THE GENESEE FAEMER. 



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A BEAUTIFUL EUSTIC CHAIR. 



Two oak trees of very large dimensions were re- 

 cently found under the bed of the river Dun, which 

 are believed to have been thus buried for upward 

 of two thousand years. From the fragmenrf;s, after 

 about two hundred cubic feet of timber had been 



CULTIVATE YOUR ORCHARDS. 



secured, Mr. Coixinson fabricated a rustic chair, 

 which is now in the possession of W. Chadwick, 

 Esq., of Arksey, near Doneaster, England. The 

 chair, as' will be seen from, the accompanying cut 

 of it, is exceedingly ailistic and beautiful. 



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The "White Willow foe Hedges. — The farmers 

 in Illinois are greatly excited in regard to an al- 

 leged discovery that the "White Willow will make 

 a fence capable of turning stock. A pig, it is said, 

 can not get through them. The discovery is said 

 to be worth millions of dollars to the farmers of 

 the State, and will doubtless put a few thousands 

 in the hands of those who have the "Willows to sell. 



New English Eoses. — The Gardeners' Chronicle 

 thinks tliat the new rose "John Hopper" is in 

 every way a first-rate variety, and that the same 

 may be said of the "Beauty of Walthain," which 

 has been only proved the past summer, and has 

 kept up its character from the beginning to the 

 end of tile season. 



The best label for fruit trees, shrubs, <fec., is a 

 strip of tin about eight inches long and an inch 

 wide, tapering to a point at one end. Paint this 

 with white lead and mark the name with an awl', 

 scratching it through the paint. Bend the pointed 

 end around a small limb of the tree, which expands 

 to its growth. 



Eds. Genesee Faemeu : " Will it pay " to de- 

 vote a piece of land exclusively to an orchard, and 

 expend largely in manure and cultivation of the 

 same? Let facts answer — facts derived from the 

 best authority and my own observation. 



There stands an apple tree in the garden formerly 

 occupied by Seth Coolet, Esq., in South Harford 

 Village, Washington county, N. Y., of the Green- 

 ing variety, which came into tiie jiossession of Mr. 

 Coolet about the year 1841, in the usual condition 

 of trees in careless culture, having previously pro- 

 duced occasional crops of apples. He set about 

 pruning, washing and manuring tlioroughly. The 

 top being thick and low prevented cultivation un- 

 der it. When thoroughly pruned he attempted to 

 plow under the tree, but found the ground a com- 

 plete web of roots. He ceased immediately the 

 use of the plow, and used the hoe to destroy veg- 

 etation and incorporate a considerable quantity of 

 nightsoil with tlie ground, keeping it clean from 

 weeds during the season. In the fall he gathered 

 fifteen bushels ot fine apples, which was the least 

 quantity it produced in any one of the next 

 twelve years. Two years of this time he gathered 

 each year fifty bushels. The tree received an an- 

 nual supply of manure of the ordinary kinds, and 

 the usual culture ttith the hoe. Standing under 

 the tree with Mr. C. in September of 1850, we 

 judged there were twenty-five bushels on it ; but 

 when gathered there were thirty-five bushels. 

 About 1854 Mr. 0. sold his place, and in 1856 I 

 called to see the tree, and found that Mr. A. had 

 occupied it the last two years; that he had not bo- 

 stowed any manure or attention upon it; that it 

 yielded, the first year of his occupancy, a fair 

 crop; "but," said he, "this fall it did not yield 

 two bushels, and they were of an inferior quality." 

 The reason was obvious. 



Now we will suppose the average crop of npples 

 on this tree was thirty-three bushels per auniiiu, 

 worth 50 cents per bushel, which would make four 

 hundred and twenty-nine bushels in the thirteen 

 years. This amounts to $214.50, or $10.50 an- 

 nually, from which, if you please, deduct $3.80 for 

 gathering and marketing, and $1.70 for cultivation, 

 and you have $11.50 profit from the tree annually, 

 which, allowing it to occupy four rods of ground, 

 or forty trees per acre, and allowing each tree to 

 produce an equal quantity, the profits of one acre 

 of orchard would be $460 a year. Now, if ore 

 tree, with good culture, is made to yield agivcu 

 profit, then ten or a thousand, with equal culture, 

 can be made to produce the same. 



Benjamin Hoyt, of New Canaan, Conn., plant- 

 ed, in 1853, one hundred and fifty apple trees on 

 one acre and fifteen rods of ground. It was culti- 

 vated with corn and buckwheat till 1860, when it 

 was cultivated without a crop, yet receiving a reg- 

 ular dressing of manure. It commenced bearing 

 in 1856, and increased in quantity yearly till 1861, 

 or the eighth year from planting, when it yielded 

 $500 from the sale of apples — a large number of 

 the trees yielding two barrels and more of the 

 finest fruit. I could fill a volume with similar 

 facts. 



Say, ye skeptical, careless orchardist, will it pay 

 to cultivate your orchards? 



£lgin, III., February, 1863. D. C. Scofield. 



