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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
October 13 
Peaches After Many Years. 
A. C. W., New Jfk8ky. —After several 
unsuccesaful efforts fxterding over 15 
years to raise peaches, I had the f reat 
pleasure this week of picking from my 
own trees at fine fruit as I could wish. On 
referring to my farm record book, I find 
that I planted six each of Mountain Rose 
and Elberta on November 13, 1891. The 
trees were liberally fertilized the follow¬ 
ing summer with wood ashes and solid 
matter from the bottom of our cesspool, 
well worked into the soil away from the 
trunks. The ground on each side of them 
was well cultivated with a ha rrow-tooth 
cultivator. They made a good growth, 
a nd now stand fully 10 feet high with 
six feet spread, and a healthier row of 
trees cannot he seen in Bergen County, 
though the ground where they stand is 
very poor and dry, and the season, has 
been against them. After every rain this 
season, they have been cultivated within 
36 hours, with a wheel hoe or rake, 
mostly with the latter. To this and the 
wood ashes I attribute their fine condi¬ 
tion to-day. I also noticed last spring 
what a fine crop of cherries grew in a 
stiip where I used wood ashes freely two 
years ago on Hungarian grass. To-day 
those trees are as green and beautiful 
as they were in May and June, while 
others near them, in sod, are yellow and 
wilted by the drought. 
Alfalfa and Clover In Louisiana. 
C. C., Shrevkpokt, La, —I sent for a 
sack of Crimson clover seed to one of 
your advertisers and received a splendid 
lot of seed, which I gave to one of my 
friends who is a cotton planter; he 
sowed the seed Saturday, in niny 
weather, and on Monday morning the 
ground was covered with the young 
plants. We want to test Alfalfa also, 
but cannot find any seed ; none of the 
Colorado or California growers have seed, 
or else they do not have the enterprise to 
advertise it. I could sell several car¬ 
loads of seed if the price were reasonable. 
Oil of Vitriol for Stamps. 
D. S. K., No Address. —Is there any 
way of destroying stumps by boring holes 
in them ar d pouring in some substance 
that will decay them ? Has oil of vitriol 
been tried ? If holes are bored into the 
stunp, about two inches in diameter and 
deep enough to hold about half a pint of 
oil, plugged up tightly, and left for the oil 
to be absorbed, say, from three months 
to a year, according to the size ; then the 
stump be set on fire, the whole will be 
consumed to the extreme ends of the 
roots. This work can be best done in 
the winter, taking advantage of the dry 
weather during the following summer to 
burn out the stumps. The oil can be 
bought by the carboy of about 100 
peunds, or 20 gallons. Extreme care 
should be used in handling it as it is 
very corrosive, and will severely burn 
anything it touches. Its fumes also are 
to be avoided. 
Sensible Road Talk. 
C., Oneida County, N. Y.—Prof. Rob¬ 
erts’s sensible remarks on road building, 
on page 586, should be supplemented by 
a word of qualification where he recom¬ 
mends a shallow ditch or channel be¬ 
tween the main ditch and the center of 
the road. While this may te unobjec¬ 
tionable on a level road, on a sloping or 
side-hill road—especially if the soil is 
clayey—it is likely to result injuriously, 
as in a wet time it does not take long to 
obstruct the side channels to the main 
ditch, and to cut ruts for the water to 
follow these inner ditches. If the roads 
had constant supervision, this could be 
made harmless ; but our present system, 
or lack of system, allows no work or 
pretense of work more than once in a 
year; consequently, we too often see 
roads rendered almost impassable by 
such treatment, and the inevitable neg¬ 
lect which follows. I would therefore 
say that sloping roads should be made 
wide, with a moderate curve, or slope, 
from the center of the roadway to the 
outside edge of the ditch, and with cut¬ 
offs to lead the water away from the 
road as often as practicable. 
ChiBCA Bnes in Illinois. 
Fred Grundy.—A few days ago my 
corn was too green to cut, but in 48 
hours the husks dried, the leaves wilted, 
and the sap seemed to be disappearing 
rapidly frem the stalks. A glance showed 
that it was swarming with chinch bugs. 
They had moved in from a reighboring 
field, and the weather being just rght, 
they had increased from hundreds to 
millions in an incredibly short time. I 
went at it at once, and with every whack 
of the knife a shower cf bugs rattled 
down the stalks. I got my sleeves and 
pockets full, and could feel them crawl- 
irg over me all day; but the corn had t5 
be cut right then. If we have a wet 
winter they will be destroyed, but if it 
be moderately dry, we can safely calcu¬ 
late on billions of them next year. 
