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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
October 14; 
FARMERS’ CLUB 
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WINTERING PANSIES. 
Pansy plants can be transplanted now, 
or before frost sets in. Transplant in a 
well sheltered situation where the west 
and north winds will not strike too hard, 
about three inches apart, in very rich 
ground where there is plenty of well-de¬ 
composed manure. Keep off the weeds, 
and when the very cold weather sets in, 
not before Thanksgiving in this locality, 
cover them with salt hay or straw if 
you have no sash, or excelsior, but 
salt hay is best if you can get it, 
as it will not press down so hard as the 
manure or straw. Plants raised that way 
come later in the Spring, because the 
buyer will not buy any pansies unless 
there are blossoms on them. Wintered in 
that way they are better to raise seeds 
than grown under glass too. Some grow¬ 
ers throw away many plants when trans¬ 
planting in the Fall, but do not do it un¬ 
less the plant is sickly. You cannot se¬ 
lect your plants now, but in the Spring. 
Do not throw away any young plant, be 
cause it looks small; there is a chance 
that it will be the finest one in the Spring. 
You know that common plants grow much 
quicker than a fancy one; wild plants 
grow faster than cultivated. You have 
more chance to have a fine flower on a 
weak plant so long as it is healthy than 
on a strong one, as a rule. 
HENRI BEAULIEU. 
uit for Oklahoma. 
E. B. 8., Liberal, Kan .,—Will you give a 
list of fruit for home use that will succeed 
in Beaver Co., O. T. ? Elevation 2,500 
feet. Plums and grapes grow wild along 
river and peaches are quite certain crop. 
b. s. 
Ans. —Yellow Transparent, Duchess, 
Cooper’s Early White, Maiden Blush, 
Missouri Pippin, Jonathan, Winesap, and 
Ben Davis are the best varieties of apples 
for that section of the country. Elberta, 
Alexander and Salway are about the best 
peaches, but the late peaches will not be 
so good as tbe earlier ones. Plant the 
Early Richmond and English Morello 
cherries. Burbank and Pottawattamie 
plums are about the best. In Beaver 
County it will be necessary to irrigate or 
plant in very favored localities to be even 
moderately successful with fruit. 
o. M. M. 
Peach Yellows. 
J. II., Kent, 0 .—My peach trees have pale 
yellow leaves and small fruit, but have 
no bunches of small wiry twigs. The 
peaches are worthless. Is this a sign of the 
yellows? Some of the trees have one-half 
of the tops with healthy green leaves and 
the other part pale green leaves, but I have 
never seen any spotted fruit. 
Ans. —All the symptoms mentioned are 
those of the disease called Peach yellows, 
but they are not all seen on every dis¬ 
eased tree. The sign usually seen at first 
is .the pale color of the leaves, and next 
the poorly flavored fruit- These two have 
been noticed on the trees described, and 
it is quite safe to say that the disease is 
present. The other symptoms will prob¬ 
ably appear next year. The wise thing to 
do is to dig up and burn all the trees that 
appear to be affected, and to be very care¬ 
ful not to allow them to touch the 
healthy trees. I have seen the yellows 
transmitted to healthy trees by dragging 
those diseased out of the orchard and 
allowing them to touch. h. e. v. d. 
Soil Containing White Grubs. 
IF. It. L., Herkimer Co., N. Y .—I have a 
piece of corn or old pasture ground that is 
full of the white grubs. In some places it 
is all dead. Will the grubs work in the oats 
next year? When would be the best time to 
plow? Would plowing in late Fall freeze 
them out? If some of your readers have 
had some experience with them I would be 
pleased to hear from them. 
Ans.—I should prefer to put some 
Other crop than oats on land infested with 
white grubs. Better put some crop, like 
potatoes, that requires frequent cultiva¬ 
tion, as this is the greatest discourager of 
white grubs yet discovered. It is possible 
that the grubs will mature this Fall, and 
thus not be a serious pest in the field 
next season. But I should not count on 
this possibility. The best thing to do is 
to plow and thoroughly stir up the soil 
this Fall as soon as the corn is off, then 
thoroughly stir it up again in early Spring 
before putting in any crop. No substance 
has yet been found that can be applied 
to the soil in sufficient quantities to kill 
white grubs and not destroy all vegeta¬ 
tion also. Thorough and frequent culti¬ 
vation and frequent rotation of crops are 
the greatest discouragers of these pests. 
M. V. SLINGERLAND. 
Keeping Onions. 
G. B. D., Beloit, Wis .—How shall I treat 
my onions, now they are ripe? Many are 
sipall that I want to keep for sets in the 
Spring. 
Ans. —Red and yellow onions should 
be pulled as soon as the tops begin to 
lop. As the ground is free from weeds, 
they can be thrown together in strips or 
gathered into small piles where they are 
left until thoroughly cured, when they 
are opened on a dry day and taken to 
the barn or loft, and stored in slatted 
bins or racks where air can have free ac¬ 
cess underneath and on all sides. Plenty 
of ventilation should be given in good 
weather. On the approach of severe 
weather the building should be made tight 
and warm, and a fire started on extreme 
cold nights, or they can be moved to a 
dry cellar when freezing weather comes 
on. On the care of onion sets I would 
refer G. B. D. to R. N.-Y. of July 22, page 
551. JOSEPH ADAMS. 
the “Pomona Experiment Committee,” with 
Walton E. Davis, Shiloh, chairman, and 
George A. Mitchell. Vineland, secretary. They 
visited and examined the experimental work 
being done at this model farm and dairy by 
I’rof. Johnstone and his able assistant super¬ 
intendents; also visited the laundry, cannery, 
worksht ,)s and otheix places of interest at this 
wonderful “home.” After an elaborate lunch 
served by two of the inmates, given to the 
guests by the professor, especial experimental 
work was assigned to each member of the 
committee, which, with work to be done by 
members of their respective Granges, is to be 
reported at a future meeting. 
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JOS. H. BLACK, SON & CO.. Higktstown, N. J. 
Peach Trees Do Not Bear. 
F. H. D., Englestown, N. J .—I have a 
peach orchard df 500 trees, six years old, 
that has borne no fruit so far. The trees are 
vigorous, the foliage dark green, and the 
trees seem to turn everything into wood, as 
they make great growth eacli year. The soil 
is a sandy loam, well drained, and for the 
last three years has had a crop of Crimson 
clover on it. For two years the clover was 
cut in with a disk harrow, and this year 
plowed under, but I have secured nothing 
from it as yet. Can you tell me what to 
do to get fruit, or shall I pull them out, 
as I don’t care to lose the use of the land 
much longer? 
Ans. —It seems very strange that 
healthy and vigorous peach trees in a 
good peach country have not borne fruit 
within six years from planting. It may 
be that there have been severe Winters 
or Spring frosts that killed the fruit 
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trees as described they ought to bear fruit 
of excellent quality*. h. E. v. d. 
NEW JERSEY GRANGE NOTES.—Cbm- 
berland Co. (N. J.) Pomona No. 4 at its last 
session, appointed a committee from each 
Grange to take preliminary steps toward the 
establishment of an experiment station in 
South Jersey, as the soil and climate of the 
location of the present experiment station in 
New Brunswick are so different from this 
part of the State, that many of the experi¬ 
ments are not satisfactory here. This com¬ 
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I’rof. E. R. Johnstone, principal and super¬ 
intendent at tbe “Training School for the 
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