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October  28.  1916. 
maloney's  TREES 
reach  about  IS  feet  long,  put  the  pan 
about  the  middip  of  two  poles  laid  on  the 
bolsters,  and  go  to  burning.  Cleats  are 
needed  to  keep  the  poles  from  sliding, 
and  lag-bolts  hold  the  pan  in  place. 
It  is  not  practical  to  burn  the  brush 
as  the  trees  are  trimmed  in  our  orchards. 
The  burning  is  done  as  soon  as  most  of 
the  snow  is  off  in  the  Spring.  With  a 
good  lire  and  not  too  much  wind  this 
burner  will  take  care  of  the  brush  as 
fast  as  four  or  five  men  can  pick  it  up. 
AJVFRED  C.  WEED. 
Wayne  Co.,  X.  Y. 
house-fly.  Normally  during  the  Summer 
the  cluster-fly  lives  out  of  doors,  fre¬ 
quenting  til1  flowers  and  fruits  of  plants. 
In  the  Autumn,  however,  it  outers  dwell¬ 
ing  houses  in  search  apparently  of  snug 
retreats  in  which  to  pass  the  Winter.  It 
gathers  in  clusters  in  the  corners  of  un¬ 
used  darkened  rooms,  under  clothing  in 
closets,  beneath  curtains  at  windows  and 
in  other  nooks.  The  persistence  of  this 
fly  in  entering  houses  is  wonderful.  It 
enters  the  building  one  by  one  through 
cracks  and  crevices  and  is  not  to  be  de¬ 
nied  by  screens  or  any  other  contrivance 
or  effort.  In  this  respect  it  differs  great¬ 
ly  from  the  house-fly.  The  house-fly,  in 
general,  is  shy  of  small  cracks,  and  readi¬ 
ly  passes  over  them.  For  this  reason 
screens  closing  the  larger  openings  are 
successful  iu  case  of  the  house-fly. 
Almost  nothing  is  known  of  the  way 
in  which  the  cluster  or  honey-fly  spends 
its  life.  We  do  not  yet  know  where  the 
eggs  are  laid  or  upon  what,  the  maggots 
live.  Fortunately,  this  fly  does  not  do 
any  serious  harm.  It  is  a,  nuisance  and 
a  source  of  annoyance,  especially  when 
it  begins  to  gather  in  clusters  in  the 
house  in  the  Fall.  Iu  the  .Spring,  how¬ 
ever,  the  Hies  become  active  with  warm 
weather,  swarm  on  the  window  panes 
and  gradually  find  their  way  to  the  great 
out-doors.  The  clusters  of  this  fly  found 
in  the  corners  of  rooms  may  be  swept 
into  boiling  water  and  killed.  Fresh 
pyrethrum  or  by  bach  dnsted  on  them 
will  kill  and  stupefy  them  so  that  they 
may  be  swept  up  and  burned.  A  cor¬ 
respondent  writes  that,  “The  only  way  I 
have  found  to  keep  them  out  of  the  room 
is  to  leave  out  screens,  lower  the  window 
from  the  top,  and  have  the  room  light.’’ 
They  will  crawl  to  the  top  of  the  window 
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The  R.  X.-Y.  a  little  "experience  meet¬ 
ing”  upon  the  subject  of  potash.  For 
two  years  the  farmer  has  put  in  his 
crops  without  potash,  and  I  for  one  am 
very  anxious  to  learn  what  the  experience 
has  taught  others.  I  myself  abandoned 
the  use  of  potash  six  years  ago.  I  was 
taught  to  use  potash  freely  for  all  crops, 
especially  potatoes,  and  as  a  consequence 
used  enough  of  both  muriate  and  sul¬ 
phate  at  present  prices  to  pay  for  my 
farm.  But  one  year,  not  being  rushed 
witli  farm  work,  I  decided  to  make  some 
tests  with  it  in  corn  and  potatoes.  I 
used  two,  five  and  10  per  cent,  combin¬ 
ations,  and  the  clear  potash  alone.  The 
results  showed  that  potatoes  were  bene¬ 
fited  slightly  by  10%  and  clear  potash 
applications,  but  corn  was  not  helped  in 
any  degree,  and  since  that  time  the  only 
commercial  fertilizer  I  use  is  bone  meal 
and  16%  acid  phosphate,  equal  parts. 
This  gives  almost  as  good  results  with 
potatoes,  infinitely  better  with  corn, 
costs  half  less  wrhon  potash  is  at  its  nor¬ 
mal  price,  and  good  results  may  be  noted 
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Last  September  and  October,  people  who 
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saw  what  they  they  thought  were  long, 
luxurient-  rows  of  dark  green  potatoes; 
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out  meadow,  mostly  “five-finger,”  that  in 
July  had  cut  hardly  over  half  a  ton  of 
Red-top  and  “bull’s-eyes, ”  but  with  the 
Summer  rains  Red  clover  began  to  come 
iu  in  even  rows  the  length  of  the  field 
and  three  feet  apart,  and  grew  so  vigor¬ 
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or  in  half  light,  it  looked  like  a  field  of 
potatoes,  and  then  I  remembered  that 
four  years  before  I  had  had  potatoes  in 
that  field  and  had  worked  in  in  the  rows 
a  generous  application  of  bouc  meal  and 
acid  phosphate.  My  soil  is  a  light  loam 
with  loam  or  gravelly  subsoil,  and  as  I 
understand  it,  one  of  the  soils  generally 
Said  to  he  deficient  iu  potash.  But  for 
my  use,  I  would  not  care  to  pay  one  cent 
over  .$12  a  ton  for  muriate,  and  $15  for 
sulphate.  But  I  would  very  much  like 
to  hear  what  has  been  the  experience  of 
others  who  have  been  obliged  to  do  with¬ 
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Grape  Notes  from  Missouri 
Goethe, — It  is  now  the  2-”rd  of  Sep¬ 
tember,  nearly  two  months  .since  the  first 
grapes  began  to  ripen,  there  has  been  a 
breath  of  frost,  and  still  there  are  vines 
where  sweet  and  luscious  table  grapes 
may  be  found.  All  of  these  are  Munson 
seedlings,  except  one,  the  finest  of  all.  and 
that  is  the  Goethe,  which  also  has  the 
distinction  of  being  the  largest  vine  in 
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feet  or  more  one  may  stand  before  thick- 
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grapes,  and  help  oneself  as  from  a  long 
counter.  And  these  grapes  will  continue 
to  hang  for  many  days  yet,  for  no  bird 
now  seeks  them  out,  the  appetite  for 
grapes  having  apparently  left  the  feath¬ 
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Goethe  hut  found  it  a  failure;  the  fruit 
will  speedily  decay  when  deprived  of  air 
circulation.  Speaking  of  sacking,  I  find 
a  great  difference  in  its  influence  on  va¬ 
rieties,  Some  improve  under  cover,  some 
are  Unchanged  and  some  deteriorate. 
Woodruff’s  Red  would  not  stand  it,  but 
the  thin-skinned  Brighton  kept  wonder¬ 
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raisin.  Campbell’s  will  keep  perfectly  for 
six  weeks  from  the  time  they  begin  to 
ripen  and  the  Wilder  is  another  good 
keeper,  as  are  most  of  Rogers’. 
Comparison'  of  YarteTOcr. — Rogers 
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