June 



THE ILLmOIS FAEMER. 



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From the New England Farmer. 



Ornamental Trees. 



Around every dwelling there should be a plan- 

 tation of ornamental trees, oaks, elms, maples, 

 firs, and indeed all the various species of indige- 

 nous trees, with which Providence has so bene- 

 ficently blessed our land. Nothing adds more to 

 the beauty and desirableness of a country resi- 

 dence than the presence of these splendid crea- 

 tion* ; even the humblest cottflge derives a sort of 

 elegance from them, and becomes an object of 

 interest by the mere charm of association. Many 

 of our forest trees of the deciduous kind, are un- 

 surpassed in elegance, and are so easily obtained 

 and propagated, as to place them within the 

 reach of every person. The elm is a vigorous 

 and rapid grower ; so also is the oak, in all its 

 species, the maple and the glossy beach. Of 

 shrubs and evergreens, there are innumerable 

 varieties, all of which bear transplanting, and 

 flourish vigorously on almost every description of 

 soil. 



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Eemedy for Hog Disease. 



A correspondent of the Rural New Yorker says: 

 "We take the position that when a hog is attacked 

 with the aforesaid disease, it will surely die, and 

 our experience up to this time has confirmed this 

 opinion. J3ut in every instance where pitch tar 

 has been administered to the hogs, the disease 

 has been arrested, at least in all instances that 

 have come under our observation, or to our 

 knowledge, and we are firmly of the opinion that 

 the above remedy is a pure preventative, if not 

 a cure. The above remedy is prepared in the 

 following manner : — Two tablespoonfuls of tar 

 to a pint of boiling water. When thoroughly 

 melted, mix with half a pail of bran, and then 

 fill the pail with milk. This makes a suflBcient 

 dose for six hogs." 



Remedy for Worms in Dried Fruit. 



Dried apples and some other varieties of dried 

 fruit, as all housekeepers know, are subject to 

 worms. The following is said to be a remedy : 



Put in common muslin bags with a little sass- 

 afras bark scattered through, a handful of bark 

 to a bushel of fruit, and no worms will trouble 

 them, as I have proved by keeping dried apples 

 two years in a pantry. 



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Wine Making in New Yobk.— The business of 

 wine making is pursued in many places in the 

 State of New York, and among others in Ham- 

 tnondsport, Steuben county. The Wyoming Mir- 

 ror says that a stock company has been organized 

 under the name of Pleasant Valley Wine Com 

 pany, for the manufacture of pure wines and 

 brandies from native grapes. The Company 

 employ an experienced German vinter, and claim 

 to manutacture an excellent article. Within two 

 years the Company have turaed out 10,000 gal- 

 lons of wine. 



,, From Gardener's Monthly. 



The Fruit Tie 3 Borer. 



We recently called on a friend who is famous 

 for the success of his apple crop. He is no be- 

 liever in the generally received opinions about 

 "changes of climate" since the days of our fore- 

 fathers, "wealing out of soil," "degeneracy of 

 varieties," and the theories that are sat sfactory 

 to most pf ople for their ill success ; and we asked 

 him for his "recipe" that we might add it to the 

 number we have already on file. 



"My plau," said he, "is simply to keep away 

 the borer." "The borer," he continued, "weak- 

 ens trees, and once weakened, the fruit drops 

 before it is mature, or it cannot recover from the 

 slightest injury that any insect inflicts on it ; 

 moreover the tree becomes sickly, aud then in- 

 sects prey on it; for they do not like healthy 

 trees. Inserts have an ofiSce in nature toper- 

 form which is to hasten to decay what nature 

 has intended to remove from living families, 

 just as worms soon take away the life of a sickly 



P'g-" 



"Easy enough talking," observed a friend with 

 us, "but how do you keep awaj the borer ? To-' 

 baceo stems ?" 

 "No." 

 "Lime?" 

 ■"No." 

 "Ashes ?" 



"No, none of these." 

 "Pray, what then ?" 



"Now you give it up, I will tell you. I merely 

 keep the soil scraped away from the trunk down 

 to the bare roots all the year round — summer 

 and winter." 



My companion laughed incredulously, if n&t 

 contemptuously; "and," said he, "friend C, I 

 have given you credit for better understanding 

 than to suppose any amount of freezing or roast- 

 ing will kill a borer once domiciled within the 

 trunk of the tree." 



•'I do not suppose it will," he replied, "I have 

 no such object. If I can ever find one in, I trust 

 to my jack-knife or wire for his destruction, and 

 not to heat or frost." 

 This was a poser. 



"What then is your object?" was the next in- 

 quiry. 



"It is to keep the borer out. Did you ever 

 see the borer enter into the stem of the tree 

 at any height above the ground ? 



"No." 



"And why f It requires soft moist bark for 

 the purpose ; and whenever you remove the soil 

 and render the bark hard and firm to the collar, 

 the borer instinctively goes to other more favor- 

 able places for the secure raising of its young." 



"But will they not go into the main roots V* 



"I have found them to avoid these roots as if 

 it were unfit to rear their young ; in fact, 1 have 

 never kown them to attack mine." 



Nor had they; that was evident, A clean, 

 healthful orchard — never cropped, annually top- 

 dressed, grass kept away several feet from the 

 stem, so that no insect could find a "cool and 

 moist" harbor for its larvae, and every success 

 following Certainly the borer did not attack these 



