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Norember 28 
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THE GETTYSBURG PEACH. 
Earl Peters, of Mount Holly Springs, 
Pa., sent specimens of this peach a sec¬ 
tion of which is shown at Fig. 304, page 
818. Mr. Peters says of it; 
From the action of this peach in a much 
crowded yard, and in the nursery rows, I 
am convinced that it is no.t only a decidedly 
distinct variety, but it is a peer to all the 
other late peaches. It has no competitors 
because they are all out of season ^^'hen 
Gettysburg is ripe. The tree is a strong, 
vigorous grower; holds its fruit well an 
bears good crops yearly. The fruit is 
large, handsome, almost round; skin tough 
and of a deep yellow. It is a decided free¬ 
stone; the flesh is thick, very fine in tex¬ 
ture and very tender, rich, sprightly and 
iiiicv It is a real treat to have a peach 
at this time of the year which combines 
all the lusciousness of a Crawford with 
none? of its frailties. 
We found the peach excellent in qual¬ 
ity for such a late variety, of handsome 
color and evidently a good shipper. For 
southern Pennsylvania and States south 
this peach gives good promise of being 
an acquisition^_ 
will be well to add potash and phos¬ 
phoric acid to it. For ordinary crops we 
should use 150 pounds muriate of pot¬ 
ash and at least 500 pounds acid phos¬ 
phate with each ton of stems. Your 
neighbor is right about the wood ashes 
and hen manure. Mixing them is about 
the wor^t fertilizing experiment you can 
try. The lime in the ashes changes the 
ammonia of the hen manure into a form 
which permits it to pass off as a gas. 
It is the nitrogen which gives power 
to gunpowder. The explosion is caused 
by the efforts of the nitrogen to get 
away from the combination which holds 
it in check. Let heat be applied by 
match or spark and this combination is 
broken and the nitrogen rushes off— 
causing an explosion. In somewhat 
similar manner when lime is mixed with 
hen manure the nitrogen is set free. It 
does not cause an explosion, but goes 
gently away—at the same time blowing 
a hole in its owner’s pocketbook. 
The general opinion of potato dealers and 
farmers about this section is that 10 cents 
per bushel advance when potatoes are 40 
cents in the Fall will not quite cover the 
shrinkage and labor. Shrinkage of good 
sound stock will come close to 10 per cent. 
New York. c. R. white. 
Painting Trees.— I notice comment on 
painting around bodies of young trees to 
prevent rabbits and mice from eating the 
bark. We have tried the plan of Prof. 
Alwood and it is a perfect success. We 
have painted several thousand trees for^ 
four years, and find no detriment to the 
tree in any way from white lead and oil. 
You need not fear it, as it has been thor¬ 
oughly tested bv Prof. Alwood. J. c. 
W.ayncsboro. Va. 
Bobby: “I say. Mr. Updyke, what do 
you suppose Clara (said about you just 
before you came in?” Mr. Updyke: “I 
haven’t an idea in the world, Robert.” 
Bobby (amazed); “Well, you’ve guessed 
it! That’s just what she did say!”—Tit- 
Bits. 
Apple Curculio. L 
]{. li., Illiiwis.—Give best 
aging the Apple 
apples 
three 
J sC 
ways of man- 
curculio. My crop of 
has been practically ruined for 
or four years by what I suppo.se 
How To Harvest Beef Seed. 
Reader.— How are beet seeds taken from 
the seed stalks? 
—There would be no serious diffi¬ 
culty in thrashing beet seed from the 
stalk with the old-fashioned hand flail, 
such as has been used for grains from 
time immemorial, but which is now fast 
disappearing except where small crops 
of seed are handled. We use this on 
quite a large range of seed crops where 
the total amount is too smaljl to warrant 
the use of machinery. For a very small 
lot of seed the stalks can be laid on a 
clean tight floor to a depth of three or 
four inches and beaten loose with a 
pliable lath or withe, in place of the 
flail, or with the latter if it can be pro¬ 
cured. The seed is then cleaned in a 
fanning mill such as is used for grain, 
or by hand sieves for a small quantity. 
