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&l)c .farmer's itt'cmtljlij bisitor. 



Every Farmer should make an Orchard. 

 The profits of the Nursery man who disposes 

 of his grafted or budded trees three years from 

 the time of planting, ;u thirty-three or even 

 twenty-five dollars the hundred, must make that 

 an excellent business. A man having begun a 

 nursery three years ago, may annually dispose of 

 thousands, the whole expense of plaining and 

 cultivating, which will not probably amount to 

 six cents each. We have been surprised that 

 the prices of nursery trees have not offered such 

 an inducement as to cheapen them. The flavor 

 and hardihood of the New England apples give 

 them a demand over most other kinds: there is 

 no finer early winter apple than the Baldwin, 

 which has perhaps become the most common. 

 The supply of these cannot soon exceed the de- 

 mand. Good apples are every where growing 

 more and more into use. 



To start an orchard at once, thirty-three cents 

 seems to be a high rate to pay for apple trees. 

 High as the price is, every farmer who has suit- 

 able ground for an orchard, and who has a tasle 

 for its cultivation, cannot perhaps do better than 

 to commence at once by purchasing and trans- 

 planting his 25, 50 or 100 trees. He cannot of 

 course afford to purchase trees at this price 

 without taking due care to save them. The 

 planting of an apple orchard will perhaps be 

 best in a cultivated field where the plough has 

 stirred the whole ground to a suitable depth. 

 We would begin an apple orchard in such a 

 field, placing the trees at right angles on a di- 

 rect line each way of not less than forty feet dis- 

 tance each way. With the growth of trees at 

 this distance, the cultivation of such an orchard 

 for the few first years need not interfere: the 

 trees may be even aided by such cultivation 

 where the team or the plough shall not interfere 

 with them. 



The ground chosen for an orchard would 

 probably be a hard-pan soil with rocks such as 

 usually accompanies the hard pari. We think 

 artificial means may he resorted to, giving to 

 common plains land, especially if it be under- 

 laid with clay, equal advantages for an orchard 

 with the hard and rocky soil. We have a good 

 opinion of the laying of bones, and if these may 

 not he had, oyster-shells some eighteen or twen- 

 ty-four inches under ground in the same bed 

 over which the tree is transplanted : if these 

 have any effect in promoting the growth of the 

 tree or the size of the apple or other fruit, that 

 effect must continue for years. In setting the 

 tree, full space should he given for the laying 

 and growth of the roots in their natural position: 

 these should not, however, be laid far below the 

 surface. The runts, like those of all the com- 

 mon vegetable productions, reach down of them- 

 selves in search of the necessary aliment. 



It can scarcely be too late in life for men to 

 think of planting an orchard, if they have not 

 one already. We have known farmers at the 

 age of seventy years live to enjoy the fruits of 

 their labors at that age in producing orchards 

 ten and twenty years afterwards. Some orchards 

 in full healing have given an income which 

 would allow of their valuation from five hundred 

 to a thousand dollars to the acre. With the pro- 

 per attention, orchards may be made in a bear- 

 ing condition in ten to twelve years from the 

 planting id' the seeds. With the certain prospect 

 that good apples raised in New Engl Hid may be 

 always sold to a profit, and that the use of good 

 apples i-< among the best of family comforts, 

 why should any farmer neglect to plant and 

 cultivate an orchard ? 



JYeiv and valuable Discovery. — Catch a rat in a 

 wire trap, keep him until night ; then procure a 

 preparation of phosphorus in oil. Apply it all 

 over the rat except his head, and turn him loose 

 into his hole. Such scampering and getting out 

 of the house as occurs, as bis phosphorescent 

 majesty pursues his alarmed friends, who he is 

 anxious to overtake, affords certainly a security 

 against the return of the depredators for a long 

 season. 



Ji Discriminating Youth. — A gentleman trav- 

 elling in Tennessee, stopped at a bouse for the 

 night, and during the first meal observed an ur- 

 chin eating a loaf of corn bread. At length the 

 youngster remarked. 



" Mammy here's a har in this bread." 



The old lady remarked, " that it was only a 

 piece of corn silk." 



" Corn silk, the mischief," replied the young 

 'tin — " how came com silk to have a nit on it ?" 



Pathetic. — A short time since a man was heard 

 lamenting the death of two of his sons. "Two 

 stunt, hearty boys," said he, "and died just afore 

 hayin'— it enytnost onriid me !" 



The Springfield Republican says that there 

 was once a man in that town who was so polite 

 as to say, as he passed a hen on her nest, "Don't 

 rise, ma'am." 



The friendship of some people is like our 

 shadow, keeping close while we walk in the sun- 

 shine, but deserting us the moment we enter the 

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