THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
June 30 
4io 
Some Notes on Late R. H.-Ys. 
W. G.jTyKORK, Pa.—T he .Japan quince 
is deservedly spoken tvell of as a hedge 
plant. It has many merits—it does not 
crow higher than the proper hedge 
height; it soon attains that height; it 
is not given to sucker; cattle neither 
browse on it nor break it. It has beau¬ 
tiful foliage, and the fine color is main¬ 
tained all the season through, while its 
bloom is surpassingly fine. It can be 
propagated readily by cutting roots of 
an old plant in inch lengths in the fall, 
keeping in damp sand till early spring, 
then planting and covering about two 
inches deep. Occasionally the plants 
fruit, and then seed is yielded abun¬ 
dantly. What more can one ask in a 
hedge plant, unless that it be evergreen? 
It has another great merit—that of en¬ 
durance and longevity. A long stretch 
of hedge here, 20 years old or more, has 
never lost a single plant, but its stems 
are continually being renewed from the 
collar, and it never fails to bloom pro¬ 
fusely in April. As there is nothing 
absolutely perfect on this earth, so this 
plant has a demerit, which is that its 
stems are too pliant to offer resistance 
to animals : but this is easily secured by 
stretching a couple of strands of barbed 
wire along the hedge row at about two 
and four feet from the ground. On the 
whole, it is as easy to keep trimmed into 
neat and tidy shape as any hedge plant; 
none being diflicult if taken in time 
(every .Tune and September, after full 
hedge height has been reached). The 
shelter of a low hedge abundantly re¬ 
pays the draft its roots make upon the 
soil. Our best raspberries and straw¬ 
berries are always found close to an 
arbor vitae hedge and another of bar¬ 
berry, and on both the east and west 
sides of them. 
I can say, too, that I have found 
chestnuts as easily grafted or budded as 
apple or pear trees—at least the Spanish 
or Marron worked on our native chest¬ 
nut. I failed in one or two attempts to 
start the Chinquapin in that way. 
Mr. Hallock may be right in his state¬ 
ment that land is not liable to be run 
down when rented to market gardeners, 
who must of necessity feed it well; but 
it is lamentable to see many country 
farms being wholly despoiled of their 
fertility when rented out; the surface 
soil itself often being washed away and 
the damage irreparable. Mr. H. says 
that market gardeners don’t bother much 
about humus, it being chiefiy necessary 
in (on ?), a heavy soil. Then follows 
the statement that cabbage and cauli¬ 
flower want new land to succeed well. 
New land is always surfaced with humus, 
either from the decay of leaves or of 
grass blades. But the failure of the cab¬ 
bage may be the result of injury from 
^ome bacterial or other organism too 
minute for easy detection. We find, 
however, in Nature’s garden that all 
sorts of plants grow well and continue 
to grow well and healthfully, if not 
mutilated, so long as they have a patch 
of soil to themselves with its surface 
well mulched with the decaying remains 
of the growths of preceding years. 
Sqaasb Bags and Clay. 
S. S. I., Ohio. —Three years ago we 
dug a cellar ; the earth from the bottom 
was hard bowlder clay. Part of this 
was used to grade up around the wall, 
being a foot thick at the wall, and run¬ 
ning out to a feather edge at about 
eight feet. In the spring of 1892, some 
squash vines burst through this clay and 
were allowed to grow, which they did 
vigorously, reaching down, I suppose, ta 
the Blue grass sod that had been cov¬ 
ered. While the striped bug was plenti¬ 
ful on all our other vines in plowed 
ground, not a bug disturbed these chance 
corners in the hard packed clay. The 
vines set well and produced some admi¬ 
rable squashes, which proved to be Mar- 
bleheads. Last year we put some seed 
of the same variety in the same hard 
clay, just lifting up a clod with a spade 
and putting the seed under. The same 
phenomenon was again witnessed, no 
bugs there, while the garden a few rods 
away was filled with them. The best 
squashes were from these clay-tramped 
hills. We have planted again this year, 
merely breaking a hole in the clay with 
a hoe and putting in the seed. This 
clay spot has never grassed over, but re¬ 
ceives a good deal of waste water from 
the house, being near the kitchen door. 
One suggests that the chickens keep off 
the bugs, but the chickens have access 
to the other vines I have thought the 
bugs did not like to harbor where they 
could find no hiding place under a clod, 
as the clay ground around is packed hard 
and smooth. I have observed that the 
bugs at night, or in cool weather, hide 
under the loose soil and clods around the 
vines which we are so careful to keep 
well cultivated, while about these vines 
there is no hiding place. The vigor with 
which the vines grow proves that surface 
cultivation is not essential if good condi¬ 
tions prevail underneath. To see if 
there is anything in my theory, I will 
pack some clay over some hills in the 
cultivated soil and report. 
