RURAL  NEW-YORKER 
-~~i  Resetting  Rhubarb 
Will  you  toll  me  when  to  divide  and 
reset  pieplant  and  how  many  roots  to  put 
in  a  hill?  J.  H.  T. 
Fairport,  N.  Y. 
The  month  of  October  is  the  best  time 
for  dividing  and  resetting  rhubarb.  The 
clumps  are  usually  divided  into  sections 
of  three  to  four  eyes  each,  and  when 
they  break  apart  into  sections  of  roots 
with  but  one  eye.  as  they  frequently  do, 
then  three  or  four  of  these  single-eyed 
roots  may  be  put  in  a  hill.  K. 
Seasonable  Farm  Seeds 
COW  PEAS,  SOY  BEANS 
The  best  varieties  for  bay  and 
silage,  also  Millets ,  Buckwheat, 
Dwarf  Essex  Rape,  etc. 
MANGEL  WURZELS  and 
SUGAR  BEETS 
for  stock  feeding,  all  the  best  varieties. 
Write  for  prices  on  any  Farm  Seeds 
desired,  also  ask  for  free  Alfalfa  Leaflet. 
HENRY  A.  DREER,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 
The  Home  Acre 
year,  I  walk  an  average  of  four  miles 
a  day,  work  a  large  garden  with  my  own 
hands,  and  do  a  full  task  at  the  editorial 
desk.  I  attribute  my  activity  to  the  fact 
that  every  hour  of  daylight  it  filled  with 
work  of  muscle  and  brain,  for  so  far 
this  year  I  have  replied  by  mail  to  over 
1,700  letters  from  the  farmers,  and  have 
done  it  all  on  the  machine  with  my  own 
fingers.  Next.  w.  F.  MASSEY. 
Bleeding  Grapevines 
Our  grapevines  were  (rimmed  early  in 
February.  The  sap  is  rising  and  the  cut 
ends  arc  bleeding.  Does  it  do  any  harm? 
Connecticut.  C'.  F.  D. 
The  “bleeding  of  grapevines"  has  been 
investigated  quite  thoroughly  by  several 
workers  and  the  conclusions  reached  in¬ 
dicate  that  the  loss  of  sap  from  the  av¬ 
erage  seasonal  pruning  does  not  serious¬ 
ly  interfere  with  the  vigor  of  the  vine. 
In  that  the  annual  pruning  removes  a 
large  amount  of  the  growth  of  previous 
years,  the  amount  of  plant  food  stored 
in  the  trunk  and  roots  of  the  vine  is  in 
excess  of  that  required  to  give  the  re¬ 
maining  canes  a  start  till  the  roots  be¬ 
gin  to  function.  The  material  lost  is 
Control  of  Rose-Chafer 
Farmers’  Bulletin  721.  "The  Rose- 
chafer.”  is  issued  by  the  TT.  8-  Depart¬ 
ment  of  Agriculture.  This  insect  causes 
great  damage  to  grapes,  as  well  as  to 
many  garden  plants,  and  the  control 
measures  suggested  will  be  helpful.  Ar¬ 
senate  of  lead  is  found  a  desirable  spray, 
but  spraying  alone  does  not  seen  effica¬ 
cious  unless  frequently  repeated.  The 
pupse.  which  appear  quite  delicate,  may 
he  destroyed  by  stirring  the  ground 
where  they  breed  to  a  depth  of  three 
inches  or  more:  in  the  latitude  of  North¬ 
ern  Ohio  this  should  be  done  about  May 
2o  to  June  10.  while  in  more  southern 
latitudes  this  should  be  done  earlier. 
Light  sandy  soil  is  the  beetle's  preferred 
breeding  ground,  and  for  this  reason  it 
is  suggested  that  all  such  laud  be  plowed 
and  harrowed  at  the  proper  time  in 
Sjiring.  the  heavier  land  being  used  for 
grass,  and  the  least  possible  area  of  light 
sandy  soil  being  left  in  sod.  It  is  also 
stated  that  many  wild  plants,  especially 
the  ox-eye  daisy  and  sumac,  are  special 
favorites  of  this  beetle,  and  when  prac¬ 
ticable  the  insects  should  be  destroyed 
upon  them,  to  prevent  their  spreading  to 
cultivated  ground.  It  is  observed  that 
if  fruit  growers  and  truckers  in  limited 
regions  subject,  to  rose-chafer  infestation 
made  combined  efforts  against  it.  its 
numbers  might  be  so  diminished  in  a  few 
seasons  as  to  give  practical  immunity 
from  injury  for  several  years. 
