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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER: 
January 27 
Van Deman’s Fruit Notes. 
ALL SORTS OF QUESTIONS ANSWERED. 
Arkansas Apples. 
Can you tell me where I can get scions of 
the new Arkansas apples, Beach and Oli¬ 
ver? I have been trying for some time to 
get them, and so far have failed, r. h. k. 
Helm, Ill. 
The scions of Beach, Oliver and many 
other of the new apples of Arkansas 
origin can be obtained of the State Ex¬ 
periment Station at Fayetteville, Ark. 
It would be well for those who wish to 
get these varieties true to name to get 
their start from this reliable source. 
This is important, from the fact that 
there are different names given to some 
of them, and much confusion existing re¬ 
garding them. 
A Maryland Orchard. 
I have some notion of planting a com¬ 
mercial apple orchard, and would like to 
know from some one of experience, whether 
it would be advisable. I can buy land lo¬ 
cated near the mountains bordering Cum¬ 
berland Valley, on the north, in Washing¬ 
ton County, Md., for from $5 to $25 per 
acre unimproved. The orchards that farm¬ 
ers have are very thrifty and productive. 
I have my own team to do the necessary 
work. Tne land is very stony; not lime¬ 
stone, but a mountain stone. J. i. w. 
Falrview, Md. 
It would seem to me that J. I. W. has 
a good chance to grow a commercial 
apple orchard. The district and soil 
mentioned are good for the production 
of Winter apples. If he will plant of 
such varieties as Ycrk Imperial, Ben 
Davis and Rome Beauty he will find 
them productive of large, red apples of 
good keeping qualities, and very popu¬ 
lar in the markets. 
Pecan Culture. 
1. Does the growing of pecans in the Gulf 
States promise to be a profitable employ¬ 
ment? 2. At what age do they come in 
bearing? Can the young trees be procured, 
and at about what price? 3. Do the fine, 
paper-shell varieties come true from seed, 
or must they be grafted? 4. What pam¬ 
phlets, bulletins or books have been pub¬ 
lished on this subject? 5. Where could a 
grove be seen in bearing at some point east 
of Mobile, Ala? w. e. b. 
North Baltimore, O. 
1. Pecan growing is now a profitable 
industry in the Gulf States, and will 
probably become more profitable and 
much more extensive as more is learned 
of its peculiarities. Pecan trees should 
be planted only on good soil, for the 
trees that are found wild and in a flour¬ 
ishing condition are on the rich creek 
and river bottoms. They will grow on 
good upland, and bear well, but are 
rarely found there naturally. In good 
lands as far north as southern Illinois 
and similar latitudes the earlier ripening 
kinds will do very well, and there are 
many wild trees even farther north. 
2. Ten years is about an average age 
for the seedling trees to begin to bear. 
Grafted or budded trees will bear earlier, 
but they are not very abundant as yet. 
The art of producing them is not well 
understood, and all nut trees are more 
difficult to bud and graft than almost 
any other class of trees. Hence they sell 
at about $1 each at the present time. 
Seedlings are very much cheaper. Some 
of the southern nurseries keep them for 
sale. 
3. The varieties do not come true from 
seed, but the large, soft-shelled kinds 
produce much finer seedlings than the 
poorer kinds, but they are not so hardy 
in the more northern States. Grafting 
or budding is the only sure way to per¬ 
petuate a variety. 
4. The United States Department of 
Agriculture has a very valuable publica¬ 
tion which treats of pecan culture, and 
of the culture of other nuts as well. 
There is a book called The Nut Cul- 
turist which may be bought through 
The R. N.-Y., price »i.50. 
5. There are several pecan orchards in 
bearing in Florida, and 'a tew in South 
Carolina. The Government publication 
mentions them and their locations. 
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Two Crops of Strawberries. 
