1909. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
677 
Hope Farm Notes 
All Sorts. —Our last planting of ap¬ 
ple trees was done May 22. These trees 
had been heeled in a shady place where 
they made but little growth. As usual 
we cut them back severely, root and 
top, and planted in small holes. Older 
readers will remember that we planted 
a peach orchard some years ago under 
peculiar conditions. June-bud trees 
were cut back to cuttings—that is, with 
all the side roots off. They were 
planted in crowbar holes. Some of 
these trees have been killed by borers 
and in planting- the apples we dug the 
dead ones out. This gave a good chance 
to study the root system. My belief 
was that with this stub root in a small 
hole we should have a tap-rooted tree. 
We shall have photographs made from 
some of these roots and you may judge 
whether the theory is sound or not. 
. . . Spraying the apple trees be¬ 
gan May 24 under rather unfavorable 
conditions—high winds and threatening 
showers. We can work only on the 
windward side of a tree under such 
conditions, but a certain amount of 
wind is helpful. I have -to caution the 
boys not to use too much spray. With 
the oil they plan to soak every part of 
the tree until the liquid runs down 
the trunk. With the poison our aim is 
simply to cover the foliage. I notice 
that the authorities do not agree as to 
the best time to spray for the Codling 
worm. The habits of the insect do not 
seem fully understood. I wait until all 
the bloom disappears and then get at 
the tree as soon as I can. The crab 
apples come first. I was told that we 
did not need to spray the crabs, but 
experience proves that it does pay. I 
expected to follow spraying in the or¬ 
der of ripening of various varieties. I 
find, however, that Fall Pippin and 
Nyack hold their bloom longer than 
Baldwin and Greening. We still use 
our gas power sprayer with a small air 
pressure machine. As for materials, we 
are experimenting with Paris green 
alone, Paris green and Bordeaux and 
“Pyrox,” which is a prepared combina¬ 
tion of arsenic and Bordeaux. We have 
really little need of Bordeaux on our 
steep hills. Yet if it adds to the in¬ 
surance I want it, for I believe this is 
to be a great apple year. . . Corn 
planting with us is, for part of out¬ 
crop, a little earlier than last year. VVe 
have the soil in fine condition—never 
better, that I can remember. On part 
of our corn we wait until the Crimson 
clover is fully grown before plowing. 
Some years this means the middle of 
June before corn planting, but with our 
Hint variety we can easily make a crop 
of grain and start another crop of 
clover, too. The old field at the back 
of the farm is still a pretty tough-look¬ 
ing proposition, but we shall plant corn 
four feet apart each way. This gives 
full chance for thorough work with cul¬ 
tivators. Learning corn as it grows in 
our country will fill up these four-foot 
spaces. . . . Our Soy beans were 
planted on May 19. I could not get 
seed of Medium Green—which I 
wanted. Seedsmen tell me there has 
has been so much talk about Soy beans 
that seed was cleaned up early. We 
planted in rows along our trees. A 
strip about six feet wide is plowed on 
each side of the row. We took a little 
plow and made light furrows on each 
side of the tree, far enough out for 
cultivation. The Soy beans were 
dropped by hand and covered with a 
cultivator. This will seem like slow 
business to many large farmers, but 
with us all such crops are side issues in 
our orchard care, and all this hand 
work helps the trees. 
I would like to know if it is any good 
to turn under Crimson clover and then 
plant pole Lima beans. If so, what shall 
I use in the hills—cow manure or fer¬ 
tilizer, or both, or shall I use fertilizer 
alone? What kind of fertilizer shall I 
use? s. u. 
I am sure that I can increase any 
crop by plowing under Crimson clover 
—or that I can hurt most crops by 
doing it the wrong way. For instance, 
if you plow the clover under, scratch 
over the surface lightly and then plant, 
your crops will, most likely, dry up. 
1 he air will work into that loose sod 
and dry it out. If, however, you roll 
and pack the clover sod down hard 
and then plant your crop will thrive. 
Sometimes, too, in hot weather and 
naturally warm soil the clover will sour 
the land and unless you use lime you 
will have trouble. In using Crimson 
clover I should reason that it provided 
all the organic nitrogen I needed. I 
should, therefore, use a small amount 
of nitrate on my soil, and potash with 
phosphoric acid. 
