1895 
275 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
FARMERS’ CLUB DiSCUSSION. 
(CONTINUED). 
end of the row by laying - them straight 
in a little box. These little boxes the 
planters hold in their laps. In this way 
the machine is kept moving all the time 
and this is very important. I did not 
wait for rain, but planted as soon as I 
was ready. If rain comes, so much the 
better, but your plants planted in this 
way w ill stand quite a drought. 
Clover Experiments in Canada. 
D. McK., Grimsby, Ontario. —First, to 
determine whether clover would allow 
Timothy to “ crowd it out ” if the after- 
math were neither cut nor grazed, in the 
spring of 1879, 1 seeded with Medium 
clover on fall wheat seeded to Timothy 
the previous fall, one-third of an acre of 
heavy clay loam, tile drained. In 1880, 
there was a fair crop, chiefly clover ; in 
1881, Timothy predominated ; in 1882, 
clover had the upper hand, and in 1883 
and 1884, the crop was heavier than be¬ 
fore, and might almost be called pure 
clover hay. In the fall of 1884, 1 dressed 
with stable manure and plowed it and 
the clover aftermath under, sowed man¬ 
golds on the sod the next spring, and 
sold from the little plot, over 11 tons, or 
33 tons per acre. 
Second, to determine whether clover 
can be successfully sown at midsummer, 
duly 25, 1893, I seeded an orchard of two 
acres on sandy loam, with Medium clover. 
The catch was good, but the young plants 
were killed except where shaded with 
the trees. 1 took oil about half a crop 
last d uly. 
Third, to determine whether Crimson 
clover will thrive in this part of Ontario, 
September 5 last, I sowed one-fourth of 
an acre of sandy loam, and on Septem¬ 
ber 12, the same area of red clay, using 
15 pounds to the half acre. On the sand 
where, in the shadow of a bush, the snow 
lay on the ground all winter, the clover 
is as green as when it went under in the 
fall. On the clay knoll, which was ex¬ 
posed to the full sweep of the west and 
north winds, and lay bare most of the 
winter, the plants are browned but living, 
although the thermometer frequently 
fell to zero, and once reached 13 de¬ 
grees below, killing many of the peach 
buds. 1 cannot see that the Crimson clover 
has been in any way more injured than the 
Medium sown on similar land one year 
ago. I seeded much too heavily, to allow 
for winterkilling ; probably one-third of 
the seed would have sufficed. 
Strawberries and White Grubs. 
Fred Grundy, Illinois.— Wouldn’t it 
have been much better for Mr. L. J. 
Farmer, page 220, to say that he did 
not know anything about white grubs, 
than that “ Fred Grundy is mislead¬ 
ing” ? It certainly looks that way to 
me. This is one of our most destruc¬ 
tive insects, and has been for years ; yet 
it seems that entomologists know little, 
if anything, about it. I have grown straw¬ 
berries 19 years, and never yet failed to 
harvest a crop, though a few of them 
were very light ones. I have seen my 
neighbors set strawberry plants, heard 
them boast that they would raise bigger 
and better berries than I did, and when 
I saw them enriching their soil with 
stable manure, I held my peace, and 
then sold them berries the following 
year. I don’t profess to know so much 
about white grubs as some people. I 
don’t know whether they are in the 
manure when it is applied, or whether 
the eggs are laid in the soil after it is 
applied ; but I do know that wherever 
it is applied, there they swarm. 
Some people guess that the grubs are 
three years in attaining their growth. 
Such may be the case, but the fact is yet 
to be demonstrated. I have seen hun¬ 
dreds of them in freshly manured ground, 
varying in size from one-eighth inch 
long to the great white whopper we used 
to bait our fish hooks with, tut I don’t 
know how long they are in attaining 
their growth, or how long they remain in 
the soil. My experience has taught me 
that it is a waste of time to set straw¬ 
berry plants on land, in this locality at 
least, that has been manured with stable 
manure, until at least two crops have 
been grown on it. Also that the best 
manure for strawberries is a reliable 
brand of commercial fertilizer. 
Since this matter came up, several II. 
N.-Y. readers have written me thattheir 
experience coincided exactly with mine, 
and that they had lost every plant set on 
freshly manured land. One party tells 
me that he applied a heavy dressing of 
salt and wood ashes, plowed it in, set his 
plants and did not lose one. Another 
applied salt and lime and met with suc¬ 
cess. If salt is applied, it should be 
plowed in or it is likely to injure the 
plants. 
Setting Fruit Trees with a Plow. 
D. H. G., Greenfield, Ind. —I notice 
some one inquiring about digging deep 
holes to set fruit trees. Now, I have an 
ideal objection (1 cannot say practical) 
to this plan for stiff clay subsoils, and 
especially so if the tree be set in the hole 
instead of on it. The hole forms a water 
reservoir which may do damage. I have 
about 50 acres in orchard, and when 1 
began setting, I adopted the hole system, 
but set near the surface. Later I adopted 
this plan : After establishing the line of 
my rows with a two-horse plow, I plow 
two rounds for each row, the first round 
about 14 inches from either side of the 
intended row, the next throw out the 
middle, thus leaving a good wide dead 
furrow, plowed as deep as I well cau, 
Then I run two or three rounds in the 
dead furrow with a subsoil plow, plow¬ 
ing it as deep as I can, and about two 
feet or over wide. This secures a fair 
drainage instead of holding water at the 
roots. 1 set my trees by the line in the 
dead furrow, and stakes for the other 
direction, always filling surface soil 
under each tree. With the plow adjusted 
to run near the trees, and a man to lead 
the near horse, I plow the ground back 
to the trees, going at least three rounds. 
This is a much speedier method than 
digging holes, and, I think, is preferable. 
Early Maturing Apples. 
C. P. A., WOODBRIDGK, CONN. —E. F. C., 
Watervliet, Mich., asks, “ What is the 
earliest apple to mature, that is, the 
quickest to come to bearing from the 
time it is set?” The R. N.-Y. recom- ! 
mended Oldenburgh, Keswick Codlinand | 
Gravenstein. Oldenburgh is good, Grav- ; 
enstein is better, the slower to come into ! 
bearing, but why you recommended j 
Codlin, I am sure I cannot imagine. If 
it were on the list of 300 varieties, 1 
would place it at the bottom. The Nyack ! 
Pippin is a valuable early bearer, and ■ 
the Chenango Strawberry is another; 
but the Russians are the quickest to 
come into bearing of any apple I have 
tried. Some of them bear so early and I 
so persistently, that they have no time 
to grow wood. The Red Astrachan is 
also an early bearer, and the standard 
early market apple here. It is not un¬ 
common to have the trees fruit the second 
year from the nursery. As a rule, early 
maturity of tree is not a desirable quality. 
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