The Question Box. 7 



Question. — Give the best time to cut scions, and tell how to 

 keep them till time to set them. 



Mr. Woodward. — Cut the scions now (March 1). Place them 

 in sawdust ; or one may begin setting them now. I have set scions 

 when the trees were in full bloom, and full leaf, but I do not 

 like to do it, as they do not make as much growth as will earlier- 

 set scions. 



Question. — Do you think strawberries' can be profitably grown 

 on high clay ground, fertilized with green manure and fertilizers ? 



Mr. Woodward, — Almost any variety of strawberries will grow 

 on any land except wet land. Select the variety that does best 

 in your locality. On good soils, commercial fertilizers will be 

 found better than barn manure, because there will be no weed 

 seeds in them. Watch your neighbor's bed and select the vari- 

 eties that are most successful with him. 



Question. — How far apart each way should Cuthbert rasp- 

 berries be set ? 



Mr. Chapman. — We set them in rows just far enough apart 

 .to go through with one-half of a spring tooth harrow, which is 

 about six feet. The other way they are about two feet, which 

 soon makes a hedge row. 



Question. — Is red clover a good crop to grow in an apple 

 orchard ? 



Mr. Abbey. — We are sowing red clover mixed with alfalfa, 

 in our orchards, instead of crimson clover, which kills out. I 

 know a young man in Wayne county, who is making a success 

 in growing this mixture in his orchards. I have seen alfalfa 

 roots, the first season, a foot long, or twice as long as the tops. 



Mr. Smith. — I am surprised to know that alfalfa can be grown 

 as a catch crop, in that way. I certainly did not know that it 

 could. What was the soil? 



Mr. Abbey. — The soil was a good, strong, gravelly loam, on 

 high land, with no clav in it. 



Question. — What will prevent black knot from getting on to 

 eherry and plum tree- \ 



Mr. Smith. — By cutting off all the knotty limbs and burning 

 them. Don't throw them on the ground and leave them there; 

 the spores will be blown about just the same, from these limbs 

 as from knotty ones on the trees. But, you cannot grow plums 

 and cherries if your neighbor's trees are knotty and left undis- 

 turbed. They will inoculate all the trees in the neighborhood. 



