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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
January 23 
FARMERS’ CLUB 
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Grafting German Prunes. 
A. L., Elmira, N. 3’.—Can German prunes 
be grafted on plum trees? 
Ans. —Yes, the German prune can he 
grafted on the other varieties of the Do- 
mestica plum with success. The Lom¬ 
bard seems to make a very good stock 
for it. But the native American types 
of the plum do not make good stocks for 
any of the former class. h. e. v. d. 
Weight of Charcoal. 
C. E. F., Camden, N. 7.—How many bush¬ 
els of charcoal can be obtained from one 
cord of three-foot wood? What is the 
average weight of one bushel of charcoal? 
Ans—A cord of three-foot wood will 
turn out 25 to 30 bushels of charcoal. 
The old “Frenchman’s rule” is 2 Y 2 cords 
(four-foot) wood for 100 bushels, but it 
sometimes takes three cords. Twenty- 
five to 35 cords are usually placed in a 
pit, and this turns out 1,000 to 1,400 
bushels of charcoal. We have a State 
statute here fixing the weight of a 
bushel of charcoal at 20 pounds when 
commercially dry, or 2,748 cubic inches 
by measure. It is usually sold here by 
measure. 
Paragon Chestnut Culture. 
C. J. 8., Academy. 17. Va .—Some years ago 
THE R. N.-Y. spoke highly of the Para¬ 
gon chestnut. I have seen no mention of 
it in the last few months. Does it still 
hold the high place for quality and profit? 
Ans.—P aragon is still regarded as the 
most reliable and profitable of improved 
chestnuts. Other good varieties may be 
coming on, but thus far none has rivaled 
Paragon in popular favor. Grafting 
wood may be had from the dissemina¬ 
tors, H. M. Engle & Sons, Marietta, Pa., 
and many other nurseries. Chestnuts 
are not adapted to propagation by bud¬ 
ding. Few buds have succeeded even 
when put in by experts. 
Hand-picking Rose Bugs. 
17. P. H., Dalton, O.—Do you know of 
anvthing that will keep off Rose bugs? 
They were very bad in some localities 
here last year. They eat off all the 
grapes, cherries, roses and even green 
plums and peaches. Paris-green has no 
effect on them; they appear to get fat 
on it. 
Ans. —Hand-picking appears the only 
effectual remedy for Rose bugs or 
beetles. They are clumsy and not very 
shy, and may easily be knocked off into 
pans of water and kerosene. While very 
destructive they usually only eat rapidly 
growing vegetation, such as flowers, 
buds and young fruits and leaves. It 
does not seem practicable to poison them 
by any known insecticide. 
Grafting Peach Trees. 
,1. D. 8., Leavitt, N. C.— Can you tell me 
if the peach can be root-grafted on peach 
roots of this year’s stock? I have roots 
from the pits this season, but was dis¬ 
appointed in getting my nurseryman to 
bud them from some seedlings T wash to 
propagate. If it can be done, give instruc¬ 
tions and state when scions should be cut 
and when grafting should be done. 
Ans. —Grafting the peach is a practical 
failure, so far as I have ever seen it 
done, or tried it myself. The best plan 
to get the little seedlings worked over 
to the desired varieties would be to 
Spring-bud them. To do this the scions 
should be cut at once, put in cold stor¬ 
age and kept until the stocks begin to 
start into growth the coming Spring. 
Then they should be taken out as they 
can be used, which will be only a few 
at a time, and kept warm and damp un¬ 
til their buds will be ready to set. The 
ordinary method of shield-budding 
should be used. H. e. v. d. 
MORE NOTES ON PO WER SPRA YERS 
Personally from my experience in 
spraying with hand power over a term of 
about 13 years, I should say that it will 
pay a man to invest in power outfit with¬ 
out having such a very large orchard, as 
with present scarcity of labor and the 
time lost with hand power and small 
tanks (refilling) the saving through use 
of the engine and larger receptacle will 
soon repay the extra cost. Of course, I 
refer to cases where considerable spray¬ 
ing has to be done, such as four to five 
days at a time with hand power. 
Virginia. Walter whately. 
