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THE RURAL NEW-YORKEE 
May 2, 
FARMERS’ CLUB 
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Bichloride of Mercury for Scale. 
E. M. 11., Chambersburg, Pa. —What do 
you think of this treatment for scale: 
“Treat a few infected trees by inseriing the 
point of a glass fountain pen filler or 
medicine dropper, into the soft bark of one 
of the large roots Immediately below the 
surface of the ground, and fill the bowl 
with bichloride of mercury; repeating the 
dose until about one-half to one ounce 
of the fluid has been absorbed, and watch 
the effect, both upon the insect and the 
tree, during the year. Make the applica¬ 
tions while the sap is rising.” 
Ans. —We have no reason to believe 
that any treatment of this sort will de¬ 
stroy the scale. . Even supposing that 
the poison did not injure the root and 
really spread all over the tree in the 
sap it would be so diluted that it is 
doubtful if the insects would be in¬ 
jured. We shall stick to the oils. 
Alfalfa Questions. 
F. 8., Fort Plains, N. Y.—lt I seed Al¬ 
falfa with oats and peas will a very heavy 
growth kill Alfalfa? I have a good, dry, 
rich piece of ground which I can sow about 
the first week in May with oats and Canada 
peas. If I cut it about the middle of 
August for hay could I plow it and fit it for 
Alfalfa if I sow it then? How would it 
be to sow a little WTnter rye with the 
clover seed to protect the clover during 
Winter? 
Ans. —From our own experience we 
would not sow Alfalfa or clover with 
oats and peas. That crop makes such a 
rank growth that the clovers do not have 
a fair chance. We have had a fair catch 
of clover in this way, but the chances 
are against it. We advise Alfalfa seed¬ 
ing in August. If you can get your 
oats and peas off by August 10 and then 
fit the soil well you can get a fair start 
with the Alfalfa. We would sow the 
Alfalfa seed alone. 
Onions Run to Tops. 
In raising onions, either from seed or 
topples, they all go to “topples.” What 
must I do to make them grow onions? 
Selkirk, N. Y. j. u. b. 
The failure of your onions may be either 
from poor seed or from some deficiency 
in your soil. Your soil, so far as I have 
noticed it Is thin and sandy; at least 
I have seen a great deal of such soil 
between Albany and Schenectady. Such 
soils need, especially for onions, a fertil¬ 
izer high in nitrogen and potash and you 
can get better results with onions from a 
a commercial fertilizer than from manure 
alone. The best fertilizer mixture I have 
ever used for onions is 900 pounds of 
acid phosphate, 600 pounds of cotton-seed 
meal or tankage, 100 pounds of nitrate of 
soda and 400 pounds of muriate of potash 
to make a ton. Of this 1,000 pounds per 
acre well harrowed in. Then be sure to 
get seed from a first-class seedsman, who 
has a reputation to sustain, and sow one 
of the Globe onions, either the Southport 
White or Yellow Globe, or the Yellow 
Globe Danvers, and sow as early as prac¬ 
ticable. W. F. MASSEY. 
Late Potatoes. 
I have about one-tenth acre now in 
strawberries; very likely will pick the last 
of them about July 8 or 10. I have not 
much ground, four acres. Can I plow that 
ground now in berries and plant to pota¬ 
toes? If planted that late will they ma¬ 
ture enough to keep? Variety of pota¬ 
toes, Carman No. 3. h. j. b. 
Muncie, Ind. 
I do not think you can mature a crop 
of potatoes planted as late as the middle 
of July in this latitude no matter how 
early the variety. If I were the inquirer 
I would plant my strawberry bed either 
to celery, stringless beans, .turnips or 
bunching onions to be marketed early the 
following Spring. 
B. F. 
w. 
Formalix 
FOR 
Potato 
Scab.— I 
have 
treated seed 
for 
several 
years with 
very 
good results. We purchase 40 per cent 
solution of formaldehyde, usual thing two 
pounds, at 25 to 30 cents per pound, take 
an oil barrel, knock out one head, and 
mix eight ounces of the solution to 15 
gallons water. The potatoes are brought 
from cellar in baskets, poured into a clean 
bran sack, two sacks at a time, then im¬ 
mersed for two hours. These are taken 
out and allowed to drain so the water runs 
into the barrel. Then the potatoes are 
poured into new crates; don’t put them 
back into the baskets you brought them in 
from the collar, as you wall infect them 
again. After soaking 12 or 15 bushels 
make up a new solution. We also dust the 
cut pieces with sulphur. I do not know 
that it ftretents rot, but our potatoes are 
not as badly affected as the neighbors, 
where no sulphur is used. We also spray 
with Bordeaux Mixture. 
DAIRYMAN’S WIFE. 
