1908. 
THE RURAL, NEW -YORKER 
663 
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! 
.TOTIIAM P. ALLDS.Norwich. N. Y. 
S. PERCY HOOKER.T,cRoy, N. Y. 
JOHN RAINES .Canandaigua. N. Y. 
SANFORD W. SMITH.Chatham, N. Y. 
HORACE WHITE .Syracuse, N. Y. 
P.EN.T, M. WIECOX.Auburn, N. Y. 
JOSEPH ACICROYD .Utica, N. Y. 
URANIC M BOYCE... East Schodack, N. Y. 
FRANCIS H. GATES. .. Chittenango, N. Y. 
WM. W. WEMPLE.Schenectady, N. Y. 
WM. T. O’NEIU.St. Regis Falls, N. Y. 
OWEN CASSIDY .Watkins, N. Y. 
Tree Medicines. 
J. A. J., Cedar Run, N. J .—I enclose 
sample of bark which was peeled off an 
apple tree by the action of a new spraying 
compound which I have discovered. When 
the bark, which is infected with scale and 
fungi, gets a treatment of this spray it 
begins to peel off and leaves a smooth new 
bark on the tree and makes a more vig¬ 
orous growth than if not sprayed, and if 
sprayed early before buds open in the 
Spring, not an insect or spot will appear 
on tree or fruit. I find it to give better 
results than whale oil soap, Bordeaux and 
lime and sulphur combined, and it adheres 
better than any of them. 
Ans. —Every year we have a number 
of propositions of this sort. Usually the 
discoverer wants us to take an interest 
in the new compound, advertise it and 
put it on the market. These offers are 
usually made in good faith, and we 
have no doubt most of the people who 
offer these new “remedies” fully believe 
in them. As a rule the remedy is not 
practical. The favorite plan is to bore 
into the tree and insert some powder 
or liquid which will go into the sap 
and thus kill the insects! In the 
present case the compound is to take 
off the bark and let new bark grow. 
It is possible that some one may 
stumble on a good thing, but it is not 
very likely. Our experiment stations 
are organized partly to test just such 
things, for it stands to reason that 
farmers cannot spend the time required 
to try all new things. The best thing 
the man with a new idea in spraying can 
do is to have it tested at an experiment 
station. It will have to run the gaunt¬ 
let anyway, and prove its worth before 
fruit growers will touch it. 
Pruning Apple Trees. 
II. L. P. (No Address ).—I would like 
advice regarding some young fruit trees 
which were planted a year ago this Spring. 
When and how should they be trimmed? 
The apples I should like to have grow flat—• 
spreading from the center, but do not know 
just how to go about the pruning. 
Ans.— ‘Olne should begin when they 
are small to trim trees for satisfactory 
shape and ability to hold up large 
crops, and a fair number of limbs, 
from six to 10 or even 12, will make 
a more satisfactory and I believ'e 
longer-lived tree than a crotchcd (two 
limbs) or three or four main limbs, 
especially when they start from the 
trunk near together. Pears, if trees are 
well formed when bought, require little 
pruning except to cut out extra small 
branches occasionally. Cherries will 
also take care of themselves fairly 
well. Plums vary growth with the 
different varieties; the upright growers 
should be headed lower, even a foot 
high for Abundance and Wickson 
making a satisfactory orchard tree, 
whilst Burbank under most circum¬ 
stances would not. Apples I prefer to 
trim or prune quite a little when young, 
although I do not try to grow our 
young trees flat some varieties can be 
grown so very easily, Rhode Island 
Greenings, Williams, etc., while Sut¬ 
ton Beauty and Wealthy would try 
one’s patience to make a flat top when 
young. Every fruit grower understands 
that after a tree reaches bearing age 
and has borne a heavy crop or two the 
branches never go back to their orig¬ 
inal position, but the tree grows flat ill 
shape, especially if there are plenty of 
limbs properly started from its trunk, 
and this leaning over of the limbs is 
taken into consideration in growing the 
tree. Certain rules might help one. 
who was inexperienced. Do all severe 
pruning when the trees are dormant. 
In setting a tree set the heaviest side 
toward the prevailing wind. If one side 
grows to overbalance the rest of tree 
pinch back on young trees and fertilize 
the weak side on large ones. Where 
young trees make a very rapid growth 
cut back when dormant to a proper 
shape, which will hold up its new 
growth. h. o. MEAD. 
Malt Sprouts and Brewers’ Grains. 
M. U., Milford , Conn .—Which do you 
consider the best to feed, malt sprouts or 
dried brewers’ grains? How do wet 
brewers’ grains direct from the brewery 
compare with dried brewers’ grains? Is 
hay, malt sprouts and middlings a good 
feed? 
Ans. —There is no direct method of 
comparing the feeding value of one feed 
with another. In practical feeding the 
main questions to consider are the avail¬ 
ability and cost of the different feeds, 
together with their chemical analyses. 
As a rule, dry brewers’ grains cost more 
than malt sprouts, and they are more 
valuable to feed, especially with si- 
age in Winter, or as an adjunct to pas¬ 
ture in Summer. Malt sprouts, being 
more succulent, will produce very good 
results when fed with hay and dry feed. 
