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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
October 27 
The Facts About Manure and Grubs. 
.T. W. B., Sai.em, Mass. —It seems to 
me that the substance ol the grub ques¬ 
tion is about as follows : A pile of ma¬ 
nure is a favorite breeding place for the 
May beetle, and if accessible, the insects 
are pretty sure to lay their eggs in the 
manure. Land upon which this is used 
will probably be infested with grubs for 
three years, the most serious damage 
being the second year. As a preventive, 
do not use manure which has laid in a 
pile during May and J une, which are the 
months when the beetles are to be found. 
I cannot say positively that eggs would 
not be laid in manure after being spread, 
but if at once well harrowed in, I regard 
it as very improbable. Land which has 
been in grass for several years, is almost 
sure to contain grubs of all sizes, and I 
suppose every strawberry grower knows 
that he is taking great risks when set¬ 
ting a bed upon sod land. Yet when not 
infested, and under certain conditions, 
recently plowed grass land has produced 
very satisfactory results, and I often 
take the chances. 
Great Value of tbe "Weather Bureau. 
D. A. N., Yantic, Conn.—The R. N.- 
Y. of October 6, asks : “ Are the services 
of the United States Weather Bureau of 
any value to you as an individual ? If 
so, in what does that value consist ?” 
Yes, they are of great value to me, in the 
following way : I fish some, hunt some 
and visit some; in the morning when 1 
get my morning paper, I always look at 
the report from the Weather Bureau. 
If that says rain or snow, I know it is 
safe to go out, for I know we shall then 
have clear and pleasant weather ; but if 
the report says, “clear and pleasant,” I 
tell my good wife : “We will remain at 
home,” for, nine times out of ten, we can 
depend upon the weather being just the 
reverse of what the report says it will 
be. In that way, it is a great help to me 
as an individual. This is my experience, 
others may have a different one. 
ironclad Apples. 
C. S, Rice, Lewis Countt, N. Y. —In 
my orchard, there are several trees of 
Scott’s Winter apples. They were not 
sprayed, but are heavily loaded with per¬ 
fect fruit. It seems to be an ironclad 
variety in more senses than one. The 
apples are perfect in form, and free from 
worms or scab. Another excellent va¬ 
riety, known in this vicinity as the 
Imperial, is free from scab, and has very 
few wormy apples. It resembles Scott’s 
in form, is not so dark colored, is at its 
best in December, but will usually keep 
much later. Scott’s will keep till June. 
Both of these varieties are early and 
profuse bearers, and need not be sprayed 
to secure a perfect crop. 
Broom Sedgre Again. 
W. F. Massey, Raleigh, N. C. —Prof. 
Roberts still insists that Broom sedge is 
a sign of soil exhaustion. Did he think 
so when he was out West? To my cer¬ 
tain knowledge, all the unbroken prairie 
of the West abounds, not only in our two 
Virginia species of Andropogon, but in 
other species, and the prairie hay to-day 
is largely made up of Broom sedge. In 
the example I cited of rich bottom land 
in Virginia, there was not the slightest 
evidence of exhaustion. The professor 
is fortunate, indeed, if he has any land 
at Ithaca equal to it. The cattle past¬ 
ured it out, and at once the Broom sedge 
filled the gap, Of course I know it is 
not a good plan to pasture a Timothy 
meadow, but drought on uplands often 
compelled me to do it. No amount of 
fertility will drive out Broom sedge, un¬ 
less seeds of other plants are introduced 
to smother it out, while kept bitten 
down by cattle. A Broom sedge pasture 
may be changed by manuring, into a 
pasture of better grass, not because the 
Broom sedge objects to wet land, but be¬ 
cause close pasturing and the growth of 
other plants crowd it out. Cows eat 
young Broom sedge in preference to 
other grass. 
“Save the Manure.” 
A. H., Twinsburg, 0 —This has been 
a very dry season. Seven weeks without 
sufficient rain to lay the dust—conse¬ 
quently a poor year in which to get the 
best results from fertilizer ; but where I 
put that manure there were results. I 
write this to impress upon farmers the 
necessity of saving every particle of 
solid as well as liquid manure. 
There will be many days this fall that 
may be occupied in picking up the small 
stones in the fields and piling them. 
