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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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“A Better Peach than Alexander.” 
A. W. F., Birmingham, Aha. —I am 
interested in early fruit in this section, 
and have been very successful with the 
Amsden and Alexander peaches, which 
ripen, with me, about June 1. They 
will be a week late this year on account 
of late blooming. I wish to put out 
quite a large lot of trees this fall, and 
am waiting to hear something more 
about the Triumph and Greensboro. I 
tried hard last year to get something 
reliable about the Triumph, but every¬ 
thing was that the Triumph was “said 
to be,” or “ reported to be,” as .early as 
the Alexander, but of better quality, 
yellow color, etc. I write this to ask 
you to get from some of your numerous 
correspondents something definite—that 
is, the exact time of ripening in each 
locality (South); also a description of 
the peach, and its comparison with the 
Alexander; also size, shape, color, and, 
as far as possible, a full description of 
the Triumph, so we can determine as to 
its value as an early peach. As far as 
possible, we would like the same descrip¬ 
tion of the Greensboro. The Sneed has 
been on the market for some years, yet 
I have not been able to get any one’s 
positive testimony as to its being a 
better or earlier peach than the Alex¬ 
ander. 
Black-knot and Plums. 
S. D. Willard, Geneva, N. Y. —I am 
a little surprised at the report from 
H. E. V. D., page 357, regarding the 
tendency of French Damsons to black- 
knot in Maryland. I have grown them 
for many years, and have found them 
remarkably free from that disease ; in¬ 
deed, out of several hundred trees, I 
cannot remember ever to have seen an 
evidence of black-knot on any of them. 
But while this is so, I am well aware 
that different experiences follow in dif¬ 
ferent sections, in regard to the suscep¬ 
tibility of varieties to this trouble. 
Small Air Sprayers Wanted. 
F. H. P., Melrose, Mass. —After read¬ 
ing the article on compressed air spray¬ 
ing, it seems that the true way of accom¬ 
plishing a disagreeable work has been 
reached. My experience with pumps 
has been enough to devilize a saint. I 
commenced with an up-and-down push 
pump, held by the foot and supplied 
from a pail, until now I have a pump 
attached to a cart, McGowen nozzle, ex¬ 
tension rod with shut-off and plenty of 
hose. This pump has made a record for 
being in repair shops ; parts have been 
substituted until now I have a leaky 
article that cannot be tightened until 
made over. The purchase price of the 
pump was small, the present cost is 
something immense. 
Would it be practicable to have a tank 
to hold liquid, and into this force air 
until pressure enough is reserved to 
drive out all the liquid ? I would rejoice 
to purchase such an outfit. I can almost 
see one on my wheelbarrow : easily re¬ 
movable manhole at top with cap, 
through which pass feed (air) pipe, dis¬ 
charge (liquid) pipe and valve to indicate 
pressure. We should have a good air- 
pump easily operated. A circular should 
accompany the outfit, giving capacity 
of tank, maximum pressure, and amount 
of various insecticides and fungicides 
required for tank. The advantages are 
many over the old way. The parts of 
the pump are not corroded by the action 
of spraying liquids. All the attention 
can be given to directing the spray and 
moving the tank. One man can operate 
alone and with considerable length of 
hose. Many rose bushes may be treated 
without moving the tank. I could climb 
my big apple tree with hose in hand and 
treat my foes without asking help from 
any one. 
I sincerely hope that if these ideas are 
correct, The R. N.-Y. will give a reward 
of merit or free advertisement for one 
month to the manufacturer who first 
places this appliance on the market. 
Why wait a year or so? Let us have 
something at once, and the amateurs 
and owners of small places will rise up 
and bless you. 
Fall Seeding of Grass. 
L. G., Beaver Center, Pa. —We have 
been practicing the plan of fall seeding 
for about five years, with good success. 
