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E75e  RURAL  NEW-YORKER 
February  12,  1010, 
Charles  Victor  Mapes 
A  human  landmark  in  the  fertilizer  in¬ 
dustry  was  removed  in  the  death  of 
Charles  Y.  Mapes,  president  of  the  Mapes 
Fertilizer  Co.,  who  recently  died  at  the 
ripe  age  of  80  years.  Mr.  Mapes  was  a. 
veteran  chemist  associated  with  the  fer¬ 
tilizer  trade  from  its  earliest  beginning. 
His  father.  Prof,  James  Jay  Mapes,  de¬ 
vised  new  methods  for  making  superphos¬ 
phates  and  treating  waste  materials,  and 
was,  we  believe,  the  first  to  prepare  and 
offer  special  fertilizer  mixtures.  His  son, 
Charles  V.  Mapes,  took  up  his  father’s 
work,  and  it  has  been  developed  and  car¬ 
ried  on  through  three  genex-ations.  Mr. 
Mapes  was  a  very  able  man,  versatile, 
many-sided,  broad  and  honorable  to  a 
high  degree.  Aside  from  his  business 
interests  he  was  a  man  of  letters,  well 
read,  a  student  and  with  a  most  charm¬ 
ing  personality.  For  many  years  the 
writer  of  this  knew  him  intimately  and 
well — knew  the  inner  side  of  the  man 
and  found  there  that  kindly,  sympathetic 
touch  of  human  nature  which  makes  all 
the  world  kin.  I  can  never  forget  the 
many  helps  and  kindly  suggestions  which 
Charles  Y.  Mapes  went  out  of  his  way 
to  give.  Now  that  he  has  gone  these 
things  seem  larger  than  any  othei\ 
H.  W.  C. 
Webber’s  Early  Dent  Corn 
A  few  weeks  ago  we  printed  pictures  of 
ears  of  flint  corn  such  as  mature  well  in 
New  York  State.  There  has  been  con¬ 
siderable  call  for  a  dent  corn  which  will 
ripen  as  far  north  as  Central  New  York, 
and  give  a  good  yield  of  stalk  and  fodder. 
It  must  he  said  that  many  farmers  are 
prejudiced  in  favor  of  the  dents,  although 
of  late  years  the  "belt”  or  region  where 
dent  does  best  lias  been  working  further 
south. 
The  plant  breeders  have  been  at  work 
trying  to  produce  a  dent  variety  which 
will  give  a  heavy  yield  and  still  mature 
under  average  New  York  conditions. 
I' so  about  4%  pounds  of  the  paste  lead 
arsenate  to  100  gallons  of  water.  We 
have  never  used  this  poison  in  the  dry 
powder  form  and  do  not  know  the  pro¬ 
portion  to  use.  Tt  will  help  the  orchard 
to  use  also  about  314  gallons  lime-sul¬ 
phur  testing  about  82  degrees  Beaumfi 
and  one-fourth  bag  of  hydrated  lime  to 
each  100  gallons  water.  Spray  one  side 
of  the  trees  when  there  is  a  good  strong 
wind  blowing  that  way.  and  the  next 
time  there  is  a  wind  from  the  opposite 
direction  wet  down  the  other  side  of  the 
trees.  Be  careful  to  spray  thoroughly 
all  the  leaves  near  the  nests.  Examine 
the  nests  after  about  a  week.  If  any 
worms  are  found  alive  repeat  the  dose. 
Many  writers  toil  us  to  spray  when  there 
is  no  wind,  or  to  try  to  spray  against  the 
wind,  but  either  will  make  a  disagreeable 
job  worse,  and  neither  is  necessary  ex¬ 
cept  in  a  few  special  cases  (aphis  and 
pear  ps.vlla  especially). 
Wayne  Co.,  N.  Y.  alfrkd  c.  weed. 
A  Long  Island  District  School 
The  picture,  Fig.  61,  shows  the  Farm- 
ingville  district  school.  In  this  district 
it  has  been  for  many  years  the  custom 
to  hold  a  reunion  of  teachers  and  scholars 
who  have  attended  this  school-house.  The 
reunion  takes  the  form  of  a  picnic  which 
each  August  is  held  on  the  school 
grounds,  and  is  a  most  enjoyable  occa¬ 
sion,  many  coining  from  a  distance  to 
meet  their  old  friends.  m.  s.  B. 
East  Tatchogue,  N.  Y. 
Coming  Farmers’  Meetings 
Farmers’  Week,  New  York  State  Col¬ 
lege  of  Agriculture,  Ithaca,  Feb.  7-12. 
New  York  Vegetable  Growers’  Associa¬ 
tion.  Ithaca,  N.  Y.,  Feb.  8-11. 
Farmers’  Week,  State  School  of  Agri¬ 
culture.  Alfred  University,  Alfred,  N.  Y., 
Feb.  22-25. 
