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Weevil in Beans; Stringfellow Planting. 
W. J. S., Albion, N. Y.—l. Our bean crop 
y.as quite badly damaged by weevil here 
last Spring, many pieces being plowed up. 
Is there any way to tell whether this 
year’s crop now stored for seed is in¬ 
fested? 1 have many times seen the holes 
in peas, but not in beans. 2. Your article 
on old orchards comes at a seasonable 
time for me, as I have just commenced 
cutting the dead wood out of about 30 
trees. I shall also set half a dozen peach 
trees by the Stringfellow method. Do I 
cut off everything but the tap root? 
Ans.— 1. We would send a fair sample 
of the beans to Prof. M. V. Slingerland, 
Ithaca, N. Y., for examination. As a pre¬ 
caution we would use bisulphide of car¬ 
bon in the way so often described on all 
the seed beans. 2. In setting trees on 
the Stringfellow plan this Fall we left 
short stubs—not pruning as closely as 
we did last Spring. 
Good Apples for Maine. 
C. U. €., Wells Branch, Me.—I think of set¬ 
ting out about 100 apple trees. I shall set 
one-half Baldwins and want some other 
good red Winter apples. What would you 
recommend? What do you think of Ben 
Davis, Wagener and Arctic? 
Ans. —It is difficult to find a more sat¬ 
isfactory commercial apple than Bald¬ 
win, as grown in western Maine. For 
purposes of cross-fertilization, however, 
I would include 25 Sutton Beauty and 
possibly 25 Ben Davis—planting in al¬ 
ternate rows with the Baldwins. Ben 
Davis is hardy, vigorous and productive, 
and is at present one of the profitable 
commercial varieties. Its quality, as 
grown in the North, is, however, so in¬ 
ferior that it is hardly to be recommend¬ 
ed. Wagener is a good apple but is not 
as large as in Massachusetts and New 
York, and is not equal to some other 
sorts for commercial purposes. Arctic 
may be characterized as a hardy Bald¬ 
win. The tree is of vigorous spreading 
habit, and the fruit, when well coiored, 
is attractive. Trees set eight years ago 
in the orchard of the Maine Experiment 
Station bore two bushels of fruit this 
year. It will not supersede Baldwin in 
southern New England, but is valuable 
for sections demanding greater nardi- 
neSS. W. M. MUNSON. 
Maine Exp. Station. 
Paper from Cornstalks. 
Is it a fact that paper of fair quality has 
been made from cornstalks? Nearly every¬ 
thing else seems to be made out of the 
corn plant! 
Experimental trials of the material 
have been made from time to time, and 
there is no doubt that paper stock of 
excellent quality, although rather short- 
libered, can be made from the stalks by 
chemical treatment. The principal diffi¬ 
culty in the way of its utilization is the 
low yield as compared with wood. We 
doubt whether the fiber could be suffi¬ 
ciently disintegrated by purely mechani¬ 
cal methods to be available, on account 
of the siliceous character of the epi¬ 
dermis. LITTLE & WALKEK. 
Boston. 
There has been considerable talk in 
the papers about the use of cornstalks 
as paper-making material, but we think 
It has been pretty much all talk, as we 
do not know of any mills that are using 
the material, and if it is being used at 
all it is in a very small way. We don’t 
know anything about the pith either, 
other than the notices we have seen in 
the papers, and which seem to have 
gone the rounds, but we really believe 
there is very little basis for any such 
comment. About 20 years ago there was 
a considerable amount of straw used 
for making fine papers, but wood in 
later years has almost entirely displaced 
it. Sorghum cane was used for making 
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Nkw York. 
book paper in at least one mill so long 
ago as 1867. There are enormous quan¬ 
tities of what is known as bagasse, be¬ 
ing what is left of the sugar cane after 
the juice is expressed, in the sugar-cane 
districts, and at various times attempts 
have been made to use this material, 
but without much success. We under¬ 
stand there is one mill in Louisiana 
making a small amount of coarse grade 
paper. There is, however, more inter¬ 
est being taken in the use of plants that 
grow up each year for paper-making 
purposes, and there has been a lot of 
experimenting in the way of using these 
annual plants, and with some probabil¬ 
ity of its being done successfully on a 
commercial scale. Wood, however, is 
so extensively used that it would prob¬ 
ably take a number of years to displace 
it. WEST VIRGINIA PULP & PAPER CO. 
New York. 
A Wind Vane Indicator. 
While riding near China Lake, in 
this county (Kennebec), not long ago, I 
saw a peculiar weather vane or indi¬ 
cator. In order to read aright the ordi¬ 
nary vane, one needs to be almost under 
it. In this case, however, a glance 
shows the direction of the wind, as the 
face of a watch shows the time. The 
A WIND VANE INDICATOR. Fie. 386. 
rod to which the vane is fastened passes 
down through the roof in a short piece 
of gas pipe, and is geared at the bottom 
to a longitudinal rod upon which is the 
indicator. It is said not to be patented, 
and is very simple. I make a rough il¬ 
lustration, Fig. 386. When once adjust¬ 
ed the hand and vane always work to¬ 
gether. c. s. P. 
Maine. 
Peaches for Horihern New Jersey. 
The following facts were brought out 
in a recent correspondence with a large 
peach grower in Sussex Co., N. J.: 
Do you like to plant June-budded 
trees? 
No, we have never planted them and 
I do not consider it worth while giving 
them a trial. We prefer the largest 
trees that we can safely plant. 
What varieties do you find most pro¬ 
fitable? 
