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December 10, 
FARMERS CLUB 
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Apples for Michigan. 
•T. J. (!., Hurl ford, Mich .—AY hat is t lie best 
red long keeping Winter apple to set in this 
soil (a light sandy soil)? Chicago is our 
market. What is your opinion of the Baxter 
and Boikon apples? Are they good, red Win¬ 
ter apples for this soil and climate? Baldwin 
and Greening do well here. We are interested 
in chestnuts; what fertilizer should be used 
to make them grow? 
Ans.—I n my opinion the Sutton is the 
apple that should be planted all over 
Michigan, where a long-keeping, red, 
VV inter apple is wanted. The tree grows 
well, bears abundantly and regularly, and 
the fruit is of good size and shape, being 
much like Baldwin in these respects, but 
is better in flavor. Baxter is a red Win¬ 
ter apple, but has not yet proved its 
value as a late keeper sufficiently to war¬ 
rant extensive planting. Boiken is a late 
keeper, yellowish green with red cheek; 
rather acid, but a good culinary apple. 
Chestnut trees require the same kinds of 
manure that cause other trees to flourish. 
Packing Apples In Sand. 
A. H. F„ Pocomoke, Md .—Do you know 
anything about packing apples in sand for 
\\ inter keeping, and can it bo done success¬ 
fully? That is, wifi it keep apples from rot¬ 
ting by packing them in barrels with sand so 
they will not touch each other? Do you know 
of any one experimenting with apples in this 
manner, here in southern Maryland? 
Ans.— 1 lie idea of keeping apples and 
Other fruits by packing them in sand 
is an old one, and is, in fact, only a slight 
modification of the old farm practice of 
storing apples and various vegetables in 
pits. Its efficacy depends chiefly upon the 
maintenance of a fairly uniform tempera¬ 
ture and humidity, together with a slight 
separation of the specimens from one an¬ 
other, so that an occasional decayed speci¬ 
men does not quickly infect its neighbors, 
rile lilan works very well with sweet 
potatoes or other similar vegetables, but 
appears to lie less effective with the fruits, 
in fact, I do not know of anyone who 
now attempts to store in this way where 
a fairly good farmhouse cellar is avail¬ 
able for storage in the ordinary way. 
Some years ago a man informed me that 
lie had shipped tomatoes from Florida, 
packed in sand, in boxes that were prac¬ 
tically airtight, and lie felt sure that lie 
could hold such fruits for long periods, 
even in warm weather, packed in this 
way. We co-operated with him in some 
tests in cherries, but the period of dura¬ 
bility was hardly longer than with the 
fruit exposed to the same temperatures 
in the open air. 1 think your correspond¬ 
ent would be more successful in holding 
apples if he would wrap them individually 
with paper and pack them in tight barrels 
or boxes, storing in a cool and, prefer¬ 
ably, rather damp cellar than lie would 
by packing in sand. I do not know of 
anyone in southern Maryland who has 
tested this method. wm. a. taylor. 
Inoculation for Alfalfa. 
II. It. A'., Arid, Pa .—I read with interest, 
from time to time the Alfalfa reports in The 
K. N.-Y.. i have been experimenting with 
Alfalfa the three past seasons and have now 
some Alfalfa plants with roots 30 inches long 
and two years' growth, but it seems difficult 
to get a good even stand here in Wayne Co., 
I’a. My mind has been very much occupied 
with inoculating the soil with (he Alfalfa 
germ. It certainly seems too expensive to 
send west for Alfalfa soil and sow on eastern 
soil. The following is a plan which I thought 
of trying, and would like to hear from you 
or some of Tiik It. N.-Y. readers what is 
thought of the plan : I have a swamp of rich 
black muck. I concluded to draw on a dry 
place sufficient of this muck to make a bed 20 
feet square and two feet deep ; mix with it 
sufficient newly slaked lime thoroughly to sub¬ 
due all weeds and grasses, then at the proper 
season sow on some good commercial fertil¬ 
izer, and sufficient Alfalfa seed to make a 
heavy stand ; when six or eight inches high 
clip it and so on during the season, letting the 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
clippings lie on the bed. The following Rail 
plow down (he Alfalfa, and the following 
Spring work entire bed thoroughly and spread 
it on about two acres of well prepared soil 
for Alfalfa. Would this be sufficient to inoc¬ 
ulate with the Alfalfa germ? Would it be 
any benefit to purchase Alfalfa hay by the 
carload and save the manure for Alfalfa 
growing the following Spring? 
Ans. —You do not need to send to the 
Far West for Alfalfa soil. There are 
many acres of good Alfalfa around 
Syracuse, N. Y., and elsewhere. At 
first thought the plan of preparing 
a special bed for the Alfalfa seems 
a practical one. We should use the 
“cultures” from the Department of Agri¬ 
culture when sowing the seed. Prof. A. 
F. Woods, of the Department, objects to 
this plan for the following reasons: 
“The method described by your corre¬ 
spondent, namely, that of preparing a spe¬ 
cial bed of Alfalfa to USe as a source of 
inoculated soil, seems to offer no advan¬ 
tages over the direct application of inocu¬ 
lated soil or culture solution to the field. 
Experiences demonstrate that successful 
inoculation can be secured in this way, 
and there is no need of losing a season by 
the preparing of the bed in the method de¬ 
scribed. Moreover, the enriching of the 
small piece of ground for the special pur¬ 
pose of starting Alfalfa might defeat the 
very end in view. In a rich soil it is 
found that the bacteria are much less apt 
to form nodules.” 
Our own experience is limited, but we 
feel sure that the plan of scattering soil 
over the field is better than using the solu¬ 
tion directly on the seed. The objection 
to the use of rich soil for starting the 
seed is certainly sound. We have found 
that peas, beans and clover are much less 
likely to form the nodules on their roots 
when the seed is started in rich ground. 
We feel quite sure that the manure from 
Alfalfa hay would help, but the use of 
inoculated soil is surer and cheaper. Why 
not obtain the “cultures” from Washington, 
pour the solution over 400 pounds of rich 
dirt and scatter it over the field? 
“Seedless Apples.” —The “seedless, core¬ 
less, bloomless apple" is now on sale by sev¬ 
eral nurseries in North Carolina and Tennes¬ 
see as a catalogue filler. The origin Is like 
all other wonders, unknown. G. W. Rob¬ 
inette, of Virginia, seems to be the first to 
find it fruiting. The fruit is below good, 
only a botanical curiosity. It was first 
brought before the public about 1880. The 
wonder apple is now offered by many nur¬ 
series as common stock and a novelty at eight 
cents per tree. My neighbor says: “I will 
fill orders at $08 per thousand or less." Mr. 
Rloott has an apple which is seedless or 
without seed; he offers to take 10 seeds from 
a bushel Sit payment for the bushel; so far 
the first seed is to be found. The quality 
of the apple is good, like Astrachan in fla¬ 
vor, size and color. a. j. ai.i.en. 
North Carolina. 
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These two 
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