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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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always found these men ready to open 
their books for inspection and show us 
just what prices they obtained for floods. 
At the same time, when low returns are 
made, it is human to think that we could 
have done better could we have sold the 
goods ourselves. But when the market 
is glutted with any particular product, it 
is impossible for any one to force sales, 
be he owner or agent. Don’t we often 
get deceived in people with whom we 
are dealing face to face, and about whom 
we have every facility for learning? Can 
we expect to do better when transacting 
business by mail ? 
Clearing Stump Land On Lone Island. 
F. L , Long Island.—I cut the wood 
during the winter, sprout the stumps in 
August and burn when dry; sow one 
peck of Timothy, one-half bushel each of 
Red Top and Orchard grass. Tie a bush 
to the wagon and draw it over the ground 
both ways and the grass will come up 
and grow in the spring. Turn in sheep 
in April. The fence may be made for 20 
cents a rod by using poultry wire netting 
and in four or five years the stumps will 
be dead, so that the most of them will 
plow out, 
We are still hoping through experi¬ 
ment to find some practical way of deal¬ 
ing with rosebugs. Our last effort was 
begun .June 8 at eight o’clock A. m. We 
mixed one part of hellebore with two 
parts of Fungiroid, two parts Buhach 
and three parts of Paris-green and plaster 
(l>i pound to a barrel of plaster). The 
Fungiroid is a dry Bordeaux Mixture as 
previously explained. Several years ago 
we -used 'Paris-green, Buhach and helle¬ 
bore, without effect upon this apparently 
invulnerable, irrepressible beetle, except 
as to the Buhach. But we thought that 
the new combination might be serviceable. 
Through a Leggett gun the mixed dry 
powder was blown upon hundreds that 
were feeding upon the flowers of a Vibu' - 
num. The bush was thoroughly pow¬ 
dered. We then collected about 50 of 
the powdered chafers in a box provis¬ 
ioned with the leaves and flowers of the 
same shrub. 
In about two hours, most of the rose- 
bugs had flown away from the bush. A 
few were struggling upon the soil under¬ 
neath, half paralyzed, evidently from the 
sole effects of the Buhach. The only 
rosebugs upon the bush seemed to be 
new-comers that had flo ?vn upon it from 
other plants. At about 3 p. m., the rose- 
bugs in the box were upon their backs as 
if dying—wriggling of the legs being the 
one evidence of life. The next morning, 
all the rosebugs in the box were dead 
save two. There were no dead beetles 
under the Viburnum; those upon the 
flowers—and they were about as numer¬ 
ous as ever—seemed to be fresh arrivals. 
It will appear from the above that the 
combination of lime, copper, plaster, 
Paris-green, hellebore and Buhach is no 
more effective than Buhach alone as an 
exterminator of this terrible pest. 
June 12 we dusted potato vines with 
Paris-green, plaster and Fungiroid, using 
about two parts of the Paris-green- 
plaster to one of the dry Bordeaux. 
About 1}4 pound of Paris-green was 
thoroughly mixed with a barrel of plas¬ 
ter. It requiied, as nearly as we could 
estimate, about 20 quarts of this mixture 
thoroughly to dust an acre. If a larger 
proportion of Paris-green were used, less, 
of course, would be required in so far as 
killing the potato beetles is concerned. 
In fact, pure Paris-green may be used, in 
which case one pound to the acre is said 
to be enough, as the slot may be sn ad¬ 
justed that the Paris-green blown upon 
the vines is scarcely visible. But we do 
not advise using Paris-green pure or 
anything like it, and we are surprised 
that any one would care so to use it. 
The improved gun works to perfection, 
the reservoir holding about a quart. 
Vines may be dusted about as fast as one 
usually walks—two rows at once, and 
the work of carrying the gun and turn¬ 
ing the crank is of the lightest kind— 
child’s play in fact. 
