POTASH. [NEW ENGLAND IARMER]

Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 2010, 26 May 1885, Page 3

POTASH. [NEW ENGLAND lARMER]

FftriT tices «ue occasionally met « itii which, ye.v after jcar, fail to lieai ft titt, 01 if they bt ai any only a small amount ot mfcikir quality. Tlie cati'-e of Mich haiienn<>s>B is sometimes difficult to determine. Generally, however, it will hi' found to l>e due to some defect in the "•oil, so that the trie fails to obtain some clement of food without which it is impossible for it to bear fiuit. This w mting element will often be found to he potash of lime . By supplying what is lacking fnutfulness may be induced. A story is told of a printei's appi entice who sought to lender fiuitful several ban en eheiiy trees upon his father's place The tiers, although not* laige m M/e, appeal ed unthrifty and in a Hying condition. He thought that borers were at woik on them, an I not being familiar with the habits of these insects, imagined that they worked on the roots He accordingly moved the eaith from the loots about the tmnU and freely applied a solution ot caustic potash used in the piinting-offioe for wafchinc type, which, nftei becoming saturated with punter's ink, was usually thrown away The result was astonishing. The trues bewail to grow luxuriantly, and for ytars pioduced immense crops of excellent cheines. Although the treatment adopted by the joung punter was suggested by a mistaken theory, )et it hjucvidintly just what was needed in that oise The trees had been sttrved for the want of potash, which the application supplied, and fruitfulnes-> was the result "Wood ashes, which contain a large percentage of potash and considerable phosphate of lime, aie excellent for use about fruit trees of all kinds. In ease of barren tn cs enough must be used to reach the feeding roots and furnish the needed amount. If only a few quart* aie applied to each tree the most, if not all, the potash will be le tamed by the suif.ico soil and not leach the feeding toots of the tice. The allies must he fur!} -.tiewn about the tiee, and if thetiecisa Imge one seveial bushi Is may be used, but tin y should not hi placed in contn't w lth theti unk of the ti i c Moie than forty \ears ago there was standing in the "vicinity ot Horusilale, Pa , a peai tree so nearly dead that it was about to be cut down. The inothei of the ownei, hay nig a pai tiality for tinfruit of that tiee, arid thinking that it might be suiTeiing from worms at the roots, resolved to attempt its restoration to health. She had the earth removed from about the tiee, uncovering the laige roots, upon which she poured a large quantity of lye made from wood allies. She had the excavation filled up with bleached ashes and the (lend limbs te moved from the tree. The result was a most remarkable growth of wood, fol lowed by great productiveness for neatly 40 years The application of the lye and ashes apparently supplied the food for the want of which the tree was dying. Near Bellefonte, I'a., theie was, a few years ago. an immeiibe pear tiee, with a, ti unk two feet in diameter. The tne had been set for 70 years, and for 00 \«irs had not failed to produce a ciop of fruit, while other trees of the same tune had died of oil age some yeais before. This remarkable tree had always had by its side an ash blcaeh, from which a considerable amount of potash in the form of lye had escaped and found its way to the loot ot the pear tiee. Thus tiie potash had kept the tree alive, vigoious andpiotlucti ye din ing many years. Those having peai and apple trees which are unproductive should try the effect of a liberal applications of wood ashes. There need be no fe.n ot using too many, provided the ashes are spread over the surface of the tiees. If the tree is a large one three or four bushels wrll be none too much, and may be repeated every year until the tree is made productive. Some may think so laige a quantity of ashes ina> injure the tree, but an account published a few yeats to an apple orchard m Cheater county, l\i , which had borne a heavy ciop of remarkable laige and high coloicd apples every year foi 12 yeais each tice ot which it-ctived an annual application of about 8 bushels of unbleached ashes. If ashes aie good to make bairen tiees productive, they are equally valuable to increase the productiveness of auoichatd can be increased two or three fold by the use of ashes it will r^pay the ow nor to use them Instead of having a ciop of apples cveiy other jeu a ciop every \e.ir might be obtained by libeially feeding the trees.

Tiikih. are MO f< male faimcis in Dakota, mosi <>\ the.n Sc,iudina\ians. Ir\Li\N papas aie bcw tiling tliccvtcnt of the i initiation to Anieiiea fiom tie peasantry. They sny that the shiploads of emigrant-* whe aie taken fiom Italy tv Ameiica are draining Italy of its most pioductive factors. One piLfect alone issued last year 6000 passports for emigrants to America, For the 50,000,000 souls in the United Statet there are 1 2,000 periodicals For the 101,000,000 souls in Russia there aic ()'2o periodicals, of which but sixty-thite are dailies. The whole of Siberia, with 4;000,()00 of population, has only two newspapois and a bi-monthly of a geogluphic.il Society. A PoLi».ii Hum woe. — A most tomantic tale co lies fiom Wilna About twmty jcars ago a Christian gentleman ot piopeity, became the father of a little gnl who was not the child of his wife Hi* was considered the most res pectable man in his [.ait of the country, and if this affair h.id become known, his reputation would ha\e been destroyed. He thciefore quietly, and without any temple, commissioned one of hisfarmets, a Jew, to put the child out of the way As the man saw hii own life was endangered, he only pretended to commit the crime. Instead of murdenne, he hid the little one, and, on the arl\ ice of the Rabbi of Kowuo, gave her to a Jewish muse, who brought her up at the farmer's expense. The child grew into a beiutiful girl. The l.n mer adopted her, aiying she was the daughter of a rcla turn of his. The faimei's son, howc\er, fell in love with his adopted sister, and wished to marry her. In doep perplaxity, the father again applied to the Rabbi of Kowno, who counselled him to tell the girl the secret of hi'i birth, and then allow her to act as she thought best. The marriage took place in due course, and two children have increased the joy of the happy pair. The family prospered, and all was going well, when a no- religionist of the fanner, who had quarrelled with him, revenged himself by informing the girl's father of the state of affairs. Furious at the deception *vhich had been practised upon him he claimed his daughter ; but the girl, in spite of threats of disinheritance, lefustd to leave her husband to go to him. Her father theu sought the help of the law, and the farmer wu accused of abduction ; but the Rabbi of Kowno appeared as a witness, and on his statement of the case the following decision was given. The girl is the child of a man of property, and she must inherit it, as ho has no other children ; the farmer must be paid all the expenses inclined in the bringing up of the child ; the informer is sentenced to two months' nn prisonment. Here is a story for the dramatist to work upon. A Beautiful Painting. Mr G. G. Green, of Woodbuiy, Now Jersey, U.S.A., is presenting to druggists and others in this countiy some very line pictures in oil of his magnificent h"USe and grounds and laboratoiy at that plat c, Mr Gieen is the proprietor of Bosclii'e's German Syrup and Green's August Flower, two very valuable medicines, winch are meeting with great favour, the first as a remedy for I'ulmonai v com pl.iints, and the latter for Dyspepsia and disoulerB of the Liver These pre para tions have attained an immense sale solely on their superior merits and aie sold by all druggists throughout the world. The price is the same for enrh. 3s 6(1 per bottle, or sample bottles for b'<l The somple bottles enable hufleieri to prove their value at a tnfling coat.