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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
October 17, 
FARMERS’ CLUB 
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KEEP THEM AT HOME! 
The following members of the New York 
Senate voted against Governor Hughes in 
his efforts to remove the Superintendent 
of Insurance. Some of them have done so 
twice—others are backsliders. All have 
proved unworthy in a fair test. All are in 
districts where the votes of farmers can 
defeat them. It should be the duty of 
every farmer to blacklist them and keep 
them away from Albany. Vote them out! 
JOTHAM P. ALLDS.Norwich, N. Y. 
S. PERCY HOOKER.LeRoy, N. Y. 
JOHN RAINES .Canandaigua, N. Y. 
SANFORD W. SMITH_Chatham, N. Y. 
HORACE WHITE .Syracuse, N. Y. 
BENJ. M. WILCOX.Auburn, N. Y. 
JOSEPH ACKROYD .Utica, N. Y. 
FRANK M. BOYCE.. East Schodack, N. Y. 
FRANCIS H. GATES. .Chittenango, N. Y. 
WM. W. WEMPLE.... Schenectady, N. Y. 
WM. T. O'NEIL_St. Regis Falls, N. Y. 
OWEN CASSIDY .Watkins. N. Y. 
Mail Carriers’ Holidays. 
S., Oklahoma .—How many and what 
days are holidays in the sense that rural 
mail carriers can take the day off and not 
carry the mail those days? Are star route 
carriers governed by different rules and 
regulations in that respect than rural de¬ 
livery carriers? 
Ans. —The Acting Fourth Assistant 
Postmaster General says: 
“I have to state that rural carriers are 
not required to serve their routes on 
Sundays, January first, February twenty- 
second, May thirtieth, July fourth, 
Labor Day (first Monday in September) 
and Thanksgiving Day, but are required 
to serve their routes on Christmas Day. 
Star carriers are governed by wholly 
different rules. Mail on star routes is 
carried under contract and according to 
schedule. If the schedule includes legal 
holidays, the mail must be carried on 
those days.” 
How to Make Beeswax. 
C. B., Neic City, N. Y .—Will you tell us 
how to make wax from old honeycomb? 
Ans. —Beeswax is simply melted 
honeycomb, but old comb contains the 
cast cocoons of many generations of 
bees, and more or less propolis and 
pollen, which when melted absorbs the 
wax so that it is impossible to get more 
than a fraction of the wax out of the 
mass without a special wax press. If 
you have a large quantity it would pay to 
buy a press, or sell the old comb to 
some one who has one. There is al¬ 
ways a market for it. If you only have 
a small lot, you can get the most wax 
out of it in this way: Break up the 
comb as small as possible and put it into 
a bag made of cheesecloth; put this 
into a wash boiler of water on the 
stove, and boil a long time. Have a 
stick and punch the bag about and press 
it out as much as possible. When you 
get tired of the job put a weight on the 
bag and press it under the water. Take 
from the fire and press as hard as you 
possibly can, leaving the bag of comb 
below the surface of the water. Let it 
cool off and you will find your cake of 
wax on top of the water. This can then 
be remelted and caked to suit your 
fancy. This way will get quite a bit 
of wax, but a good press will often 
get as much out of the refuse as can be 
got in this or any other way without the 
press. j. A. CRANE. 
Dewberries on the Pacific Coast. 
J. R., Kirkland, 'Wash .—I intend to set 
out an acre of Lucretia dewberries next 
Spring, and there are so many different 
ways of cultivating them advocated that I 
am puzzled to know which is the best. 
What do you think of it? 
Ans. —I have been growing dewber¬ 
ries for quite a number of years, and 
have shipped some plants a number of 
times to the Pacific coast, but cannot 
say that I am well posted on the growth 
of dewberries in that section. I see no 
reason whatever why they would not 
flourish there. I would recommend that 
they be put in medium to light land, 
not too rich, as when put in rich land 
they go too much to vines at the ex¬ 
pense of the fruit crop. I would 
recommend planting in rows six feet 
apart, three feet apart in the row. They 
could be staked the narrow way by 
driving a stake 3% to four feet above 
ground between every alternate hill; 
two hills could be tied to one stake, 
leaving about IS inches of vine beyond 
where it is tied; this will balance the 
vines and prevent them from slipping 
out of the tie. If inquirer will follow 
these instructions I have no doubt that 
he can grow the dewberries very suc¬ 
cessfully. While I would not advise 
putting them in dead poor land, it is 
very important not to put them in rich 
land, as he will find them very difficult 
to handle if he does, with an over¬ 
abundance of vine growth and but little 
fruit. Land that would not make more 
than 20 bushels of shelled corn per acre 
would be best. w. f. allen. 
Fighting the Strawberry Weevil. 
W. E. N., Bay City, Mich .—I am a be¬ 
ginner growing strawberries; have out 
about two acres, and last year lost nearly 
my entire crop by the weevil. Have you 
ever had any experience with it? If so, 
give me the best known method of combat¬ 
ing it. I have been told that it is not safe 
to spray strawberries with anything when 
In bud or bloom. According to this when 
the weevil comes we are helpless, but that 
does not look reasonable, and seems as 
though there must be a method to prevent 
and destroy them. 
Ans. —The Strawberry weevil is one 
of the most difficult strawberry pests to 
control. Fortunately it is intermittent 
in its attack, appearing in great abund¬ 
ance for one or more season in certain 
districts and doing a vast amount of 
damage. Then without any apparent 
reason it relapses into comparative ob¬ 
scurity, then appears again after a num¬ 
ber of years. Another fortunate feature 
is the fact that this weevil works mostly 
on the staminate and imperfect pistillate 
varieties which furnish a considerable 
quantity of pollen, since this is the sub¬ 
stance that constitutes the chief food 
supply of both the grubs and beetles. 
By covering strawberry beds with mus¬ 
lin or some similar light material, which 
should be placed over the beds at least 
a week before the appearance of the first 
blossoms, much cdi be done. Cultivate 
mostly the pistillate varieties, using just 
enough staminaces for the necessary fer¬ 
tilization, have a few profuse blooming 
varieties, such as the Rio, Superb, Ten¬ 
nessee Prolific or Gandy. A few rows 
of early-blooming and staminate varie¬ 
ties may be used as trap crops to pro¬ 
tect later-blooming kinds. The redbud 
tree and wild bergamot can also be used 
to attract the beetles where they can be 
destroyed by spraying or capturing. 
Some strawberry growers have had en¬ 
couraging results from the use of poison 
sprays against this pest. The best 
poison spray is the arsenate of lead at 
the rate of four pounds in 50 gallons of 
water. Some have reported success 
from the use of Bordeaux Mixture. This 
acts largely as a repellant. A combina¬ 
tion of arsenate of lead and Bordeaux 
Mixture would seem to be the most 
promising spray for this pest. To ob¬ 
tain the best results from spraying, the 
vines should be treated a day or two be¬ 
fore blooming, two or three days after 
the first blooms and again five or six 
days after that. m. v. slingerland. 
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