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November 23, 
FARMERS’ CLUB 
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Gooseberries for Maryland. 
8. J. C., Locust Grove, Mil .—What vari- 
ties of gooseberries, kind of soil, and dis¬ 
tance of painting are most suitable for the 
eastern shore of Maryland ? 
Ans. —Those varieties that are proof 
against mildew are the only ones that are 
suitable for planting on the Chesapeake 
Peninsula. The Houghton is about the 
best of them. The distance apart to set 
the plants should be four feet and the 
rows six feet apart. Owing to the fact 
that the gooseberry is not well suited to 
a warm climate it is well to mulch the 
earth about the plants to retain as low a 
temperature as possible in the soil about 
the roots, and also to keep it moist. 
H. E. VAN DEMAN. 
Old Bordeaux Mixture. 
G. L. T., Snrinoville. A 7 . Y .—I have two 
barrels of Bordeaux, which I did not use 
on account of wet weather. Will it be any 
good another vear? The lime and vitriol 
have settled to the bottom, leaving the barrels 
about two-thirds full of water. Can this 
water lie taken oil' and the lime and vitriol 
put away for another year? 
Ans. —The best advice is to use freshly 
made Bordeaux. We would prefer not 
to have it stand over night. When it 
does stand the sediment forms in large 
crystals, which settle to the bottom of the 
tank, and it does not stick so well to 
plants. While this Bordeaux might have 
some value next Spring it would be much 
inferior to fresh made. Has anyone ever 
kept it in this way so as to know just 
how it compares? 
/\ One-Horse Power Sprayer. 
G. P. P., Woodstock, Conn ,—I have about 
500 apple and peach trees (about 100 old 
apples.) I have a barrel spray pump which 
does good work, but this year I was utterly 
unable to get a man to pump, and failed to 
spray at all, much to my sorrow. I want 
to find if I can some small light power 
sprayer. Those I have seen are all too 
heavy and I presume cost too much. Doesn’t 
some one make a lighter rig that one horse 
could draw, as I am a little one-horse fruit 
man? 
Ans. —Can anyone name a practical 
power sprayer which one horse can haul? 
We use a gas sprayer. This is a strong 
steel tank with fixtures for letting in gas 
from a tube, and for connecting the hose 
and nozzle. The “power” conies from 
liquid gas carried in a steel tube which 
weighs, when filled, about 150 pounds. 
This tube is strapped to the tank, connec¬ 
tion being made through a small rubber 
hose. We fill the tank nearly full with 
spray liquid, let in enough gas to make 
100 pounds pressure or more and blow out 
the spray. The gas makes an expensive 
power, especially when it must be shipped 
long distances. With a 50-gallon tank 
mounted on two wheels one good horse 
could handle this outfit, though he would 
know he had been working. One man 
can handle this arrangement alone. If 
there is any better one-horse power we 
would like to know about it. 
Rhubarb and Mushrooms in the South. 
IF. 8., San Antonio, Tex .—Have any of 
your southern readers had any experience 
with growing rhubarb in cellars? I would 
like to grow some for home use, and have an 
idea that in the South it would require such 
a location to do well. Are any other choice 
vegetables suited for cellar plantings? 
Ans. —We have found rhubarb a very 
difficult plant to grow in the South, un¬ 
less one has low, moist and rich soil, or 
is prepared to irrigate upland soil. In 
dry upland soil I found that in North 
Carolina it was hard to carry it through 
more than one Summer alive, and I gave 
up the effort. You can grow some nicely 
blanched stalks in a cellar if you have 
strong clumps to put there. You can get 
these from the nurserymen North, but 
they will be worth little if anything after 
you haye got a crop of stalks from them 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
in the cellar. You can grow a supply 
for a family in late Winter in this way, 
but it will be rather expensive to buy and 
freight the large clumps that are neces¬ 
sary. The roots should be packed close 
together on the cellar floor and covered 
with soil, which is to be kept moist, of 
course. In a warm and dark cellar the 
shoots will come out rapidly and can be 
pulled till the roots are exhausted. The 
only other vegetable that can be grown 
in a cellar is the mushroom. If the cel¬ 
lar is under the dwelling (a very rare 
thing in the South), it may not be pleas¬ 
ant to have the heating manure needed 
for these plants in the cellar, but if the 
cellar is under an outhouse the mush¬ 
room crop is the best one to grow there. 
But do not be led by certain parties who 
are now advertising the great profits in 
mushroom culture for market. It will 
pay well to grow them for home use if 
you are fond of them, but the inexperi¬ 
enced gardener who goes into mush¬ 
rooms now with the idea of making 
money in their sale will be apt to gain 
more experience than cash. It is easy 
to tell anyone how to grow mushrooms, 
and it is easy for an experienced man to 
grow them. But I never knew anyone 
to succeed in their first effort at mush¬ 
room culture from the best directions 
that can be given. You wi.l finally drop 
into the method after a few failures. It 
is necessary to have plenty of fresh horse 
manure, clear droppings, which are to be 
piled and heated and turned, and then 
packed into the beds about 20 to 24 inches 
deep. After the rank heat has subsided 
to about 85, chop up a spawn brick into 
small pieces and stick them into the ma¬ 
nure about four inches apart, then scat¬ 
ter the fine part from the cutting all over 
the bed. After a spider-web growth is 
seen running all through the surface, 
cover with an inch or so of fine light 
garden mold. Straw mats laid over 
the beds will save watering, and 
this is the most important point in get¬ 
ting the crop, for either too little or too 
much moisture will be fatal, and one 
comes to recognize the proper condition 
for the bed by his failures. It takes 
about six weeks to start the crop, and if 
you get a crop the first time you try, you 
will be fortunate. You can get the spawn 
from the seedsmen in the cities in bricks 
for about 15 cents a pound, I think. 
W. F. MASSEY. 
Persian Walnut in Missouri. 
II. II., Neosho. Mo .—Can we grow the 
Persian walnut here? This is a great nut 
country, that is, hard nuts. What is the 
best part of New Jersey for general farming, 
compared with Iowa or Missouri? 
Ans. —The Persian walnut varieties as 
they generally exist are not suitable to 
the climate of southwestern Missouri, or 
any other part of that State, nor will they 
succeed in the Mississippi Valley gener¬ 
ally. However, there may be varieties 
found or originated that will succeed 
there. There are two varieties that give 
promise of being hardy and suitable over 
a wide area, the Rush, which originated 
at West Willow, Pa., and the Pomeroy, 
which grew up as a seedling at Lockport, 
N. Y. Both of them are good bearers and 
the nuts of good quality and size. But I 
do not think any nursery is propagating 
them by grafting or budding, which is the 
only sure way to get trees of the true 
variety. Seedlings are uncertain, but 
those from such trees as are of known 
hardiness and productiveness are more 
likely to be valuable than such as might 
be grown from nuts bought at random in 
the market. I believe that the time will 
come when the Persian walnut will be 
generally grown over a large part of the 
United States, but it will only come about 
by continued experimentation. The com¬ 
mon Black walnut is the best stock upon 
which to graft or bud the trees, because 
of its general adaptation to the climatic 
and soil conditions of the country. Cen¬ 
tral New Jersey is the better part of that 
State for general farming, but the con¬ 
ditions are quite different from those of 
Iowa and Missouri, h. e. van peman. 
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ROGERS CLOSING OUT SALE. 
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buys thrifty heavily rooted 1 year apple trees, grown from selected hearing parents of Powell Sutton, 
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