1905. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
OHIO APPLE NOTES. 
Yon once asked my opinion of painting 
apple trees, and wanted to knew whether I 
would be afraid to try it. I had several hun¬ 
dred painted last Spring with white lead and 
linseed oil, and I have seen no injury from it 
at all. Some friends asked my advice about 
protecting young trees from rabbits, and I 
told them to paint. I have been informed 
that it did not stop them from barking the 
trees. I have had no injury from them on 
any of the trees painted, and very few where 
not protected. I kept about all the farm 
cleaned up by mowing and leaving it as a 
mulch, and there is little protection for them 
in any of my orchards, and hunters cleaned 
them out early in the Winter. All that were 
touched stood on high open ground, and the 
rabbits had to go several hundred yards to 
get a shelter. 
I am still a believer in the mulch plan on 
our hills, and am not so certain but what I 
would follow it ou level land. Probably you 
have seen my statement about the mulch in 
my orchard last year for the experiment sta¬ 
tion. It paid well in dollars for the straw 
at $8 per ton and hauled five miles. I have 
30 tons straw for mulch another year, and 
it cost $7 per ton, and I hauled it seven 
miles. I have spread a good part of it in 
the orchards now. We are using some of it 
for bedding, and then it is manure with the 
mulch. 
I sprayed five times last year, using Bor¬ 
deaux, arsenite of soda and arsenate of lead 
all combined, but the last two applications 
we did not use quite as much blue vitriol, 
and none of the foliage was harmed. Some 
growers have injured the foliage by using 
strong mixture all the season when four or 
five applications have been made. I pur¬ 
pose to spray five times again this year, and 
think it pays. Too many growers fail to do 
a thorough job, and do not make enough ap¬ 
plications to have fruit free from worms and 
scab. That is one job it pays to do well. 
Lawrence Co.. Ohio. u. t. cox: 
TWO-ROWED CULTIVATORS. 
What about two-horse two-rowed corn cul¬ 
tivators? How do they compare with two- 
liorse one-row corn cultivators? Most people 
about here use a one-horse one-row corn 
planter, requiring two persons to, operate in 
good shape. Two years ago I purchased a 
two-horse two-rowed corn planter, which is a 
great saver of time, planting equal to four to 
one as a time saver. a. n. h. 
North Clarendon. Vt. 
We have had some experience with the 
two-row cultivator, and further have had 
occasion to observe its work. In a general 
way we believe its greatest advantage lies 
in the increased area of ground which one 
man can cover in a given time. The culti¬ 
vator is a little awkward and hard to handle 
at first, but if the user will remember to 
keep his attention centered upon only one 
row, he will soon be able to do as good 
work with this implement as he could with 
the ordinary single-row cultivator. The 
draft of the two-row cultivator is a little 
heavier than that of the single-row. The 
plow is hung upon wheels, so that the wheels 
are turned in guiding the plow, which ren¬ 
ders it easier to regulate in pushing the 
gangs back and forth. In trashy ground the 
two-row cultivator is at a disadvantage. It 
is necessary that the rows be reasonably 
straight; for if very crooked the operator 
will soon solve the problem of perpetual mo¬ 
tion. But in clean ground, when the rows 
are reasonably straight, the two-row culti¬ 
vator is as easily handled as the single-row ; 
and one man can do nearly double the work 
of two men with the single-row implement, 
and do it fully as well. f. h. rankin'. 
Illinois. 
I have never used a two-row cultivator, 
but have seen them at work, and thought 
the man who operated it had a little more 
than he could attend to, and do his work 
well, but we have many men who go into the 
field to plow corn with a single-row culti¬ 
vator who do poor work. When the rows 
are of an even width, and the operator 
starts right, and is a careful man, I believe 
he may do fairly well with the two-row 
plow. JAS. Lb REID. 
Illinois. 
We use the two-horse cultivator, cultivat¬ 
ing both sides of a row. We have never 
used the style of cultivator which completely 
cultivates two rows each trip. The riding 
style of two-horse cultivator, having two 
gangs of three shovels each, is the prevailing 
type of cultivator now being purchased by 
our best farmers, and gives the best results 
in field cultivation. Our fields rarely exceed 
40 acres in size. Ralph w. moss. 
Indiana. 
I have never used the two-row cultivators, 
but have seen them working. In my opin¬ 
ion they are not as good fir plowing small 
coin (especially crossway) as the one-row 
cultivator. I am very particular about the 
first plowing I think it much more im¬ 
portant to do a good job of plowing first 
time through the corn than any time after. 
Write "Osgood” Binghamton, New York, about 
their "New Idea” ready to weigh "Pitless Scale.” 
393 
I find that it takes all of my time and atten¬ 
tion to plow one row at a time while the 
corn is small. After the corn is large enough 
to plow without using fenders, and for laying 
corn by, the two-row cultivator is preferable, 
because the chief object in later cultiva¬ 
tion is to stir the ground for the purpose of 
conserving moisture, the early weeds having 
all been killed, or practically so, by the first 
and the second cultivation; also because one 
man can do twice as much work in the same 
length of time as he can with the one-row 
cultivator. The great objection to using 
either the one or the two-row shovel culti¬ 
vator for late plowing is, that we are apt 
to do too much root-pruning. The blade is 
preferable to the shovel for late cultivation. 
Illinois. H. A. WINTER. 
The development of two-row cultivators be¬ 
ing of recent date leaves them just outside 
of the experimental stage, but as far as tried 
they have been found practical. It is true 
that better work can be done under the 
ordinary conditions witty the single-row culti¬ 
vator. However, for the farmer who will run 
his own cultivator, or will employ such help 
as will be careful iu handling it, tlie two-row 
cultivator will do excellent work. Straight 
rows are necessary to do good work, and 
where corn or the crop to be cultivated is 
planted so as to be plowed both ways, it is 
necessary that the rows be in check or 
straight lines. If the rows are not straight 
or are somewhat out of line, experiments 
show that it is almost impossible to handle 
the cultivator without plowing out part of 
tlie crop. For the first cultivation, it is 
necessary that the cultivator go somewhat 
smwer than the single-row cultivator, but 
later on, as the crop gets larger, one culti¬ 
vator can go as fast as the other; however, 
great care must be exercised in handling 
the double-row cultivator under all condi¬ 
tions. Where the farmer with a single-row 
cultivator lias been able to care for 40 acres 
of crop, he can care for at least 65 acres 
with the double-row cultivator and do prac¬ 
tically as good work, provided the ground is 
in good shape. The double-row cultivator 
cannot be successfully used on stony, trashy, 
or stumpy land ; it is adapted more to the 
smooth prairie lands of the corn-growing belt, 
and not the rolling lands. H. M. B. 
Ames, Iowa._ 
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. C. Phelps, Pres. 
Station 290 , 
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but 
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THE 
JOHN 
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