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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
September 9, 
FARMERS’ CLUB 
T Every query must be accompanied by 
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sure attention. Before asking a question, 
please see whether it is not answered in 
our advertising columns. Ask only a few 
questions at one time. Tut questions on a 
separate piece of paper.] 
APPLE BUTTER MAKING. 
The cut on first page is a familiar 
scene in sections where apple butter is 
popular. This product at its best is a 
combination of apple, “trimmin’s” and 
skilled labor, well worthy of the prom¬ 
inent place it has three times a day on the 
tables of the apple butter belt. The 
family lined up in the picture live on a 
farm in Maryland. This is one of the 
prize photographs sent in for last year’s 
competition. *_ 
Hard Wood fishes. 
I sop that Canadian hard-wood ashes are 
an article of commerce. By what process is 
the wood reduced? In western North Caro¬ 
lina a great deal of hard wood goes to waste, 
hence the answer to this question will be 
of much value. s. m. d. 
Banner Elk, N. C. 
A ns.— A large share of these ashes are 
supposed to be collected by tin peddlers 
who go about among country places sell¬ 
ing tin or woodenware in exchange for 
ashes or bones. Such ashes are usually 
taken from stoves or fireplaces where 
wood is used for fuel. In other cases 
large fires are built of stumps and logs in 
clearing land. The bottoms of such fires 
are scraped up and sold. In this way some 
sand is mixed with the ashes. There is 
always a commercial value for wood ashes 
where they can be cheaply hauled to the 
railroad. Even in some parts of Kansas 
we are told that ashes from burning corn¬ 
cobs are being collected and sold. 
Fruits tor Mississippi. 
IP. O. Columbus, Miss .—'Name Hie 
best grapes for this section that will ripen 
after (lie Concord, quality first. Will the 
yellow or golden raspberry do as well here 
as the Gregg cfoes. What are the best straw¬ 
berries for us, early, medium and late; size 
first? Land is sandy with clay foundation. 
Ans. —There are not many good grapes 
later than Concord suitable for Southern 
planting. Most of the desirable kinds are 
quite early. We would recommend Isa¬ 
bella and Wilder (Roger’s No. 4), black; 
Lindlcy and Catawba, red; Moore's Dia¬ 
mond and Pocklington, white. None is 
very much later than Concord. Write to 
Prof. T. V. Munson, Denison, Texas, for 
some of his late-ripening Southern hy¬ 
brids. Tbe yellow raspberries are sports 
from tbe native and foreign red raspber¬ 
ries and do not thrive as well in the 
South as the blackcaps. The best straw¬ 
berries are hard to specify. Early, Mich¬ 
el’s early; medium; William Belt, Presi¬ 
dent, Late; Gandy, Hunn. 
Building a Fish Pond. 
E. O. T., Eaple Grove , Iovou— Just cast of 
our dwelling house is a ravine of steep wood¬ 
ed banks; creek is fed by springs and tiled 
land, flow of water averages about four inches 
now. We have talked of constructing a dam 
to form a fish pond', and stocking it. What 
is the best plan of building a dam. and of 
obtaining fish, and what care is needed after¬ 
wards? We are looking to our own pleasure 
iu fish ealing, not particularly to the income. 
We thought six feet depth of water sufficient; 
it isn’t necessary to guard against overflow 
or washing out. 
Ans. —The conditions here seem most 
favorable for making a fish pond. With 
high banks on either side and with a 
good supply of water without trouble 
from overflows or washouts it ought to 
be an easy matter to construct a dam to 
impound the water. Under the circum¬ 
stances I should think that a dam of 
earth would be best and cheapest. Its 
sides should slope at an angle of 45 de¬ 
grees ; that is to say, where the dam is 
required to be six feet high the base of 
the dam should be started a little over 
12 feet wide, allowing for a footwalk 
along the top of the finished embankment. 
The bulk of the earth can be obtained 
from the bottom of the proposed pond 
site, thus increasing the depth of the 
water. It will be found desirable to have 
some means of drawing off the water. 
