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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
March 6 
ALL SORTS widely distributed—not only the apples, 
but also the plums, cherries, pears, etc., 
Seeding to Red Clover. and they are now manifesting by their 
I have good success in seeding with fruits the wisdom as well as the enter- 
Red clover in the spring with winter rye prise of the promoters of this noble 
as a nurse crop. My method is to sow 
the rye late in the fall after the corn or 
other fall crop is harvested, manuring 
the land well with stable manure lightly 
harrowed in, and sowing three bushels 
or more of seed to the acre. This gives 
a good stand of rye, but being late, it 
does not have time to stool very much, 
and in the spring, after danger from 
hard frosts is past, I run over it lightly 
with a smoothing harrow to loosen the 
surface of the soil, then sow on the clover 
seed, and lightly brush with a brush 
made of white birches. The green rye 
is cut and fed green usually about the 
last of May, and by this time, the young 
clover plants are all ready for business. 
A second crop of rye starts, but is not 
thick enough to injure the clover, and 
helps to keep down the weeds as well as 
prevent the manure from leaching away 
before the clover is large enough to take 
care of it as fast as it becomes available. 
With this method, I have never failed to 
get a good stand of clover as well as a 
good lot of green feed early in the sea¬ 
son for my cows. In this way, land that 
might otherwise have to lie fallow 
through the winter, can carry a grow¬ 
ing crop of rye, and be seeded in the 
spring to clover. By September, we get 
a fair cut of clover, and the next year a 
full cut. Most farmers in this vicinity 
practice seeding to clover in the spring 
with oats, and the succeeding summer 
harvest a good crop of Red sorrel in¬ 
stead of clover, the young clover planted 
being killed out by the sun and dry 
weather about the time the oat crop is 
taken off. F. A. p. 
Dudley, Mass. 
The Yellow Transparent Apple. 
The Indiana Farmer says, in its horti¬ 
cultural department: 
This apple should be generally known and cul¬ 
tivated. It is thus described: A new Russian 
variety. Unquestionably the most valuable early 
ajtple ever introduced. Tree an upright grower 
and a very early and abundant bearer. Fruit of 
good size ; skin clear white turning to a pale 
yellow; ilavor acid, and very good. Ripens a 
week earlier than Early Harvest. 
It seems queer to notice how many 
writers for the agricultural press come 
panting up with the news of a new and 
valuable fruit a dozen or 20 years behind 
the times. The Yellow Transparent 
apple was brought from Russia among 
the varieties imported by the United 
States Department of Agriculture, al¬ 
most 20 years ago. A few of these were 
sent to me, and among them was the 
Yellow Transparent. Young trees bore 
heavy crops three years from planting ; 
and a year or two later, I called the at¬ 
tention of my valued friend, Mr. W. P. 
Rupert, of Seneca, N. Y., to its merits. 
Mr. Rupert took hold at once, and a 
large number of the trees were grown, 
and distributed through the northern 
tier of States, as far west, at least, as 
Minnesota. It was very soon recognized 
as a valuable apple of its season, South 
as well as North, and it is, probably, to¬ 
day, the best known of any Russian 
apples, except the old standards, Olden¬ 
burg, Tetofsky, etc. 
As an illustration of the stolid stupid¬ 
ity or indifference of our public men to 
almost everything but politics, and 
‘•how to get there”, the fate of that first 
importation under the care of political 
distributors may be cited. Probably not 
one-tenth of the scions put into the 
hands of Congressmen for distribution 
was ever heard ot again. It was not 
until private individuals in Iowa, north¬ 
ern Michigan and Canada undertook the 
work that it was effectively carried out. 
Nine-tenths of the Government importa¬ 
tion have never been heard from ; while 
every variety of the private collection 
made by Prof. Budd of the Iowa Agri¬ 
cultural College and Mr. Gibb of Canada, 
has been carefully propagated and 
work. T. H. HOSKINS. 
Second-Crop Potatoes. 
As this subject seems not well under¬ 
stood by potato growers generally, I 
give my mode of raising second-crop 
potatoes, which has proved very success¬ 
ful. The true second crop is obtained 
only by planting potatoes that have been 
grown in the spring, and not, as some 
suppose, by planting old potatoes late 
in the season, which would mean only 
potatoes not at all suitable for seed pur¬ 
poses. In raising potatoes, I get my 
first crop in as early as I can, to have 
the ground in first-class condition, which 
is very important, using about 1,500 
pounds of high-grade fertilizer per acre, 
one-half when I plant, and the other 
when the potatoes come up ; working 
the same in with a harrow. Potato 
guano should be rich in potash, I think, 
contain about seven per cent of potash 
soluble in water, four to five of ammonia, 
and from eight to ten of available phos¬ 
phoric acid ; this gives a good and com¬ 
plete fertilizer, and one which will give 
good results on both crops. 
Dig the potatoes as soon as ripe, and 
select the seed, from potatoes about the 
size of an egg—well-shaped and strictly 
free from scab. Place them in the shade, 
by spreading them on the grass under a 
tree so that they are not exposed to the 
sun more than four or five hours during 
the day, and not at all in the hot part 
of the day. Let them lie for three weeks, 
when they will have become green. Cut 
them, always cutting from end to end, 
and never crosswise, into two pieces 
each, dropping them into water as cut 
to wash the juice off. This does away 
with the mold, and forms a skin, which 
keeps them from rotting, and, also, 
makes them sprout much quicker, and 
stronger. I then bed them immediately, 
covering lightly with earth, and place 
some well-rotted manure over them to 
keep them damp. As soon as they sprout 
nicely, I plant them in the same ground 
which grew them first, which has been 
kept in nice condition, and is worked up 
very fine, and laid off in drills about three 
feet apart. I plant in the bottom of these 
drills, covering lightly with the foot, and 
pressing the soil on each piece. Work 
them so as to fill up the drills, and leave 
them fiat when finished. Don’t try to get 
them too early in the fall ; but let them 
mature as near frost time as possible. 
Use no guano on them, as the guano 
used the first time should give a full 
crop. B. w * 
Saluda, Va. 
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It would seem that there is almost no limit to the 
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