maloney's  TREES 
Would  they  not  bo  .apt  to  kill  out  tbo 
clover,  etc.?  d.  H.  c. 
Vineland,  N.  J. 
Allowing  a  leguminous  cover  crop  to 
grow  over  one  season  in  the  orchard  has 
two  advantages  over  clean  culture  every 
year:  it  saves  plowing  and  labor,  and  in¬ 
creases  the  amount  of  nitrogen  gathered 
mi  the  reel'-,  and  (lie  amount  of  humus  to 
plow  under.  The  only  disadvantage  is 
the  taking  of  food  and  moisture  from  the 
trees.  Young  trees  will  suffer  more  than 
older  ones,  and  peach  tret's  more  than 
others  such  as  apples  and  pear,  which 
seem  to  do  very  well  if  the  cover  crop  is 
cut  and  allowed  to  remain  as  a  mulch. 
In  very  dry  seasons  or  when  the  trees  are 
bearing  a  heavy  ert  j.  clean  culture  is 
mueh  better.  Ducks,  chickens  or  hogs 
may  run  in  the  orchard  in  small  numbers 
without  hurting  the  stand  of  cover  crop 
to  any  degree  and  it  makes  fine  forage 
for  them,  and  the  tramping  from  orchard 
operations  does  very  little  harm  to  the 
cover  crop.  Wheu  the  orchard  has  a 
crop  of  grass  or  cover  Crop  over  the.  sea¬ 
son  it  should  always  be  cut  early  and 
left  on  the  ground  as  a  mulch. 
Columbia  Co-,  X.  Y.  E.  w.  M. 
saying  that  he  did  not  know  what  price 
to  put  on  them  for  there  was  no  such 
thing  on  the  market,  then,  hut  he  sold 
them  to  a  club  for  V*  certs  a  hunch,  and 
said  that  ho  hoped  that  would  he  satisfac¬ 
tory.  Of  course  it.  was.  for  there  were 
but  five  stalks  in  a  bunch.  Rhubarb  is 
now  so  commonly  forced  that  the  price 
would  now  be  nearer  five  cents  than  fifty. 
Generally  my  earliest  corn  is  at  this 
date  (.Tune  fit  well  tasspled  and  silked, 
but  this  Summer  it  is  just  preparing  to 
push  a  tassel  here  and  there,  f « •  c  instead 
of  having  been  planted  in  March,  as  in 
some  previous  years,  it  was  well  into 
April  before  I  trusted  seed  in  the  ground. 
My  earliest,  corn  is  the  Norfolk  Market, 
an  early  dent  and  a  groat  improvement 
on  the  old  Adams  JOarly.  It.  is  not  a 
sugar  corn,  of  course,  but  can  be  planted 
earlier  than  sugar  corn.  And  yet.  look¬ 
ing  at  the  rows  side  hy  side  of  this  corn 
and  Kendall's  Giant  and  Golden  Bantam 
sugars,  they  seem  now  just  as  tall  as  the 
Norfolk  corn,  but  when  fully  tassel ed  out 
the  Norfolk  corn  will  be  greatly  taller. 
The  Golden  Bantam  does  not  amount  to 
much  here.  Tn  fact  no  very  early  sugar 
corn  does,  but  the  litle  Bantam  is  so  very 
good  that  I  always  p'ant  a  few  rows, 
and  then  follow  up  with  our  standard 
varieties.  Country  Gentleman  and  Btow- 
cll's  Evergreen.  The  entomologists  tell 
us  that  there  are  several  broods  of  tlm 
corn  ear-worms,  but  I  have  always  found 
that  while  the  early  corn  is  always  bad¬ 
ly  infested,  the  corn  that  comes  in  in  Au¬ 
gust  and  September  is  usually  free  from 
the  worms.  Perhaps  we  have  but  the  one 
brood  here. 
Strawberries  are  nearly  done.  The 
late  ripening  seedling  I  have  mentioned 
is  now  ripening  a  little  earlier  than  last 
year.  It  is  too  much  like  Gundy  to  be 
worthy  of  a  distinct  name,  but  it  is  mak¬ 
ing  very  large  berries  and  firm  ones,  and 
I  may  continue  to  grow  it.  but  will  not 
name  it  us  a  new  variety.  There  arc  too 
many  already,  and  a  new  one  that  has 
not  something  very  distinct  to  recom¬ 
mend  it  would  better  lie  left  unnamed. 
