1893 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
147 
Farmers* Club Discussion* there would be very few trees replaced 
(Continued.) in this section, if we had to follow out 
As a farmer I cannot grieve when men the instructions laid down in it, remov- 
go to the towns. They are only obeying ing such an amount of earth and replac- 
a great natural law that would maintain ing it with new. I do not condemn the 
an even balance between production and method by any means, hut it would be too 
consumption of food, if man would quit expensive for us. I have 20 acres of 
interfering with its operations. When orchard to replace, which would he a 
we were in the height of our business as big tax according to those instructions, 
a nation of giving good farms away, we My way of doing so is : When I see a tree 
attracted men to farm life, or held them beginning to die, I immediately plant 
to it, by inducements that never should another by its side and leave the old one 
have been offered. We destroyed the as long as it bears profitably and then 
balance that instinctively the people now cut it away (from two to five years.) 
seek to regain by an exodus from the Then I have a young, vigorous tree 
country. It should continue until the nearly of bearing size, and when I find a 
bread-producing forces are in proper 
ratio to the bread consumers. 
That Big: Potato Crop. 
C. N. R., Canton, Pa.— To the Vermont 
subscriber who gives his plan for raising 
a large crop of potatoes I would make 
these suggestions : If you cut your seed 
at all, wait till as near planting time as 
possible, but try a few rows with whole 
seed, farther apart. Plant early and 
about four inches below the surface. In¬ 
stead of a harrow use Breed’s weeder 
twice before coming up and twice after. 
Use all your phosphate broadcast after 
spring plowing except 600 pounds and 
harrow well into the soil. 
The Grange and “Free Sliver.” 
J. H. Brigham, Master National, 
Grange.— My attention has been called 
to an article published in The Rural 
New-Yorker of January 7, 1893, entitled 
“Silver and Wheat,” “The Position of 
the Grange.” Under the above head 
the writer submits a long essay upon the 
subject of the coinage of silver, which 
no doubt fairly expresses his views. I 
deem it, however, an official duty to say 
that the Grange is in no way responsible 
for the opinions therein expressed. The 
article in question has never been sub¬ 
mitted to our members nor in anyway 
approved by them, and the assumption 
that it in any way defines or gives “ the 
position of the Grange” is wholly unwar¬ 
ranted. Each member of the order is 
free to think for himself or herself, and 
all are entirely competent to speak for 
themselves upon this or any other eco¬ 
nomic question. 
How to Kill Trees. 
J. H. A., Delaware. N. J.—I think if 
the man who wants to kill his locust 
stumps so that they will not sprout, will 
bore holes in the stumps and fill them 
with salt he will have no trouble with 
sprouts. 
A. H. B., Vienna, Va.—L et S., page 
37, girdle the trees after they commence 
to leaf out, and let them stand until next 
spring, “or one year” before cutting them 
down, and then report results. I have 
seen Lombardy poplars and cottonwood 
trees treated in this way and not a single 
sprout appeared ; on the other hand, in 
the ordinary way of cutting down they 
are very troublesome. The theory is 
that the sap is all drawn out of the roots, 
and in consequence of girdling does not 
return, and in the weak condition of 
the roots winter kills them. 
The Best Potato. 
A. H. S., High Ridge, Conn.—A. S. 
McB., asks for the best potato, counting 
quality only. Nothing has ever seemed 
to me to begin to compare with Early 
Maine for flavor, in which respect it is 
as different from all other kinds as a 
sweet potato is from an Irish. I have 
tried it five or six years, using my own 
seed and find no deterioration in any 
respect. It grows with a fair proportion 
of fair-sized marketable tubers, but there 
is nothing wonderful in that way. They 
are of good shape ; no rot with me last 
year, but they are moderately liable to 
“ scab.” 
Young Trees in Old Orchards. 
O. J. T., Isle La Mott, Vt.—S ome 
time ago I read an article in The Rural 
entitled, “ How can we successfully re¬ 
place apple trees in an old orchard where 
trees have died out or are dying.” I think 
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