W. H. M., Turin, N. T .—How shall I man¬ 
age another season with my strawberry 
field, after it has fruited? The field was 
set last Spring in rows three feet apart, 
plants 30 inches in row. I allowed four 
runners to set once from each plant, then 
kept all runners cut off. This leaves all 
plants about 10 inches apart. About the 
last thing before freezing was to stir the 
surface around every plant, so there is not 
a vestige of a weed, and I think that the 
field should be managed so as get more 
than one crop. Shall I retain all the plants, 
and keep the runners cut off, or remove 
some of the plants and allow the runners 
to grow? 
Ans. —No two experienced growers 
would be likely to answer the details 
called up by the above query in precisely 
the same way, yet we think that most 
would agree in advising the removal of a 
number of the weaker plants after fruit¬ 
ing, to be replaced by early runners from 
the strongest available remaining plants. 
Besides the destruction of weak and in¬ 
effective old plants, clean and thorough 
cultivation, both oy hand and horse 
tools, is indicated, as well as a liberal 
application of the best obtainable ma¬ 
nure, as free from weed seeds as pos¬ 
sible, or of a good commercial fertilizer. 
For the best results it would be wise to 
keep off all runners that are not needed 
to fill vacancies. With good feeding and 
thorough cultivation, the succeeding 
crop might reasonably be expected to 
equal, if not exceed, the first. 
Moths in Beehives. 
E. W. H., Wilson, Ky.—l would like to 
know how to keep moths out of my bee¬ 
hives. 
Ans. —So-called “moth-proof” hives 
are of little or no avail against the Bee 
moth. An authority says that the only 
remedies are to keep the combs under 
the constant protection of the bees, or 
if the colonies are not populous enough 
to cover them fairly, the combs should 
be taken out and hung so as to leave a 
space between them in a cupboard or 
large box, which can oe closed tightly, 
and then subject them for some time to 
the fumes generated by throwing a 
handful or two of sulphur on live coals, 
or to the odor of carbon bisulphide in 
an open vial. The Carniolan and Italian 
bees are more energetic than others in 
clearing out wax-moth larvae. 
Tamarack and Cherry Lumber. 
E. A. H., Monticcllo, N. Y.—Is there any 
possible use I can make of tamarack lum¬ 
ber? I understand it to be a species of the 
larch, but although it is quite common in 
our section of the State (Sullivan County), 
I have not heard of its being used to any 
extent—i. e., as a building material. I was 
intending to use it for sheathing, but have 
been told that it is very likely to warp, if 
sawed up in planks. If this is so, what 
other economical use can I make of it? I 
have some fine wild cherry lumber standing 
(growing) in my woods. What thickness 
would you advise sawing it for ready sale? 
Ans. —Shipbuilders use a little tama¬ 
rack for boat knees, but most of this 
lumber is sold as spruce, and it is said 
to work very well for all purposes for 
which spruce is used. Wild cherry is 
usually sawed into one or two-inch lum¬ 
ber, but occasionally an extra fine log 
may be sold to advantage cut into four- 
inch stuff. 
Sulphur for Potato Scab. 
O. R. A., Haven, Me .—Last Spring I had a 
piece of old ground that I wished to fit for 
gooseberries to be set out last Fall, and 
knowing almost to a certainty that pota¬ 
toes would scab badly on such ground, I 
thought I would try fine sulphur in potato 
hills for a preventive, so I put in a table¬ 
spoonful in each hill. When I dug the po¬ 
tatoes in September not a scab was seen 
on any one. The potatoes planted were 
Early Puritan and Carman. Do you think 
that the sulphur had the effect of prevent¬ 
ing scab, or was it due to other causes? 
The sulphur was sprinkled upon common 
barn manure and seed planted on that. 
Ans. —Yes, the sulphur evidently pre¬ 
vented the scab. A bulletin issued by 
the New Jersey Experiment Station 
(New Brunswick), would give you some 
interesting facts about this. In the ma¬ 
jority of experiments sulphur seems to 
prevent the growth of the scab germ in 
the soil. Many farmers dust sulphur 
over their seed potatoes. Even where no 
scab is present, the sulphur seems to 
preserve the seed piece, especially when 
the soil is wet and cold, and the seed 
would be likely to rot. 
For the land’s sake, use Bowker's Fer¬ 
tilizers. They enrich the earth .—Adv 
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