1909. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
419 
AN ORCHARD GOING OVERBOARD. 
The picture (Fig. 177) shows what is 
going on in an orchard on the lake 
shore in western New York. The 
banks are being slowly eaten away by 
the water, so that fine large apple trees 
are undermined and fall. There are 
but few points, we understand, where 
this destructive work goes on. Some 
combination of wind and tide tears 
away the soil. It will have to be pro¬ 
tected like a breakwater, or the entire, 
orchard seems likely to disappear. 
Spraying Chemicals to Kill Weeds. 
M. P. E., Ellington, Conn .—I read an 
article in The It. N.-Y. some time ago 
about using chemicals for killing weeds 
and would like information about using 
sulphuric acid. Will it have any ill effects 
on the crop after it is used, and would it 
do any harm to a crop that has not come 
up through the ground, such as corn, as 
weeds sometimes start before the corn has 
any more than commenced to sprout? 
Could you put it on with a spraying ma¬ 
chine such as used for spraying potatoes, 
with a very fine nozzle? 
Ans. —Considerable experimentation 
has been conducted by various insti¬ 
tutions in this country and abroad, bear¬ 
ing on the question of the destruction 
of weeds by the use of chemicals. Nu¬ 
merous chemicals may be used, which, 
if applied in sufficient quantity, will 
destroy all vegetation growing upon the 
land. The effect produced by some of 
this treatment applied in two or three 
different seasons will practically rid a 
field of the seed. Machinery used in 
doing this work should have brass fit¬ 
tings instead of ordinary iron or gal¬ 
vanized fittings, as the chemicals de¬ 
stroy the iron rapidly. The result of 
some experimental work along this line 
in New York State is reported in Bul¬ 
letin No. 216, of the Cornell Station, 
at Ithaca, N. Y. j. l. stone. 
Holland Cabbage or Hubbard Squash. 
A. G. L., Belluille, 0. —I purpose put¬ 
ting two acres of new ground that has 
never been cropped to either Holland cab¬ 
bage or Hubbard squash. Ground has nat¬ 
ural drainage, dark loam. I would like to 
know which might be the more profitable, 
what time should they be planted and how? 
Ans.—A. G. L. has, to my notion, an 
ideal situation for growing a big crop 
/of squashes. An old sod made rich with 
well rotted stable manure, or in the ab¬ 
sence of this, a high-grade corn fer¬ 
tilizer, produces squash, melons or cu¬ 
cumbers to perfection. I would plow 
early and would cut up the sod and fit 
the ground well and mark out in rows 
four feet apart, and when danger of 
frost is past (here about middle of 
May) would drill in squash seed every 
other row, thick enough so that I would 
have a plant every 12 inches. Every 
alternate row I would plant to corn, and 
here I would want a stalk every 12 
inches. This is our method of growing 
AN ORCHARD GOING INTO THE LAKE. Fig. 177. 
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these is quite prolonged; with others 
it is brief. Some are poisonous and 
dangerous to use where live stock runs; 
others are innocent. There is a great 
difference in regard to the ability of 
various plants to withstand the action 
of certain chemicals, thus making it 
impossible in some instances to apply a 
chemical that will destroy the weed 
without serious injury to the crop, 
this, I think, is the proposition that our 
correspondent has in mind. 
I am not aware that sulphuric acid 
is used successfully on a field scale in 
this way, but sulphate of copper or 
sulphate of iron may be successfully 
used in combating the ordinary annual 
wild mustard when growing among 
Spring crops, such as oats, barley, peas, 
etc. M. P. E. should not be misled 
by the somewhat glowing statements 
of results in the Northwest, because 
weather conditions in North Dakota 
during the Summer are so different from 
ihose in New York that this method 
seems to be much more effective there 
than here; but it has been demonstrated 
many times in the field on a large scale, 
as well as in experimental work, that 
wild mustard may readily be destroyed 
in New York grain fields. One hun¬ 
dred pounds of iron sulphate or 12 
pounds of copper sulphate dissolved in 
SO gallons of water, and sprayed upon 
an acre when the young plants are three 
or four inches high, will usually ef¬ 
fectively rid the crops of the pest, and 
cucumbers, melons and squash. Last 
year we got 105 bushel baskets of ear 
corn besides the cucumbers on an acre 
planted to cucumbers and corn; the 
rows were Z l / 2 feet apart. I am fully 
satisfied that the vine crop is as large 
between the corn rows as it would be if 
the corn was left out, and I do not 
know but the vine growth is better; it 
seems warmer between those rows of 
corn, as it is where the wind sweeps 
the vines and I think evaporation is 
less; at any rate I consider it a very 
profitable method. We use a 5-10-10 
fertilizer, the ingredients of which are 
blood, bone and potash. The nitrogen 
is derived partly from nitrate of soda, 
blood and bone; the phosphoric acid 
from bone (steamed), the potash from 
sulphate. We use at the rate of 1200 
•pounds per acre, mixed in the row. 
I would not advise growing cabbage on 
this sod; probably the year following 
would be all right. 
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