My  first  ripe  tomato  was  picked  on 
June  12th,  and  we  had  it  on  the  table 
sliced  along  with  some  of  the  Southern 
tomatoes.  And  what  a  difference!  "Why 
is  it:  that  the  Florida  growers  grow  such 
hollow,  skinny  and  tough  tomatoes?  It 
would  seem  that  early  varieties  like  the 
Bonny  Best  would  grow  as  solid  there 
as  here. 
I  am  trying  some  tuberous  Begonias 
in  a  frame  with  a  lattice  screen  over 
them.  They  arc  not  making  the  great: 
foliage  that  the  potted  plants  in  the 
greenhouse  are  making,  but  they  look 
healthy  and  are  blooming,  and  the  tubers 
may  he  bettor  than  those  grown  in  pots. 
[Many  years  ago  when  these  tuberous  va¬ 
rieties  were  first  introduced  I  got  a  lot 
of  the  tubers  from  Wm.  Bull  of  Lon¬ 
don.  They  grew  well  and  bloomed  well, 
and  made  a  sensation  when  I  exhibited 
them  at  one  of  our  Baltimore  shows. 
The  florists  have  developed  them  wonder¬ 
fully,  for  these  first  ones  had  pretty  but 
small  flowers,  while  now  we  get  blooms 
as  big  as  a  hollyhock.  But  I  doubt  that 
they  are  really  better  except  in  size  of 
blooms,  for  the  big  flowers  are  not  so 
plentiful  as  the  smaller  ones  were.  The 
rage  for  size  does  not  always  enhance 
the  beauty  of  the  plant. 
The  St.  Regis  raspberry  is  now  ripe, 
and  follows  closely  after  the  strawber¬ 
ries;  also  gives  some  fruit  in  the  Fall  on 
the  young  canes  of  the  season.  Nanti- 
cokc  blackberry  is  just  blooming  (June 
III  and  also  the  Atlantic  dewberry. 
Both  of  these  are  August  berries,  and 
sometimes  run  to  September.  Tim  late 
seedling  strawberry  which  I  have  men¬ 
tioned  has  done  very  well  and  still  has 
a  few  berries  left.  They  arc  large  and 
firm,  but  too  much  like  Gandy  to  be 
worthy  of  a  new  name,  and  I  shall  grow 
them  for  home  use  without  a  name, 
W.  F.  MASSEY. 
methods  taught  by  old  nature.  We  fur¬ 
nish  comfortable  stables  for  tlie  night, 
and  let  the  sheep  enjoy  the  fields,  with 
plenty  on  them,  during  every  nice  day  the 
ground  is  fit.  It  is  consummate  folly 
to  haul  cornstalks  with  a  few  leaves  on 
them,  into  a  stable  or  yard,  and  then  re¬ 
haul  them,  under  most  aggravating  condi¬ 
tions.  in  manure.  A  big  pile  of  corn¬ 
stalk  manure  is  as  much  tin  incumbrance 
on  a  farm  as  a  mortgage.  I  have  tried 
both. 
Also,  ear  corn  or  corn  on  the  stalk  can 
he  fed  to  any  animal  on  a  field,  enjoyed 
better  and  us  good  returns  gained  as  pre¬ 
pared  in  any  way.  Yon  can  grind  it, 
soak  it  or  cook  it.  Mix  it  with 
any  or  all  of  the  commercial  feeds, 
and  you  are  a  good  one  if  you  can 
get  equal  gains.  The  balanced  ration 
theories  have  made  labor  and  expense, 
while  there  never  will  he  a  ration  that 
will  fit  any  animal  like  the  feeds  grown 
where  it  lives,  fed  to  it  in  the  natural 
way,  when  it  can  bo  done  without  waste, 
and  no  animal  is  so  happy  about  man¬ 
gel's  and  troughs  us  when  daintily  se¬ 
lecting  its  food  on  frozen  ground.  Our 
sheep  would  rush  pell-mell  away  from  the 
best  of  feed  in  confinement  to  look  for 
something  in  freedom. 
Cornstalks,  cobs  and  sheep  droppings 
cannot  be  excelled  ns  a  means  to  make 
good  pastures,  and  are  superior  to  hauled 
manure-  They  can  be  left  on  the  lightest 
sod.  and  the  field  made  perfect.  Fodder 
and  Shock  corn  can  be  set  along  the 
fence  on  the  other  side,  in  good,  big, 
drawn  shocks,  and  some  left  in  the  corn¬ 
field  well  tied  to  haul  at  convenience. 
