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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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PEACHES FOR NEW JERSEY. 
With us the Elberta is the king of 
peaches. In planting an orchard of 1,500 
trees last Spring, at least 1,000 of them 
were Elberta. I have heard it was sub¬ 
ject to leaf-curl, but as yet we have had 
no bother with it. For quality it may not 
rank first, but it surely does as a money¬ 
maker. HORACE ROBERTS. 
Burlington Co., N. Y. 
ties as would more. On my residence lot 
I have a single Kieffer that bears well 
each year. There is no reason why isola¬ 
tion from companions of the same variety 
should work harm. R. o. graham. 
CUTTING CLOVER FROM WHEAT 
STUBBLE. 
April 1, 1896, by mistaken orders, one 
of our men sowed a double portion of 
clover and Timothy seed on six acres of 
growing wheat. The wheat was cut the 
July following; September 1 the clover in 
blossom was cut, stubble and all, close 
to the ground, and drawn to the barn 
(five or six loads) for Winter feed. July 
I, 1897, we cut a. heavy crop of mixed hay. 
September 1, 1897, we cut a second crop, 
mostly clover. July 1, 1898, we cut 18 
loads of clean Timothy hay. September 
10, 1898, cut seven or eight loads of Tim¬ 
othy rowen. In the five cuttings we must 
have secured 30 or more tons of dry hay 
and rowen, and all from the one seeding 
without any fertilizer whatever. After 
the wheat was sown Fall of 1895, super¬ 
phosphate was used liberally. 'I his 
ground had been used to grow nursery 
stock, pear and other trees and had not 
been cleared long. It was good enough, 
however, to grow 150 bushels of ears of 
corn per acre, and had done so previously 
to nursery crop. F. M. p. 
Cayuga Co., N. Y. 
PROTECTING CHERRY TREES. 
I note an article in The R. N.-Y. by 
J. H. S. asking what is the matter with 
his cherry trees, and H. E. V. D. rec¬ 
ommends good tillage. That is all right, 
but do not till them after the fruit is ripe. 
When fruit of any kind ripens the buds 
for next year’s crop also ripen and go 
to sleep (lie dormant) until the next 
Spring, and if tilled after that it may 
cause the buds to awaken and put forth 
bloom, as you have often seen it when 
showers come after a dry spell. '1 his 
bloom is a loss to next year's crop. Get 
good th.ck bark (in Maryland we can 
get chestnut bark), put it around the tree 
from the ground up to the first limb; this 
will protect it from the cold of Winter 
and also from the hot sun of Spring and 
Summer. I have seen a vigorous cherry 
tree crack open in the Winter and the hot 
sun in the Spring make a dead place one 
siae of the tree. If you put bark 
around the tree it will neither freeze to 
crack open nor will it sunscald. This is 
intended for trees under 10 years of age; 
after that age they will need no protec¬ 
tion. T. J. s. 
Home Fruit Supply. —If J. J. J., page 
645, is set on planting an orchard “on 
the rich black land of the corn belt” in 
central Illinois, he should plant with the 
expectation that his apple and pear trees 
are not likely to do well on this soil, and 
that the fruit they may bear will be in¬ 
ferior. He must expect a hard fight 
against every enemy to which these trees 
are subject. Our orchard is on the tim¬ 
ber soil. The orchards formerly around 
us on the black land either are already 
‘has beens” or are fast entering this 
rank. But if he is determined to go for¬ 
ward. my advice would be in selecting 28 
apple trees: Two Red June, four Duchess 
of Oldenburg, four Jonathan, four Grimes 
Golden, four York Imperial, two Gano, 
eight Black Ben Davis. Peach: Four 
Greensboro, four Hill’s Chili, four Chair’s 
Choice, four Champion, four Elberta. 
Plum: Two Burbank, two Abundance, 
two DeSoto, two Miner, two Czar, two 
Wild Goose. Pears: Four Dwarf Duchess, 
two Garber, four Kieffer. Cherries: Two 
Northwest, two Montrnorenci, two Early 
Richmond. In proper soil and with proper 
care the above array should give enough 
fruit for a very large and frugivorous 
family. I believe one tree of a kind 
would do just as well among other varie- 
ALFALFA NOTES. 
Two Experiments. —May 1 we sowed half 
acre, using 20 pounds of Montana seed. Soil 
sandy loam ; part of this plot is sub irrigated. 
We used half bushel speltz as nurse crop. For 
some years a portion of the land had been 
abandoned to a rank growth of Sweet clover, 
not considered worth euttiug. Three years 
ago we cleared it for a garden. July 1 a very 
heavy growth 12 to 18 inches high, beginning 
to bloom ; spelt z in the milk and some weeds 
cut aud fed to cows green. August 15 
clipped over a good thick stand on irrigated 
part, Witch grass seeming to get the better 
of the Alfalfa on drier portion. September 
3 a beautiful green mat on irrigated land 
three to four inches high, a fair stand and 
doing well on drier portion of plot: Alfalfa 
gaining over Witch grass. 1 shall disk in 
more seed. I am not yet prepared to say 
whether part of this plot being sub-irrigated 
by a large spring made the difference or the 
Sweet clover furnished the inoculated soil we 
hear a good deal about. Both cuttings except 
400 or 500 pounds fed gteen to the cows. An 
acre of Alfalfa was sown June 5 with oats 
as nurse crop, half on sandy slope, half on 
bottom land, sandy loam, gravel subsoil. This 
is naturally good laud, but has not been ma¬ 
nured for many years; had raised a fine crop 
of corn in 1903, aud a crop of potatoes in 
1904. Plowed the last of April, harrowed the 
middle of May to kill weeds, harrowed before 
sowing oats, cross-harrowed to cover oats, 
and about 50 bushels hen manure and 
wood ashes, 300 pounds fertilizer sown, 
gone over with smoothing harrow. Alfalfa 
sown, harrowed and rolled. Some people will 
say we are fussy and did some needless work, 
but we don’t think so. We are interested in 
sheep, and intend to have some Alfalfa to feed 
them. We have cut a heavy crop of oats for 
hay with some Alfalfa in the bottom, and 
now September 3, the Alfalfa is coming on 
well. We intend to give it a coat of well- 
rotted manure, and will tell you next Spring 
whether it is dead or alive. We shall sow 
half acre more next week, where the early po¬ 
tatoes were dug. c. e. b. 
Southern Vermont. 
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Weeds and Maggots. —When pulling plan¬ 
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