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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
April 13, 
FARMERS’ CLUB 
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separate piece of paper. 1 
Insect on Hop Vine. 
H. W. A., Berwick, N. S .—We found last 
year that some fly or Insect ate all the 
foliage on our hop vine. We lost all our 
crop. Can you tell me what I shall do in 
order to prevent the leaves from being de¬ 
stroyed? Will spraying with a strong 
decoction of sweet fern be of any service? 
There are several insects that might 
have eaten the foliage of hops, but as the 
:orrespondent gives no description it is im¬ 
possible to say just what insect ate the 
leaves. The spraying of the foliage with 
a poison spray, like Paris-green or arse¬ 
nate of lead, or even the dusting on of 
hellebore, would have killed the eaters. I 
do not find that sweet fern is poisonous, 
although it is sometimes used as a medi¬ 
cine; I doubt very much if a strong de¬ 
coction of it would have affected the insect 
seriously. m. v. slingerland. 
Hospital for Consumptives. 
Few people seem to realize that New 
York State has established a hospital for 
incipient (beginning) tuberculosis. For 
the benefit of readers we print this ex¬ 
tract from a recent circular. 
Every person desiring free treatment in 
tbe State hospital shall apply to the local 
authorities of his or her town, city or county 
having charge of the relief of poor, who 
shall thereupon issue a written request to 
the superintendent, of said hospital for the 
admission and treatment of such patient. 
Such request shall state whether the person 
is able to pay for his or her care and treat¬ 
ment. No person should be admitted as a 
patient in the State institution without the 
certificate of one of said examining physi¬ 
cians certifying that such applicant is suf¬ 
fering from incipient pulmonary tuberculosis. 
Such is the simple procedure necessary to 
secure admission to this hospital. Why do 
not the people of our State avail themselves 
of this splendid opportunity? Why do they 
wait. Consumption can be cured, but its 
cure is hardly to be effected without skilled 
medical advice and the rest, food and care 
that can be had to best advantage In a 
sanatorium. 
The hospital is located at Ray Brook, 
Essex Co. It is said that out of 114 
patients beginning with consumption 96, 
or over 84 per cent, are classed as “ap¬ 
parently recovered.” “Fresh air, rest and 
good food” rather than medicine are re¬ 
lied upon for “cures.” Out of a total 
expenditure of $108,640.57 only $265.65 
was spent for medicines. 
Care of Neglected Trees. 
I send an apple which goes by the name 
of Cider, and about one-half of the fruit is 
as sample, wormy at blossom end and nearly 
covered with dark spots; some have hard 
streaks through them, which 1 suppose are 
where some insect has bored through. These 
apples stay on trees very well if not left 
on too late in Fall. The sample is smaller 
than the average; some are large and fair, 
but many are fit for hogs only. A few trees 
of Baldwins bear heavily, but fall off badly; 
they are practically fair except wormy at 
blossom end and in the core. This is an 
orchard containing about 25 trees of differ¬ 
ent ages, from 15 to 30 years old. Two or 
three years ago the owner cut down several 
which I thought were good trees, but be 
thought they did not pay because the fruit 
dropped off and was wormy. The owner has 
offered me the entire crop for one season if 
I want to give it a trial of spraying and 
pruning; it has never been sprayed nor has 
it been pruned for 15 years. I think there 
are no scale in this orchard, although peach 
trees a few hundred yards away are badly 
affected with scale. What do you advise? I 
use 20-25 per cent kerosene emulsion on 
peach trees for the scale with satisfactory 
results, at a little more cost than lime, sul¬ 
phur and salt, but it is easy to mix with 
the limoid and pleasant to use in compari¬ 
son with sulphur and salt. a. h. n. 
Monrovia, N. J. 
If these trees were not in a very thrifty 
condition I would give them a moderately 
heavy pruning, followed as soon as buds 
burst and before blossoming with a spray¬ 
ing of Bordeaux Mixture, three pounds 
copper sulphate, three pounds stone lime, 
50 gallons of water. Add one-half pound 
of Paris-green to every 50 gallons, for 
leaf-eating insects and later for Uie larvae 
of Codling moth. Follow with another 
spraying of same mixture immediately 
after the blossoms drop. Make this a very 
thorough one, spraying downward on the 
blossom clusters as much as possible. 
