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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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September 6 
Farmers’ Club. 
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Trapping Moles. 
W. J., Godfrey, III.—In R. N.-Y. of August 
2 “everlasting trapping’* for the mole is 
recommended. I have tried the method pa¬ 
tiently and persistently, and I am sorry to 
state without satisfactory results. Being 
now well advanced in years and not will¬ 
ing to admit that I had been outwitted by 
a mole, I got some nice fresh lean beef, cut 
it in small pieces, rolled the pieces in ar¬ 
senic, opened their runways, dropped a 
small piece where necessary, and my 
strawberry bed was soon clear of them, 
either by death or emigration. 
Ans. —We are glad to get a favorable 
report on poisoning moles. So many 
failures are recorded, due possibly to 
the mole’s preference for living flesh, 
that one grows quite sceptical concern¬ 
ing any means less radical than the 
visible destruction of the pests. Moles 
may devastate a field or garden for a 
long time and then entirely disappear 
without known cause. If this should 
coincide with an attempt at poisoning 
it would appear the remedy is for the 
time effectual. Those who are unsuc¬ 
cessful with traps may do well to try 
this method. 
Ingram and Other Apples. 
T. T., North Hebron, N. 7. —What do you 
know about the apple called Ingram, its 
ability to yield, and its market qualities? 
Also, what about Missouri, York Imperial 
and Wealthy? 
Ans. —There is no doubt as to the 
value of Ingram, York Imperial and Mis¬ 
souri in the apple-growing regions of 
the Central States, but in New York 
they may not prove to be well adapted. 
All of them are on trial there and it will 
not be long until we know definitely 
whether or not they are suitable varie¬ 
ties to plant so far north. There is no 
question about the hardiness of the trees 
but it may be that the season is not long 
enough for them to attain proper devel¬ 
opment. Last year I saw samples of 
Missouri that were grown in central 
New York that were quite good in size 
and color, although they were not equal 
to those that I have seen and grown in 
the West.. The trees were reported to 
me by the grower as being very prolific, 
which is true of them wherever I have 
seen or heard of them. The apples bring 
a good price in market, as I know by 
many years of experience and observa¬ 
tion. Last Winter I saw them in several 
places in New York City that had been 
shipped from several Western States, 
and took pains to inquire of the dealers 
about the market value of the variety. 
They all praised it. .Jiut, what it will 
do when grown in New York is yet to 
be known. The same is true of York 
Imperial, although I believe it will come 
as near to perfect development there as 
Ben Davis, and that is far better than I 
believed until after seeing the apples 
grown there for the past two years. In¬ 
gram is not a large apple anywhere but 
as grown in Missouri, where it origi¬ 
nated, and in similar regions it is large 
enough and all right in every way. 
Wealthy is a very early and abundant 
bearer, but in New York it is a Fall va¬ 
riety. It has good market qualities for 
that season. h. e. v. d. 
When to Cut Asparagus Stalks. 
A. B., Cochranton, Pa. —Will you tell me 
what time of year asparagus stalks should 
be cut and burned, or should they be cut 
at all? Some say to take out all female 
plants, or the plants having berries on and 
the bed will do better. 
Ans. —Asparagus growers clear their 
fields after growth ceases in the Fall and 
before the berries shatter to any great 
extent. In a small planting it is well to 
cut out berry-bearing stalks as fast as 
they ripen. Young seedling asparagus 
plants in a producing field are a great 
nuisance, more troublesome than most 
weeds, and are best kept out by pre¬ 
venting the seeds from reaching the 
soil. It is poor policy to cut the growth 
while still green as the Spring crop of 
shoots depends on vigorous leaf action 
the preceding Summer. 
Fumigating a Henhouse. 
F. L. IT., Stroudsburg, Pa.— Is it practical 
to fumigate henhouses with hydrocyanic 
acid gas for lice? If so, how should it be 
used? They are well built, double boarded 
and papered between boards. Is there any 
danger of fire with it? 
