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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
April 21, 
ARE PLANTERS USING SMALLER 
TREES? 
The following notea from nurserymen were 
written last year. We asked if growers were 
ordering smaller trees for planting, or cutting 
top and root more severely. 
The past few years show that our trade 
is gradually increasing on young stock, espe¬ 
cially in aple, plum and peach. War always 
advise planting a young, thrifty tree, and to 
cut back when planted. 
Iowa. THE GARDNER NURSERY CO. 
We are selling a great many small trees 
three to four feet high, but think this is 
due largely to the low price, rather than a 
demand for small trees. The local trade and 
small retail orders take the larger trees. We 
think planters are cutting hack more than 
they did some yeartf ago, but not half enough 
yet. GEO. J. KELLOGG & SON’S. 
Wisconsin. 
We do not observe any large tendency 
among planters in ordering smaller or younger 
trees for planting. We have in the course 
of a year a number of inquiries in regard 
to the Stringfellow method, and have some 
orders every year from persons who desire 
to try it, and who order small trees selected 
for that purpose, but it is a very small per 
cent of our retail trade among planters. 
Ohio. THE STORRS & HARRISON CO. 
We find the South and West are using 
smaller trees and pruning closer, but many 
New York and New England growers want a 
poach as large as a broom-handle, and will 
abuse you unless It grows that size in one 
year. For apples, we find about 95 per cent 
of our customers want them two years old. 
of good size, five to six feet at least; some 
ask for smaller, owing to price, and if we 
have to send them larger in order to fill the 
order it makes them laugh; if it is a neces¬ 
sity to send small ones to complete the order 
you will hear a howl. Pears and cherries 
are usually five to six feet; plums lighter; 
commercial orchards three to four feet. All 
appreciate trees as young as possible, well 
grown, smooth. 
Maryland. j. g. harrison & sons. 
We do not know of any large planter among 
our customers who prunes the roots any 
more severely than previously; this means 
merely cutting all mutilated roots and leav¬ 
ing a fresh cut on the end of each large root. 
We think that there is a growing tendency to 
prune the tops a little harder in peaches, 
but not in any other kinds of trees. Our 
trade this year has been more particular 
about having extra large trees and first-class 
trees than ever before, and many have been 
the warnings in orders to us to be srurei to 
send all the roots we could get on them. 
We have had more call for bearing age trees 
than ever before. We think if there has been 
more call for lighter trees it is because they 
were cheaper and cost less for freight, rather 
than because of preference for those small 
grades. jos. H. black, son & co. 
New Jersey. 
In regard to using younger peach trees 
we notice no difference in our trade, because 
we have always used one-year budded fees. 
We have more call for the smaller sizes even 
in these. In the South the June bud is the 
only tree wanted by the large planter. We 
have more call for smaller apple trees and 
for younger trees than formerly. We are 
more interested In the cherry than any other 
fruit tree, and in that we have created, 
during the last few years, a large demand 
for one-year trees. A few years ago ye 
never sold a cherry under two years of age. 
Our ground seems adapted to their growth, 
and we are now able to grow a large stocky 
tree at one year old. However we have had 
a good many orders from planters the past 
year for cherry one to two feet high. W r e are 
sure a one-year cherry is better for the 
planter than a two-year tree. Speaking in 
general we should say that the tendency is 
for planting younger trees, especially in 
peach and cherry. h. m. Simpson & sons. 
Indiana. 
We advocate strongly the cutting back of 
nursery stock very severely at the time it 
is planted out in the orchards. Our direc¬ 
tions to our customers, are to cut the entire 
tip of tree out, so as to leave but about 
three or four branches, and that these 
branches that are left should be cut back to 
within one or two buds of the trunk of the 
tree. We do not advocate the severe root 
pruning any more than to cut out any bruised 
roots that may be found on the tree. The 
reason that we give ta our customers is that 
when the tree is first planted out the roots 
should not have too much top left on the 
tree to support, as they need all the vitality 
they have to get their own growth started 
and in reality the first year growth to a 
tree, should be under ground rather than 
above. We think that there is a growing 
tendency for commercial planters to prune 
the tops of their trees closer at the time 
they are planted out in the orchard than 
they have heretofore done. We do not know 
that the trade is calling for younger trees 
than they formerly did. 
