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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
June 20 
Janners Club. 
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please see whether it is not answered In 
our advertising columns. Ask only a few 
questions at one time. Put questions on a 
separate piece of paper.] 
Lime on Manure. 
Header, Lopez, Wash .—Shall I put air- 
slaked lime on manure In stable? If not, 
would It do to mix In when manure Is 
hauled out to compost heap? I am using 
sawdust as absorbent, and wish to rot It 
before putting on land. 
An8 . —We would not put lime in the 
manure. You will lose more than you 
gain by doing so. Lime, especially in 
the stables with the liquid manure, will 
set free more or less ammonia. Plaster 
or sulphate of lime is much better as an 
absorbent, though It will not rot the 
sawdust. If the sawdust is well soaked 
in the liquids and packed with the horse 
manure it will be fit for use in a reason¬ 
able time. 
Snout Beetle on Fruit. 
J. U. W., Blaine, W. Va .—I send you sam¬ 
ple bug that I find on my young orchard. 
They are something new to me. They eat 
the young shoot where it joins the tree. I 
think one of these bugs would kill a young 
apple tree in a few days. They do not eat 
the leaves, only the sprout where It Joins 
the tree. They eat on the under side 
through the old bark, and the shoot will 
wither and die. I have some trees that 
have not a green twig on them, all eaten 
off In the last week. 
Arts.—^The depredators are a large 
snout-beetle, known as the Imbricated 
snout-beetle, which has been found feed¬ 
ing on a very large number of different 
plants. The eggs of this insect are laid 
in May and June, between two leaves on 
various plants, one female being capable 
of laying over 600 eggs. The grubs 
hatching from these eggs have been 
reared on strawberry leaves. There is 
but one generation or brood of the in¬ 
sect in a year, the adults or beetles hi¬ 
bernating. The beetles are most injur¬ 
ious in May. Like its near relative, the 
Plum curcullo, this Imbricated snout- 
beetle also drops to the ground when 
disturbed, so that the beetles could be 
easily jarred from the trees into curcu- 
lio-catchers or sheets spread on the 
ground, and then destroyed. This is a 
practicable and effective method for J. 
H. W. to use in his young apple orchard. 
M. V. SLINGERLAND. 
Cow Peas and Timothy. 
E. L. P., Hartford Co., Conn.—I have a 
piece of turf land which wan plowed late 
last Fall and sown to rye. The rye does 
not promise to amount to anything. I 
wish to get the land Into mowing. With 
this end In view, would It do to wheel- 
harrow It and sow cow peas and Timothy 
seed? If so, when should it be done, and 
could the cow-pea vines be left to decom- 
l)ose on the land without Injury to the 
grass? 
Ans.—W hile we have never tried it we 
should consider cow peas and Timothy 
a worse team to work together than an 
ox and a trotting horse. The time for 
sowing cow peas is not the natural time 
for seeding Timothy. You would not be 
likely to obtain a good stand of the 
grass. We should sow the cow peas 
alone, plow them under about September 
1 and then prepare the land thoroughlv 
and seed to Timothy and Red-top. 
VAN DEMAN’S FRUIT NOTES. 
ALI, SORTS OF QUESTIONS ANSWERED. 
Seedling Peach Trees; Mulching. 
It. E. D., Bpringland, N. T.—1. Last Fall I 
planted about 300 peach pits of a very su¬ 
perior grade. They came up to a pit, are 
in one single row about 20 feet long and 
are about six Inches high. What would 
you advise me to do with them, as I wish 
to plant them when large enough? I 
don’t wish to bud them. 2. I have trees 
that have been set out one and two years, 
pears, peaches, quinces and plums. I wish 
to mulch them, but people around here 
think that Is a waste of time as the trees 
are In good order. Will you advise me 
whether It would be best to mulch them? 
3. Which Is the largest chicken that grows? 
Ans. —1. These little seedlings seem 
to be properly planted in every way and 
in good condition for making thrifty 
trees for planting into orchard form 
next year, except that they are too close 
together. They should stand from six to 
eight inches apart in the row. My plan 
would be to watch for a nice time for 
transplanting, and carefully remove the 
larger part of them to other rows where 
they may have plenty of room to grow. 
Early next Spring they should be planted 
into the orchard. 2. Mulching trees in 
an orchard is all right if it is continued 
indefinitely. That is the way nature 
grows trees. But If the plan is changed 
from mulching to plowing and cultivat¬ 
ing there will be trouble, for the roots 
will come to the surface of the soil just 
under the mulch and be torn badly by 
the tools. In case the mulching plan is 
followed the entire surface of the or¬ 
chard should be deeply covered with 
straw or some other such material, and 
the richer it is in manurial elements the 
better will it be for the trees; provided 
it is not ordinary farm manure, which 
might be too rich. But the better plan 
in nearly all cases is to till the ground 
thoroughly. It is cheaper than mulch¬ 
ing except In very stony or hilly land, 
and is usually much more practicable, 
3. The Dark and Light Brahmas are 
the largest breeds of chickens. 
Round-Headed Apple-Tree Borer. 
