1893 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
7o3 
Farmers' Club Discussion. 
Continued. 
Some Beans About This ! 
J. S. H., La Crescent, Minn. —I planted 
the Horticultural Lima beans received 
from you last spring 1 , on June 16. They 
were dropped six inches apart in a single 
row, the row being 15 feet long. The 
soil is a fairly good clay loam that has 
been cropped five years, and never man¬ 
ured. Two liberal messes of green shell 
beans for a good-siz°d family were taken 
from this patch, and the entire crop of 
ripe beans was gathered on September 
28, and when shelled out measured 2% 
quarts. Enough green beans for another 
mess had been spoiled by frost, and 
many younger pois remained upon the 
plants. I should estimate that they 
would, if planted reasonably early, pro¬ 
duce from 60 to 75 bushels of dry beans 
to the acre. The color is likely to prove 
objectionable for market, or they would 
be one of the most, profitable crops the 
gardener could grow. I never saw any¬ 
thing like them in the bean line for pro¬ 
ductiveness. Those who tasted them 
pronounced them as good as the Sievas. 
A Money-Making; Sow. 
G. G. S., Spring Hiix, Pa. —I have a 
grade Chester White sow two years old 
last August, bought in November, 1891, 
for $3. She weighed 75 pounds, and I paid 
four cents per pound. She farrowed nine 
pigs about June 1, 1892, which sold for 
$18 when four weeks old. October 20 
she farrowed 11 pigs, which sold for $13 
when four weeks old. April 6, 1893, she 
farrowed 16 pigs (lost two) which sold 
for $42 at four weeks. The last of Au¬ 
gust she farrowed 13 pigs (lost three) 
which are worth at least $15. The sow 
would be cheap, when pigs are off, at 
$20. Sbe has been fed but little grain, 
running on pasture in summer, with 
milk and waste products. The nigs 
were all sold at market prices for this 
section, which is less than in most places 
I think. I am not sure but that there 
was as much clear profit from money in¬ 
vested as from your former records in 
Tiie Rural. 
Overbearing Strawberry Plants. 
H. J. S., Niagara, N. Y.—There seem 
to be almost as many points to be con¬ 
sidered in regard to different varieties of 
strawberries as there are about horses. 
One of these about which little is said, is 
the quality of bearing well for several 
years in succession without a renewal of 
the plants. I observe that nearly all of 
the popular kinds have the tendency to 
overbear strongly developed. What I 
mean by this tendency is the disposition 
of every plant to set so many berries 
that it is completely exhausted and use¬ 
less after the first year. I have found 
this true of the Wilson, Crescent, Man¬ 
chester, Bid well, Warfield and many 
others. The past season I have counted 
as many as 177 buds, blossoms and 
immature fruits on individual plants, 
enough to produce at least three quarts 
if they had all matured. It is needless 
to say that none of these plants fulfilled 
their promise, a large proportion of the 
berries perishing before maturity. A 
natural consequence is that a large pro¬ 
portion of the plants can never be re¬ 
newed for another year’s successful bear¬ 
ing. Indeed this excessive bearing so 
exhausts the plants during the time of 
the maturing of the fruit that the small¬ 
est approach to a drought results in the 
death and drying up of the plants before 
the fruit can ripen. This was especially 
the case with many of my Warfields this 
year. 
The quality of easy renewal of old 
plants is very useful to some people with 
small gardens, and it appears to me that 
it would be well to give it more thought 
than it generally receives. In my ex¬ 
perience the old Sharpless is the best 
renewer that I have yet seen. It has a 
certain continuance in respect to fruit¬ 
ing that enables it not only to produce 
good fruit to the end of the harvest, but 
the plants retain life enough to be thor¬ 
oughly renewed for another year’s work. 
In view of this tendency to overbear, I 
tried an experiment last year that seems 
to work well. Having adopted the hill 
system, I allowed my Manchesters and 
some others sorts to make a few extra 
runner plants. From these I took off all 
the fruit stems previous to blossoming. 
The result is that these plants sent out 
early runners and I have very respect¬ 
able-looking beds for another year’s crop. 
A Cage for the White Grub. 
S. H. W., Weston, Mass. —Here s a 
device that I have used to protect straw- . 
berry plants from the white worm that 
eats off the roots Having bought four 
doz n n of the Marshall strawberry plants, 
and paid $10 per dozen, I wanted to set 
them on new land (for I find they do 
best on it); for fear of the worms, I put 
them into wire-baskets made of old mos¬ 
quito screen netting. They were about 
eight inches long and six inches deep, 
the ends being folded over, a piece of 
wire being run through the fold to keep 
the ends from bursting open. Then they 
were filled with earth, and the plants 
put in. As the roots can grow through 
the wire and the worms can eat only 
what grows through, they cannot kill 
the plants. I don’t know how many o' 
the ends of the roots of the latter have 
been eaten, neither do I care, as the 
parent plants have all lived and done 
well; but a few of the young ones have 
been eaten off, but as I kept a good 
watch of them, I found the worms and 
killed them. This I recommend only 
for high-priced plants, and with me it 
has proved a sure protection. 
Grasshoppers and Deer in Farming. 
C. H. M., Milwaukee, Wis.—I want to 
give a little experience with grasshop¬ 
pers, to show how I was “comeup with.” 
I have a garden patch right at the water’s 
edge on Lake Michigan. It is mostly in 
grass, and a part of it I have planted to 
celery, gladiolus and lilies for market. 
My celery was to be grown by the new 
method, and was to astonish the neigh¬ 
bors. It was late, however, when we 
started, and I was anxious to hustle the 
stalks along, and thereby hangs the tale. 
