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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
July 2 
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Ripe Rot of Apples. 
J. C., T/t/nchhurg, Vo .—What can I do with 
my apple orchard? T^ast year the apples 
specked very badly on the trees, just as 
they had completed their growth, so that 
when they were gathered in October to put 
aw’ay for Winter a great many of them 
were worthle.ss, and this year, though the 
trees were full to about September, when 
gathering time came, there was not one 
to gather. 
Ans.—T he disease which has been the 
cause of the trouble mentioned is in all 
probability what is known as ripe rot. 
It is a disease which lingers from year 
to year in the orchards, the germs being 
in the rotten fruit and elsewhere about 
the trees. The destruction of all de¬ 
cayed fruit would help to lessen the 
means of infection the next year, and 
so would spraying the branches and the 
entire tree with copper sulphate. This 
should be done early in the Spring, and 
then two or three times after the fruit 
is growing. The State Experiment Sta¬ 
tion at Blacksburg, Va., should be con¬ 
sulted for details, and it may be that 
an expert will visit the orchard and per¬ 
sonally inquire into the trouble, and 
doubtless give much good advice. 
H. E. V. D. 
Short Talk on Cherries. 
O. C. W., New York .—Name good varieties 
of large sweet white and black cherries 
.suitable for an orchard in northern Sara¬ 
toga County, N. Y. Why Is it that grow¬ 
ers do not raise larger quantities of white 
and black sweet cherries? Is there no de¬ 
mand for these fruits, or is it because the 
fruit Is more diflicuit to raise than sour 
cherries? 
Ans.—^G overnor Wood is one of the 
good cherries that is yellow with a red 
cheek. Napoleon is also a good light 
colored, sweet cherry. Tartarian is one 
of the best of the early, black sweet 
cherries and Windsor about the best of 
the late ones. One of the reasons why 
more light-colored cherries are not 
grown is that they show bruises very 
quickly and do not sell well. The red 
and black sweet cherries sell well but 
cannot be grown in all sections. 
n. E. V. D. 
Persian Walnut and Other Nuts. 
L. W., LutherviUe, Ark.—l. Where can I 
get seeds of the Persian w’alnut called 
Kaghazi in the Fall, from some one who 
grows them? 2. Where can I get a tree or 
two of the pistachio to plant? 
Ans.— 1. There are very few who grow 
the Kaghazi walnut, and they are nearly 
ali in California. It would be well to 
look over the advertisements in the 
rural papers from that State, and send 
to those who have that variety. 2. It 
would be useless to try to grow tho pis¬ 
tachio nut anywhere in Arkansas, for it 
is too tender. Moreover, this is a dioe¬ 
cious tree, that is, its male flowers are 
on one tree and the female ones on an¬ 
other, which makes it necessary to have 
one of each in order to get fruit. 
H. B. V. r>. 
Diseased Pear Tree ; Worms in Lilies. 
A. TV., livffiiln, N. y.—1. What is the mat¬ 
ter with a young pear tree when its leaves 
are covered with small growths the size 
of a pin-head? 2. What can I do for gar¬ 
den lilies when the centers of their stems 
are wormy, causing them to grow small 
and be very brittle? 
Ans.—1. The red growths are prob¬ 
ably caused by the irritation of some 
minute insect. It is not likely that much 
damage will be caused. The treatment 
most available would be thoroughly to 
spray the foliage with whale-oil soap 
solution, four to six ounces soap to one 
gallon of water, taking care to hit the 
under surfaces of the leaves forcibly. 2. 
We know of no cure for worms in lily 
stalks except to cut and burn all affected 
stems in order to limit the spread of the 
A Fertilizer for Strawberries. 
E. A. W., Deruyter, N. Y .—What fertilizer 
would you apply to ground In fitting for 
strawberry culture? I have tried barn¬ 
yard manure, but often find many foul 
seeds get a start In that way. 
Ans. —^The regular fruit mixtures 
made by the best fertilizer manufactur¬ 
ers will answer. If you desire to make 
a home mixture, the following wiil give 
good results: One part by weight of ni¬ 
trate of soda, one part muriate of pot¬ 
ash, one part fine ground bone and two 
parts dissolved or acid rock. This is an 
easy mixture to make and is very useful 
for all fruits. 
Name for a Farm. 
L. 8. IT., Jloorestown, N. J.—Will you give 
me what you consider an appropriate name 
for an 100-acre farm, mostly in fruit, es¬ 
pecially straw'berries, of which there have 
been 6,000 quarts picked in one day? 
Ans. —^We would hardly like to sug¬ 
gest a name for a farm without know¬ 
ing all about it. Such a name ought to 
suggest some striking feature about the 
place, or some sentiment or ambition 
connected with it. Some farms are 
named after individuals—the name 
may be a combination of different per¬ 
sonal names—or it may indicate some 
special feature of the place, as “Pine 
Tree,” “Cherry Lawn,” “Lakeside,” 
“Hill Top,” etc. We think that every 
farm should have a name, but the farm¬ 
er or his family should select the name 
themselves. The more true sentiment 
and poetry you can get into such a name 
the better. 
Capital in Farming. 
A. W., liuffalo, N. y.—What, in your opin¬ 
ion, is the smallest sum of money one 
could start farming with? Wouldn’t It be 
better for a beginner to take a small pro¬ 
ductive farm rather than one run down? 
Ans. —If you were to ask us to name 
“the length of a piece of string” we 
could answer about as well as we can 
this question. What sort of “farming” 
do you mean? Do you intend to grow 
strawberries and other small fruits, or 
do you mean to try poultry or other 
stock? You can easily see that what is 
called intensive farming requires more 
capital for stock, fertilizers and help 
than the culture of such crops as pota¬ 
toes, grain and hay. We would make 
no general estimate of needed capital 
without knowing what you intend to do. 
A man going into the grocery business 
will need more capital than a baker or 
a real estate man, for his stock will cost 
more, and he cannot turn it over so rap¬ 
idly. A small productive farm near a 
good market will enable a man who 
knows how to raise large crops. Some 
men, however, will make more on the 
rundown land. It will cost less, and if 
they succeed in restoring it at fair cost 
the chances are that the value will in¬ 
crease. A man new to farming ought 
to have spare capital enough to carry 
his entire family one whole year at 
least. 
Cherry on Marianna Plum Stock. 
D. 8. C., Milford, Del.—I noticed a short 
time ago, that you said you had heard that 
Early Richmond cherry will do well bud¬ 
ded on Marianna plum stocks. Is It your 
opinion that other general varieties of 
cherry will do well on Marianna stocks? 
Ans. —I have never tried budding 
cherry upon plum stocks of any kind. I 
have no experience to guide me in mak¬ 
ing an answer to this question, but have 
heard several persons say that different 
varieties of the cherry will succeed fair¬ 
ly well on the Marianna plum stocks. 
However, I should not like more than to 
make a trial of it. As all of the sour 
cherries do very well on Mahaieb 
stocks, I do not see any very good rea¬ 
son for trying the Marianna plum stock, 
but perhaps the latter will do well in 
soil that does not suit the former. 
H. E. V. D. 
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