Massachusetts  Fruit  Growers’  Associa¬ 
tion.  annual  meeting,  Worcester,  Mass., 
Feb.  28. 
Pennsylvania  Live  Stock  Breeders’  As¬ 
sociation  and  Pennsylvania  Dairy  Union, 
Monongahela  House,  Pittsburgh,  Feb. 
23-24. 
llolstein-Friesian  Club  of  New  York 
AVERAGES  PER  ACRE. 
Variety 
No.  of 
years 
tested 
Total  green  weight 
Absolute 
dry  matter 
Total 
digestible  nutrients 
Eureka  north?  Grown  . 
...  2 
12.150 
7.400.2 
4.390.9 
Eureka  Commercial  . .  . . 
...  4 
23,180 
9.227.0 
5,537.5 
Cornell  No.  12  . . 
...  4 
21.882 
12. 539.5 
7.700.9 
.Johnson  County  White  . 
...  3 
1 1 1.843 
7,408.0 
4.457.4 
Westchester  Comity  White  .. 
2 
10.720 
0,040.9 
3.973.5 
Reid’s  Yellow  Dent  . 
2 
9,553 
5.727.7 
3.400.0 
l  ong  Iain  ml'  Yellow  Deni . 
...  3 
30.788 
9,058.9 
5.934.0 
Hllvermltic  . 
...  3 
22.945 
8,918.0 
5.406.0 
Early  Mufl lodon  . 
. . .  3 
27,915 
9,949.9 
0,031.2 
Learning  . 
...  2 
18.400 
7,930.8 
4,823.4 
Geo.  It.  Schaubcr  of  Ballston  Lake,  N. 
Y.,  calls  attention  to  the  dent  variety 
known  ns  Webber’s  Early  Dent,  or  Cor¬ 
nell  No.  12,  which  sizes  up  to  require¬ 
ments.  Ears  of  this  corn  giving  exact 
size  are  shown  in  color  on  the  cover  page. 
Mr.  Schauber  says  this  corn  was  origin¬ 
ated  on  his  place  in  co-operation  with  the 
plant  breeding  department  of  Cornell.  It 
was  named  in  honor  of  Dr.  II.  J.  Web¬ 
ber.  who  started  the  work.  Even  last  year 
with  an  unfavorable  season,  there  was  no 
soft  corn,  and  in  1014  one  field  gave  69 
bushels  per  acre  of  air-dried  shelled  corn. 
State,  Syracuse,  N.  Y.,  March  3. 
National  Feeders’  and  Breeders’  Show, 
Fort  Worth,  Tex.,  March  11-37. 
American  Jersey  Cattle  Club,  annual 
meeting.  New  York,  May  3. 
llolstein-Friesian  Association  of  Amer¬ 
ica,  Detroit,  Mich.,  June  6. 
American  Association  of  Nurservmen. 
Milwaukee,  Wis.,  June  28-30, 
International  Apple  Shippers’  Associa¬ 
tion,  New  York,  Aug  2. 
National  Dairy  Show,  Springfield, 
Mass.,  Oct.  12-21. 
New  York  State  Fair,  Syracuse,  N.  Y., 
Sept.  11-16. 
Mr.  Schauber  sends  the  above  table 
to  show  how  this  variety  ranks  with 
others.  The  plant  breeder  surely  does 
great  work  when  he  adapts  a  variety  to 
conditions  as  has  been  done  in  this  case. 
Note  the  absolute  dry  matter  and 
total  digestible  nutrients.  For  the  dairy¬ 
men  of  New  York  who  fill  silos  every 
year,  too  many  of  them  with  large,  sappy, 
immature  corn,  the  above  table  should 
hold  a  lesson. 
Controlling  Tent  Caterpillars 
Last  Spring  we  had  so  many  tent 
caterpillars  we  could  not  manage  them, 
as  they  got  ahead  of  us:  out  of  150  ap¬ 
ple  trees  not  one  apple.  Can  you  tell 
me  the  best  method  for  getting  rid  of 
them  this  Spring.  We  have  a  power 
sprayer.  N.  t. 
New  York. 
We  know  of  no  better  cure  for  tent 
caterpillar  than  arsenate  of  lead.  Paris 
green  and  the  other  well-known  insec¬ 
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action.  At  least,  we  lmd  more  or  less 
tent  caterpillar  in  our  orehards  until  we 
began  to  use  the  arsenate  in  the  later 
sprays,  ricking  off  the  egg  clusters  dur¬ 
ing  the  Winter  helps  some.  It  also  has 
the  merit  of  causing  a  close  examination 
of  the  trees.  It  is  usually  worth  more 
than  the  time  it  costs  for  the  orchardist 
to  make  a  careful  study  of  each  tree. 
Spraying  for  tent  caterpillar  should  be¬ 
gin  as  soon  its  the  nests  can  be  seen. 
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