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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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EVERYBODY’S GARDEN. 
Vegetable Washer. —A very cheap 
and serviceable root washer may be 
made by any man right at home, and 
no need to call on a carpenter or black¬ 
smith. Make a water-tight box of 1%- 
inch lumber, 12x21x30 inches inside. The 
legs are I%x3 inches, two feet long, Lap 
the legs six inches on to the box and 
fasten firmly with 2% inch screws. This 
gives a height of 30 inches, which is 
convenient for all purposes. Two half- 
round notches are let into the sides of 
the box in which the axles of the cylin¬ 
der revolve. The cylinder heads 1%, 
inch thick are 15 inches in diameter. A 
block one inch thick by four inches 
square or a round wheel of same dimen¬ 
sions, is screwed to the outside center 
of each head. These blocks act not only 
as washers between the cylinder heads 
and sides of box, but serve to reenforce 
the heads and hold the axles more firm¬ 
ly. Drive a 114-iuch mortise clear 
through the blocks and heads of cylin¬ 
der. Take two two-inch hard-wood pins 
and square one end to 1%-inch plump, 
and drive firmly into the mortise flush 
with inside of cylinder heads. The 
axles must be left sufficiently long to 
reach outside the box when the com¬ 
pleted cylinder is bung ready for use, 
and one must be long enough to mortise 
on a piece at right angles for the crank. 
If both project four or five inches out¬ 
side the box it will be all the better as 
they will serve as handles for lifting 
the cylinder out and into the box. Cut 
32 slats %xl inch 18 inches long and 
slightly round the corners which will 
be inside where the slats are nailed on 
to the cylinder heads. Nail 24 slats one- 
half inch apart around the heads and 
ihe remaining space will be the door or 
cover of the cylinder. Take two pieces 
of light harness tug 12 inches long and 
Screw the remaining slats on to the 
pieces of tug one-half inch apart the 
same as on the cylinder heads, only the 
strips of tug must be fastened to upper 
side of slats, so that the cylinder will 
be perfectly smooth inside. This door 
may be held in place with heavy leather 
or iron hinges, or by two small wooden 
or iron buttons on each cylinder slat 
next to the door. With a two-inch 
piece one foot in length mortised on to 
the outer end of one axle at right angles 
and a pin through the lower end to 
serve as a crank, the washer is com¬ 
plete, and at a cash outlay of almost 
nothing. A three-quarter inch hole may 
be bored through one end of the box 
just on a level with the bottom for let¬ 
ting off the water. Fill the cylinder 
with roots, fasten the door and hang in 
the box. Use plenty of water and re¬ 
volve slowly for a minute or two, and 
the roots will be cleaned perfectly. Any 
man at all handy with tools can make 
the washer in a few hours time, and its 
use will save hard and costly hours of 
labor over hand work in one season. Of 
course, if one lias the money to hire it 
made, and prefers dressed lumber with 
iron or nickel mounting, and desires to 
paint and decorate, using turned or 
carved legs, there is no objection, and 
it will doubtless do just as good work 
as the old homespun. The above is very 
serviceable, can be made in a rainy day 
right at home, which many of us can 
do more easily than to pay out cold cash of Ben Davis, at least in no material de- 
for the more showy machine. Try it 
and see if it is not a great convenience 
and labor saver. J. e. morse. 
Michigan. 
Fruits and Soil in Tennessee. 
R. «/., Elmwood, Term. —1. Do you know 
Wilder's Early pear? Is it much subject 
to blight? 2. I have Wild Goose, Burbank, 
Abundance and Damson plums. Name three 
other varieties that are good for canning 
and eating, that will till out the spaces in 
the season. 3. 1 have seen it stated, I be¬ 
lieve, in The K- N.-Y., that Wild Goose 
plums are not funy self-fertile. 1 have sev¬ 
eral that are loaded nearly every year with 
no other plum trees anywhere near. Does 
the climate have anything to do with 
making them self-fertile? 4. Are Abund¬ 
ance and Burbank self-fertile, and if not 
what other kind of plums should be plant¬ 
ed with them to make them so? My trees 
are not yet bearing. 5. I have a young or¬ 
chard of about three acres, have planted 
in corn this year and when corn was laid 
by peas were sown in corn. This Winter I 
intend to put from one to two tons of to¬ 
bacco stems to the acre. Only the corn 
will be gathered, and stalks, peavines and 
tobacco stems will all be plowed under for 
corn again next Spring. I shall continue 
doing this until the orchard is in full bear¬ 
ing, when I shall put it into grass. The 
land is naturally very fertile limestone 
soil, except in a few places where it has 
been washed. Will this treatment give the 
trees the best show, or would you give the 
ground some phosphate every year? Our 
limestone rocks have, I think, right smart 
phosphate in them, as there is a small 
quantity of high-grade phosphate rock but 
a short distance from here. 
