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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
FARMERS’ CLUB 
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Failure of Fruit Trees. 
C. G. I!., Newport, N. V.—About 15 years 
ago I bought and set 12 cherry trees, 
six Early Richmond, and six English 
Aforello, and four plum trees. They all grew 
nicely for about three years, and then the 
plums winter-killed. The cherry trees 
have blossomed every year, but I have 
never received a pint of cherries from the 
whole lot. The trees have grown to full 
size, but the fruit drops off soon after 
the blossoms fall. Can you give me a 
remedy? Some of the trees are dying, and 
my apple trees are going the same way, 
limb by limb, while the self-sown apple 
trees bear every year and are thrifty grow¬ 
ers along the roadside. 
Ans. —The experience of C. G. B. is 
that of hundreds of fruit growers. For 
the past 15 or 20 years plum and cherry 
trees have been subject to disease and 
insect attack. The cause of the cherries 
dropping is probably the Plum curculio, 
which lays an egg in each fruit, making 
a crescent-shaped cut. Spraying with 
arsenate of lead will kill all the 
curculios that feed upon the trees in 
question, but if neighbors do not spray 
there will be curculios enough still to 
take all the fruit. The decay of the 
apple branches is probably due to the 
“black rot” or the Woolly aphis. The 
first is prevented by spraying with the 
Bordeaux Mixture, the second by lime 
sulphur wash. s. T. maynard. 
Infection With Blight and Woolly Aphis. 
1). C., Connecticut .—If I set out a young 
orchard adjoining an old one, which is 
troubled with Woolly aphis and possibly 
blight, will the new one be infected or dis¬ 
eased by the old one? If so, what steps 
will prevent it? 
Ans.—I should not hesitate to set an 
apple orchard adjoining an old one in¬ 
fested with the Woolly aphis anywhere 
in the northern portions of the coun¬ 
try. Farther south this insect is often 
a serious pest upon the roots, but in the 
north its woolly masses on the branches 
are more conspicuous and sometimes 
do considerable injury to young trees. 
One can easily destroy these woolly 
masses with a sponge or rag soaked in 
kerosene emulsion or a strong soap 
solution. A little work of this sort 
while the trees are young will practic¬ 
ally eliminate the pest from the or¬ 
chard. so far as its destructive work 
is concerned. Undoubtedly the winged 
forms would sooner or later find their 
way from the old orchard to young 
trees, and the only way to prevent this 
would be to destroy the insects on the 
old trees. The correspondent also men¬ 
tions the possibility of blight. If by 
this he means the Pear blight disease as 
it appears upon pears, I would certainly 
hesitate to set a young pear orchard 
nearby if the disease was very preva¬ 
lent in the old orchard. If, however, it 
is the apple form of this disease which 
attacks—mostly the young twigs, but 
someTintes making cankers on large 
limbs of old trees, J would run the 
risk with young apple trees, for I think 
the disease can be controlled on apple, 
where* r »t does much less injury than 
upon gear. All will depend upon the 
man bfchind the young orchard. 
M. V. SLINGERLAND. 
f j. A Southern Apple Orchard. 
IP, }•'■> Louisville , Ky .—I have recently 
acquired an orchard of apple trees just 
coming to profitable bearing size. The or¬ 
chard 'is located on a fairly steep northern 
slope.'‘ The soil is upland clay, with bed¬ 
rock not more than two to four feet from 
the surface. Trees look clean and healthy, 
but are not making rapid growth, and are 
no doubt hungry. The orchard is in good 
sod and has evidently been mowed for some 
years.. Will you advise me what would be 
best treatment for this orchard as to culti¬ 
vation and fertilizing? 
Ans.—W ith an orchard in that con¬ 
dition I would dress the sod liberally 
with steamed bone and muriate of pot¬ 
ash now, and as the grass starts in 
January 30, 
Spring would give it 100 pounds of 
nitrate of soda per acre to encourage 
the growth of the grass. Then I would 
mow the grass two or three times, and 
use it as a mulch under the trees. 
Then an annual top-dressing of 300 
pounds of bone and 25 pounds of the 
potash will keep up the fertility of the 
soil, while the decay of the grass will 
give you an abundance of organic ni¬ 
trogen. I have done this very thing with 
success on just such an orchard. My 
orchard was on a steep mountain slope 
to the north, with so many fast rocks 
that the land was never plowed, the 
trees being planted as soon as the for¬ 
est was cut off. No grass was ever 
taken off, but under the conditions had 
to be mown by hand. That orchard 
was remarkably productive of unusually 
large and perfect Winesaps. Then you 
must understand that while the orchard 
may seem healthy, the way to keep it 
so is to spray regularly with Bordeaux 
Mixture early, and then with the same 
mixture to which Paris-green has been 
added at rate of five ounces to a 50- 
gallon cask of the Bordeaux, just as 
the blossoms fall, in order to kill the 
larva? of the Codling moth. Then if 
the San Jose scale appears it will be 
necessary to spray with the lime-sul¬ 
phur wash. The same wash is useful 
for the destruction of the Oyster-shell 
scale or bark-louse, with which nearly 
every orchard from the mountains of 
North Carolina westward is infested. 
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