with a stiff brush. The paint is applied from 
about two inches below the surface to about 
12 to 18 inches above. Before painting ex¬ 
amine the tree carefully for borers, digging 
out any found, and cutting away the injured 
tissue; then coat the wound with paint. 
Ready-mixed paints should be avoided, as 
1904. 
HOW TO STORE CABBAGE. 
In the first place, silaging cabbage has 
never been tried here, as far as I have ever 
heard, and t do not believe it is practical 
to make a cabbage silage, as cabbage is 
composed of so large a per cent of water, they may contain mineral oils or turpentine 
it would be very mushy and soft. There 
is a large acreage of cabbage here, and 
the price is very low, $2 per ton being 
price paid by shippers. We have had good 
success keeping cabbage in pits, similar to 
potato pits, but must not be kept too 
warm; in fact as near the freezing point 
as possible without actual freezing. Per¬ 
haps the best way is to dig a trench 18 
or 24 inches deep by six-feet wide, and as 
manv feet long as is necessary to hold the recovers from the setback received at 
y - - time. While farmers excuse the lack of fresh 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
78i 
both of which are harmful. The paint is 
not advised for peach trees without careful 
experiment first. We have no records of its 
use on quince. The chief object in using the 
paint is to prevent attacks by rabbits and 
mice. 
AN ILLINOIS HOME GARDEN. 
As a rule 1 believe the best gardens are to 
be found in the city, the farmer having so 
little time to attend to the work at the proper 
season that it is badly neglected and seldom 
that 
entire amount. Begin at one end and 
pile the cabbage in such a manner as to 
form a peak similar to diagram. When 
fruit and vegetables on the plea of lack of 
time, the city man pleads lack of space. That 
both parties could do better with the means 
TALKS WITH A LAWYER. 
A Technical Trespass. 
if a farmer places a R. F. D. letter box 
on side of the road along another man’s prop¬ 
erty, without the owner’s knowledge or con¬ 
sent, can the owner of the land take it away ? 
It is so placed that the owner of letter box 
must cross another man’s field to get to 
letter box. The owner of lettei* box has a 
driveway to the main road, but it is not so 
near or convenient. H. a. h. 
Easton, l*a. 
Usually the owner of land in the coun¬ 
try owns the fee of a highway running 
past his property to the middle thereof. 
The public has merely an easement over 
the way. The soil, trees, mineral and 
grass in the highway belong to the adjoin¬ 
ing owner, and the only right the public 
has is to pass to and fro. It was, there¬ 
fore, unwarranted to place a private let¬ 
ter box on the roadside in front of the 
HOW TO FIND OUT. 
cabbage are all in, cover with boards in 
such a manner that they can be removed 
as cabbage are used out. They should be 
placed in pit just before freezing weather 
begins. Cover the boards with straw and 
as weather grows colder with manure 
enough to keep from freezing. I have 
'known of cabbage being kept successfully 
in the way I have described. Some vents 
should be left in the board roof. 
Michigan._ E - A - E - 
TREE PLANTING AND PAINTING. 
Root-Pruning Cherry Trees; Mulching. 
In Stringfellow's “New Horticulture’’ I can 
find no reference to cherry trees. Will the 
rules for close root and top-pruning apply 
with equal force to the cherry? H. a. k. 
Easton, Pa. 
Root-pruning applies to the cherry as well 
as all other deciduous fruit and forest trees, 
also to all evergreens, but the tops must be 
cut short and foliage removed. There are 
many fine orange groves in Florida from 
trees thus treated, and the Director of Agri¬ 
culture in Brazil writes me that root-prun¬ 
ing has proved such a success on the coffee 
tree that all their new plantations are being 
thus set. In looking over my recent reply to 
inquiries about mulching peach trees, I see 
that 1 have inadvertently made it appear that 
1 condemn mulching. The fact is those in¬ 
quiries were all from parties who have or¬ 
chards from close root-pruned trees in bear¬ 
ing, bnt who now wish to change from culti¬ 
vation to sod. The mulch is Nature’s own 
method, and the very best for trees the first 
or even second year, and I would have used 
it on my lawn instead of a small, clean cir¬ 
cle, but my wife objected on the score of neat¬ 
ness, and I found the lawn mower would 
drag the mulch off. As the cultivator will 
do the same, it is better to keep the young 
trees clean where crops are to be grown in 
the orchard, until they begin to bear, when 
cultivation should cease. 
H. M. STRING FELLOW. 
at hand all will agree. Our garden is in a pr0 p e rty in question for the benefit of an- 
city of 35,000 people, and we have three lots 
each ">0x10") feet. The house and ground that 
is seeded down occupies about one-fourtli of 
the whole, so that is not available for garden 
purposes, except that a few plum and cherry 
trees are planted in place of other shade 
trees. All the vegetables required for a fam¬ 
ily of six persons are grown, with the excep¬ 
tion of potatoes, which we seldom raise. We 
grow beets, snap and shell beans, cabbage, 
cauliflower, celery, carrots, cucumbers, corn, 
lettuce, melons, onions, both set and seed; 
pumpkins, peas, parsley, parsnips, radishes, 
destroy any letter boxes established by the 
Postmaster-General. Even if the owner 
has a right to remove the box in spite of 
this statute, he would better take legal 
proceedings to avoid conflict with the 
Government. 