Ans. —1. The Wilder is a good early 
pear, strong growing and productive. It 
is not more subject to blight than Bart¬ 
lett and other varieties of the European 
gree. However, it may be about these 
technical points, Gano is a more nearly 
solid red apple than Ben Davis, with 
less striping, and is an attractive mar¬ 
ket variety. I do not believe it deserves 
“booming.” As much as it is planted 
now if it cannot boom itself let it stay 
where it will naturally find its level. 
We should try it. h. e. v. d. 
Fruits for Arkansas. 
U. B. E„ Mayersville, Miss .—I have a farm 
in Arkansas, about 60 miles west of Mem¬ 
phis, Tenn., and desire to plant to fruit, 
apple, peach, etc., a good variety, several 
thousand trees. What varieties are likely 
to do best in clay soil, in this section? 
Some of the neighbors think success can¬ 
not be obtained here, as most of their fruit 
is small and more or less diseased, but I 
do not think they properly care for the 
trees. 
Ans. —A place in Arkansas 60 miles 
west of Memphis, Tenn., if not on low 
ground ought to be suitable for many 
kinds of fruits. Peaches would prob¬ 
ably pay the best. The land should be 
thoroughly cleared of stumps, so that it 
can be cultivated with ease; because 
peach trees need frequent tillage, and it 
must be done quickly and cheaply, and 
at the same time thoroughly. The va¬ 
rieties to plant would be such as are 
being successful in the Ozark region to 
the north of the locality under discus¬ 
sion. Greensboro, Carman, Family Fa¬ 
vorite, Elberta and Chairs are all good 
market peaches. Apples are not so well 
suited to that section as a little farther 
north, in the Ozark mountains; but 
there is no doubt that some kinds will 
do well there. Among them are Ben 
Davis, Payne, Ingram, Gano, Arkansas 
(Mammoth Blacktwig) and Winesap. 
Good culture, spraying after the modern 
methods and attention to all the many 
details that are important and some of 
them absolutely necessary, will bring 
success. This has been done in many 
places where the old settlers have 
thought it impossible. h. e. v. d. 
type. 2. There are many plums to choose 
from. Chabot, Berckmans and Grand 
Duke would do very well, though the 
last is slow in coming into bearing. 
Among the newer untested kinds Shiro, 
Climax and October Purple are very 
promising. 3. The true Wild Goose plum 
is seldom fertile with its own pollen, but 
such varieties as Whitaker, Milton, etc., 
resembling it very closely, are often sent 
out in its place. They are heavy bear¬ 
ers, pollenize themselves and are good 
in every way for their class. Peculiari¬ 
ties of climate may have something to 
do in making your Wild Goose trees fer¬ 
tile if they are true to name. 4. Abund¬ 
ance and Burbank are usually self-fertile 
and each appears to have a good effect 
on the fruitfulness of the other, as both 
bloom about the same time. 5. There 
would doubtless be an advantage in ap¬ 
For the land’s sake, use Bowker’s Fer¬ 
tilizers. They enrich the earth.— Adv. 
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plying moderate dressings of phosphate 
rock, especially if dissolved in acid, to 
your orchard, as the lime and phosphoric 
acid in your soil may not be very solu¬ 
ble; 600 to 800 pounds to the acre would 
make a fair application. Some potash in 
the form of wood ashes, if procurable, 
may also be needed, though your to¬ 
bacco stems would supply a good per¬ 
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The Gano Apple. 
H. C. P., Cooks Mills, Pa .—The Gano apple 
has been considerably boomed by certain 
nurseries, and as a result there is quite a 
demand for that variety in this locality. 
Is it a safe variety for the fruit growers 
to plant extensively? Is it a seedling of 
the Ben Davis, and is it of better quality 
than the latter variety? 
Ans. —The Gano apple is simply and 
in plain language a red Ben Davis. Its 
early history is clouded, or, at least not 
clearly understood. There are a few 
persons who believe it is a seedling that 
once went under the name of “Jack’s 
Red.” The first that we positively know 
about it was, that a single tree was 
found by W. G. Gano in an orchard at 
Parkville, Mo., in a row of Ben Davis, 
but where one of these trees had been 
injured and a sprout came from near 
the ground. Whether it came from be¬ 
low the graft could not be told, as the 
trees had been root grafted in the usual 
way. It may be a seedling, or it may 
be a case of bud variation. In size, 
shape, flavor and season many pomolo- 
gists can find no difference between the 
two, and I am one of that number. Nor 
does the tree or leaf differ from those 
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