the same manner as above 
then it is 
trimmed to a two-sided flat cone or upright 
wedge, and the graft being split from the 
lower bud up to the second is pared away 
on either inner edge, and then set on over 
the stock, keeping the outside barks, as in 
the cleft or any other method of grafting, 
so closely in line that the sap when it flows 
will immediately follow the natural chan¬ 
nels. The tying and covering are the same 
with this as with the cleft grafting, except 
that the lower ends of Lite graft are left to 
meet the soil, because as soon as full circula¬ 
tion of sap commences, their ends callous 
and send out roots, so that the graft soon 
becomes, in a measure, on ** 
its own roots. It is on this ffli* 
account, mainly, that sad- by 
die grafting is counted supe¬ 
rior to cleft grafting. Both , 
of these methods are also 
performed in the branches * 
or cones of the cion, as 
shown in the accompany- M 
ing figure. f(| 
Here, either a cane of last Jjjj 
year’s growth, having good. V fS 
strong laterals, on it, is used, 
or a two-year old cane is 
taken. In the first the graft [ Afjtl'■ 
are inserted in the laterals. 
and in tiin second, in tb. • 
canes of last year’s growth. ^^SEjf|8l§Sjt 
The cane being bent down '^gJJgjSSSg 
into a trench from six to 
eight inches deep and se¬ 
cured by a peg, the laterals 
in the first case and the last 
year’s wood in the second, 
are then cut back to one cleet? j 
bud above their connection with the cane 
that is laid horizontally, and the grafts are 
inserted either in the deft or saddle form. 
Thu buds on the bent cane, between the main 
stem and the insertion of the grafts, are all 
rubbed out, and some operators make a half¬ 
circle notch directly under the stem holding 
the graft; but we have found no special 
advantage in it. 
These grafts require even more careful 
mense immigration that flows into the coun¬ 
try every year, and is steadily increasing. 
IIow many millions of acres of forest have 
been lavishly hewed, burned and wasted 
within the last hundred yoats, and are being 
wasted every year at a most alarming rate, 
and yet lie says hew, burn, and waste away! 
— there is plenty for the next five hundred 
years to come. Such prodigality will, in 
one, or at moat two hunched years, entirely 
deplete the whole of America, and Amer¬ 
icans will have to import timber from other 
countries at enormous prices. Has Mr. Al¬ 
len any idea of the high prices of timber iu 
Britain to-day ? Why, iron is almost as 
cheap as timber for building purposes. A 
large proportion of the timber used in Britain 
is hewed iu our forests here, rafted and car¬ 
ried hundreds of miles down some of our 
great rivers, shipped and carried 3,000 or 
5,000 miles further; and at every stage in its 
transit there is so much labor added to its 
price. And what does Mr. A. think he can 
buy it at per fool, in London, Liverpool or 
Glasgow ? Let him figure up. 
Such, in one or two hundred years, will be 
the position of America, if Mr. A.’s advice 
is acted upon. 1 say, with Mr. Greeley, 
plant forest trees not to he citnibcrers of 
ground; not to interfere with advancement 
and progress, civil and religious, hut as an 
impetus to civilization, and as a decided ad- 
incmtrh 
rbortrulturc 
he has fed cut food. It is more economical to 
feed, keeps stock In hotter health, and affecta 
their development more nearly us grass does. 
Mr. PtjTKKS said it was difficult to got at tho 
value of oats as compared v^ltii bran, Ho had 
never fed oat meal much, but had fed a great, 
ileal of bran. Pound for pound, the cost being 
tlii! same ho would prefer the bran. It was a 
most excellent food for cows, uud would prefer 
it Cor milk production ; to make hone ho would 
choose the oat meal. Mr. I.vm.i v called atten¬ 
tion to the fact, that corn meat fed to milch 
cows produces milk with more butter qualities 
In It, while shorts produce a milk with more of 
the components of cheese; and the latter, there¬ 
fore, is better than corn for cows with calf. 
Abortion ,in cows Is attributed by some to the 
tending ol corn during pregnancy, Bran is a 
I'ur better food for cows with calf. Mr. Peters 
said there vas another side to that question. 
He did not think that theory held good in all 
cases, for he knew a flock of sheep, fed upon 
bran, whose ow«s aborted their lambs until tho 
shepherd ceased feeding- it to them, when they 
ceased aborting. 
ttcmcily tor Colic In lloi'BCfl. R. HOWELL, 
Shiloh, N. J., g-ives the following ns an unfailing 
remedy for colic It is simply the application 
of hot cloths. Take a niece of (•Mrnrtf. ItlnnlfAf 
GRAFTING GRAPES. 