Many have old worn-out fioors in their 
barns, and think of getting out lumber 
this winter to replace them. Don’t do 
it, but gather up the loose stones, and 
next year after harvest tear out the old 
floor and put in a paved and concreted 
floor ; this is much cheaper than a wood 
floor and can be done with the farm 
help. When done, no wind or rats can 
get under it, and it does not rot. 
Just to one side of the stable, dig an 
excavation about three feet deep and 
sufficiently large to hold the manure. 
Build a wall laid in cement around it, 
say, three feet high ; then put a roof 
over it. Manure may be piled in to any 
convenient depth. Let the bottom of 
the pit be kettle-shaped, and all be paved 
and cemented like a cistern. Lay the 
stable floor on an inc’ine, and put in 
catch basins covered with grating so as 
to catch all the liquid and drain this 
through tile laid in cement into the 
manure shed. The manure will absorb 
all the liquid, and when you spread that 
manure on the land crops will grow. 
My hog pens are connected with my 
manure shed and I let hogs run on the 
manure. If I think the horse manure 
likely to burn, or the hog or hen manure 
is not mixed, or that it is not fine enough, 
I throw on a little corn or wheat and 
the hogs do the rest. When the manure 
is taken out there is life in it. It is not 
half rain water, and with one-half of the 
fertilizing value gone into some creek or 
swamp. Let us be awake to the neces¬ 
sity of saving every particle of manure 
and then fill in what we lack with 
“ chemicals and clover.” 
The Maskiiifam Raspberry. 
A. D. W., Bowling Green, Ky. —Is the 
Muskingum and the Columbian one and 
the same ? In The R. N.-Y. of Septem¬ 
ber 8, page 571, Mr. Charles Mills’s de¬ 
scription of the Columbian fits the Musk¬ 
ingum as I have it, exactly. If they are 
the same, the fact ought to be known. I 
have fruited the Muskingum three years 
alongside of Shaffer, and have found the 
former greatly superior to the latter for 
the same reasons given by Mr. Mills. It 
is not only more satisfactory in fruit, 
but in hardiness of cane. Daring the 
March freeze my Shaffers were killed to 
the ground; the Muskingum not injured 
in the least and yielded a full crop. 
R. N.-Y.—We have not tried the Musk¬ 
ingum. 
Manure on Flowed Ground. 
A. H. G., Kansas. —Your readers may 
get more benefit from the use of barn- 
IN vrltlng to adTortlaeri pleaae slwaya mention 
PHN RURAL. 
yard manure, if they will spread it on 
land after it is plowed; it can be spread 
over three or four times as much land as 
when to be turned unde*", and yet do 
more g )od to the growing crop. That 
may explain why commer ial fertilizers 
do mo^e good ; it is became of tbe surface 
application, and fertility seems to setfe 
downward out of the reach of yojng 
plants. I tried it cn cern potatoes and 
strawberry plants the past season, with 
the beit results. It’s econo ny in the use 
of manure, and pays in the larger in¬ 
crease of crops. I hope others may t'y 
and report._ 
From Mr. Ward D. Gunn, of Clinton- 
dale, N. Y., comes a box of his Alice 
grapes, one vine of which has been fruit¬ 
ing in the Rural Grounds since 1887. The 
bunches are of medium size, the berries, 
which hold firmly to the stem, crowded 
closely together. The berries are of 
medium size, of a purplish amber color, 
with a lilac bloom. The skin is thick, 
like that of Vergennes. The pulp is ten¬ 
der, vinous, rich, the seeds (one to two) 
parting quite readily. The vine is hardy 
and healthy. Mr. Gunn should introduce 
the Alice. 
From the Smiths & Powell Co., of 
Syracuse, N. Y., comes a box of the Wor- 
den-Seckel pear, a seedling of the Seckel 
raised by S. Worden, of Minetto, N. Y., 
the originator of the Worden grape. It 
is a beautiful little pear, much the shape 
of the S3ckel, a golden yellow when fully 
ripe, with a bronze-red cheek. The 
quality is much that of the Seckel, though 
not quite so spicy. It will be valuable 
as prolonging the Seckel season. 
Small Figures That Tell a Big 
S iORY. —One tree of our Japan Paragon 
chestnut, planted in 1889, is now of these 
dimensions: The main stem from the 
ground to the first branches is five feet 
high, three inches in diameter. The 
entire tree is 103^ feet high, the head be¬ 
ing about 10 feet in diameter. The stock 
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