I shall plant next Spring, Emma, Late 
Crawford, Chairs Choice, Iron Mountain 
and Beer’s Smock; this list is given in 
order of ripening, Emma gives us fruit 
about September 18, Iron Mountain and 
Beer’s Smock fruiting up to the middle 
of October. 
Do you not grow Elberta? 
I tried to buy 500 Elbertas for next 
Spring, but the trees were all sold, and 
so I bought 500 extra Emmas. 
Do you recommend these varieties for 
general use? 
No. Differences in location will make 
differences in varieties; for example, 
Stevens Rareripe has been a money¬ 
maker with me, while with other nearby 
growers it has not done so well. 
Which have been your best paying 
varieties? 
Elberta, Chairs Choice and Beer’s 
Smock have paid the best; really I have 
made more money per package out of 
Beer’s Smock than from any other va¬ 
riety. 
Are there two kinds of Smock peach? 
Yes; there is a Smock shaped like an 
egg but very small, this is of little value 
with us, but the true Beer’s Smock is 
a fine peach; it is also the best canning 
peach we grow. Some of oul growers 
have planted Wonderful In pla e of 
Beer’s Smock, claiming it is better be¬ 
cause it is less liable to overbear. The 
season of Beer’s Smock with us is from 
October 1 to 10. 
What do you think of Crosby? 
I would not advise its planting as it 
ripens here at the same season with El¬ 
berta, is much smaller and tends to 
overload. When Elberta is selling for 
$1.12 to 85 cents Crosby can be bought 
for 60 to 45 cents, and it was hard to 
get enough fine fruit to fill the packages. 
I have no Iron Mountain but it does 
well here, having the same season as 
the Smock, and I shall try it. 
What is the best market demand for 
your peaches? 
There is always a demand for a late 
white peach, and the Iron Mountain will 
fill the bill. I would not advise planting 
for the New York market any varieties 
later than Elberta, which finishes with 
us about September 15. The Emma 
comes in after Elberta, and that is why 
I ordered that for next Spring. 
An Active Chinaman. —The Pacific Rural 
Press gives this report of a Chinaman who 
raised tomatoes for a canning factory: “A 
certain Chinaman was induced by the super¬ 
intendent of the cannei’y to plant five acres 
to tomatoes. Prom those five aci’es he has 
sold to the cannery over 50 tons of first-class 
tomatoes, at $10 per ton, and at this writing 
he is still hauling them in. Now, what could 
have been done on a 100-acre patch had white 
men given the care and attention to their 
business that this Chinaman knew bis busi¬ 
ness had to have? This sleepy-eyed Celestial 
seems to be personally acquainted with each 
individual plant in his patch, and to know 
about the day and hour he can depend on It 
to ripen its fruit. And he is carrying away 
in some unknown part of that garment of his 
which passes for his ‘pants’ the good dollars 
that ought to be going into a white man’s 
pocket. But the white man, even with the 
advice and under the direction of the able and 
experienced horticulturist, failed to show up 
the stuff. Hence these tears.” 
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THE DE LAVAL COMPANY 
Acknowledge that they 
Have been Lying About Paris Separator Awards 
Qne of their latest advertisements is headed 
“More Lying as to Paris Separator Awards” 
which is one of the most truthful statements they have made lately, as we be¬ 
lieve the readers will acknowledge if they try to reconcile some of their state¬ 
ments in the advertisement referred to with some in their previous advertise¬ 
ments. 
In the advertisement headed “More Lying as to Paris Separator Awards’’ 
they publish what purport to be three “official’’ statements, dated Stockholm, 
•Sweden. A careful perusal of these will show that they are what the courts call 
secondary evidence and never accepted by any court if there is primary evi¬ 
dence. The Paris Exposition was not held in Sweden. 
Two weeks ago they advertised as follows: 
“At the Paris Exposition the DeLaval machines received the 
Grand Prize, or highest award * * * being entered and receiv¬ 
ing such award in the name of ‘Soci6t6 Anonyme Separator,’ which 
is the French translation of ‘Separator Corporate Company,’ the 
name of the DeLaval European organization.” 
Notice by this advertisement they claimed “Soci§t6 Anonyme Separator” to 
be their European organization, thus acknowledging that no award was given to 
Aktiebolaget Separator. 
But when we proved that “Socd6t§ Anonyme Separator” exhibited a Butter 
Radiator or Butter Extractor, and not a Cream Separator, they lose their tem¬ 
pers again and accuse us of “lying and misrepresentation” and advertise the 
three statements referred to above in their efforts to prove that the Aktiebol¬ 
aget Separator did get an award at Paris and claim it as their European ar- 
ganization. 
We call special attention to the dates of these statements, viz.: December 
5, 1900; April 2, 1901, and April 17, 1901, then ask the reader to bear in mind 
that it was in the last of November, 1901, that they advertised that the award 
they claim was given to “Soci6t6 Anonyme Separator,” From which it will be 
seen that they pay no attention to facts or their previous statements when 
caught In a trap. 
Being cornered on one claim, they abandon it and claim another; cornered 
again, they go back to their first abandoned claim. We recommend our “would- 
be competitors” to try once more. 
An expert remarks that the DeLaval Company will have to “eat hair” in or¬ 
der to make their statements hang together. 
We still say that the official list of awards distributed at Paris did not con¬ 
tain an award to the DeLaval Separator Company or the Aktiebolaget Separator. 
To be continued in our next. 
The United States Separator still leads the World, To-day 
it has no equal. _ 
VERMONT FARM MACHINE CO., Bellows Falls, Vt. 
