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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
April 2 
Treatment for Old Apple Trees. 
G. L. G., Weston, Mass .—On our new nur¬ 
sery ground here we found about 100 fruit 
trees, apple and pear. They are in sod; 
some are old but most of them are about 
18 Inches in diameter. They have been 
badly neglected, showing no signs of ever 
having been pruned. There was hardly a 
perfect apple produced last Fall. Many 
rot led on the trees. Two trees of Maiden 
Blush were loaded, but dropped all their 
fruit, which was wormy. Some Baldwins 
bore a few barrels, but all were imperfect 
more or less. This Winter we have thor¬ 
oughly pruned the trees, and next month 
will scrape trunks and wash with potash. 
Soil is a sandy loam with sandy clay for 
subsoil. We suppose the trees are starved. 
What would be a good fertilizer? Of course 
we shall spray thoroughly with Bordeaux 
and Paris-green. 
A ns. —For trees in sod we like a ferti¬ 
lizer in which all the plant food is solu¬ 
ble, for otherwise the grass would get 
most of the benefit. A mixture of 500 
pounds nitrate of soda, 1,000 pounds acid 
phosphate and 500 pounds muriate of 
potash will make those old trees move. 
Use 500 pounds of the mixture per acre. 
In our own experience we have found 
that a drove of well-fed hogs in an old 
orchard will improve it. Put a tight 
fence around the orchard and after the 
grass has started well turn in six or 
eight active shotes to the acre. Feed 
them well and keep wood ashes and salt 
and plenty of pure water always before 
them. They will not then do great dam¬ 
age from rooting. Really, the rooting 
they do will prove a benefit, since it 
will give just the cultivation the or¬ 
chard needs. The hogs will eat the fall¬ 
en fruit and in time desti’oy most of the 
worms. Never put a hog in an orchard 
and expect him to make his entire liv¬ 
ing there. 
Rough Planting of Apples. 
J. M., Ronks, Pa.—I have bought 50 acres 
of mountain land where chestnut and oak 
is cut down, brush burnt off. Sprouts will 
be kept off, weeds will be cut a few times 
a year; there will not be many weeds. A 
low natural coarse bunch-grass will cover 
the whole ground. Land is too stony to 
cultivate, full of roots and stumps. Soil 
is a clay, with a sandy clay subsoil; land 
mostly level, only enough for good drain¬ 
age, the highest mountain point in Lancas¬ 
ter County. I wish to plant this in apples, 
pears and cherries. My plan is to plant and 
put city horse manure around the trees to 
kill grass and to mulch trees. I must pay 
$2.50 per ton and haul it three miles, mostly 
up grade. Could I succeed if I use ferti¬ 
lizer and hoe around the trees and keep the 
land clean around them? The ground 
seems to be one mat of roots. As soon as 
the stumps are dead the roots will begin 
to decay. Then I think the trees that I 
plant can find plenty of food, and they 
only need to follow the roots of the chest¬ 
nut and oak. 
Ans. —From our own experience we 
advise cutting the trees well back, both 
top and root, and planting in holes a 
little larger than the roots require to 
stand without crowding. Pack the soil 
close around the roots. We would pre¬ 
fer to use the manure for mulching. As 
we use it a ton would provide for about 
50 trees. We -would cut grass, sprouts 
and brush and pile all around the trees. 
If labor can be secured it will pay to 
grub up the bushes and the worst of the 
roots. After the first year it will prob¬ 
ably be possible to obtain enough mulch 
without using manure, and then we 
would use fertilizer. In the late Fall 
move the mulch away from the body of 
the tree and mound up the soil around 
it as a protection against mice and 
rabbits. 
How to make Pickles. 
R. II., Missouri.—1 raise a good many cu¬ 
cumbers every year. After they get cheap 
1 let them go to waste. I notice that the 
grocery stores send to St. Louis for their 
pickles, dill and salt. If some of the read¬ 
ers of The R. N.-Y. have had experience 
in making these kinds of pickles I would 
be glad to hear from them, as I know 
nothing about making pickles. 
Ans. —I do not know the method used 
by the large manufacturers of cucumber 
pickles, never doing them in such quan¬ 
tities, but I know the following makes 
excellent cucumber pickles and are to be 
kept in bulk without being airtight 
Scald the cucumbers two days in suc¬ 
cession, leaving them in the water to 
cool, then when perfectly dry use this 
proportion: One gallon vinegar, one 
small teacupful salt, one large teacup¬ 
ful sugar, one cupful grated horse rad¬ 
ish, three tablespoonfuls ground mus¬ 
tard, two tablespoonfuls alum. Have 
this well mixed and put the cucumbers 
in, Add more as gathered, and be sure 
to keep them well covered with vinegar. 
Or this way is good; Put them after 
being washed in a large jar, put in a 
small quantity of salt and cover well 
with boiling water, leaving them in till 
cold. Repeat this four days, then drain, 
put in a kettle and cover with a special 
vinegar, adding alum to make them 
crisp; let them come to a boil and poui 
all into a large jar. Cover with grape 
leaves and weight them. Think of the 
fortune going to waste every year. I do 
not stand in exactly the same position 
as the man in the Bible did to his neigh¬ 
bor’s cucumber patch, but I would like 
to know its products were being utilized. 
Think of the variety of ways in which 
they might be used. After the small 
pickles such a delicious sweet can be 
made from the large ones by peeling 
them, slicing into one-half inch pieces, 
put in salt water over night, then drain 
and cook till tender in a sweetened 
spiced vinegar. They are delicious. 
Then the sliced cucumbers for fish, 
which find such a ready market, and 
when large enough the cucumber man¬ 
goes and later still the rich ripe cucum¬ 
ber pickle, to say nothing of the chow 
chow and relishes of that kind in which 
it can be used. There is no other vege¬ 
table that gives such a variety of realiy 
good tilings as cucumbers. Please tell 
R. H. not to waste another one; they 
mean dollars and cents. N. 02 . n. 
Treatment for Potato Scab. 
M. E., Warsaw, Ind.— Give the mode of 
treating seed potatoes with formalin for 
the prevention of scab. I have been very 
successful with corrosive sublimate, but 1 
see some writers prefer the formalin but 
do not tell the amount to use or time re¬ 
quired to soak the seed? 
Ans. —We make a solution of one pint 
of formalin in 15 gallons of water. First 
rinse off the potatoes with clear water 
and then soak in the formalin solution 
for two hours. We like this better than 
the corrosive sublimate. The solution 
may be put in a tank with the potatoes 
poured in before cutting, or the solution 
may be put in a barrel and the potatoes 
put in bags and dipped in. After cut¬ 
ting the soaked potatoes we find it pro¬ 
fitable to sprinkle the seed pieces witki 
sulphur. 
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