Fifty Tons of Hay a Week. 
•T. E. H., DeRuyteb, N. Y.—I am much 
interested in the articles about haying 
and haying tools. My farm is quite un¬ 
even, but I use a Deere six-foot hay 
loader to good advantage, and consider 
it better than hired help, as it is always 
ready for work. I unload with slings, 
pitching into the end of the barn, thus 
saving space by having no barn floor. I 
unload with two slings, as large loads as 
we can handle on our hills with comfort. 
I find that hay does not mow burn 
when put in with slings as it does when 
a harpoon fork is used. I think the rea¬ 
son is that the slings drop the hay loose, 
instead of dropping a compact bunch 
upon the mow, which it is almost im¬ 
possible to tear apart. Last year, I had 
three men and two teams. We mowed 
with two machines from the time the 
dew was off until 11 a. m.; then did 
odd jobs until noon. At 1:30, we started 
one team on the rake and followed 
with the loader. When we reached 
the barn, we unloaded with no one in 
the barn; then the man who drove the 
team to unload, went in and mowed 
away while the team went back for an¬ 
other load. Upon reaching the J&eld, the 
man raking stopped and drove the team 
on the wagon until the load was on. Thus 
we put in 50 tons in six days. Our hay 
is Timothy for baling. 
A “Starter” for Cabbage. 
S. B. H., Crawfordsville, Ind. —The 
planting of cabbage seed where they are 
to grow, does very well, but transplant¬ 
ing may do equally well. A market 
gardener here gave me his method of 
transplanting cabbage. It is to take a 
stick, and make a hole about six inches 
deep, fill it with water, put the plant in 
and press the earth around it; this is not 
puddling, but it is better. Puddling, as 
IN writing to adyertlsert please always mention 
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it Is Not 
What We Say 
But what Hood’s SarsaparillR does that 
tells the story. The great volume of evi¬ 
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tary testimonials prove beyond doubt that 
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Be Sure to/^t t 
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Hood’s Pills cure Habitual Constipation. 
I understand it, is to put the plant in a 
bucket of water with mud in it. When 
the plant is put in a pool of water and 
the earth or mud pressed to it the roots 
are in a soft mush of earth ; then if the 
dry earth be drawn over the wet around 
the plant no hard crust forms. I have 
planted, right after dinner on a hot day, 
by this method. The hired man who 
helped me decla’^ed that every one of the 
plants would die, but I don’t think three 
per cent of them failed to live. I take a 
broom handle and put a cross stick on it 
for a handle with which to punch the 
holes. One advantage in transplanting 
is, that the ground is perfectly clean of 
weeds, which may not be the case when 
planting the seed where it is to grow. 
An easy test of the method may be made 
on a hot day. Of course, it will be better 
to do the transplanting in the evening. 
“ Honest ’’ Commission Men. 
J. B. A., Waynesboro, Pa. —I read 
with much interest what The R. N.-Y. 
has to say about commission men. It 
seems to have faith in them as a class, 
and I have tried to feel that way, too ; 
but shippers as a class do not. The Rural 
says that it is easy to find out the good 
men, but has not told us how. Some spe¬ 
cific directions on this point I know 
would be of practical use to many read¬ 
ers. I have had a little experience. I 
have acted as agent and chairman of the 
executive committee appointed by our 
horticultural society. Our people are 
considerably interested in growing 
peaches. Prom my experieiroe, it is al¬ 
most impossible for the uninitiated to 
find out who are the honest and who are 
the dishonest commission men. A house 
may be financially all right, and the 
shippers may be receiving their checks 
for shipments by first mails, and yet be 
systematically robbed all the time, under 
cover of the known fickleness of the 
weather, the markets and the transpor¬ 
tation companies. Have we any assur¬ 
ance that we can rely on the published 
market reports ? Are they not often 
doctored ? How may we know a man to 
be honest without looking him in the 
eye ? 
R. N.-Y.—What we have said is that it 
is easy to learn of a man’s financial 
standing. We have no rules for deter¬ 
mining a man’s honesty by mail. Our 
advice to those who ship in large quan¬ 
tities is always to come to the city and 
look things over for themselves. The 
ideal plan is to have a selling agent here 
—a man who can keep track of the mar¬ 
kets and see for himself that returns are 
made for the honest sales. This is im¬ 
possible, unless there are large quantities 
of produce to handle and this is why we 
have always urged cooperation in selling 
so that the savings in commissions might 
more than pay the cost of a city agent. 
The R. N.-Y. advertises a number of 
commission men. In cases where com¬ 
plaints are made by shippers, we have 
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