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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
October 17 
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A RESERVOIR FOR ICE. 
I. P., Collier, B'. Va .—I have an ice house 
holding from 20 to 30 tons. llev(“tofore I 
have got my ice from the small streams, 
catching it as best I could. I would rather 
have a pond to get it from. I have a 
.spring that I could lead by pipe to my 
pond or reservoir location. Can 1 build 
such a reservoir at small expense? The 
ground is almost level, and is of a sandy 
nature. How deep should I excavate, and 
how high should my bank be? What size 
should the pond be to harvest 30 ton.s of 
12-inch ice? Do you think I would have 
trouble in making it hold water? Should 
the stream flow from top or bottom of 
reservoir? Would it pay to buy an ice 
plow for such a pond? 
Ans.—A reservoir for ice, under the 
circumstances mentioned, can be easily 
made with team and scraper, excavating 
say to the depth of two feet, and using 
the dirt removed for making a surround¬ 
ing embankment about two feet higher 
than the level of the ground. A layer 
of ice one foot thick and 36 feet in 
diameter wdll weigh about 30 tons, but 
the pond should be made so that the 
water surface will be about 50 feet 
across. The pipe from the spring 
should enter the reservoir near ^he bot¬ 
tom. I. P. says that his soil is of a 
sandy nature, and, that being the case, 
he will have difficulty in the water per¬ 
colating through the bottom and sides 
of the pond. If there was much clay, it 
is probable that the natural soil could be 
made impervious enough to retain water. 
If his soil is not too open, and the water 
supply is liberal, it might work all right 
and I. P. might try it and see. In this 
case there might be difficulty in the 
freezing, as the warm spring water 
w'ould have to run all the time to keep 
up the level of the pond. It is probable 
that it will be necessary to cover the 
wet surface of the pond with a layer of 
puddled clay, and this will no doubt re¬ 
quire more work than the original exca¬ 
vation. Artificial enclosures of w'ater 
for harvesting ice in Winter are common 
and, near towns, are quite profitable. 
Usually, however, advantage is taken 
of some favorable location, as by build¬ 
ing a dam between the high banks of a 
small run, or by placing a low dam 
across a stream, backing up the water 
sufficiently so there is a still surface 
that will freeze readily. I do not think 
it will pay to purchase an ice plow for 
amount of ice mentioned unless water is 
shallow so that saw cannot be used. 
G. DAVIS. 
Overgrown Raspberries : Fruit Rot of Peaches. 
ir. J. 7'., Mishatcaka, Ind.—l. I have an 
acre of black raspberries. I^ast Winter 1 
put a forkful of manure at every hill; 
have kept them well plowed, cultivated 
and hoed. In July I topped them to about 
three feet high, and now they have 
branched out and fallen over so that the 
patch is all filled up, and I cannot get in 
with a horse to plow them. What would I 
better do with them? 2. I have one large 
peach tree on a city lot that has three to 
five bushels on. the only peach tree in 
bearing here, a large white peach. The 
fruits mildew and wither up on one side, 
while the other side is good. The tree 
is in a henyard. What can I do for it? 
Axs.—1. This plantation of black rasp¬ 
berry has evidently made a strong vig¬ 
orous growth, and should produce a 
large crop of fruit next year. The lat¬ 
eral branches have spread over the en¬ 
tire surface, and probably the tip ends 
have taken hold of the soil. The result 
is a fine crop of plants, which can be 
used for a new planting or disposed of 
to good advantage. Cut back all these 
lateral branches to within 12 or 15 
inches of the parent plants, thus form¬ 
ing a sturdy bush for fruiting; then dig 
up the young plants and remove all 
trimmings from the bed. Stop all fur¬ 
ther cultivation for this season, hut. re¬ 
peat the manuring about the original 
plants. This can be done any time after 
November 1. 2. This is known as the 
fruit rot or ripe rot; it has a botanical 
name that would express but little here. 
It usually comes on trees that are al¬ 
lowed to overbear, and especially when 
the fruit is borne in clusters. Other 
fruit trees, like the plum and apricot, 
are susceptible to it. These rotten speci¬ 
mens should be removed at once. If 
left on the tree it will spread, and in 
a year or two contaminate it entirely. 
Prune thoroughly but not excessively 
the latter part of March; spray with 
the Bordeaux Mixture just as the buds 
begin to swell in the Spring. When the 
fruit is about the size of your thumb, 
thin it out, so that no two specimens 
will be closer together than four to five 
inches; then you will have fruit that 
may surprise you. t. j. dwyer. 
Keeping Cabbage in Indian Territory. 
S., Purcell, Ind. Ter .—Can early cabbage, 
say the Charleston Wakefield, be kept in 
cold storage during the hot Summer 
months so as to be used in this climate 
during the M'inter, and if so, at what 
temper.ature should it be kept, or should 
it be crated as for shipment? Can the 
crates be stacked one above the other? 
Axs.—I have never heard of any at¬ 
tempts being made to keep early cabbage 
for the Winter market by placing it in 
cold storage. Most varieties of early 
cabbage rot very quickly in the field 
or in the cellar, and to keep it for the 
Winter market would require the very 
best of care in gathering and storing. 
The heads should be gathered as soon as 
mature and packed in crates or barrels 
and placed in the store room. There 
could be no harm done in stacking the 
crates if the cabbage were not bruised. 
An even temperature of about 32 degrees 
would probably give the best results. 
Okla. Exp. Station. o. ii. morris. 
Butter front Separator Cream. 
Is there any difference in the keeping of 
butter made by the use of the separating 
process and Ihe old way of setting in pans? 
Norwich, N. Y. l. s. k. 
Butter made from the separator cream 
will keep much better than from any 
other system. Occasionally one finds a 
person who thinks otherwise, and will 
insist that only the “good old shallow 
pan” can possibly make good butter. 
Separator cream is cleaned from much 
foreign matter, it is also sweet and can 
therefore be ripened tvith skill and 
judgment. In other words, the whole 
business is under the control of the but¬ 
ter maker, while with any other system 
the maker is under control of the sys¬ 
tem, which makes for a vast difference 
in results. In the early days before the 
handling of sweet cream had become 
thoroughly understood frequently a soft 
open butter was churned and in distinc¬ 
tion from the firm solid butter of the 
shallow pan it soon gained a poor repu¬ 
tation. To-day, however, all is changed, 
and the fine butter of the country is 
made from separator cream. ii. e. o. 
Seedling Peaches. 
P. C. lionton Harbor, Mich.—I am told 
that seedling peach trees will reproduce 
themselves, or the same variety of fruit, 
rather, by planting the peach pits. In 
other words, budding is not required to 
perpetuate a variety if the parent tree is 
itself a seedling. Is this true? 
Axs.—Fenfe if any, of the improved 
varieties of peaches reproduce them¬ 
selves truly from seeds. Some of the 
older kinds, such as Summer Snow, 
come fairly true from seed, as do the 
smaller inferior kinds so largely grown 
from pits in the South. If pits from 
improved orchard varieties of peaches 
are planted the resulting trees are quite 
likely to bear fruit inferior to the pa¬ 
rent, though occasionally new varieties 
of especially fine quality are thus ob¬ 
tained. The range of variation is very 
great, and runs from little late and 
worthless fruits to large and fine ones. 
In one sense of the word all varieties 
now in cultivation are seedlings, and 
buds or other means of vegetative prop¬ 
agation are needed to prepetuate their 
characteristics. A seedling is no more 
likely to perpetuate itself from seeds 
than a budded tree. 
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WHY NOT GROW GINSENG? 
IT IS THE GOLD WINNER. We sell Northern 
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400.000,000 Chinese use 
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