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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
June 29 
Crimson Clover in Southern Central Ohio. 
J. M. Jamison, Ross County, O. —May 
28, I met a farmer that sowed 10 pounds 
of seed per acre on three acres of rich 
bottom land, August 1, in corn, and se¬ 
cured a good stand. He noticed the first 
bloom May 6, and is satisfied that it 
would have done better had it been 
sowed earlier, at the time the corn was 
laid by. This farmer will sow again. 
In another neighborhood, some two or 
three miles from this, a farmer sowed 
on upland when corn was laid by, secured 
a good stand, and is letting it perfect 
itself. Several' farmers in these neigh¬ 
borhoods sowed last year, but it prom¬ 
ised so little early in the spring, that 
they plowed it up. A field of 22 acres 
four miles from my farm, that was sown 
on oat stubble freshly plowed, the owner 
reported upon favorably, till after the 
March freezes. It was plowed up, and 
the field planted to corn about May 20. 
This signal failure will be much against 
its further trial in this locality. A few 
plants that I secured from seed sown in 
fence corners that had been cultivated, 
stood the winter well. The heads are 
now (May 30) turning brown, but are not 
yet ripe enough to cut. Its growth is 
much shorter than we expected, as it is 
only about one foot high. Nearly the 
whole season since sowing, has been 
against the favorable development of 
the plant, and, of course, this will w’ork 
against future trials. If I had followed 
corn with corn, I would certainly give 
it further trial. Hut as I follow a three- 
year rotation, there is no proper place 
for it. Yet 1 am firm in the belief that 
it could be profitably grown in many in¬ 
stances in this part of the State. It en¬ 
dured the winter as well as many of the 
wheat fields. 
Shaffer Raspberry and Jessie Strawberry. 
C. A. Green, Monuok County, N. Y. 
—The II. N.-Y. spoke with words of 
praise of the Shaffer raspberry. As you 
are probably aware, I was the intro¬ 
ducer of this valuable variety. As I 
was driving along the road by the Gene¬ 
see River near Scottsville, N. Y., 10 
years ago, I saw this remarkable bush 
growing in a farmer’s garden. It was 
so large and vigorous that I hitched my 
horse to the fence to make a closer in¬ 
spection. My opinion was that it was 
the largest cap berry in existence, and 
such it proved to be. 1 at once made 
arrangements for the control of the 
Shaffer, and the next year 1 invited 
prominent horticulturists to see it. I 
also caused it to be planted in the gar¬ 
dens of pomologists of Rochester. These 
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men gave me little encouragement. A 
short time before, the New Rochelle, a 
variety of a similar type to the Shaffer, 
was introduced, but the variety being 
dirty-looking. had been condemned. 
My Rochester friends compared the 
Shaffer to the denounced New Rochelle. 
I remember particularly hailing my 
friend, the late II. E. Hooker, for whom 
I had the greatest respect, and asking 
his opinion as to whether I should in¬ 
troduce the Shaffer. The fact was that 
I was very much discouraged, and felt 
like burning all the stock of that va- 
rietj' I had in my possession, since I did 
not wish to injure my reputation by in¬ 
troducing a variety which had no merits. 
Mr. Hooker replied, “I do not like the 
Shaffer ; yet it may answer to breed 
better varieties from.” It was with 
great hesitation that I introduced it a 
year or two later, so you can see how 
little we can rely upon the opinion of 
professionals in regard to the value of 
new fruits. The Shaffer has proved to 
be of remarkable value in every sec¬ 
tion of the country. It is one of the 
most valuable varieties of the present 
date. I shall be glad if the Columbian 
has any points of superiority. 
A correspondent also spoke of the 
Jessie strawberry as being a profitable 
variety on his soil. The Jessie, which 
was introduced by me seven or eight 
veai’S ago, lias had a hard battle for 
supremacy, and has had many hot shots 
from the critics. I am informed, how¬ 
ever, that the Jessie is a thriving berry 
on the Pacific coast, where it is grown 
largely for market under irrigation. It 
is also grown at our farm at Clifton, N. 
Y., and Rochester, N. Y., and is one of 
our best varieties. The foliage is vigor¬ 
ous, and the fruit large, handsome and 
of superior quality. It has failed to 
succeed in various parts of the country. 
I think that it is more sensitive to varia¬ 
tions of the soil than many other varie¬ 
ties. For instance, at the Geneva, N. 
Y., Experiment Station, it could hardly 
be kept alive owing to uncongenial sur¬ 
roundings. At the Rural Grounds, also, 
it did not succeed. 
Shallow Plowing. 
B. T. VV., Rochester, Mass. —In culti¬ 
vating corn, I have no doubt that the 
shallow system is the best, as intimated 
on page 395 of The R. N.-Y. But how 
about plowing ? On our poor, light 
soils, I think shallow plowing is best. 
I know that to plow so deep as to turn 
up the yellow subsoil, is injurious to the 
crops for the first year. I plow a little 
deeper from year to year. Five years 
ago, my laud was very poor, and the soil 
did not average more than four or five 
inches deep. By constant cultivation 
and annual application of manure and 
fertilizers, 1 can see that the soil is grad¬ 
ually growing deeper, and, I think, now 
bears deeper plowing. 
II. N.-Y.—We think it a mistake to turn 
up the yellow subsoil. No general rule 
for plowing can be given, because it 
must depend on the depth of the sur¬ 
face soil. In many parts of the West, 
deep plowing would ruin the soil, and 
only a light scratching of the surface 
will answer. By the continued use of 
green manures, the surface soil may be 
gradually deepened. 
" Three-Horse Eveners " on Wagons. 
W. C. McE., Cedar Mills, Minn. —In 
The R. N.-Y. of June 8, J. S. Woodward 
gives an illustration of a very good three- 
horse evener ; but in his explanation on 
attaching to a wagon, 1 am unable to see 
where the middle horse is to work unless 
he straddle the tongue. I have yet to 
see a three-liorse evener fastened direct 
to a wagon tongue that did not either 
crowd the horses, create side draft, or 
both. The best device I have ever seen, 
is to fasten a long chain to the hind 
axle, bringing it forward and fasten to 
the eveners just as for plowing ; then 
fasten with a rope or other device to the 
forward axle on the side which you wish 
the two horses to work. Some of the 
advantages are : any kind of evener may 
be used, one can work the third horse 
on either side of the tongue, there is no 
side draft, and it is unnecessary always 
to shorten the traces, or let them out, as 
that can be done with the chain. 
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