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THE RURAb NEW-YORKER 
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FARMERS’ CLUB 
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BUDDING PERSIMMON TREES. 
B. L., Hot Hprinyn, Arlt .—I have a 
grove of persimmon trees and some iso¬ 
lated, all abundantly old enough to bear, 
yet do not. What can be done to make 
them fruit next year? 
A ns. —In regard to these persimmon 
trees, half of them are males, and noth¬ 
ing the man could do short of grafting 
and budding with female wood would 
ever cause them to bear. About half 
of them are females, and if your reader 
would take out alternate layers of bark 
about two inches wide, up and down 
the trees, leaving layers of about the 
same width in between, he would find 
that this would soon throw the trees 
into bearing. Of course, there would be 
r.o way of telling which were the males 
or which the females till the females 
came into bearing. With the male trees 
it would be well to top them, where 
large, and as soon as he got new shoots 
about a quarter or half an inch in di¬ 
ameter, then to bud them with buds 
from some female variety. The best 
of all native persimmons up to date is 
the Josephine. Buds can be had by ap¬ 
plying to the Department of Pomology 
at Washington. In budding the per¬ 
simmon you would better use the new 
chip bud method. I have changed about 
20 common wild persimmons into the 
Josephine by chip budding—nearly 
every bud lives. .The method is given 
in the Texas bulletin on pecans, which 
can be had by .applying to Commissioner 
of Agriculture, Austin, Texas. S. J. 
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Failing Hickories. 
F. TI. V., Finhkill-on-Hudeon, N. Y .— 
Tlioro arc quite a number of hickory trees 
dying on my place. Can you give me ajiy 
information as to what causes the trouble? 
They are not large trees, nor are they a 
class of hickory which bears nuts that are 
good to eat. All these trees are in ground 
which is more or less rocky and full of 
small stones, although there is a consider¬ 
able amount of dirt and soil in which they 
can grow. The leaves wither and dry up 
and the tree dies. Lost year I lost one, 
and tills year several are acting in tiie 
same way, and I take it for granted they 
too are going to die. The trees above re¬ 
ferred to must be 15 to 20 years old. pos¬ 
sibly a little older; they arc eight to 10 
inches diameter and very tall, growing on 
a hillside. 
Ans. —The hickories usually grow in 
locations that receive a plentiful supply 
of moisture. The past two Summers 
having been very- dry have affected the 
hickories, and I notice that this year 
they are ripening their foliage much 
earlier than usual, and before the first 
frosts. I do not think that many of the 
trees will die, though it may have a ten¬ 
dency to lower the vitality of the" trees, 
and thus reduce the crop of nuts and 
make the trees less resistant to fungus 
and insect troubles. b. d. v. b. 
Making Over a Weedy Lawn. 
K. ,/. It , liliie Point, H. Y .—The droughts 
of the last two Summers have greatly in¬ 
jured rny lawn, which lias become filled 
witii plantain and sorrel. Will you tell 
me what treatment and what kind of fer¬ 
tilizer it needs? 
Ans. —If the lawn grass has been 
displaced largely by plantain and sorrel, 
the only 'satisfactory treatment is to 
plough up the lawn and apply a dressing 
of fine well-rotted manure, cutting in 
well with a harrow. In the case of a 
•small lawn spade up the affected area, 
working in well-rotted manure. In eith¬ 
er case after plowing or spading, the 
■surface should be carefully raked and 
leveled first with the teeth of the iron 
rake and then with the back. Bone meal 
and wood ashes should be applied at 
last smoothing, and the ground reseeded 
either during a rain or as soon after as 
possible. At least three-fourths Red- 
top should be used in the seed. 7'be 
seed should be lightly raked in and 
the whole surface should be rolled 
both ways. If the lawn is damaged 
only in small spots have all weeds 
cut out and apply a surface at least 
one-half inch deep of very fine loam 
taken from a pasture or other place 
as free from weed seed as possible 
Rake this surface carefully and seed 
the whole lawn as in the other case, 
rolling heavily. This will not be as a 
satisfactory as the first method, for the 
lawn is likely to look patchy, w. w. 
Pear or Cherry Slug. 
I send a cherry leaf, on which is some 
sort of an insect, which is rapidly de¬ 
vouring the foliage on my neighbors’ trees. 
What are they, and what’about them? 
New' York. t. e. b. 
The insects on the cherry leaf are the 
pear or cherry slug. This slug is the 
larva of a small saw-fly that infests prin¬ 
cipally the leaves of the pear, but very 
often attacks the leaves of the cherry tree 
also. In some instances in this State it 
lias defoliated great number of cherry trees, 
and at times is a very serious pest. From 
the inquiries received regarding it this 
season, it would seem that this Summer is 
one of its injurious seasons. 
The adult form of the pest is a small, 
glossy-black, fly-like insect that crawls to 
the undersides of the leaves and makes a 
hole in the leaf through the lower epider¬ 
mis with its ovipositor and deposits an 
egg deep in the tissues of the loaf. In a 
few days this egg hatches into a minute 
slug, which soon eats its way through the 
upper epidermis and begins gnawing at the 
upper surface of the leaves, finally eating 
it away, leaving nothing hut the veins or 
skeleton of the leaf. In 25 or 30 days the 
slugs leave the tree and enter the ground, 
where they change to pupm and come 
forth later as adults. There are usually 
two broods a year, the larva; of the last 
brood living over unlil Spring. This in¬ 
sect may he controlled by spraying with 
arsenate of lead, four pounds to 100 gal¬ 
lons of water, or with one pound of Paris- 
green to 100 gallons of water with two 
pounds of quicklime added to prevent this 
poison from burning the leaves. If the 
slugs appear at the time the fruit is ripen¬ 
ing, it is best to use white hellebore at 
the rate of three ounces to two gallons of 
wafer. The hellebore is safer to use than 
the arsenicals. because it loses its strength 
rapidly, and there is no danger of being 
poisoned by eating the fruit. 
OI.KNN W. IIEIiKICK. 
Elderisebuy Pest and Pie. —In answer 
to “Want to Know” on page 753, my father 
had many acres of great rank elder hushes 
30 or 40 years ago. lie had a very large 
amount of land for the number of stock 
kept, which consisted of a large flock of 
sheep (200 to 500) and a bunch of steers 
to cat after them. I think he had then 
about 400 acres of rich land (in the Butter¬ 
nut Valley). He plowed up what he could 
of the elders and the hired men pulled the 
roots out by hand, after the plow. The 
roots were piled in great stacks and burned, 
and the land pat to corn. The corn crops 
were the talk of the county. But the 
elders kept filling every fence corner. It 
was impossible to keep them down, unlil 
recently,- when the dairy has been Increased 
to about 40 cows, with perhaps 20 head of 
young stock and a small flock of sheep. 
Every time there is a dry spell and the 
pastures get short, the cattle, sheep and 
hogs feed on the elders in the stone walls 
and fence corners, and kill large numbers 
of the hushes, until there are at the pres¬ 
ent lime only almut enough to supply my 
mother’s family and mine with luscious 
pies. I think if they were cut close to the 
ground during a late Summer drought they 
would lie killed for good, hut about that 
pie—put a rather thin layer of berries in 
your crust, then flour enough so it won't 
run all over. Then two cups of sugar to 
the one pie* every one wants a second 
piece. w. 
Raise Alfalfa 
and increase your Dairy 
by using 
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UTICA, N. Y. 
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Dare You Throw Burning Coals 
On Your Roof? 
Burning coals thrown on a roof of 
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They do not set fire to the Ruberoid. 
They do not set fire to the timbers un¬ 
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