1906. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
257 
CLOSE CROPPING IN VIRGINIA. 
Reading on page 205 about a crop of 
corn after potatoes, will say in this sec¬ 
tion we always double-crop after potatoes 
and garden peas, either corn, millet or 
peanuts. Last year on four acres I plant¬ 
ed garden peas, made a fair crop, but 
prices were low; only cleared $10 an acre. 
I followed with peanuts; sold 82 bushels 
to the acre, sold for 77 cents a bushel. 
When peanuts were dug, sowed rye. 
Wheat is looking well; will turn this in 
later; probably raise a crop of corn, and 
when we lay it by sow Crimson clover. 
All the land in cultivation last year was 
sown in Crimson clover. Wheat made a 
fine pasture in November and is looking 
well now. Reason for sowing rye was 
that it was too late to sow clover. We 
keep a dairy; soil our cows; make two 
acres carry a cow for all food except 
shorts, brans, etc. I find peanut vines equal 
to clover if not nipped with frost. For 
silage corn after potatoes it comes in just 
right, say first of October. For pota¬ 
toes we use 500 pounds seven per cent 
fertilizer to 2,000 yards of row, which 
plants about one barrel potatoes of large 
seed. Farmers here all busy getting po¬ 
tatoes planted (March 9) ; garden peas 
just up; having considerable bad weather, 
which delays. E. b. d. 
Suffolk, Va. 
TOP-WORKING PEWAUKEE APPLE. 
One of our readers in Dutchess Co., N. Y., 
says that five years ago he set 00 apples, 
which he supposed were Hubhardston. These 
trees have proved to be Pewaukee. lie has 
never had any experience with this apple, 
and wants to know whether experienced grow¬ 
ers would advise him to let them go to 
fruitage or to top-work them with other 
kinds. They are making a fair growth, as 
they are. Would you, from your experience, 
advise this man to let the I’ewaukees stand, 
or would you top-work them with some other 
variety? If so, what apple would you recom¬ 
mend? 
I know nothing of the Pewaukee, never 
having grown it, but from the description 
given in “Apples of New York” I would 
top-work, immediately to some of the 
leading market varieties. In two years 
the work can be completed, and the time 
lost will be well repaid. e. w. barnes. 
Orange Co., N. Y. 
I would most certainly top-work the 
Pewaukee. It is an apple of poor qual¬ 
ity, and undesirable for market purposes; 
at least this has been my experience. It 
has one very bad feature in addition to 
those noted. It has a short thick stem, 
which makes it very liable to go on the 
ground in a windstorm. Why not top- 
work to the Hubbardston, as this inquirer 
seemed to be favorably inclined to it? 
J. R. CORNELL. 
If there were no risk from San Jose 
scale I would rather top-work a block of 
00 Pewaukee trees with a standard kind. 
As it is, the Pewaukee is an early and 
reliable yielder, and is easily kept within 
spraying distance, and if not top-worked, 
will bear many barrels of apples before 
the same trees, top-worked, would give 
any return. I would leave this lot as it is, 
but I protest against planting mixed va¬ 
rieties generally, as I believe it better to 
plant the half dozen or so standard Win¬ 
ter varieties almost exclusively. 
Dutchess Co., N. Y. wm. h. hart. 
I saw young Pewaukee trees bearing in 
the Grant Hutchings’ orchard in 1900. I 
think trees were 12 years old, and Mr. 
Hitchings said that they picked 18 bushels 
and were one of his heaviest yielders, and 
I think an annual one. We also had 
grafts growing that gave apples every 
year. Fruit as I have seen it, medium to 
large, color dull yellow or green, striped 
with dull red, covered with heavy bloom; 
net very attractive. Quality I should 
rank as poor, not much better than Ben 
Davis. Its heavy bearing and fair size 
may make it a profitable commercial sort. 
B. D. VAN BUREN. 
^ e find Pewaukee to be a fairly desir¬ 
able apple. 1 he tree is a good grower, 
and though we have no trees here of any 
great age it always bears well, and under 
good treatment a large percentage of the 
apples are fine, though not highly colored. 
Its quality is good, and it is a useful ex¬ 
port apple. Were the trees our own we 
should be inclined to allow at least a 
portion of the Pewaukees to grow, and 
graft 30 to 45 with some other good kind. 
Hubbardston is good; would just as soon 
have Baldwin, and if they are to go where 
all our apples are going—to Europe— 
would prefer the latter. Greening is 
profitable, and is always going to be want¬ 
ed, but must have its proper soil, and the 
Newtown is also highly desirable. Let us 
suggest that the top-working business be 
very carefully done, as it will not pay to 
lose any trees at this stage. Without the 
closest attention many of the grafts are 
certain to be destroyed by the Bud-moth 
caterpillar. We were entirely successful 
last Spring in protecting newly-set scions 
from this pernicious pest by immediately 
wrapping each one securely in closely- 
woven muslin and leaving them thus 
bagged until the buds were nicely open. 
