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but when the barrel has been partly emptied, there is danger of its degenerating 

 in quality. Bottling cider has become a large industry in France. It is import- 

 ant to choose the proper moment for bottling, when fermentation is neither 

 too active nor too feeble, so that the cider will be clear and sparkling, make a 

 pleasant, refreshing and hygienic drink. It ought not to be bottled when its 

 specific gravity is greater than 1015, and some experts wait until it indicates not 

 more than loio, then adding two lbs of sugar to one hundred gals of cider. In 

 that way, a clear fragrant drink, sparkling as champagne, will be obtained. — 

 American Agriculturist. 



THE PEACH WITH THE APPLE. 



HERE is perhaps more desire to plant the peach and apple 

 together than any others. It would seem, upon first 

 thought at least, that they are well suited to grow together, 

 because they make trees of about the same general style 

 and size, and the peach trees being the shorter lived will 

 be soon out of the way of the apple trees. This has been 

 tried very often and in some cases with good and satis- 

 factory results, but my own experience and that of most others, whose orchards 

 I have carefully observed, have not been so. The main trouble is, that the 

 peach trees grow the most rapidly for the first few years, and rob the apple 

 trees of a part of their nourishment. This prevents the apple trees from gain- 

 ing the size and vigor which they should attain before or by the time bearing 

 begins. In many cases the apple part of the orchard is the more valuable, 

 although rarely the peaches pay the best, and in such cases it would have been 

 better that the orchard had been all peaches. In a soil and climate where both 

 succeed the better way is to plant the peaches by themselves and the apples 

 also. Then the cultivation, manuring, spraying and general treatment of each 

 can be done more conveniently and more cheaply. When the two are mixed in 

 the same orchard, they may need different treatment, or, the same kind of treat- 

 ment at different times. 



The better way to fill up an applfe orchard with temporary or short-lived 

 trees, which will be out of the way by the time the main orchard needs the 

 whole space is, to plant in between the permanent trees other varieties of apples 

 which come into bearing very early. These will profitably occupy the space, 

 and be ready to be cut back, and finally dug out, by the time their room is 

 needed. Among such varieties are Missouri (Pippin), Wagener, Yellow Trans- 

 parent, Wealthy and Whitney, which may be used, each in its r^on of success, 

 or where the market suits it. — Green's Fruit Grower. 



