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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
May 18 
Hardiness of Japan Plums ; Fay Currant. 
B. I). V. B., Stockport, N. Y.—The 
Japan plums, Burbank, Satsuma and 
Abundance, have passed through the 
past winter with blossom buds uninjured 
so far as can be seen at the present time. 
Also an apricot tree has about one half 
of the blossom buds uninjured. All the 
peaches, Crosbey included, are killed. I 
have not found a live blossom bud. I 
have seen the Fay’s Prolific currant 
recommended in The R. N.-Y\, but I 
think that the man that sets a large 
plantation of that variety, will find that 
it is not equal to some of the older varie¬ 
ties like the Cherry currant, as the 
branches are not stiff enough to hold the 
berries out of the dirt; and it is not a 
large yielder. This has been my own ex¬ 
perience, and also that of one of the old¬ 
est horticulturists of western New York. 
Let no man stop The R. N.-Y. because 
of hard times, unless he wants to give 
up the farm. 
Telling Some New Things. 
J. R. S., Applegate, N. Y.—In con¬ 
versing with farmers who read farm 
papers, I frequently hear them say, “I 
knew all about that new thing or method 
that the paper speaks of, years ago.” 
Then I ask them why they did not let 
their light shine for the benefit of others. 
Some of them were afraid that they coifld 
not tell their story in a way that would 
look well in print. I tell them not to 
fear ; to tell the story in their own way, 
and if tfoere is any meat in it, the editors 
will find it and pick it out. 
I had a wagon-load of hen mannre in 
lumps and clivjnks. How to pulverize 
it, was the problem. I piled it on the 
floor of an out-licxuse in a conical heap, 
and sprinkled corn through it from bot¬ 
tom to top. I then told the hens, 100 of 
them, to keep out of there ; but they 
did go in, and took their machines with 
them (no patent). In an hour or so, that 
pile was as flat as a pancake, and the 
corn gone. I piled it again as before, 
and when the hens got through with it, 
it was quite dry and easily handled. I 
think if I had had plaster to mix with it, 
it could have been used in a drill. 
In a recent R. N.-Y., the question was 
asked as to how to keep worms and lice 
from destroying cabbage. For many 
years, I have sprinkled on salt as soon as 
the moths made their appearance. It may 
turn the ends of some of the leaves yel¬ 
low, but it will do no harm. Whenever 
you see that the worms are at work, 
sprinkle on the salt, and in the fall you 
will find the cabbage all right. 
lialue of a Manure Spreader. 
J. B. Butcher, Westchester County, 
N. Y.—Several years ago, I purchased 
one of the Kemp & Burpee manure 
spreaders. I liked it so well, that I very 
soon purchased another, and have con¬ 
tinued to purchase them, until now, I 
have five of these spreaders in condition 
for use. Since I made my first purchase, 
they have continued to make improve¬ 
ments on them, until now, I consider 
them about as nearly perfect as it is 
possible to make them. Two good horses 
can easily handle a spreader loaded, and 
the draught is not too heavy. One good 
man, with a team, will do moft work 
with one manure spreader, and do it bet¬ 
ter, than four men with teams, spread¬ 
ing with a fork. It will handle all sorts 
of rnanur , but well-rotted manure, of 
course, works best, or spreads to better 
advantage. 
The method that I have adopted in 
handling the manure made on my farms, 
is to take it from the stables in the 
winter and pile it. I use a large amount 
of bedding under my horses and cattle ; 
consequently, I pile it, and turn it once 
during the summer, mixing the horse 
manure with the cattle manure, to keep 
t from burning, and when it is well rot¬ 
ted in the fall, I use it for top-dressing. 
As soon as our fall rains commence, I 
start my spreaders and put out from 
3,000 to 4^,000 loads of manure nearly 
every fall, believing that I can get bet¬ 
ter results from manure applied in that 
way, than in any other. I have also a 
fertilizer attachment to one of my 
spreaders, although I have never used it 
except for spreading wood ashes, for 
which it works satisfactorily. I make 
very little use of fertilizers, believing 
that good, well-rotted barnyard manure 
is better than the fertilizers of the pres¬ 
ent day ; although, where manure can¬ 
not be obtained, fertilizers are undoubt¬ 
edly beneficial. Making the quantity of 
manure that I do on my farms, 1 do not 
require any fertilizer. I could not handle 
the quantity of manure that I make and 
apply it in the manner that I do in the 
fall of the year, and get it distributed 
properly on the ground, without the use 
of spreaders. They are so arranged, that 
they may be set to spread from 10 to 20 
loads to the acre. I consider them the 
greatest labor-saving machines in use, 
and for distributing manure evenly over 
the ground and applying it as it should 
be done, spreading by hand cannot in 
any way compare with them. 
