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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
April 22 
A Talk About Bunch Onions. 
F. Y. M., Boulder, Col .—What is the best way 
to manage so as to have bunch onions right 
through the season, from the earliest possible 
date ? Is the Egyptian Perennial Tree onion the 
best for very earliest ? How is the White Multi¬ 
plier for bunching? Are onions profitable at 25 
cents per dozen bunches ? 
Ans. — There, probably, is nothing 
better than sets for bunching onions. 
The Egyptian onion might give a slightly 
earlier crop, but is expensive and is not 
productive enough to be profitable. The 
Multiplier or Potato onion is all right 
for bunching, but the sets cost almost 
one-half more than other sets. As a rule, 
bunch onions are in demand principally 
during the Spring and early Summer ; 
however, if it is desired to prolong the 
season, sets could be planted at several 
different times during the Spring. There 
would, of course, be a limit to this, as 
after a time, the sets would grow 
whether out of the ground or in it. For 
Summer and Fall, seedlings could be 
used. Successive plantings of seed could 
be made and thinned for bunching. It 
will all depend upon how cheaply they 
may be grown. Twenty-five cents per 
dozen is a rather low price. f. c. 
What for Green Manure ? 
F. S., Holley, N. F.—I have 24 acres of late po¬ 
tato ground that I did not get sown to rye for a 
cover crop. I had calculated to Summer-fallow 
and sow to wheat, then clover for potatoes. But 
at a farmer’s institute I got the idea of sowing 
two bushels of peas and one bushel of oats, 
plowing them down either green or ripe, then 
turning under, working the ground down for 
wheat. Next I read in a seed catalogue that a 
crop of turnips sown this month and plowed un¬ 
der, say the first of August, was good for wheat. 
Another authority recommends Essex rape used 
the same as the turnips. 
Ans. —Of the plans you mention, our 
choice would be the oats and peas, plow¬ 
ing them in just before they ripen. In 
our own case, we would use the southern 
cow pea in preference to any of the crops 
mentioned, but we are not sure that this 
plant will do well so far north. The 
advice to use rape or turnips for green 
mamiring, while cow peas, Canada peas 
or even field peas can be used, seems to 
us unfortunate. The turnips and the 
rape will add nothing to the soil. Why 
not use a plant like peas or beans, that 
will not only supply vegetable matter, 
but also add to the soil’s nitrogen ? 
Grasses for Overflowed Meadow. 
J. E. W., Hingham, Maes .—Which is the most 
suitable grass for fresh meadow land that over¬ 
flows through the Winter, for four or five month s? 
Soil black muck loam with sandy clay subsoil, 
loam 16 inches to two feet deep. 
Ans. —I know of nothing which will be 
better than the Fowl Meadow grass. It 
will, possibly, be desirable to mix with 
this a small quantity of Creeping Bent 
(Agrostis stolonifera). Both of these 
varieties have rather light and imper¬ 
fectly cleaned seed, so that a considerable 
quantity is needed per acre. I think 
that it would be well to sow about 20 
pounds of the Fowl Meadow and eight 
pounds of the Creeping Bent per acre. 
Massachusetts Ex. Sta. wm. p. brooks. 
Fighting the Pear Slug. 
J. L. S., Detroit, Mich .—What shall I use for 
spraying pear trees ? The leaves are eaten bv 
slimy green slugs, after which the leaf turns 
brown and curls. There are, also, some small 
gray spiders on the trees. 
Ans. —The pear trees are infested with 
the Pear slug. The adult insect is a 
6 mall four-winged fly about the size of 
a house fly, and first cousin to the adult 
of the well-known Green Currant worm. 
This insect was discussed in detail, with 
an illustration, in The R. N.-Y. for June 
12 , 1897. It annually skeletonizes the 
leaves of thousands of cherry and pear 
trees in all parts af the country, not¬ 
withstanding the fact that it is one of 
the easiest of our insect foes to combat. 
One or two thorough applications with 
Paris-green or some other arsenical com¬ 
pound in June will so diminish the num¬ 
bers of the slugs that the second brood 
of the insect will not be numerous 
enough to cause any anxiety. The old 
remedies for fighting this pest were to 
dust the trees with lime, road dust, etc ; 
but it is much easier, and one can con¬ 
trol the insect more successfully, by use 
of the poison spray. The slugs feed 
openly on the surface of the leaves, 
hence it is an easy matter to poison the 
leaves, and thus include a dose of poison 
in their daily menu. m. v. slingkrland. 