Again,  other  can  be  stacked  out  in  the 
pasture,  and  needs  no  fence  about  it:  until 
fed  near  the  ground,  and  you  will  find 
the  luitts  of  stalks  combed  clean  as  bam¬ 
boo.  and  car  corn  can  be  carried  on  a 
horse  or  in  a  buggy  to  scatter,  and  not  a 
grani  will  be  lost. 
A  pasture  should  have  growth  left  on 
it  so  unimals  can  fill  up  any  nice  Winter 
day.  This  food  for  them  has  had  no  ex¬ 
pense  of  harvesting,  and  fills  a  want  in 
the  animal  economy  that  can  lie  had  in  no 
-other  way;  so  the  object  in  fixing  this 
way  is  to  get  the  best  returns  at  the  low¬ 
est  cost.  There  is  a  mistaken  idea  that, 
vegetable  and  animal  wastes  must  bo 
toiled  with  to  make  them  valuable,  but 
they  contain  a  certain  amount  of  fertil¬ 
izing  material  that  cannot,  be  increased, 
although  some  of  it  may  be  lost  by  mi- 
wise  methods.  After  ail  the  complicated 
advice  which  carries  so  much  expense 
and  labor  for  its  acceptance,  its  pits, 
sheds,  appliances  and  repeated  handling, 
there  is  no  way  so  good  as  the  plan  na¬ 
ture  used  to  improve  the  soil. 
Ohio.  W.  W.  REYNOLDS. 
When  you  write  advertisers  mention 
The  Rural  New-Yorker  and  you'll  get 
a  quick  reply  and  a  “square  deal.”  See 
guarantee  editorial  page.  :  .*  ; 
T  That’s  just  what 
4  Milk  Babbitt’s  Pure  Lye 
I  l?4  means  to  the  housewife. 
^  t  Babbitt’s  cuts  the  dirt, 
.  ^v  j|  softens  so  that  y0n  can 
Sb-...  rub  it  off  your  pots  and 
pans,  your  sinks,  your 
woodwork  with  ease.  It 
takes  the  drudgery  out  of  daily  tasks. 
More  than  that 
In  the  New  Can  with  the  Si  f ting  Pry-Off  -  Top 
is  valuable  for  a  hundred  household 
purposes.  It  keeps  the  drain  pipes 
dean  and  odorless;  softens  hard  water; 
saves  you  money  in  home-made  soap. 
It  deanses — purifies — disinfects. 
Babbitt’s  Pure  Lye  is  Highest 
in  Strength,  but  NOT  in  Price 
—10c  Everywhere. 
Send  for  new  booklet  on  lye — "How 
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Frozen  Potato  Vines 
Regarding  frozen  potato  vines  I  have 
a  small  patch,  about.  <jne-q  narter  aero, 
which  was  planted  to  Early  Rose  in  Feb¬ 
ruary,  and  May  11.  when  a  bard  frost 
came  the  vines  were  about  eight  inches 
high  and  were  frozen  dead  clear  to  tin- 
soil.  Today.  May  22,  they  arc  about 
three  inches  high  and  much  more  bushy 
than  at  first,  having  branched  out  thick¬ 
ly  just  below  the  surface  of  the  soil, 
which  is  a  light  sandy  loam.  Of  course 
I  cannot  say  that  they  will  make  as  good 
a  crop  as  would  have  been  with  no  frost, 
and  certainly  will  be  a  couple  of  weeks 
late,  but  1  have  never  lost  a  potato  crop 
from  frost,  and  I  have  grown  them  iu 
Alaska.  G.  E.  BROWN. 
Washington. 
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Most  perfect  method  ever 
invented.  No  banking  with 
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makes  a  more  beautiful  product.  Big 
money  am!  labor  saver  for  [he  market 
grower.  Handy,  neat  and  equally 
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Fertilizers ;  they  enrich  the  earth  and 
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DRY  YOUR  FRUIT 
arid  vegetables  by  steam  in  two  hours  on  the 
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THERE  is  no  use  to  risk 
failure  in  getting  a  stand 
of  alfalfa  when  McQueen's  In- 
oculator  can  be  applied  at  the 
rate  of  a  dollar  per  acre.  In¬ 
oculation  is  the  least  expensive 
and  the  most  important  feat¬ 
ure  of  raising  alfalfa. 
McQueen’s  Inoculator  is  a 
powder  swarming  with  mil¬ 
lions  of  active,  vigorous,  hardy 
bacteria.  You  moisten  the 
seed  anti  mix  iti  the  Inoculator. 
