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Some  time  ago  I  noticed  in  The  It. 
N.-Y.  an  inquiry  about  growing  per¬ 
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ing  in  Bolinger  County,  Mo..  I  found  per¬ 
simmons  growing  in  abundance  with  a 
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Rusted  Beans  for  Seed  and  Feed 
I  have  three  or  four  bushels  of  beans 
I  want  to  use  for  seed.  Some  of  these 
are  a  little  spotted  with  rust,  and  none 
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from  this  seed  be  liable  to  rust?  Of 
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any  good,  but  will  it  be  bad  policy  to 
use  for  seed? 
Also  tell  me  best  way  to  feed  some 
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are  crazy  for  them  this  way.  Is  there 
any  better  way  to  make  use  of  them? 
Ithaca,  Jyr  Y.  8.  8.  B. 
As  I  understand,  the  rust  is  a  fungous 
disease,  which  is  carried  over  in  the 
seed  and  possibly  in  the  pods  also,  so 
that  rusted  seed  is  not  considered  safe 
to  plant  Some  farmers  also  are  care¬ 
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because  of  the  danger  of  their  carrying 
infection  to  the  new  crop.  It  is  prac¬ 
tically  impossible,  however,  to  get  seed 
that  is  free  from  rust.  Bean  dealers 
ill  this  section  every  year  bring  in,  or  at 
least  claim  to  ship  it  in,  seed  supposed 
to  come  from  some  place  in  Michigan,  or 
New  England,  or  somewhere  else,  that 
might  appeal  to  the  farmers'  imagination, 
where  it  is  claimed  that  by  some  freak 
of  soil  or  climate  the  beans  never  rust. 
Sometimes  the  resulting  crop  outyields  the 
neighbor’s  and  sometimes  it  underyields 
them,  as  is  also  the  case  when  one 
changes  seed  with  a  neighbor.  I  have 
not  been  able  to  secure  any  information 
that  there  is  any  difference  in  freedom 
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Feeding  Kieffer  Pears. — Referring 
to  inquiry  as  to  feeding  possibilities  of 
Kieffer  pears,  my  experience  is  not  con¬ 
clusive.  but  results  seem  to  warrant  a 
thorough  try-out  next  year.  At  the  end 
of  the  season  in  cleaning  up  the  ground 
about  trees  I  fed  them  pears  for  about  a 
week.  The  milk  records  show  only  the 
usual  slight  daily  variations  for  that 
period.  Fed  whole  or  pulped,  the  cmvs 
would  leave  any  other  food  For  the  pears, 
and  would  eat  all  1  thought  safe  to  feed. 
One  mule  would  not  touch  them  under 
any  circumstances;  another  would  eat 
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Bancroft,  Va. 
Syracuse 
Raspberry 
Actual 
Size 
Actual 
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Dipl oma  Currant 
