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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
May 30, 
FARMERS’ CLUB 
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answered in our advertising columns. Ask only 
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KEEP THEM AT HOME! 
The following members of the New York 
Senate voted against Governor Hughes in 
Ills 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! 
.TOTITAM P. ATJ.DS.Norwich. N. Y. 
ALBERT T. PANTHER. .Salamanca. N. Y. 
S. PERCY HOOKER.LeRoy, N. Y. 
JOHN RAINES .Canandaigua, N. Y. 
SANFORD W. SMITH.Chatham, N. Y. 
WILLIAM .T. TELLY.Corning, N. Y. 
HORACE WHITE .Syracuse, N. Y. 
BEN.T. M. WILCOX.Auburn, N. Y. 
JOSEPH ACICROYD .Utica. N. Y. 
PRANK M BOYCE... East Schodaek, N. Y. 
FRANCIS II. GATES. . .Chittennngo, N. Y. 
WM. W. WEMPLE.Schenectady, N. Y. 
WM. T. O'NEIL.St. Regis Falls, N. Y. 
OWEN CASSIDY .Watkins, N. Y. 
A SCREEN OF TREES. 
There are many farmhouses which would 
be wonderfully improved by some screen cut¬ 
ting off the direct view of necessary but un¬ 
sightly buildings. The well-known Boston 
horticulturist, Luke J. Doogue, gives the 
following very useful suggestion in “Horti¬ 
culture” : 
“I needed a screen and I wanted it badly. 
There were many tilings to use but I de¬ 
cided on the Carolina poplar. I put in a 
row of those and cut them back well. In 
front of these I planted Viburnum Opulus. 
The poplars got very busy growing and 
after a few severe cuttings they kept send¬ 
ing out new wood down to the ground. 
In the second year they were 10 feet high 
and densely leaved. As a screen it an¬ 
swered all requirements, but since that time 
the Viburnums have been growing and dur¬ 
ing Hie Winter months they furnish a gor¬ 
geous decoration of vivid red berries that 
hang until the leaves again shoot out. It 
may be objected that the poplars are un¬ 
desirable for many obvious reasons. Sure 
thoy ore under some treatment but if you 
want a screen of moderate height you must 
cut thorn bard to get the new wood and 
by tliis cutting you also fool the borers. 
a sharp spade will keep the roots at home 
but beyond this there is no work. If you 
let the trees have full swing they will in a 
short time get on very friendly terms with 
the family and walk right into the house 
loo and later dump a ton of dead wood 
on the house when they have grown up a 
hundred feet. But if you want a screen, 
plant the Carolina poplar and give it the 
knife good and hard. For an artistic pro¬ 
position put the Viburnums in front.” 
THE OILS FOR SPRAYING. 
Are the oils as effective in spraying peach 
trees ns the lime-sulphur wash? F. H. 
Bangor, Fa. 
It depends upon what the spraying Is 
for. We are satisfied that the oils prop¬ 
erly mixed and at the right strength will 
kill every San .Tos6 scale they cover, and 
not hurt the tree. The same Is true of a 
well-made lime-sulphur wash. The oils 
usually cost more, are much easier to mix 
and easier to spray. All they do is to kill 
the scale insects, while lime-sulphur has 
some effect in destroying germs of fungus 
disease. One advantage of the oils is that 
they can be used through the Fall and 
even through the Winter on bright days. It 
is agreed that the best time to use lime- 
sulphur is in late Spring, just before the 
buds open. Winter spraying with lime- 
sulpliur is not as satisfactory as with the 
oils. We hear of fruit growers who spray 
with the oils in Fall and Winter, and with 
lime-sulphur in Spring. 
CURING MELON DISEASES. 
A reader tells how last season he tried 
to prevent Melon blight and “wilt” by 
spraying with Bordeaux Mixture. He bad 
little success, but one day poured the con¬ 
tents of the sprayer around several hills. 
The ground was well soaked with the lime 
and copper and those hills withstood 
disease. He wants to know if soaking the 
soil in this way is a sure remedy. We can¬ 
not find anyone who has had experience. 
