1897 
'THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
839 
R UR ALISMS— Continued. 
specimens, and in each case, three of 
the leaflets were smaller than the other 
three. He is of the opinion that the 
freak was caused by the union of two 
petioles, in confirmation of which he 
cites the frequent doubling of daisy 
(Rudbeckia hirta) flowers, two stems of 
which were, evidently, united. This 
doubling often occurs in the White 
daisy—Chrysanthemum Leucanthemum. 
Mr. W. J. Logan, of Somerville, N. J., 
kindly sends us three clover stems, each 
one of which bears five leaflets. His 
daughter has one stem bearing eight 
leaflets—this was found some years ago... 
Mb. Graves also favors us with the 
comparative results of destroying and 
not destroying the laterals of his Lima 
beans. The past season, he cut off all 
the laterals of plants from 15 hills. He 
found that the remaining vines clung to 
the poles better and needed less tying. 
The yield of beans was doubled. He 
cut off the tips of every lateral as high 
as he could reach. The poles were 
from 12 to 15 feet in height. 
Mb. R. P. Me Anally, of Saxon, N. C., 
favors us with his opinion of the Carman 
grape. Of 25 varieties of grapes he has, 
Brilliant (Munson) stands first and Car¬ 
man second as regards freedom from 
disease, thrift and quantity of fruit 
produced... 
Mice , Rabbits and Trees. 
Prop. J. T. Stinson, Arkansas —We 
have not used a wash here at the ex¬ 
periment station that has proved entirely 
satisfactory, and we prefer other meth¬ 
ods of protection. The use of veneered 
wrappers has proved entirely satisfac¬ 
tory. They are easy to put on the trees, 
and can be used for more than one 
winter, if carefully stored, or they may 
be left on the trees during summer, as 
is the practice of some fruit growers. 
This practice may be advantageous, but 
it is hardly probable that it is advisable. 
It is a good plan to remove the wrappers 
during damp weather, when but few 
will be • broken. Corn stalks are used 
extensively in some orchards, and they 
have proved very satisfactory. The 
stalks are split and tied around the 
trunks of the trees with fine wire or 
binding twine. The soft side is placed 
next to the tree ; they are cut about 18 
inches long. It has been the practice in 
the experiment station orchard to plant 
cow peas each year, and turn them 
under in early spring. Turnips are also 
planted in different parts of the orchard, 
and are allowed to remain. These crops 
help to keep the rabbits and mice from 
the trees. 
The Government Tobacco Bulletins. 
C. D. Lyon, Ohio. —The same mail that 
brought The R. N.-Y. of December 4 to 
me, contained a circular giving the de¬ 
tails of a prize contest conducted by the 
United States Department of Agricul¬ 
ture. The R. N.-Y., page 792, top of the 
second column, notices this contest in 
one light, and I purpose to consider it 
from another standpoint. The culture 
of tobacco extends from Minnesota to 
Florida. Four types of tobacco are 
grown, each demanding different treat¬ 
ment from the day the seed is sown until 
the cured leaf is marketed. The grower 
of cigar leaf in Wisconsin knows not a 
single point concerning the culture of 
export leaf in Tennessee, and the Brown 
County, O., burley grower would make 
a bad job of it if he attempted a crop of 
Yellow leaf in North Carolina. It takes 
a lifetime of work in the field to master 
the details of growing any single type 
of tobacco, and I state nothing but plain 
fact, when I say that there is not a man 
in the United States who is competent 
to write a bulletin upon all types of to¬ 
bacco, that would be worth the paper it 
is printed on. Now I regret to say that 
there are men who will write anything 
for the cash it brings in, and the prob¬ 
abilities are that some Virginia Yellow 
tobacco grower will tell the planter of 
Tennessee who grows black export to¬ 
bacco, how to sow the seed and cultivate 
the crop ; or the northern Ohio man who 
raises Havana seed and sets 11,000 plants 
per acre, will know how to set his next 
crop, by the instructions of a North 
Carolina man who plants 4x4 feet. The 
Department Bulletin No. 60, page 9, con¬ 
tains 14 glaring errors in 32 lines, and 
the proposed bulletin will, doubtless, 
contain more. 
McIntosh and Shiawasse Apples. 
H. E. Van Deman, Virginia. —This 
fall, I had several chances to test the 
McIntosh at its best, and am better 
pleased with it than before. While it is 
of the general character of Fameuse, 
that is, not rich, but mild and pleasant 
in flavor, and very tender-fleshed, it is 
an apple that will please the average 
person. It is good to eat from the hand, 
and with plenty of sugar, cooks into the 
nicest of sauce. Its color is quite bril¬ 
liant red, and the size is fair, which 
make it salable. I am glad to amend my 
opinion of the McIntosh. Shiawasse is 
another seedling of Fameuse, which is 
better than that old variety. It is a 
little larger, fully as highly colored, 
usually more so, and the flivor is better. 
For both dessert and cooking, there are 
few late fall varieties that excel it, ex¬ 
cept in the matter of richness. The tree 
bears well, and wherever the Fameuse is 
liked, the Shiawasse ought to be planted 
instead, or, at least, given a trial. Like 
its parent and the McIntosh, also, it is 
quite subject to scab, and needs spray¬ 
ing with the copper remedies to destroy 
the germs of this disease. 
Success with “ Stringfellowed ” Trees. 
A. K. B., Tioga, Tex.—A correspond¬ 
ent of your paper several weeks ago 
made a statement to the effect that the 
Stringfellow method of planting trees 
[Roots cut down to stubs.— Eds ] was a 
failure, except where the water was near 
the surface. The past two years, I have 
planted over 900 trees, apple, pear, 
peach, plum, mulberry and sycamore, 
and none has died from the drought. 
The growth has been fine, and a won¬ 
der to people who saw the roots and 
tops cut off. The trees were all planted 
in a post-auger hole. Not having Mr. 
Stringfellow’s book at the time, they 
were not all treated exactly as he recom¬ 
mends, but the majority were. So far, 
I find his method to result j ust as he 
said it would. The vital point is in 
making the young tree root like a 
seedling, which always follows this 
method of planting. Many predicted 
that my trees would leaf out and then 
die when dry weather came ; but the 
test was severe enough for the most ex¬ 
acting, and through it all, the trees, 
with scarcely an exception, showed a 
most vigorous growth. As for “ String¬ 
fellowed” trees doing well only on sub¬ 
irrigated or low land, that is a mistake, 
for I live in the interior of Texas on 
high, dry land. Follow directions and no 
tree will die, barring an accident. Be 
careful to ram the soil tight to the trees. 
It Costs you Nothing 
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Dr. Kilmer’s Swamp-Root is the dis¬ 
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scientist and as such is not recommended 
for everything. It is distinctly a kidney 
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even the most distressing cases of these 
disorders that if you wish to Prove its 
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mail. Mention The Rural New Yorker. 
and send your address to Dr Kilmer & 
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offer appearing in this paper is a guaran¬ 
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are sold by druggists price fifty cents 
and one dollar.— Adv. 
Thousands have been 
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There is certainly no occasion for any reader of The R. N.-Y. to pay from $40 
to $60 for a sewing machine. Such machines are no better than the one we can 
send you for less than half the money. We buy them at wholesale ; there is no 
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used quite a number of the best machines, but says 
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We will send this machine, freight 
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Mountains, for $19 ; or with one year’s 
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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, New York. 