For this purpose a one-foot sewer pipe 
or a sluice made of planks should be laid 
at the bottom of the dam and the earth 
well rammed around it. It should be filled 
at tbe up-stream end with a screen and a 
gate. If evaporation and seepage does 
not keep down the level, some means 
should be devised for taking off the sur¬ 
plus water without its doing injury to the 
dam. A pipe near the top of the dam or 
a spillway made of boards will accom¬ 
plish this end. As regards the securing 
of fish and their care, I can give no prac¬ 
tical information. In some States there 
are fish and game wardens, and to such 
individuals you should apply if there are 
any in your State. An inquiry directed to 
your Representative in the Legislature 
would, no doubt, bring you this informa¬ 
tion. GRANT DAVIS. 
Transplanting Bearing Trees. 
I have an orchard five to six years old. 
Some of these trees have come into hearing 
this year, and I would like to transplant a 
few of them into another garden near the 
house, as they are too far away from the 
house at present, and I intend to sell this lot. 
Would I have to sacrifice the fruit-buds for 
next year by transplanting them? As some 
of them are infested with San Jos6 scale, 
could I before replanting them fumigate 
them as the nurseries do before sending them 
out? What would I have to use to fumigate 
with ? E. H. 
Englewood, N. J. 
Ans. —The trees mcnrioned could be 
transplanted safely if great care is used, 
but the shock to them would cause nearly 
all the fruit that may set either to drop 
off or fail to grow to normal size. I 
would prefer that the trees have all the 
fruit that sets pulled off next year, so as 
to allow the trees to grow and become 
well established. San Jose scale can be 
killed by fumigation, but I would think it 
unwise to transplant trees that were 
known to be infested with this pest. In 
any case, before attempting to fumigate 
trees my advicee would be to explain the 
whole situation to the entomologist of the 
State Experiment Station at New Bruns¬ 
wick, N. J., and follow the direction that 
will be given. H. e. van deman. 
New Jersey Notes. —The past Summer has 
been very bad for milk producers in this sec¬ 
tion. Pasture lias been very poor, owing to 
drought prevailing since early Spring. There 
have been good rains lately, and grass is 
starting up again. Cows have been below our 
average in milk flow as compared with last 
year. The price of milk has been about the 
same as last year. The majority of milk 
produced in this section is shipped! to Perth 
Amboy at an average price of three cents per 
quart for the year. Cows are selling at .$45 
to $55 with calves. Feed, wheat bran in car 
lots, $10; corn, $1.25 per hundred; brewers’ 
grains, 22% to 25 cents per hundred. Hay 
was about one-lialf crop; wheat and oats, 
three-quarter crop; corn promises to be fairly 
good. In the past two years there have been 
built in our section five silos which have 
given good satisfaction and are the dairy¬ 
man’s best friend in the production of milk. 
Lebanon. N. J. w. a. 
DANSY Mme. Perret, Genuine; gold medal. Hardy 
* White Welsh Onion; all kinds of seeds for florists 
and market gardeners. BEAULIEU, Woodliaven, N.Y. 
D C A I C— Crimson Clover Seed, 
■ » Ei $5.50 per bushel: Cow 
Peas. $1.75 bushel. J. E. HOLLAND, Milford, Del. 
FOR Q A| C-RED SEED WHEAT, HARVEST 
lUn uHLL KING; immense yielder, $1 per bush. 
Also, SHEPHERD PUPPIES, males, $4.00; females, 
$2.00. Good ones. A. W. GRAHAM, Castile, N. Y, 
gffiS&S MAMMOTH WHITE WINTER RYE 
heavy yield of Grain, and fine Straw for baling. 
E. L. CLARKSON, TIVOLI, NEW YORK. 
Send for circular, with photograph of Rye. 
CHOICE SEED RYE, 
Our SEED RYE is grown on sandy soil and produces 
heavy crops when sown on loam. 85 cents per bushel. 
Sample on application. 
KIGG 
EDWARD 
•Jr., Burlington, N, J. 
BEFORE QCCn U/UFAT write me for prices, 
BUYING OLLU iillLMI stating how much you 
will use. Booklet free. Samples for stamp. Four hardy 
and prolific varieties. Clean and graded. Moderate 
prices. A,H. Hoffman. Bamford, Lancaster Co., Pa. 
F OR SALE.— Thirty bushels Winter Wheat. Will 
sell in small lots; $2 per bushel. Apply OASIS 
FARM, Harrison, N. Y. Charles Furtlimann, Prop. 
MAMMOTH WHITE WINTER RYE. 
Heavy yielder and large straw ; clean and 'graded. 
Price, $1 per bushel. Bags free. 
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