1901 
5i7 
BORDEAUX MIXTURE AND POTATOES. 
Do you find that It pays to use Bordeaux 
Mixture on potatoes? How often do you 
use it, and would you advise the average 
farmer to spray? 
We believe in spraying potatoes with 
Bordeaux, and have practiced it consid¬ 
erably in former years. This year we 
regret to confess we have neglected it. 
Work has never pressed us harder, as 
planting, hoeing and haying have all 
come in a heap. Help that is good has 
not been overabundant and we have 
been compelled to take some chances. 
We always plant only the early varie¬ 
ties, tvhich are usually matured before 
blight strikes our section, which is gen¬ 
erally not earlier than August 1. If we 
can have two more weeks of good grow¬ 
ing weather our potatoes will probably 
come out all right, h. g. manciiesteu. 
Connecticut. 
In answer to your spraying query, I 
have not sprayed my potatoes for sev¬ 
eral years. Previous to that I sprayed 
for three years in succession with Bor¬ 
deaux Mixture, and came to the conclu¬ 
sion that it did not pay me. To do any 
good all are agreed that one must begin 
early and keep it up well through the 
season, spraying from three to live times. 
This is not only costly but interferes 
with the other farm work. Two of the 
three seasons that I sprayed the pota¬ 
toes which were not sprayed lived as 
long and yielded as well as those which 
were sprayed four times. I perhaps may 
be pardoned for discontinuing spraying 
after this experience even though some 
experiment stations recommend it. 
Ohio. C, G. WILLIAMS. 
We find it advisable not to spray po¬ 
tatoes with the Bordeaux Mixture for 
blight, till the vines are about two- 
thirds grown (others differ as to size); 
consequently, we have not sprayed any 
yet this season. However, now, July 12, 
we are about to spray our experimental 
plot of 308 named varieties and as many 
seedlings. With this plot, we are to 
make a thorough test along the line of 
blight and its treatment with the Bor¬ 
deaux Mixture, a report of which we 
would be glad to furnish you later In 
the season. In this section this dread 
disease is not so disastrous as in oth¬ 
ers. Fortunately for us, we have been 
nearly exempt from this misfortune 
since 1896. We shall not treat our main 
crop, this season, and from our ex¬ 
perience, we should not advise the aver¬ 
age farmer to go to the expense of 
spraying his potato vines as a preven¬ 
tive of the blight and rot. Were It a 
cure, and to be applied after the disease 
appeared, our advice would be other¬ 
wise. At this date, potatoes are look¬ 
ing very promising, though cultivation 
is backward, due to abundant rain. 
Prattsburg, N. Y. hileb bros. 
We have three acres of potatoes plant¬ 
ed first week in June; have sprayed 
them but once with Bordeaux, one 
pound copper and one pound new-pro¬ 
cess lime to 10 gallons water. I like the 
new-process lime much better than the 
old way of slaking it. As to your ques¬ 
tion whether I find it necessary to 
spray, I am entirely unable to answer 
it. Have sprayed for several years, and 
my neighbors do not. I have better po¬ 
tatoes than some, and some have better 
than I. I have neglected to leave rows 
through the field without spraying to 
test, but my private opinion is that as 
the Paris-green can be put in the Bor¬ 
deaux and both applied at once, it pays 
to use the copper. I also spray straw¬ 
berry and tomato plants, and think I 
can see good results in bright healthy 
foliage, and certainly it drives away 
many of the smaller insects that prey 
upon the different kinds of plants. I 
shall continue to use the copper unless 
it finally gets in a “trust” and the price 
goes too high. Potatoes came up poorly 
on account of our inability to work the 
ground before planting so as to make a 
proper seed bed, but where they did get 
a stand they are making a good growth. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
The bugs are simply fearful, with no 
sSfmptoms of dyspepsia, and think they 
are more able to digest Paris-green than 
ever before. Many pieces will be badly 
damaged. I think the present crop will 
cost to raise and harvest it every cent 
we can hope to get for it. 
La Plume, Pa. geo. sisson. 
There Is considerable confiicting testi¬ 
mony in regard to the efficacy of spray¬ 
ing with Bordeaux Mixture for blight, 
and I have never yet found an average 
potato grower who knew he had made 
the practice to pay. The recommenda¬ 
tions come mainly from experiment sta¬ 
tions and close observers who are able 
to detect a small difference in yield. 
These yields are from small plots and 
may be misleading, as a difference of 10 
to 50 bushels per actual acre may be due 
to many causes, and actually occurs 
every year on every farm. I have no 
doubt that the effect of Paris-green, hot 
weather and fiea beetle on the foliage is 
often called blight, and that the spray¬ 
ing would then be of no avail. The 
blight, if it comes at all, does not show 
with us until some time in August, and 
spraying before August 1 would do no 
good. I do not think any effect is seen 
from the different blights, except the 
late blight, which kills all foliage in two 
or three days, until the potato foliage 
begins to mature; or, in other words, 
the blight has a season of growth, and 
requires certain conditions of foliage 
(its seed bed) before it will germinate. 
