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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
April 13 
Farmers’ Club. 
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Danger from Green Pea-Louse. 
F., Melford, Conn.—Last season we had 
some trouble with Pea louse, but were able 
to control the insect with whale oil and 
a bush. We had a piece of an acre of 
oats and peas—fodder—in which the peas 
were annihilated as we could not get at 
them. Where those oats and peas were 
last year is an ideal place for my early 
market peas this year, and the ground is 
in good heart. Will the present., of louse 
last year on that field make a serious risk 
this year? Will not the early pea, Nott’s 
Excelsior or Gradus, for instance, get prac¬ 
tically ahead of the louse? It did last 
year. What should you do? My peas, 
early and late, were alongside of this acre 
of oats and peas last season, and we had 
peas on market after all others were gone. 
Ans. —The presence of the Pea louse 
last year on a given piece of land would 
not in my opinion render peas planted 
there this year any more likely to suf¬ 
fer injury than if planted elsewhere. If 
F. successfully raised Nott’s Excelsior 
alongside of oats and peas which were 
injured by the louse last year, there 
would seem to be no reason why he can¬ 
not be as successful this season. I cer¬ 
tainly would plant the peas as I saw fit, 
and then be prepared to fight the louse 
with brushing and whale-oil soap. The 
past Winter here has been very favor¬ 
able to the louse, and unless we have a 
wet Spring I tnink it will be as injur¬ 
ious as last year, though, of course, this 
is largely guesswork. Though Prof. 
Johnson condemned spraying for the 
louse, Blakely & Son, of Bordentown, N. 
J., used large quantities of whale-oil 
soap against it last year with good suc¬ 
cess, and have placed a large order for 
soap this year. I shall experiment with 
it extensively if louse appears, and am 
not yet convinced that spraying is not 
practicable against it early in the sea¬ 
son. E- DWIGHT SANDERSON. 
Delaware Exp. Station. 
“Steely Bugs" and Rose Bugs. 
TT. J. il., Stamford, Ont.—l have been 
greatly troubled with the Steely bug on 
my grapes for the last two years; also the 
Rose bug. How should I deal with them 
this Spring? I have been told to put salt 
around the vines. Is salt any good as a 
fertilizer for grapes? 
Ans. —The grapevine “Steely bug’’ is 
the small dark-blue beetle which often 
literaliy nips in the bud a grape crop. 
The beetles hibernate in rubbish and 
other sheltered nooks, and appear on 
the opening buds of the grape in Spring. 
One beetle will soon eat the heart out of 
several buds, and often not a leaf will 
start on a vine until a second growth 
appears late in the season. The Steely 
beetles often ruin most of the buds be¬ 
fore the vineyardist realizes what the 
trouble is. Fortunately this serious pest 
can be controlled by prompt and intelli¬ 
gent treatment. On small areas one can 
go over the vines every day and jar the 
conspicuous blue beetles into a pan of 
kerosene. Again, one can save most of 
the buds from their hungry jaws by 
coating the buds with poison and thus 
killing the beetles. Paint or spray the 
buds with Paris-green at the rate of one 
pound in 75 gallons of water; disparene 
or arsenate of lead would make an ex¬ 
cellent poison for this purpose, using it 
at double the strength recommended for 
ordinary spraying. Get on the first dose 
of poison as soon as the buds begin to 
swell, and surely before the beetles get 
the start of you. Two or three applica¬ 
tions of the poison at short intervals 
may be necessary in some cases. One 
can save a majority of the buds by 
thorough work with the poison, then a 
little later a very effective blow can be 
hit at the progenitors of the crop of 
beetles which would eat the buds the 
next year. But few grape-growers con¬ 
cern themselves about the insect after 
the beetles disappear in the Spring, but 
these beetles lay their eggs in the 
cracks of the bark near the buds, and 
the brown grubs which hatch therefrom 
eat small holes in the leaves about three 
weeks after the work of the beetles on 
the buds. These grubs transform during 
the Summer into the beetles that go in¬ 
to hibernation, and finally nip in the bud 
next year’s crop of fruit. Hence, every 
one of these brown grubs we can kill 
means one less beetle to eat the buds 
the next Spring. The grubs readily suc¬ 
cumb to a poison spray of ordinary 
strength applied on the leaves where 
they are feeding. If grape-growers 
would be on the lookout for these grubs 
and take the little trouble that is re¬ 
quired to kill them, they would strike 
the most effective blow possible against 
this serious pest. Keep the opening 
buds painted with poison and poison as 
many of the little brown grubs on the 
leaves as possible. The Rose bug or 
chafer, is a much harder problem to 
solve. In Ohio the beetles are said to 
succumb when hit with a spray of 
whale-oil soap, half a pound of soap in 
a gallon of water. But this injures the 
foliage and blossoms of the grape. 
Usually, however, the beetles begin their 
ravages in a certain portion of the vine¬ 
yard, perhaps a few vines on one side, 
and one could well afford to use the 
soap on these vines and thus check the 
advance guard of the enemy, even if 
some injury was also done to the vines 
by the spray. Some have reported good 
results from using the poisons, where 
the chafers are not too thick; the ar¬ 
senate of lead mentioned above would 
be the best and safest poison to use. It 
seems to us as though much could be 
done against this Rose bug by finding 
its breeding grounds and putting these 
areas into thorough cultivation with 
some suitable crop. The grubs which 
develop into the beetles feed upon the 
roots of grasses and similar vegetation, 
and usually breed in sandy soils. As 
the insect is a local pest, that is, occurs 
in injurious numbers only in limited 
areas in New York and Canada, its 
breeding grounds are doubtless some 
sandy field nearby the crops it ravages. 
