Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 April 1869 — Setting Hedge Plants. [ARTICLE]

Setting Hedge Plants.

I think the befit plan, for a farmer, iu setting out hedge is to t-et plants from G to b inches apart, as some .plants are very apt to die out, and it is a hard matter to get re-plan'ts to catch up with those that' have had one year the start. — ’ By setting G or 8 inches apart you will sure of a I good stand the first year.— Hedge should be lopped when about 4 years old, if plants have.'been well cultivated. We use the word lopped or lopping in this section, and I think it conveys the meaning better than the word’ “plash,” or ■‘plashing.”— Prairie Farmer..

Bums vs. Fruit.—-We often see inquiries in our agricultural exchanges, as to the best means of preventing birds from destroying fruit. The answers to this inquiry are almost as various as the birds, and most of them ace, as diflicult to apply as the birds are to catch. The most effective plan we have ever tried was, by killing ourself, or hireing some boys t<r kill, a number of Chicken or Sparrow Hawks, skin and stuff them, and place them on the tops of some of the trees in the orchard. But few birds would attack the fruit in an orchard with such ftpparent cneiniesjp meet. Thustuffed Ilawka.can be preserved for years by being carefully put away after the fruit is gathered. Try it.— Ej .

—The prospect is not -encouraging for high prices for potatoes this spring. The markets are well supplied and prices are lower. Last March potatoes sold in Southern and Central Michigan at eighty and eighty-five cents per bushel, and continued high all the spring. As a consequence the farmers of Southern and Central Michigan planted an unusual crop, and the yield being fail - , they have now a large surplus for market. The price in Cincinnati is sixty-five to sixtyeight cents per bushel, and in New York peach-blows have been selling at two dollars and fifty to two dollars and seven-ty-five cents yer barrel. —Wounds in trees if covered with grafting .wax will heal much more rapidly than otherwise. A good article is made as follows: Four pounds of rosbeeswn x, one pound of tallow, melted together. If to be used in cool weather, add a half pound more of the tallow. If the cost of the beeswax is an objcctionable item, the quantity may be reduced one-half or more.. ♦ —Twenty years ago a painter in New York went into the country and bought for ul 10 a tract of land then considered waste land. He took his city wife and located on his farm, and besides living and laying up money, lias added just Al,000 a year to the ralue of his land, the farm now being valued at $20,000. —The country swarms with men selling all sorts of “rights” and patent implements for farmers; Some are good; most are swindles.- In any pase a man shoukl invest money in them only as he would endorse a note- —when he can stand the loss of the money. ■ ... recon.mends a French way of preserving eggs by plunging into a cauldron of boiling water, a colander containing one dozen, and allowing them to remain for one minute. This immersion coagulates a thin layer of albumen on the surface, and the admission of air is thereby prevented.

—The white of an egg, giveTi in sweetened water, is a sure cure for the croup, according to the testimony of a distinguished French physician.— The remedy-must be repeated until a cure is effected. * * • • • ■ ”. 1 ' L - —A Keokuk (Iowa) grape grower has just sold 2,000 gallons*of wine of last .year's vintage for $2,500 cash in hand.