Ans. —We have never tried this gas 
in a henhouse. If the house can be 
made perfectly tight the gas would kill 
the lice, but the trouble would be to 
make sure that all cracks were closed. 
In most henhouses that we have seen 
this gas would escape too readily, as it 
is very volatile. The rules for using 
the gas are as follows: Measure the 
room and find its cubic contents by 
multiplying length, height and breadth. 
For each 200 feet of cubic space take 
one ounce of cyanide of potash. In an 
earthen dish or jar put twice the weight 
of water as of cyanide and three-fourths 
as much sulphuric acid as of water. 
Put the two together in the dish. If 
the house contain 800 cubic feet, you 
will need four ounces of cyanide, eight 
ounces of water and six of acid. When 
all is ready have the cyanide wrapped 
in paper ready to drop into the jar. The 
instant it strikes the liquid gas is form¬ 
ed and the opening through which you 
reach to drop the cyanide must be 
closed at once. It is better to have the 
jar in the center of the room and sus¬ 
pend the package of cyanide over it by 
a string so as to lower it in from the 
outside. Personally, we prefer sulphur 
fumes to the hydrocyanic acid gas for 
a henhouse. They are cheaper, safer 
and more useful, we think, for destroy¬ 
ing disease germs. 
Apple and Plum Orchard. 
D. W. S., Gilboa, N. 7. —I desire to plant 
a small orchard to apples using plums as 
fillers. What varieties shall I use for 
Schoharie Coounty, N. Y. ? I am succeed¬ 
ing well with apples, and especially so with 
Greenings, but perhaps some red apple 
might be better. How about Sutton? In 
plums Bradshaw is a shy bearer and Lom¬ 
bard overbears, -producing small fruit, but 
might succeed if thinned. Burbank and 
Abundance have not borne yet, but are 
not very promising. How about Damson 
and Green Gage? Under what name is 
Green Gage catalogued by nurserymen? I 
expect to set the apple trees 33 feet apart 
each way in squares with plum trees mid¬ 
way in the rows. How about the other 
way? Would it interfere with spraying? 
Ans. —If tne Rhode Island Greening 
did well with me I would probably plant 
more of it, for it is a standard in the 
market, and good grades of this variety 
will always bring a good price. Sutton 
is also a good variety to plant in New 
York. Rome Beauty is one of the very 
promising kinds for that region. Both 
these latter are red apples and are at¬ 
tractive in the markets. My advice 
v/ould be to set the permanent apple 
trees 40 feet apart each way, as that is 
none too far for them when they are 25 
years old, and 3 6 feet is too close. There 
are plenty of apple orchards in New 
York planted the latter distance that are 
crowding. The plan of using plum trees 
as fillers is not the best, as I see it. I 
would prefer to put in some early bear¬ 
ing varieties of apples, making the trees 
in the orchard 20 feet apart each way. 
This will occupy the land quite well af¬ 
ter the first eight or 10 years. The plum 
trees I would set by themselves. They 
need quite different treatment from 
apple trees in several ways, and might 
be injured by the treatment the apple 
trees would often need. One way will 
occupy no more ground than the other 
and the two fruits can be proportioned 
to suit the desire of the planter. For 
fillers I would use Wagener topworked 
on Northern Spy or Ben Davis trees, 
Rome Beauty and Oldenburg. Any va¬ 
riety that is an early bearer and desir¬ 
able in other ways will be suitable for 
temporary trees. As to plums, the Ja¬ 
pan class has many good varieties, of 
which Burbank, Abundance and Wick- 
son are good and well tested in New 
York. The damsons are also profitable 
and French is one of the best varieties. 
None of the green colored plums seems 
to be so popular as those of blue or red 
color, although the old Green Gage is 
one of the best in quality. That is its 
common name, but it may be listed un¬ 
der other names. Reine Claude is an¬ 
other and a later one of the same color. 
Royal Duke, Archduke and Monarch are 
some of the newer and more valuable 
of the late blue plums. Bradshaw is 
popular in some sections but it is being 
discarded by many commercial growers. 
Lombard is generally discarded because 
of its small size and overbearing. 