Spray again two or three weeks later with 
the same mixture, and this is often fol¬ 
lowed by still another three weeks later, 
especially on the later varieties. From 
your description of wormy and spotted 
fruit I should say that it was affected by 
larvae of Codling moth, also by the fungus 
trouble called Apple scab. If you intend 
to handle the orchard for several years I 
should either plow it very shallow and 
work it thoroughly for two or three years, 
or else give it a good mulching of straw 
or coarse manure thick enough to keep 
the grass down and conserve the mois¬ 
ture. _ B. D. V. B. 
WANT TO KNOW. 
What About This Vineyard? 
Last Spring we planted three acres of 
grapes, on side of hill facing northwest, with 
small river at bottom : soil rather sandy and 
gravelly, location 30 miles north of Lake 
Erie, rather out of the grape belt for Canada, 
but as we have seen a good many crops of 
Concords harvested within the same location, 
jwe decided to try them. Varieties Camp¬ 
bells Early, Moore’s Early, Worden, Vergen- 
nes, Niagara, and Concord. The Intention 
was to have them run across the hill, so as 
to avoid washing, and they were planted 10 
by feet. Through some error while 
writer was away, they were put in up and 
down the bill, and as we thought, the ground 
has commenced to wash badly. We have 
thought to set the posts and wires so as still 
to run across the hill; this would make the 
rows only 7% feet wide with the grapes 10 
feet apart in the row. Will this do? We 
are so located that we get all the air circu¬ 
lation we want, but will not the vines be 
too wide in the row? Would we gain any¬ 
thing by planting another vine in between 
each one. Thus they would be five feet 
apart, and keeping them closely pruned, we 
are of the opinion that in this district we< 
cannot get the vigorous growth that is ob¬ 
tained in some locations, and that possibly 
such a method will succeed here, where it 
would not do at all in other more favored 
locations. What system of training would 
you advocate for us? We have started with 
tbe Intention of training on the renewal 
system, but at this stage of growth, we can 
follow any. s. b. 
Ontario, Canada. 
Marshall Strawberries. —On page 210 
R. L. P. asks if fertilizer affects the color 
of strawberries. We formerly grew the Mar¬ 
shall in the most satisfactory manner. The 
color might not have been as dark as some 
of those shown at the Boston strawberry 
exhibitions, but we felt that it was so satis¬ 
factory in color, size and particularly in 
quality (hat we should always retain it, but 
when we came to the farm we were told it 
was useless to grow this variety; that it 
would not succeed and after several years 
we found that it was impossible to. make it 
ripen, color evenly or maintain any reason¬ 
able degree of productiveness. The soil is 
strong, but evidently does not meet the 
requirements of the Marshall. For fertilizers 
we used nitrate, rock, muriate, cotton-seed 
meal, tankage, bone in various forms and 
pig. horse and poultry dressing; but we have 
now abandoned its cultivation. F. C. c. 
Maine. 
Backing for Ben Davis. —Ever since the 
Hope Farm man started the Apple Consum¬ 
ers’ League I have been wondering how be 
could be so terribly down on the Ben Davis 
apple. I was a grower and seller of apples 
in New Mexico for 15 years, and I never sold 
to a dealer or commission man who made 
any complaint about any loss handling that 
variety; nor to any individual for home use 
who made any complaint about their not be¬ 
ing a good cooking apple or to eat out of 
hand. A great many wagons used to come 
to my orchard to lay in their Winter supply 
of apples, and they always took two-thirds 
or more of Ben Davis when they could have 
had their choice of a dozen or more varieties 
It is the only apple that is fairly good that 
can bs handled in “any old way” and stand 
the rough usage to get them into the mining 
camp and into the South, where apples of 
high quality last about as long as a New 
York snowdrift would out here. If it wasn't 
for old Ben Davis it is my opinion (and I 
believe the facts will bear me out) a large 
majority of the A. C. L. would be unable to 
pay their dues. I will admit that my taste 
prefers a Jonathan or a western-grown 
White Winter Pearmain. but I have never 
refused a Ben Davis when the above-named 
was not obtainable or out of season. I actu¬ 
ally believe this uncalled-for prejudice by a 
great many of the agricultural and horticul¬ 
tural papers of the country against this 
profitable variety has been a hard blow to 
orchajdists. rs, E g, 
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