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November 2'J 
FARMERS’ CLUB 
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What About Canada Baldwin ? 
C. S. A., Antrim,, N. //.—In what respects 
is the Canada Baldwin superior or inferior 
to our American Baldwin? 
Axs.—The Canada Baldwin is a dis¬ 
tinct variety from the true Baldwin, that 
is said to have originated in Canada. It 
is much like Baldwin in size and shape, 
but the color is generally lighter and 
more inclined to be striped. The flesh 
is more tender and approaching in this 
respect that of its supposed parent, the 
Fameuse. As a keeper it is not so good 
as Baldwin, nor is it superior to it in 
any respect, unless it may be very 
slightly in flavor. As a market apple it 
is not the equal of Baldwin, n. e. v. d. 
Apples for Northern Maryland. 
H. S. Olenville, Md.— What varieties of 
apples grown for market are best suited 
for northern Maryland? Would the Mann 
be all right? How does it bear, keep and 
sell? Is the Stark a better one? 
Axs.—York Imperial is the best of all 
apples for profit for planting in northern 
Maryland. Winesap is good, too, and its 
better seedling the Stayman. Mann will 
glow and bear there all right, but it is 
not an apple of attractive color nor of 
high quality, being dull, greenish with 
bronzy red. It is a very late keeper, 
however. It does not sell well because 
of the above unfavorable qualities. Stark 
is somewhat the san\ in all respects, 
but is better in quali 1 " 1 ' York Imperial 
is the better one to/ md upon. 
r>" H. E. V. D. 
Top-Working Ben Davis Apples. 
31. 31., Blue Mound, Ut —Wc have Ben 
Davis trees that have been planted two 
years. We wish to top-work them with 
Jonathan next year. Will the Ben Davis 
be all right as stocks to work Jonathan on? 
Would York Imperial make good stocks to 
top-work with Jonathan? Can Wealthy be 
successfully top-worked on to the Ben 
Davis? Would budding or grafting be the 
most satisfactory in top-working? After 
an apple tree has made four Summers’ 
growth can it be successfully top-worked? 
Axs.—To all these questions there is 
but one answer, and that is, yes. All 
the varieties mentioned will graft to¬ 
gether. Ben Davis makes a good stock 
to work over to Jonathan or almost any 
other variety. York Imperial is a good, 
hardy tree for a stock, also. Wealthy 
will begin to bear the second year after 
putting it on any of these trees, and 
will continue until it bears itself to 
death. If any of the grafts fail to grow, 
which is almost sure to be the case, the 
sprouts from them may be budded in 
August, thus securing a perfect stand in 
a short time. H. e. v. d. 
Grafting Peach Trees. 
S. If. IV., Weston, Mass.—I have a number 
of thrifty two-year-old seedling peach trees 
that I wish to change into some good 
standard kinds. Can their branches be 
whip-grafted in the Spring? I thought if 
they could I could gain one year’s time, 
for if I budded these branches in August 
the buds would not grow till the following 
Spring. 
Axs.—No, grafting peach trees is al¬ 
most impossible. It is done occasional¬ 
ly, under very peculiar conditions, and 
1 have done it myself but it is not prac¬ 
ticable. The branches can be budded 
next Spring, by putting scions in some 
cool place, where they cannot start in 
the least next Spring until after the 
stocks have started enough to peel. It 
ii not necessary to bud into the very 
small parts of the branches, where the 
wood is only one year old, but near 
where they join the main stem. Those 
that fail at the first trial may be re¬ 
budded a little later, by holding back 
the bud sticks in cold storage of some 
kind; as in the sawdust on top of the ice 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
in an ice house. As soon as they have 
grown fast the parts above the buds 
may be cut off and the new growth will 
begin. Budding may also be done from 
the first of the new buds formed, which 
will be about the first part of July, and 
a growth from them secured the same 
season, by good management. This is 
not so easily done in the North as in 
the South, where the the growing sea¬ 
sons are longer. h. e. v. d. 
A Second Crop of Raspberries. 
J. B., Liberty, N. Y.—We have had a nice 
second crop of raspberries here, the berries 
being large and sweeter than the first crop. 
Have you heard of such a thing from any 
other place? 
Axs.—It is nothing new nor very won¬ 
derful to see a Fall crop of raspberries. 
There are some varieties that are so 
much given to producing fruit at that 
season that they are called “everbear¬ 
ing.” A few of them continue to bear a 
few berries right along, after the main 
crop is done, and when the cool, moist 
weather of Fall comes on, they will pro¬ 
duce another good crop. Lumm and 
Catawissa and several more are of this 
character. Some varieties of blackber¬ 
ries behave the same way. The new one 
called Rathbun is of this character. The 
reason of these peculiar freaks, for we 
can call them nothing else, is, that the 
fruit buds of the brambles are formed 
quite early in the Summer, and, when 
the conditions are favorable for their 
development into growth they will 
sometimes do so at once instead of re¬ 
maining dormant until the next Spring, 
as they would normally do. These Fail 
berries are sometimes of the largest size 
and the best quality, owing to the favor¬ 
able weather that often occurs then. 