Crimson Clover In Central Hew York. 
J. H., Onondaga County, N. Y.—I 
have read with much interest the Crim¬ 
son clover articles published in The R. 
N.-Y., and hope that it v ill succeed as 
far north as central New York. I pur¬ 
chased some seed by way of experiment 
last spring. I have not seen any notice 
of its having been tried in this vicinity. 
1 sowed a small plot June 12, another 
the middle of Juty, and mother where I 
had frown early potatoes, August 31. 
The fint sowing came up quickly and 
grew vigorously, and when 2M feet high, 
August 25, it came into bloom. By way 
of experiment, I sowed half of plot No. 
2 with wheat, but think it injured and 
checked the clover more than it bene¬ 
fited it. The clover on this plot is now 
about 18 inches high, is growing finely 
and looks fresh and green. Plct No. 3 
was sown on mellow, rich soil, and a 
favorable rain coming the same day, it 
came up and began to show its little 
leaves the fourth day. It will socn 
cover the ground, ard I shall be able to 
see how it will withstand the coming 
winter. 
That Apple Picker. 
N. B. W.—I am surprised that any one 
should want a patent on a canvas apple 
gatherer, as it is no new thing. I made 
and used one three years ago, of burlap, 
that worked finely, and as far as I am 
concerned, any one is at liberty to do 
the same. I made it crosslegged like a 
cot bed, 16x20, with the legs standing 
under each side, the rail well padded 
with excelsior, small cord running from 
each corner on the top of the canvas and 
down through the hole in the center to 
beep the center dovn. This may be set 
under one side of a tree, and when that 
side is done, move to the other. It works 
well on uneven ground cr very low trees, 
and is as quickly moved as a basket, and 
when through with can be folded to¬ 
gether and put away. 
R. N.-Y.—We understand that the 
patent on the device described in The 
R. N.-Y. is claimed on the hood and its 
general adaptation. 
lir writing to adTortlsen ple»ie always mention 
PHI RCnELAL. 
Hood’s Is the Best 
Fall Medicine, because is purifies,vitalizes 
and enriches the blood, and therefore 
gives strength to resist bad effects from 
Colds, Catarrh, Rheumatism, Pneumonia, 
Hood’ 
g Sarsa¬ 
parilla 
r^ures 
Malaria, the Grip, etc. 
Take it now and avoid 
the danger of serious <%%%<%<% 
illness. It may save 
you many dollars in doctors’ bills. Be 
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Hood’s Pills cure all liver ills, biliousness, 
ndlce, Indigestion, sick headaobe. 25o. 
We were mistaken when we told our 
readers that our seccnd-crop potatoes 
planted July 27, had rotted. About half 
of them are growing with teps three to 
five 'nches high. What we watted to 
find out was whether seed potatoes 
“ wilted ■’by b( ing cut and placed in a 
he t, sunny place for two days, wruld grow 
or re t. The same potatoes might havf 
been dug as early as July 10, then v ilted 
and planted July 13, which would have 
given them two weeks longer to grow. 
Sfptembhr 10, a number of fine Idaho 
pears were blown to the ground. Or e 
ireasured lOK inches in circumferere' 
while yet perfectly green and growing. 
The pears were wrapped in paper, placed 
in a box and covered with fine woed shav¬ 
ings. They ripened September 24. The 
pears were not yet ripe upon the tree 
The ripened specimens were not at aB 
shriveled, tut the quality, as might have 
been guessed, was inferior. 
In the spring of 1888, the following pear 
trees were planted at the Rural Grounds 
in rather poor soil. They have not since 
been manured or fertilized: Dana’s 
Ilovey, Sheldon, Seckel and Bose. Dana’s 
Hovey and She’don are bearing their fi'st 
crop, Seckel the second, and Bose the 
third. The Bose tree is not over eigl t 
feet high, the branches starting but a 
few inches above the soil. This was so 
laden with its great, beautiful russety 
long-necked fruit that it was necessary 
to support eveiy branch, though the fruit 
was thinned out early in the season 
Bose pears taken from the trre Septenr- 
ber 13 are now (September 22) fully ripe, 
Sheldon ripens two weeks later. Sechel 
ripens almost exactly with Bose. Dana’s 
Ilovey ripens later. Are ihere three bet- 
t(r pears, all things considered, than 
Seckel, Bose and Sheldon ? 
Mr. Victor Howard of Stevensville, 
Mich., seems to think that The R. N.-Y 
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