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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
April 10, 
Ruralisms 
Not Much Spraying. —It appears 
there is to be a decided let-up in our 
locality this Spring in the combat with 
San Jose scale. The pest is now so 
scarce in many orchards that the 
owners hope to save this year the labor, 
expense and possible tree injury in¬ 
curred by the annual insecticide spray¬ 
ing. The Rural Grounds workers con¬ 
fess themselves among the number. It 
is a job for which they have no liking, 
and trust it can be dispensed with, ex¬ 
cept with trees on which living scales 
may actually be found. This may be bad 
policy in the outcome, but it is the 
general feeling, where fruit is not the 
important money crop of the farm, that 
spraying, where no live scales can be 
detected, may be omitted for a season, 
with no great risk. Fruit growers, 
however, will take no chances, but go 
on in the most effective way they know. 
Last season was plainly a bad one for 
scale, as it appears to have died out 
on many untreated trees, and generally 
to be absent from those well sprayed 
last Spring. There is considerable up¬ 
rooting of old and unthrifty orchards, 
and no great planting of new ones. 
All this points to the specialization of 
fruit culture. Those who find it com¬ 
mercially worth -while will care for 
their trees by the most practical meth¬ 
ods, but farmers in general will evi¬ 
dently not continue an unprofitable 
fight against pervasive pests for the 
sake alone of a home supply of tree 
fruits. It is not good business to ex¬ 
pend in cash and labor more than the 
product is worth. The scale problem, 
however, may not he as difficult in the 
future as it has been in the past. Nat¬ 
ural conditions may in some measure 
control it so that we will not, like the 
Potato beetle, have it everlastingly 
with us. 
The Grapes of New York. —This is 
a sumptuous, well-bound volume, of 
nearly 600 large pages, with over 
100 magnificent colored plates in 
natural size of interesting grape varie¬ 
ties. It is the work of Prof. U. P. 
Hedrick, and assistants, of the Geneva 
Experiment Station, and is issued by 
the New York Department of Agricul¬ 
ture as Part II of the report of that 
station for the year 1907. Paper and 
printing are excellent, the type clear 
and easily read. The whole work re¬ 
flects credit on its makers and the in¬ 
stitution that it represents. There is a 
very complete botany of the grape from 
the horticultural point of view and 
clear, conservative descriptions of hun¬ 
dreds of varieties, possessing interest 
to amateurs and cultivators in the east¬ 
ern United States. There is also an 
attractive portrait of Edward Hanni- 
ford Rogers, raiser of the famous 
Rogers hybrids, the finest table grapes 
we possess. The scope of the work is 
similar to the well-known “Apples of 
New York,” issued a few years ago 
by the same institution, and it is high 
praise to say it is equally well done. 
While bulk is not a criterion of value, 
it will interest readers to know that 
the volume under consideration, on ac¬ 
count of the size of page needed to 
display the life-size plates, weighs quite 
nine pounds. That there is a wealth 
of information for amateurs, begin¬ 
ners and specialists in viticulture goes 
without saying, but particular mention 
must be made of the general excellence 
of the colored illustrations and the' 
careful manner in which the good and 
faulty qualities of the varieties are de¬ 
scribed. More painstaking work has 
perhaps been done in American grape¬ 
breeding than with any other fruit that 
can be grown in temperate climes, but 
how few successes have occurred in 
the lifetime of the originator! The 
“wizards” of grape-breeding receive lit¬ 
tle honor, but have contributed more 
to the welfare of their country than 
most workers in other fields of plant 
development. The “Grapes of New 
York” should be in every library, pub¬ 
lic school and Grange hall in the 
State, and be within reach of fruit 
growers everywhere. 
A Promising “Billion Dollar” 
Grass. —Very favorable reports come 
from Australasia of a vigorous new 
grass that grows particularly fast dur¬ 
ing the Winter season of that anti¬ 
podean continent, and also does very 
well during the dry, hot months of the 
Summer. It is a robust form of Can¬ 
ary grass, known as Phalaris commu- 
tata, and- first appeared in the botanic 
gardens of Toowoomba, Queensland, 26 
years ago among discarded plants 
grown from an extensive collection of 
forage seeds received for trial in 1884 
from the New York State Agricultural 
Department. There were about 60 
grasses in the collection, but none 
appeared to thrive in the dry Queens¬ 
land climate and all were dug up and 
thrown in rubbish heaps. All the varie¬ 
ties were lost but this one, that at¬ 
tracted notice some years later as it 
spread from the rubbish heaps to hedge¬ 
rows and uncultivated land. The cura¬ 
tor of the garden drew the attention of 
Mr. Chas. Ross, Manager of the 
Queensland State Farm near by to it, 
and its value being anticipated, Mr. 
