1900 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
69 
A “Frost-Proof" Peach. 
J. C. J., Elgin, III .—Is there a frost proof 
peach tree that will stand this climate? 
Mine were all killed last Winter, also my 
Japan plums and dwarf pears and grapes. 
My neighbor planted 500 peach trees last 
Fall, which were represented as frost proof. 
Was he taken in? 
Ans. —No peach tree can be be consid¬ 
ered reliably hardy in localities where 
Japan plums, grape vines and dwarf 
pears are winterkilled. Bokhara No. 3 
and Yenshi, both good mid-season free¬ 
stones, are regarded as considerably 
hardier than other cultivated varieties. 
Both came originally from northern 
China. The Chinese Cling, White Heath 
and others of the type are undoubtedly 
hardier in the tree than many others, 
but they ripen their fruits too late for 
success in the North. Your neighbor is 
doubtless “taken in” as far as the “frost¬ 
proof” guarantee extends. It may be 
long, however, before his trees are sub¬ 
mitted to an ordeal so severe as last 
Winter, and they may prove quite satis¬ 
factory. 
Feeding Wheat to Poultry. 
D. N. C., Luray, Fa.—Will It pay to feed 
wheat, at 70 cents per bushel, to laying 
hens, provided conditions are favorable, 
and eggs average 12 cents per dozen? 
Will cotton chaff be any advantage to 
mix with shorts for chickens as a hot 
mash, as I can buy the chaff for 65 cents 
per 100 pounds, and shorts for 85 cents 
per 100. 
Ans. —We would not pay 70 cents for 
wheat, if eggs brought only 12 cents a 
dozen. Corn is usually much cheaper, 
and if wheat bran and meat me-1 or cut 
bone can be fed in connection with it, 
me corn will just about take the place 
of wheat. Necessity has forced most 
poultry men to realize that by feeding 
meat corn can be made to take the place 
of wheat. We shall have to ask some of 
our Southern readers to answer the ques¬ 
tion about cotton chaff. 
Blighted Potato Seed. 
E. A. H., Windham, N. Y.—Will you en¬ 
lighten me as to an authority for believ¬ 
ing that potato crop from seed from 
blighted crop will be certain to blight, or 
more likely to do so than from healthy 
seed? 
There is no certainty thaA “seed” from 
a blighted crop of potatoes will produce 
plants that blight, provided the blight is 
oneof theearly sorts. With the late blight 
it may be that the fungus is within the 
tuber, and will spread from it to the 
plant. It seems to me that with h althy 
seed there is no reason to fear any in¬ 
oculation from the tuber. There is more 
danger from the old vines than from the 
seed piece, and the former when blighted 
should be burned, and not thrown into 
the refuse heap or manure pile. 
B. D. IIALSTED. 
New Jersey Exp. Station. 
Cleaning Out Poison Ivy. 
J. /., Uightstown, N. J .—Can you tell me 
a good safe way to get rid of Poison ivy 
along the fences of my ground? Last 
Summer I tried to cut it down, and was 
blinded for two days. Do you think L 
can do anything in the Winter or early 
Spring without taking the poison? 
Ans. —The irritating poison of the 
three-fingered ivy (Rhus toxicodendron,) 
is not very active during Winter, when 
the plant is dormant, yet it is not safe 
for sensitive persons to handle cut sur¬ 
faces of the wood with bare hands at 
any time. With the protection of a good 
pair of leather gloves the vines can be 
torn off their supports and grubbed with 
comparative safety at any time before 
growth starts in the Spring. Some ras¬ 
cally persons have been sending plants 
of our common poison vine to Europe 
under the name of Ampelopsis Hoggi, 
and the son of a prominent English nur¬ 
seryman was dangerously poisoned while 
making some cuttings of the supposed 
novelty. 
Seeding a Swamp to Grass. 
II. L. It., West Cambridge, N. Y.—I have re¬ 
cently come In possession of a farm that 
has been neglected, until there are nearly 
20 acres of sour water-soaked land on it. 
In many places nothing but Sweet flag and 
ferns grow. I am told that 40 years ago 
it was one of the best meadows in this 
section. It does not appear to be springy. 
I have gone on to the land of a neighbor 
and have followed up and thoroughly 
opened the entire system of brooks (there 
are three coming from different ravines); 
plowed about one-third of the swamp last 
Fall. I have thought of two plans: 1, 
plow the remainder in the Spring and work 
it at intervals during the Summer with a 
spring-tooth or Cutaway harrow, and in 
August sow one-half bushel each Red-top 
and Timothy, and apply about 400 pounds of 
fertilizer, rich in nitrogen, per acre; 2, try 
Geo. M. Clark’s plan, viz., thoroughly work 
(without plowing) the soil with a Cutaway 
harrow until seeding time, then seed as 
stated In the first plan. The land has not 
sufficient fall to drain thoroughly enough 
to raise cereal crops, and I wish to convert 
it into a permanent meadow. 
