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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
April IS 
FARMERS' CLUB 
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Renewing a Strawberry Bed. 
Reader (No Address).— Is it profitable to 
renew a strawberry bed by setting out the 
runners from each plant every Fall. If so, 
how many runners should I allow to root 
from each plant? Would it be wiser to 
buy new plants every year? 
Ans. —Strawberry beds may be main¬ 
tained almost indefinitely by layering 
one or two runners from each thrifty 
plant after fruiting, and cutting out the 
parent plant when they are well estab¬ 
lished. It requires some labor and care¬ 
ful culture to keep up a bed in this way, 
but it is often more profitable than to 
buy new plants every season. A good 
plan is carefully to root the runners In 
the soil or small pots, and transfer them 
to a new, well-prepared bed. 
Sterile Plums and Gooseberries. 
A. S., Fort •' Wayne, Ind .—I have some 
Japan plum trees planted about six years 
that have several years been full of blos¬ 
soms every Spring, but never ripened any 
fruit. Most of the fruit falls off with the 
blossoms and the rest later. What is the 
matter with these trees, and what can I 
do to make the fruit stay on? I also have 
some gooseberry bushes that are always 
full of blossoms, but never mature any 
amount of fruit. 
Ans. —Many of the Japan plum varie¬ 
ties are self-sterile, and do not. bear 
well unless planted near kinds that pro¬ 
duce abundance of pollen and bloom 
about the same time. Thus Abundance, 
Burbank, Chabot, Red June and Sat- 
suma pollenize each other very effective¬ 
ly if planted near, but neither will 
usually bear well alone. The fact that 
many of your young plums fall goon 
after the bloom would indicate lack of 
congenial pollen. The remedy would be 
to plant other varieties near, or graft 
scions of selected varieties into the trees 
you now have. Gooseberries generally 
bear well unless defoliated by the Cur¬ 
rant worm. If that is the trouble dust 
powdered hellebore or Paris-green 
mixed with land plaster, or flour over 
the leaves as soon as the caterpillars are 
detected. 
More About Painting Apple Trees. 
F. O. IT., Williamsburg, Iowa.—I would like 
to ask Prof. Alwood if, in his opinion, 
yellow ocher could be used with white 
lead to advantage in mixing paint for tree 
painting, lessening the expense and leav¬ 
ing a more neutral tint? I have used such 
a mixture for pruning wounds for years, 
adding enough burnt umber to leave the 
wounds about normal bark color, simply 
a matter of appearances. I have seen no 
ill effect from application of such paint 
about pruning wounds or on bark injuries 
over the bodies, but have never painted 
the bodies wholly. I have always been a 
little fearful that with small trees bark 
injury might result from absorption of the 
oil, and the more so because a near neigh¬ 
bor of mine 20 years ago put a liberal ap¬ 
plication of lard on 200 fine three-year-set 
apple trees in November to protect from 
rabbits, and killed nearly all of them. Is 
cotton-seed oil, with which much of the 
commercial linseed oil is now adulterated, 
likely to cause bad results on tender bark 
after painting? 
Ans. —I have not used yellow ocher or 
any other substance for cheapening the 
white lead paint. I undertook the ex¬ 
periment with the view of putting on 
the trees a lasting coating that would 
be quite Impervious to the Apple tree- 
borers, and hoped when I undertook the 
work, that it would also check the mice 
and rabbits. With a view of increasing 
its effectiveness against mice and rab¬ 
bits, I used arsenic in my first prepara¬ 
tions, about one ounce of Paris-green to 
the gallon of paint, but I later found 
that this was wholly unnecessary, and 
discontinued it. I am of the opinion 
that one might use certain substances 
to cheapen the white lead paint and yet 
leave it equally effective for protecting 
the trees, but this matter is yet to be 
determined. Ocher or burnt umber will 
be harmless. I presume we have been 
using adulterated oil, but yet I have al¬ 
ways tried to purchase straight linseed 
oil. I have never purchased the cotton¬ 
seed oil to use as a substitute for the 
linseed oil, but it is my opinion that 
cotton-seed oil will not penetrate the 
tissue of the stems of the apple trees 
sufficiently to do any harm. This state¬ 
ment, however, is merely opinion and 
not founded upon test. 
I have so many inquiries on this sub¬ 
ject that it might be well for me to add 
here that I am not now willing to 
recommend the white lead paint for use 
upon peach and cherry trees; not that 
I have ever known it to kill these trees, 
but that the good results in the case of 
peach trees, which I hoped for at first, 
have not been fully realized, because the 
young peach trees increase rapidly in 
size, and thus cause openings through 
which the Peach borers may enter the 
bark, and also in case of peach particu¬ 
larly, I have noticed some binding of 
the trunk. In case of cherry, I painted 
solely because the cherry trees grew 
among the others, and the application 
was made to all, and it has appeared to 
me that the paint caused some injury to 
the trunks, but in no case were the 
trees seriously damaged. Another point 
that I would like to make clear, so as to 
avoid further reply to private letters, is 
that I think it perfectly safe to use the 
white lead paint on trees at time of set¬ 
ting the same, that is, presuming the 
stock is at least two years old, prefer¬ 
ably three. My plan is first to set the 
tree firmly in the soil, then paint, say 
from two inches below where the soil is 
to be placed around the trunk, up to 12 
or more inches above the soil. If one 
attempts to paint the trees before set¬ 
ting, various inconveniences will occur 
which will offset any apparent advan¬ 
tage from painting the trees all at one 
time under conditions where they can 
be readily handled. 
