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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
OCT. io 
$500 Strawberries Off an Acre. 
L H. G., Bristol, Ind —H. A. M., Hyde 
Park, N. Y., says in The R. N.-Y., page 
266, that 1500 worth of strawberries can be 
raised on one acre; bat I do not believe it 
has ever been done, or ever will be done 
with profit, If the berries are sold at five 
cents per quart. H. A. M. says water thor¬ 
oughly three times a week. To do this 
150,000 gallons would be required for one 
acre. 1 have a little patch of five acres on 
which with good culture I can raise, in a 
favorable season, $100 worth of strawber¬ 
ries on one acre, and the man who can raise 
$500 worth will have to do so with figures on 
paper. He cannot do it in the ground at a 
profit. Just think of keeping five acres of 
strawberries clean by hand I The idea 
“makes me tired.” If, however, H. A. M, 
will come out here next spring (1892) and 
show me how to plow, set and take care of 
a three acre lot so as to raise $500 worth per 
acre profitably, I will bind myself to give 
him $1,000 from the first crop raised. Let 
us hear from others. 
Ensilage Cutter vs. a Broad Axe. 
W. F. Massey, Wake County, N. C.— 
“A deal of expense is saved by putting the 
co-n in whole, and the best of ensilage is 
secured.” So says Mr. E. L, Bass, in The 
Rural New Yorker for September 19, and 
s ) some one keeps saying, but I think no 
stickler for this method can have had much 
experience in making ensilage. A deal of 
expense is saved, no doubt, in getting the 
corn in ; but the saving is lost several 
times over in getting it out to feed, and by 
spoiling and wastage. Whenever a man 
can chop corn with a broad axe by hand 
more cheaply than by steam or horse power, 
then a deal may be saved in the cutting by 
putting the corn in whole. Plnsllage can 
be made with whole corn—I have seen it so 
made ; but it was not the best, and the pro¬ 
portion of damaged ensilage was enough to 
pay for cutting it; and, then, the man was 
laboriously cutting it down with a broad 
axe in sections, with the mold striking in 
day after day on the mass left exposed so 
long. Just imagine a man with a stock of 
cattle that will eat up a ton and a half of 
ensilage daily chopping it down with an 
axe! The men who find the making of 
whole-corn ensilage a saving of expense 
must have very low priced laborers or don’t 
value their own time highly. I should prefer 
to cut it even if it cost a little more, 
merely on account of the convenience of 
handling and the better quality of the en¬ 
silage. But until a man with a broad axe 
can compete in cheapness with a machine 
driven by power, it will never be cheaper to 
put corn in the silo uncut. 
That London Seed Circular. 
D. M. Ferry & Co., Detroit.— In The 
Rural for September 19 we notice a very 
pointed reference to a circular issued by a 
London seed house and sent to seedsmen in 
America. We have a copy of what is pre¬ 
sumably the same circular on file in our 
office. It is but just, however, to state that 
during our experience of more than 85 
years this is the first document of this 
character that we have received from any 
seedsman, European or American. 
Wheat In the far Northwest. 
W. J., Moscow, Idaho.— I still consider 
the grain crops in this State short of last 
year’s from various causes; for this is cer¬ 
tainly an off year with us. We are in the 
midst of harvest now. In Eastern Oregon 
and Washington crops are earlier than here. 
Since the matter has been put to the final 
test in this vicinity, some fields are yield¬ 
ing far better than looked for; while the 
yield from others is below the estimate. I 
had 95 acres of fall wheat on summer-fal¬ 
low : fully 40 of it I had to cut for grain 
hay; part of it on account of its being in¬ 
fested with wild oats, and the rest; because 
it was so badly injured by a frost on July 
6, that it would not pay me to leave it for 
grain. Of what I thrashed 19 acres yielded 
over 56 bushels per acre, and the remainder 
over 40. The frost affected only fall wheat 
on bottom land ; spring wheat wasn’t far 
enough advanced to be injured. Early 
sowed spring grain on fields that yielded 39 
to 45 bushels per acre a year ago, is yield¬ 
ing only 20 to 30 bushels per acre this sea¬ 
son. Of course some fields are giving 40 
and upwards. In many cases late-sowed 
spring grain is badly hurt by rust; but this 
is the first season we have had this pest to 
contend with. The Rural says that East¬ 
ern Oregon and Washington embrace an 
enormous extent of country, a fact of 
which I am well aware, as I could name 
localities where wheat is making five to 
fifteen bushels per acre this year, and much 
that won’t be cut at all, and the general 
run of crops is not excellent although ex¬ 
ceptional yields can be got to prove the con¬ 
trary. A yield of 56 bushels of wheat per 
acre may seem heavy to Eastern farmers; 
but such a crop on a summer-fallow field 
a year ago was not thought much of. This 
season I had 20 acres of oats that yielded 
over 70 bushels per acre; but I summer- 
fallowed the land a year ago, and replowed 
it in the spring before sowing. As to 
the price of grain, I only questioned its 
being 49 per cent higher than a year ago: 
I didn’t wish to intimate that it was lower, 
as that couldn’t well be. 
