September 19 
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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 bo the duty of 
every farmer to blacklist them and keep 
them away from Albany. Vote them out! 
JOTIIAM I’. ALLDS.Norwich, 
S. PERCY HOOKER.HeRoy, 
JOHN RAINES .Canandaigua, 
SANFORD W. SMITH_Chatham, 
HORACE WHITE .Syracuse, 
BKN.T. M. WILCOX.Auburn, 
JOSEPH ACKROYD .Utica, 
FRANK M. BOYCE..East Scliodaek, 
FRANCIS II. GATES. .Chittenango, 
WM. W. WEMPLE.... Schenectady, 
WM. T. O'NEIL. ... St. Regis Falls, 
OWEN CASSIDY .Watkins, 
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CORN IN NORTHERN NEW YORK. 
I send you a picture of some St. 
Lawrence County corn, shown in Fig. 
342, page 730. The farmer has 14 acres 
of this for his silo. His hay is a light 
crop, but the silo will be his best friend 
this Winter. Oats are a good crop, 
and have been harvested in most excel¬ 
lent condition on account of dry 
weather. Potatoes are a very poor 
crop in this section. One man con¬ 
nected with the wholesale potato market 
said recently this was the only time in 
40 years that potatoes have been one dol¬ 
lar a bushel wholesale during the month 
of August. On the outskirts of the vil¬ 
lage the potato thieves are both bold 
and bad, the thickest I ever saw them 
to be. b. 
St. Lawrence Co., N. Y. 
LIVE STOCK AND MULCHED ORCHARDS. 
My opinion is that the orchard will 
come out better without any live stock 
on the farm. The average grower will 
rob the orchard to feed the live stock 
rather than to buy feed for the live 
stock and use the manure gained to fer¬ 
tilize the orchard. The most successful 
growers to-day recognize the fact that 
the most important part of their man¬ 
agement is to maintain a steady sup¬ 
ply of moisture for their trees all 
through the season, so that the trees can 
appropriate at any time the fertility at 
hand. Just what method to pursue to 
accomplish this result each grower must 
study out for himself, as soil conditions 
are not alike. I am satisfied that here 
on our strong limestone soil constant 
cultivation is not the key to the situa¬ 
tion. To increase fertility in a mulched 
orchard a little Alfalfa in the seeding 
will help wonderfully to hold the other 
grains vigorous. Also a crop of Al¬ 
falfa grown for the purpose of draw¬ 
ing into an orchard as mulch is excel¬ 
lent. Feed your trees with the same 
spirit that you feed your cows. I know 
some apple trees that will pay better net 
dividends with same expense per year 
than the average cow. 
GRANT G. HITCHINGS. 
Onondaga Co., N. Y. 
Value of Alsike Clover. 
S. M. K., Irnoood, IV. Va .—Will you tell 
me whether it is advisable to sow Alsike 
clover about this time of the year? What 
is its fertilizer power as compared with 
Crimson clover, or the old common Red 
clover? How long does it last? 
Ans. —Alsike clover is far more hardy 
than Red clover, and if sown in' Septem¬ 
ber in .your section it should succeed bet¬ 
ter than if sown in the Spring. We 
know of no comparative experiments 
showing the difference between the two 
clovers in fertilizing value. The Alsike 
will not make as heavy a crop as hay as 
Medium Red clover, but we assume that 
there is little difference in the amount of 
THE RURAL 
nitrogen it will fix in the plant from the 
air. Its length of life depends on the 
nature of the soil to a great extent. On 
very dry upland soil it will not last much 
longer than Red clover, but on a moist 
and well-drained soil it is far more 
nearly perennial. It likes such a soil, 
and the impression has gone out that it 
is particularly adapted to wet land, which 
is hardly true, though it will survive on 
land too wet for Red clover. Still it is 
particularly at home on a soil that, while 
well drained, never lacks moisture, bot¬ 
tom land, for instance that never is 
overflown. 
Does Spraying Pay? 
I spent part of my vacation during the 
middle of August upon a farm in Steu¬ 
ben County, N. Y., and was especially 
interested in certain fields of potatoes. 
