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Manure  for  Dewberries 
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manure,  which  1  can  buy  at  $20  per  ton 
ground?  If  so  how  much  per  hill  and 
when  best  applied?  j.  j. 
Ila  in  monton,  N.  J. 
Ilog  manure  usually  forces  a  heavy 
growth  of  foliage.  Pigeon  manure  does 
the  same.  If  the  ground  is  already  fair¬ 
ly  fertile  I  would  think  the  large  forkful 
of  rich  hog  manure  to  each  bill  of  dew¬ 
berries  would  be  sufficient  without  the 
pigeon  manure,  but  if  ground  is  quite 
poor  the  use  of  this  pigeon  manure  might 
be  helpful  in  bringing  out  a  full  crop.  I 
would  not  apply  more  than  a  large  dou¬ 
ble  handful  about  each  plant.  If  ground 
is  rich  the  use  of  pigeon  manure  in  ad¬ 
dition  to  the  hog  manure  would  probably 
be  a  disadvantage.  trucker,  jr. 
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What  shall  T  use  to  kill  potato  bugs 
ou  egg  plants  in  seed  beds?  j.  l. 
I  would  not  use  anything  on  eggplants 
in  the  seed  bed  to  kill  the  potato  beetles. 
It  would  be  much  better  and  safer  to  pick 
them  off  by  hand.  Tn  cold  frames  where 
the  plants  occupied  a  much  larger  space 
a  spray  application  of  either  arsenate  of 
lead  or  nrseriite  of  zinc  applied  accord¬ 
ingly  to  directions  furnished  by  the  man¬ 
ufacturers  might  lie  helpful  if  the  bugs 
were  very  numerous.  If  not  numerous 
then  the  hand-picking  would  be  much 
better  there.  In  making  beds  it  is  al¬ 
ways  a  good  plan  to  got  soil  from  some 
field  that  has  not  been  in  potatoes  or 
tomatoes  the  previous  season.  By  so  do¬ 
ing  one  has  a  soil  free  from  bugs  and  all 
trouble  in  seed  beds  and  cold  frames  from 
that  source  is  avoided. 
TRUCKER.  JR. 
hat  liquid  is  used  in  greenhouse  to 
Prevent  plants  from  damping  off? 
Fenton,  Mich.  F.  8, 
There  are  a  number  of  different  com¬ 
binations  that  F.  8.  may  use  with  bene¬ 
ficial  results  to  arrest  fungous  diseases 
of  plants  in  greenhouses.  Add  one  pint 
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gallons  of  water  and  sprinkle  on  the  soil 
moderately.  Dusting  lightly  with  hy¬ 
drated  lime  and  flowers  of  sulphur  mixed 
half  and  half  is  beneficial  in  some  in¬ 
stances.  Spraying  the  surface  of  the 
soil  with  Bordeaux  mixture  may  also  he 
beneficial.  Mix  four  pounds  sulphate  of 
copper  and  four  pounds  fresh  lump  lime 
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Mixing  of  Corn  Varieties 
Will  two  varieties  of  sugar  corn,  Coun¬ 
try  Gentleman  and  Metropolitan,  mix  if 
planted  20  feet  from  each  other  in  a  gar¬ 
den?  J.  II.  0. 
In  deciding  this  matter  of  varieties  of 
corn  mixing,  we  must  understand  what 
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ries  the  male  fertilizing  principle  in  the 
tassel  or  flower  at  the  top  of  the  stalk. 
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len  from  the  flower  fails  upon  the  silks, 
and  from  this  fertilizing  the  ear  and 
grain  will  bo  produced.  Should  there  be 
other  varieties  of  corn  growing  nearby, 
and  blooming  or  producing  this  pollen  at 
about  the  same  time,  some  of  it;  will  he 
blown  upon  the  silks  of  the  other  va¬ 
riety,  thus,  in  the  ear.  the  characteristics 
of  both  kinds  will  he  likely  to  show,  and 
the  kernels  growing  on  the  cob  will  he 
mixed  or  of  the  two  different  types.  Thus 
if  you  plant  two  kinds  of  corn  together, 
or  near  by  each  other,  and  they  bloom  at 
much  the  same  time,  there  will  be  a  mix¬ 
ture.  If,  however,  you  plant  them  at 
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Grafting  Cherry  and  Peach 
Having  Home  two  or  three-y ear-old  Ma¬ 
lm  leh  cherry  stocks  and  some  peach  seed¬ 
lings,  growing  of  about  same  age,  I 
would  like  to  know  if  these  can  either 
be  grafted  in  the  collar  Or  in  the  leader 
of  these  seedlings,  and  if  in  the  collar, 
how  deep  below  surface  of  ground  would 
you  cut  off  the  tops  of  these  stocks  to 
insert  the  scion?  What  sort  and  length 
of  graft  would  you  put  in.  whether  one 
or  two  scions  in  each  stock?  Would  you 
tie  or  wax  same?  Would  you  graft  lie- 
fore  or  just  as  leaves  are  coming  out  in 
the  Spring,  or  would  you  top-graft  the 
leaders  of  these  seedlings;  and  if  so, 
would  you  tie  or  wax?  c.  M. 
Kansas  City,  Mo. 
Budding  is  to  be  preferred  to  grafting 
for  cherries  and  peaches.  The  budded 
trees  will  he  a  your  later  in  coming  into 
hearing,  but  more  of  them  will  live,  and 
the  budding  operation  is  more  quickly 
uid  easily  done.  The  brittle  wood  and 
watery  sap  of  the  stone  fruits  make  graft- 
"g  uncertain.  Cleft-grafting  is  especial¬ 
ly  unreliable.  If  you  try  it,  expect  a 
najurity  of  failures ;  some  that  start,  will 
Destroying  Wireworms 
I  have  an  acre  of  sandy  soil.  I  am 
going  to  plant  to  early  potatoes.  What 
can  I  do  to  exterminate  the  wireworms? 
Helena,  O.  j,  Ct 
Wireworms  are  the  larva?  or  earth 
stage  of  the  life  of  the  common  black 
click  beetles.  Tile  eggs  are  usually  laid 
in  the  ground  in  meadows  in  which  the 
stand  ol  hay  is  poor.  The  best  remedy  is 
to  grow  such  heavy  crops  of  hay,  particu¬ 
larly  clover,  that  the  adult  beetles  find 
it  liaial  to  reach  the  grotiud  to  lay  anti 
so  go  to  other  fields.  Whore  formerly  1 
was  bothered  on  about  all  my  fields  I 
now  have  very  little  trouble  except  where 
not  enough  lime  has  been  used  to  make  a 
heavy  stand  of  clover.  There  is  no  way 
known  of  exterminating  wireworms  ai 
ready  in  the  soil  except  by  applying  such 
strong  solutions  of  sail  or  similar  mate¬ 
rial  that  all  plants  would  he  killed  as 
well,  hall  plowing  and  thorough  Spring 
fitting  are  of  some  value,  but  wireworms 
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