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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
November 17, 
FARMERS’ CLUB 
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Ownership of Right of Way. 
V. L. L., Kingston. R. I .—I am interested 
in the following legal question, and perhaps 
others of your readers may be also. A buys 
a farm of B. B reserves a right of way 
25 feet wide along one side of the farm, 
which is to be unobstructed by gates, bars, 
etc. The question arises, who owns the 
grass, stones, and trees which grow upon 
this land? Can A also use it as a roadway 
and improve it as such? 
Ans. —Such a grant as you speak of is 
called an easement, and the rights of the 
adjoining owners and of the public are 
governed by the exact language used. It 
is quite likely that all rights except the 
right to pass and repass were reserved in 
B. The deed would show this, and you 
should immediately look it up to deter¬ 
mine your rights. 
Cherry Culture in Kansas. 
L. A., Argentine, Kan .—Previous to the 
last few years cherries have been our most 
paying fruit for Kansas City market, always 
yielding some, with no entire failures. In the 
last three years most growers have failed to 
preserve the trees. In some cases half of 
the orchard died from no apparent cause. 
We notice two per cent of our trees, all 
ages, dead this year from a small grub under 
the bark on trunk and large limbs ; they eat 
the wood and then come out through a small 
hole. One per cent are dying from the 
leaf bunch (petiole?), being attacked at 
juncture with twig, the leaf dying and the 
gum exuding out at the base of the bunch. 
It seems to be stung. After tree dies the 
grubs do their work. The two or three 
years previous to this have been very wet 
in our country, the rain very heavy and often 
both Spring and Fall. Some fruit men at¬ 
tribute their loss of trees to this cause. I 
reason that our country has been fruited for 
so long, both cherries and trees, on same 
soil that' the land is losing its life and 
those elements essential to tree life. Most 
settlors are now cutting out the cherries and 
grassing their orchards. We have three 
varieties of cherries which prove most suc¬ 
cessful, the Early Richmond, Montmorency 
and English Morello, the latter being the 
hardest tree to grow. We lost 20 per cent of 
our Morello the first two years after setting. 
I would like to read and study some author¬ 
ity (bulletins or published work) on the 
pruning, development and fertilizing of soil 
for cherries. It seems to me the time is 
at hand when we must spray. 
Ans. —The cherry is not as much at 
home in Kansas as in some other parts 
of this country, as I know by many years 
of experience with it there, and as I have 
also observed it growing all over that 
State. The climate is too changeable. It 
is first very dry, then very wet, and may¬ 
be changes from delightful weather in 
the Fall or Winter to a blizzard, with 
the thermometer far below zero. The 
cherry delights in an equable climate, and 
one not too cold. The best region for 
cherry culture that I have seen is the 
western parts of Oregon, Washington 
and British Columbia. In some parts of 
California it does well and in the hilly 
region of Pennsylvania, Maryland and 
Virginia. All kinds of cherries flourish in 
these sections, the trees of the Mazzard 
type sometimes attaining monstrous size 
and living to a very old age. In Kansas 
and other of the Central States the sweet 
varieties will not succeed, owing to the 
violent climatic changes, but the sour 
kinds usually do very well. Of these the 
varieties named by the inquirer, Rich¬ 
mond, Montmorency and English Morello 
are the best. The trees should be planted 
in locations where the soil is fertile and 
well drained. They should have good 
tillage as long as they live. I do not be¬ 
lieve in growing cherry trees in grass al¬ 
though I have seen some that were doing 
very well in this condition. The ground 
should be kept as cool and moist as pos¬ 
sible, and with a loose covering of mellow 
earth these conditions are usually main¬ 
tained with the least trouble. It should 
never be wet and soggy. The insects 
complained of are probably not the cause 
of the trouble with the trees, but are 
simply scavengers that follow in the wake 
of death, feeding on the dead bark and 
wood. Borers that work in live wood do 
not and, I think' cannot, live upon dead 
vegetable tissue. However, there may be 
insects in Kansas that I do not know 
about, but during the 18 years that I 
lived there I never saw any that affected 
my cherry trees in the wood, bark or base 
of the leaves. It might be well to send 
some to the entomologist of the Agricul¬ 
tural College at Manhattan. 
H. E. VAN DEMAN. 
The Value of Unpolished Pice. 
We have a question from a reader in New 
England who asks about the value of “un¬ 
polished rice.” In preparing rice for mar¬ 
ket the grain is scoured or polished, thus 
removing some of the shell. Recent news¬ 
paper articles claim that this process de¬ 
stroys the value of the rice as food. The 
following note is written by Dr. W. R. 
Dodson, director of the Louisiana Experi¬ 
ment Station : 
The articles stating that the polished 
rice is robbed of practically all of its 
nutriment are untrue. The polishing 
process takes off the outer seed coats 
and a considerable portion of the aleurone 
layer. The grain is very similar in its 
anatomy to that of the wheat grain, and 
is to a certain extent comparable to re¬ 
moving the bran from the wheat. The 
covering of the rice grain, however, is 
colorless, though not as attractive to the 
eye as the highly polished grain. The 
unpolished grain therefore contains a 
little more protein and oil than does the 
polished article. To be exact, I give you 
the following analyses. Rice direct from 
the stones before polishing is of the fol¬ 
lowing composition: Fat, 2.1 per cent; 
crude protein, 8.09 per cent; carbohy¬ 
drates, 72.11 per cent. Clean rice, or 
polished rice, .38 per cent fat, 7.52 per 
cent protein, and 78.05 per cent carbohy¬ 
drates. You will therefore see that the 
difference is not very great, except in 
the amount of oil. This difference is 
accounted for, from the fact that a large 
per cent of the oil is in the germ, and 
most of the germs are removed in the 
process of milling. After we consider 
the question of balancing the ration of 
the individual, we still have all the fat 
that is desirable, and since the rancidity 
of the grains results from the fats break 
ing up into fatty acids, it is really very 
fortunate that so much of this oil is 
removed from the grain before it goes 
into commerce. There is a slight differ¬ 
ence in taste in the polished and unpol¬ 
ished rice. The unpolished rice tastes a 
little more like corn hominy, and I rather 
prefer the flavor of the unpolished rice. 
Still, it does not look as attractive to the 
eye as the polished article, either before 
or after cooking. I read an article in 
the last issue of an agricultural paper 
of wide circulation, which stated that 
polished rice was of little nutritive value. 
The article was wholly misleading, and 
calculated to deceive rice consumers, and 
do an injury to rice producers. The only 
purpose I can see in the production of 
such articles, is to try to say something 
out of the ordinary and to attract more 
or less attention. They are usually 
written by parties ignorant of the facts, 
notwithstanding, they are often em¬ 
ployees of the National Department of 
Agriculture. As to your inquiry as to 
where you could secure the unpolished 
rice, I presume that most any of the 
mills would furnish it in quantities suf¬ 
ficient to justify them to make shipment, 
although they are not likely to ship in 
retail quantities. 
Clover in Corn.-^-Od page 747 “Reader" 
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say five to 10 per cent, and is lost. Some 
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