Michigan. west Michigan nurseries. 
Our trade during the past two or three 
years has called for a lighter grade of trees 
than formerly, especially in peach. This is 
quite notably so among many of our heavy 
planters, whose trade we have had for many 
years, who formerly always planted the heavy 
trees, but for the past two or three years 
they have been ordering the medium or three 
to four foot grade of peach. We have been 
making careful inquiry and close observation 
along the line of pruning during the past 
few years. While a somewhat closer or shorter 
system of pruning may be practiced than 
that employed 20 years ago (and that to 
advantage) the system of root pruning in 
accord with the Stringfellow method as we 
understand it, should never be employed on 
the average soils of western New York. 
New York. h. s. wiley & son. 
Oyster Shell Bark Louse. 
O. M. H., Charlotte , Vt .—Can you tell mo ! 
how best to get rid of oyster shell scale?] 
Would it be safe to spray with crude oil 
during the Winter, and would it be effective? 
Ans. —We sprayed with oil last Winter, 
but it does not seem to have destroyed 
many of the eggs. We must remember 
that there is nothing but the egg under the 
scales in Winter. The best time to make, 
sure of this insect is in late May or June, 
when the eggs hatch and the little insects 
work over the tree. At this time a spray 
with a weak solution of whale-oil soap 
or one of the soluble oils will kill them. 
Early Pasture for Cattle. 
F. R. A., Oshkosh, Wis.—We have two 
acres of well-drained land, heavy clay soil 
(well fertilized) which we wish to convert 
into pasturage for milch cows. We would 
like to turn the cows on this pasturage some 
time in May if possible. What seed shall 
we sow, when and in what quantity? 
Ans. —We have never tried anything 
better than oats and peas. We sow a 
bushel of Canada field peas on the ground 
and plow them under. Then sow three 
bushels of oats on the furrows and work 
them in with a harrow. This gives some 
pasture—not the best. If the field can be 
divided so as to turn the cows from one 
part to another it will be better. For 
hogs or sheep rape and turnips will an¬ 
swer. 
Top-Grafting Ben Davis. 
O. 8. L.. Fall River. Mass. — I have some 
Ben Davis trees set out 16 years ago. They 
are quite large and tall; some of them are 
eight inches through at the ground and 
30 feet tall, but no one seems toi want them. 
Would I better cut these down or top-graft 
them? If so, how large a limb should t 
cut off for the grafts, and how many grafts 
should 1 put in the limb? When should I 
cut the graft to use? The trees have apples 
every year when all others are a failure. 
Ans. —Even if “no one seems to want 
the fruit of the Ben Davis,” the stock is 
all right to work over, and if the trees 
take the usual Ben Davis habit, there 
should be no difficulty in finding limbs 
less than three inches in diameter close 
enough to the main forks to make a well- 
formed skeleton for the new variety to 
fill out. I would cut grafts in early April, 
keep them cool in sawdust till the last of 
April, and set two in a cleft on limbs less 
than three inches in diameter; or if neces¬ 
sary to use larger limbs, would set the 
grafts in a side saw cut which should be 
smoothed with a thin knife. This method 
avoids mutilation of the stub, and has re¬ 
cently been brought into prominence by 
W. S. Cobum, president of the Colorado 
Horticultural Society. p. l. h. 
City Help for Farms. — I was pleased by 
the article on farm help on page 238. I 
have had about) the same experience. When 
the charitable institutes stop feeding them 
perhaps we shall be able to keep them. Some 
have said that they could live a vear in 
New York City and not do a day’s' work; 
I guess that is so. s. l. 
Cherry Valley, N. Y. 
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