The vines had been sprayed three or 
four times with Bordeaux Mixture, and 
were large, green and still growing. The 
vines in some other fields in the same 
county, and in most of the fields which 
I saw in the eastern part of the State, 
were entirely dead, and on these fields 
I presume no precaution had been taken 
to protect the vines from blight. In the 
section first referred to, an interesting 
experiment was made last year. On one 
farm, seven and one-half acres of po¬ 
tatoes were sprayed several times. They 
stayed green until quite late in the sea¬ 
son, and yielded 1,730 bushels, an average 
of over 230 bushels per acre, though some 
of them ran up to 250 bushels. On ad¬ 
joining farms, potatoes planted under 
similar conditions and with like care, 
excepting that they were not sprayed, 
ripened much earlier, and yielded only 
from 125 to 150 bushels per acre. The 
trouble and expense of spraying was 
very small as compared with the value 
of the increased yield thereby secured. 
New York. a. r. 
Grafting Crab on Wild Thorn. 
M. D. H., Bradford, Pa .—Can a crab 
apple (Siberian or Russian 1, be successfully 
grated on to a wild thorn tree? Is it true 
that any fruit bearing seeds can be grafted 
on to any fruit bearing seeds? 
Ans. —It is probable that the Siberian 
crab apple might unite with the native 
thorn, and grow for a time, but whether 
it would be permanently successful I 
cannot say, and seriously doubt. I 
hardly know what you mean by “any 
fruit-bearing seeds,” for every species 
of plant that makes flowers produces 
fruit and seeds. There is a great dif¬ 
ference in the way in which plants of 
the same genus act when grafted on 
each other. Apples and pears will 
sometimes unite when grafted, but the 
union is only temporary. Apples can 
be grafted on the so-called mountain 
ash, but the graft is short lived. Some 
pears can be grafted on the quince and 
do well, while other varieties of pears 
refuse to grow on the quince. As a 
rule, apple stocks should be used for 
apple and pear for pear, unless we want 
to dwarf the pear. The plants for 
grafting any plant on must be found in 
the same order at least, and, as a rule, 
must be close akin in the order. 
W. F. MASSEY. 
Sunken Gardens. 
A. W. B., Potsdam, N. Y.—What is the 
object of “sunken gardens?” 
Ans. —The primary object of a 
“sunken garden” is the beautifying of a 
natural depression, but on some old and 
also new places it is an artificial feature. 
On some old English estates, where the 
original house was surrounded by a 
moat, the drained moat is turned into 
a sunken garden, thus providing a 
warm and sheltered spot to grow 
tender plants, or the very earliest 
Spring flowers. There is such a 
moat garden at Windsor Castle, though 
it can hardly be termed a “sunk garden,” 
NEW-YORKER 
being a steep declivity beneath the walls 
of the Round Tower. It is famous for 
its collection of Alpine plants, and for 
a beautiful sundial, said to be 800 years 
old. The “sunk garden” was a favorite 
feature with landscape architects of the 
seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. At 
Hatfield, the residence of the Marquis of 
Salisbury, one of the most famous Eliz¬ 
abethan mansions in England, there is a 
“sunk garden” parallel with a pergola; 
it is oblong in shape, enclosed with a 
hedge on three sides. At Knole, the 
famous estate of the Sackville family, 
there is a little walled garden full of 
lavender, from which a long grass path 
leads to a sunk garden with a pool in 
the center, a huge bank of Rhododen¬ 
drons separating it from the park. A 
natural ravine at the foot of a lawn, 
which may seem a perplexing feature 
in laying out the home grounds, can be 
turned into a picturesque sunk garden; 
it is charming to look down into such a 
place full of roses bordered with turf. 
There is a long sunk garden at Fair- 
mount Park, Philadelphia, usually laid 
out in formal bedding, while at Prospect 
Park, Brooklyn, the main rose garden 
is in a picturesque natural depression 
called “the Vale of Cashmere,” which 
carries out the principle of the sunk gar¬ 
den very beautifully. 
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