Painting Trees. 
J. G. P., Rome, Pa .—After reading what 
you say about painting apple trees, page 703, 
the experience of a man living four or five 
miles from me may be of interest. lie had 
an orchard of about 100 trees, four or five 
years old. He gave them a coat of paint 
from the ground to the limbs, and they died. 
It. N.-.Y.—Did he use pure white lead and 
oil or a prepared paint? It was clearly 
stated that the prepared paints should never 
be used. 
White Paint for Apple Trees . 
Will The R. N.-Y. give for the benefit of a 
new reader Prof. Alwood’s method of treating 
fruit trees with white lead and oil paint as 
a preventive of borers? Is the present time, 
and a little later in the Fall the proper sea¬ 
son to apply it to apple trees in the latitude 
of New York City? Will it work all right 
on quince trees? Has it been tried on 
quinces? N. B - 
Mt. Kisco, N. Y. 
The present time and a little later in the 
Fall is the proper season for applying paint 
to trees; it is considered too binding for ap¬ 
plication at the commencement of the grow¬ 
ing season. Prof. Alwood buys the white 
lead in kegs, then mixes it with pure linseed 
oil, making it the proper consistency for out¬ 
side work. Earth is removed from around 
the trunks of the trees a day or two in ad¬ 
vance, so they may become perfectly dry, any 
particles of earth adhering being removed 
R. N.-Y. and you’ll get a quick reply and 
a square deal.” See guarantee, page 8. 
REGISTER NOW FOR THE 
SPECIAL WINTER COURSES 
at the Rhode Island College 
of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts. 
FARM-PRACTICE bIMo^o 
POULTRY-KEEPING Begins Jan. 4 
For circulars address 
President K. L. BUTTERFIELD, 
Mention this paper. Kingston, Rhode Island. 
other party without the owner’s consent. 
In so doing a technical trespass was com¬ 
mitted. The owner of the land may pro¬ 
ceed either in an action of ejectment or 
otherwise to have the letter box removed 
by legal proceeding. It would not be ad¬ 
visable for him to remove the box him¬ 
self, inasmuch as he might came into con¬ 
flict with the United States authorities. 
The statutes make it a crime punishable 
squashes and tomatoes. There are 50 grape by fi ne or imprisonment to tear down or 
vines of bearing age, of 40 varieties, four 
apple trees in bearing, one Siberian crab, one 
Windsor cherry, two Early Richmond cher¬ 
ries, ail fruiting, and five Japan plums not 
yet old enough to bear. Windsor cherry is 
not a success here, but has borne a little. 
Several Japan plum trees are planted in the 
chicken park of a neighbor who is a near 
relative, and Burbank and Abundance bore 
heavily last year. From one Burbank tree 
which was bearing for the second time almost 
two bushels of plums were picked when two- 
thirds grown, to thin it so mat the tree could 
hold up the load. Even then two large 
brandies were broken, down by the weight of 
fruit. This season there is no fruit on any 
Japan plums in this section, on account of 
the severe Winter, which killed the fruit buds. 
There were also several peach trees planted 
in the same place, but all were killed last 
Winter, after reaching bearing age. There 
are two strawberry beds of good size, a new 
one being set out each Spring and the old 
one plowed under after the crop is gathered. 
This season strawberries were almost a fail¬ 
ure, only 75 boxes being picked froiu about 
the same area that furnished 425 boxes last 
year. A small space is used for growing seed¬ 
ling strawberries which we have been exper¬ 
imenting with for several years. The greater 
part of the beds now fruiting are made up of 
our own seedlings, the best ones having been 
selected from many sorts for our own use. 
There are four rows of raspberries about 30 
feet long, from which ICO boxes were picked 
ibis season; nine gooseberry bushes furnished 
over a bushel of fruit; 15 currant bushes, 
from which enough currants were gathered 
for family use, and about 25 blackberry 
bushes, which will bear next season. There 
are pieplant, asparagus and horseradish 
enough for home use, and the remainder of 
the space is used for flowers. Besides flower¬ 
ing vines, shrubs, bulbs and herbaceous per¬ 
ennials, there are two large Canna beds, in 
which tulip bmos are planted in the Fall for 
Spring blooming. From 800 to 1,000 Gladiolus 
bulbs are planted each year, from which cut 
flowers and bulbs are sold. This season there 
are about 200 Aster plants, all in full bloom 
at this writing, besides a Salvia bed and 
trellis of sweet peas. Two crops are grown 
on the ground whenever possible, corn being 
planted in July when the old strawberry bed 
is turned under; late beans, celery, late cab¬ 
bage and turnips after following early radish, 
lettuce, peas and onions. Besides the various 
vegetables put away for Winter use, the fruit 
on the place provides all the canned fruit and 
jelly needed, except pears and peaches, thus 
making a great reduction in grocery bills. 