SHALL WE PLANT TREES? 
Having recently purchased a farm hero, 
and constantly read the Kuu.vl ever since, I 
highly appreciate its guidance, and profit by 
its lessons. In the last issue I read an arti¬ 
cle from a Lewis F. Allen, in reply to one 
from Horace Greeley on Forest Culture. 
Having read Horace Greeley’s article, 
and highly approved of it, I cannot under¬ 
stand how Mr. Allen could have drawn 
culled the bottom limestone. This is the great, 
cot ron region of the States, arid pdfrhaps the best 
in the whole South. Besides being fresh, the 
land is quite level and easily cultivated. A 
lenity thrilty fanner in Southwest Georgia need 
buy very little to ear or wear, as lie cun raise 
Ills meat, corn, wheat, cotton, wool, sugar, sweet 
ami Irish potatoes, rice and ten, besides every 
variety of vegetable#,grown at the North. Prior 
to lBtll, good plantations demanded from twenty 
to thirty dollars per acre, hut it is doubtful 
whether tho average would now he higher than 
live dollar# an acre. We are prostrate. There 
is now nothing of tho spirit of tUo * dog in tho 
tnanger’ in our people. Georgia needs capital, 
and worthy labor will be welcomed, from what¬ 
ever source it may ootno." Mr. Peteks says it 
is one of the linest regions In tho South. 
Whin? Uenns.-JOKLZOOK, Madisotihiirg, asked 
if the common white bean should bo planted in 
hills ovdrills, or sown tirondcsst; and if they are 
us profitable as potatoes. Mr. Carpenter plants 
In hills or drills, us most, convenient. Never 
sows broadcast. Plautsnbout the time >.r phint- 
iny- Indian corn. They yield about thirty bush¬ 
els to the uc.ro. They are not as profitable a 
crop in Westchester Co. as potatoes. Mr. Ful¬ 
ler urged that their comparative profit nnlst 
depend upon tho noun less to market. Near 
NEW YORK FARMERS’ CLUB 
plaster of Pails. Gypsum applied to a meadow 
in which the wild strawberry grows will diminish 
the growth of the latter in proportion as it in¬ 
vigorates the grasses. We have w pel led the 
wild strawberry from upland meadows simply 
by top dressing annually with gypsum. -Ed. 
Rural.] 
Osage Orange. HENRY B. SPENCER, Milford, 
Del., asks how to raise Osage Orauge from seed 
— if the seed is difficult to sprout. A gentleman 
replies that he finds no difficulty in sprouting It 
after lotting it souk twenty-four hours. [There 
are different modes of preparing tho seed adopt¬ 
ed bydifi'eront planters. One is; —Scald it by 
pouring on it, boiling water, which should bo 
drained off aud the other seed covered snugly 
until it is swollen ready to sprout * While in this 
state It should be stirred, to prevent fermenta¬ 
tion. OYUC8 R. Overman, a pioneer Osage Or¬ 
ange cultivator in the West, used to soak the 
seed in rain wafer, or in a pond or body of water, 
three or four weeks previous to planting, when 
it may be taken out of the soak, dried sufficient¬ 
ly for drilling and planted immediately. Hu. 
Rural.] 
Grain in Butter.— Horner Hiukox, Water- 
town, N. Y., writes that he has seen a good deal 
said about “grain" in butter, lie wants 
the matter explained to be told what caus¬ 
es the “grain,” of what it is composed, how 
it is made, if butter is better for it, and if so, 
why? lie is Informed that an essay will be read 
on the topic next week. 
llow i» KniHe Watermelons.—B. F. Stanley, 
Greenville, S. C., sends the Club his mode of 
raising melons. He digs holes two feet across, 
eighteen Inches deep and twelve feet apart, fills 
#iem with stable manure, and covers it (the ma¬ 
nure) lightly witti forest mold mixed witli road 
sand. He also adds charcoal dust to absorb the 
sun's rays, and sometimes a little guano. On 
tliOte hills he plants the Seed. Never works 
among the vines when the dew is on. Never 
disturbs the vines; but does not allow a weed to 
grow. By such culture lie gets melons weighing 
from twenty-five to forty-flvo pounds. Varie¬ 
ties, Orange, Bankright and Bradford. 
Oat »*. Wlieut Bran for Milclt Cowx. -G. W. 