A. C. C., Millstone, Ky.—l have a young 
orchard which Is Infested by some pests 
I wish to get rid of. Several weeks ago 
I noticed that a few trees were dying, and 
on examination I found that they had 
small holes bored through the bark just 
above the ground. The holes are about 
the size of a small gimlet hole, and range 
down. I split one of the holes from the 
root and found a large striped beetle. 
There are fresh trees attacked every day. 
What Is It, and what the remedy? 
Ans. —The writer does not say what 
kind of an orchard he has, but it is prob¬ 
ably an apple orchard, judging by the 
description of the Insect and Its work. 
It is almost certainly the Round-headed 
Apple-tree borer that is doing the mis¬ 
chief, This borer comes from eggs that 
are laid by a striped beetle with long 
antennae or "horns," and on the trunk 
near the surface of the ground. The 
tiny borers soon eat into the tender bark 
and as the season progresses they get 
into the sap wood. They live two years 
in the tree and the second Pall they bur¬ 
row upwards in the wood, sometimes 
tunneling six or more inches above the 
collar of the tree, and He there dormant 
in the chrysalis stage until Spring. Then 
they emerge as striped beetles and 
the females soon lay their eggs. The 
best and only remedy is the knife to 
cut and a limber wire to follow the bur¬ 
rows when they are deep, after they are 
once in the tree. The trees should be 
carefully gone over with these tools 
every Spring, and when they are clear 
of Insects wrap stiff paper tightly about 
the trunk from a little below the surface 
of the ground to nearly a foot above it. 
This prevents the beetles from laying 
their eggs at the place where nature In¬ 
dicates, and in case they are laid it is 
easy to find the borers. Mounding with 
earth is about as good. The trees should 
also be critically examined for young 
borers every Fall. 
Farmers and Waifs.—1 saw a piece In 
your paper last week about farmers who 
complain about the wrongs of society and 
are doing nothing to prevent orphan and 
neglected children from growing up as best 
they can, and becoming a dangerous class 
of citizens. 1 want to say that such may 
be the case in the State of New York, but 
It will bo found entirely different In thG 
western part of Massachusetts. There are 
60 city children to be found In two small 
towns In this part of our State. 'These 
children are In nearly every case treated 
ao a member of the family In which they 
live, they are all Influenced to attend 
church and Sabbath school; some of them 
have settled on our farms and In our vil¬ 
lages, and have become honest, reliable, 
Christian citizens, while others have been 
adopted by our farmers and are being 
brought up and educated to fill respon¬ 
sible positions. In the past 26 years my 
parents have had five such boys In the 
family, one remaining seven years, and 
said It was the only home he ever knew. 
Three of these boys I am sure will make 
honorable citizens. If the writer of that 
article would Investigate this matter dur¬ 
ing his Summer vacation he would find 
that the farmers were doing their “duty to 
country and humanity.” . r. 
Massachusetts. 
R. N.-Y.—We know of course that there 
are thousands of farmers who do their 
full duty toward such children. Our re¬ 
marks were directed at those who do not! 
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Abortion in cows, which is caused by a g:erm—propagated by unsani¬ 
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liony Co., Pa., July 7, ’KO. 
Kiuly and Sprayer and 
. PITTHFIBUJ, Makb., April 2H, ItHIO. 
\v o nave found the So-H ob So K iltly to be an excellent article 
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Munrai,!., Alleghen 
I received the So-Bom-So 
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and when wo put them In the hUihle to milk theHo hot 
evonlnvB, flioB UfrinenUthein very much, hut a few min- 
utoH with theaprayer and all la quiet, and we can then 
do ourlinilkiUK in peace. Jamkb O. Keabnky. 
Phii.auki.phia, Pa., May 2, 1900. 
Last .Tilly the dally quantity of milk iirodiiced hv iny Gliehter 
County dairy fell off very cotiKlderahly, which I attributed to the 
annoyance which the cattle received from the files. About half 
the time the herd waH HtandliiK in the atream awltohlnv Inatead of 
frrazlnir. I orderetl a aample of So-Boa-.So K11 fly and by liavintr 
It apjilled every aecond morninir, greatly relieved tlie herd 
and Increaaed the milk product from lOto 25 per cent, and I have 
continued to uao .So-Iioa So Kllfly during hot weather ever 
LowK7.i.’a .Station, Pa., Aiirll IH, 1900. 
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CHAS. H. CHILDS &. CO., Sole Manufacturers, 
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uaedon cattle fluririK the anmmer,'.jt will undoubtedly 
keep them free from lice and acurf diirlriK tlie winter. 
('. F. McCray & Son, Maiilewiaxl .Stock Farm, 
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the awilde In leaa time than It would require to milk a hIiikIo cow, 
and I conalder that 1 have aaved many tliiiea tlm coat of the 
So Boa-.So Kilfly uaed,in addition to aifordlm.'comfort to the 
a. .S. W. Uhuiiakkb. 
.... .... Lknox, Mabh., April 21al, 19(K). 
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fort to holh man and Ifeast at the milking time. 
IJacor Stkibki., .Supt. to the Hon. John E. Paraona. 
12 La Fayette Street, 
UTICA, N. Y. 
