Try it farmers,
and if it does you no good, it can
certainly do you no harm:
A Duke once placed a rock in the
road near his place. Next morn
ing a peasant came that way with
his ox cart. "O, these lazy people,"
said he, "there is this big stone in
the road and no one will take' the
trouble to put it out of the way,"
so Hans went on, scolding about the
laziness of the people.
Next came along a gay soldier
who stumbled over it, and went on,
complaining.
Then came a company of mer
chants, who went off in single file
on either side of the road. One
said "did you wver see the like of
that big stone lying here, and no
one stopping to take it way?"
It lay there for three weeks, and
no one tried to remove it. Then
the Duko sent word to the people
to meet him near where the stone
lay, as he had something to tell
them. A great crowd gathered.
The Duke said : "It was 1 who put
this' stone here three weeks ago.
Every passer-by has left it just as
ho found it, and has scolded his
neighbor for not taking it out of
the way." He then stooped down
and lifted the stone; under it lay a
small bag, marked, "For him who
lifts tho stone." In the ba was a
gold ring and twenty gold coins.
iSo they all lost the prize by not
moving the stone.
Moral. Don't wait . for your
neighbor to plant less cotton, but
roll the stone of too much cotton
from one-fourth of your land, and
raise your own pork, cows, mules,
tread, hay, vegetables, fruit, and
therefore manures. You will find
that your reward will be gold or Its
equivalent greenbacks and prosperi
ty. Three million bales of cotton
will sell quicker at 20 cents per
pound, than four million bales will
sX 15 cents per pound.
Combing "Wools.
The Bradford 06serrer,inareview
of the wool and worsted trade for
the year 1872, observes on the prob
able increase in the price of comb
ing wools in England:
It is worthy of notice that the
raw material has ruled the market
much more than usual, and " the
price of yarn- has frequently ad
vanced or been depressed in sym
pathy with wool; while on the
contrary, wool has frequently ad
vanced without any apparent cor
responding movement on the part
of yarn. The question of the ade
quacy of the supply of deep Eng
lish wool (combing wool) for our
present consumption, is becoming
more serious year by year; and un
less greater supplies of wool which
can be substituted are produced by
our colonics, it seems doubtful
whether the present high range of
prices will not before long be con
siderably exceeded. When we con
sider the great increase in the value
of most other commodities nota
bly coal and corn the greater
wealth of the country, the increase
of wages, the large amount of new
machinery which is continually
being put in motion, and then re
member that our supply of English
wool is certainly not greater, if as
large, as It was twenty years ago
mm ad
me conclusion is iorceu upon us
that with anything like an ordinary
trade, and an average amount of
machinery running, wool is not at
all unlikely to range even higher
than it has done.
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