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April 8, 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
ORANGE RUST ON BLACKBERRIES. 
F., Rutland Go., Vt. —What treatment is 
best for a blackberry patch in which orange 
rust made its first appearance last season on 
a few canes that were then removed? Will 
it pay to spray blackberry, raspberry and 
strawberry plants in the fruit garden? If so, 
when should it be done and what mixture 
used? When such plants have a liberal sup¬ 
ply of stable manure, is it best also to apply 
commercial fertilizer or ashes? 
I have never had any experience with 
orange rust on blackberries. I have seen 
it sometimes in other people’s gardens. In 
case I had a blackberry field struck with 
orange rust I would try heavy spraying 
with Bordeaux Mixture, as is recommend¬ 
ed in the experiment station bulletins. If 
this did not give good results I would 
plant a new blackberry patch on fresh soil, 
with new plants from some other locality, 
and would plow up the old patch. 
T. A. WAUGH. * 
Cut out all infested canes as they ap¬ 
pear,. cover the soil with air-slaked lime 
and sulphur. Spray with copper sulphate 
solution before leaves appear, and again 
after fruit is gathered. Cultivate until 
fruit is gathered. I think it will pay if 
thoroughly done. I have seen better re¬ 
sults with the lime, sulphur, and salt spray 
than with any other. Use the salt only 
when not in leaf. Sweeten and cultivate 
the soil. The addition of commercial fer¬ 
tilizer depends on the quality of manure 
and soil. If all stable manure could be 
worked over through the pigpen it would 
answer the purpose, with an occasional 
dressing of bone meal and ashes. I think 
ashes are not so much needed in a sandy 
soil. It is impossible to give a panacea 
for every case without a separate diagno¬ 
sis. Use mother wit and cultivate. 
New Jersey. w. s. c. 
foot in length, and one I measured was 
14^4 inches in circumference. They had 
a coal-scuttleful of perfectly rotted ma¬ 
nure under each hill. These big fruits 
we gave away literally by the basketful, 
though we had but seven hills. For our 
own use we picked them when six to 
eight inches long, though even the large 
ones were crisp and tender Ponderosa 
tomatoes are too big to slice, fry, 
bake or do anything with but can. 
They are fine in the catalogues, and very 
exciting to see, but lack flavor. We train 
our tomatoes on 2 x 2 x 7 stakes driven 
18 inches in the ground, and tie with old 
strips of cloth or tape; string cuts the 
vines. 
Egg plants and peppers, along with the 
tomatoes, were late, and did not bear 
their best, but this was scarcely a surprise 
when we had the thermometer down to 44 
one night about the middle of June. Of 
peas we had four crops, and the same of 
snap beans. Also plenty of bush Limas 
until frost—they are easier to grow under 
our conditions than the pole sorts, but 
less productive, of course, and more 
trouble to pick. Incidentally I think it 
pays to give even dwarf peas, something 
to run on for this latter reason; it cer¬ 
tainly makes it easier on the back of who¬ 
ever has to gather them. Our piece of 
potatoes gave us nearly two barrels, and 
onions something over a barrel, counting 
out all onions less than an inch in diam¬ 
eter, which we gave away. The same is 
true of onions as of tomatoes, and those 
about two to two and a half inches are 
the pleasantest for home use. x. Y. z. 
POSSIBILITIES OF A BACKYARD. 
Sound Advice From a Backyarder. 
Part I. 
If the average person with a backyard 
knew the real possibilities as to quantity 
and quality of garden produce which can 
be made to grow on a plot of average 
soil 25 feet square, he would have an 
ample supply of several vegetables from 
June until October, instead of the usual 
row or two of early radishes, some doubt¬ 
ful lettuce and a few straggling peas and p ^ ants a!C set- 
beets showing through the July weeds. 
There are few suburban places which 
cannot boast of a plot at least double this 
size, and oftener than not of even greater 
dimensions. Our own garden the first 
year was planted late and poorly tended, 
but it served to give an inkling of what 
could be done with the ground at hand, 
and last year on a measured eighth of an 
acre we had all the results that one could 
reasonably ask for. From a hasty glance 
through the blank book in which (with¬ 
out any attempt at completeness or sys¬ 
tem) I jot down occasional garden data, 
I see that we had all of the following 
vegetables we could consume from the 
dates on which they appeared from “near¬ 
by” in the local markets (sooner in some 
cases) until frost: Beans, bush, snap and 
bush Limas; beets, cabbage, carrots, corn, 
cucumbers, egg plant, endive, kohl rabi, 
leeks, lettuce, mint, onions, parsley, pars¬ 
nips, peas, peppers, potatoes, pumpkins, 
radishes, ruta baga, salsify, squash, white 
and yellow, Swiss chard, tomatoes and 
turnips. 
