1901 
869 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
EVERYBODY'S GARDEN. 
I would like to ask some questions about 
onions. I have works on onion culture and 
Onions for Profit, but they do not analyze 
my case. I have now bedded 10 bushels of 
potato; onions, six bushels large, and four 
Potato onions, six bushels large, and four 
25 cents per dozen bunches, of three onions 
each. Our market prices now are $1 per 
bushel, and $2 for sets. 1. How should 
I grade my onions for planting? 2. 
Should I plant the large, or use those 
medium in size for raising sets? 3. 
Would it pay best to sell the large sets, 
and plant only small ones (in doing this 
they would be classed as large ones)? 4. 
In a cluster of three to six large enough 
for bunching is it advisabe to pull the 
whole bunch or leave one standing to ma¬ 
ture? Our season was poor and I planted 
without regard to size. Q- h. t. 
Bloomingrton, Ind. 
I quote the clause referring to the 
price obtained for bunching onions, as 
a matter of personal interest. The grow¬ 
ers here would consider that an average 
price of 25 cents per dozen would be a 
very large price; one-half that amount 
would I think be more than is averaged 
here for the whole season through, and 
bunching onions should certainly be a 
money crop for our correspondent. 1. 
If, as inferred from the letter, the stock 
is i.he Multiplier or Potato onion so 
largely grown in the South, they should 
be graded, as only the larger bulbs will 
multiply, while the sets will produce 
large onions, but will not multiply. 2. 
Plant the large ones if you desire to 
keep up your stock, as the small ones 
will not multiply and you would be 
minus your sets, provided only small 
ones were planted. 3. This is practically 
answered in preceding, but it must be 
borne in mind that both large and small 
must be planted each year in order to 
keep up both the bunching, and set sup¬ 
ply. 4. It would be better we think to 
pull the entire bunch, as the one left 
standing would be liable to be stunted 
in growth so it would mature only a 
bulb inferior in size at best, and the 
ground would require the same care the 
whole season through as it would to 
grow a full crop. As fast as the ground 
is cleared of the bunching onions it had 
better be cleared entirely and used for 
some other crop. However, bear in mind 
that some of the bunching onions must 
be left to mature, else you will run out 
of your crop of sets for the next year. 
To sum all up, keep these two facts be¬ 
fore you. The large onions will multi¬ 
ply and produce your bunching onions, 
while the sets will produce your large 
onions, and both must be planted each 
year to keep up your supply. These two 
facts will decide you at once as to what 
you can keep or seil. Plant the large 
and small separately so that in harvest¬ 
ing, one kind will not interfere with the 
other. 
A Wise Decision. —C. P. B., Calumet, 
Mich., writes: “I have decided to sub¬ 
scribe for The R. N.-Y. for one year, and 
enclose ?1, I hope to receive the paper 
regularly and would be glad to learn of 
anything new in the line of improved 
agricultural machinery, etc.” This is 
certainly a wise decision and thousands 
more should be like-minded. C. P. B. 
may rest assured that the paper will 
reach him regularly, and I know of no 
more reliable source of information as 
to improved farm machinery than the 
advertising columns of this paper. The 
standing announcement, “A Square 
Deal,” on the editorial page is a suffi¬ 
cient guarantee of the reliability of the 
advertising patrons. 
Hotbed Manure. —It is just the right 
time now to begin to save manure for 
the hotbeds. Many act on the principle 
that anything in this line will answer, 
but the practical gardener fully knows 
how much of success depends on the best 
quality of manure, properly stored and 
prepared. If nothing better can be done, 
cow or mixed manure with considerable 
coarse litter will answer, but the best 
results will be obtained from clear 
grain-fed horse or mule manure. When 
a large quantity Is required it is none 
too early to begin at once to save and 
prepare it. It should be stored secure 
from snow and rain, and forked over 
often enough to prevent burning or fire- 
fanging, as that seriously impairs its 
heating qualities. Freezing will not in¬ 
jure it provided it does not freeze suffi¬ 
ciently to prevent using when required 
for the beds. In forking over, all chunks 
should be thoroughly broken up, and all 
knots and bunches of coarse litter 
should be thoroughly shaken out. When 
cow manure is used more coarse litter 
should be mixed in than when horse ma¬ 
nure is used exclusively. An ample sup¬ 
ply should be prepared, for it is the 
mainspring of success in the hotbed 
work, and the mistake of a shortage is 
not easily rectified. j. e. morse. 