Here are the prices paid in Moscow, Idaho 
and Pullman, Whitm an County, Washing¬ 
ton, points reached by both the Union Pacific 
and Northern Pacific Railroads. In the be¬ 
ginning of harvest I sold a small lot of 
wheat at 52 cents per bushel and the re¬ 
mainder of my wheat (5,000 bushels) at 49 
cents per bushel, less two cents per bushel 
for the hire of grain sacks to handle the 
crop. During the grain blockade In Novem¬ 
ber and December, 1890, wheat sold down 
to 45 cents per bushel ; after February 1, 
1891, it began to rise in price, reaching 70 to 75 
cents in the spring; but it dropped back dur¬ 
ing summer. The price when last I wrote 
was 54 to 55 cents per bushel for fall deliv¬ 
ery ; since then it rallied until 70 cents was 
reached ; but it has since declined until in 
Moscow yesterday—September 12—it was 
60 cents net or 63 cents sacked. These prices 
refer to No. 1 first grade wheat. Barley is 
60 cents per 100 pounds, but in Walla Walla, 
Washington, wheat has sold 20 cents per 
bushel higher than here, at the same date 
both years. 
Insects Dying Out. 
A. C. B , Rockville, Ind.—O ur apples, 
pears, peaches and plums are very fine this 
year. From observations I am of the opin¬ 
ion that many of our injurious insects are 
becoming scarce. The Colorado potato 
beetle Is surely becoming extinct, and so is 
the curcullo, but in a much less degree. 
Cabbage worms, codling moths, etc., are 
also growing scarcer. Have they struck a 
death-dealing enemy or parasite ? If it 
were not that the English sparrows Have so 
completely expelled all insect-feeding birds, 
we might lay some of the good to them. 
But we can’t. So many good observers 
have seen the sparrow chasing so many 
robins, blue j iys, meadowlarks, doves, etc , 
away that we must look elsewhere. But 
where ? Before the days of the codling 
moth and curculio Indiana was the leading 
location for fruits of all kinds, and I believe 
she is fast returning to her former position 
in this respect. 
Off With The Fence. 
W. G., Blair County, Pa.—T he pinch 
of hard times, like trials of other sorts, gen¬ 
erally proves in the end to be a real good. 
The sufferer from it is brought to a stand, 
induced to look about him and to study 
well the roads before him. Expensive and 
risky ways are given up, and safety better 
aimed for. Farmers very generally have 
been of late in this strait, and one thing 
which they are now everywhere aiming at 
is to reduce the very onerous burden which 
the keeping of fences entails upon them. 
This will relieve many a town from what 
is now a vexatious nuisance, and will give 
the citizens a chance to keep their streets as 
tidy, their trees and lawns as neat, and all 
the town as clean and as winsome as 
others that show these most laudable marks 
of improvement. A few centuries ago 
whole towns were fenced In everywhere by 
strong walls as a protection from human 
destroyers. Until our own times every in¬ 
dividual home has had to be fortified by 
fencing against vagrant cattle. But now 
even these barricadings are becoming un¬ 
necessary and are dispensed with to the 
great relief and pecuniary and esthetic 
benefit of all the people. In lieu of the 
wooden fences—all of them unsightly and 
scrawny or tending to become so—the land¬ 
scape will be clothed in all the gracious 
tints of grass and foliage pointed out with 
the colors of blossoms and of tillage. Trees 
and hedges will wear their best dress. Where 
there is much land left open, even the towns 
fail to protect the streets and the residents 
put up with defilement, injury and expense 
caused by roaming gramnivorm, because 
in some places poor people generally keep 
cows and pigs and have free pasture for 
them on the waste land around. The poor 
man’s cow Is sacred as long as the owner 
himself finds need of her, but the tendency 
of the times is slowly solving the difficulty. 
Fewer cows are kept by individual owners 
every year. Milk is supplied by dairymen at 
less cost than the cost, the feeding, and the 
risk of keeping one cow amount to. 
Kill a Tired Bush. 
M. M., Medway, Mass —To kill bushes 
in pastures, cut them at the season when 
the roots are most exhausted by top growth. 
Perennial plants store in their roots nutri¬ 
ment for growth the following season, and 
that nutriment is used up in making top 
growth in spring and early summer. Later 
in the season the foliage of such growth 
elaborates plant material to be stored in 
the roots again for making growth the next 
season. If the bushes are cut when the 
roots are in the most exhausted condition, 
there will be only feeble power to send up 
new tops. It is best, I think, to cut most 
bushes the first half of July. Then if there 
are bushes enough so that fires can be made 
to run over the land about a month later, 
when the cut bushes are dry, the sprouts 
that have started will be killed before they 
can have helped much in nourishing the 
roots, and the next year the shoots will be 
few and feeble. A persistent and thorough 
destruction of top growth for one year will 
be the death of almost any plant, even 
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He sprayed his orchards as usual at great 
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