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Notes  and  Comments 
Alfalfa  Bacteria.  —  (Page  1002) 
Where  there  is  a  deficiency  of  nitrogen  in 
the  soil,  anrl  the  bacteria  are  not  present 
to  form  the  nodules,  Alfalfa  will  often 
turn  yellow.  If  this  yellow  growth  is 
mown  off  at  once  and  the  crop  top-dressed 
with  nitrogenous  fertilizer  it  will  grow 
off  at  once,  but  while  it  will  make  this 
growth,  it  will  be -from  the  added  nitro¬ 
gen,  and  not  from  any  that  the  plants  get 
from  the  air  till  the  nodules  are  formed 
and  inhabited,  lienee  inoculation  will  be 
needed,  for  the  nodules  do  not  form  from 
the  nitrogen  iu  the  soil,  but  from  living 
bacteria  suited  to  thrive  on  Alfalfa. 
SUDAN  Grass. — On  a  farm  in  the  im¬ 
provement  of  which  I  take  an  interest, 
the  Sudan  grass  made  an  excellent  growth 
this  Summer,  hut  the  tenant  was  so  busy 
with  cantaloupes  and  watermelons  that 
the  grass  was  allowed  to  stand  too  long, 
and  is  rather  reedy.  Had  it  been  out  as 
soon  as  the  heads  showed  there  would 
have  been  a  better  second  growth.  But 
evidently  this  grass  is  vastly  superior  to 
millet  as  a  Summer  crop,  and  has  not  the 
danger  to  horses  of  feeding  millet  with 
the  seeds  formed. 
Everbearing  Strawberries.  —  After 
two  seasous’  experience  I  have  about 
come  to  the  conclusion  that  even  for 
home  use  one  would  better  be  content 
with  the  Spring  cropping  varieties  than 
to  bother  with  the  little  berries  the  ever- 
bearing  sorts  give  during  Summer  and 
Fall.  The  plants  seem  to  get  so  stunted 
the  second  season  that  one  feels  like  dig¬ 
ging  them  up  and  putting  something  more 
flourishing  in  their  place.  I  shall  dis¬ 
card  them  in  my  garden. 
I’imiento  Peppers. — The  one  new 
thing  that  has  come  to  stay  with  me  is 
the  Pimiento  popper.  It  is  the  sweetest 
of  all  sweet  peppers,  and  has  not  a  trace 
of  bite  in  it.  The  smooth  conical  pods 
are  borne  with  the  most  wonderful  pro¬ 
fusion  aud  are  just  the  best  size  for 
stuffing  for  pickles,  and  niueh  better  than 
the  wrinkled  pods  of  the  Iiuby  King  and 
others  having  much  thicker  flesh.  I  shall 
grow  it  exclusively  for  sweet  peppers. 
Suckers  on  Corn. — “,T.  L.  IT.”  ad¬ 
vises  the  removal  of  suckers  on  sugar 
corn.  I  have  found  that  pulling  suckers 
does  as  much  barm  as  good,  iu  fact  does 
no  good.  The  more  leaves  a  plant  makes 
the  more  carbon  if  can  get  from  the  air,  and 
the  more  starch  it.  can  make,  and  starch 
is  needed  and  essential  to  making  corn. 
The  prolific  varieties  of  corn  grown  iu 
the  South  sucker  as  freely  as  the  sugar 
corn  in  the  North.  I  saw  once  a  stalk 
bearing  two  suckers  and  each  sucker 
made  two  ears  and  the  main  stalk  two 
ears.  I  abandoned  the  pulling  of  suckers 
many  years  ago,  and  station  experiments 
have  shown  that  it  is  a  detriment  to  the 
corn  to  remove  them. 
Grapes  and  Blackberries. — It  seems 
a  little  odd  to  be  gathering  ripe  grapes 
and  blackberries  the  same  day.  but  that 
is  just  what  we  are  doing.  The  Nanti- 
eoke  blackberry  is  now  (August  21),  just 
at  its  prime,  and  is  one  of  the  finest  for 
home  use,  but  useless  for  shipping,  us  the 
fruit  is  too  soft  for  this  purpose.  Its 
and  so  far  the  lowest  price  I  have  heard 
has  been  $1(3  per  100  at  the  switch.  As 
usual  another  season  the  growers  will  all 
rush  into  watermelons,  and  the  men  who 
plant  cantaloupes  will  make  the  profit.  It 
is  always  a  good  plan  in  the  trucking  sec¬ 
tions  to  plant  more  largely  of  the  crop 
that  failed  to  pay  the  season  before,  and 
to  touch  more  lightly  the  crop  that  paid 
well.  W.  F.  MASSEY. 
Propagating  the  Mulberry 
Can  you  tell  me  how  to  propagate  the 
mulberry  tree?  Although  mine  is  a  pro¬ 
lific  bearer  and  much  fruit  is  left  on  the 
ground,  I  have  never  seen  a  seedling. 
East  Brookfield,  Mass.  J.  w.  S. 
When  new  sorts  of  fruits  are  desired 
they  are  propagated  from  seeds  of  supe¬ 
rior  varieties.  It  is  seldom  that  named 
varieties  will  reproduce  themselves  from 
seed,  being  usually  inferior  to  the  parent, 
with  an  occasional  one  of  superior  quali¬ 
ties.  Named  varieties  therefore  must  be 
budded  or  grafted  on  the  common  stocks, 
the  Russian  mulberries  being  most 
suited  to  the  purpose.  The  grafting  may 
be  done  outside  iu  early  Spring  by  any 
of  the  well-known  methods,  same  as  ap¬ 
ple,  etc.  Nurserymen  propagate  them 
largely  by  root-grafting,  which  is  done  in¬ 
side  during  the  Winter. 
