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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
February 16 
Farmers’ Club. 
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Do CurcuHos Craw! or Fly ? 
F. F. H., Decker, Micft.—How does the 
Plum curculio get Into the tree? Does he 
fly or crawl? If he cannot fly I have a 
remedy which I intend to apply to the 
bark in a ring around the tree, which pre¬ 
vents all Insects from going up it. 
Ans. —Possibly a few Plum curculios 
crawl up into the tree, but they fly read¬ 
ily, and I think a large proportion fly 
into the tree; certainly most of them 
would if they met with an obstruction 
on the trunk when they were trying to 
crawl up. I doubt whether anything 
around the tree trunk would prevent one 
curculio in a hundred from “stinging” 
the fruit. m. v. sniNOERnAND. 
Starting Peach Pits. 
S. B. D., Jackson, Mich.—What is the best 
way to start peaches from pits, or, in 
other words, the process followed by 
nurserymen in starting peach pits? 
Ans. —Peach seedlings are usually 
grown from selected pits collected as 
soon as the fruit is used, and kept in a 
cellar or some place where they will not 
dry very hard until late Pall, when they 
may be planted in rows, four feet apart, 
and three or four inches apart in the 
row. They should be covered about 
two inches deep. Many nurserymen pre¬ 
fer to bed the pits, or sow them very 
thickly over a prepared space of level 
ground and cover with about three 
inches of soil. The next Spring the 
sprouts are taken up with a trowel, 
when three or four inches high, and 
transplanted to the nursery rows for 
growth until the budding season. The 
pits can also be stratified in boxes of 
moist sand and exposed to frost during 
Winter and planted in rows next Spring. 
Celery After Celery. 
(I. TV. D., FarmvUle, T^a.—I have a piece 
of flat land, soil of which Is gray. It has 
been in celery two successive years. Will 
it be suitable to plant celery there again 
the coming season? The land has been 
heavily manured both years with farmyard 
manure and commercial fertilizer. I would 
like any Information you can give me, both 
as to manuring and cultivating celery as a 
crop for market. My reason for asking 
about planting in the same place again is 
that this piece of land is more readily irri¬ 
gated than any other on this farm, and 
our Summers are generally very dry. 
Axs.—The custom of planting celery 
for many successive seasons in the same 
plot is quite general, and the soil is 
usually cropped with early peas, lettuce, 
or some quick-growing crop in the early 
part of the season in order to utilize it 
and keep the weeds down. It requires 
a highly-enriched soil to grow good cel¬ 
ery. and when a plot is brought to a 
suitable condition it is safe to use it un¬ 
til positive disease appears. The fertil¬ 
ity must be kept up by repeated applica¬ 
tions of manure. The Celery blight, a 
most destructive bacterial disease, is ap¬ 
parently quite as likely to be communi¬ 
cated by germs floating as dust in the air 
as by soil infection. 
Chestnut Culture in Pennsylvania 
J. B.. Huntingdon, Pa.—What is your 
opinion of central Pennsylvania soil and 
climate for European and Japan chestnuts? 
Will they grow and produce fine nuts on 
I)oor ground? Where do they thrive best, 
on high or low ground? Do they require 
cultivation? Do you know whether any 
large orchards pay? 
Ans.— I have had n'' experience grow¬ 
ing chestnuts in orchard for commercial 
purposes, although I have a number of 
trees growing in my grounds for homi 
use. It seems to be conceded by men 
WHO have experimented extensively, that 
European, Japan and native chestnuts 
can De easily grown if grafted on young 
.seedlings, and the trees planted where 
they are to grow when one year old. 
Each succeeding year in age adds to the 
risk in transplanting. At the recent 
meeting of the Pennsylvania State Hort- 
ticultural Association in Harrisburg, the 
grafting of the finer kinds on sprouts 
growing from the stump in a chestnut 
clearing, was pronounced a failure by 
those who had tried it. The labor re¬ 
quired to keep down the wild sprouts 
and the briars and underbrush, and the 
trouble of gathering the nuts on rough, 
rocky ground, usually costs more than 
the crop is worth. But the greatest 
drawback to success in commercial 
chestnut culture is the Chestnut weevil. 
No plan has yet been devised that will 
protect the crop from its ravages, and it 
is increasing in numbers every year. 
Until some preventive remedy for this 
pest shall have been discovered I do not 
believe chestnuts can be made to pay as 
an orchard crop. gabriel hiester. 
Catarrh and Chilblain "Cures.” 
TT^. O. E., Whithg, Ont.—On page 20 I notice 
that for catarrh dry bicarbonate of soda 
is recommended to be used as snuff. That 
will upon trial be found rather painful, I 
think. In my opinion boric acid finely 
powdered will do better, because much less 
painful, and equally or more effectual. As 
a medication for chilblains I have found 
an application of a saturated solution of 
bisulphite of soda as good as anything. 
Prevention in this case is easier and better 
than cure. As a boy I had each Winter 
painful experience of this trouble until my 
mother provided me with a pair of shoes 
made with uppers of thick cloth with a 
rough nappy surface, after which I never 
had any more chilblains. Sawing cord 
wood when two men or man and a boy are 
available may be done to advantage with 
a large cross-cut saw. It is quicker, easier 
and not hard on the back. 
Ans. —^We have used the bicarbonate 
of soda for several years, always with 
good results. True, it is painful at 
times, but very effective. Another sug¬ 
gested remedy for chilblains is sent 
by A. H. M., Massachusetts, as follows: 
“Put about three-quarters of an inch of 
hardwood ashes in the bottom of the 
foot tub, just cover with hot water, have 
it a little hotter than one can stand at 
first, get the bottoms of the feet in it as 
soon as it can be borne at all, then as 
soon as they feel comfortable, add a lit¬ 
tle more very hot water and replace the 
feet. Keep them in the water—as hot 
as one can bear it—for 20 or 30 minutes. 
Rinse, dry thoroughly dnd then one is 
ready to retire. Very bad cases may 
need a repetition every other night for 
a week.” 
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