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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
April 1 
BLACKBERRIES FOR THE SOUTH. 
Wc formerly grew Wilson Early and 
Early Harvest blackberries almost exclu¬ 
sively, but to-day nine-tenths of the 
“blackberries” are the Lucretia dew¬ 
berry, and very few people grow anything 
else. Some have planted Eldorado, which 
is rather a good berry, but late. Ward 
is being tested, but has not yet fruited 
here. The Early Harvest is too small, 
and cannot be sold after one or two pick¬ 
ings have been made. The Wilson win¬ 
ter-kills and is therefore unprofitable. 
The best blackberry I ever fruited was 
the Lincoln, but it was too late for this 
market. If Mr. Burbank or some enter¬ 
prising hybridizer will put the Wilson 
berry on the Lincoln cane he will make 
the ideal blackberry. Nothing can com¬ 
pare with it in growth, hardiness, pro¬ 
ductiveness or any other quality, but it 
comes too late here. It is as large as the 
average Wilson, but not equal to the 
largest. Of course most all varieties have 
been grown at different times to a more 
or less extent, but Lucretia is the lead¬ 
ing one now. Some few Wilson are 
grown, but two crops is about all they 
are good for. ciias. wright. 
Delaware. _ 
DUST SPRAYING. 
The Best Dust Wanted. 
I want the best general-purpose dust mix¬ 
ture possible. With the aid of suggestions 
by the Maryland Agriculture College pro¬ 
fessors I have worked out tlie following. ])o 
you or your readers see where it can be bet¬ 
tered? If so, please say where: Dissolve two 
pounds copper sulphate In 7 l /z pints of water. 
Use part of 7M> pints of water to slake two 
pounds of quicklime to a tine state; then 
add 1 lie rest of the water, thus making a milk 
of lime. Pour the copper sulphate and the 
milk of lime at the same time into a third 
vessel, and add two pounds of arsenite of 
lead. When well stirred together slake 27 
pounds of good stone lime by slowly sprink¬ 
ling this mixture upon it. thus making 48 
pounds of dry poisonous Bordeaux dust. Next 
boll four pounds caustic soda, four pounds 
lime and four pounds sulphur in 15 pints of 
water for 10 minutes, and slake 25 pounds 
quicklime with the mixture, making 52 
pounds of caustic lime sulphur dust. Then 
mix and sift the two together and you have 
practically 100 pounds of general-purpose 
dUSt. Cl)AS. T. SWEET. 
Maryland. 
An Experiment on Plums. 
You ask your readers for their experience 
with tlie dust spray. Here is mine, tried it 
on a young plum orchard of about 000 trees 
six or seven years old. 1 used the formula 
given on page 178, except that I slaked the 
lime with tlie copper solution. To this I 
added an equal quantity of dust made by 
sinking the lime with three pounds of Bab¬ 
bitt’s lye added to the water. These dusts 
were then thoroughly mixed together and ap¬ 
plied with a very large homemade hand bel¬ 
lows. The first application, to which was 
added a little Paris-green, was made just be¬ 
fore blooming. Tne next dusting was given 
immediately after blooming, and then appli¬ 
cations were made after every rain, or with 
every heavy dew, 10 or 12 in all. About tlie 
middle of the season I read an article in 
The It. N.-Y. which proved that I had not 
been using a Bordeaux Mixture at all; that 
through the reaction between the lime and 
copper, the latter became inert. This almost 
discouraged me, but having nothing else at 
hand, and no rot or curculio in the or¬ 
chard, I continued tlie applications until the 
fruit showed color, except on two late varie¬ 
ties, which showed considerable rot at. the 
end of the season. Now as to results. I 
harvested a full crop of sound fruit; many 
of the trees were overloaded. The foliage 
was perfect, hanging on until late Fall, which 
It never did before. This experience seems 
conclusive. But the case can be made strong¬ 
er. A nearby orchard of about 'like varieties, 
and cultivation set a full crop with mine, 
but was neither sprayed or dusted, and prac¬ 
tically failed to mature Its fruit, losing fully 
00 per cent by both rot and curculio, thus 
serving as a check on my operations. All of 
these facts seem very strongly in favor of 
my dusting. But there are some questions 
that will not. down. If copper is practically 
the only fungicide, and it was rendered 
“inert” through combining with the lime, 
what saved the plums? If the copper was 
“inert,” then it had no effect on the fungi. 