This  results  in  hundreds  of 
nodules  on  every  plant. 
Start  a  field  of  alfalfa  this  sum¬ 
mer.  You  cannot  raise  anything  more 
valuable  for  feed,  and  the  bacteria 
keep  manufacturing  nitrogen  to  en¬ 
rich  the  soil. 
Don’t  let  auy  of  your  land  lie  idle. 
If  you  couldn't  get  a  crop  of  oats  or 
corn,  put  the  laud  iu  alfalfa  or  soy 
beaus.  Tlie  latter  can  be  planted  up 
to  the  middle  of  July,  if  the  crop  is  to 
be  used  for  hay  or  green  manure.  Al¬ 
falfa  cau  be  planted  up  to  the  middle 
of  August. 
Fruit  and  OmraepUl  vinun,  ithruha.  vie.,  trot*  to  name  in 
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Notes  from  a  Maryland  Garden 
After  the  most  frostJrss  Spring  I  re¬ 
member,  though  a  cool  and  backward  one, 
we  are  having  now  the  perfect  June 
clays;  have  not  yet  had  a  great  deal  of 
use  for  my  newly  installed  Skinner  irri¬ 
gation  pipes,  but  it  does  come  in  very 
handily  hi  setting  out  plants  to  give  them 
a  gentle  shower  to  settle  the  earth  and 
freshen  them  up. 
I  am  more  than  ever  pleased  with  the 
Thomas  Laxton  pea.  I  have  grown  it 
several  years  and  have  found  it  the  most 
wonderfully  productive  pea.  of  the  sec¬ 
ond  early  dwarf  class.  The  pods  are 
long  and  full,  and  the  peas  large  and 
sweet..  Of  course  I  always  plant  some  of 
the  little  extra  Garlics  to  begin  the  green 
pea  season,  but  am  always  glad  when 
peas  of  better  quality  come  in.  For  the 
earliest  I  use  the  Nonpareil,  as  selection 
from  the  Alaska  type.  The  good  wife  has 
now  quite  an  array  of  these  in  the  glass 
jars  for  the  Winter. 
Then  too  we  cut  up  the  rhubarb  and 
put  it  in  the  jars  with  cold  water  and 
close  up  tight,  and  next  Winter  that  rhu¬ 
barb  cooks  just  like  the  fresh  article,  and 
we  are  saved  the  trouble  of  forcing  any. 
That  reminds  me  of  my  first  attempt  at 
forcing  rhubarb.  It  was  nearly  50  years 
ago,  and  nothing  had  then  been  done  in 
that  line.  Having  a  surplus  of  old  roots 
I  lifted  a  lot  after  hard  frost  and  packed 
them  under  the  benches  in  my  green-  * 
house,  covered  them  heavily  with  spbag-  (hr* 
nun;  moss  and  they  soon  shot  up  long  big, 
pink  stalks.  These  were  bunched  in  Feb-  *  Q 
ruary  and  sent  to  a  commission  mer-  rjl](. 
chant  in  Philadelphia.  He  made  return,  low 
Fttl*  August  nml  Full  |ilmriiii£.  Ihinunr  iiimI  I'ot'grono  plant* 
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JiHtltV  i’l. A. VI 8,  I'  HIT  T  l'KKI.S,  OKS  UII.VI  AI,  i  UhliS. 
SJIIUHS.  OcMalofpw  free l, 
Harry  L.  Squires,  Remsenburg,  N.  Y. 
SEED  BUCKWHEAT 
UX  rsir  A  T,  weather  condit  ions  have 
iinnlt-  jrontJ  S(S"J  Uuekwlltsit  III  (Trent 
tleiDHiia.  V  e  nrter  it.  «t  SLIM  per  bushel. 
Si  nr!  rnsli  iitmI  pet  iinmoilinto  shipment 
anil  t'liir  tienuiu-nt. 
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Cabbage,  Beets,  Celery  Plant: 
When  legumes  are  infected  with  it 
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posit  the  excess  in  the  soil.  If  a 
legume  is  not  infected,  it  takes  nitro¬ 
gen  from  the  soil.  Inoculation  there¬ 
fore  means  better  emps  and  improved 
soil.  There  is  no  better  feed  than 
alfalfa  or  soy  bean  hay,  while  the 
roots  and  stubble  make  the  most  val¬ 
uable  fertilizer. 
McQucon's  Inoculator  comes  in 
acre-size  packages  at  $1  each,  post¬ 
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