Japanese grafting method applied to apple stock
The Japanese grafting technique splices the scion into the stock with the union covered by waxed cloth and thread. The lower end of the scion often roots, providing a vital connection that nourishes the graft. Used in Australia to produce varieties like Northern Spy on resistant stock, then budded to the desired variety after transplant.
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Normand
New Yorker
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Australia
Norehern
Peach Culture and Orchard Practice in Cold Climates
This piece outlines growing peaches in northern regions. It covers propagation by seed, budding, or grafting with grafting most successful, ideal sites on high, northward-sloping sandy loam soil, and the need for dry conditions. It describes planting spacing, tree size, and a strict pruning regime beginning with a heavy first year cut, shaping in years two and three, and annual thinning and fruit picking trials through the season.
Persistent Spraying Advice for Extended Treatments
Begin early to spray and continue until the fruit nears ripening. Do not limit to the usual spray calendar amounts. spray as often as rains wash the solutions from the trees.
The Potato Question From an Iowa Corners Advice
An Iowa correspondent offers practical potato growing guidance focusing on ground quality seed selection and land care. Advice covers fall plowing and August prep, spring disking, early planting to deter pests, selecting round smooth seed tubers, cutting and drying before planting, proper fertilization, and thorough cultivation with multiple drag and hoe passes to keep soil clean.
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Iowa
Northwestern Agriculturist
Bordeaux spray for potatoes and Bordeaux mix preparation
The article explains stock Bordeaux solution and preparation of Bordeaux mixture for potato crops. It covers copper sulfate to lime proportions, testing with potassium ferricyanide, straining techniques, and adding Paris green as potato bugs threaten. Spraying should begin when vines reach six inches and recur about every ten days.
Dose of Nitrate of Soda for Plant Health
The article notes nitrate of soda can revive sickly plants with small doses, roughly marble sized for a 12 inch pot. It accelerates growth much more than other manures and is thus useful for plants naturally slow to grow.
Good Crops with Dry Farming Methods
The article explains how soil moisture is conserved in dry farming by reducing upward moisture movement, minimizing evaporation, and using deep, level plowing followed by subsurface packing and surface cultivation. It discusses soil preparation, mulch formation, and three main systems of crop rotation including annual, biennial, and mixed schedules, with emphasis on timing and local conditions.
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Utah
Maine Hermit Hunter Known For Bear Tallies At Shin Pond
Patten Maine resident Greenleaf Davis the hermit of Shin Pond has killed more than 200 bears and held a long standing record. Now past eighty and rheumatic yet active he recalls early Maine hunting life, maple fat uses, bear pelts value, and his roaming partnership with Henry David Thoreau in 1843.
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Shin Pond
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Maloe
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Tippecanoe
Chicago
Maine
Olaister
First Selectman
Mr. Davis
Henry D. Thoreau
Concord
Mass
Mount Katohdia
Himrod
Hig Bachelor’s
New York
Outing
New French Wedding Medals Enter New York Market
New York spring weddings feature a novelty gift a silver two inch medal inscribed Souvenir de May Mage Prosperite Bonheur with the contracting parties names and date. The frosted medal shows classical figures and an Israeli wreath and is the groom or bride gift by friends or relatives. More sleep called for as mothers tire after long days and exhausted nerves ease with additional rest.
Reward for long service in London career moves
London reports Sydney Olivier CMG has been named governor of Jamaica, replacing Sir Alexander Swettenham after his resignation prompted by British government pressure. Olivier, a long-serving colonial administrator, has held key posts in Jamaica, the Leeward Islands, British Honduras, and the colonial office.
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Sydney Olivier
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Jaymalea
Alexander Swettenham
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Olivier
Colonial Office
British Honduras
Leeward Islands
Jamaica
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