Otd-Time Whey Butter. 
E. R. W., Buffalo, N. Y.—In a recent 
R. N.-Y., the question of making “butter 
from whey,” was discussed. As there 
presented, it was spoken of as some¬ 
thing new. As long ago as 1862-3, when 
living on a dairy farm in western New 
York, where “Hamburg” cheese was 
largely made, there was a necessity for 
something suitable to grease the cheeses 
while they were curing for market. 
Every day after the curd had been put 
to press, the whey was run into a large 
tub or vat, and allowed to stand till the 
following morning, when the cream was 
taken off, and after being churned, was 
tried out—that is, heated and the oil 
drained off—to rub over the cheeses. 
There was very little cream, and the 
butter was of poor quality ; we never 
thought of using it for anything else, 
there being only a daily average of per¬ 
haps two pounds from a dairy of 30 
cows. If any of your readers have an 
idea of making a business of making 
butter from whey, I hope that they will 
abandon it at once. If much butter 
were made, you may be sure that the 
quality of the cheese would be corre¬ 
spondingly reduced. 
Hardiness of Japan Plums. 
Rogers Nursery Co., Moorestown, N. 
J.—We have a letter from a fruit grower 
in Madison County, N. Y., saying that 
his Japan plums have come through all 
right, both Abundance and Burbank. 
It seems strange that some people say 
they have winterkilled, while others 
write to us that theirs have come 
through all right, with a temperature 
of 24 below zero last winter. Could it 
be that those that have died are on 
peach roots ? We know that it is the 
impression among many nurserymen, 
and I think Prof. Bailey states that they 
are equally valuable on peach roots; 
however, most of our customers do not 
want any plums on peach roots. There 
must be some local cause for the Japan 
plums not living in some sections, while 
they are thriving in other sections that 
are more unfavorable. 
A Vermonter Raises Peaches. 
T. E. B., Middi.ebury, Vt.—M y neigh¬ 
bor selects his stock for grafting and 
budding with as long roots as possible. 
He used the wild horse plum at first, 
but has used plum and peach since. 
The stock is set with the roots at right 
angles to the row of trees. This is very 
important. The rows extend north and 
south. In the fall, a little of the earth 
is dug away on the north side of each 
tree, and they are all laid over to the 
north (I suppose the south would do as 
well), and held down with stakes and 
covered with hay, or straw, or corn 
stalks, but not with earth. n the 
spring, they are uncovered and raised, 
and fastened to stakes. The mercury 
went to 28 degrees last winter here, but 
the peach buds are all right this spring. 
My friend raised some fine peaches last 
season ; they were the Mountain Rose, I 
believe. The Abundance and Burbank 
plums seem to be hardy here. Is the 
Niagara the same as Bradshaw ? 
R. N.-Y.—No, but they resemble each 
other. 
Improving Quality in Nuts. 
C. P. A., Woodbiudge, Conn. —I do not 
know of any part of New England where 
the shellbark hickorynut grows more 
plentifully than on the hills to the north 
and west of New Haven. There are 
innumerable varieties, and some are of 
especially fine quality. Nearly every 
land owner has one or more trees that 
bear choice nuts, and for which he gets 
good prices from private customers. I 
have made some efforts to propagate 
good varieties by grafting and by plant¬ 
ing, but neither method could be called 
a success. I succeeded in making only 
one scion live, and my seedlings were 
generally inferior to their parents. Still, 
I have faith that one may succeed by 
either of these methods, so that, at least, 
succeeding generations maybe benefited. 
I would not advise a man in middle life 
to plant hickorynuts in the hope of mak¬ 
ing a fortune from the crops from his 
seedling trees. While one may not realize 
as much money from a hickory tree as our 
friends in the Southwest do from a pecan, 
yet I know of trees that biennially yield 
from three to five bushels of nuts, which 
retail at from $2.50 to $4 per bushel. The 
butternut, hazelnut and filbert are also 
plentiful hei*e, but have little market 
value. 
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