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July 23, 
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Destroying Sorrel. 
E. P. W., York, Pa .—How can I get rid of 
sorrel? I have tried digging it up. but it 
seems to grow all the better. 
Ans. —Use air-slaked lime at the rate of 
25 bushels to the acre, and work it well 
into the soil. 
A Fertilizer for Corn. 
W. D. .S'., Rome, A 7 . Y .—Can you give us 
any information in regard to what would lie 
the best fertilizer to drop on corn after it is 
up? We have quite a quantity of South Car¬ 
olina rock and some muriate of potash which 
we would use, or we would buy any other fer¬ 
tilizer which would do the work. 
Ans.—T he potash and S. C. rock con¬ 
tain potash and phosphoric acid, but the 
corn needs nitrogen also. Dried blood 
will furnish this. A mixture of 300 pounds 
of the rock, 100 of muriate of potash and 
100 of blood scattered around the corn and 
cultivated or hoed in will give results. 
Nitrate of soda would furnish nitrogen, 
but for corn we would use blood or high- 
grade tankage, as these substances will 
continue to furnish nitrogen through the 
season. 
Sweet and Sour Cherries. 
G. W. II., Glenwood Springs, Col .—Will 
you give me the name of the hardiest sweet 
cuerry aud the largest sour cherry? 
Ans.— The Lambert is the largest of all 
sweet cherries, and is perhaps as hardy as 
any variety of that class. 1 he 1 artarian 
is more generally grown than any other 
and is quite hardy, although none of the 
sweet cherries is as hardy as the Morel- 
los and Amarelles, which are all sour. 
The Carnation and llortense are both 
very large in comparison with other sour 
cherries, but not equal in size to some of 
the sweet varieties. From what 1 have 
seen of them the Carnation has been the 
largest of the two. Both belong to the 
Duke type, which is not so hardy as the 
Morello and Amarelle type. 
H. E. V. D. 
Weeds in Strawberries. 
C. S. It., Locuport, A 7 . Y .—I have an acre, 
more or less, of strawberries. I wish to pre¬ 
pare the ground to sow to spinach this Fall, 
say in September. There is a heavy growth 
of weeds on it, big weeds, tall weeds and lots 
of them. IIow shall I rid the bed of the 
stuff, mow it down, draw off or try to burn 
mem, or plow them under, and work top soil 
with cultivator until seeding time? 
Ans. —If the strawberry patch were 
mine 1 would mow down the weeds at 
once, and haul them into the hog yard; 
plow the piece deeply, using a jointer on 
the plow, harrow thoroughly, and sow one 
bushel buckwheat per acre, the same to be 
plowed under when in full bloom, using a 
chain to drag the buckwheat in the furrow. 
If the plowing is well done two harrow- 
ings one week before sowing will destroy 
all annual weeds, and most of the peren¬ 
nials. A liberal dressing of good com¬ 
mercial fertilizer harrowed in just before 
seeding ought to give a good crop of 
spinach. J. J., JR. 
Wild Mustard and Club Root. 
C. C., New York .—Is it generally known 
that the common wild mustard is susceptible 
to club root same as cabbage? In weeding 
over where I had cabbage last year I found 
several plants of mustard which showed it 
plainly. There could be no mistake about 
the plants, as they were in flower (which 
looks bad for my garden, but this was a piece 
that I was holding back for late corn and it 
got away from me), and the club root was 
unmistakable. We have both pests here very 
badly, mustard by the acre, and club root 
also, the latter to such an extent that I have 
no success with any of the cabbage tribe, 
though I have used enough lime to pretty 
nearly turn the ground to mortar. It seems 
to me that this liability of the mustard ought 
to make it more hated than ever. There is 
a piece of about seven acres across the road 
from me sown to clover (?) and I never saw 
a finer stand of mustard in my life; there 
must be tons and tons of it and the whole 
field Is one golden mass. 
Ans. —Yes, it is well known that mus¬ 
tard is’ troubled with club root. You 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
should read a bulletin on this subject is¬ 
sued by the New Jersey Experiment Sta¬ 
tion, New Brunswick. The mustard be¬ 
longs to the same family as the cabbage. 