Best Dozen Plums 
C M. B , Upper Lisle , N. Y.— Will you name 12 
plums that will equal the list of pears given in 
The R. N.-Y. of April 1, for home use, and pro¬ 
long the season as much as possible ? 
Ans —Abundance, Burbank, Wickson 
(Japan), Green Gage, Coe's Golden Drop, 
Jefferson, Prince Englebert, Fellenberg, 
Smith’s Orleans, McLaughlin, Bavay’s 
Green Gage, Washington. 
Killing “ Wriggle-tails " and Ants 
A J N., Swan, Tenn—l. Can Wriggle-tails be 
kept out of Summer-caught water? If so, how ? 
2 My kitchen, on warm days, is badly infested 
with a very small species of red ants, which it 
seems impossible to keep »ut of anything. 
Ans. —1. Wriggle-tails are the early 
stages or larvae of mosquitoes. The only 
way to keep them out of rain barrels or 
other receptacles for water is to prevent 
the adult or other mosquitoes from get¬ 
ting access to the surface of the water, 
where they go to lay their eggs. Thus 
to keep wrigglers out of water, it is 
necessary to keep the water covered to 
prevent the mosquitoes from laying 
their eggs on the water. [A thin film 
of kerosene on the top of the water will 
keep them out Let the pipe go far be¬ 
low the surface, and the water will not 
taste.— Eds j 2. The following method 
of combating ants in houses has been 
successfully tested by good housekeep¬ 
ers. Soak one or more large sponges in 
sweetened water, and place them in the 
places which the ants frequent The 
ants will soon find the sweet feast, and 
will spread the news among the ant 
families with the result that soon the 
sponges will be alive with ants. When 
the sponges are thus well inhabited, 
quickly drop them into hot water, thus 
killing the ants. Again sweeten the 
sponges, and repeat the operation until 
the ants get scarce. It is reported by 
those who have tried it that one can 
quickly rid the house of ants in this 
way. It is suspected that the whole col¬ 
ony of ants is not exterminated, but that 
the ants soon discover that their rela¬ 
tives disappear very mysteriously, and 
this decides the rest that it is not a safe 
place to venture into, and they vacate 
that house for a time. The method is 
so simple that any one can test it. Faith¬ 
fully follow directions, and I feel sure 
that it will result in your committing 
many “ anticides,” and in ridding your 
home of the pests, m. v. slingkrland. 
A flood Planter 
should plant all kinds of field seeds, 
Field, Ensilage and Sweet Corn, Peas, Beans, 
Sugar Beets, Stock Beets, etc. 
It should plant in hills, drills or checks at the will 
of the operator. It should at the same time drop or 
drill all kinds of commercial fertilizers, wet, dry 
or lumpy, pulverized hen manure and other 
home made fertilizers, evenly in any quantity 
THE ECLIPSE 
CORN PLANTER AND 
FERTILIZER DISTRIBUTER 
does all this in the most perfect manner. Drops 
seed from 6 to 45 Inches apart. Will distribute from 
60 to 450 lbs. of fertilizer per acre. They are strong¬ 
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Write for free catalogue, circulars, &c. 
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MORRILL & MORLEY, 
Benton Harbor, Mich. 
A Dry Sprayer 
No Water or Plaster. 
Dusts Tree, Bush or Vine. 
Two rows of potatoes as 
fast as you walk, wide or 
narrow planting. Agents 
wanted. Catalogue and 
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LEGGETT & BROTHER. 
301 Pearl St., New York. 
SPRAYING FRUIT TREES. 
The question of spraying fruit trees to prevent 
the depredations of.insect pests and fungous dis¬ 
eases is no longer an experiment but a necessity. 
Our readers will do well to write Wm. Stahl, 
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21 styles of Spraying Outfits and full treatise 
on spraying the different fruit and vegetable 
crops, which contains much valuable informa¬ 
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YOUR WIRE FENCE, 
whether for pigs, poultry, sheep or cattle, should 
stand as trim and taut in April as it did in February. 
What kind did you liny? 
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