To  grow  seedlings  of  this  fruit  is  an  in¬ 
teresting  but  not  always  a  profitable  em¬ 
ployment.  However,  if  one  has  the  time 
and  ground  to  spare,  both  may  by  chance 
be  made  profitable  in  this  work,  blit  it  is 
only  a  chance.  The  fruits  should  be 
gathered  when  fully  ripe  and  placed  in  a 
vessel  to  partially  ferment,  after  which 
they  should  be  crushed  as  finely  as  possi¬ 
ble  with  the  hands,  and  the  seeds  washed 
out,  by  rinsing  the  pulp  through  several 
courses  of  clean  water.  The  seeds  must 
then  be  spread  thinly  on  cardboard  or 
pans  to  dry.  When  thoroughly  dried, 
they  are  to  be  stored  away  iu  a  dry 
place  until  sowing  time,  which  is  in  late 
Fall  or  early  Spring.  For  small  seeds 
of  this  character  a  cold  frame  should  be 
used,  so  the  seed  and  young  seedlings  may 
be  protected  from  heavy  rains.  Sow  the 
seed  thinly  in  very  shallow  drills,  cover¬ 
ing  them  not  over  one-eighth  of  an  inch 
deep.  Mulberry  is  comparatively  easy  to 
grow  from  seed  and  if  a  little  care  is  ob¬ 
served  in  the  handling  of  them,  there 
should  he  no  trouble  in  getting  all  you 
want.  K. 
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Removing  Suckers ;  Curculio 
Tn  grafting  cherry  or  apple  trees  would 
you  remove  suckers  ns  they  appear  around 
grafts,  now,  or  wait  until  Winter  or 
Spri  tig? 
I  have  several  five-year  apple  trees 
with  some  apples  last  year,  all  knotty 
and  worthless.  Since  this  I  was  inform¬ 
ed  the  plum  curculio  caused  the  trouble. 
Tn  spite  of  all  spraying  ns  instructed  by 
the  State  I  notice  nearly  all  fruit  is  cut 
or  stung  again.  Can  you  advise  when  or 
where  I  may  look  for  this  pest?  Looking 
closely  at  different  times  of  day  I  have 
only  found  two  of  them  on  the  trees. 
loe,  Pa.  it,  a.  K. 
In  growing  young  fruit  trees  of  any 
sort  I  would  keep  all  misplaced  shoots 
constantly  rubbed  off  so  as  to  throw  all 
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only  drawback  is  the  enormous  growth  of 
the  canes  and  their  terribly  thorny  char¬ 
acter,  and  one  needs  to  wear  buckskin 
gloves  to  gather  the  fruit  to  save  bis 
hands.  The  Atlantic  dewberry  is  an¬ 
other  of  the  blackberries  now  fruiting. 
This  is  not  to  my  taste  as  good  as  the 
Nantieoke,  but  is  firm,  and  will  bear 
shipping.  But  the  value  of  these  late 
berries  is  mainly  for  home  use,  since  now. 
when  the  market  is  mainly  concerned 
about  peaches,  the  blackberries  would 
hardly  be  noticed. 
The  Cantaloupe  Crop. — Our  growers 
planted  too  large  an  area  in  musknielous 
this  year.  Those  who  got  in  early 
brought  good  prices,  but  when  120  car¬ 
loads  went  north  from  this  section  in  one 
day,  and  many  more  were  gathered  along 
the  road  north  of  ns,  the  price  broke 
down  completely,  and  millions  of  the 
melons  have  been  left  to  rot  iu  the  fields. 
On  the  other  hand,  the  watermelon  crop 
has  been  paying  well.  Many  carloads 
sold  for  $200  to  $200  at  the  station  here, 
the  energy  of  the  plant  into  the  branches 
intended  to  make  the  head  and  not  waste 
the  growth  ou  the  production  of  shoots 
that  must  finally  come  out.  The  plum 
curculio  seldom  does  much  damage  on 
apples,  but  doubtless  it  may  make  mis¬ 
shapen  fruits  if  it  attacks  the  fruit. 
Their  chief  damage  is  done  on  the  stone 
fruits,  plums,  cherries  and  poaches,  and 
growers  of  these  usually  adopt  the  jarring 
method  of  shaking  them  off  and  catching 
them  in  an  umbrella-shaped  implement 
with  a  slit  to  slip  around  the  tree.  The 
bitten  fruit  and  the  insects  are  caught  and 
dumped  into  a  vessel  of  water  covered  with 
kerosene.  Spraying  with  Bordeaux  mix¬ 
ture  in  which  a  pound  and  a  half  of  lead 
arsenate  paste  is  mixed  in  50  gallons  of 
the  mixture  will  act  both  as  a  fungicide 
and  will  kill  some  of  the  cureulios.  but  as 
they  are  sucking  and  not  biting  insects 
many  of  them  will  escape,  and  the  jar¬ 
ring  method  is  best.  When  jarred  off  the 
insects  play  dead  aud  are  easily  caught. 
w.  F.  MASSEY. 