Wild mustard is a plant to make any 
good cabbage grower feel hot. Not only do 
weeds scatter seeds in our cultivated 
ground and cause work and loss, but with¬ 
out doubt some of them, like the wild 
mustard, nurse and carry plant diseases 
to cultivated crops. 
A Sickly Pear Tree. 
G. M., Brooklyn, N. Y .—Early in May I 
planted several roses and other things, 
among them a pear tree about five feet in 
height. It looked healthy and has several 
times shown green buds on the branches, but 
in a day or two they die off and never come 
to leaves. It is planted on high ground of 
a sandy nature, but there is some mason's 
and builder's refuse iu the ground, as it is 
in the garden of a newly-built house. Every¬ 
thing around it looks healthy and doing 
well. What ails it? 
Ans.— It is probable that the pear tree 
was in some measure injured by the cold 
of the past Winter, or by freezing or dry¬ 
ing of its roots while out of the ground 
and before beino planted. As all else 
seems to be growing well in the same lo¬ 
cation and soil there must be something 
wrong with the tree in question, and not 
with its treatment. However, it may live 
through this year, and next year grow 
very well, but the safer plan would be to 
set a new tree. H. E. v. D. 
The Value of Bat Manure. 
A. E. H., Havana, Cuba .—Is there a mar¬ 
ket for bat manure? if so. where, and tlie 
price per ton? 
Ans. —Large fertilizer manufacturers 
will often buy bat manure. It is used for 
mixing with chemicals to make high- 
grade mixtures for fruits and flowers. 
The price will depend upon the analysis— 
chiefly upon the amount of nitrogen con¬ 
tained in the manure. Samples of bat 
manure from Cuba have shown about 
seven per cent, of nitrogen, half one per 
cent of potash and five per cent of phos¬ 
phoric acid. The best way will be to 
send samples of the manure to the large 
fertilizer firms. We frequently hear 
from people who have found deposits of 
this manure in caves. They are usually 
deceived as to the amount. It seems to 
lie in large heaps, but on digging a 
thin layer is usually found on a rocky 
ledge. 
An Orchard of Grafted Apples 
IF. T. S., Chester Co., Pa .—If I was the 
man of Hope Farm Notes I would not risk 
a single seedling apple tree to bear. There 
might be one chance in, say, ten thousand, of 
an acquisition, but even that is very uncer¬ 
tain. Were I to plant another orchard, 
which a man in his seventies but rarely does. 
I would graft, or see it done, every tree 
And I would graft to fruit with a local rep¬ 
utation, for while a tree agert may be honest. 
I fear he rarely is. Even though he should 
be, he will likely coax you to take fruit trees 
not suited to your locality. I have planted 
in bygone times Baldwin, Greening, Northern 
Spy and other apples with a fine reputation, 
only to have to put new tops on them after 
waiting years to find that they were of no 
good in our locality. Pretty nearly all the 
apples we can depend upon originated in our 
and adjoining counties. Formerly they were 
l’ennocks, and Rambos, and Newtown Pip¬ 
pins, and Calebs, and Collets. Now they are 
Smith's Cider, Krauser, Nottingham Brown. 
Pyle’s Winter Blush, Fallawater, Smokehouse, 
Fanny, not your York State Fanny, but one 
much better, originated by Dr. Eshelman, near 
Downingtown, and named after his wife. 
This selection varies all the way from ordi¬ 
nary to tlie very best, but all good bearers. 
Very few of them would be likely to give sat¬ 
isfaction in other States, for all fruit has to 
be selected to suit a region. So, if I was in 
place of the Hope Farm man I would graft 
or bud every blessed seedling just as fast as 
1 could find time to do it with varieties I 
knew I could rely on. 
Ans, —The Hope Farm man says be 
has about 200 seedlings of Northern Spy. 
He expected to plant them, top-working 
all but one limb, which was to be left to 
come into fruiting. Of course it would 
not pay to let the entire tree remain as it 
is, but one limb can be left to see what 
sort of fruit it will make. If it proves 
inferior, as is most likely, it will not take 
long to work over this limb into something 
that is worth while. It is a pleasant thing 
to watch such seedlings develop. A man 
TO years old should not hesitate to plant 
an orchard. In what way can he better 
renew his youth than in watching vigorous 
young trees grow to bearing? 
