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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
December 2 
Farmers’ Club. 
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Van Deman’s Fruit Notes. 
ALL SORTS OF QUESTIONS ANSWERED. 
Winter Apples for Tennessee. 
Will you give me a list of about four of 
the best large red Winter apples adapted 
to the mountain parts of east Tennessee? 
Do you know anything about the new Ar¬ 
kansas apples, Champion, Apple of Com¬ 
merce, etc., as advertised by a western 
nursery, and will they succeed here? 
Marbleton, Tenn. G. c. u. 
From what I now know, if I were 
going to plant a Winter apple orchard 
for profit in the mountains of east Ten¬ 
nessee, the varieties would be York Im¬ 
perial, Ingram, Paragon, Stayman and 
Ben Davis. These are all good reliable 
moneymakers, red 'in color, and of good 
flavor, except Ben Davis, which is only 
medium in quality, and some would not 
say that much in its favor. As far south 
as Tennessee they will keep about as 
late as any good apples that we know, 
that have been well tested. The new 
varieties mentioned, which are of Ar¬ 
kansas origin, have not been long 
enough tested to warrant extensive 
planting, but are well worthy of trial. 
Collins is the proper name of the varie¬ 
ty called Champion, and Richardson of 
the one called Commerce. 
Apples, Peaches and Plums for Virginia. 
1. I have moved from Pennsylvania to 
Virginia, and bought a farm in Nottoway 
County. We have a fine orchard of ap¬ 
ples, mostly of Winesap and a few York 
Imperial, and intend to plant some Ben 
Davis, Arkansas, Stayman and Babbitt, to 
try them. What do you know of them in 
Virginia, and what other kinds do well 
here? 2. Give me a list of peaches suit¬ 
able for this section; also of pears, plums 
and cherries. 3. Will the Japan persim¬ 
mons stand the cold here? w. f. 
Crewe, Va. 
1. Winesap, York Imperial and Ben 
Davis are old, reliable apples for Vir¬ 
ginia. Arkansas, Stayman and Babbitt 
are comparatively new kinds, but they 
are giving promise of becoming stand¬ 
ards there. Almost all kinds of apple 
succeed in Virginia, except those spec¬ 
ially suited to the extreme north. It 
depends largely upon the purpose for 
which the fruit is to be grown as to 
What varieties should be planted. The 
apples mentioned are some of the most 
profitable. If there are lands on the 
farm suitable for growing Newtown 
(Albemarle, as the Virginians generally 
call it), that would be a very good kind 
to grow for market in addition to the 
others. This variety rarely does well 
below 2,000 feet elevation. In the rich 
mountain coves, from there to 4,000 feet 
above sea level, in good soil, the best 
samples grown in America are found. 
No apple brings a higher price in the 
foreign markets. York Imperial is, per¬ 
haps, about the most generally suitable 
variety to plant, for it succeeds well 
from tidewater to as high as any apple 
will grow. Winesap is a good apple for 
the red soils, but it is now surpassed by 
its seedling, the Stayman, which is as 
good every way, and better in style of 
tree. It also has a very much better 
root system. Jonathan does very well 
in both high and low lands, but is not 
so late a keeper as the others men¬ 
tioned. Grimes is the most beautiful of 
all yellow apples, and also the most de¬ 
licious in flavor of any kind grown. 
The tree bears well, is hardy, and of 
good form and vigor. This apple is 
gradually becoming known and sought 
in the markets by lovers of good fruit, 
and always brings a fancy price. 
2. Regarding peaches for Virginia, the 
ordinary standards are those to be 
planted. Triumph, Mountain Rose, El- 
berta, Oldmixon Free, Salway, Hen¬ 
rietta and Heath Cling are all good and 
thoroughly tested. Nearly all kinds of 
peare flourish in the same region. Some 
of the good kinds are Tyson, Howell, 
Clapp, Bartlett, Seckel, Sheldon, Anjou 
and Lawrence. Plums of the American 
and Japan classes do very well in Vir¬ 
ginia, but those of the European type 
are not suitable, because of curculio. Of 
the American class, Wild Goose, Milton, 
Newman, Stoddard and Hawkeye, are 
good ones. Of the Japan class. Abun¬ 
dance, Ogon, Wickson, Hale and Bur¬ 
bank are among the best. 
3. There are some kinds of Japan per¬ 
simmons that will probably be hardy in 
the section where W. F. lives. I will 
name some varieties that have borne in 
Delaware and southern Maryland; Zen- 
gi, Yedoichi and Tananashi. 
Budding or Grafting Apples. 
1. Ihave a field which I wish to set to 
apple trees when corn comes to it again, 
in two or three years. By plowing a fur¬ 
row this Fall and scattering cider-mill 
pomace in it, cannot I raise my own trees 
and bud them (have budded peach trees) 
or graft with an off-year bearer? 2. Will 
buds taken from a tree that bears on off- 
years be likely to produce such? 3. You 
advise against setting peach trees with 
apple trees. What short-lived fruit tree 
would you suggest setting, that might help 
pay until the apples came into bearing? I 
set trees 40 feet each way in the orchard. 