Corn we had in abundance from plant¬ 
ings of an 80-foot row about every two 
weeks from May 16 to July 4. Rows 3)4 
feet apart, hills one foot apart and two 
stalks in a hill. It was well fed, and we 
never had better corn. To our notion 
Golden Bantam, Crosby’s Early and 
White Evergreen were the best of half a 
dozen varieties we tried. Melons, both 
musk and water, started off well, but 
came to nothing, but squash and cucum¬ 
bers fairly outyielded themselves. The 
bush squash vines, both yellow and white, 
spread out over a space of about seven 
feet circumference to each hill of three 
or four vines. Cucumbers, which were 
our only brag crop, all ran very large, 
with almost no culls, averaging over 'a 
Working New Swamp for Celery. 
J. B., Peterboro, Ont. —We have a piece of 
black muck land cleared of willows and 
plowed one year ago last August, which we 
wish to plant to celery. We will plow this 
Spring and work up fine with a disk harrow 
and fertilize with cow manure, ashes and 
dried blood. What more in working and fer¬ 
tilizers should we do? Should we add bone? 
Ans. —Muck swamps are usually quite 
acid when newly cleared, and sometimes 
prove undesirable for a crop of celery the 
first year. I would advise planting the 
same to corn for the first year, and would 
prefer horse manure instead of cow ma¬ 
nure on muck lands. Ashes are all right; 
I would omit the dried blood, and use ni¬ 
trate of soda for a starter on celery in¬ 
stead, say 200 pounds per acre after the 
JOHN JEANNIN, JR. 
Wood Ashes and Hen Manure. 
F. W., Clayton. No State. —What is the 
best way of applying wood ashes as a fer¬ 
tilizer for vegetables or potatoes, and would 
hen manure make a good addition? IIow 
should they be applied? 
Ans. —The best way to use wood ashes 
or any other form of lime is to broadcast 
after plowing, and harrow well into the 
soil. This mixes the lime all over—where 
it should go. Do not mix hen manure with 
wood ashes. The lime will set free thd 
valuable ammonia. If the ashes are broad¬ 
cast we would make the hen manure fine 
and use it in hill or drill. 
SEED POTATOES 
Irish Cobbler and Early Norther. Kxtrn fine stock 
grown on virgin soil. $1 per bushel; $2.50 per bbl , 
f.o.b. T. DRISCOLL, Kauneonga, Bull. Co., N. Y. 
Potatoes—Blush. Bovee, Carman, Cobbler, Harvest, 
Ohlo.Queen. 6 Weeks, 85 kinds. C.W.Ford,Fishers,N.Y 
QooH Pntatnoo Selected Stock; very fine; Carman 
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81.25. For larger lots, prices on application. 
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Crosby Early Sweet Corn. 
a pure strain for seed, in quantities from one 
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at $2 50 per bushel f. o. b. express or freight 
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RIVERSIDE FARM 
Nashua = New Hampshire 
S TRAWBERRY PLANTS. Climax and 25 
other money-making varieties, $1.25 to $1.50 per 
1,000." Catalogue free to-day. 
S. A. VIUDIN, Hartly Del. 
BERRY PLANTS— 23d Annual Catalogue free. 
Climax only $ 2.00 per 1 . 000 . Lucretia Dewberry, 
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STRAWBERRY PLANTS 
PINE HILL FRUIT FARM, Center Brook, Conn. ' 
S TOWELL’S EVERGREEN SWEET CORN SEED, 
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HUBBARD SQUASH SEED 
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NITROGEN FIXING BACTERIA. 
Air is four-fifths nitrogen. LET BACTERIA 
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and seed with Nitrogen Fixing Bacteria. 
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clover, peas, sweet peas, cow peas, beans, et". One 
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one acre $1.50. Send for c rcular. 
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a new Strawberry. 
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Weston, Mass. 
StrawToerry Plants 
IOO President Roosevelt, 200 Dunlap, post paid, $1.40. 
5,000 Assorted, $0freight. Alva Cathcart, Bristol. Ind. 
Abington yielded over300 bu. per acre in matted rows. 
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If You Are Planting 
STRAWBERRIES 
you cannot get better plants, better varieties, or bet¬ 
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STRAWBERRY PLANTS 
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RIR A ( )ats are th® heaviest and best yielders I ever 
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'—CRIMSON CLOVER Seed, $5 50 
_______ bushel; Cow Peas, $1.75 bushel; 
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included *2 bu. 75c.; bu. lots and over $1.25 per bu. 
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Large, Healthy Stock, Leading Varieties. Prices 
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REAR TREES 
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PEACH TREES IN BOX LOTS 
I have packed and ready for immediate shipment 50 boxes of fine, fresh dug Peach Trees, best market varie¬ 
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100 Elberta, 25 Niagara, 25 Fitzgerald, 60 Crawford Early, at $12 per box. 
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LotNo.4. 15 Boxes each containing 200 Trees 3-4 feet, same number and varieties as contained in Boxesof 
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_ . supp_ . 
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200,000 APPLE TREES, 
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. one year old. 4 cts. 5,000 Japan Plum Trees, one year old, 4 to 5 ft. 20 
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CRASS SEED 
Choice re-cleaned seed for all purposes. 
Dreer’s Permanent pasture grass is recommended 
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Box 8, Yalesville, Conn. 