Michigan. 
Treatment for Apple Trees. 
O. A. B., Clyde, N. Y.—I have about 600 
apple trees three years old. The land is 
somewhat gravelly, and In fairly good con¬ 
dition. A year ago the land was covered 
with manure and sown to wheat, and in 
the Spring was seeded to Medium clover, 
which made a very heavy growth the past 
season. What treatment would you sug¬ 
gest the coming year? Shall I let the 
clover grow, cut a crop of hay, and plow 
under the rowen, or would you advise plow¬ 
ing under the clover the last of May, plant¬ 
ing to beans, give good cultivation, and 
then sow to rye next Fall and plow that 
under the following Spring for some culti¬ 
vated crop? Advise me as to the future 
treatment of the orchard. 
Ans. —^The gi’owing of a crop of wheat 
in this apple orchard was a mistake, as 
it has been in many others. Not long 
since I saw a young apple orchard in 
the famous Blue Ridge country of Vir¬ 
ginia that had been sown to wheat for 
two years past, and with serious effect. 
It has been stunted in growth. As the 
orchard of G. A. B. is now in clover, my 
advice is to plow it under early next 
Spring and put in some crop that will 
require cultivation during the early 
Summer. Potatoes would be a good 
crop. Beans might be put in after the 
ground had been tilled without any crop 
for several weeks. In no case would I 
cut and take off a crop of forage. Oats 
might be a good crop to sow next Fall 
for a Winter cover, but rye would live 
until the following Spring and might 
not be plowed under soon enough. No 
crop should be allowed to sap the 
ground of moisture at that time of year, 
especially. 
Vermont Deer.— Having printed com¬ 
plaints about the damage done by wild deer 
in Vermont It Is no more than fair that we 
should also print the following from the 
Brattleboro Phoenix: 
“Twenty-five years ago deer were extinct 
in Vermont, except in the northeast corner 
of the State, where the primeval forest 
stretches away to the great timber tracts 
of New Hampshire and Canada. Enter¬ 
prising sportsmen from Rutland and vi¬ 
cinity brought from other States a few 
deer and liberated them in the mountains 
east of the Marble City. These deer were 
protected by stringent laws, they multi¬ 
plied rapidly, and they gradually found 
their way to other sections of the State in 
small numbers. They have, however, never 
become numerous except in a few towns 
near where the deer were first set free 
more than 20 years ago. In fact, more 
than one-half of the 544 deer shot since an 
open season was established in 1898 have 
been killed in six or eight towns in Windsor 
and Rutland counties within a radius of 30 
miles of the spot where the Rutland sports¬ 
men started the experiment of stocking the 
State with deer. A few farmers in the 
wildest sections of Windsor and Rutland 
counties may sustain a slight damage to 
crops from the incursions of hungry deer, 
and similar conditions may exist In wildest 
Essex County, but not one Vermonter in 
30 ever saw a wild deer in the State, and 
not one farmer in a hundred ever had his 
crop damaged by the animals.” 
Trifling; that Costs. 
Neglect 
Sciatica and Lumbago 
And r<M in>7 disabled and 
incapaeitated (or arork tor 
BUBT iodC days. 
American Gardening 
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Pump 
I—don’t experiment— 
costs money. We have done 
the experimenting—used the 
common spray pumps in our 
own orchards, noted their 
defects — then invented the 
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1 with 6 bottles.” 
[Now we’ve told you 
about our splendid 
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We shall tell you now that we want you to sell 
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sell what you can. We will ship as few as 36 
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all that you sell. 
We have Order Sheets and Premium Lists: 
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OuTTerms 
send one-half the amount of money that an or¬ 
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for which we shall ask no security whatever. 
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you may send $7.20. If you wish to send the 
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30 days’ time to make returns in full. _ 
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order, or Roll Tops for 
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Ayif you have seen the 
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Given on orders from 74.80 
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agents that will send us a 
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Money is not required to do 
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Our Capital Premium, 
Callgraph Typewriter, 
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These machines sell for 
$100 by the manufacturers. 
Special terms to Aid So¬ 
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A Beautiful SilverTEA POT 
Extra will be given on all or¬ 
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the money is sent with the 
order, or a Set of Silver KNIVES 
and FORKS, if tireferred. < 
All money refunded if 
everything not as represented. 
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■ In writing }or quotations, state quantity. 
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