We have seeded after buckwheat and 
potatoes, but have fully as good results 
by plowing the sod as soon as possible 
after the hay is cut off, and working the 
ground very thoioughly with a roller, 
Cutaway harrow and pulverizer. We 
have not tried Mr. Clark’s plan, but 
think it much more work than ours. We 
are well satisfied with our results. We 
have the poorest show this spring that 
we have had in the five years that we 
have tried it. We have formerly seeded 
pretty thickly with Timothy in the fall 
to get a sod to stand the winter, but last 
fall, we used less seed—about eight 
quarts. We go over it in the spring 
with a little Timothy and clover (prefer 
Alsike and Medium clover mixed). This 
fills any places that may have been 
killed out. The hay is rather too fine 
the first year for best quality for mar¬ 
ket, but has excellent feeding value. It 
matures later, which extends the time 
of cutting. We get, the first year, an 
average crop, and the second year as 
good as any we ever have with any plan 
of seeding. Perhaps it should be men¬ 
tioned that we use from 300 to 500 pounds 
of a good commercial fertilizer well 
worked in. 
Likes Western Horses. 
0. B. M., Carlton Station, N. Y.—In 
The R. N.-Y. of May 8, page 306, the 
question is asked whether western 
horses are satisfactory and why not. 
From the experience of those who have 
written, one would think them anything 
but valuable to a farmer. I have waited 
in hopes that some one could say some¬ 
thing in their favor. On New Year's 
Day, 1895, I purchased a work team in 
Buffalo; the next April, another, and 
April 12, last, another worker. I have 
fed them the same as native horses, 
ground oats with rye or corn as it hap¬ 
pened. I have never had a veterinarian 
for them, or a yoke of cattle to do the 
work. Two of them have cut 18 acres 
of beans in a day. Two hitched to a 
common walking plow, and two others 
with a native mare hitched to a sulky 
plow, have plowed six acres for me in 10 
hours, and repeated it the next day. I 
have never seen them act weary or 
fagged in the least, but they are as 
honest as the day is long. If any one 
thinks they must be used up by this 
time, I would like to compare horses 
with him. 
Breeding the Horse. 
D. S. M., Watertown, N. Y.—Refer¬ 
ring to the discussion about western 
horses in The R. N.-Y. of May 8, in 
order to make the discussion more com¬ 
plete, I copy a part of an article I wrote 
a good many years ago : 
The formative period of the life of a 
horse is the colt’s first year. Endurance 
and speed depend much upon a full devel¬ 
opment of the nerves, muscles and bones ; 
without full development of these, there 
can be no endurance, but these are not 
the highest impulse. Horses have men¬ 
tal and, seemingly, moral faculties, mind 
and spirit; if there be but partial de¬ 
velopment herein, there will be no 
horse. The object is a two-fold one, a 
full development of physical energy, 
pushed to the highest limit of endurance 
by mental energy. The study of history 
proves that all animals, man included, 
brought up in mountain lands, are more 
fleet than those of the plains. Why ? 
Because the ascent and descent of sur¬ 
face brings into use and action more 
than one set of muscles and nerves, and 
there is fuller development of all the 
different sets of motor nerves, some of 
which are unused and flabby in colts 
raised upon flat lands. A colt in climb¬ 
ing or descending a declivity, or travers¬ 
ing the slope of a hill lengthwise, when 
its up-hill legs must be comparatively 
shortened, its down-hill ones lengthened, 
brings in play, develops and strengthens 
all the different sets of its motor nerves, 
also what are known as temporary car¬ 
tilages, enabling a colt at this time of 
life to gain a development of parts not 
obtainable upon flat lands. Fully as 
important, the articular cartilages that 
enter into the formation of the joints in 
adult life are better developed, so better 
able to withstand shocks that would be 
injurious to a horse brought up on level 
lands and not thus developed. 
But, perhaps, higher and more im¬ 
portant than muscular cartilage, is the 
development of the brain of the colt, 
giving to the horse his spirit, love of 
approbation and emulation. There is 
no denying the fact that, after all, brain 
power is the highest force pertaining to 
organic beings. The race horse is emi¬ 
nently characterized by this force. The 
good work horse needs it, also. Their 
intelligence and keen appreciation of 
the strife, their supreme endurance and 
endeavor to come out ahead, can come 
only from such development. Mountain 
countries, the world over, have been 
noted for this stimulated brain power. 
Breeders of horses should, therefore, 
study this important question. Farmers 
who have hill pastures are fortunate ; 
they can profit by these important sug¬ 
gestions, and realize a money value, in 
studying the topic and putting their 
ideas into practical use. High develop¬ 
ment of strength and speed must com¬ 
mence and be founded in the formative 
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