Crimson Clover. —In a letter received 
a few days since from a Mississippi sub¬ 
scriber, the writer, a careful experi¬ 
menter, refers to the recently published 
comments on Crimson clover, and calls 
attention to the fact that all the state¬ 
ments advocating its cultivation have 
come from experiment stations and farm¬ 
ers east of the Alleghany and Blue Ridge 
Mountains. He states that he has looked 
in vain for favorable reports from either 
the Central, Western, or Gulf States, and 
asks whether the crop has been satisfac¬ 
tory in any part of the country excepting 
in the States on the Atlantic coast. He 
says, “ Perhaps my own failure has been 
because I did not know how to grow it, 
and perhaps it is a plant which will not 
succeed everywhere.” We shall be glad 
to hear from correspondents who have 
planted it in the Central ani Southern 
States. 
Prof. Massey, of the North Carolina 
Station, says in the Practical Farmer; 
“ Writers speak much of the famous Ar- 
genteuil asparagus of the Paris markets, 
and tell us how much better it is than 
ours, but if the specimens we get from 
there in tin cans fairly represent it, 
we don’t want it.” For many years we 
have tried the various so-called varieties 
of asparagus. It is, perhaps, 15 years 
ago that we imported seed of the Argen- 
teuil and Red Dutch and planted them 
beside Moore’s Crossbred, Conover, and 
other named varieties. 
Practically we have been unable to de¬ 
tect any marked difference in size or in 
flavor. The Argenteuil is of a lighter 
green color than the others; the Red 
Dutch of a darker color. That is about 
the whole story. The new Columbian 
Mammoth White we fancy will prove no 
exception as to size or quality. It is 
merely of a lighter color than the others. 
The five plots of Crimson clover sown 
last April are at this time a study. The 
stand of clover was about the same on 
all. So was the stand of Pigweed (Chena- 
podium). On the no-manure plot, both 
the Pigweeds and clover have made a 
feeble growth up to this time (June 11). 
Precisely the same may be said of the 
phosphate plot and the potash plot. 
These three all look alike. The clover 
is about an inch high, the Pigweed a 
trifle higher. But the plot which re¬ 
ceived at the rate of 400 pounds to the 
acre of nitrate of soda and nothing else, 
is thickly covered with a rank grojvth 
of Pigweed from six to ten inches tall. 
This conceals the clover entirely and 
bids fair to smother it. Strange to 
say, the plot which received 400 pounds 
of nitrate, 800 pounds of phosphate (dis¬ 
solved boneblack) and 400 of potash, has 
a less vigorous growth of Pigweed than 
the plot which received nitrate alone. 
One may not even guess at an explana¬ 
tion. Friends will kindly bear in mind 
that these plots have never received any 
farm manure of any kind. 
Mixing in the Hill Again. —“ I think 
Irish potatoes will mix. Not that I have 
ever seen them mix, but I once raised 
white and red sweet potatoes in the same 
patch several years. There were often 
striped potatoes, and twice I found a 
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A special train will leave Buffalo on 
July 11, at 10.30 A. M., via the Nickel 
Plate Road for the accommodation of 
delegates to the Christian Endeavor Con¬ 
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will stop at Euclid Avenue, Madison Ave¬ 
nue, Willson Avenue and Broadway 
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A Souvenir Map of Cleveland furnished 
free by addressing F. J. Moore, General 
Agent, 23 Exchange Street, Buffalo, 
N. Y.—Adv. 
white potato and a red potato both on 
the same vine. I kept the last ones both 
on the vine together till they dried up. 
If sweet potatoes will mix, why will not 
Irish potatoes do the same ?” .r. w. s. 
Mifilin, Tenn. 
We do not think that our friend un¬ 
derstands The R. N.-Y.’s view of this 
question. There is no doubt whatever 
that the eyes (buds) of potatoes vary, 
both as to vine and tuber. From such 
variations we have Late Hebron from 
Early Hebron; Late Rose from Early 
Rose. Our proposition is that potatoes 
can not “ mix in the hill.” If all known 
varieties were planted in the same field, 
there would be no “ mixing in the hill.” 
Mixing can occur only through true seed. 
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Seed Wheat for Sale. 
Yielded 53 bushels per acre In 1893, beating Fultz's 
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SCARLET CLOVER SEED 
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Crop of 1894 now ready. Bure; hardy; thoroughly 
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SCARLET CLOVER. 
Buy fresh seed from grower and save cost. 
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