I have no trees for sale, and so have no yield in the county last year 
ax to grind, but just give so noble a wheat was cut, lots of pea 
cherry its just dues. Will some of the 
readers of The It. N.-Y. give their ex¬ 
perience with a solution of sulphate of 
copper without any admixture of lime in 
spraying ? 
Weeder Better Than Harrow. 
C. A., Medina, N. Y.— In The R. N.-Y., 
page 126, is a discussion between A and 
B. Now my name is A, and my wife is 
B, or her name was Breed, but no re¬ 
lation to the weeder manufacturers. I 
have a three-section smoothing harrow, 
and thought it was a good tool, until I 
tried a Z. Breed weeder. Now I think 
the same of the weeder that I do of my 
wife, or, to put it better ; they are both 
the best in the world. In using the 
weeder, I average over two acres per 
hour, and that is about as fast as one 
will go with a smoothing harrow. I use 
a weeder on beans until after haying, 
and then I have time to use a walking 
cultivator to cut thistles. For beans, a 
smoothing harrow is no good after they 
come up. Then the harrow frame is wider 
and the teeth short and stiff, so in going 
over uneven places it is impossible to do 
a good job. The best recommendation I 
ever heard for the weeder was by a hired 
man that had worked by the day. He said, 
“ A man is a fool to praise the weeder, 
as it will kill the weeds so there will be 
no day work.” If there were less day 
help to pay, more farmers would say 
amen. 1 have all kinds of soil from 
brick clay to molding sand, and some 
very stony soil. I have used the weeder 
two seasons, and would not go back to a 
smoothing harrow for anything. 
Abundance Plums in Indiana. 
J. M. II., Sycamore, Ind. —Abundance 
plums will not be very abundant here 
the coming season. Fruit buds of Abund¬ 
ance and Burbank were all killed prior 
to January 20. These plums do not seem 
to be as hardy in bud as ordinary varie¬ 
ties of peaches, as an occasional bud of 
the latter survived last winter while the 
Japs were all killed as early as Feb¬ 
ruary 1. 
Grafting the Carman Grape. 
E. II., Jeffersontown, Ky.—I n the 
spring of 1894, the stocks of two seedling 
white grapes were cut off and two scions 
of Carman grape cleft grafted into each 
root—that is, into one large root of each 
vine. By grafting into the root, sprouts 
are avoided. One scion of each graft 
grew. One of them made growth as fol¬ 
lows : Diameter near the ground, 8-10 
inch ; stem, four feet; four arms, 44 
feet; smaller branches, 33 feet. A Car¬ 
man graft was also made on the root of 
a wild fall grape which, not only made 
an abundant growth, but produced a 
line cluster of grapes close to the ground. 
As this graft was very late in starting, 
the grapes were late in ripening, but 
they ripened and were very good. I now 
have four fine vines which bid fair to 
produce a fine crop this year. 
How Cow Peas Improve the South. 
O. O. G., Aylett, Va.—O n page 50, of 
last year’s R. N.-Y., I gave directions 
for sowing the cow-pea, and some ac¬ 
count of my pea fallow. Possibly some 
of the readers would like to hear how 
the fallow turned out. The peas were 
nearly three feet high, when a severe 
wind and rainstorm laid them fiat; but 
they kept on growing, and were as full 
of peas as any fallow I ever saw. I did 
not put my hogs on quite soon enough, 
and although the hogs got in fine condi¬ 
tion, they had scarcely consumed more 
than half of the peas when I turned 
them under, finishing October 16. I 
used a chain on the plow to cover the 
vines. The land was then harrowed, 
and the wheat and 400 pounds of acid 
phosphate harrowed in broadcast. Al¬ 
though the lot was very much depre¬ 
dated by fowls, the wheat badly cut by 
the March freeze, and where jointed 
killed outright, and with no rain after 
May 2 to amount to anything, the yield 
was 25 bushels per acre—the largest 
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