When we have occasion to thrash seeds 
which grow in pods in small amounts 
we place the pods in a sack, which is 
then thoroughly beaten with a flail and 
the seeds passed through the fan to 
clean them. For large crops of beet 
to be the curculio. 
An 6.—It is quite probable that this is 
the work of the Apple curculio, as it oc¬ 
curs in the region where this insect is 
a serious pest occasionally. Specimens 
of it or its work should be sent to some 
expert, so that definite knowledge can 
be used in making recommendations. 
The little long-snouted beetles eat pits 
into the fruits both when feeding and 
laying eggs. The grubs tunnel into the 
fruit and cause it to drop when they go 
into the ground and soon transform to 
the beetles, which hibernate. It thus 
closely follows the Plum curculio in its 
habits and life. The beetles can be 
readily captured by jarring them on to 
sheets or “curculio catchers,” but this 
would hardly be practicable on large 
apple trees. Some recommend thorough 
sprayings with poisons when the beetles 
are on the trees in the Spring. Try the 
strong arsenate of lead poison or a 
pound of Paris-green to 100 gallons of 
Bordeaux Mixture and spray thoroughly 
M. V. ,SI,1NGEB1-AND. 
Kerosene and Lime. 
Several Keaders.-We have read an account 
of some experiments in Delaware with 
using kerosene oil with lime to form an 
insecticide. What are the facts? 
Ans,— Of course it its readily under¬ 
stood that lime will not slake in kero 
sene oil. Covering it in oil would rather 
seed the grain thrasher can readily be harden and preserve it. As a 
adjusted to thrash the seed from the matter of fact water was poured on the 
lime so that the slaking process was 
commenced, and the oil was adcied in 
(small quantities, and alternately with 
this a little w’ater, until a paste wa-s 
made and then the mixture was diluted 
with water. No doubt a part of the oil 
escaped during this process. The mix¬ 
ture was used for spraying hen houses, 
and later the same mixture with blue- 
stone added. 'The oil and lime mixture 
was applied to three or four treeis which 
had been infested with scale, but which 
had also had a very thorough treat¬ 
ment early in Spring while dormant 
with crude oil. The crude oil nearly 
exterminated the scale, and upon a care¬ 
ful examination made of these trees 
November 4 I found no difference in the 
amount of live scale on trees treated 
with the lime and those not treated with 
lime. The mixture made with 10 pounds 
of lime and five gallons of coal oil, di¬ 
luted to 25 gallons, did not injure the 
WESLEY WEEB. 
Stalks. X>ARLIKGTON. 
Tobacco Wash; Hen Manure, 
R. S., Cordova, Fla.—l can buy fine ground 
unleached tobacco dust here for $1.25 per 
100 pounds, and tobacco stems at 75 cents 
for one-horse load. Would you consider 
them cheap fertilizers, and what crop or 
crops are they best adapted to? If pos¬ 
sible, give analysis. I mix wood ashes with 
my hen manure, but a neighbor says I 
make a mistake by so doing, as the ashes 
cause the ammonia to evaporate and lower 
the value of the manure. 
_It is hard to give accurate an¬ 
alysis of tobacco wastes. The following 
are probably fair enough for compari¬ 
son: 
Pounds In One Ton. 
Nitro- Phos. Pot- 
gen. acid. ash. 
Tobacco dust .42 15 85 
stems .50 14 120 
Stable manure .10 6 13 
The stems vary greatly. Some that 
have been exposed to the weather are 
badly leached, and worth only half as 
much as the analysis given above would 
indicate. The dust, being finer, contains 
plant food in a more available condition. 
At the figures you give the stems are 
cheaper. If we could buy stems at this 
price we would use them first for bed¬ 
ding or absorbents and then as manure. 
If they could be run through a fodder 
cutter before being used for bedding it 
would be better. Tobacco waste is good 
for all crops—best for quick growing 
vegetables. It is particularly good for 
melons since it keeps off melon insects. 
In order to use it to best advantage it 
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none can be found that are thoroughlv 
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