Chester, N. J. e. e. h. 
1. Apple seedlings are sometimes 
grown from seeds sown in apple pomace, 
but there must have been no heating of 
the pomace by fermentation, or the 
seeds are likely to have been killed. If 
the seeds show plump white kernels on 
examination, they are, probably, sound 
and good to plant. They should be 
planted only an inch or so deep. Such 
seedlings can be either budded or 
grafted where they stand the first year, 
or taken up and root-grafted the next 
Winter. 
2. By “off-year” varieties is perhaps 
meant those that bear such moderate 
crops that they are able to bear almost 
every year, and that really have no “off” 
year, as regards bearing. There are 
such kinds. On the other hand, there 
are varieties which truly have off years, 
of which Baldwin is one, because they 
bear so heavily at times that they do 
not have enough vitality to bear for two 
years or more afterwards. Buds or 
grafts taken from trees of such varieties 
will produce trees of the same charac¬ 
teristics. But I do not believe that there 
are varieties or trees that will steadfast¬ 
ly bear when the generality of varieties 
do not, and then fail to bear when the 
others do. A favorable season is likely 
to cause all varieties to bear at once. 
Severe thinning of fruit is almost sure 
to change a heavy but fickle-bearing 
tree into a regular-bearing one, if this 
practice is maintained. 
3. My advice is to set trees of some 
early-bearing variety of apple between 
the late-bearing varieties. If Summer 
apples are in demand, Yellow Trans¬ 
parent will be a suitable kind to use as 
a filler. Where the permanent trees are 
40 feet apart, there will be ample room 
for this or some other early bearer to 
pay for the entire orchard long before 
they need removal. Jonathan will do 
the same, although it is not so early a 
bearer as some. Stayman is another 
good one. Wealthy will bear enormous¬ 
ly, but is only a Fall apple. Oldenburg 
is of like character, but ripens in mid¬ 
summer. Some persons have used the 
Kieffer as a filler for apple orchards, 
but it is a rank feeder, and must be 
watched and cut out in good time, be¬ 
fore the apple trees are robbed. I am a 
little wary of it. 
Insect Enemies of Squash.— Bulletin 45, 
Georgia Experiment Station (Experiment) 
treats of the most important insect ene¬ 
mies of melon, squash and cucumber vines. 
Six very destructive insects, the Striped 
cucumber-beetle, the Melon aphis, the 
Pickle worm, the Melon worm, the ciquash- 
vine borer and the Squash bug are clearly 
described. Ail that is known of their life- 
history is detailed, and the best remedial 
measures discussed. It is likely to prove 
valuable for reference to those growing 
these crops. 
Feeding a Family Cow. 
O. A. C., Willington, Cotin .—What should I 
feed to my cows to make a “balanced ra¬ 
tion,” in addition to bran, middlings and 
corn meal, and what proportions of the 
above? I feed hay, of course, also dry 
corn fodder. The hay is fine June grass, 
cut while in blossom. 
Ans. —We keep one cow. Her busi¬ 
ness is to eat up the coarse fodder— 
chiefly sweet corn stalks, and turn them 
into milk and cream. The best ration 
we have found for a family cow is one- 
half wheat bran and one-fourth each 
corn meal and ground oats. Twice a 
week a good handful of linseed meal in 
addition is desirable. Cows are always 
fond of ground oats. With us this feed 
is cheaper than middlings, but if desir¬ 
able, we would substitute middlings for 
the ground oats. 
Rotted Manure for Market Gardening. 
TV. T. TV., Bandy Hill, N. Y .—My land is 
part sand and part sand loam, used for 
market gardening. I buy most of the 
manure used on the place. How are the 
best results to be obtained? Shall T 
spread it in the Fall, and plow under in 
Spring, and then top-dress lightly and har¬ 
row, or pile it, and use it all on top next 
Spring? I wish to get the best crops ob¬ 
tainable out of the manure applied. 
Ans. —In our experience we have al¬ 
ways found it desirable to use fine, well - 
rotted manure for market-garden crops. 
With corn or other field crops, the 
coarse manure spread in the Fall will 
give good results, but in market garden¬ 
ing, it is desirable to have the manure 
as fine and well-rotted as possible. We 
would pile the manure this Fall and 
work it over once or twice this Winter, 
harrowing it into the soil next Spring. 
We find it desirable to add the wood 
ashes or some form of potash, and 
also a quantity of dissolved phosphate 
rock, to the manure pile, as it is made 
up. Potash and phosphoric acid are 
lacking 'in most manures, and our ex¬ 
perience is that it pays to add these ele¬ 
ments to the pile rather than to broad¬ 
cast them separately in the Spring. 
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Red brick dust and similar sediments in 
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The cure for these troubles is Dr. Kil¬ 
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