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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
March 18, 
HOW TO CROW DEWBERRIES. 
On page 166, W. Hammond gives some 
good thoughts upon the cultivation of the 
dewberry. The diagram shows a sketch of 
my plan of training this vine. Fig. 1 repre¬ 
sents the dewberry vines trained to a 
wire tightly drawn between two anchored 
posts at ends of row B. B., with central 
posts C. This wire A. A. is put up in the 
Spring, and the vines raised up and 
thrown over it, and tied on if necessary, 
leaving the ground bare beneath, where 
the sprouts for next year’s crop can grow, 
and be trained so as to be under tbe wire 
out of the way of cultivation. When the 
berries are all picked, loosen the wire 
A. A. at both ends, first cutting off the 
old vines, and by means of this wire, one 
man at each end, the old vines are pulled 
away from the new vines now spread out 
on the ground; then by straightening one 
end of this wire and pulling at tbe other 
end, you can easily pull the wire out from 
the old vines, and leave them between the 
rows, where they can be easily forked 
into heaps and carried off the ground, 
leaving everything out of the way as seen 
in Fig. 2, the new vines ready for the 
Winter mulch. If desired the posts B. B. 
can be pulled up and set away in the dry, 
ready to drive down in the Spring. The 
anchor wires Y. Y., which are anchored 
to a stone underground, must be attached 
to top of post, so it can be removed when 
you wish to take posts up. These guy 
wires would be the only thing left on 
ground through the Winter. In the Spring 
drive down posts, stretch the wire A. A., 
and again train vines by lifting them over 
wire, and in this way one wire and the 
same posts can be used, and the best possi¬ 
ble conditions had for cultivation, and for 
large fine berries, at less expense than any 
method yet devised to my knowledge. No. 
14 wire is plenty large for this training 
wire. h. E. moon. 
Indiana. _ 
Silos Built of Concrete. 
F. L. M., Red Creek, N. Y .—Will you take 
up the question of making silos of cement, 
and let. your readers know whether It is prac¬ 
ticable to build them of concrete? If it is, 
how does the cost compare with wood? 1 
have seen it stated that silos built of concrete 
are cheaper, and of course better than wood. 
Ans. —The best way we know to get the 
facts is to call for experience from read¬ 
ers. Will those who have used or seen 
concrete silos tell us the facts? 
Plums for Connecticut. 
8. R. II., West Cheshire, Conn .—I would 
like a list of plums for home use adapted to 
this State; high dessert quality, earliness of 
bearing and productiveness to be considered 
in their order. My land is sandy loam. 
Ans. —For a sandy loam I would choose 
Japan varieties; Red June, Climax, Abund¬ 
ance, Shiro, Wickson, Hale (if we had 
plenty of room) October Purple. Of the 
Europeans the old Lombard would prob¬ 
ably do best on a sandy soil. For heavy 
yield Burbank and Chabot; also for can¬ 
ning. H. 0. MEAD. 
Onion Blight and Onion Maggot. 
E. A. II., Windham, N. Y.—Have we any 
such practical preventive of Onion blight as 
we have in Bordeaux for Potato blight; also 
for the Onion maggot? 
Ans. —Onion blight is a fungous dis¬ 
ease, and can largely be prevented by 
thorough and frequent applications of 
Bordeaux Mixture. Some onion growers 
get as good results from this treatment 
as potato growers do from a similar treat¬ 
ment for Potato blight. The best plan is 
to begin spraying before the disease ap¬ 
pears, beginning the latter part of June 
or the first of July in New York, and 
making several applications at intervals 
of about a week, depending somewhat on 
the weather. Wet weather greatly fav¬ 
ors the development of the disease. It is 
possible, however, to check and control 
the disease even after it has once started 
in the field. This was demonstrated last 
season by the Cornell Experiment Station, 
as detailed in Bulletin No. 218. One 
thorough application of tbe Bordeaux 
Mixture after the disease has appeared will 
check it, but the treatment should not stop 
with this, for favorable weather conditions 
may soon cause the disease to break out 
anew. It is, therefore, necessary to re¬ 
peat the application two or three times at 
intervals of a week or 10 days to afford 
protection to the crop after the first spray¬ 
ing. For the best results, it is necessary 
to throw a fine spray with much pressure 
so it will adhere to the onion tops. 
For the Onion maggot, the best applica¬ 
tion I have tested is an emulsion made by 
dissolving one pound of soap in one gal¬ 
lon of bot water, and thoroughly stirring 
into this one pint of crude carbolic acid, 
thus forming a stock or standard emulsion, 
which can be diluted as required. In 
using this emulsion take one part of the 
stock mixture and dilute with 30 parts of 
water. Pour this freely along the onion 
rows at the bases of the plants, using 
enough so that it will soak down and 
reach the maggots. Make the application 
as soon as the first maggots appear. It is 
not a preventive, but it acts as a killing 
agent on the maggots. Ordinary kero¬ 
sene emulsion diluted with six or seven 
parts of water, or _a whale-oil soap solu¬ 
tion of one pound in five gallons of water, 
is also quite effective if used in the same 
manner. M. v. sungerland. 
Salt for Plum Trees. —Concerning query 
of II. L. C., Still Pond, Md., Page 146, I will 
tell what I have done in such experience with 
plum and pear trees. I use salt ; put a good 
coating of salt about each tree, a peck or half 
bushel. Spread It out from trunk three to 
four feet around the tree. Don’t be afraid; 
it will not kill the tree, but will do It good. 
Such trees will stand lots of salt, not brine. 
I consider salt of much benefit to plum and 
pear orchards, and use large quantities of it, 
put on in March. a. donald. 
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-THE- 
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