Fertility in Cotton Seed Hulls. 
/•’. II. G., Chattanooga. Tcnn .—There are 
large quantities of cotton-seed hulls sold in 
this section for feeding purposes. I do not 
fancy them much as cow feed, but have an 
idea they may be worth something as a fer¬ 
tilizer. I have hunted through ail the tables 
of analysis in my possession, and find noth¬ 
ing that tells me how much nitrogen, phos¬ 
phoric acid and potash are contained in cot¬ 
ton-seed hulls. Can you give me the neces¬ 
sary data? 
Ans. —The following analysis was made 
in New Jersey. Comparison is made 
with average stable manure: 
Pounds in one ton. 
Nitrogen Phos. Acid. Potash. 
Manure . 10 0 !•’> 
Cotton-seed hulls... 14 12 
While the hulls contain more actual 
plant food than the manure there would 
be no comparison in the results obtained 
from using equal quantities of each. The 
plant food in the hulls is not available. 
The hulls must decay before they can feed 
plants. They are useful for mulching or 
mixing with manure, but too slow for im¬ 
mediate return. 
Some Gardening Questions. 
C. C., Neic York .—Is there any reason why 
I shall not work in an extra top dressing be¬ 
tween every other row of onions and about 
July 1 to 15 set to White Plume celery? 1 
made my onions IS inches apart when I 
planted them, with this in view, making the 
celery come every three feet of course. Now 
the man who brings my manure says the cel¬ 
ery will not do well. I have heard of its 
being planted between sweet corn, and as the 
onions ought to be off by Hie time it should 
be hilled why not do it this way? T am try¬ 
ing to make every inch of ground count, and 
have no other room except between sweet 
corn, which 1 do not think good, as some of 
it is planted late and would not be off in 
time to give the celery a fair show. 
Ans. —You can grow fair celery in this 
way by providing plenty of manure and 
water. It is not best to crowd vegetables 
in this way. but it is often done with fair 
success. Where land is limited, as in the 
case of a small garden, it is often desirable 
to “double up.” We have potatoes grow¬ 
ing between currant bushes and sweet corn 
in the rows of potatoes. It is quite com¬ 
mon practice to grow strawberries and 
onions or peas and squashes together. Such 
combinations often give fair crops, but are 
never equal to the same crops when grown 
separately. It is sometimes stated that all 
crops need is a place for their roots and 
plenty of water and food, no matter how 
closely they are crowded. 1 hat is a mis¬ 
take, for some classes of plants cannot 
grow close to others any more than cer¬ 
tain people can work or even occupy the 
same home with others whose temper and 
modps r.f life are opposed to them. 
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next June, if planted this Summer. 
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POTTED STRAWBERRY PLANTS, t 
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Potted Strawberry Plants {WSnJKfti*. 
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Crimson Clover Seed. 
In one bushel lots or by carload; any quantity to suit 
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rUn oALl Cow Peas. $1.75 and $2 per bushel: seed 
Sweet Potatoes, *1 Pe^OLLAND, Milford, Del. 
C RIMSON CLOVER SEED, new crop, borne 
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CELERY AND CABBAGE PLANTS 
For Sale.—Leading varieties, carefully packed with 
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Cash with order. Plants ready about June 15th. 
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PCI CDV PLANTS. Very stocky, with large 
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Golden Self Blanching, White Plume, Giant Pascal, 
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g-\ a BD A PLANTS, 80 c. per 1,000; 60c. 
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Strong plants. Danish Ballhead, Surehead. All Sea¬ 
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FOR SALE. 
CHOICE SCOTCH COLLIE PUPPIES. 
MALES. #4 each; ONE FEM ALE, #2.50. 
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rnn O t| C —Ginseng Garden and Fruit Farm, 
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PECAN TREES AND NUTS seedllngtr<es,(1.2&3 
years old.' The G. M. Bacon Pecan Co I nc.) Dcwitt.Ga 
r- shows in NATURAL COLORS and 
\r accurately describes 216 varieties of 
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GRANULATED LIME for FARMS 
Especially prepared to drill with crop same as phos 
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