I have two acres of damp late land that 
I wish to seed down : can put from six to 
eight tons of good stable manure per acre. 
Can I seed with Japanese millet or millet 
and oats together, sowed about June 15, 
and cut for hay? d. s. 
Our experience is that millet is a 
poor crop with which to seed to clover. 
We have never succeeded with it. If 
you sow the millet thick enough to give 
a full crop you will smother out the 
young clover. As for sowing oats with 
millet in June I believe such oats will 
fail, for they would be out of their 
season. I should sow the millet alone 
—cut it, work up the soil and sow rye 
and seed to clover in the Spring. 
I want to ask you if you know of any¬ 
one who has tried seeding Alfalfa the sec¬ 
ond hoeing of corn. I have had very good 
success with other grass that way. 
Chester, Conn. p. g. c. 
Several such cases have been re¬ 
ported—all failures. We would not try 
it. In some parts of the country very 
fair results are obtained by seeding 
Timothy and Red-top in corn. We 
sow Crimson clover in this way. Al¬ 
falfa is a different proposition entirely. 
The plant will not thrive and grow in 
the shade of the corn. 
I have 1,000 strawberry plants, Ivevitt 
system, I cultivated late in the Fall and 
had no weeds. This Spring the weeds and 
grass are growing fast. I would like to 
know something in regard to hoeing be¬ 
fore they fruit. I was talking to an old 
gardener who has raised strawberries on 
a small patch, and lie says if they are 
worked or hoed in the Spring I shall have 
no fruit. If I wait until after they fruit 
before hoeing I am afraid I shall be 
swamped with weeds and grass. g. w. j. 
If these plants had been properly 
mulched last Fall I do not see how 
they could be so weedy now. We left 
the mulch around our plants this Spring. 
A few large weeds came through, but 
these were pulled by hand. The Spring 
has been quite wet thus far, and weeds 
have pulled easily. We should have 
pulled these weeds.* It could be done 
without hurting the plants. As it is, we 
should hoe at once and clean the patch 
lor put on some heavy mulch that will 
hold 4 the weeds back. We tried this 
last year with coal ashes and rotten 
sawdust. The theory that Spring cul¬ 
tivation prevents'’ fruiting will not 
hold. Some growers have plants in 
single rows and cultivate up to picking 
time. We have cultivated some of our 
fruiting beds three times already, and 
weeded twice. 
Two things which have been writ¬ 
ten about lately have stirred up some of 
our folks thoroughly. One relates to 
farm management. I am sure we could 
all accomplish more if we did more 
pjanning ahead. I find a slate or a 
piece of paper nearly as good as an ex¬ 
tra hoe. We can jot down things 
which need to be done and always 
know what to do next. This year we 
have a little farm council each night. 
In 10 minutes talk all together we can 
go over the day’s work and plan the 
next job. In this way everyone feels an 
interest in things, and we accomplish 
far more than if we simply let things 
go without method or plan. The other 
thing is dealing with children. I find 
some people too indulgent. These mis¬ 
guided folks are even afraid the child 
will do too much and not have enough 
play time. At the other extreme are 
people who say the child does not need 
to play if it is to make its way in the 
world. You may count me between the 
two. One man tells me the chief aim 
of the child’s education is thrift. He 
would make him thrifty and let the 
rest come. Another friend sends me 
the following story, which he cut from 
an English paper: 
“Iloy, mon !’’ exclaimed the braw, bon- 
nie North-country man, “thrift is a wun- 
nerful thing!” 
“Yes,” replied his English traveling 
companion: “you’re right there. Now, I 
gave my wife a £10 note to manage Christ¬ 
mas on; and—would you believe it?—in¬ 
stead of exceeding it, she saved nearly a 
sovereign out of it to buy herself a hat!” 
“That’s nowt,” replied the Scotsman. 
“My wife gives the kids ha’pennies apiece 
to go to bed supperless; when they’re 
asleep she takes the ha’pennies off on ’em 
ageean, and then she makes ’em do wi’out 
on.v breakfasts for losin’ ’em! Hey, mon, 
that’s thrift!” 
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