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Peach Trees. — Winter Wheal — Grain Worm, 



Vol. 11. 



For the F»rmrrB' Cabinet. 



Poach Trees preserved by the application 



of Tar. 



The foI*'jwing described procese, is said to 

 be one of the very best to preserve peacli 

 trees, it is considered a complete protection, 

 ag-ainst the attack of the peach fly and worn- 

 upon the body of the Tree, immediately 

 above the surface of the gi-ound, and beneath 

 as far as to the roots; and, I see no reason 

 why it siiould not, also, be a protection to the 

 whole body of the trae, and the large branches 

 and other parts, wherever gum is discovered 

 to be issuing. It may possibly be u.seful when 

 Mpplied to other trees. The process is as fol- 

 lows, viz. — In the months of May and Sep- 

 tember, of each year remove the earth from 

 the body of the tree as far as the roots, and 

 apply a coat of tar, and immediately place 

 fresh earth around, (to press against the tar) 

 the earth is made to extend as high as that 

 which had previously been removed ; the ap- 

 plication should commence betbre the tree is 

 one year old. Perhaps immediately above the 

 earth, a few inches high, and over this, sharp 

 sand to the height of a few inches more would 

 be found useful.* R. 



CUi'ster CdMiiiy, Pa. Jami:ii-y 23, 1338. 



For the Farmerh' Cabinet. 

 Winter Wlieat SoAvn in Spring. 



i. LiBBY — Dear Sir: — The Cultivator of 

 December contains the result of an experi- 

 ment made at Snow Hill, Maryland, of sowing 

 winter wheat in spring. From the statement 

 it appears that the result was highly satisfac- 

 tory. On, or about the first of Marcii last, 

 about a bushel of the common red chaft", win- 

 ter wheat was sown, it "sprung up, grew 

 kixuri intl v, and came to perfection about seven 

 to ten days later than usual ; when such grain 

 is seeded in the fall, say September or Octo- 

 ber." The wheat sown, (one bushel) pro- 

 duced ten, and according to the testimony of 

 the correspondent of the Cultivator, Geo. 

 Hudson, the grain was very fine. The farm 

 lies open to the Atlantic, soil rather poor and 

 sandy. On a kind soil the yield would pro- 

 bably, have been much greater. Please give 

 publicity to this fact as it may be of service to 



*■ The sand can be preserved at auniforiu heiglit, 

 by four boards nailed together in a vertical posi- 

 tion around the tree, so as to form a box without 

 top or bottom. This may be placed on the ground 

 with each side equi-distantfrom the tree, and with- 

 in five or six inches of it. 



Ashes is placed within this box, to th« height of 

 a few inches, and afterwards sand upon the ashes 

 to the height of a few inches more. The box is 

 suspended to the branches of the tree during the 

 winter season, and fresh ashes and sand added in 

 the spring annually, as aforesaid, 



nany of your readers, and thereby oblige a 

 mbscriber. 



S. W. Williams. 



[In connection with this subject we would 

 :all the attention of our readers to a " sugges- 

 cion," in the first volume of the Cabinet, page 

 ■374. It is there stated, and on high authority, 

 that the sowing of winter wheat in spring, 

 lias been partially adopted, with the happiest 

 results in some parts of Tennessee. For the 

 benefit of our readers, and with the hope that 

 some of them may make the experiment, 

 md communicate the result, we re-copy the 

 article. It is as follows: in winter (the earlier 

 the better, we presume) the seed grain is put 

 into casks, and sufficient water added to soak 

 md cover it. It is then exposed so that the 

 water become frozen, and is kept in this state 

 as lar as practicable until the soil is fit for its 

 reception in the spring. It is a well kriovvn 

 and established fact, that the operation of frost 

 upon the seed of winter grain has the same 

 efjtcct as if it was sown in ;uitumn. — As wheat 

 and rye sown at the setting in of winter will 

 grow and mature. The advantages which are 

 o.xperienced from sowing in the spring, are, 

 1st. that the grain is not subject to be winter 

 killed ; 2d, it escapes the Hessian fly in au- 

 tumn, and possibly it may escape it in the 

 spring ; 3d, the ground being fresh stirred for 

 spring sowing, the growth will be more vigor- 

 ous; lind 4th, as it will come into ear late, 

 there is at least a probability that it may es- 

 cape the grain worm. The advantages are 

 so manifest, that the experiment is worth a 

 trial. We hope that many of our subscribers 

 may be induced to try it on a small scale, say, 

 by sowing from a peck to a bushel of the 

 grain prepared in the above described man- 

 ner. ] 



GRAIN "WORM. 



I\Ir. Holmes : — All statements relative to 

 the injury the Grain Worm or Weevil, so 

 called, does to wheat — the time when done, 

 and how prevented, — the several metamor- 

 phoses of the insect, &c. &c. should be well 

 authenticated, and writers should be very 

 careful that they give nothing hnX. facts, least 

 the interest of "the Farmer be thereby preju- 

 diced. 



I will suggestone idea on the subject which 

 I have learned from farmers who have lived 

 where the worm has long done injury, Vv'hich 

 is, that wheat sown previous to the 20th of 

 April, or after the 20th of May, escapes their 

 ravages ; the one, (if I may so express it,) gets 

 before them, and the other comes after them. 

 The injury is unilbrmly done in a short 

 time. — Maine Farmer, 



A wise government will not be slow ia 

 fostering the agricultural interest. 