Fish, Coldwator, Mich., asks Hie comparative 
value of oats and wheat bran or shorts —ouls 
costing forty-five cents per bushel and shorts 
one dollar per cwt. He indorses those who 
recommend cut feed for stock. He has not lost 
an animal in sever; years, nor resorted to medi¬ 
cine or a veterinary surgeon for his stock, and j 
devastation was the experience for many 
years. As our Intelligence was brightened, 
our means and advantages improved. The 
farms were enhanced in vtflue, consequently 
the rents advanced in one to live years Ally 
aud even oue hundred per cent. They must 
do something to meet the demands upon 
them. They wore barely able to make ends 
meet before, and how were they to exist 
now ? By improving the soil. They com¬ 
menced planting belts of larch, spruce and 
Scotch fir or pine ou the north and west of 
their farms. In a few years (being rapid 
growers) these formed a splendid and effec¬ 
tual wind-break, and each year improved 
them. The benefits were immediately fell, 
and the profits very considerably enlarged, 
so much so, in fact, that they were more 
prosperous under the great advance than 
when at a less rate of rent. 
The farms were sheltered and warmed, 
and consequently became far more produc¬ 
tive. The oat, wheat, and other crops were 
uot so broken as to lie almost Incapable of 
being harvested; and because they were 
standing erect they were not half threshed 
in the cutting and handling. 
In the second place, Mr. Allen asserts 
there is wood enough in America for its own 
consumption and the supply of the foreign 
demand for the next five hundred years. 
Mr. Allen is most egregiously mistaken, if 
we may judge from past and present experi¬ 
ence, and in the face of the fact of the im- 
GRAFTING GRAPES AT JUNCTION OF LIMBS. 
The vine Is pruned to one or two eyes on 
each branching cane beyond the junction, 
awl these are left to grow until the graft has 
made two or more leaves, when they are 
stopped by pinching oil' tbeir ends, and thus 
left until the graft evidently is absorbing 
most ol the sap, when they may be cut 
away, or left until the autumn pruning. 
Pooch Pruning.— J. M. Davis, Milford, Del. 
cut oil’ bis peach orchard two feet from the 
ground last year, and the trees so beheaded 
made new wood, and asks if ho shall shorten in 
this new wood this spring, or take off the Interior 
small branches, leaving the tree open. Mr. 
Quinn says trim out the center of the free. Dr. 
Trtmble indorses Mr. Quinn’s recommendation 
if tho trees are healthy; if not, not, but urges 
the cutting buck process. Mr. Williams in¬ 
dorses the t hinning tho center of the tree, it be¬ 
ing tho practice among successful Delaware 
peach growers, 
Cider Mnhlng.—Tho Professor of Cider Mak¬ 
ing, who is fearfiilisome people will think him 
an " old fool," ho says, had been reading A. J. 
Downing's directions for elder mu Icing, arid says 
If followed they will surely spall the cider. The 
directions are to continue to /ill the barrel with 
cider while it. is fermenting. The Professor re¬ 
iterates t hat his mode, given in last week’s ru¬ 
ral, is the only correct one. I (o says the reason 
why as good cider is not made in New England 
and Nort hern New York as in New Jersey is, be¬ 
cause there is not saccharine matter enough iu 
tho more Nori hern grown fruit. [An acquaint¬ 
ance of ours adds sugar—from ten to twenty 
pounds to the barrel-to his eider, ferments it us 
described in Rural last week, and has no dif¬ 
ficulty in securing a most delicious drink.—Eo. 
Rural.] 
The Lake Shore Grape Growers’ Association._ 
Tiie former Association with tho above title 
having, at. Cleveland, changed its name to tho 
Ohio State Grape Growers’ Association, and 
abandoned its distinctive character as a Lake 
Shore body, without reference to State divisions, 
a meeting of the Lake Shore Grape Growers 
commenced at Erie, Pa., on Saturday, the 20th 
of March, to reorganize the Association. There 
was a large attendance and great enthusiasm. 
A constitution was reported and adopted, and a 
list, of officers elected us follows President—- 
William Griffith of Pennsylvania. Vice- 
President*—A. 8. Moss of New York; Wilson 
King of Pennsylvania; J. E. Mottier of Penn¬ 
sylvania; J. H. Babcock of New York; E. C. 
Bliss of New York. Secretary—E. F. Underhill 
of New York. Treasurer —Robert Evans of 
SADDLE GRAFT. 
Saddle grafting the stock is another mode, 
id by some operators considered much the 
:st. The stock is cleared away from in 
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