Faul Rose, the great Michigan melon 
grower, says: 
“In regard to saturating the soil about 
the hills of melons to prevent Melon blight 
and ‘wilt,’ I can say that I have had no 
experience, further than we often dump 
portions of barrels of the mixture on the 
ground in the melon fields when through 
spraying. I never noticed any particular 
benefit from this, however. The best re¬ 
sult we ever obtained was by spraying 
upper and lower side of the leaves and 
vines by carefully turning the vines bot¬ 
tom side up and spraying both sides; this, 
however, only in a small way. I have 
demonstrated, beyond all doubt, that good 
crops of sweet cantaloupes can be grown 
in badly blight-affected localities by thor¬ 
oughly spraying with Bordeaux Mixture 
four or five times. Spray even after pick¬ 
ing begins. About the ‘wilt,’ this was very 
bad last season here in northern Michigan, 
taking about one-half of tlic hills, Fall- 
plowed rich clover sod and new land that 
was full of rich vegetable mold being most 
affected, while on the sandy soil there was 
but little loss from this cause. All parts 
of the fields were thoroughly sprayed and 
received the same care. They had but very 
little ‘wilt’ in Tennessee on stony clay 
soils, and not as much in Indiana on soils 
that were badly affected the year before. 
I think that climatic conditions have a good 
deal to do with it.” paul rose. 
Bees and Grapes. 
When bees and wasps attack and destroy 
grapes what, besides bagging, can be done 
to prevent them ? 
Ans. —It has been proven time and 
time again that bees do not and cannot 
puncture the skin of sound fruit. It is 
not denied that they will visit pears, 
peaches or grapes, the skins of which 
have been broken from being over-ripe, 
or which have been punctured by wasps : 
or birds. In a great majority of cases 
where the bees appear to be eating 
grapes, it will be found that small birds 
come early in the morning and perforate 
the fruit. The most common of these 
are some species of the insect-eating 
birds, especially the Cape May warbler. 
If the vineyardist will get up early in 
the morning a little before or after sun¬ 
rise, he will find the birds at work. The 
remedy is to use a shot-gun. In cases 
where the fruit is over-ripe, the only 
thing to do is to pick it before it reaches 
that stage. When there is a scarcity of 
honey, bees will attack grapes affected 
with grape-rot; but as all such fruit is 
worthless, practically no great damage is 
done. _ 
Cnows and Grapes. —Why do we kill 
crows when tar will keep them from taking ; 
up the corn ? Crows do not bother us much . 
here with taking up our corn, and we al- I 
ways thought there was room enough for 
us and the birds too, until last year the 
pesky crows learned to tear the sacks from 
our Carman grapes, and would even eat the 
grapes after tearing the sacks off. We 
wanted to eat the grapes ourselves, so we 
shot at the crows, but didn't always hit. 
We could plant other kinds of grapes. 
Kansas. J. b. f. 
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R. N.-Y. and you’ll get a quick reply and 
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THE VICTOR TREADLE 
JUST WHAT YOU NEED 
Why not use your weight i 
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your weight does nearly 
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a minute. It is simple 
and cheap. Once used 
you would not be with¬ 
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Ask for letters from 
those who are using it. 
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AUGUST POST 
MOULTON. IOWA 
THE KNOItMOIJS YIKT.D of 50,000 quarts of 
* Strawberries now growing by my system on 
one acre. Send for CHART. 
KEVITT'S PLANT FARM. Athenia. N. J. 
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THE 
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Crates 
Ladders 
Wholesale & Retail 
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APPLETON, N. Y. 
GABBAGE 
PLANTS—2,000,000 All 
Head Early, Succession, 
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Early Summerplantsready. Strong, stocky plants. 
They have an average of 4 square inches of space 
each over the whole field. 10,000 $7, 5,000 $4, 1,000 $1, 
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STONE TOMATO PLANTS reSTS!,™ 
ready after May 20th. Winningstadt and Market 
Gardener’s No. 2 Cabbage Plants now ready at $1 
per 1,000. Caleb Boggs & Son, Cheswold, Del. 
SWEET POTATO PLANTS. 
Efln nnn Jersey Yellow, Jersey Red and Big 
3UU|UUU Stem; $1.50 per 31. Plants ready 
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Shade Trees, Spruce and Arbor Vitaa Hedging. 
Cherry Trees a Specialty. Trees and Plants by 
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ravages of insect pests and fungous diseases 
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White Plains, N. Y. Arlington, Mass. 
Peach, Apple 
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VISIT 
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TESTED FARM 
SudS 
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in Garden, Field and 
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Write for Field Seed 
price list, also Annual 
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ALFALFA 
Northern grown, fully 90 per cent pure, guaranteed 
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Write for catalog on farm and field seeds, and free 
instructions on growing Alfalfa. 
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rnn C Al C—Crimson Clover Seed, $3.50 to $4.50 
run OHLC bushel; Cow Peas, $2.50 to $3.00. 
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CRIMSON CLOVER 
The great soil Improver. Valuable 
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hay crop. Special circular free; also 
sample and price of seed on request. 
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714 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 