As long as the present hot, dry weather 
continues, there will be no genuine 
blight. Potatoes are so late this year 
that they should, with favorable weath¬ 
er, be exempt from it. If one knew just 
When a wet, muggy spell was coming 
on, and could cover thoroughly every 
spot with the copper, and it did not 
wash off, there would be a benefit; but 
the job is usually only half done, and 
there are so many ifs that the average 
potato grower will not be the gainer. I 
use as strong a solution of the copper 
water as I can make without lime in my 
hand sprayers when putting on Paris- 
green, and shall not use anything else 
this season for blight. The blight germ 
is not killed except it comes in contact 
with the copper, before it germinates on 
the outside of the leaf, and, if a small 
part of the plant is left uncoated with 
copper, the remedy fails. Prom the 
difficulty of hitting all parts of the fo¬ 
liage and the careless methods employed 
In putting on the copper, leaving out 
the washing off and cost, I do not think 
it any use for the majority of potato 
growers to spray. Potatoes in this sec¬ 
tion are looking well. The foliage is 
dark green and healthy and there is no 
apparent disease at this date. 
c. e. chapman. 
FARMERS AND THE GRAIN MOTH. 
New Jersey A live With It. 
What are New Jersey farmers planning 
to do In order to save the wheat from the 
Angoumois grain moth? 
Many of the farmers read the article 
published in The R. N.-Y. last Winter 
and are expecting to act in accordance 
with advice given, viz., early thrashing 
and storing in bins, using sulphide of 
carbon if necessary. The recent wet 
weather has damaged the wheat badly, 
preventing harvesting and developing 
rust. In fact, Jersey farmers are having 
a bad time with the elements this year 
so far. D. E. B. 
Keyport, N. J. 
So far as I have been able to learn it 
will be very bad. I have lots of it in my 
wheat, and have arranged to thrash it 
out as soon as possible. Many farmers 
expected to thrash it in the field, but the 
weather is so wet that they cannot. My 
experience has been that it is wise to 
thrash it as soon as possible. That 
seems to check it in a great measure. I 
have not used the entomologists’ remedy 
but think I will try it. Apple crop in 
this county is not more than 25 per cent 
average, pears 60 per cent, I have a very 
fair crop of Kieffer pears, but that is 
unusual. d. d. d. 
Monmouth Co., N. J. 
We were troubled seriously with the 
Grain moth last year. As far as under¬ 
stood, our farmers will thrash during 
August and sell at once, or put in bags 
and hold as may be advisable, as we 
learned last year by experience, wheat 
thrashed about September 1 was not in¬ 
jured by being kept in the bags, no mat¬ 
ter how long it remained in them. All 
wheat either in stack or buildings 
thrashed after October was seriously 
injured. d. c. l. 
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Thrashing Grain in the South. 
There must be a change in the system 
of thrashing grain in this section. Labor 
Is so very scarce that we can’t get enough 
hands together to wait on the machines 
that thrash as much as 400 or 500 bushels 
a day. What we want is a machine that 
will do good work with not over four 
horses, and eight men and boys to do 
everything, and thrash 150 bushels per 
day. Where can we get such? My idea 
Is that a gasoline engine would be the 
thing to furnish the power if we could 
get one not too heavy to haul over our 
bad roads. The old tread powers that 
were introduced here 15 or 20 years ago 
were no good. r. m’a. 
Saxon, N. C. 
R. N.-Y.—This talk about a scarcity of 
farm labor comes from all over the coun¬ 
try—South as well as North. A prominent 
southern paper is even advocating the re¬ 
peal of the Chine.se Exclusion act, uo that 
the Chinese may be brought In large num¬ 
bers into the Southern States! The St. 
Albans Foundry Co., St. Albans. Vt., 
makes all sizes of thrashing machines, 
from a small foot power machine to the 
largest. Doubtless other separator manu¬ 
facturers can supply what Is needed. 
Tread powers have been greatly Improved 
In recent years. The exhibits at the fairs 
Indicate that this power Is becoming popu¬ 
lar once more. The gasoline engines are 
being used extensively. They are lighter 
and smaller than steam engines. 
When you write advertisers mention The 
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—— 
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m 
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Potted Strawberry Plants. 
List free. 'r. C. KEVITT, Athenia, N. .1 
Plants 
Uot-grown Strawberry, Celery 
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Beautiful Strawberries in 1902 
Wo can furnish you with 
pot-grown Strawberry Plants 
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Orange County Nurseries, Box 1, Cornwall, N. Y. 
nCI CRY Cabbage Plants only $l per 1,000. 
ULLLII I 100 Strawberry Plants In pots for $1 
Crimson Clover Seed of our own growing. Catalogue 
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Celery Plants Sale 
1 ship them all over the United 
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In 35 years we have lost more money through bad 
debts than we are worth to-day. We are tired of this 
manner of doing business. Now If you want Scales 
for cash, we will give you prices that will astonish 
you. Jones of Binghamton, N. Y., Jones he pays the 
freight. 
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Choice Japanese Buckwheat. Seed Wheat and Win¬ 
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1901 CROP CRIMSOH CLOVER SEED. 
Ready now. Pedigree seed of my own growing 
Clean and pure. Send stamp for sample and price 
when ready to buy. 
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Tread, Pat. Governor, Feed and Ensilage l»U I I LtiO 
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