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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
November 30 
FARMERS’ CLUB 
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Vinegar in a Wine Barrel. 
E. S. B., Connecticut .—I put a lot of cider 
temporarily In a barrel which had contained 
wine, and am now told that it will never make 
vinegar, even though I put it into another 
cask. Is this so? 
Ans. —If any large quantity of wine 
were mixed with the cider, it might 
hinder it from becoming vinegar, but 
merely to put the cider into an empty 
cask which had contained wine will not 
affect it in the least, and there should 
be no difficulty in getting as good vine¬ 
gar from it as the cider would make 
under any other conditions. 
Some Peaches for New Jersey. 
ir. D. n., Declcertown, N. J. — When will 
Crothers peach ripen in northern New Jer¬ 
sey? How is it for size and beauty? Also, 
when will Cooper’s Late ripen, and would you 
recommend It for this section. Can you 
tell me about Matthews and Emma? 
Ans. —The Crothers peach ripens 
about with Smock, which in northern 
New Jersey is not far from October 1. 
It is a white-fleshed peach, having red 
cheek, and of excellent flavor. Cooper’s 
Late I do not know. Matthews is a me- 
' dium early peach of general good qual¬ 
ities. I think it well worthy of trial 
to say the least. Emma Is much like 
Elberta, hut a week later. It has no 
points that would make it more de¬ 
sirable than Elberta, unless one a little 
later is desired. h. e. v. d. 
Is Spring Budding Practical ? 
G. H. K., Knowville, Tenn .—I have some 
peach seedlings that I did not have time to 
bud In August. Can I do so early next 
Spring or Summer? If so. how must I get 
buds and how set them and care for them 
afterwards? 
Ans. —Spring budding is done occa¬ 
sionally and it Is practicable, although 
my own work at it has not been very 
successful. The bud sticks or scions 
should be cut before severe Winter 
weather and stored where they will be 
both damp and so cool that they will 
not start in the least, until after the 
Spring Is so far advanced that the bark 
will peel on the stocks. The best place 
is in some good cold storage house, 
but they may he packed in moistened 
moss or some other material that will 
not dry out easily. The buds should 
then be set in the ordinary way, and 
very securely tied. A friend told me 
lately that he slightly waxed them over 
to prevent the sap from drying until 
the healing process was completed. I 
have never tried this plan but mean to 
do so. Tying with waxed cloth would 
seem to me equally good and a little 
m.ore economical of time. The tops of 
the stocks should be cut away as soon 
as the buds have set, and the sprout¬ 
ing and tillage should be the same as 
for any budded stocks. h. e. v. d. 
What to Do for Peach Trees. 
O. E. L.j Afton, Va .—I have about 100 
peach trees, two years old, which made poor 
growth the past season on account of not 
being cultivated early. The land is fairly 
good and somewhat gravelly. What treat¬ 
ment would you suggest for them next sea¬ 
son? What fertilizers should be applied and 
what amount? 
Ans. —These trees should be culti¬ 
vated without stint from now on. The 
lack of tillage is given as the chief 
cause of poor growth, and the most im¬ 
portant thing to do is to try to make 
amends for the neglect. It will doubt¬ 
less be wise to apply fertilizers, and 
the sooner potash and phosphoric acid 
are put into the soil about the trees 
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the better it will he; for the materials 
that are most generally used that con¬ 
tain them, such as muriate and sulphate 
of potash, will dissolve slowly and need 
some time to become available. Fall 
applications are very timely. But it 
is not so with nitrogenous manures. 
The nitrogen, if in an easily soluble 
form, as in nitrate of soda, will be lost 
to a considerable degree before the 
growing season comes. I would sug¬ 
gest making a mixture of 500 pounds 
of muriate of potash to 1,000 pounds of 
dissolved phosphate rock, and give each 
tree 10 pounds of it, scattering it well 
and cultivating, plowing or digging it 
into the soil. This I would do without 
any unnecessary delay. Then next May 
I would apply one or two pounds of 
nitrate of soda to each tree, working it 
into the earth in the same way. 
H. E. v. D. 
The ‘‘Ox-Eye Daisy” in Minnesota. 
Several Readers .—It Is reported that the 
Legislature of Minnesota has made the com¬ 
mon daisy a “legal outcast.” Is that a fact? 
