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Propagating G omniums.
A “Constant Render” of the Coun¬
try Gentleman, December lath, asks
information of the editors us to how to
raise and cultivate geraniums, and as
you have left it to some of your
readers for a reply, I hope to be able
in a brief article, to impart such in
formation to your correspondent as
will erfable her (or him) to have abun¬
dant success in their culture. Tne
geranium is one of the easiest to pro¬
pagate among the flowering plants, which
either from seed or cuttings, of
I have any knowledge. But one other
family of plants (Coleus) roots more
readily. This being true, if your cor¬
respondent will get a small, shallow
box, say five or six inches ut*ep, and
NOVEMBER, ' 'is‘r'ééf
two feet by eighteen inches in size,
and till it with rich, light, garden
earth and sifted sand, she will have all
things ready for the cuttings. Then,
if you have no green house, any time
during the growing season—say iu
the months of June, July, August,
and the first of September—break off
slips from any plant, about three to
six inches in length, and about the
size of your little linger (or larger)
and make a hole in the sand, and put
in your cuttings two or three inches
deep, pressing the sand firmly about
the base of the cutting, and putting
the cuttings a few inches apart, until
the box is full; then water freely
every day or two until they root, keep¬
ing them in the shade. Scat cel}'
a single cutting will fail to root, and
soou became a large flowering plant.
A still better way is to “tongue” the
branches before severing them for
cuttings. This is done as follows :
Take a sharp knife, select the branch
you wish to sever, and make a sloping
cut half way through it, about an iuch
long, and to prevent its breaking oft,
tie it with a yarn string iu a sort of
swing. In two or three weeks this
cutting will callous at the cut point,
and then it may be severed entirely
and put out immediately, as before
stated. Callousing is the first process
of looting, and the parent plant fur¬
nishes the cutting with nutriment un¬
til it undergoes this process, and the
result is that such cuttings root much
more readily and grow more vigorous¬
ly. Geraniums are exceedingly brit¬
tle, and should be handled like china
or ctrusean vases, hut they are, in my
opinion, among the most lovely and
satisfactory of all flowering plants.
No special care is required for after
treatment; better only I have found them
do when grown where they can
have a little shade in the ’neat of the
day. For protection in Winter, a pit
made either of brick or plank, four or
five feet deep, and about six by nine
feet in size, furnished with a glazed
sash or two, will keep them iu flue
condition without any artificial heat.
1 have made my response longer
than was perhaps necessary, from die
fact that it applies to nearly all kinds
of soft cuttings— Cor. Count. Gent.
Pigs on Grain Farms.
The following excellent suggestions
on the economical management of pigs
on grain farms, is from Harris on
the Pigs, an authority on swine mat¬
ters which is generally accepted as
entitled to respect :
“Oii far-ms where much grain is
grown and only a lew cows are kept,
it is usually uot profitable to keep a
large stock made, of pigs. The common
mistake however, is not in
keeping too many, but in not feeding
them liberally. As a rule, the pigs
are kept on short allowance until
they arc shut up to fatten after the
corn is ripe, although there can be no
doubt that a bushel of corn fed to
pigs while on clover du iug the Sum¬
mer, will produce double or treble as
much pork as a bushel of new corn
fed in cool weather in lhe Autum,
when the pigs have nothing but corn.
A few’ Fall pigs can be krpt in the
yards during the Winter, to good ad¬
vantage, especially if the cattle arc
led grain. It i9 a great mistake to
stint young pigs through the Winter,
although it must be confessed that it
is a very common one. The sows and
any Spring pick pigs that may lion's be wintered
over, will up the share of
scattered grain and other food iu the
yards; amt while it is often incon¬
venient to separate the young pigs
from the older ones, yet it is not a
difficult matter to make a hole in one
of the sides of the pens that will ad¬
mit the young pigs through an ex
elude the large ones—ami in this way
the young pigs can be fed more and
better food. This is a very important
point. The young pigs should be kept
growing rapidly through the Winter
and Spring months. They should he
in a condition that most farmers
would pronouuce ‘too fat.* Young,
well-bred pigs, so wintered, can be
summered in a clover pasture at eom
f-aratively little cost—and it is as¬
tonishing how fast they will grow.
We have krpt a lot of grade Kssex
Fall pigs during the Summer on a rich
pasture near the ba?n yard,
the slop from the h use, without
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any grain, that were sold at an extra
price on the first of October, to ‘top
otF a ear load of fat pigs sent t<> the
New York market. And the whole
secret of the matter—it secret it is—
was in feeding the young pigs liberally
through the Winter.
“Few things would pay a grain
growing fanner better No than t j raise
peas lor his pigs. matter lmw
•buggy’ the peas in ty be, the bugs or
beetles remain in the peas until about
the first of November; and when the
peas are fed out before this time, the
pigs will eat peas and bigs together,
and there will be little loss. Noth¬
ing makes firmer or better pork and
lard than peas, and the manure from
pea fed pigs is e.\e< edingly rich. A
heavy crop of peas, too, is a capital
crop to precede Wiutcr wheat. They
will smother the weeds, and, if sown
eraly, are oft the land in g.»o 1 season
to allow thorough working of the
land before wheat sowing. If other
food is scarce, a few of the poas may
be cut in .June, as soon as die pods
are formed, and fed grecu to the pigs,
and a daily allowance may be fed
uulil the peas arc fully ripe. In fact
many farmers feed ail their peas to
the pigs without threshing. But this
is a wasteful plan. When the poas
are ripe, pig-i will Jo mneh better on
them cooked, or at It* isf, soak d in
water twenty-fours before feeding.
And, in addition to this advantage,
pea straw, when well cured and care¬
fully harvested, is nearly as good for
sheep as clover hay, and certainly
will much more than pay the expense
ot threshing. A large fi.rmcr in
Michigan, who has mad'.* himself and
his farm rich, attributes his success
principally to gr wing a large quantity
of peas every year and feeding them
to pigs. He threshes the peas and
cooks them, but d->es not grind them,
as he thinks cooking is better and
cheaper than grinding The manure
the pea-fed pigs ha-< mi le his
one of the most productive in
the State.
In a Nutshell.— \Ymk a- if there
was no God to help. Trust it you
pvWerks** to work.