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lIIfiMM *s£**£e^8_n Davotcd to j£__rlcuUurc, Horticulture, JfXccUanics and tlie Useful Arts. &hTi?£Z£&Zs.\ RICHMOND, APRIL 1, 185G. .i1^^.*.0'-:^^ Terms of tbe Indiana Farmer, - ■■ *■} ■■■' . ,!J__T*f'AYMEXT TO BS HADJC INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. £33 Ona copy, per volume, $1 Q3 Four copies, 3 0") . Nino, •« ,.., ... 6 00 And any larger number at the latter rates. Bills of all specie paying Banks and postage stamps received at par. Subscription money, properly endorsed, may be mailed at our risk. Address HOLLOWAY & CO., Richmond, Wayne county. Indiana. Terms of Advertising-. Advertisements will be inserted in this sheet for five cents per line for the first insertion, and threa centsper line <* for each subsequent insertion. COMHUNIGATIONS. For thc Indirna Farraor. "Maplewood, near West Milton, O., ) 3d mo., 11th, 1856. j Dear Farmer :—In a preceding article I introduced the theory that "like produces like," that seed selected from superior kinds, isolated or far removed from indifferent sorts and well matured, often gave origin to very excellent varieties, (a more successful way being by hybridization, as practiced by Knight, Briuckle, and others.) and that immature seed, or that from sorry kinds, sur- , rounded by such, will (produce weakly and very indifferent ones. \ I will endeavor to give a practical illustration of this. In an adjoining neighbor's orchard aro a number of very good sorts of apples, which are well deserving more special notice, wider extended culture and enrollment on the annals of promology. Their origin was on this wise : My grandfather and Mendenhall, then living in Guilford co., North Carolina, having determined to emigrate to this State, (then North-west Territory,) in the fall of 1801, previous to his moving, selected seed from a certain widow Sanders' orchard, which was considered thc best thereabout, of the very best kinds in it. These seeds he planted in the spring of 1803, on the spot of ground now occupied by one of the best of those seedling trees. His orchard, planted from the same lot, was long known as containing the best apples of any in these parts. He and his brother Joseph, (who had also emigrated,) afterwards received a lot of seed from the same place, taken from the pomace of the cider mill, and planted a nursery. From this nursery the neighborhood and adjacent parts wero furnished with trees for their orchards. Now" for the result. When these came into bearing, of all the most sorry, hard, late, sour, and exceedingly indifferent fruit; these orchards produced it. A greater fruit misfortune never happened to the. settlement. Budding or. grafting being but little known or pricticed here in that early day. Many of these old orchards yet remain more or less "*■ entire; but the next generation were determined to be wiser than their fathers, and have supplanted a greater number by younger ones, or changed them measurably by grafting. Yet, notwithstanding the introduction of many foreign varieties amongst us, a few seedlings in the old Mendenhall orchard have not been excelled in their several peculiar qualities. In my next, I propose giving a short description and outline of some of these very desirable apples, believing, as aforestated, that they are deserving of a more extended cultivation. I am very truly, L. S. MOTE. Luuar IiiUttenccs. A friend has written us an article on Lunar Influences, concerning which he says, "if it is an exploded belief it would be foolish to publish, if hot, not." Strange as it may appear there are still not a few who believe in the influence of the moon upon thc growth of vegetation, and hence are j guided in their farm operations by its phases i and position. Such men are probably not | great readers of books or papers, and may i not see the Farmer, but should one person | be induced to look for success to his own industry and skill, rather than to a mysterious planetary or lunar influence, this article will not have been written or published in. vain. But here is the letter, some of the leading facts are taken from the lectures of Dionysius Lardner.* "Thc supposed influence of the moon upon the weather has been perhaps .almost universally believed by people of all ages and countries, and .although the particular details of this influence have sometimes re-, ceived an attempted description in ''weather almanacs!" still the only general principle seems to be, that a change of weather may be looked for at the times of new and full moon. That this is not one of the superstitions of BY-oq,NE days is made manifest by the every day remark, "the moon changes, next week and then wo shall have different weather." Is this a fact, or are *we giving credence to an old superstition?— Scientific men have investigated this subject and from carefully prepared meteorological tables kept in different countries for g1-^^*^**
Object Description
Title | Indiana farmer, 1856, v. 05, no. 07 (Apr. 1) |
Purdue Identification Number | INFA0507 |
Date of Original | 1856 |
Subjects (LCSH) |
Agriculture Farm management Horticulture Agricultural machinery |
Subjects (NALT) |
agriculture farm management horticulture agricultural machinery and equipment |
Genre | Periodical |
Call Number of Original | 630.5 In2 |
Location of Original | Hicks Repository |
Coverage | United States - Indiana |
Type | text |
Format | JP2 |
Language | eng |
Collection Title | Indiana Farmer |
Rights Statement | Content in the Indiana Farmer Collection is in the public domain (published before 1923) or lacks a known copyright holder. Digital images in the collection may be used for educational, non-commercial, or not-for-profit purposes. |
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Date Digitized | 2010-10-04 |
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Title | Page 97 |