Ans. —You will see from Mr. Clark’s 
report last week that on old land he 
would sow oats first, and after they are 
cut for fodder work up the ground and 
sow the grass seed. This plan is a good 
one to follow, but we do not think that 
you need a fertilizer high in nitrogen 
on such soil. We would use more potash 
and phosphor.c acid. You are not likely 
to obtain the best results on that field 
until you lime it. Soil of that character 
is quite sure to respond to lime. It is 
likely to be sour and inert. We would, 
if possible, use 1,600 pounds or more per 
acre of air-slaked lime when sowing 
the oats. It will cost more to follow 
Mr. Clark’s plan than to sow grass seed 
with the oats, but you will obtain a 
better stand of grass by doing so. 
Preparing Rhubarb for Market. 
A. n., Wading River, N. Y.—I built a rhu¬ 
barb cellar 13x42 feet, with a pitch roof of 
chestnut poles, on top of which I put six 
inches of coarse manure. This was done 
on December 5, and the stalks have already 
made a fine growth. How should the rhu¬ 
barb be bunched, and if bunched, how 
many pounds to the bunch? Can The R. 
N.-Y. recommend a good market? What 
price does the rhubarb bring in the market? 
Tie three stalks in a bunch around the 
butts, with ordinary buncoing twine. 
Tie large and small together, to that the 
bunches shall, as nearly as possible, 
average in size. If stalks are too small, 
put in four. Tie 12 of these bunches in 
a bundle at butts and tops. These bun¬ 
dles are the wholesale packages, and 
are called a dozen, meaning, of course, a 
dozen bunches, but 36 stalks. In the re¬ 
tail trade the bundles are opened and 
sold by the bunch, .a i market, De¬ 
troit, all transactions are by the dozen, 
and never by weight. Some other mar¬ 
kets, Boston, for instance, would, I 
think, handle by weight; but experience 
will guide in this matter. 
There ought to be a market all around 
you, certainly in the large cities. It is 
shipped from Michigan to New York, 
Boston and other eastern cities. I think 
the fruit and commission men of New 
York City would handle all you could 
furnish. When once introduced it will 
sell. Last Winter, prices ruled high all 
through the season. The market opened 
here about December 15, at 75 cents per 
dozen to the gardeners, and by the time 
commissions and transportation to dis¬ 
tant markets were added, it must have 
tasted very strongly of money. The de¬ 
mand exceeded the supply, and as nearly 
as I can estimate, the average price was 
upwards of 50 cents per dozen the entire 
season. j. e. mobse. 
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Your Place will Keep You. 
—— ■ 
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and thus promotes good health, which will 
help you "keep your place." 
WANTED 
Every person who Intends setting a 
Strawberry plant during the year 
1900 to 
Send name and ad¬ 
dress for my new Straw¬ 
berry catalogue, 
which Is now ready, it is full of good 
things in the Strawberry line and 
My Prices Are Right. 
No agents. I deal directly with 
growers. 
W. F. ALLEN, 
Box 44 Salisbury, Md. 
450,000 TPFFS 
2<M> vurleUel^lso Grapes,Small FruIU.etc. Best root¬ 
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10c. Desc. price-list free. LKW1SKOKSCH, Fredonla, Ji. ¥ 
Grape Vines 
Descriptive and Price List free. 
Cerranti, Gooseberries and other Small 
Fruit Plants. Extra quality. Warranted true. 
T, 8. HUBBARD CO., FKEDONIA, N. Y. 
penny pi IUTQ our Specialty. 18th Annual 
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Fruit Growers, Attention! 
We have a new Strawberry of great merit. Send us 
your name and address, ana we will mail circular. 
C. G. VKLIK & SON, Marlboro, N. Y. 
Strawberry Plants, $2 per 1,000. 
Fruit Trees equally cheap. Catalogue free. 
C. A. HYATT, Croton-on-Hudson, N. Y. 
100 ACRES 
in Strawberry Plants. Wholesale 
List free. T. C. Kevitt, Passaic, N J. 
PLANTS, 
VINES, TREES, SHRUBS, 
best varieties for Northern 
Planters. Also Seed Corn and 
potatoes. For anything In nursery stock, at reason¬ 
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COE & CONVERSE, Box 9, Ft. Atkinson, Wls. 
Fertilizers I/2 Price 
Nearly all the Fertilizer companies are In a 
Trust, which means higher prices and poorer 
goods for the farmer. 
