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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
August 10 
The Columbian Raspberry Again. 
EL C. P., Rochester, N. Y. —In The 
Rural New-Yorker of June 20, Charles 
A. Green is loath to acknowledge any 
superiority for the Columbian raspberry 
over the Shaffer. Up to the time of the 
advent of the Columbian, the Shaffer 
had every right to the field for size, 
vigor, productiveness and excellent can¬ 
ning qualities ; but having just returned 
from Oneida, the home of the Columbian, 
where I thoroughly inspected eight acres 
of fruiting plants, I am satisfied that Mr. 
Green will have to acknowledge many 
points of superiority for the Columbian. 
Here are a few points from personal ob¬ 
servation: The fruit is larger, not quite 
so dark in color, flavor equal, also a 
much better shipper, being surprisiugly 
hard and firm. In addition, there is no 
comparison in yield ; my expectations 
were more than realized, and when told 
that the crop of eight acres would reach 
at least 35,000 quarts I did not even 
question it, as the plants were loaded 
with berries from those just forming to 
those thoroughly ripe, some measuring 
nearly an inch in diameter. I cannot 
doubt the claim that its fruiting season 
lasts a month, or, from a week to ten 
days longer than the Shaffer. The size 
of the plants was also a revelation, the 
tremendous growth of wood showing 
plainly that the Columbian is strong in 
all its points as a record breaker. I am 
told that the Oneida Community places 
it first for canning purposes, which 
opinion effectually settles that point. 
The only room for criticism from my 
point of view is the coloi\ 
Shaffer Raspberry for Home Garden. 
W. G. D., Bellville, O.—I wish to add 
my testimony for the Shaffer raspberry 
for the home garden. All the other 
varieties that I have, are now about 
gone, and although we have been having 
Shaffers, too, for over two weeks, the 
largest picking of this variety yet, I 
picked to-day, July 25, “and still there’s 
more to follow.” They not only prolong 
the season, but are, to my taste, the 
most delicious of all the raspberries I 
have grown. The canes stand the win¬ 
ter here nearly as well as the Gregg. I 
had only a dozen bushes, bought two 
years ago last spring, but I shall plant a 
whole row 7 of them another spring. 
Homemade Garden Hose. 
E. H. M., Stony Point, N. Y.—I have 
used 300 feet of homemade hose with 
great satisfaction. It is made of a piece 
of 12-ounce duck, 30 inches wide, cut 
into three strips 10 inches wide and of 
any desired length ; the edges are then 
brought together and doubled over again, 
and four thicknesses sewed through two 
or three times on a machine. The hose 
is next saturated with a mixture of five 
gallons of boiled linseed oil, and one pint 
of pine tar; this is enough for 500 or 600 
feet. Then it is wrung well in a clothes 
wringer, hung up to dry and blown full 
of air to keep it from sticking. It takes 
several days to dry. Iron couplings and 
nipples for 2 or 2% inch pipe, are used 
for each length of hose. It will stand a 
six or eight-foot pressure. 
More Frostproof Strawberries. 
J. L. C., Greenfield, Micii.—I grew 
the past season, Beder Wood, Chas.Down¬ 
ing, Warfield, Haverland, Swindle, Man¬ 
chester, Wilson, and 27 seedlings. We 
had severe frosts, succeeded by an un¬ 
paralleled drought, and the variety that 
came the nearest to being frost and 
droughtproof, was the Haverland. It 
ripened the first berries, which w 7 ere 
large and perfect; the last were almost 
as good as the first, and were the last 
berries I found on my grounds. At no 
time, did the vines show any suffering 
from the drought, when all others were 
withered on either side of them. The 
Warfield showed the first effects of 
drought, and it also first showed the 
beneficial effects of a slight rain. The 
Beder Wood suffered most from frost and 
drought, Charles Downing from drought. 
The Swindle was not hurt by frost, but 
cannot resist drought, The Manchester 
proved worthless this season ; it usually 
succeeds best on a rich, moist soil. The 
Wilson has been a failure in this vicinity 
for the past few years. These varieties 
were grown in matted rows, on a rich, 
clay loam. To sum up, the Haverland 
was the nearest frost and droughtproof, 
with Warfield and Swindle next as frost¬ 
proof. 
Early-Sown Crimson Clover. 
ries are borne on every branch, those 
nearest the ground as well as those 
above. The bushes are a beautiful sight. 
Later.—Its season of fruitage is very 
long, beginning with the latest and 
running into blackberries. We may 
now note what seems to have escaped 
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Sheep that Gnaw Trees. 
J. W. O., Hillsboro, III.—J. S. Wood¬ 
ward’s article on page 454 of The R. 
N.-Y., advising the feeding of sheep in 
an orchard, is something I often see 
recommended in the agricultural papers. 
If Mr. Woodward or any one else, can 
tell us how to keep the sheep from gnaw¬ 
ing the trees, he will confer a great 
favor upon myself and others in this 
part of the country. I have an orchard 
of eight acres, and as 1 feed sheep every 
year, it would be a cheap and good wa y 
for me to keep up the fertility of the 
soil. My trees are 20 to 30 years old, and 
I have often tried putting from 50 to 100 
sheep in my orchard when fattening 
them. They had about all the ground 
corn and oats they would eat, with hay 
or corn fodder for roughage. All would 
go well for a week or so, and then all at 
once, they would commence gnawing the 
trees, and after they once begin they 
will kill a dozen or more in a half day 
and will keep at it as long as left in the 
orchard. The only way I could ever 
pasture an orchard with sheep, was to 
turn them in a few hours or, at most, a 
few days at a time, and then turn them 
out for a similar length of time. I think 
the most of the men who own orchards 
and sheep about here, have had about 
the same experience as 1 have, and if 
there is any way to prevent them from 
gnawing trees, I would like to know it. 
W. Atlee Burpee & Co., send us a 
framed photograph of their new dwarf 
sweet pea which they have named Cupid. 
This was first noticed in the catalogue 
number. There are 13 rows, apparently 
about three feet apart, and seemingly a 
quarter of a mile long. As judged by a 
man standing between two of the rows, 
the plants are not over 10 inches tall, 
and one mass of bloom. We cannot 
detect in any of the rows a single varia¬ 
tion from the true type. 
Again the Columbian raspberry. July 
12.—Speaking from memory chiefly, we 
would say that the Columbian has at 
this time more fruit than any other rasp 
berry, black or red, that we have ever 
tried ; and this we say, not only with re¬ 
gard to particular branches, but also as 
to the entire bush itself. Heavier, thrift¬ 
ier canes we have never seen. The ber¬ 
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