Effect  of  Power  Spray  on  Grass 
I  have  an  orchard  partly  seeded  to 
Crimson  clover  and  Orchard  grass. ^  I  in¬ 
tend  to  spray  for  Codling  moth  with  ar¬ 
senate  of  lead  at.  the  proper  time.  Will 
there  he  any  danger  of  poisoning  tin* 
hay,  which  has  necessarily  to  be  cut  quite 
early,  probably  less  than  four  weeks  after 
spraying?  My  poultry  too,  run  in  the  or¬ 
chard  when  I  don't  confine  them.  I  also 
inclosed  part  of  my  orchard  for  pigs, 
some  in  sod  and  some  plowed  up.  Will 
there  be  risk  of  poisoning  the  pigs  if  I 
spray  with  arsenate  of  lead?  o.  f.  w. 
Hudson.  N.  Y. 
Generally  speaking  there  would  be  no 
danger  in  feeding  this  bay.  We  have  had 
in  the  past  many  reports  from  people  who 
have  sprayed  in  this  way  and  later  out 
the  hay  aud  fed  it  out  during  the  Win¬ 
ter.  In  all  these  reports  we  have  never 
bad  one  of  serious  damage  when  the 
spraying  was  reasonably  done.  It  might 
be  possible  in  certain  seasons  where  the 
trees  were  drenched  so  that  the  material 
ran  in  a  stream  upon  the  clover  or  where 
the  contents  of  the  tank  were  dumped 
upon  the  ground  to  have  a  small  quantity 
of  poisoned  hay.  but  where  trees  are 
sprayed  reasonably,  and  two  or  three 
wetks  before  the  clover  is  cut  for  hay 
there  would  be  practically  no  danger  to 
the  stock.  Some  years  ago  experiments 
were  tried  in  Massachusetts  where  grass 
was  cut  and  sprayed  with  poison  so  as 
to  give  a  fair  imitation  of  the  drippings 
from  the  tree.  This  grass  was  cured 
into  hay  and  fed  out  to  stock,  and  there 
were  some  bad  results  shown  with  the 
feeding.  The  green  grass,  however,  was 
not  handled  exactly  as  the  grass  from 
a  "sprayed”  orchard  would  he  and  from 
all  reports  of  practical  experience  we 
can  obtain  we  conclude  that  with  rea¬ 
sonable  judgment  and  fair  spraying  there 
would  be  little  if  any  damage  to  the 
stock  from  eating  the  hay.  We  should 
keep  pastured  stock  out  of  the  orchard 
for  a  week  after  spraying,  as  rains  would 
wash  off  some  of  the  poison,  and  the 
plants  would  make  a  new  growth. 
Guaranteed  Genuine 
y- — >»  •  Everlasting  AIT  t  f 
Grimm  Altana 
Resists  winter  conditions,  Gutyields Other  varieties 
ami  is  ot  better  fowling  value.  Booklet,  “How  I 
Discovered  The  Grimm  Alfalfa,”  end  samples  free 
Edwards  Legume  Bacteria 
for  seed  inoculation.  Sim  for  bu.  seed,  $1,00:  for  ]-j 
bu.,  .vie  .  Postpaid,  State  whether  for  Alfalfa, 
Sweet  Clover  or  Red  Clover . 
A.  B.  Lyman,  Grimm  Alfalfa  Introducer 
Alfalfadale  Farm,  Excelsior,  Minn. 
BERRY  PLANTS 
My  daily  record  shows  that  the  last  touch 
of  frost  was  on  the  first  day  of  April, 
and  yet  April  was  a  raw,  wet  and  back¬ 
ward  month.  But  the  absence  of  actual 
frost  was  peculiar.  The  lone  tomato 
plnut  which  I  set  out  April  15  at  this 
date  (May  12)  promises  to  have  fruit 
ripe  by  .Tune  1,  and  had  I  known  the  pe¬ 
culiar  weather  conditions  I  could  have 
sot  a  number  of  plants  arid  had  earlier 
tomatoes.  But  I  remembered  that  two 
years  ago  we  had  a  freeze  May  11.  and 
waited  a  while.  But.  the  early 
nil  out  and  flourishing. 