There are some cases of strawberries de¬ 
veloping their fruit buds in the Fall, 
instead of the following Spring. The 
new variety that was shown at the Pan- 
American Exposition, last year repeat¬ 
edly, and again this Fall at the New 
York State Fair, and which has been 
named Pan-American, is the most pecu¬ 
liar in this respect of any that I have 
ever seen or heard of. It is a case of 
bud-variation of the Bismarck, which is 
a well-known variety. The new kind 
makes very few runners, but seems to 
develop excessively its old plants, and 
especially its fruit buds. After the hot 
weather of the Summer is over, if the 
season is at all favorable for growth, the 
fruit buds come out and bloom and bear 
a heavy crop of excellent fruit. Some¬ 
times the apple, pear, cherry and other 
tiees develop a few of their fruit buds 
in the Fall, but they are usually too late 
to produce anything more than partiall ' 
formed fruit. The bush fruits, being of 
a nature to perfect their fruit in a short 
time, are far more likely to produce 
crops that will ripen. H. e. v. d. 
Asparagus Rust; Appearance and Treatment. 
If. L. E., Vincennes, Ind.— The season has 
been wet and cold, and my asparagus beds 
have assumed an appearance as though 
dead, but on breaking a stem they show 
life inside to the present time. What is 
the trouble, and will the effect or injury 
be permanent? 
Axs.—Asparagus grows best in rainy 
weather, and if healthy should remain 
green until ripened by frost. Possibly 
your plants are affected by the new As¬ 
paragus rust, which causes the tops to 
turn yellow and dry while the interior 
is yet green as you describe. It is a seri¬ 
ous but not necessarily fatal disease 
caused by a persistent fungus. Good 
cultivation and fertilization, with a 
short season for cutting, enable the 
plants to withstand the rust and recover 
much of their original vitality. This 
rust has been successfully treated by 
thorough spraying with Bordeaux Mix¬ 
ture, but the method is troublesome and 
expensive. The Palmetto and Argen- 
teuil varieties are less troubled by rust 
than most others. 
An Area of Hillside Land. 
On page 736 the question was brought 
up whether there is more land to the 
acre on a steep side hill than on the 
level. I believe in surveying land it is 
customary to use horizontal measure¬ 
ments. For building purposes this is 
certainly correct, as the foundation for 
a building must be level, but arithmetic 
teaches us that 43,560 square feet make 
one acre. Supposing we were to build 
a barn 50x30 feet with 20-foot rafters and 
shingles laid six inches to the weather. 
On both sides of this roof we would have 
80 rows, while on the horizontal width 
of this barn it would require but 60 rows 
if placed the same distance apart. This 
roof would be no steeper than much of 
the mountain woodland in this section, 
and some of our cultivated fields. I 
find I can plant as many rows to a rod 
(the same distance apart) on a side 
hill as on a level. I expect in measur¬ 
ing long distances or surfaces such as 
the length or areas of States, etc., the 
horizontal measurement would be the 
only correct one, for, if we were to mea¬ 
sure the length or breadth of Massa¬ 
chusetts from north to south over Mt. 
Greylock it would vary several miles 
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CLIMBING 
HILL vs. LEVEL LAND. FlO. 326. 
from the measurement through the Con¬ 
necticut Valley, but I do claim that in 
measuring fields of a few acres one 
should use the exact surface measure¬ 
ments whether on a side hill or on a 
level. If I am not right will you kindly 
explain to me why? If the line AB in 
the accompanying diagram, Fig. 326, is 
no longer than AC, I will agree with 
Citizen or H. E. V. D. Now this question 
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tled by the “Court of Last Resort,” The 
R. N.-Y. GEO. G. WALKER. 
Massachusetts. 
Grinding Corn.— We have been raising 
and feeding hogs and cattle for almost half 
a lifetime, and don’t claim to know it all 
yet. We think soaking any kind of grain 
does not pay, as our experience with feed¬ 
ing hogs makes us believe it causes hog to 
become wormy, and no advantage anyway. 
However, I think that it pays to grind all 
grains for hogs. We usually grind ear 
corn (cob and all) as fine as we can, on a 
Bowsher steel burr mill. We also grind 
any kind of small grain at same time, and 
feed dry in a self-feeder or trough on a 
tight floor, which saves considerable sloppy 
work, and hogs do not gulp down their 
feed. We never fed any cattle on soaked 
feed and consequently our experience is 
very limited. We crush and grind ear corn 
mostly for cattle, but not so fine as for hogs 
depending on the number of hogs following 
cattle. If oats are cheap we mix some with 
the crushed corn, or better way is to grind 
the oats fine and mix with ground corn. 
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