It would seem not a difficult matter to 
trace the swarm of beetles back to these 
breeding grounds and break up the lat¬ 
ter by a quick rotation of crops over 
the area. This plan seems to us a feas¬ 
ible one for northern regions, but it 
may be more successful and easier in 
theory than in practice. Salt placed 
around the vines would have no effect 
on either the Steely beetle or the Rose 
bug, as they are not there to be salted. 
Salt is not a fertilizer in the same sense 
as nitrate of soda or similar substances; 
salt acts in a more mechanical way, 
probably sometimes helping to unlock 
the stores of foods in the soil. It might 
be helpful to the vines, but probably not. 
M. V. SLINGERLAND. 
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AH CA I nA UUff extra expense if you 
Plant Eureka Corn 
It produces more tons 
and better quality of 
ensilage per acre 
than any other 
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KOSS BBOTHEKS, Worcester, Mass. 
If you Intend to plant 
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Mass., for a packet of Ordway’s Golden Sweet 
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THE BEST. 
Those of our readers who are desirou.s 
of buying the BEST Fruit Trees that can 
be grown at reasonable prices, should 
send to Call’s Nurseries, Perry, Ohio, for 
Price List. A large number of our lead¬ 
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they ever received came from these 
Nurseries. Call is now introducing the 
new Seedling Peach, ARCTIC. It is the 
hardiest peach known, producing a full 
crop where all other varieties fail. It is 
a large Yellow Freestone of the Best 
Quality, ripening about the first of 
October. 
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Scions of these extra fine 
Winter apples and others, 
from bearing trees. 
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POTATOES—Bovee, Carman, Cobbler, Harvest, 
Six Weeks. Ohid, Rose. ABtontsber,'85 kinds. 
C. W. FORD, Fishers, N. T. 
Qeed Potatoes.—Bovee, White E. Ohio, Peachblow. 
Minister’s Commercial and others. Sample tuber 
6c., lb. 20c. List free. J. W. HARTMAN, Sligo, Pa. 
Ceo. S. Josselyn 
Fbedonia, N. Y. ■' 
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CampbeIPe Early.The best Grape. 
Josselyn ..The best Gooseberry. 
Fay . The best Currant. 
Large list of GrapeVines and Small 
Fruit Plants. Catalogne free. 
THE GIBSON. 
A large, handsome, delicious straw¬ 
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sought by city trade. Commands top 
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Ing 60 other varieties. Everything for 
the orchard and garden. 
HARRISON’S NURSERIES. Boi 29Btrlln,Md 
choice standard varieties. Car- 
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S. J. SMITH POTATO FARM, Box B, Manchester,N.Y 
especially for SEED, 14 varle- 
A''-in-I ties, early and late. Prices right. List 
free. GEO. H. COLVIN, Box 57, Dalton, Pa. 
For Sale—A bout 400 bushels extra 
choice Early Rose, Bovee, Maule’s Thoroughbred, 
and Carman No. 3. Price, $3 for 4-bu8hel barrel. 
E. F. GARLAND, Berrien Springs, Mich. 
SIR WALTER RALEIGH—100 bushels 
choice marketable potatoes at $1 per bushel. Also 
25 bushels good seed potatoes, same kind, at 80c. per 
bushel. H. F. SIMMONS, Sauquoit, N. Y. 
When you write advertisers mention The 
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“a square deal.’’ See our guarantee 
California Privet» 
four branches. $2..50 per lOU; 120 per 1,000; ijOOat same 
rate. T. C. KEVITT, Athenla, N. J. 
Heath’s New Seedling Potatoes 
yielders; fine quality. Price list and State Reports free 
Prices low. T. C. HEATH, 'Tidal, Armstrong Co., Pa. 
Mr. I H. Lamphrey, of North Hamp¬ 
ton, N. H., writes: “I was much pleased 
with Bowker’s ‘Boxal.’ It killed the hugs 
on potatoes and all other insects against 
which I used it. I am sure that it was 
also a benefit to the crop otherwise.”— 
Adv. 
GROFF’S GLADIOLUS HYBRIDS 
I have arranged with Mr. Groff for the sale of his 
products In the United States and Invite orders from 
the most critical. My bulbs are not from seed dis¬ 
seminated by him, hut from stock grown on his trial 
grounds. Catalogue and particulars on application. 
ARTHUR COWEE, 
Meadow vale Farm. Berlin, N. Y. 
Pam 300bushels Extra Choice Early 
I or 0910 Bovee Potatoes, free from disease 
and scab. For prices etc., address 
J. D. MILTON, Seneca, Ont. Co., N. Y. 
THE ADMIRAL DEWEY POTATO ^n.^^vretd; 
Big crops. Ask for testimonials. 40c. per lb.! 3 lbs., 
$1, postpaid; ex. orfrt., peck, 75c.; 1 bn., $2; bbl.,f5. 
Ad. introducer, C. M. Robinson, Manorville.L. I.,N. Y 
Write for Catalogue “Pride of the New Century.” 