If this is again a case where the nursery¬ 
man has made a “mistake,” isn’t it about 
time the nurserymen begin to make good 
for such “mistakes?” w. s. teator. 
Dutchess Co., N. Y. 
ORIGIN OF OLD APPLES. 
I notice in “Brevities” of February 17, 
you say : “Give us your trouble, perhaps we 
can fix it,” and I am thus encouraged to 
ask for information as to the origin of some 
of the old favorite apples*, especially the 
Tallman Sweet and R. I. Greening. As the 
Tallman is sometimes spelled “Tolman” I 
have a fancy that both of these old favor¬ 
ites originated in Rhode Island at an early 
date and by the same person. Peter Tail- 
man was the earliest of the name to come to 
America; lie was in Newport, R. I., 1675, 
and held many responsible positions; he had 
several, sons. It seems well in these days 
of genealogical study that the origin of these 
old plonker apples should be known and I 
hope oth(*rs will be interested in this matter. 
M. A. G. 
According to the best authorities, the 
first-named apple, which has 18 synonyms, 
should be called Tolman, not Tallman. It 
has been long in cultivation, but is supposed 
to have originated at Dorchester, Mass. 
The Rhode Island Greening, which also has 
many synonyms, appears without doubt to 
be a native of Rhode Island, probably the 
vicinity of Newport near the place known 
as Green’s End. An old tree on the Drown 
farm, Mt. Ilygeia, is supposed to be nearly 
200 years old; another, near Fruit Ilili, cut 
down in 1889, was planted in 1748. Ac¬ 
cording to pomologists, the old tree at Mt. 
Ilygeia is not growing on its own roots, so 
that it is not the original Rhode Island 
Greening tree. Pomologists recommend that 
the word Greening be dropped from the name, 
and the apple be called simply Rhode Island. 
QUEER TREE NOTES. 
Live Fence Posts. —The Pacific Rural 
Press records this curious legal case: “A 
case Involving a very interesting agricultural 
question has cropped out in Sacramento. It 
seems that a land owner is suing a hop- 
grower who has a five years’ lease of the land 
because two years ago the tenant, in order 
to secure good supports for his wires, planted 
600 live willow posts on the land in rect¬ 
angles, 40x30 feet, and the posts took root 
and are now growing into trees. It Is al¬ 
leged that the trees are hardy and vigorous; 
that they send out shoots and branches very 
fast, and that if permitted to grow until 
1909, the date of the termination of the lease, 
they will have taken the land, and that it 
will have been worth nothing for the culti¬ 
vation of hops or anything else except willow 
trees, and that to grub the laud and clear It 
would cost more than the land is worth. The 
plaintiffs pray for damages in the sum of 
$;>,000, and for a writ of injunction to com¬ 
pel the lessee to rembve the wilows from the 
land. This seems a rational proposition on 
the part of the land-owner. On the part of 
the tenant It is perhaps desirable to have 
posts which cannot blow over, at a low cost. 
But we cannot understand how a hop grower 
tan pay rent with the crop lie can grow 
while the willow trees are rooting under his 
hops and extending branches over them. The 
answer of the defendant may be very inter¬ 
esting agriculturally.” 
Black Locust Posts.— The Ohio Experi¬ 
ment Station says: “Tree agents are work¬ 
ing In this vicinity selling Black locusts at 
$25 per thousand. They claim that the trees 
will grow to post size in four to six years, 
they also claim that the trees they are sell¬ 
ing will not sprout from the root and that 
it will not be necessary to keep live stock 
away from the young trees." To these ab¬ 
surd claims the Station makes reply; Reli¬ 
able. nurseries In Ohio are cataloguing Black 
locust trees at $6 to $10 per thousand. Lo¬ 
cust trees will not ordinarily grow to post 
size in less time than 8 to 12 years from 
planting. They will not sprout from the 
roots so long as the trees are uncut or un¬ 
injured and the roots unbroken, but as soon 
as the trees are cut or seriously injured or 
the roots broken, sprouts will come up from 
the roots. So far as is known all Black lo¬ 
cust trees are alike in this respect, and any 
claim that they will never sprout is either 
made through ignorance or for the purpose 
of deceiving. Live stock, and especially 
sheep, are almost sure death to young locust 
trees if allowed to pasture where they are 
growing.” 
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