1900. 
THE RURAL NEW -YORKER 
36T 
COTTONWOOD ROOTS IN SEWERS. 
D. U*. B., Brazil, Ind .—Our county seat 
has a very complete sewerage system. The 
trunk sewer is large and built of cement, 
the laterals are made with vitrified brick, 
the joints filled with Portland cement. 
There are many shade trees of the cotton¬ 
wood type in the city. Stoppage of some 
of the laterals caused the pipes to be taken 
up in places, when it was found that the 
pipes were completely filled with the fibrous 
roots of these trees. The council passed 
an ordinance requiring all of these trees to 
be destroyed. Will the roots continue (o 
grow after the trees are cut down, and if so 
how can they be killed? As the streets are 
paved with vitrified bricks slushed with 
Portland cement, and in most places the 
sewers are a great depth under ground, it 
makes it a very great expense to take 
them up to remove the roots. 
Ans. —Root growth in trees is fairly 
dependent on continued growth of the 
parts above ground, including, of course, 
the foliage. If the trees are cut and 
sprouts kept down for a season or two 
there will be little further root growth 
The work must he thoroughly done as 
the cottonwood, which is a species of 
poplar, has great vitality. 
EXPERIENCE IN SPRAYING. 
I give a modified plan for Mr. Bas¬ 
sett’s spraying plant, which would be 
as I would build it. I would have 
the floor elevated as indicated enough 
so that there would he plenty of fall 
to the strainer on wagon tank. Strainer 
of copper or brass, with at least a 
foot square of surface of brass screen 
wire, mesh 16 to one inch. Strain 
everything that goes into the wagon 
tank. A little more time spent here 
may save hours fussing with clogged 
nozzles later. All vessels or imple¬ 
ments coming in contact with the Bor¬ 
deaux must be of wood, copper or 
brass; iron, tin or galvanised iron will 
not do. A wagon tank holding 200 
gallons is about the right size, as this 
will give your team nearly or quite 
2,000 pounds to haul, which is load 
enough when the ground is soft and 
not any too smooth. Wagon tires 
PLAN FOR SPRAYING PLANT. 
should be not less than four inches 
wide to avoid starting ruts to lead 
water to cut out ditches. It is easier 
on the operator to ride on the wagon 
than to walk, and also better work 
can he done. I have found that good 
work can be done by going on two 
sides of the tree only, going down the 
rows only once and spraying on each 
side of the wagon. Do not stop for 
wind, but spray with the wind and 
then take the other side when the wind 
changes. The spray should go on with 
force and push; not merely a sprinkle, 
but with push enough to force it into 
every small crack, and to cover every 
part of the tree. 
Bordeaux Mixture will not kill in¬ 
sects; therefore, if there are insects 
to kill some kind of poison must be 
put in it for their benefit. For in¬ 
secticide we have used almost, if not 
quite all the arsenical mixtures, and 
found that arsenate of lead is best of 
all; first, for its staying qualities; sec¬ 
ond, it will not injure the foliage as 
easily as any other poison; third, it 
stays in solution better. In spraying 
do not neglect the trunks of the trees, 
but give the whole tree a covering. If 
you are pasturing the orchard with 
sheep it will protect the trees from 
their nibbling. 
Stock solutions of vitriol are to be 
avoided. The vitriol being so much 
heavier than water it is prone to settle 
to the bottom of the vessel and when 
you dip out of it, unless it is violently 
agitated, you get only the weaker part 
at the top, and experience has proven 
that putting this strong solution into 
the lime water it coagulates immedi¬ 
ately on touching it, and makes a com¬ 
pound not wanted and hard to get 
through the nozzles. Dilute your mix¬ 
ture to the strength you expect to use 
it and then mix; that is, if you are 
using four pounds blue vitriol to 50 
gallons water, put the vitriol in the 
50 gallons and when dissolved mix 
with the 50 gallons of lime mixture. 
This is easiest done by running the 
two dilute mixtures into the spout 
going to the strainer on the wagon 
tank, and here is the best place to 
mix your poison by running it into this 
uniting spout; this gives you 100 gal¬ 
lons of Bordeaux that is better than 
any stock solution mixture, and will 
stay suspended longer. Even the lime, 
if prepared more than 12 hours ahead, 
seems to lose strength. 
Protect your team with cheap thin 
blankets, and yourself and helper with 
long linen duster and a pair of cotton 
gloves. Remember that warm water 
with a little vinegar in it is far better 
to remove the mixture from hands or 
face than soap, or to clean tie strainer 
use hot water and vinegar half and 
half, and a stiff brush. To jar the 
strainer by striking on the too is more 
effective than to stir the contents, when 
it has a tendency to c’og. My ex¬ 
perience has been with hand-power 
machinery and Bordeaux Mixture only 
Wisconsin. c. a. hatch. 
Fighting Frost.— For years our 
growers have been using smudges 
made of wet hay, straw, manure and 
other materials very favorably, but 
found that when the temperature fell 
more than four or five degrees these 
products were inadequate. Last year 
we had some very severe freezes, when 
the temperature dropped to 22 and 23 
A few of the orchard men had equip¬ 
ped a portion of their orchard with 
California oil pots and demonstrated 
to all that this method of protection 
was efficient and practical. 
w. PADDOCK. 
Colorado Experiment Station. 
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