WHY NOT 
make your Fertilizers at home with Powell’s 
Prepared Chemicals? No trouble. More than 
twenty years’ unequaled success. Write for 
pamphlet. W. S.POWELL &. CO., 
Dealer* in Nitrate Soda, Muriate and Sulphate 
Dotaah, and other Agricultural Chemicals, 
Baltimore, Aid. 
Make Money 
on your cabbages, onions and early beets. 
How ? Force their growth with appli¬ 
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Nitrate of Soda 9 
the quickest of all fertilizers. Especially 
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“Food for Plants,” tells how and why. 
Free by addressing John A. Myers, 
12 O John St., New York. Nitrate for 
sale by fertilizer dealers everywhere. 
Write at once for List of Dealers. 
JTHE 
MILLION DOLLARS 
Most talked of potato on earth ! Our, 
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Al 
Strawberry Pits.—New York, Sample, Gladstone. 
List February 1. P. SPEER, Passaic, N.J. 
^JOTASH gives color , 
flavor and firmness to 
all fruits. No good fruit 
can be raised without 
Potash. 
Fertilizers containing at least 
8 to io% of Potash will give 
best results on all fruits. Write 
for our pamphlets, which ought 
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They are sent free. 
GERMAN KALI WORKS, 
93 Nasiau St., New York. 
BURBANK 
PLUM the money-maker. Free 
catalogue andprice-listof Fruitand 
Ornamental Trees Low Prices. 
The Geo. A. Sweet Nursery Co., B. 1605, Dansville.N.Y 
Trees. Trees. Trees. 
From one tree to a carload. 33 years’ experience. 
Specialties: Kleller Pears, Peaches and York Imperial 
Apples, all sizes. Wood view Nurseries, B.100, Uriah, l’a 
TREES 
at Wholesale prices. Apple, Plum and 
Pears, $0 per 100; Peach, 3c. Cat. Free 
Reliance Nursery, Box 10, Geneva, N. Y 
PEACH 
TREES *15 per 1,000. All kinds of 
stock at wholesale prices. 
J. TWOMEY, Geneva, N. Y. 
GLADSTONE STRAWBERRY PLANTS. 
$10 per 1,000 ; 3,000, *25. Circular free. 
F. F. MEKCEKON, - Catawissa, Pa. 
For Spring Planting 
The reliable now EVERBEARING PEACH. 
Also, the ELBEKTA and other choice varieties. 
.JAPAN PLUMS— all the most approved sorts. Se¬ 
lect assortment small Fruits. Prices for above very 
reasonable. Address 
MILFORD NURSERIES, Milford, Del. 
DON’T 
give an order for Nursery Stock again 
catalogue, and see low prices, 
etc. Remember it_ pays to 
by mail. You will 
rejoice if you 
Send to HALL’S NURSERY, 
Bargains by mail, 
have them sent 
PLANT THE BEST 
Cherry Valley, Ill. 
APPLE GRAFTS 
Any variety made on order until 
February 15. Over 300 bark and 
Standard Varieties of Small Fruits—plants and 
vines. R. T. SMITH, Horticulturist, Utica, Mo. 
Landscape Gardening 
Estimates furnished for stock planted 
on your grounds, or boxed, and on 
board here. Full line of Fruit Trees, 
Plants and Ornamental Stock, grown by us here on the banks of the Hudson. Consult us 
by letter or ask us to call and see you. Our 1900 Spring Catalogue of 68 pages and 75 illustra- 
request. Address T. J. DWYER & SON, Box I, Orange Co. Nurseries, Cornwall, N. Y. 
|T H0LD5 UP YOUR HAT 
Don’t you remember how your father used 
to test his grass and grain in this way? When 
it held up the hat it was always regarded as 
being a satisfactory and profitable “stand.” 
...THIS... 
BROME GRASS 
Surpasses Timothy in nutrition. Outyields Alfalfa. 
Yields four to five tons per acre. One sowing lasts 12 
years. Grows well in light soil, or wet swampy land. 
Has no equal for arid regions. Drouth will not kill it. Ani¬ 
mals enjoy it green or dry. Gives as much food in one month 
as Alfalfa does in three. Greatest boon ever-offered asitthrives 
in any climate, under any conditions and makes productive what 
would otherwise be waste land. It Is doubtful if the supply of seed 
this year will meet the demand, so great is the call already from States 
where hav is the essential crop. Price: (trade A—1 lb., 30c; 3 lbs., 85c, prepaid. 
18 ]bs. (enough for one acre) 83.60; 100 lbs.. *18.00. Send for mammoth descriptive 
catalogue with treatise on cultivation and comparative food values of Brome 
Grass and Timothy. Address, L. L. MAY & CO., Seed GfOWefS, ST. PAUL, MINN. 
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CAIN 
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