H. E. V. D. 
Wheat 
—Choice Harvest King Seed Wheat. 
$1.10 per bushel; sacks Included. 
Scott Hanna K.F. D No. 3, Shelby,0 . 
Dawson Golden Chaff, Red Russian and 
White Chaff Mediterranean Seed Wheat for sale. 81 
perbu.; sacks extra. John N. Metz, Swormville, N Y 
K.F. 11. No 1. 
S eed Wheat for Sale.— Harvest King (beardless) 
recleaned; new sacks furnished free; $1 perbu.- 
good yielder. Capacity 50 bushels per acre! 
DANIEL WILLIAMS, Hillsboro, Ohio. 
M ammoth white winter seed 
RYE.—Will mail Circular, with picture of Rye 
shown at Pan-American, on receipt of postal. Price 
$1 per bushel. E L. CLARKSON, Tivoli. N. Y. 
Refer by permission to The Rural New-Yorker. 
rppn A—WHEAT—RYE—TIMOTHY. The 
uLUUu best varieties, carefully selected, per¬ 
fectly clean. Fresh stock, sure to grow. 
Leading wheat varieties. Mealy and Dawson's Oolden 
Chaff. Other kinds. Poole, Foltz, Red Cross. Send for 
circulars and prices O. C. SHEPARD CO . Medina 0 
I have found that the birds prefer mul¬ 
berries to cherries when they can get 
them. As the mulberry is much longer in 
season than the cherry I find it pays to 
plant them. I hardly know whether it 
would be best to plant the mulberry close 
to the cherry or some distance away. In 
my case I think they are a little too far 
away. I do not shoot any birds; their cheer¬ 
ful chatter and queer antics amuse me, 
though just why they should be preserved 
on account of their insect-destroying pro¬ 
clivities I could never understand. Unless 
they are able to discriminate between use¬ 
ful and injurious insects, I am afraid that 
they will be likely to do as much harm as 
good. w. j. 
Godfrey, Ill. 
For the land’s sake, use Bowker’s Fer¬ 
tilizers. They enrich the earth.— Adv. 
f» Am Bm||| Strawberry. Six Berries All a quart 
uum rdlll box. Be sure to fruit It 1903. Six 
strong rooted plants by mall for $1. 
T. C. KEVITT, Introducer. Athenla, N.J. 
POTTED STRAWBERRY PLANTS. 
The choicest and best reliable sorts. Plant now 
and get good crop next year. 
Trees. Shrubs, Vines, 8mall Fruits, 
FOR FALL PLANTING. 
Finest Varieties for the Country Home. 
Send for Catalogue,free. 
H. G. Corney,Windsor Nurseries, Red Bank, N.J. 
THE PRESIDENT 
ST ft A W BERRY 
A small number of potted plants potted in latter 
part of July for sale. Prices, per dozen, $3; per 60, 
$10; per 100, $18. A limited number of layer plants 
for sale after September 1 at same prices. Send for 
circular. Mention this paper. 
THOS. R. HUNT, Originator, Lambertville, N.J. 
Germinated seed ready to plant 
” AI ’ A*i ’ V* this Fall. Full directions for 
growing, and price of seed and plants. FREE 
ROYAL GINSENG GARDENS, Little York. N. Y. 
— Your Gold Mine — 
You have one if you have two square yards of 
earth. $25,000 made by a Missourian in a'year on 
% acre, growing Ginseng. Any man, woman or 
boy enu grow it. Millions of dollars’ worth de¬ 
manded for export annually. Easily cultivated; 
hardy everywhere in United States. Supply limit¬ 
ed, demand increasing. Must be planted in Fall. 
We sell cultivated plants and seeds. A small patch makes 
a fortune. Complete Information tree. Write to-<l»y. 
CHINKSK-AMKR1CAN GINSENG CO.,709Main St., Joplin,Mo. 
o-FOB, A -o 
Sweet Cider Apple 
PLANT THE HONEY. 
It produces the most and best. Seventy-five other 
varieties of apples and a complete line of stock. 
