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A SUCCESSION CROP FOR A CLAY 

 LOAM 



What would be a good crop to follow peas in a 

 clay loam? 



New York. R. C. 



— Plant millet — any of the common varieties, 

 preferably Japan millet — or, because of greater 

 growth, put in buckwheat, which has proven a 

 valuable crop for soiling purposes. Barley might 

 also be planted for late feed. Green barley seems 

 to better withstand late frosts than almost any grain 

 crop. L. C. 



GROWING STRAWBERRIES 



Is it injurious to give very shallow cultivation 

 with hand cultivator between the rows of straw- 

 berries to keep down the weeds during blossoming 

 and fruiting time; or is it better to depend entirely 

 upon the use of mulch to keep the weeds down ? 



Pennsylvania. H. D. M. 



While the shallow cultivation of strawberries 

 up to fruiting time cannot do any harm, many 

 expert growers, particularly in northern districts, 

 depend fully upon a heavy mulch, believing it keeps 

 down the weeds, keeps the berries clean, holds the 

 moisture in dry weather, and serves the same pur- 

 pose as manure does when plowed under. Well- 

 rotted horse manure is the best mulch; swamp hay, 

 straw, and cut corn fodder are also good. A heavy 

 mulch (4 inches is not any too deep) left on in- 

 sures late berries. In a garden of one acre devoted 

 wholly to strawberries, cultivate the plants two 

 ways until runners are set, then continue one way 

 until late fall, and mulch, renewing in spring. 

 The winter mulch should be loosened up in spring 

 but not raked off. 



HOW TO GROW CATALPA 



Seeds of catalpa have been given me. How 

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New York. S. M. S. 



— Seeds of catalpa are best started in the spring. 

 Seeds of the current seasons crop may be sown as 

 soon as gathered. If sown very late in spring, be 

 prepared to give protection next winter. This con- 

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 a hundred, and heeling them in some cellar which 

 is free from frost during the winter. They are 

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 four feet apart. There are two species of catalpa 

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 the other, speciosa. It makes excellent fence 

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GRAFTING APPLES 



I want to plant 200 Baxter seedlings and when 

 two years old to top graft Wealthy and Northern 

 Spy grafts to them. How can this be done and how 

 many grafts can I put on each two year old stock ? 



New Jersey. H. L. C. 



— Plant one-year-old Northern Spy trees that are 

 already budded upon seedlings, and then top-graft 

 or bud into those trees. This double working with 

 the Northern Spy has a twofold effect. It is quite 

 well established that the influence of the Spy stock 

 not only gives vigor and vitality to the varieties that 

 are budded upon it, but it is asserted by one of the 

 oldest nurserymen in the United States that he has 

 found it to dominate to a very marked degree 

 the root development of the seedlings. I prefer bud- 

 ding to grafting, particularly on these young stocks of 

 one and two years of age. In budding one-year-old 

 trees, insert three buds in the body of the tree about 

 four inches apart, the lower bud being not more 

 than two and a half feet from the ground. 

 In budding two-year -old trees if the branches are 

 formed so as to make a good head, insert four buds. 

 If the branches do not come right to make a well 

 balanced head, set the buds in the body of the two- 

 year-old tree. The budding may be done during 

 August and early September, or at such time as the 

 bark will open or cleave readily from the wood. 



G. T. P. 