.Many dollars’ worth of fruit are sold each 
year, and sometimes there is a surplus of 
various kinds of vegetables. The garden is 
cared for by its owner, who devotes only the 
time before <>.30 A. M. and after 6.45 I\ M. 
to its care, hiring no work done except plow¬ 
ing. He uses a horse for cultivating among 
me grapevines, and a wheel hoe with viyrious 
attachments for other work. 
MRS. H. M. WOODWARD. 
Winneoago Co., Illinois. 
Fill a bottle or common glass with your 
water and let it it stand twenty-four hours; 
a sediment or settling indicates an un¬ 
healthy condition of the kidneys; if it 
stains the linen it is evidence of kidney 
trouble; too frequent desire to pass it, or 
pain in the back is also convincing proof 
that the kidneys and bladder are out of 
order. 
What To Do. 
There is comfort in the knowledge so 
often expressed that Dr. Kilmer’s Swamp- 
Root. the great kidney remedy, fulfils 
every wish in curing rheumatism, pain in 
the back, kidneys, liver, bladder and every 
part of the urinary passage. It corrects 
inability to hold water and scalding pain 
in passing it, or bad effects following use 
of liquor, wine or beer, and overcomes that 
unpleasant necessity of being compelled 
to go often during the day, and to get up 
many times during the night. The mild 
and the extraordinary effect of Swamp- 
Root is soon realized. It stands the high¬ 
est for its wonderful cures of the most 
distressing cases. If you need a medicine 
you should have the best. Sold by drug¬ 
gists in fifty-cent and one-dollar sizes. 
You may have a sample bottle of 
Swamp-Root, the great kidney remedy, 
and a book that tells all about it, both 
sent absolutely free by mail. Address, 
Dr. Kilmer & Co.. Binghamton, N. Y. 
When writing be sure to mention that you 
read this generous offer in the New York 
City Rural New-Yorker. Don’t make 
any mistake, but remember the name, 
Swamp-Root, Dr. Kilmer’s Swamp-Root, 
and the address, Binghamton, N. Y., on 
every bottle. 
NOW IS THE TIME 
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WllEN you write aclvertiseis mention IIIE | locked at the lowest market price ; also Barb and Soft Galvanized 
Wire at wholesale. Write at once for prices. 
The Anchor Fence * Mfg. Co., Dept. D, Cleveland, O. 
SAVE YOUR FENCE 
By using a little paint with our 
STANDARD PAINTER 
Prevents further rust. 
Price postpaid, 
90 Cents Each. 
Pittsburg Woven Wire 
Fence Co M 
100 Twenty-fourth St., 
PITTSBURG. PA. 
I V 
DON’T LET THE 
SAN JOSE SCALE 
DESTROY YOUR TREES. SPRAY WITH 
LIME, SULPHUR AND SALT WASH 
AND BE SURE TO USE 
BERGEN PORT 
SUBLIMED FLOWERS OF SULPHUR. 
This brand is prepared especially for 
Spraying purposes: insist on having it. 
Ask your dealer, or write to 
T. fit S. C. WHITE CO., 
28 Burling Slip, New York. 
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PAGE 10-BAR, 28-INCH FENCE 
Is PI* Tight. Its bottom spaces are only 2 Inches. 
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Cheap as cedar. Made where used. No freight to 
pay. Great Inducements to Agents to work territory. 
For terms, etc., address, with stamp, _ 
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Cider Machinery—Send for Catalogue to Boomer & 
Boschert Press Co., 118 West Water St., Syracuse,N.Y. 
UNION LOCK POULTRY FENCE. 
Is strongest and best by every test. Our low prices 
will surprise you. We ship from mills in Conn.. 111., 
Calif., and guarantee prompt delivery. Write to-day 
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“Sprayed trees 25 years old. Work never done better.”—R. Jack 
& Sons, Chateauguay Baslu, Quebec. 
“lean spray the highest apple trees with ease—never bought a 
piece of machinery that did its work better.”—S. McCord, Benton 
Harbor, Mich. 
“Machine is easily managed aud runs without a hitch.”-.E. D. 
Smith, Winona, Ont. 
Now Is the time for Fall and Winter spraying with lime and 
sulphur mixture. Send for Book G—full particulars and many strong 
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WALLACE MACHINERY CO , Champaign, III. 
Making Over Vinegar. —On page 684 J. 
M., Newburg, N. Y., asks about making vin¬ 
egar from cider. Many years ago before 
learning better I tried to make vinegar from 
cider on about the same plan J. M. is trying. 
No matter how long that cider stood in the 
cellar it wouldn't become other than bard 
cider. The remedy : Water must be added to 
the cider to make vinegar, preferably soft, 
water, fully one-third as much water as cider. 
The barrels should be placed in a warmer 
place than a cellar to figsten the “working” 
process. Some “mother" from old vinegar 
will improve the operation. k. b. 
McKean Co., Pa. 
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