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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
March t 
Splinters. 
Onion Sets Again.—The R. N.-Y. is 
almost too severe on the onion sets. It 
is hardly fair to figure on last year’s 
crop and prices. I would calculate 100 
barrels of onions per acre, at $2.50 for 
whites, which gives us $250. The grow¬ 
ers raise their own sets, and cut them 
out in winter, so they do not figure the 
cost up to catalogue prices. Then the 
carrot crop follows, or is sandwiched in 
and altogether, in a fair year, the two 
crops pay. It is less profitable than rais¬ 
ing from seed, but there is a large acre¬ 
age here from which seed-grown onions 
have been driven off. Perhaps I put the 
set acreage too high. It may be less 
than 50. E. c. birge. 
Connecticut. 
diameter. At a depth of about 10 feet. I 
struck a vein of gravel 18 inches thick, 
through which I dug. I then filled the 
hole with small stones to within one foot 
of the top, covered it and leveled the 
surface. It drained the plot completely, 
and is still working nicely. In the sum¬ 
mer of 1890, I tried draining another wet 
place in the same way, but it worked the 
other way—the water came up instead of 
going down. On page 6, J. P. asks about 
Black walnuts near fruit trees. I have 
a large one which has borne nuts for a 
great many years. There are 10 apple 
trees within 100 feet of it, and all seem 
to be doing well. One is 33 feet from 
it, one 39, one 42, and all three bear 
abundantly. a. m. c. 
Jackson Center, Pa. 
Is Forged Paper Void ?—At the head 
Fish for Carrots. —My experience in 
using fish for carrots, composting it with 
manure, is that it grows them largely to 
tops. Carrots appear to prefer manure 
that is not very rank. In some locations, 
famous for their large crops of potatoes, 
it is used in connection with potash or 
the popular fertilizer. It is thoroughly 
mixed with the soil, and where the ap¬ 
plication is a large one, part is put under 
and part above the crop. 
J. J. H. GREGORY. 
R. N.-Y.—Cauliflower growers on Long 
Island have told us that fish prolongs 
the growth of their crop, often to such 
an extent that it does not head up 
properly. 
For That Strawberry Insect Pest 
spoken of on page 09 of The R. N.-Y., I 
have found but one satisfactory remedy 
and I have tried everything that I 
thought would kill or drive it away ; 
that is a brood of small chickens, say, 10 
days old. Confine the mother hen in a 
coop, and let the chicks run. They will 
soon find the insects and will follow the 
rows of plants and look persistently for 
them ; eight or ten chicks will keep one- 
quarter of an acre clean of them. I used 
the Paris-green and hellebore, and in¬ 
creased the strength till I killed the 
plants. I presume that it must have 
killed some of the little bugs, but 1 could 
not see that it did. s. h. warren. 
Massachusetts. 
The New Celery Culture.—I am in 
of the editorial column on page 40, The 
R. N.-Y. says that a number of farmers 
in western New York will have to pay 
notes which they never signed, but which 
turn up with the signatures which were 
presumably given to blank paper. No 
principle of law is better settled than 
that forged paper is void, and the altera¬ 
tion of a written contract is forgery the 
same as is the false signing of one. If a 
man gives a note for $10, and it is raised 
to $1,000, it is void, though purchased in 
good faith by one having no knowledge 
of the fraud. So if, by any misrepresenta¬ 
tion, a signature be obtained to a blank 
paper, and a note be over-written with¬ 
out authority from the maker, the note 
is absolutely void. The careless signing 
of papers whose contents may not be 
thoroughly understood, at the instance 
of strangers of unknown character and 
responsibility, is tobeavoided, of course; 
but the farmer who has been hoodwinked 
should not think that his signature, be¬ 
cause genuine, guarantees the perform¬ 
ance of every promise some irresponsible 
rascal may write above it. J. e. b. 
Dayton, N. Y. 
|Ui.orrUancou^ gUvnliSinfl. 
In writing to advertisers, please always mention 
The Rijhai. New-Yorker. 
SPRAYING m7cE; 
Manufacturers arul Patentees of the Celebrated 
“Climax” Nozzle 
For FIELD, ORCHARD and VINEYARD. 
THE NIXON NOZZLE & MACHINE CO. 
Write for Catalogue. DAYTON, O., U. S. A. 
the same boat as W. A. W., page 88; I 
set 3,500 plants of Giant Pascal, New 
Rose, and Kalamazoo celery, on good 
muck fertilized with barnyard manure 
and ashes. 1 set them 5x10 inches as 
per the new celery culture, and sub- 
irrrigated. I had a good stand of 
roots as large as my wrist and 18 to 24 
inches high. I took them up in good 
shape with large clumps of soil on the 
roots, and put 1,000 in trenches in the 
cellar with a line of two-inch tile on the 
HALLOCK’S 
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cellar bottom so 1 could keep the roots 
wet and not wet the tops. Tcommenced 
to take them out about Christmas, but 
found them so hollow that roots two 
inches through would dress down so as 
to be hardly salable. 1 have over 2,000 
outside in trenches under two feet of 
snow, that 1 may report on later. Let 
us hear from the professors as to why. 
Newark, N. Y. c. e. c. 
Vertical Draining and Nuts. —In one 
of my fields, was a wet spot which I 
could not drain by ditching without run¬ 
ning a long distance. In the spring of 
1889, 1 concluded to try draining it verti- 
Potato Planter 
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A novel way to obtain a suitable name for their 
great, yes, wonderful new oats, has been adopted 
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Farmers report six tons of hay from Salzers 
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t j Jjarui wormy fruit.^ Insure^^jjf^ 
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