In comparing wet and dry brewers’ 
grains the same factors must be taken 
into consideration. Wet grains can only 
be used profitably by those living near 
the place of manufacture, where a fresh 
supply can be procured every day or 
every other day at most. This adds 
materially to the labor item; therefore 
unless the price is low it will not pay 
to take this extra trouble to get wet 
grains.- Of course the dried grains and 
malt sprouts should always be bought 
on their analysis. Hay, malt sprouts 
and middlings would not make a very 
well-balanced ration. There is a dif¬ 
ference in hay, however, and if you 
mean good clover or Alfalfa this would 
add materially to its value. I would 
suggest that you try about two pounds 
each of cotton-seed meal and middlings, 
and four pounds of malt sprouts, wet 
several hours before feeding, and vary¬ 
ing the quantity according to the amount 
of milk each cow is giving. I am sure 
you would find it profitable to add the 
cotton-seed to your ration if you are 
“ CONSISTENCY, THOU ART A JEWEL.” 
Popular sentiment a few years ago 
among fruit growers and others de¬ 
manded the most drastic treatment of 
nurserymen who might have scale on 
their trees. Tar and feathers were too 
good for them. By law they are now 
hedged about; thousands of trees in 
some scale infested sections are de¬ 
stroyed yearly, and no compensation 
granted them. I believe this action is 
right; justness to common interests de¬ 
mands it. In your editorial of June 6 
you write: “It is not right to expect 
farmers to submit to slaughter of their 
cows without a fair compensation, and 
the State should provide money enough 
to compensate for this destruction of 
property.” Now why? Why on the one 
hand should the State pay a farmer to 
abate a nuisance or a condition on his 
farm that is to a more or less degree 
dangerous to human life and to other 
cattle, and on the other hand destroy 
hundreds of dollars’ worth of some 
man’s nursery stock without according 
any compensation, be it ever so slightly 
infested with scale, that careful fumi¬ 
gation would remove practically all dan¬ 
ger. About 15 years ago we owned a 
valuable herd of Short-horn cattle. We 
found tuberculosis had crept in, and 
though the animals were still salable, 
and we had princely offers for some of 
the cattle, we sacrificed every one of 
them. We do not consider special credit 
is due any man for such action. Any 
reliable honest man will do the same. 
Compensation for diseased cows savors 
too much of buying the co-operation of 
the farmer, as he was bought by the 
race track bill. The farmer asks and 
demands his rights, but he does not need 
to be bought. I do not believe the state¬ 
ment of one of our most prominent 
State agricultural men that we could not 
have the co-operation of the farmers 
unless we paid them liberally for their 
diseased cows. In my opinion the State 
should stand the expense of the admin¬ 
istration of any inspection law that may 
be passed, and if condemned animals 
should be sent to a central slaughter 
house, and in cases of localized tuber¬ 
culosis carcasses should be used, the 
proceeds should rightfully go back to 
the farmer where it belongs. 
FRANK E. RUPERT. 
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Sweet Potatoes from Cut “ Seed.” 
I come to the relief of that “employee” 
who is accused of telling “fairy tales” 
about planting sweet potatoes. During 
slavery times there were acres planted, 
where there are only a few rows planted 
notv. The crop was “pitched” according 
to the number of people on the place, 
white and black, and hundreds of bushels 
were housed, as they were a part of the 
weekly rations to the hands, a peck to 
each head of family. In those days noth¬ 
ing hut hits of small potatoes were planted. 
Those the size of a man’s finger to a little 
larger were preferred. Bedding and slips 
were unknown. As A. W. Smith says “the 
vines root in a day or two, and make the 
best and smoothest potatoes.” Ten or 12 
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Fayette, Miss. 
Limb Sulphur for Peach Diseases.—I 
note what T. H. King says on page 509 
about spraying not doing much good for 
leaf-curl. It would seem to me that the 
lime-sulphur spray should do much good. 
I have used this for five years, and in the 
last three years have never seen one sign 
of leaf-curl. I do not consider it much 
worse to apply than Bordeaux Mixture. 
I think it hinders rot, delays blossoming, 
puts a color on hark and foliage, that noth¬ 
ing else will, and is altogether a very valu¬ 
able application; one which I would not 
think of doing without on peaches. 
Columbia Co., N. Y. h. iiotaling. 
Prices for Pickles. — I noticed a farmer 
asking regarding pickles for picklehouse. 
We are paying $2 per thousand for pickles 
from four to five inches long. Farmers get 
on an average the last 10 years 80,000 
pickles per acre. We also take from the 
farmers the large cucumbers which grow 
on their patches for relish at 10 cents per 
%-bushel basket. Lately a good many 
nickle houses have contracted by the ton. 
They are paying $20 for straight pickles 
up to five inches long; for crooked, which 
we call nubs, they only pay $7 per ton, and 
the larger cucumbers they do not take at 
all. We are using Jersey pickle and West¬ 
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