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Cfce  RURAL  NEW-YORKER 
February  12,  1916. 
SPRAY--$I  IO 
Horticultural  Doings  in  Ohio 
Fast  Ekkoks. —  It  is  well  at  the  close 
of  the  year  to  look  back  upon  the  events 
of  the  past  season,  and  be  guided  some¬ 
what  thereby,  in  planning  for  the  future, 
remembering,  however,  to  make  allow¬ 
ance  for  the  variation  of  seasons.  The 
first  mistake  of  the  season  was  in  plant¬ 
ing  10  acres  of  strawberries  on  a  field 
which  was  naturally  well  adapted  to  the 
purpose,  but  was  not  properly  prepared. 
It  was  recently  purchased,  and  was  badly 
run  dowu  in  fertility.  It  was  thoroughly 
underdrained  the  previous  August  anl 
during  the  Winter  received  perhaps  10 
tons  per  acre  of  steer  manure  and  about 
o00  pounds  of  aeid  phosphate  per  acre. 
It  had  some  sand  laiolls,  and  the  neigh¬ 
bor’s  field  next  west  of  it  was  quite  sandy, 
and  was  freshly  plowed  about  the  time 
we  planted  the  strawberries.  Then  soon 
after  planting  came  the  terrible  wind 
which  ruined  the  onion  crops  of  Hardin 
Co.,  and  they  blew  the  sand  away  from 
and  onto  the  plants,  making  necessary  a 
great  deal  of  replanting,  and  in  spite  of 
several  replantings  and  a  second  applica¬ 
tion  of  fertilizer  around  the  plants  in 
midsummer  the  stand  is  very  poor,  partly 
because  the  ground  was  not  rieh  enough 
to  keep  from  blowing  and  partly  because 
the  few  plants  which  were  left  did  not 
make  enough  new  plants. 
Fertilizing  Sandy  Land.  —  Next 
Spring  we  shall  plant  on  a  field  which 
has  been  manured  several  years  in  suc¬ 
cession.  We  obtained  wonderful  results 
on  some  of  these  old  saml  fields  by  the 
use  of  000  to  800  pounds  of  acid  phos¬ 
phate  sown  broadcast  just  before  the  bar- 
row,  and  about  100  pounds  of  complete 
fertilizer  per  acre  applied  with  the  corn 
drill  when  planting,  and  still  better  re¬ 
sults  a  year  later  wlmn  we  were  able  to 
add  eight  loads  of  steer  manure  per  acre 
to  above.  One  trouble  we.  found,  how¬ 
ever,  was  that  the  above  treatment  caused 
the  corn  to  grow  too  tall  in  our  young 
orchards,  and  crowded  and  shaded  the 
young  trees.  Would  the  eigld-rowed 
Eastern  flint  corn  overcome  this  diffi¬ 
culty?  In  other  words,  could  we  by  its 
use  secure  a  lower  stalk  without  too  great 
a  loss  of  grain?  This  is  one  of  the  lead¬ 
ing  problems  we  face  next  year.  We 
planted  a  large  number  of  .Tune  buds  of  a 
new  and  high-priced  variety  of  poach  last 
Spring,  and  many  of  the  little  trees 
seemed  to  heat  en  route  and  failed  to 
make  satisfactory  growth. 
At.pat.fa  in  Orchards. — For  a  num¬ 
ber  of  years  I  have  been  thinking  of  sow¬ 
ing  Alfalfa  in  my  young  apple  orchards, 
but  was  fearful  of  results.  In  the  Spring 
of  1914  I  sowed  10  acres  as  an  experi¬ 
ment,  and  in  Spring  of  1919  sowed  M0 
more.  So  far  results  are  satisfactory, 
and  T  know  the  soil  is  improving,  and  as 
long  as  the  young  trees  are  doing  well,  I 
shall  continue  the  process.  I  mulch 
around  trees,  and  remove  the  rest  of  Al¬ 
falfa  and  feed  to  steers,  and  return  coarse 
manure  for  mulch.  I  also  thoroughly 
harrow  the  ground  both  ways,  after  re¬ 
moving  the  first  and  second  cutting  of 
hay,  using  a  spring- tooth  harrow  on 
wheels  with  specially  constructed  narrow 
teeth.  This  is  drawn  by  our  orchard 
tractor  run  by  kerosene. 
Vai.ite  op  Tractor.— We  were  able  to 
keep  onr  orchards  in  a  better  state  of 
cultivation  by  use  of  the  tractor,  than 
we  have  ever  been  able  by  horses.  We 
use  two  double  cutaway  harrows  abreast, 
double-cutting  about  10  feet  wide  and  by 
going  over  the  orchard  both  ways  if  was 
in  splendid  condition.  We  could  turn  in 
very  narrow  spaces,  but  found  that  the 
short,  turns  with  harrows  drawing  as 
heavy  as  or  heavier  than  in  going  straight 
ahead  was  very  hard  on  tractor,  espe¬ 
cially  as  the  draft  came  on  one  driving 
wheel.  We  must  have  a  double  disk  or 
cutaway,  that  can  be  thrown  out  of  the 
ground  in  turning  at  end,  the  same  as  a 
gang  plow,  and  then  we  shall  have  the 
ideal  combination.  Who  makes  it?  Or 
must  we  build  a  home-made  one?  We 
have  an  excellent  spring-tooth  on  wheels, 
but  it  will  not  answer  in  working  cover 
crops  into  tile  soil,  like  a  disk  or  <uit- 
away.  I  think  the  events  of  the  past 
season  have  convinced  all  fruit  and  vege¬ 
table  growers,  that  it  is  time  to  stop 
urging  larger  plantings  and  turn  our  at¬ 
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