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THE RURAL NEWA'ORKER 
April 4, 
FARMERS’ CLUB 
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answered in our advertising columns. Ask only 
a few questions at one time. Put questions on a 
separate piece of paper.] 
Reseeding A Meadow. 
C. J. H., Merchantville, N. J. —We have 
some meadow land which some years ago 
raised an immense crop of millet and then 
one of corn.. It was left in grass for pas¬ 
ture for several years until about two 
years ago, when the bank gave way, letting 
in the tide, which sometimes flooded it 
wholly and at other times only in part, 
according to season. What treatment would 
you advise for a hay crop on this ground 
this year? New bank will be finished in 
two or three weeks, now would German 
millet do, sowing after cut-harrowing and 
then cover with spike harrow? Soil is 
loam with stiff clay bottom. 
Ans. —We should try to get that land 
into Timothy and Red-top this year. If 
any millet is used we prefer the Jap¬ 
anese barnyard variety. We should pre¬ 
fer oats and peas sown as early as pos¬ 
sible and cut green for hay. Then cut 
up and fit the ground and about Septem¬ 
ber 1 sow Timothy and Red-top. 
Quality of Wild Parsnips. 
How long does it take parsnips to “run 
wild’’ and change their character as edible 
roots? 
Ans. —The question cannot be ans¬ 
wered definitely, as the rapidity with 
which the poisonous quality will develop 
varies with conditions. I have known 
of cases when roots grown in a garden 
from good seed, dug in the Spring and 
partially tovered with soil but so ex¬ 
posed that the upper portion of the 
roots became tinged with green quite 
seriously poisoned all who ate them. 
On the other hand, I know of at 
least one case where a family got their 
supply from self-sown or volunteer 
plants taken from a corner of a grass- 
covered orchard, and they told me they 
had done this for a good many years, 
never cultivating the patch or saving 
seed, simply thinning out each Spring 
the volunteer plants, but in this case 
they only used the roots in the early 
Spring, and they were cooked the day 
they were dug. With this explanation 
I should answer the question by saying 
that the development of the poisonous 
quality commences with the first season 
of neglect, and increases with each suc¬ 
ceeding one. w. vv. t. 
Pear Blight. 
J. R. II., Mansfield Depot, Conn. —Do you 
think the bacillus of pear blight will get in 
through the bud or blossom? Do you think 
it gets in through the bark or through some 
wound in the bark or may it go through in 
all these places? 
Ans. —It has been demonstrated re¬ 
peatedly by Prof. Waite, of the United 
States Department of Agriculture, that 
pear blight often gets its first foothold 
in the tree through infection carried to 
the blossoms by insects. In years when 
the blight has been unusually virulent, 
as in the past two years in western New 
York, I haye in many instances noticed 
the infected blossom clusters directly 
after the blossoming period. The honey 
bee as well as many other insects spread 
this disease. Prof. M. B. Waite says, 
“The pear blight multiplies in the nec¬ 
tary of the pear blossom and extends 
downward into the blossom through the 
nectary with the greatest ease, because 
the nectary is not covered by cuticle. 
Ordinarily the entire pear tree is sealed 
up with an airtight and watertight 
cuticle composed of a thin layer of the 
same composition as cork. This cuticle 
keeps out the pear blight germ and 
many other fungus diseases. The 
nectary is not covered by cuticle and is 
therefore the easiest place for the germ 
to enter.” 
Insects visit the blighting blossoms 
and carry the disease to blossoms as yet 
healthy. Puncturing insects also carry 
the disease from diseased tissue to 
healthy, fleshy shoots and leaves, and 
the older bark and branches becomes 
infected through wounds, diseased suck¬ 
ers, fruit spurs and in many instances 
has been spread by pruning saw and 
knife, especially if such pruning was 
done at season of year when tree was 
filled with sap. Prof. Waite, of the 
Bureau of Plant Industry, has been in¬ 
vestigating this disease and methods of 
controlling it since 1889, and anyone 
interested should write U. S. Depart¬ 
ment of Agriculture for the publications 
covering its treatment and control. It 
has in recent years been exceedingly 
virulent in the "West, and has killed 
practically all bearing pear trees in cer¬ 
tain areas in California. The State 
Board of Horticulture of California in 
its reports shows that in 1901-2 Fresno, 
Cal., had 125,000 pear trees, and Kings, 
Cal., 43,700; in 1903-4 they reported 
Fresno as having 1,520 and Kings none! 
This is a disease many times harder to 
combat in pear trees than an insect like 
San Jose scale, and is the most serious 
menace to the pear-growing industry of 
to-day. _ b. d. v. b. 
Desteoying Arpabagus Beeti.es. —Paris- 
green Is altogether the most effective rem¬ 
edy for the Asparagus beetle. The difficulty 
Is to make it stick to the fine smooth 
foliage. We have found the best means Is 
to mix it with flour, damaged grocery flour 
will do, at the rate of two teaspoonsful of 
raris-green to the pound of flour. It should 
be applied with a blower or bellows while 
the tops are wet with dew. The poisoned 
flour is then converted into a sort of paste 
which adheres to the leaves and is readily 
eaten by the beetle. Two or three applica¬ 
tions may be necessary in a season to con¬ 
trol the different broods. 
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