I do not know of a power sprayer in 
Nova Scotia at present, but it is being 
discussed, for this is the most disagree¬ 
able job the orchardist has to contend 
with, and if we wish to raise good fruit 
we must spray. If we are fitted with the 
best hand appliance obtainable it is often 
a long job to complete properly. I think 
the man who raises 1,000 barrels of apples 
could well afford to have a power sprayer, 
as it would enable him to complete his 
■work at the proper time and do better 
work, and this power could be utilized for 
general farm work, for the time has come 
for the farmer to use machinery on the 
farm to save labor. From present knowl¬ 
edge I would prefer the gasoline engine; 
it is lighter, and we have to do our first 
spraying before the soil is firm. No time 
is lost in starting, and I think the ordi¬ 
nary farmer would operate it as easily as 
steam. chas. m’lellan. 
Nova Scotia. 
The number of trees necessary to jus¬ 
tify a power sprayer would vary greatly 
with circumstances. Though we have 
never used a power sprayer we expect to 
do so this season, for the reason that to 
do good spraying a good pressure at the 
nozzle is necessary, and we have not as 
yet been able to find a farm hand who 
would always give a good uniform pres¬ 
sure, particularly where two batteries of 
four Vermorel nozzles each were used. 
Where a satisfactory gasoline engine has 
been used it seems to give better results 
than steam, as it is lighter, quicker to 
start up, and does not require the con¬ 
stant watching that a steam boiler does. 
The engine can also be utilized in many 
other ways, so that I think 1,000 fair¬ 
sized trees would make a power sprayer 
profitable, though in some cases several 
times that number might be required. 
None of the power sprayers thus far 
seems to be what we want, so that we 
have built our own, and having used it 
and found it satisfactory we are now 
looking for the power to run it. 
Delaware. f. c. Bancroft. 
We have been watching the work of 
power sprayers for the past few years, 
but have not seen the one which we are 
satisfied to purchase. We have never 
found any sprayer as perfect as we wish, 
and are waiting for the advent of the 
right one for our use. We have used a 
great many different hand sprayers and 
find a few that are good, but none as good 
as we wish. We believe mere is a large 
field open for the right power sprayer, 
and we are anticipating the advent of one 
which will be satisfactory to us. Just at 
present we think it is not developed. We 
obtain excellent results from the use of 
hand spravers, but hope for better. Who 
can tell that it will not be a “dust spray¬ 
er” we will buy after all? 
New York. t. g. yeomans & sons. 
If a man has 25 or 30 days’ work for a 
hand power on big trees he ought to have 
a steam or gasoline power. We have used 
a steam pump for three years with sue- 
cgss \ now W6 need R second ii&» &nd ex* 
peet’ to try gasoline for the power to run 
some kind of a pump, which we have not 
a et decided on. J. B- collamer. 
Monroe Co., 
North Carolina Fruit Notes.— On page 
836, last volume, you tell E. D. R., Crooked 
Creek, Pa., that peach stocks are often 
used for Japan plums. We tailed utterly 
with 1,000 Abundance plums on peach, but 
200 on Marianna (ask P. J. Berckmans Co., 
Augusta, Ga.), grew well and bore heavily. 
But these last also with us as with the Van 
Lindley Orchard Co., developed black scab, 
and failed to mature a satisfactory yield 
of marketable plums. Also, on page 836, 
F. C., LaGrangeville, N. Y„ asks about the 
California lime, salt and sulphur wash for 
San Jos£ scale. We have used same one 
season in one of the very worst infested 
districts known to the horticultural world. 
The formula used was 40 pounds lime, 15 
pounds sulphur, two pounds concentrated 
lye and 10 pounds salt. Twenty pounds 
lime and all of the sulphur were mixed to¬ 
gether drv, then slaked with boiling water. 
The result was a solid yellow mass the 
same as if lime had been slaked alone, ex¬ 
cept for the color. This mass was dumped 
into a 50-gallon kettle of already-boiling 
water. When it had been boiling one hour 
the remaining 20 pounds of lime (which in 
the meantime had been slaked with hot 
■water), were added, together with the 10 
pounds of salt and two pounds of concen¬ 
trated lye. When all had boiled half an 
hour longer the liquid was dipped and 
strained into a barrel sprayer and sprayed 
boiling hot upon peacn and plum and apple 
trees. The result of one spraying was per¬ 
fectly satisfactory, and we are confident 
that with one spraying per year of the 
above mixture we can grow peaches and 
plums in this most seriously infested dis¬ 
trict with no scale on the fruit and with 
no loss ol trees from San Jos6 scale. 
North Carolina. J. H. T. 
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