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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER; 
February 3 
Farmers’ Club. 
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Van Deman’s Fruit Notes. 
ALL SORTS OF QUESTIONS ANSWERED. 
Three Peach Questions. 
1. How would this variety of peaches suit 
a Georgia orchard: Elberta, Carman, Tri¬ 
umph, Matthews and Emma? If there are 
any better sellers, what are they and who 
raises them? 2. What do you know about 
the North Carolina peach Greensboro? 3. 
Do you think that Georgia peaches will 
ever bring profitable prices in the North, 
when there are large crops in Delaware 
and New Jersey? a. d. 
New York. 
1. The five varieties of the peach named 
form a very good list for Georgia. Tri¬ 
umph, which is the earliest of them, is 
perhaps the least profitable for planting 
in a commercial orchard there, for it is 
not so large as is desirable. Emma, Mat¬ 
thews and Carman are new kinds that 
have excellent records in most cases 
where they have been reported upon. At 
the present state of our knowledge it 
would perhaps be as wise to plant this 
list in Georgia as any that could be 
named. 
2. Greensboro is a new variety, that Is 
said to be very early, and of good or¬ 
chard and market qualities. 
3. The peaches of Georgia can rarely 
come into competition with those of 
Delaware and New Jersey, because they 
will be out of the way before the latter 
are ripe. I see no reason why they may 
not be as profitable as heretofore. 
Dwarf Pears; Kerosene as an Insecticide. 
1. I wish to set some pear trees In the 
Spring. Shall I buy dwarfs or standards? 
Dwarfs, with me, do not seem to grow as 
I would like to see them. These seem In¬ 
clined always to remain very dwarf. I 
have heard somewhere that dwarfs should 
be set deeper than standards, so that new 
roots may start higher up to add strength 
to the trees. Perhaps, if this is true, it 
explains where I have made a mistake. 2. 
Will refined kerosene oil, such as we burn 
In our lamps, If put on fruit trees with a 
brush during the Winter, injure the tree, 
or prove a blessing to it? a. s. 
Factoryville, Pa. 
1. It is a very good plan to plant 
dwarf pear trees so deep that the pear 
wood, which is above the quince root, of 
course, may come in contact with the 
soil and send out pear roots. This plan 
will greatly prolong the life of the pear 
trees, and increase their vigor. So 
planted they are usually as good as 
standards for a long term of years. 
2. The use of both crude and refined 
petroleum upon fruit trees is now under 
test by experts and others to determine 
how effective it may prove in killing the 
San Josd scale, Pear psylla and other 
insects that are hard to destroy; and 
also, to determine whether oils will hurt 
the trees. Refined kerosene (petroleum), 
has injured them in several cases, but 
how severely, on what kind of trees and 
at what seasons the injury is most severe, 
is not yet fully determined. Crude 
petroleum is now thought by tome to be 
less dangerous, or possibly entirely safe 
to use, but this matter needs further 
demonstration. 
Crops Between Strawberries. 
L. J. C., Memphis, N. T.—I would like to set 
a new piece of land to strawberries In the 
Spring, and would like to raise something 
on the ground with them. My land is too 
stony for onions, etc., so it would have to 
be a crop that could be put in the rows 
with the berries. The land was manured 
for tomatoes last year, but the hail ruined 
the crop. So nothing was taken off. 
What do you advise? 
Ans. —We have grown cabbage, peas 
and early sweet corn between strawberry 
rows with fair success. On Lon* Island 
the strawberry plants are often started 
in the corn crop. Some small early va¬ 
riety of corn is grown, and wher: it is 
well fed and tended the strawberries get 
a good start. 
Prices at Canning Factories. 
C. C. C., Dowagiac, Mich.— About what 
prices are usually paid at canning facto¬ 
ries for tomatoes, sweet corn, beans, peas, 
and Hubbard squash? 
Ans. —Prices paid by canneries for the 
vegetables named above vary consider¬ 
ably in different localities. We get the 
following quotations from a Monmouth 
County, N. J., cannery, which is noted 
for the excellence of its products: 
Tomatoes are usually bought by weight, 
and are contracted for in advance for 
from $6 to $7 per ton; beans, 30 to 50 
cents per bushel; sweet corn is only 
packed in special localities, the grow¬ 
ers are paid a specified price per dozen 
cans, according to local rates; Hubbard 
squash is seldom packed, the shells are 
much too hard for economical working. 
Boston Marrow squash is the one gen¬ 
erally used. The price is about $6 per 
ton. Peas are usually grown by the 
packers, and handled by machinery, as 
picking and shelling by hand costs too 
much. Prices are naturally higher near 
good markets than in the South and 
distant places, where there is no out¬ 
let. 
A Manurial Spring Crop. 
O. H. E., Chittenango, N. Y.—I wish to sow 
something for a manurial crop in the 
Spring, to seed in early August to Red- 
top and Timothy. What would you advise; 
would Crimson clover do? 
Ans. —Crimson clover would never an¬ 
swer for this purpose. We have repeat¬ 
edly said that it is not a crop for Spring 
sowing. It is only valuable as a catch 
crop during the Winter, between two 
other farm crops. You will make a great 
mistake if you sow it in Spring. The 
most effective crop we can think of is 
the southern cow pea. Don’t sow this 
before corn-planting time. June 1 would 
be better. With 75 days for growth it 
will give you a large manurial crop for 
turning under. If you cannot obtain the 
southern cow pea, the ordinary field 
bean, broadcast, and covered with har¬ 
row and roller, will give you a good 
manurial crop. 
Wood Ashes and Fish Refuse. 
C. L., Meaford, Ont .—What shall I put with 
unleached nard-wood ashes and fish refuse 
to make a complete fertilizer? It is put 
together, and the ashes eat the fish en¬ 
tirely after turning it over two or three 
times. 
Ans. —Do not put the unleached ashes 
with the fish refuse at all. These ashes 
contain lime. As we have often explain¬ 
ed, lime acts on hen manure, fish re¬ 
fuse and similar substances so as to set 
free the ammonia—the most valuable 
part of them. We would keep the wood 
ashes separate. Mix the fish refuse with 
manure, muck, sods or black soil. 
If you can get land plaster mix it with 
the fish refuse, but use your wood ashes 
separately. We use potash salts and dis¬ 
solved phosphate rock with the manure, 
and they may be mixed in the compost. 
Dean Swift, in “ Gulliver’s Travels,” 
said that— 
" Whoever could make ftoo ears of 
corn , or ftoo blades of grass, to 
grow) upon a spot of ground 
wohere only one grelv before, 
%ould deserve better of man¬ 
kind, and do more essential ser¬ 
vice to his country than the 
wohole race of politicians put 
together ." 
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