Subjects (LCSH) |
Agriculture Farm management Horticulture Agricultural machinery |
Subjects (NALT) |
agriculture farm management horticulture agricultural machinery and equipment |
Genre | Periodical |
Call Number of Original | 630.5 In2 |
Location of Original | Hicks Repository |
Coverage | Indiana |
Type | text |
Format | JP2 |
Language | eng |
Collection Title | Indiana Farmer |
Rights Statement | Content in the Indiana Farmer Collection is in the public domain (published before 1923) or lacks a known copyright holder. Digital images in the collection may be used for educational, non-commercial, or non-for-profit purposes. |
Repository | Purdue University Libraries |
Digitization Information | Orignal scanned at 300 ppi on a Bookeye 3 scanner using internal software. Display images generated in CONTENTdm as JP2000s; file format for archival copy is uncompressed TIF format. |
Transcript | lIIfiMM *s£**£e^8_n Davotcd to j£__rlcuUurc, Horticulture, JfXccUanics and tlie Useful Arts. &hTi?£Z£&Zs.\ RICHMOND, APRIL 1, 185G. .i1^^.*.0'-:^^ Terms of tbe Indiana Farmer, - ■■ *■} ■■■' . ,!J__T*f'AYMEXT TO BS HADJC INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. £33 Ona copy, per volume, $1 Q3 Four copies, 3 0") . Nino, •« ,.., ... 6 00 And any larger number at the latter rates. Bills of all specie paying Banks and postage stamps received at par. Subscription money, properly endorsed, may be mailed at our risk. Address HOLLOWAY & CO., Richmond, Wayne county. Indiana. Terms of Advertising-. Advertisements will be inserted in this sheet for five cents per line for the first insertion, and threa centsper line <* for each subsequent insertion. COMHUNIGATIONS. For thc Indirna Farraor. "Maplewood, near West Milton, O., ) 3d mo., 11th, 1856. j Dear Farmer :—In a preceding article I introduced the theory that "like produces like," that seed selected from superior kinds, isolated or far removed from indifferent sorts and well matured, often gave origin to very excellent varieties, (a more successful way being by hybridization, as practiced by Knight, Briuckle, and others.) and that immature seed, or that from sorry kinds, sur- , rounded by such, will (produce weakly and very indifferent ones. \ I will endeavor to give a practical illustration of this. In an adjoining neighbor's orchard aro a number of very good sorts of apples, which are well deserving more special notice, wider extended culture and enrollment on the annals of promology. Their origin was on this wise : My grandfather and Mendenhall, then living in Guilford co., North Carolina, having determined to emigrate to this State, (then North-west Territory,) in the fall of 1801, previous to his moving, selected seed from a certain widow Sanders' orchard, which was considered thc best thereabout, of the very best kinds in it. These seeds he planted in the spring of 1803, on the spot of ground now occupied by one of the best of those seedling trees. His orchard, planted from the same lot, was long known as containing the best apples of any in these parts. He and his brother Joseph, (who had also emigrated,) afterwards received a lot of seed from the same place, taken from the pomace of the cider mill, and planted a nursery. From this nursery the neighborhood and adjacent parts wero furnished with trees for their orchards. Now" for the result. When these came into bearing, of all the most sorry, hard, late, sour, and exceedingly indifferent fruit; these orchards produced it. A greater fruit misfortune never happened to the. settlement. Budding or. grafting being but little known or pricticed here in that early day. Many of these old orchards yet remain more or less "*■ entire; but the next generation were determined to be wiser than their fathers, and have supplanted a greater number by younger ones, or changed them measurably by grafting. Yet, notwithstanding the introduction of many foreign varieties amongst us, a few seedlings in the old Mendenhall orchard have not been excelled in their several peculiar qualities. In my next, I propose giving a short description and outline of some of these very desirable apples, believing, as aforestated, that they are deserving of a more extended cultivation. I am very truly, L. S. MOTE. Luuar IiiUttenccs. A friend has written us an article on Lunar Influences, concerning which he says, "if it is an exploded belief it would be foolish to publish, if hot, not." Strange as it may appear there are still not a few who believe in the influence of the moon upon thc growth of vegetation, and hence are j guided in their farm operations by its phases i and position. Such men are probably not | great readers of books or papers, and may i not see the Farmer, but should one person | be induced to look for success to his own industry and skill, rather than to a mysterious planetary or lunar influence, this article will not have been written or published in. vain. But here is the letter, some of the leading facts are taken from the lectures of Dionysius Lardner.* "Thc supposed influence of the moon upon the weather has been perhaps .almost universally believed by people of all ages and countries, and .although the particular details of this influence have sometimes re-, ceived an attempted description in ''weather almanacs!" still the only general principle seems to be, that a change of weather may be looked for at the times of new and full moon. That this is not one of the superstitions of BY-oq,NE days is made manifest by the every day remark, "the moon changes, next week and then wo shall have different weather." Is this a fact, or are *we giving credence to an old superstition?— Scientific men have investigated this subject and from carefully prepared meteorological tables kept in different countries for g1-^^*^** |
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