1898 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
8i9 
BRIEF TALKS ON FRUIT. 
Long Scions in Apple Root Grafting. 
Can grafting with long scions be done on other 
than than the ordinary stock grown from seed ? 
I wish to grow some apple trees for setting as 
soon as possible. Could one use small piece roots 
from seedlings, say two inches in diameter ? 
Powers, Ky. s. a. m. 
Ans.—M aking apple root grafts with 
long scions is entirely practicable, judg¬ 
ing by my own experience. I am now 
thinking of putting up a few thousand 
for my own use, and if I do so, I expect 
to cut scions about one foot long, with 
well-developed terminal buds. Only 
good strong one or two-year-old apple 
seedlings should be used, and these may 
be made into two good cuts. Within a 
month, I was talking at the Omaha Ex¬ 
position with F. Wellhouse, of Kansas, 
and J. C. Evans, of Missouri, on this very 
subject. As they are among the very 
largest and most experienced orchardists 
in the world, and grow their own trees 
for planting, what they say is the very 
safest to follow in this matter. They 
both agreed, and said in plain terms, 
that they now practice using longer 
scions than formerly, and not over three- 
inch pieces of first-class apple seedlings. 
These long scions are a little more bother 
to handle than the old six-inch cuts, but 
they are more easily cultivated when 
small, and make better trees. Mr. Well- 
house said that he had thoroughly tested 
long roots, and had planted several blocks 
in his orchards, some of which were now 
big enough to require thinning out, and 
that, in digging them out by the roots, 
as was at first done, he found the trees 
from shorter-rooted grafts fully as good 
as the others, lie also said that, in yield 
of fruit, they were equal to any of the 
others. He said that the apple trees 
would make normal roots if they had 
the right soil and treatment in the or¬ 
chard, almost regardless of the length of 
root on the graft. H. E. V. D. 
The Georgia Peach Question. 
The recent developments in peach planting 
are very important. The nurserymen say that 
they are nearly all sold out of peach trees, or 
will be shortly; this means a very large increase 
in orchards and yield. The crop this year glutted 
the markets, and prices were near the cost of 
production. In live years, with the increased 
planting of peaches, there seems a strong proba¬ 
bility of overproduction to the point of the pres¬ 
ent cotton situation. I wish, if possible, to hedge 
against such a state of affairs, and have been 
thinking of planting my orchard of about 80 or 
100 acres to mixed fruits. Apples are going to 
be a profitable crop, I believe; the southern mar¬ 
kets are hardly ever fully supplied. What do 
readers think Of the plan of planting peaches in 
rows, say 16 feet apart and 11 feet in the row, 
with apples, or pears or plums in alternate rows, 
making the apples, pears or plums, 32 x 28 feet, 
and peaches 14 feet apart in one row, and 28 
feet apart in the apple row ? This would give 
about 146 i>each and 48 apple trees to the acre. In 
five or six years, I could pull out the ones not 
wanted. I think this question discussed will be 
interesting to all intending fruit planters in 
northern Georgia. s. b. c. 
Rome, Ga. 
Ans. —In my opinion, there is serious 
danger of overproduction of peaches in 
Georgia, especially those of the poorer 
grades. There are no richer or better 
peaches grown in America than such as 
can be and are produced by some of the 
orchardists of that State, for the climate 
and soil are well suited to this fruit; 
but there are always some who will be 
satisfied with, or, at least, allow, fruit 
to be grown and sent to market that is 
not up to the standard. This really 
forms the bulk of the peaches in our 
markets, and the same is largely true 
of other fruit. Of first-grade fruit, 
there is scarcely ever a glut, except 
as it may be lowered in price by 
the great mass of the poorer grades. It 
would seem to be wise to be cautious of 
planting heavily of peaches in Georgia, 
and especially of that fruit alone; for 
there may be seasons when the peach 
crop might be generally so heavy as to 
render even good peaches hard to sell. 
In such cases, the benefit of diversified 
fruit crops would be very plainly seen. 
S. R. C. is very correct in his ideas on 
this point, as I believe. But my own 
experience and that of many others is 
against the plan of planting apples and 
peaches together. The peach trees rob 
the apple trees. Pear and apple trees 
may do better together, but I have never 
tried them. Plum trees may do fairly 
well with other trees, but I have never 
seen them planted in that way. The 
difficulty is to get such kinds together 
as might not encroach upon one another, 
yet give opportunity to do as our friend 
suggests, cut out those that prove to be 
the less valuable in years to come. I 
think the safest and best way is to plant 
each species by itself, and destroy what¬ 
ever does not pay, thus clearing the 
ground ready for something else. The 
danger in mixing the planting so as to 
enable one to make a choice later of 
what shall occupy the ground, is that 
the trees may hurt each other and none 
of them be in proper condition. 
Apple culture in the peach regions of 
Georgia may not be profitable, for the 
apple is more at home in a cooler cli¬ 
mate. The mountain regions to the 
northward are far more suitable. How¬ 
ever, the guide by which to plant ex¬ 
tensively there and everywhere is the 
successes or failures of the locality. 
_H. K. V. D. 
HOPE FARM NOTES. 
Heating the House.—It is a big job to heat an 
old farmhouse at reasonable expense. We live 
in a stone house with thick walls. There are no 
windows in the west side, and this keeps out 
much wind. We have a coal stove in the front 
room, with a pipe running into a Rochester radi¬ 
ator in the room above it. Thus we make a dou¬ 
ble use of the heat with much success. In the 
largest room upstairs, we have a big air-tight 
wood stove in which our broken-down fences are 
rapidly reduced to heat and ashes. In this way, 
the house is kept very comfortable. The big coal 
stove, the radiator, the wood stove and a small 
coal stove cost, all told, $16.25 which, we think, is 
a pretty cheap heating outfit for five big rooms. 