Ans. —Yes; the Legislature passed the 
following bill, which was approved April 
14, 1901: 
Sec. 2. Any person who shall encourage, 
permit or allow the weed commonly known as 
the “Ox-eyed Daisy” to grow upon any 
land owned, controlled or in the possession 
of such person within this State, or who shall 
transport such weed from one place to another 
within this State except from one place to 
another on the same farm, lot or estate for 
the purpose of its destruction, or who shall 
allow the same to grow in any greenhouse 
or garden under the control of such per¬ 
son, or who shall exhibit for sale or have in 
his or her possession for sale, or shall sell 
any of such weed; and any person who shall 
have in his or her possession for exhibition, 
or shall exhibit at a public or private flower 
sale or flower show, or place where flowers are 
kept for sale or show any of such weed, shall 
be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction 
thereof, shall be punished by fine of not less 
than ten (10) dollars, nor more than one 
hundred (100) dollars, or by imprisonment In 
the county jail for not to exceed ninety (90) 
days. 
That bill is certainly what one may 
call “a daisy.” As one of our corre¬ 
spondents remarks: “It seems to me 
that imprisonment for 90 days is a pret¬ 
ty severe offence for allowing Ox-eyed 
daisies to survive on a farm. To en¬ 
force such a law would mean, I imagine, 
that a large portion of the population of 
New England would go to jail; the de¬ 
cision also to extend the punishment to 
those who grow the weed in hothouses 
and who sell the same is to my mind 
high-handed legislation. I fear that 
some of our legislators have not quite 
enough of work to keep them busy.” 
Rye as a Money Crop. 
O. H. E., Peace Dale, R. I .—I am consider¬ 
ing the improvement of a run-down farm. 
I have noticed several articles In The R. 
N.-y. which seem to indicate that when prop¬ 
erly handled rye Is a profitable crop to grow. 
Will you please give me information regarding 
the best time to cut for market, that is, before 
the grain is mature or after maturity; the 
size, shape and weight of bale, with the form 
of press best suited for baling? If allowed 
to mature the grain how should it be 
thrashed? Will the same press which is used 
for straw also prove to be the best for baling 
hay, or is a smaller, more compact bale re¬ 
quired. 
Ans. —On poor land near the large 
cities rye ought to prove a good crop. 
It is a good crop to start with in im¬ 
proving poor land, for it responds well 
to fertilizers, and is a flne crop in which 
to sow clover seed. Near a large market 
the straw may be sold in small bundles, 
for it brings more in this form than in 
bales. Our rye straw is bound as it comes 
from the thrasher, which delivers it 
without crushing or breaking. The 
heads are thrashed out, and at the back 
of the machine is a device much like 
that on a twine binder, which ties the 
straw into bundles of about flve pounds 
each. If it is possible for you to sell the 
straw in bundles, we would advise you 
to do so. We cut the grain at maturity 
—when the straw is a bright yellow 
and the heads are thoroughly ripe. This 
gives stiffer and harder straw, which is 
what stable keepers want. We under¬ 
stand that in sections where the straw 
is baled the same press is used for both 
hay and straw. Small lots of straw are 
thrashed out by hand with flails, but 
the machine we have mentioned will do 
the work well without breaking the 
straw. 
Is Rubber-Growing Profitable ? 
TT. E. B., North Baltimore, Ohio .—There 
are a number of companies advertising rub¬ 
ber, coffee, and other plantations In Mexico, 
Central America and the West Indies, and, 
while I understand that you cannot say 
anything as to their responsibility, etc., your 
reading and observation will doubtless al¬ 
low you to answer the following through The 
R. N.-Y.: Is a rubber plantation practicable? 
At what age are the trees first tapped and 
what is an average product per tree? Are 
there well authenticated examples of suc¬ 
cessful plantations? What are the objections 
against risking Investment in such enter¬ 
prises? 
An.s. —After a careful investigation 
of the subject of rubber culture, through 
some of the foreigners at the Pan-Am¬ 
erican Exposition and a specialist of 
our own people who has been in the 
tropics of America on purpose to study 
this subject, it may be said that the cul¬ 
ture of the trees which produce rubber 
is perhaps practicable in some pecu¬ 
liarly favorable locations in the tropics 
of Mexico, Central and South America 
and in the West Indies. There are a 
number of plantations of Ficus elastica 
and some other species, made with a 
view to commercial profit, but up to 
this date none of them Is old enough to 
m.ake a fair test, so far as I have 
learned. As there have been very few 
attempts at tapping these planted trees, 
it is impossible properly to estimate 
the amount that each may produce or 
the proper age at which tapping ought 
to begin. It may be a wise thing to 
invest money in a rubber plantation in 
a suitable place, as in the moister parts 
of Cuba or Porto Rico, but that is a 
question that is not well settled. The 
increasing demand for rubber, because 
of the many new uses to which It is 
constantly being put and the rapid ex¬ 
tension of marine electric cables would 
lead one carefully to Investigate the 
whole subject and invest if deemed ad¬ 
visable. Our own Government Is now 
investigating, and It should not be long 
before something definite ought to be 
known. h, e. v. n. 
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THROW OLD STYLES AWAY. 
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