Fan it be that ttie dust acted mechanically in 
excluding t lie germs? I am inclined to 
think so. If so, then any kind of dust will 
do. This idea I shall try this year. 
What about the curculio? They started in 
as usual to do a large business. I examined 
the trees after the second dusting and found 
them “alive” with the bugs. This disturbed 
me very much, and I ljogan preparations at 
once for the jarring process. But in the 
meantime I dusted for the third time. The 
day after I had two large sheeted frames and 
a inudled mallet and began operations. After 
working an hour I caught only about a dozen 
insects. I had no better success the next 
morning, and a few days after could not find 
a single bug. This set me to thinking, and 
I have concluded that the corrosive lye dust 
made the “little Turk" “footsore and weary" 
in traveling from fruit to fruit. I shall test 
tIlls idea also this year. The Agricultural 
Department at Washington lias promised to 
test it also, if suitable provision can be made. 
Indiana. j. w. trinkle. 
Dusting Apple Trees. 
I have in Vermont two McIntosh apple 
trees of quite large size. They bear full 
every year, but are so scabby I can hardly 
get any fair fruit or any decent to eat. I 
have no occasion to spray any other trees, 
and little time for it. 1 bought a dry sprayer 
almost on purpose for these trees, but the 
dust would not reach half way to the top. 
Can you suggest any way to get fair fruit 
without too much expense? The McIntosh 
is one of the most beautiful of apples, large 
In size, line shape and of a rich vinous flavor. 
As my trees behave they bear well every 
year, and when nearly ripe the trees are a 
sight, with their branches tilled with the red 
fruits covered with a blue-black bloom. But 
they are so subject to scab. f. h. 
Cow Peas in Georgia. 
J. C. H., Menlo, Ga. —On my farm I grow 
Whippoorwill, Unknown and Red Tory peas. 
Why is it the Red Tory pea roots are full of 
nodules tlie size of pin heads up to as large 
as small buckshot, and on same land and at 
same time one can find but few nodules on 
Whippoorwill and Unknown. By time first 
heavy frost comes in Fall Bed Tory pea roots 
are all rotted out to near top of ground, and 
roots of the other two peas are still green. 
In 1003 I had one piece of land in corn 
which was fine; made about 00 bushels corn 
to acre, and at same time had good crop of 
Red Tory pea vines on it. That Fall I sowed 
In wheat, and in 1004 I harvested 25 3-5 
bushels of fine grain wheat to acre. It was 
much better than any of the other plots of 
wheat. Is this Red pea cause of wheat being 
so much better than the other wheat? This 
Red pea plowed in with wheat will keep most 
of them sound all Winter and came up after 
wheat is cut off. It will have nodules when 
plants are three or four inches high.Do you 
think it would pay me to stick to the Red 
Tory and let the other two alone? 
Ans.— J. C. H. is in error in supposing 
that there was any difference between the 
well-known varieties of cow peas, in the 
matter of nodules on the roots. It may 
have been an accidental variation. At the 
South, where we have been growing cow 
peas for so many years, we assume that 
our soils everywhere are well inoculated 
with nitrogen-producing bacteria by nat¬ 
ural processes. I know that the Whippoor¬ 
will and Unknown are equally as pro¬ 
ductive as the Red Tory, as well as ear¬ 
lier. I have never observed any differ¬ 
ence in the rotting of roots. It may be 
true that the Red Tory roots rot out ear¬ 
lier than the other varieties, but I do not 
see any significance in that fact, if it be 
true. r. j. REDDING. 
Georgia Exp. Station. 
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