Soaking Seed Potatoes. —We always 
have six or seven 50-gallon barrels on hand. 
Two of these are filled with the formalin 
solution. Then we sack the seed one bushel 
in a bag, that is enough to lift out w r hen 
wet. Put three or four bushels, sack and 
all, into the empty barrels, and dip with 
a wmoden pail out of the solution until 
the potatoes are covered. Fill the two 
barrels partly emptied with potatoes and 
you will have four full barrels soaking at 
one time. At the side of each two full 
barrels you should have one empty one with 
a few chunks of wood in the bottom. After 
the potatoes have soaked for 1% hour take 
out of one of each pair and put in empty 
barrel to drain. Fill the two you just 
emptied with a fresh lot; then empty the 
other two barrels and stack on top of the 
other two barrels to drain, while the sec¬ 
ond lot is soaking. Just before the second 
lot’s time is up spread first to dry on 
barn floor or grass. There •will be no bad 
results if you do not plant for a week or 
two after soaking. d. a. p. 
Clinton Co., N. Y. 
My method for several years has been 
to soak seed potatoes for 90 minutes in a 
solution of corrosive sublimate. To make 
the solution dissolve two ounces of cor¬ 
rosive sublimate in two gallons of boiling 
water, then add water enough to make 
15 gallons, stirring thoroughly. I use a 
barrel and take potatoes right from cellar, 
and before they have sprouted; put as 
many in a gunny sack as I can conveni¬ 
ently handle, then submerge in the liquid, 
and after remaining there an hour and a 
half I lift them out and let them drain a 
few minutes on .two sticks laid across top 
of barrel ; then spread on ground to dry 
and cut any time- when ready to plant. 
The solution is good as long as any re¬ 
mains, but it should never be forgotten for 
a moment that it is a deadly poison. 
West Willington, Conn. w. h. m. 
Treating Seed Potatoes. —I will give 
you my method of treating potato scab for 
the benefit of those who do not know of a 
better way. I use two barrels, boring holes 
in them on side as near the bottom as 
possible, into which I put corks or some¬ 
thing that can be easily pulled out. I set 
barrels up on boxes with the hole in side 
over the edge of box. I fi^ the barrels up 
with potatoes, putting the -solution in one 
barrel only at a time; when the potatoes 
have soaked long enough I pull the cork 
out of hole in barrel, letting the liquid 
run into a pail or tub which I pour 
into the other barrel. When it has all 
run out of first barrel I tip the barrel 
over on the box, dumping the potatoes all 
out, filling it up again with untreated pota¬ 
toes, and repeating the operation until po¬ 
tatoes have all been treated. When one 
has a lot of potatoes to treat more bar¬ 
rels can be used. I use corrosive sublimate, 
one ounce to eight gallons of water, soak¬ 
ing the potatoes 1% hour; it requires 
three ounces and 24 gallons of water to 
cover a 50-gallon barrel of potatoes. Al¬ 
though I use fresh manure and plant two 
crops of potatoes on the same ground in 
succession I hardly ever find a scabby po¬ 
tato, while before'I used to treat the seed 
my potatoes would be very scabby; lots 
of them worthless. I also dust sulphur 
on potatoes at time of cutting. j. h. 
The Lawson Pear. —On page 234 W. G. 
B. speaks of the Lawson pear as good qual¬ 
ity. His trees do not fit the label and for 
once he is lucky. Lawson or Comet was in¬ 
troduced about 25 years ago, when I was a 
boy living with my uncle, who brought out 
the variety as Comet. A neighboring nur¬ 
seryman also Introduced it at the same 
time as Lawson. This is one of the pret¬ 
tiest pears among the early varieties, but 
after that is said it tells its merits, ex¬ 
cepting that it is a slow grower and blights 
but little. It used to bring fancy prices 
and may yet, but the quality is such that 
no one could honestly say that it is “not 
quite as good as Bartlett,” or that it was 
“good in quality,” for it is not. If W. G. 
B. will look at his so-called Lawson pear, 
he will probably find it has smooth, shiny 
new growth, if the tree is making a good 
annual growth, and the color of the bark 
on the young growth a reddish tint. This 
is the characteristic of the Clapp’s Favor¬ 
ite, while the Lawson is a very light-col¬ 
ored bark, with big eyes, rough-looking tree 
in every respect, and bears no resemblance 
in growth to the Clapp’s Favorite, which 
latter is a smooth-growing tree, and the 
reddish appearance of the growth, especially 
while young, makes it easily distinguished 
from most of the varieties usually grown. 
ISAAC C. ROGERS. 
“For the Land’s Sake use Bowker’s 
Fertilizers; they enrich the earth and 
those who till it. Est. 1873. For prices 
or agencies address Bowker, Boston or 
New York.” 
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