Ross began to propagate and distribute 
it for trial. It readily increased both 
by seeds and root division and was 
found to be wonderfully vigorous, grow- 
ing more than seven, feet high in fav¬ 
orable situations, and making a sub¬ 
sequent growth of 41 inches in 46 
days. Even better growths have lately 
been recorded from three-year-old 
plants. It is said to be very leafy and 
makes excellent hay under favorable 
conditions. It grows equally well in 
northern Africa, and is likely to thrive 
everywhere in mild climate. In Aus¬ 
tralia it grows with great vigor even 
when biting night frosts prevail. It ap¬ 
pears so far to be chiefly used for soil¬ 
ing or green forage purposes. Botan¬ 
ists doubt whether the name Phalaris 
commutata is the proper one for this 
grass, which may be a hybrid or a 
new and undescribed species. The Ger¬ 
man authorities who named it are 
thought to have examined imperfect or 
composite specimens—possibly the tops 
of one species and the roots of an¬ 
other. The various Canary grasses 
comprising the genus Phalaris are 
natives of southern Europe, and are 
regarded as far mere valuable for yields 
of bird seed than for forage. No in¬ 
formation can now be had as to the 
purity in origin of the grass seeds that 
originally came from the New York 
Agricultural Department, and it thus 
seems impossible to trace the exact 
origin of this promising prass, which 
is likely to prove a boon to Australasia, 
and may turn out useful in some por¬ 
tions of the United States, though it 
probably is not adapted to localities 
too cold to permit growth throughout 
the year. 'It appears to be a long- 
lived perennial, with somewhat bulb¬ 
ous roots, producing quantities of 
small seeds resembling ordinary Canary 
seed. w. v. f. 
FINE, SMOOTH FRUIT. 
Mr. T. O. Atkinson, Treas., Bucks 
County Trust Co., writes : “I used Pyrox 
about as instructed on apple and pear 
trees that were in bearing this year. 
The result was very fine, smooth fruit 
with very little if any curculio or codling 
moth. Both fruit and foliage contained 
their growing condition very far into the 
season. I find it more effective and 
much less trouble than the home-made 
Bordeaux Mixture.” “Pyrox” does not 
wash off the foliage like Paris Green, but 
sticks like paint even through heavy 
rains. Address Bowker Insecticide Co., 
Boston, Mass.— Adv. 
S POAV Yonr Fruits, Crops, 
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28 Jay Street, Rochester, N. Y. 
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$IO.oo to $l8.oo 
CLOTHING 
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Buy your clothing direct from 
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Material workmanship and fit 
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Express charges paid east of tbe 
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■FERTILIZERS 
TANKAGE = = $12.00 per ton 
IRON CITY .= = 22.00 per ton 
Delivered freight prepaid to any railroad 
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JARVIS SPRAYING COMPOUND. 
Is the Cheapest and Best. It Has Ji# Superior. 
Sure Cure For San Jose Seale. 
Buy direct from the manufacturer and save money. 
Spraying Compound ready to mix with water. One 
gallon of Spraying Compound will make from sixteen to 
twenty gallons of spray. 
TERMS In barrel lots ( SO gals. ) RO eents per gal. 
We would refer you to J. H. Hale, the Peach King, or 
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They will tell you there is nothing better. Address 
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Niagara Tree Borer Paint —Controls 
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Send for descriptive catalogues,prices, etc., FREE. 
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Middleport, N. V. 
-IT PATS TO SPRAY 
The Iron Age 4-row Sprayer gives 
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SAN JOSE SCALE 
'POCKET DIARY WITH SPRAY CALENDAR FREE IF YOU MENTION THIS PAPER.’ 
PRICES; 50 gal. bbl. $2o.00; 30 gal. tin $15.00; 10 gal. can $6.00; 5 gal. can $3.25; 1 gal. can $1.00 f. o. b. New York. 
One gallon makes 16 to 20 gallons spray by simply adding* water. Order now; spring* spraying* your last chance. 
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