We hope to have some figures showing the cost 
of fuel before Winter is over. 
Sweet-Corn Stalks.—I have said several times 
that we have no hay. We cut some oats and 
some rye, and cured them like hay, but the rye 
is very poor stuff. Our stock eat sweet-corn 
stalks entirely for fodder, and do well on them. 
The horses will take a stalk of sweet corn, and 
chew on it as a boy would suck a stick of can¬ 
dy. There are a few nubbins left on the stalks. 
At present, we feed only bran and a small quan¬ 
tity of oil meal to the large stock. The calf gets 
oats, but bran and oil meal make a good balance 
with the stalks. The horses look well and act 
well on this feed. 
Five-Footed Figs.—The horses eat about two- 
thirds of the sweet-corn stalks. After they have 
eaten all they will, we throw the stalks on the 
bottom of the stall, and let the horses tread 
them down as bedding. Tnen they are thrown 
out to the pigs, and these gentlemen work them 
over and leave them well mixed with manure. A 
pig has five feet, and the foot on the end of his 
nose is a full yard when it comes to real work. 
When we feed corn, we scatter the whole grain 
over the pens, and the pigs will root the whole 
place over half a dozen times before they get it 
all. They are like the man who drank a pail of 
water in order to get a glass of whisky that had 
been put in it. 
That Drunken Cow has given us a good deal 
of trouble lately. The facts are that, last August, 
the cow got into the orchard and filled up on 
apples. These fermented in her stomach and 
made her drunk. We charitably called it a case 
of “ sunstroke,” but there wasn’t any use getting 
’round the fact that the cow was “full.” As I am 
outspoken against liquor and saloons, our neigh¬ 
bors called this a very good joke on me. The 
reporter of a paper got hold of it, and for three 
days, the New York dailies had great fun with 
that cow. They had a picture of a drunken cow 
with a man milking her whose prominent charac¬ 
teristics seemed to be a long beard and a single 
suspender. The papers said that the cow gave 
milk punch for three days, and made other ab¬ 
surd statements. The fact is that the cow gave 
no milk at all during her spree. A man as far¬ 
away as Nashville, Tenn., wrote and asked me 
in all seriousness whether the cow did really 
give milk punch. He said that he was prepared 
to believe almost anything in these lively days 
of science, and if this were true, it would open a 
“ new industry.” 
Newspaper Stories.—That cow is now behav¬ 
ing herself. The best way to treat drinking cows 
or men is to keep them out of temptation, and 
that cow will be kept away from apples, you may¬ 
be sure. This little incident is a good illustration 
of the way many newspaper stories are made 
up. The reporter gets some little fact, and taps 
his imagination for a lot of guesses and opinions. 
He knows how to use words, and he weaves them 
around the fact so skillfully that the whole thing 
makes a plausible story. Our old cow got drunk 
—there was no doubt about that—but the lie 
about the milk punch that she was said to give 
was the thing that most people remembered. 
There’s no use talking, some of the “ agricul¬ 
tural’’articles are built up in just that way. 
The thing that sticks in the reader’s mind is the 
fairy tale about the milk punch, and not the fact 
about the drunken cow. 
Using Forest Leaves.—Our light, open soil 
lacks humus,and we look for it wherever it is to be 
found. In the woods over the hill, and along the 
shaded roads, the ground is covered with forest 
leaves. They make good bedding and excellent 
manure, and we are always tempted to spend 
time scraping them up. In fact, we do get many 
loads, we bed the horses with them, and after¬ 
wards put them in the pig pens. This plan of 
carrying the cream of the wood land to mix with 
the skim-milk of the cultivated poor ground is as 
sound as it is to carry nitrate from South America 
to fertilize the soil of England. Raking up leaves 
is slow and tedious business, however, and while 
it pays better than sitting by the fire and telling 
stories, a lazy man could lose money for you at 
the job. We tried leaves for mulching the straw¬ 
berries last Winter, but they cannot be called a 
success. They blow away too easily, and mat 
down too closely in Spring. h. w. c. 
Longfield Apple. —I am well aware 
that this is one of those apples that 
need thinning- upon the tree, and hand¬ 
ling with care to produce the best re¬ 
sults. Yet the same thing is practically 
true in regard to most other sorts. I 
thought very likely you would regard it 
as a little too acid to suit you. 
New York. s. d. willard. 
Good Shipping Strawberries. —I know 
nothing of the Pride of Cumberland 
strawberry except from description. It 
seems to be a Gandy seedling, resembling 
its parent, but an improvement on it in 
productiveness, while retaining the ship¬ 
ping qualities of the former. Regarding 
the shipping qualities of the Marshall, I 
can say that, with me, it has been very 
satisfactory. f. g. tick. 
New York. 
Handling Small Fruits.— Our best 
strawberry for shipping is the Bismarck. 
Berries to be shipped from 100 to 2C0 
miles should be picked as soon as fully 
colored. Berries should never be “ han¬ 
dled.” Let a careful picker pinch off 
the stem about one inch from the berry, 
and place the latter in a basket ; it 
should not be removed until “hulled” 
for its final resting place. Put in noth¬ 
ing but first-class, sound, perfect-shaped, 
uniform-sized berries, and fill your bas¬ 
kets full, if you wish to command a first- 
class price. It may still be necessary to 
accompany the express messenger and 
truckman to market with a loaded shot¬ 
gun in order to deliver in a satisfactory 
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These three great remedial 
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