1903 
485 
EVERYBODY'S CARDEN. 
Gabdening by Wateb. —Beginning 
with June 13, It has rained and poured 
by spells for seven successive days. It 
was wet to begin with, hut now It is 
wetter. Previous to that there were one 
or two days dry enough to work the cul¬ 
tivators and hoes, but now the mortar 
hod and trowel are more appropriate. 
Friday, June 12, the fruit wagon was 
sent to the city with strawberries, to be 
in time for the Saturday morning mar¬ 
ket. The driver and the wagon were 
there, but the market was absent that 
day. A pouring rain and 1,000 bushels 
of strawberries were a poor combina¬ 
tion for a brisk market. The 1,000 bush¬ 
els, however, were not all ours, but be¬ 
longed to several hundred other grow¬ 
ers, so our man turned up safely on 
Sunday afternoon, and for the past week 
has been busy figuring out the profits 
of the trip. He is an experienced man 
in the business and has learned to take 
the bitter with the sweet. Last season 
from about June 15 to the close of the 
grape season in October his market trips 
figured 1,700 miles with a single horse, 
and much of the time two single rigs 
went in company, so he is no green mar¬ 
ket man. Work among the vegetables 
and hoed crops is practically at a stand¬ 
still; but there is plenty to do in caring 
for the strawberries, and such vegetables 
as are now at the marketable stage. It 
was necessary this year to make the gar¬ 
den work secondary to the small fruits, 
so onions, radishes, lettuce, beets and 
peas are the principal stock in trade 
just now. The early potatoes are in 
blossom and vines nearly cover the 
ground, and thus far have not been mo¬ 
lested by the beetles. Thus they have 
been more considerate than for many 
years. Just now a stock of potatoes, old 
or new, would be very convenient to 
have around, as they are at the $1 mark 
with good prospect of going higher. 
TuE F.VIBS.—It is pretty early to be 
talking of fairs, but we are looking 
ahead to them, and the other half of the 
firm has been putting up strawberries 
and cherries for exhibits. The Cumber¬ 
land is our main strawberry this year, 
and while excellent for table use and 
good sellers, are too light in color and 
too soft for best results in canning. The 
Sharpless and Warfield we believe will 
be better canning berries, at least in 
color and holding their shape, so they 
will also be put upon their good beha¬ 
vior. Other fruits will be prepared as 
they mature, and the later vegetables 
we hope will be good enough to stand a 
show in the shows. We are firm believ¬ 
ers in fairs, and by starting thus early 
we hope to do our share in the work of 
maintaining them. 
Tj£e Cherry Crop. —This has proved a 
sort of problem in more ways than one. 
At blooming time the trees without ex¬ 
ception were a sight to behold. Part of 
them failed to set any fruit worth men¬ 
tioning, while others only a short dis¬ 
tance away set an abundance of fruit 
and carried their load up to time of 
ripening. Very few were stung, and as 
they began to ripen the trees were fairly 
red. The crop is all gathered now and 
safely put away. The robins did that 
for us—gathered them on shares. All 
things considered, perhaps there Is no 
cause for complaint, as they did the 
work very expeditiously, and gathered 
the fruit quite clean. Only a few cher¬ 
ries on the outer ends of the limbs were 
left, which they failed to reach through 
fear of falling, I suppose. This left very 
few to go to waste, and perhaps there 
was less loss in that respect than if we 
had gathered the fruit ourselves. They 
were also very exact in their division of 
the crop, and took scrupulous care in all 
cases to leave us the inside half. We 
hope there will be some for us next year 
so we try to cherish no envy. 
Manure vs. Green Crops. —We have 
a hillside in preparation for planting 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
peach trees, and Incidentally growing 
catch crops of the earlier vegetables for 
tw'O or three years. The soil needs stuf¬ 
fing for best results, and to buy stable 
manure and haul it will be a little ex¬ 
pensive, so we are trying another plan. 
On June 11 the ground was sown to 
buckwheat, one bushel to the acre. Gol¬ 
den Wax beans as a late crop always 
command good prices. Ordinarily they 
should mature in 45 to 50 days, or about 
that, but at a late season of year they 
will require a little more, says 60 days. 
That location is usually safe from frost 
until late September. Our plan is to 
carry the buckwheat until August 10, at 
which time it ought to have pretty 
sturdy growth. We shall then plow it 
under and plant to beans, and at the last 
cultivating sow rye. If frost does not 
catch us on the corner we think we can 
harvest a good crop of beans from the 
vines and leave them standing on the 
ground. They with the rye ought to 
make a good cover crop for Winter, and 
plowing down in early May. If too 
heavy a growth is made to endanger 
souring the soil then lime or ashes will 
go on, and this ought to make a fair 
preparation for the trees. For two or 
three years, with some stable manure 
added, the ground will make good re¬ 
turns in the lighter catch crops of early 
vegetables. The plan may miscarry, but 
we believe it feasible. J. e. morse. 
Michigan. 
How To Kill Stumps. 
A. M., Cold Spring Harbor, N. Y .—A year 
ago last Winter we had five or six acres 
of oak, chestnut, locust, etc., cut off, and 
now the stumps are a mass of young 
sprouts. Can you tell me of something 
which would prevent this? Is there any¬ 
thing I could put in the stumps if I bored 
holes in them which would kill them? 