WM. B. ALWOOD. 
FELLING A LEANING TREE. 
This is my way of felling trees that 
lean in a line away from the direction 
desired. A denotes line of gravitation, C 
the way we want the tree to fall. The 
circle represents the body of the tree. 
We begin to saw at C, and work around 
until E touches A, when we should be 
one-third sawed on the line E. Now 
chop above the saw; keep in direct line 
with C or felling line one-fourth of 
diameter, which should bring you into 
the line marked F and intersect E at 
bark of the tree. The space between E 
FELLING A LEANING TREE. Fig. 139. 
and F is sawed but not chopped out. 
When this is done start saw at D on 
other side and saw one-half off at right 
angles with your felling line C, which 
should intersect the leaning line A, but 
which leaves one-fourth of the diameter 
between B and E of solid wood. If the 
tree starts to raise before the line A is 
reached, I take off one saw handle and 
start a wedge at D, and if leaning heav¬ 
ily also at X. One man saws the inter¬ 
vening space between A and E, while 
the other at same time strikes the 
wedges alternately X and D, which if 
timber is sound usually brings the tree 
in the desired direction. Variations 
from this rule must be taken if wood is 
brittle or unsound. j. s. c. 
Moravia, N. Y. 
When you write advertisers mention The 
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“a square deal.” See guarantee, 14th page. 
PURE TESTED SEEDS 
(ALL PER BUSHEL). 
Medium Clover, $7.50; Mammoth Clover, $7.50 Al- 
sike Clover. $6.50; Alfalfa, $9; Crimson, $3 50; Tim¬ 
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$1.75; Kcdtop,$120: Spring Bye.$1.25; Spring Wheat, 
$1.40; Seed Oats. 70c.; German Millet, $1.10; Hunga¬ 
rian. $1.25; Spelt, $1; Kaffir Corn, 90c.; Cow Peas, 
$1.75; Soja Keans. $2; Seed Barley, 85c.; Learning 
Corn. $1.25; Pride Corn. $1.25. 
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Hardy Flowers and Ferns 
A collection of 15 varieties of hardy plants for $1.0Q 
If you mention this paper. 700 varieties of Dahlias, 
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How to Organize 
A Farmers’ Telephone Co. 
We have published a very in¬ 
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about different types of 'phones, 
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if you mention this paper. Ask 
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for Farmers.” You will get it by return 
mail. Address nearest office. 
Stromborg-Carlson Tel. Mfg. Co. 
Rochester, N. Y.— Chicago, III. 
IOiOOO Plants for 16c 
More gardens and farms are planted to 
Salzer’s Seeds than any other in 
. America. There is reason for this. -»- 
We own and operate over 5000 acres for ' 
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In order to induce you to try them, we 
— make you the following unpre-i 
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For 16 Cents Postpaid 
1000 Knrly, Medium nnd Late Cabbages, 
2000 Delicious, Carrots, 1 
2000 blanching Celery, 
2000 Rich Nutty Lettuce, 
1000 Splendid Onions, 
1000 Rare Luscious Radishes, 
1000 Gloriously brilliant Flowers. 
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JOHN A. SALZER SEED CO., 
F. La Crosse, Wis. 
SEEDS 
- AND 
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Write for our 1904 Annual biaU 
Catalogue, mailedfree; also Price 
List of Re-cleaned Red, Alsike 
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Kentucky Blue Grass, Orchard 
Grass, also other Farm Seeds and 
Grains. 
Feeding Corn and Oats in cap 
lots deli vexed on track at your 
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The Henry Philipps Seed and Implement Co,, 
115-117 St.Clair St.. Toleclo, Ohio 
AIID PflDN yielded 'it the rate of 203 bushels 
II Ull OUlfll of ears per acre at the experi- 
“ ment farm of the U. S. Dept, of Agriculture. 
Prices: TALIAFERRO (yellow), or COLLING WOOD 
(mlxed).bu.of ears by freight or express $1.00; packet 
by mail, postpaid, 15c; 2 packets, (one of each), 25c. 
P. B. CROSBY & SON, Catonsville, Md 
64 TON RECORD. 
That is the yield per acre re¬ 
ceived last year by a custom¬ 
er of ours who paid us 
$ 1.00 for seed of 
Eureka Ensilage Corn. 
Most nutritious corn grown with 
best earing and fullest foliage. 
Grows 16 to 18 feet high and ears 
are in milk by cutting time, just 
right for the silo. Result of 16 
years selection and breeding. 
Remember we control entire 
stock of the Genuine Eureka 
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Write for it. 
ROSS BROTHERS, WORCESTER, MASS. 
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8 rice for the planter. 
ur seed this year is 
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Box 12 > Greene, N. Y. 
n Sent free on request. Full of information 
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FRUIT TREES 
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ARTHUR J. COLLINS, 
Burlington County, Moorestown, N. J, 
WHAT! 
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