FRUIT  TREES  0  VEGETABLE  PLANTS 
BY  EXPRESS  OR  MAIL  PREPAID 
I.mrtlnr  vnrlrrlM  *TllA  WRF.RRT.  lUSI'HKHHV.  HI.ACR' 
IIF.KHV,  UOllSuni'lKUV,  CIKIUST,  UlUVK,  ASI'aHAGIS, 
CABBAGE,  CA  VI.IH.' OVER.  CEl.ERV.  SWEET  rCITATO, 
tomato,  beet,  i.r.i  ii'i  r.,  peithh.  ego  risurs-,  nan. 
shake,  okkamf.mai.  trees,  siiuuun. 
Fir»t  ol#8»  mock  shipped  preffttl  Natt  Knfflaml  and  Middle  At¬ 
lantic  Staten  at  raatonalde  priea*.  CtUalogu*  /rtf. 
Harry  L.  Sutiirea.  Remsenburg,  N.  Y. 
mb  Ml  n*  Choice  collection  of  named 
lift  H  I  Ifljfc"  varieties.  Cactus,  decorative 
and  show,  12  for  $1.  GANNAS: 
A  line  collection  of  Bronxe and Green Leaved.  10  for 
SI  25  -  both  forS2  pobtpnirt.  Ralph  Benjamin, Calveiton.L  I. 
therefore 
plants  are  now 
A  plant  or  two  were  cut  by  the  cut¬ 
worms  the  first  night,  but  the  next  morn¬ 
ing  I  made  tip  the  mixture  of  bran,  mo¬ 
lasses  and  chopped  lemon  and  placed 
some  of  it  near  every  plant,  and  the  cut¬ 
ting  lias  stopped. 
I  note  what,  yon  say  editorially  in  the 
issue  for  May  12th  in  regard  to  the 
Everbearing  strawberries.  C ommereially 
I  have  not  a  very  favorable  opinion  of 
them,  though  the  Progressive  has  done 
well  with  me  and  1  got  fruit  from  it 
all  last  Summer  till  October.  True,  the 
berries  have  been  selling  in  our  local 
market  in  the  Fall  for  15  cents,  and  to 
some  extent  may  pay  on  a  local  market. 
My  Progressive  patch  is  now  very  full  of 
flowers,  and  promises  to  give  early  fruit, 
but  I  Lave  not  found  them  to  compare 
in  size  and  showy  appearance  with  the 
best  of  the  annual  hearers.  It  is  yet 
tq  he  seen  what  effect  this  very  heavy 
fruiting  of  the  early  crop  will  have  on 
the  later  production.  Last  year  they 
started  to  bear  in  June,  while  this  being 
their  second  year  T  am  allowing  the  full 
early  crop  to  mature. 
In  growing  the  late  crop  of  Irish  pota¬ 
toes  I  have  found  it  best,  in  our  light 
soil,  to  plant  in  deep  furrows,  cover 
lightly  till  they  start,  and  then  work  the 
soil  to  them  as  they  grow  till  level,  and 
always  cultivate  shallow  and  level.  Hill¬ 
ing.  as  we  do  early  potatoes,  dries  out  in 
the  hot  weather,  arid  it  is  far  better  to 
get  them  deep  in  the  ground  and  then 
conserve  the  moisture  by  keeping  a  shal¬ 
low  dust  blanket  on  the  soil. 
All  around  me  I  see  people  having 
their  privet  hedges  trimmed  perpendicu¬ 
larly  and  flat  on  top  like  a  green  wall. 
The  result  is  that  the  hedges  get  top- 
heavy  and  open  below.  M.V  hedge  has 
been  trimmed  in  a  rounded  conical  form, 
with  a  broad  base  and  the  sides  fully 
exposed  to  light,  and  the  result  is  that 
my  hedge  is  dense  to  the  ground  and  no 
one  can  see  a  stem  below.  Nature  does 
not  make  walls  and  square  Corners,  and 
SWEET  POTATO  PLANTS 
Early  Cnrolius.  Early  Golden,  tip  Rivets,  Big  Stem 
Jersey,  Yellow  and  Red  Jersey.  Nancy  Hall,  and 
Southern  Queen,  5,000 or  toore,*).G5 per  1.000.  1,000. 
$1.50.  100,  postpaid  :i5r.  For  the,  past  twenty  years  I 
have  made  a  specialty  of  xoleetiuc.  and  propagation 
of  the  Sweat  Potato.  Can  t-ipvr:uiU>o  you  strong, 
healthy  plant*,  prompt  shipment,  and  good  order 
delivery.  Descriptive  list  free.  H.  AUSTIN.  Felton,  Del. 
