. The Illinois farmer [microform] : a monthly agricultural journal, devoted to the interests of the farmer, gardener, fruit grower and stock raiser ... Agriculture; Agriculture -- Illinois. WftS^?^vP^^^\^y^^'^P' 1861. THE ILLmOIS FAHMER. 219 For stock water the mole drain is the meet valu- able, as from the fact that water fiuds its way in slowly it will be longer in being discharged We would advise no one to put in one of these drains less than three and a half feet Fig. 2. This shows the depressions in the upland, and where the drain should be made. A is the mole or ball, B the cutter
. The Illinois farmer [microform] : a monthly agricultural journal, devoted to the interests of the farmer, gardener, fruit grower and stock raiser ... Agriculture; Agriculture -- Illinois. WftS^?^vP^^^\^y^^'^P' 1861. THE ILLmOIS FAHMER. 219 For stock water the mole drain is the meet valu- able, as from the fact that water fiuds its way in slowly it will be longer in being discharged We would advise no one to put in one of these drains less than three and a half feet Fig. 2. This shows the depressions in the upland, and where the drain should be made. A is the mole or ball, B the cutter ; the space is filled in by the earth being pressed un into the cut. In some of this variety of mole the bottom is left flat and not pressed, in others the pressure is on all sides alilje, As we are promised some practical arti- cles from the pea of an old operator, will await his deductions. New Wbeat.—But little new wheat is now coming in. Prices are too low—opening from 50 to 60 cents. T. R. Dickerson delivered on Tuesday, a thousand bushels at 70 cents, on early contract, but prices range much lower now.— Carlinmlle Democrat. -<o»- How to Increase the Size of Fruit. Prof. Dubrenil, in an article in the Journal del' Academie d'Hortitulture de Gand, points out some of the operations whereby the size of fruits may be increased: 1. Grafting the trees on a weak species of stock —for instance, the pear on the quince. 2. Pruning so as to deprive the tree of a cer- tain portion of its shoots. By this means the sap which would have been absorbed by the parts cut ofi', goes to increase the size of fruit. Sum- mer pruning, which has for its object the remov- al of a large number of shoots by disbudding and pinching, has the same effect. 3. Let the bearing shoots be as short as possi- ble, and in immediate connection with the main branches. Fruit growing on the stem is always larger than that situated at the extremities of long slender branches. 4. Thinning out the fruit w
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