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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
September 21, 
FARMERS’ CLUB 
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KILLING THE SAN JOSE SCALE. 
“Ordinary Ammonia'* and Water 
In August issue of the Farm Journal, 
page 350, I find the following: “Last 
year 1 sprayed some lice-infestcd fruit 
trees with two tablespoonfuls of ammonia 
to each gallon of water; result, best with 
any spray for San Jose scale. 1 sprayed 
with two gallons of ammonia to 60 of 
water, when the trees were fully leaved, 
with apparently good results.” Will your 
readers who are experienced in spraying 
and tending fruit trees let us know what 
they think of this idea? It seems to me 
it would be lots easier to prepare and 
apply than lime, sulphur and salt. The 
big fellows, who have enough trees to be 
able to afford to kill a few in a good 
cause without missing them, might ex¬ 
periment and let us know results. 
Barnegat, N. J. J. l. p. 
R. N.-Y.—We do not believe this is 
practical. What is meant by “ordinary 
ammonia”? This ammonia remedy has 
been tried over and over again, both in 
using ammonia water and in combina¬ 
tions that would develop ammonia in 
their decomposition. Even with concen¬ 
trated ammonia, used as this article sug¬ 
gests, there was no practical effect. 
Still Another “Scale Killer ” 
I write to you in regard to a prepara¬ 
tion I have been experimenting with on 
the San Jose scale, and have found it to 
prove perfect in killing and curing the 
scale on trees and also the yellows on 
peach trees. It is a preparation to in¬ 
sert in the tree, and not half the expense 
of spraying, or half the trouble. I have 
references from different ones that 1 have 
cured the worst cases of scale on their 
trees, and would like to know your opin¬ 
ion, and what you would charge to adver¬ 
tise same for me in your paper. Of 
course I don’t expect to give same away 
for nothing. If you were me would you 
try for a patent on same or to sell 
recipes? M. L. R. 
Virginia. 
R. N.-Y.—What would we do? For¬ 
get about it just as soon as we could. 
The R. N.-Y.'would not advertise any 
such remedy, because experiments thus 
far conducted show that this method is 
not effective. It has not been shown that 
the tree takes such substances into its 
circulation, and even if it should do so 
there is no surety that scale insects would 
be affected. This thing has been tried 
again and again with various substances, 
and never thus far with success. It is 
not likely that you could get any patent. 
Fall-Sown Cabbage. 
A. M., Charlottetown, P. E. Island .— 
Some time ago 1 read an article in The R. 
N.-Y. on wintering cabbage plants in a cold 
frame. Seed was sown in early Fall and 
plants were held over until Spring. It was 
claimed, I think, that cabbage would be 
ready for cutting two weeks earlier grown 
that way than from Spring-grown plants 
llow does this plan succeed? 
Ans. —Seed of early cabbage for Spring 
setting is commonly sown about the 
middle of September in well-prepared 
soil in the open ground. From Balti¬ 
more southward the plants are set on 
the sides of ridges in October and No¬ 
vember. The ridges are made running 
east and west, and in the northern sec- 
tion of the above district the plants are 
set on the south side of the ridges, so 
that they will come on the level when 
the ridges are worked down in the 
Spring, but as far south as central east¬ 
ern North Carolina I found it best to set 
them on the North side, where they are 
protected from the Winter sun, and not 
excited into tender growth by the warm 
spells sure to come there in Winter. 
North of Baltimore it is better to winter 
the plants over in cold frames. As soon 
as large enough to handle well set the 
plants in the frames about two inches 
apart each way. Set them deeply enough 
to cover the entire stem, for that is the 
tender part, and if exposed to freezing 
it may be burst and the plants spoiled. 
Then do not keep the glass on too closely. 
The object is to keep the plants in a 
hardy condition, and not to allow them 
to get excited into growth. Therefore, 
whenever the temperature is just at or 
above the freezing point, strip the sashes 
down completely, and even in the coldest 
weather when the sun shines give them 
air by sliding the sashes down a few 
inches, and merely keep the sashes close 
on cold nights. Then get the land ready 
to transplant them as early as the ground 
can be worked in good order, and gradu¬ 
ally inure the plants to the open air by 
leaving the sashes down all day and 
finally all night. Transplant into heavily 
manured land as early as possible. In 
our Middle States this can be done early 
in March, but with you it will be later 
of course. In the Winter, if the mercury 
promises to go much below zero, it will 
be wise to have some straw mats thrown 
over the glass, but if snow falls heavily 
let it remain on the glass, as it will make 
an efficient protection. In your climate 
the outside of the frames should be 
banked with earth to the top, and some 
rough manure packed around will prevent 
hard freezing from creeping under the 
frames. w. f. massey. 
WANT TO KNOW. 
Peach on Plum Roots.—I would like to 
know the result of growing peach trees on 
plum roots and if the peach borer (root 
borer) will trouble such trees. s. f. b. 
Painting a Buggy. —I want to paint a 
good buggy. Cannot some of your readers 
tell me how to do it? I intend to use black 
paint. max. 
New York. 
Propagating From Nursery Stock. — 
There is a matter of vital importance to fruit 
growers concerning which I have never seen 
anything in print and have known but few 
men to have any opinion on it. It is the 
practice of nurserymen of taking buds for 
propagating from the nursery row and its 
consequences. I believe this to be analogous 
to inbreeding of live stock in theory and in 
effect. It is the cause of the well-known de¬ 
cadence in vigor of peach trees and quality 
cf fruit which is more marked in the oldest 
varieties than those of more recent introduc¬ 
tion. That it should be so will appear ac¬ 
cording to the course of nature I believe on 
consideration. The result we have; what 
then is the cause if not this? Will not 
some of your readers who have had experi¬ 
ence give their views? s. f. b. 
Delaware. 
A Farmer’s Back. —C. L. H„ on page 620, 
asks how to pick up ears of corn. We do 
not raise quite so much corn down here in 
Oneida County, N. Y., as he does, but we still 
pick up by hand and bend our backs. I have 
only been on the farm four years, and I used 
to think that a farmer didn't have any 
back, that is, any that got tired. I have 
just finished digging about 300 bushels of 
early potatoes by hand and picking them up. 
The man who helped me was a veteran at 
the business and I have watched him many 
times go along “on all fours” up and down 
a field from morning till night. This year, 
while I was working alongside of him, he 
confessed to me that his back got tired just 
like other peonle’s. and it did me lots of 
good to hear him sav so. I find that no mat¬ 
ter how many machines we have there is 
still work for the old back to do. We drive 
a wagon up and down the field and throw 
the corn in, one going on each side and not 
picking up at a greater distance from the 
wagon than we find convenient. 
w. J. STEVENS. 
For the land’s sake use Bowker’s Fer¬ 
tilizers.—They enrich the earth.—Adv. 
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DESTROY 
SAN JOSE 
SCALE 
before it destroys your trees. The 
one absolutely sure way to eradicate 
this pest entirely is by using SAM- 
MINE — the best, safest, cheapest, 
concentrated spray on the market. 
The original 
TRADE 
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SANJOSESCALE 
TARGET BRAND 
SCALE 
DESTROYER 
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- Scale and all suck¬ 
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You Had Better Plant Some Trees this Fall. 
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