Plants,  Strawberries  and  Vegetables  ^b  ieVand 
strawberries,  including  Everbearing.  Get  my  cata¬ 
log  Read  why  1  sell  choice  plants,  sent  prepaid,  at 
half  the  price  of  others.  C.  E.  FIELD,  Sewell.  N.  J. 
Vo(ToLhloPlant«-S"',,<,t  Potato  Plants.  100,  50c.; 
vegetaDienams  300,  ,  postpaid.  $2 per  1.000,  not 
Pit-paid.  Cabbage,  ton,  3m;.,  postpaid.  Earl  v  Tomatoes,  100, 
64IC-,  Postpaid.  Send  for  111.  Cat.  DAVID  R0DWAT.  Hurtly.  Del. 
t CD t D  * C HQ  Dl  AUTQ  GIANT  ARGENTEUIl.  2  year,  by 
AorfliiAUUO  rLAIllo  xnailor  ex  press  prepaid  to  the 
Eastern  States.  $1.20  per  hundred:  $<5.25  per  thous¬ 
and.  lfarrv  I-  Squires,  Remsenliurg,  N.  V. 
Field  Seed  Corn-Golden  Chief 
$2  per  bushel:  good  cropper;  ripens  early  bigyield- 
ev.  FRANK  H.  WOOD.  State  Education  Buildino  Albany.  N.  Y. 
“For  the  Land’s  Sake,  use  Bowker’s 
Fertilizers;  they  enrich  the  earth  and 
those  who  till  it." — Adv. 
Planting  Corn  in  Wide  Rows 
In  Western  Kansas  experiments  are 
being  made  at  planting  corn  in  rows  sev¬ 
en  feet  apart.  The  object  is  to  obtain  a 
good  seeding  of  wheat  in  the  corn,  as  the 
wide  space  gives  a  better  opportunity  for 
such  seeding.  As  we  see  from  the  follow¬ 
ing  this  method  is  best  adapted  to  very 
dry  conditions: 
This  is  a  method  which  we  are  prac¬ 
ticing  to  a  limited  extent  in  Western 
Kansas.  We  do  not  believe  the  method 
is  advisable  in  portions  of  the  State 
where  corn  can  be  grown  to  advantage  by 
ordinary  methods,  but.  in  Western  Kan¬ 
sas.  where  our  rainfall  averages  about 
22  inches  or  less,  and  where  corn  is  not 
a  good  crop,  and  yet  the  farmers  object 
to  Summer  fallowing  for  wheat,  this 
method  has  been  giving  us  good  results. 
In  Greeley  County.  Kansas,  near  the 
Colorado  line,  our  yields  for  the  years 
1013,  1914  and  1915  have  been  as  fal¬ 
lows: 
Single  Spac-  Double  Spac¬ 
ing,  42  in.  ing.  84  in. 
1913  .  2.0  bu.  17.1  bu. 
1914  .  17.40  24.0 
1915  .  62.22  40.51 
In  the  article  which  you  read,  you  will 
remember  that  I  mentioned  the  fact  that 
in  wet  seasons  such  as  1915  the  ordinary 
method  of  planting  was  more  profitable. 
In  Greeley  County  in  1915  the  seasonal 
rainfall  during  the  five  Summer  months 
was  28.17  inches  and  the  total  for  the 
year  was  33.34  inches.  The  total  rain¬ 
fall  for  1914  was  10.65  inches  and  for 
1913  was  17.0  inches.  Thus,  you  will 
note  that  in  the  dry  years  the  double 
spacing  method  was  considerably  better 
than  the  regular  method  while  in  the  wet 
season  the  ordinary  planting  gave  the 
years  highest  yield.  G.  e.  Thompson. 
77th  Specialist  in  Farm  Crops. 
Soy  Beans — Cow  Peas — Alfalfa 
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FRUIT  PACKAGES 
watching  with  much  interest  a 
strawberry.  It  fruited  for  the 
-  last  Summer,  ripening  its  first 
me  15,  when  the  Gandy  was 
er.  I  grew  quite  a  number  of 
and  potted  them,  and  planted 
1,  and  will  note  with  interest 
it  will  maintain  its  late  ripen- 
LCter  in  a  more  favorable  situa- 
a  last  Summer.  If  it.  does  it 
7e  of  value,  as  the  fruit  is  large 
Am y  quantity. 
Hest  (JUillity.  A  I  sty  Ip- 
C.  N.  ROBINSON  *  BRO.,  D 
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