One August day brought a fierce storm 
from the East, and, though Lake Michi¬ 
gan here is 85 miles wide, there were 
grasshoppers blown across in such quan¬ 
tities that they lined the shore six inches 
to a foot deep for 150 miles or more along 
the west shore of the lake. Many of them 
were dead, but myriads were alive. I 
thought, judging by the smell, that 
grasshoppers would make a good fertil¬ 
izer, and, judging by appearances, would 
also be a good mulch ; so we put them 
on the celery three inches deep. Prob¬ 
ably to revenge their brethren, the live 
ones in the course of a few days ate the 
whole celery crop down to the ground. 
Next they cleaned out a rutabaga patch, 
then went for the corn, which they ate 
all but the midribs and stalks. They also 
took a fancy to a row of Snow White 
gladiolus, and nipped holes into the 
buds of Speciosum and Auratum lilies, 
enough to ruin them. Things were get¬ 
ting serious when you recommended 
an inquirer to use bran, arsenic and 
sugar. I immediately prepared a dose 
and awaited results. It cleaned out 
the grasshoppers, two bunnies were on 
their backs in the garden the next day, 
while we know that practically all the 
rabbits on the place, though we did not 
find them, were killed. We had been 
protecting the gophers for the entertain¬ 
ment of the children, as we found that 
they did little harm excepting to corn. 
But not a gopher has been seen since. 
The grasshoppers were killed, we had 
our last inning, but we will have to get 
along without celery this winter. 
I have a farm in the northern woods, 
run to supply a few lumber camps with 
potatoes and vegetables. It is a long 
day’s journey from the station. We have 
our own troubles there. This year, to 
kill the flea beetles on his cabbage 
plants, my man used salt and water, 
with the result that deer the next night 
ate the whole frameful of plants. A few 
saved from another bed they would nip 
off after they were planted out, and the 
grasshoppers got those the deer left, so 
that with the late replanting not one 
cabbage in 10 has headed. In this loca¬ 
tion, where freight and cartage cost con¬ 
siderably more than the first cost of cab¬ 
bages in market, this is a serious matter. 
Corrosive Sublimate for Potatoes. 
H. C., Wescoesyillf,, Pa —You invite 
communications from persons who have 
used “ corrosive sublimate solution ” on 
potatoes. We planted three acres with 
uncut small seed potatoes, soaked one 
hour in the solution, and most of them 
planted before they were dry. Two and 
one-half acres were planted with King 
of the Valley, one-quarter acre with 
Early Rose, and one-quarter acre with 
Blue Victor. The King of the Valley 
were considered poor, weak seed, having 
sprouted in the winter, and the sprouts 
were dead and dried up. The Early Rose 
had degenerated by planting small tubers 
several years in succession and by bad 
culture. They are now harvested, and 
no scab appears on any of them except 
occasionally on one of the Early Rose, 
and this seed showed signs of scab when 
planted. We planted three small patches 
of ground with as many different kinds 
of the earliest varieties treated in the 
same manner as the others, and no scab 
appeared, though they were very tender- 
skinned varieties. The trench system 
was adopted in each case, but in an im 
perfect manner, and Mapes’s potato ma¬ 
nure was applied at the rate of 600 
pounds to the acre. Paris-green, with a 
generous mixture of plaster, was used to 
keep down the beetles. The soil is a 
clay limestone with not enough sand in 
its composition to prevent hardening. 
The three-acre lot has been planted to 
cereals for 20 or more years, and no grass 
or other crops taken from it. Potato 
blight was confined mostly to the small 
patches mentioned where the Paris-green 
was applied with water the first and 
second time, and the third time with 
plaster. The yield was as good as could 
reasonably be expected, considering all 
the circumstances—the great drought of 
the summer, poor seed, and other disad¬ 
vantages. This hai been an exceptional 
season with us, and not well suited to ex¬ 
periments in this line. 
Ornamental Trees and Shrubs. 
Isaac Hicks, ^ong Island. —Many 
persons in planting evergreen trees in 
their yards, are at a loss what kind to 
select. One that grows low is beautiful 
and holds its color through the winter. 
We know of none that equals the Reti- 
nispora obtusa nana, a long name truly 
but as easily spoken as many persons’ 
names, especially foreign ones. It is 
slow growing, pretty dark green, and, 
after several years’experience, we know 
no fault. It can easily be kept dwarf. 
We like autumn flowering shrubs, and 
when the trees are putting on the sere 
and yellow leaf to note the pretty bend¬ 
ing shoots of the Lespedeza or Desmo- 
dium, the Hydrangea ramnis pictus, 
with its clusters of blue flowers, the 
mountain fleece and the blue tassels of 
Ageratum Mexicanum, or the Autumn 
Monkshood. All these brighten these 
last days of fading vegetation and pro¬ 
long the season of flowers. What pretty 
little trees loaded with their tiny burrs 
are the Chinquapins; curious, too, in 
company with the Japan chestnuts with 
their large burrs and nuts. Elaiagnus 
Longipes (true, for we procured it from 
Meehan) bore full this year, the bushes 
scarce two feet high, of nice red berries, 
a little acid, the pit an objection, but 
the birds discovered them and they dis¬ 
appeared. The birds also claim all toe 
fruit of other varieties of the Elmagnus, 
and the fruit of the Amelanchier be¬ 
longs to them. 
Choking Cattle. 
H. C. B., Charlemont, Mass. —Almost 
every autumn we see articles in the pa¬ 
pers in regard to relieving choked cattle 
The way we do is to put a little handful 
of powder (gun or blasting powder) on 
the back of the tongue so far back that 
they cannot spit it out. We have never 
known it to fail. It is a very easy rem¬ 
edy, and we use it every time. It never 
has any bad effect unless the dose of 
powder is excessive. 
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