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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
February 25. 
FRUITS FOR IOWA. 
H. It. M., Belle Plaine, la .—I notice the 
letter from S. G. Soverhill, of Illinois, on 
page 34, and I thank him very much for 
his suggestion. I had, however, decided to 
use four varieties for the commercial orchard, 
and in the home orchard will have about 
15 more kinds, some of them for trial 
here. It seems that each one has to be 
his own experiment station, where as little 
up-to-date care is given to apple trees as 
in this locality. Each locality is different 
as to climate, soil, location of orchard as 
to elevation, etc. I plan to have a wind¬ 
break on the north and west sides of the 
orchard. What would be good for that wind¬ 
break? Could I plant quick-growing trees, 
such as the Carolina poplar or “sudden saw- 
log,’’ and mix with them long-lived, slower- 
growing trees, such as hickory or something 
that would be productive? I plan to put 
the rows east and west two rods apart, 
and the trees one rod apart in the row, 
and every alternate tree a liller to be cut 
out later on. The four varieties I have 
chosen for this locality after a great deal 
of investigation are Eastman and Fame- 
use for permanent, and Oldenburg and 
Wealthy for fillers. I am testing out a 
number of other sorts to try to find a good 
quality Winter apple that will do well here. 
Among these are Brilliant, Silas, Delicious, 
Iowa Beauty, York Imperial, McIntosh and 
some others. I hope to plant 10 acres more 
adjoining in a few years of the kinds I am 
testing out, giving at least four kinds of 
permanent commercial trees. When the fill¬ 
ers are removed the permanent trees will 
stand two rods apart in each direction. By 
growing with a low head, as we ought to 
do here, 33 feet ought to be enough. Trees 
do not grow as large here as in the East 
or South. Wild crabs here grow in low, 
compact, round bush-like form. IIow would 
four rows of permanent trees of one sort, 
then the other, be? This will be a sod- 
mulcli orchard. Land is loess (yellow clay) 
now in Red clover and Timothy. I shall put 
stable manure three feet around each tree. 
Ans.— The plans as laid out by H. R. 
M. for his orchard in Iowa are very 
good. Two of the varieties, Eastman 
and Silas, I do not know, but all the 
rest are known standards. The plan of 
having the permanent trees two rods 
apart and the fillers in the rows run¬ 
ning east and west only may be better 
than to have them both ways or only 
north and south. Because of the hot 
Summer sunshine I would prefer them 
in the north and south rows. This we 
used to think right in Kansas. The dis¬ 
tance of two rods for the permanent 
trees is probably enough, and that is the 
same that I used in Kansas, but where 
trees will Hve to a greater age and grow 
larger 40 or even 50 feet is far better. 
My preferred plan is 25x25 feet in 
squares. This will admit of thinning 
out by taking every alternate row di¬ 
agonally in about 15 years from plant¬ 
ing and after some 15 years more cut 
out another row crosswise and the per¬ 
manent trees will then be 50x50 feet 
apart. This is too much room for apple 
trees on the Western prairies. As to 
wind-breaks, they would be a good pro¬ 
tection to the orchard, but the south 
side is more important than the north 
side, because of the strong and almost 
constant wind in Summer and Pall that 
injures the trees and fruit. The north 
winds sometimes do damage in severe 
Winter weather, and a wind-break then 
would be a benefit. The common cot¬ 
tonwood is as good as the Carolina pop¬ 
lar. These fast-growing trees will soon 
make a big growth, but they will so 
overgrow the slow growers, such as the 
walnuts, hickories and oaks, which 
would make good permanent trees, that 
they would not come to much if inter- 
planted. H. E. VAN DEMAN. 
where it did not seem to work down 
into the soil at all, but formed a light 
morter on top. It is not a good way to 
use lime. It ought to be worked in. 
The lime would not affect the nitrate 
or the potash. There would be some 
action with the acid phosphate to make 
it less available. 
What proportion of a combination of 
chemical fertilizers made up of nitrate, acid 
phosphate and sulphate of potash do you 
recommend for use upon land in connection 
with a fair coat of manure for Winter cab¬ 
bage, the land being a medium loam natur¬ 
ally well drained? In your opinion will cab¬ 
bage do well on such a soil? 
We should use in such connection 50 
pounds nitrate of soda, 400 pounds acid 
phosphate and 150 pounds sulphate of 
potash. Such land will grow cabbage, 
provided it is not sour and is not filled 
with cabbage maggots. 
Mother: “Oh, Effie! What has hap¬ 
pened to your dolly?” Effie: “The 
doctor says it’s nervous breakdown. He 
prescribed mucilage.”—Life. 
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