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Limeynur Orchnnh — Weeds — Jigricvltnre, S,-c. 



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For llie KaririiTs" Caliiiiet. 

 Who don't love good fruit ? 



The effect of lime on orchards and on 

 grounds in which fruit trees are planted, is 

 stated to be very beneficial ; it impioves their 

 liealth and promotes their (,'rowth, and it i.« 

 said to improve the quality of the fruit. Tiic 

 food or pasture of the trees is increased in 

 quantity, and improved in quality by the ap- 

 plication, and it is doubtless an nnportant 

 agent in destroying the grubs and v/orms 

 which are fo destructive to fruit trees by the 

 wounds which they inflict, as well on the 

 tender, absorbent fibres of the roots, as on the 

 branches and trunk. 



The good effects of lime on appic and 

 peach trees is perceptible in a short time, and 

 it is believed equal benefit will be derived 

 from its application, by all other kinds of fruit 

 trees. 



Let us try it without delay, for it is uni- 

 versally known that good fruit is never pro- 

 duced by an unhealthy tree. 



For the Farmers' Cabinet. 



Noxious Weeds. 



Friend Libby, — Agreeably to the sug- 

 gestions of Farmer, Vol. II. page 328 of the 

 Cabinet, I send you a few dried specimens of 

 weeds found on the border of our city, hoping 

 my example may be followed by others, and 

 a collection thus made for the inspection of 

 our country friends. Among them you will 

 find the Canada thistle, and the three spired 

 clot burr, (xanthhun spinosuni,) two formi- 

 dable weeds that should not be suffered to 

 intrude themselves upon any respectable 

 neighborhood. The first having perennial, 

 creeping, as well as deeply descending roots, 

 very tenacious of life, and I believe can only be 

 destroyed by a large portion of salt, or caustic 

 lime. The latter is an annual ; when young 

 and the spires are sofl, it may be pulled up 

 by hand, if armed with a buckskin glove ; 

 when old you will require a pick, or a pair of 

 blacksmith's tongs to effect the same object, 

 or it may be destroyed by cutting when the 

 seed is nearly ripe. 



Yours, truly, Rambler. 



The specimens referred to above may be 

 examined at the office of the Cabinet. Our 

 correspondent Rambler will please accept 

 our acknowledgments. lie has set a good 

 example. 



Patience, application, and courage over- 

 come all difficulties. 



Fur the F'ar.-.p-ro' (nbii-.i-;. 

 Agriculture of C'trulrui !••« itiisylvanla. 



As it iiiyy be iiitere.-tjiig to .'orne of your 

 readers to know hnvv we larin, s-ituated as wo 

 are in the heart of the state, and we (dirbelves 

 having a little ambition to Le ktiown abroad ; 

 we propo-^e giatifyinu it by .'^otting forth some 

 of (nir views on ufjiicullurai subjicts tor their 

 perusal. 1'e.n.V.s Vallkv, Irom which we 

 write, is fiirtlie most part a heavy limestone 

 .•^oil, and lertile. Our principal crops are 

 corn, oats, wheat, and rye. We generally 

 sow clover, or cl<;ver and timothy on the rye, 

 and then break up for corn; the other crops 

 follow as they are above .-irraniied. But there 

 are frequent deviations from this rotation. — 

 Rye is nfit vfilued mucii, and i.« not so mucii 

 cultivated as the other crop.-;. We plant corn 

 in the end of Apnl, or leginnicg of ^Jay, 

 preferrino early planting; lor tliehitjumer s-ea- 

 son is coritrtcted very i>iiicii with us of late 

 years. Early spring ploughing is universally 

 preferred to tall ploughing, i()r onr farmers 

 maintain, that, at le.i.st in tiii.'^f-oii, tiiey obtain 

 a better tiltii by the ibruier practice, and are 

 more secure against the cut worm, especially 

 if there is frost after it is plouohed. It is 

 plastered as soon as it is up. When a fipw days 

 old it is harrowed. Eij,'ht or ten d.iys after- 

 wards the cultivator is used, and in about ten 

 days more the plough. The average yield 

 is fifty or sixty bushels per acre. Some ot* 

 the Duttoncorn was planted here last t-pring, 

 but as the season has been very unfavorable 

 to it we have not decided on its merits. Ma- 

 ny farmers sow clover in the corn, and fallow 

 for wheat tiie next year. In this way the 

 best crops of wheat are raised. But, most 

 generally, oats are sown on the cornstalks. — 

 As soon as the oats harvest is ended, all hands 

 are busy, getting out the manure on the stub- 

 ble. One good deep ploughing is found to 

 answer as well as two or three, the labor is 

 much less, and the husbandry not so foul. — 

 Tiie average crop of wheat may be set at 

 twenty-five bushels per acre. The use of lime 

 is not fully introduced here yet, though its 

 value is appreciated, — not properly, perhaps. 

 In our soil we prel'cr leaving the surface 

 rough and cloddy, rather than reducing it to 

 a fine mould, because tiie elods moulder around 

 the roots of the wheat andafibrd it protection 

 through the winter. We have fruit of vari- 

 ous kin<ls in abundance, excepting peaches, 

 which do not flourish here. Our orchards are 

 principally of natural fruit, thouch many im- 

 proved fruits have bren lately introduced. It 

 would be very gratifying to some of us Avho 

 wish to plant next season, to find in your use- 

 ful paper before long„a list of a choice collec- 

 tion of fruits, suited to farmers in general, 

 with tlie necessary descriptions, &c. 

 This is a rude sketch of our rude eystein 



