THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
February 9, 
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FARMERS’ CLUB 
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RFSEEDINO TO ALFALFA. 
Referring to H. C. A.’s query ("page 40) 
about reseeding with Alfalfa, lie probably 
made the mistake of clipping his field 
the first year before it had reached ma¬ 
turity. He did not hurt the weeds, but 
he seriously injured the Alfalfa. It is 
perfectly practical to reseed. I reseeded 
a 20-acre field last august that had been 
sown in the Spring. T did not plow it. 
I disked it five or six times in different 
directions, and until there was no sign 
whatever of Alfalfa or anything else. 
The first shower brought up not only 
the seed, but the old plants as well, and 
at least twice as many of them as there 
were before. That sounds Irish; but the 
fact is my disking had split the crowns 
of the old plants, and thus gave me two 
for one. My old fields are well disked 
at least once every two years. 
Missouri. _ falicon. 
Diseased Asters. 
,J. B. IF., Charlton Depot, Mans. —Can you 
give suggestions to he tried the coming Sum¬ 
mer on Aster plants? I find there is uni¬ 
versal complaint from the same cause that 
has ruinea my Asters. When the plants are 
about three indies high they commence to 
wilt, not all of the plants at once, hut con¬ 
tinue to wilt during the season, until about 
three-quarters of the plants are ruined. The 
plants look as though they wanted water 
even when the ground is very wet ; main 
stem and roots are all right as far as I 
can see. Leaves and flowers all dry up. 
If the question is asked some one may sug¬ 
gest a remedy to try. I would lie glad to 
try anything that promises to save the 
plants. 
Ans. —This Aster disease bears some 
resemblance to the botrytis or “rot’’ which 
attacks lettuce, and is, I believe, of fun¬ 
goid origin. It has caused much trouble 
in many parts of the country, and I do 
not know of any specific for the disease. 
One very successful Aster grower, James 
Semple, who grows these ilowers in large 
quantities in the neighborhood of Pitts¬ 
burg, advises liming the soil at the time 
the young plants are set out in the field. 
Mr. Semple manures heavily with cow 
manure, plowing in the manure the Fall 
previous to planting; then at the time the 
young plants are set out, the drills are 
given sufficient air-slaked lime to whiten 
the ground, and later in the season about 
100 pounds of guano to the acre is culti¬ 
vated in, for Asters require plenty of 
food. W. H. TAPLIN. 
A "Cover” Crop for New York. 
C. L. 7\, Tlartwick. Seminary, N. Y .— 
When land is plowed in August, after hay, 
oats or strawberries, I wish to And what 
would he best to sow for the improvement 
of the land until the next season? That Is, 
what would make the best growth through 
tho last part of August, September. October 
and in April and tlie first part of May, the 
next Spring? I think rye would be good 
for a Winter covering, hut could I not sow 
something else with the rye that would make 
some extra growth in September and October, 
something in tlie line of peas or beans? What 
varieties would he best, etc? 
Ans. —It is probable that Hairy or 
Winter vetch sown with the rye will give 
most satisfactory results, in such a case 
as mentioned by our correspondent. The 
vetch grows late in the Fall and also 
early in the Spring, and it is a member 
of the legume family, which have the 
power by means of their association with 
certain soil bacteria of gathering nitro¬ 
gen from the atmosphere. This power 
gives them a distinct advantage over non- 
lcguminous crops when used for green 
manure purposes, as the latter may add 
organic matter to the soil, but cannot in¬ 
crease its supply of nitrogen. It may he 
possible that it will be necessary to take i 
measures to have the soil inoculated with i 
the vetch bacteria from some place where 
vetch has previously been grown, but in | 
our own experience this has not been the ( 
case. Whenever we sow vetch around 
Ithaca the plants produce abundance of 
poddies without any special effort on our 
part. This matter, however, needs watch¬ 
ing. The most serious objection I know 
to the vetch as a green manure crop is the 
cost of the seed. This plant is not yet 
extensively used in this country, and the 
demand for seed has not been such as to 
cause many to attempt to produce it. 
Whether or not vetch seed may be pro¬ 
fitably produced in New York State has 
not yet been demonstrated, but that it may 
be successfully grown for seed in certain 
portions of the great Northwest is well 
known, and no doubt when the seed 
comes to be in greater demand American 
growers will supply the requirements of 
the market. You will find some informa¬ 
tion of interest in Farmer’s Bulletin, No. 
245, which may be had upon application 
to the Department of Agriculture, Wash¬ 
ington, D. C.; also in the section on 
vetches in Prof. Shaw’s book “Soiling 
Crops and the Silo” and Delaware Ex¬ 
periment Station Bulletin No. 60, New¬ 
ark, Del., “Cover Crops and Green Ma¬ 
nures.” j. L. STONE. 
COST OF LIME-SULPHUR SPRAY. 
If C. W. M., page 41, would just figure 
out the cost of lime and sulphur, boiled 
and ready to apply, he should easily un¬ 
derstand that fighting the San Jose scale 
is not a very expensive matter after all. 
With sulphur at 1)4 cents per pound, and 
the best white lime at .'50 cents a 70- 
pound bushel, the ingredients cost little. 
We figure that the lime and sulphur mix¬ 
ture costs us less than one cent per gal¬ 
lon, in the barrel ready to apply. It is 
readily seen from this that the cost of 
application per tree is only a small item, 
and as a safeguard against curl-leaf alone 
the wash is well worth the money. I am 
satisfied that the appearance of the San 
Jose scale will undoubtedly prove a bless¬ 
ing. The slip-shod, careless grower has 
disappeared, and the business is getting 
more and more in the hands of specialists, 
men who are prepared to devote all their 
time to produce a high quality of fruit, 
and to put it on the market in good 
shape. w. o. burgess. 
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