Catalogue Free. 
C. D. WENGER, Dayton, Va. 
October Purple Plum 
trees three years old. No man does his 
full duty to his family until he supplies 
this fruit. No waiting. Fruit next year. 
Let us tell you about it. Do you want 
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_ In fact the larg¬ 
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ornamental trees of every kind. Let us 
send you our catalogue to-day. Just 
send address—no money. 
STEPHEN HOYT’S SONS, New Canaan, Conn. 
Mammoth White Rye 
The most productive of all. Average yield 30 
bushels and one ton straw per acre, worth $30. Price 
$1 per bu. GEO. A. BUNNELL. Waterloo, N. Y. 
f Wheat Growers are you ordering seed 
that will not yield with your own ? 
■ Description 13 varieties with yields 
may save you dollars experimenting, 
h Choice, clean seed reasonable. You 
can make several times our profit by writ¬ 
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Box A, Manchester, N. Y. 
IMPORTED ■ 
‘MALAKOFF” WINTER SEED WHEAT 
60 Bu. pep Acre; Product of our own crop ; grown 
from seed imported by us last year, from near BIacIc Sea 
in Crimea, Russia. Price $2 per bu here, bags free. AllJ 
other leading sorts of seed wheat, both hard and soft $ ] 
per bu. and up. Write for free catalog samples and descrip¬ 
tions. Address 4. R. RATKKIN he SOX, Shenandoah. Iown. 
Crimson Clover Seed.—New crop now 
ready. R. 8. JOHNSTON, Box 4. Stockley, Del. 
Umian No more of them. Sow my 
UniUll OcTS hardy White, earliest, Yellow 
and Red. 3 kinds. Send for testimonials and prices. 
BEAULIEU, the Onion Specialist. Woodhaven, N.Y. 
pi fllfCQ O EC |t—Choice, clean Crimson or 
ULUTK.il dCEU Scarlet of my own raising. 
$3.50 bu.; sacks free. J. C. ELLIS, Millsboro, Del. 
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You may not find time in the spring. You will lose fewer 
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GEO. A. SWEET NURSERY CO., Box 1 605, Dansvllle, New York. 
.. —.— —WIBII —■ I 
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THF STORRS & HARRISON CO., 
PAINESVILLE, OHIO. 
Trees, Vines and Plants. 
Apple, Pear, Peach, Plum and Cherry Treed, 
of all the leading varieties, in any qual ity, at very 
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Glenwood Nurseries 
Most complete assortment of choice 
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Send for Descriptive Illustrated Catalogue. 
THE WM. H. MOON CO., MORRI8VILLK, PA. 
60 miles from New York; 30 miles from Philadelphia. 
BUDS ‘-s.vr 
The largest collection of appleB and peaches in the 
United States. Send for list of varieties and price to¬ 
day. Buds packed secure to reach any part of the U. S. 
J. G. HARRISON & SONS, Berlin, Md. 
DULBS 
U for the lawn 
FOR FALL 
PLANTING 
for the lawn and 
pleasure grounds. 
Hyacinths, Tul'ps, Crocus, Narcissus, Lilies, &c- 
Our New Bulb Catalogue is sent free. It tells all 
about the best bubs; also seasonalle seeds and 
plants, including our celebrated grass mixtures 
HENRY A. DREER, Philadelphia, Pa. 
i —Free from Scale. New and Choice Varieties. 
Blackberries, Strawberries, Raspberries. 
Our FREE CATALOGUE will save you money. UYER & SON, Bridgevllle, Del. 
TREES AND PLANTS 
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TREES 
ROGERS’ LIST 
of BEST VARIETIES 
for different sections, corrected 
and approved by H. E. Van 
Deman, John Craig, F.A Waugh 
and others will appear in the next TREE BREEDER, ready ninth month, 1st. It’s a safe guide 
for the beginner, and worth a postal card to any fruit grower. It’s free. 
The Tree Breeders. ROCERS^ON THE HILL, DansviUe, N. Y. 