Ans. —We keep at the stumps with a 
brush scythe and keep the sprouts cut 
off. We have heard of boring into the 
stump and adding salt or kerosene— 
burning after the latter—but have had 
no experience. We would like to hear 
from any who have tried such materials. 
last year, year before last and again this 
Summer. 
I think I would better quit. We are still 
using the weeder on beans across the rows 
both before and after they come up, and 
sometimes have a bag of dirt on each end 
to make it dig. c. a. 
Medina, N. Y. 
The Lime and Sulphur Wash.— I used 
it on my trees last year in March with 
my air spray and again this year; last year 
year with the salt, this year with the 
potash formulas. The salt is the better, 
as it will stay on for months. As to re¬ 
sults it is a sure cure. I never saw trees 
grow as those did last year, (they are all 
small), and there were but very few traces 
of the scale on them last Fall. I feel sure 
that if fruit-growers will spray with the 
lime wash once a year they need never 
worry about scale. After the wash came 
off, which was July and August, the trees 
looked as if the bark had been sand¬ 
papered and oiled, they were so clean. Be 
sure to cover every branch and twig 
clear to the end. a. w. l. 
Rutherford, N. J. 
A Tough Clay Soil.— On page 452 I saw 
an article on a tough clay soil and the 
way to treat it. As to the lime and sand 
treatment it is all right, but in place of 
turning under a coat of rye I would prefer 
to turn under a crop of buckwheat. I 
know of a piece of clay ground that was 
so stiff and hard it was impossible to cul¬ 
tivate crops. The owner sowed it in buck¬ 
wheat and turned under as it was coming 
in head, and it left the ground like an ash 
heap. I have turned under rye and seen 
others do so, but never had as good results 
as from buckwheat to loosen the ground. 
As for rye being a green manure fertilizer 
I have no faith in it. having tried it sev¬ 
eral times, and would not give one coat 
of Red clover turned under for 10 crops 
of rye. 'W. l. c. 
Grape Insect Outlook.— Prof. Slinger- 
land has been looking over the western 
New, York grape section, and finds the out¬ 
look favorable. The leaf-hoppers are not 
so numerous as last season, and some vine¬ 
yards seem to be getting the best of the 
root-worm. It looks as though these two 
pests were on the decline. The leaf-hop¬ 
per can be handled with a thorough whale- 
oil soap spray. Cultivation and spraying 
are the remedies for the root-worm. Stir¬ 
ring the soil about the vines will destroy 
many of the grubs soon to emerge Into 
the beetle stage. For a spray Disparene, 
or arsenate of lead, four pounds to 50 
gallons of water, is effective. It has been 
found that a good many eggs of the root- 
worm beetle can be destroyed by rubbing 
the canes with the fingers. Eggs under 
the loose bark are thus crushed. 
ORLEANS COUNTY, N. Y., NOTES. 
I send a stalk of Alfalfa sowed in April, 
1902, on hard clay bank. It was not cut 
last Summer but pastured off by sheep 
three times. This stalk was 44 inches high, 
some taller and some shorter, but will 
average about three feet. It is so thick 
and tall it is almost impossible to walk 
through it, and it is almost black, it is 
so rank and healthy. The orchard bought 
last year has been thinned, leaving the 
rows 30 feet and the trees 30 feet in row, 
so I sowed Hairy vetch and Mammoth 
clover under the trees and Alfalfa in the 
space between the rows last June. It all 
grew, nicely last Summer, but did not get 
cut off (only two rows) by mowing ma¬ 
chine. Last Winter it heaved out badiy 
in places, but on the high well-drained 
land it is the worst; in the low clay soil 
with water level but a short distance 
from surface the Alfalfa is fine. I have 
bought a side delivery rake and hay loader 
and will cut what is in the orchard and 
side-deliver it under the trees, although 
hay is a short crop. The lice or aphis are 
on everything, but Bartlett pears are very 
bad, and I think will do much damage to 
the trees. Some apple leaves have a table¬ 
spoonful of lice on a single leaf. Some 
have sprayed twice with whale oil. but 
did not get rid of the lice. 
We have 45 acres of beans planted and 
more to plant next week. The piece to 
plant is where the stones have never been 
picked off or the large ones dug out, so 
we make a clean sweep of everything; pick 
the small ones with five or six-tine ma¬ 
nure fork on a platform wagon with low 
wheels and six-inch tires. The platform 
is wide and comes out over the wheels, 
and when we unload we cramp off short, 
and one man can lift on the hind corner 
and over goes everything, wagon and stone. 
We have a hole where clay has been dug 
for use in foundry, so we dump the stone 
in the hole, and last year we dumped in 
the Erie Canal to stop the washing. In 
some places the water had washed in over 
20 feet into the bank. The poor spots in 
the Alfalfa we harrowed and sowed again 
with a goo(LInt of phosphate, home-mixed, 
very strong^n nitrogen. We have tho 
best crop of Bartlett pears we ever 
had, and ififlfll the lice struck the apples 
had a good showing, but not as many as 
last year. We have nearly a full crop of 
Greenings in one orchard in sod manured 
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