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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
November 24, 
A CHILD AMONG BEES. 
The picture shown below is sent 
us by F. H. Drake, of Massachusetts. It 
would require great courage for one not 
well acquainted with bees to put a child 
on a hive in this way. One should ne 
thankful for bees that will not “bite.” Mr. 
Drake says: 
“The bees were flying in and out of all 
the hives when this picture was taken, 
but very few are seen, as it was late af¬ 
ternoon, and not bright sunlight. It was 
interesting to note that tallest hive—the 
three-decker on the scales—gave a gain of 
nine pounds between daylight and dark, 
and would fall short V/ 2 pound in the 
night, showing that the bees had driven 
out so much moisture from the fresh nec¬ 
tar. The dark line between the first and 
second stories of that hive is -the edge 
of the queen excluder, which keeps the 
brood below and allows the bees to store 
only honey above. More farmers should 
keep bees if only for food and pleasure. 
The hives are very near the house, and 
children often among them and none has 
been stung.” . 
TREES LARGER IN NURSERY ROW. 
My plan of keeping trees in the nursery 
is just what every ornamental nursery¬ 
man does all the time; transplant several 
times and grow the tree larger. My own 
settled in my mind, and I shall do it more 
or less in the future. 
[Prof.] A. G. GULLEY.' 
Connecticut Agricultural College. 
DIPPING REPLACES FUMIGATION. 
Reading on page 791 the little note from 
Orlando Harrison regarding the treat¬ 
ment of nursery stock reminded me that 
perhaps it would interest your readers to 
know that the Oregon State Board of 
Horticulture at its semi-annual meeting 
last week passed a regulation providing 
that in future all nursery stock must be 
dipped in a standard solution of lime, sul¬ 
phur and salt before it could be offered 
for sale. We have tried fumigating for 
years with very unsatisfactory results; 
fumigation strong enough to kill the scale 
frequently injures the trees. The scale 
is spreading and becoming a more serious 
pest every year. The buyer is certainly 
entitled to a clean tree and this proper 
dipping will insure. Dipping will also be 
required of all nursery stock shipped into 
the State hereafter, and an effort will be 
made to have all the coast States adopt 
a similar requirement. One of the most 
effective plans yet found to enforce spray¬ 
ing of trees is condemning scaly fruit 
wherever offered for sale. 
w. K. NEWELL. 
Prest. Oregon State B’d of Horticulture. 
PERFECT CONFIDENCE IN THE BEES. 
plan is to take ordinary nursery trees 
three to four years old, set out again in 
nursery row, with more room, say two 
feet in row and rows five feet apart; 
grow two years, giving same treatment of 
trimming and spraying they shoujd re¬ 
ceive in orchard; then take up and set 
back again with more room, and grow 
two more years, or in other words, grow¬ 
ing at least the first four years of the 
orchard in the nursery rather than in the 
orchard, and with much less expense, and 
having the land saved to use in Fall or 
prepare in better shape. Trees thus 
treated now six years in orchard have 
fully kept their lead and borne, some, the 
third crop. I do not know where the 
limit is from the fruit growers’ stand¬ 
point of economy, but of course it must 
be done on the farm where the trees are 
to be grown, as one could not ship such 
trees without great expense. As to remov¬ 
ing fillers, I am just about to test that. 
Having one orchard where it is now nec¬ 
essary to thin I expected to begin by par¬ 
tially cutting out trees, but a wealthy man, 
hearing of the trees, wants them to re¬ 
plant, so in the Spring we shall take up 
a lot and remove to his place about 40 
miles away. I have no doubt of the suc¬ 
cess of the trees. It will only be a matter 
of expense. The trees to be moved have 
been 11 years in the orchard and are from 
four to seven inches in diameter of trunk. 
That it is feasible to grow trees several 
years longer in the nursery row is fully 
Thin Flagging for Greenhouse Benches. 
—Mr. Siebrecht’s communication, page 813. 
reminds me that I found cement for green¬ 
house benches very useful and durable many 
years ago, but the best results were obtained 
by the use of thin bluestone flagging, using 
sawed locust posts for supports and cypress 
strips to hold the sand. Of course the use 
of the flagging is only advisable in localities 
where it can be readily and cheaply procured, 
as at the Hudson River quarries where the 
thin stones could be set aside as got out, 
and sent down cheaply by boat. The locust 
posts will last as long as wanted and afford 
“good nailing” for the cypress strips. 
J. Y. p. 
The Elberta Peach. —As an orchard tree 
the Elberta is very nearly perfect, growing 
open with low head and requires but little 
pruning. It is also less susceptible to dis¬ 
ease than most varieties with me. The fruit 
is uniformly large, has a dry flesh and is 
a perfect freestone. The dry flesh renders 
it less liable to rot and makes it bear trans¬ 
portation better than most varieties. In 
most of these points mentioned the Elberta 
excels. Its dryness, which is a necessary 
quality in a good shipper, detracts from its 
quality for eating. The above traits are 
largely inherited from its parent, the 
Chinese. Many other varieties from this 
parentage have come into notice lately, but 
all of them are inferior to the Elberta. and 
very much inferior in point of quality to 
the Persian strains from which most of our 
former sorts had come. 
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PREPARE YOUR-OWN 
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(Note the Spelling) 
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