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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
April 1, 
FARMERS’ CLUB 
[Every query must be accompanied by the name 
and aduress of the writer to insure attention. Be¬ 
fore asking a question, please see whether it is not 
answered in our advertising columns. Ask only 
a few questions at one time. Put questions on a 
tepcrate piece of paper. 1 
PFAS BEFORE POTATOES. 
A. B. B., Xcic Jersey .— What would you 
advise hie to do in this case? I wish to 
-sow cow peas this Spring on fresh plowed 
ground and plow under in August. Next 
Spring spread stable manure on and plow 
again. Would it be well to plow the 
ground in the Spring, as this would bring 
the decayed peas on top, but then the ma¬ 
nure would he under? Or would it be hot¬ 
ter to plow both tinder in Fall? I want 
to get ground in good condition for po¬ 
tatoes in Spring of 1012. The soil is 
day loam, not wet, in northern Ulster Co., 
N. Y. 
Ans. —Do you mean cow peas or 
Canada field peas? Some farmers seem 
to lie confused over this crop. You 
cannot sow the cow peas safely until 
about corn planting time. Canada peas 
may be seeded in April and we assume 
this is the crop you mean. We should 
plow the crop under in late July or 
August and sow rye. In the early Spring 
put the manure on the young rye and 
plow it all under. The peas will be well 
decayed and with careful work you can 
prepare the soil for the potatoes. We 
should not let this land lie idle through 
the late Summer and Fall. 
SOUND SENSE ON “BACK TO THE LAND.” 
Success in farming depends almost en¬ 
tirely on the man. There is hardly any 
condition that cannot be handled success¬ 
fully, as in any other business, by “the 
right man.” The man who would he suc¬ 
cessful in farming must be able to adapt 
himself to circumstances, his methods to 
conditions, able to derive profit from his 
failures, and above all he must be able to 
think. For he will fiud situations and 
conditions every day that can be met. and 
difficulties that, can be overcome only by 
intelligent-thought and reason. The fore¬ 
going may sound like the advice given to a 
young lawyer or doctor just leaving college. 
Perhaps it does. It sounds to me like a para¬ 
graph taken from a 25-cent “Guide to Suc¬ 
cessful Business.” But no matter how 
threadbare it is it is true nevertheless. 
The point I want to make is this: These 
qualities essential to the success of a law¬ 
yer or to the success of a doctor must be 
possessed by the man who would be a 
successful farmer. The first thing for a 
man to do who would change his occupa¬ 
tion for that of a farmer, is to analyze 
himself; find out what material he is made 
of. If you were to seek employment in 
any office, factory or store, the first ques¬ 
tion fired at you would ho, “what have you 
done?” Now fire this same question at 
yourself. Don’t allow any ‘hedging.” 
What have you done? Have you ever ac¬ 
complished anything? Were you ever suc¬ 
cessful in business, at any trade, in any 
line of work? (If you were why didn't you 
stick to it?> If you were not, don’t expect 
to make a success of farming. There may 
have been a time when the map who was 
unfit for anything else could “make a liv¬ 
ing" on a farm, but that time is no more. 
The successful farmer of to-day is a man 
of ability, a thinker and a fighter. 
Don't be influenced too much by the arti¬ 
cles and letters in our agricultural papers, 
telling of the struggles of young men on the 
farm, who after a few years of failure and 
mistakes “made good." burned the mortgage 
and lived happy ever after. You don’t 
know the heartaches of the years of uphill 
work before these men did make good. 
Ask some of these men if they, were they 
back at the beginning of their career as 
farmers, would have courage to fight the 
battle over again. And then what about 
the man who afteryearsof failure does not 
“make good?” You don't hear about him. 
1 am thinking of a man in my town who 
started business life with a few dollars 60 
years ago. He embarked in several business 
enterprises and was considered quite a 
shrewd business man. At any rate in 20 
years he had accumulated $10,000. Forty 
years ago he bought and paid for a farm 
with this $10,000. Since that time he has 
worked harder, and had less pleasures and 
comforts than he did during the 20 years 
in which he saved the price of his farm, 
lie said to a friend of his a few days ago, 
"If my stock, farm, utensils, and in fact, 
everyt'hing I possess were to be sold under 
the hammer I would not realize $4,000.” 
To the man who is thinking of going back 
to the farm and wants advice, I would say, 
“Go to the man who knows you, although 
he may be an insurance agent, and not 
know a squash from a spring-tooth harrow. 
If he knows you he is better qualified to 
give advice than the man who knows much 
about the conditions of farm life and 
doesn't know you.” A. J. H. 
FREAKS AND FAKES. 
Isn't it about time you were printing 
some more warnings about the Wonder- 
berry, Sunberry and garden huckleberries? 
A neighbor paid 20 cents for a packet of 
Wonderberry seed last Spring, and she 
passed a few plants around. They are 
wonderfully prolific, a wonder to behold, and 
we are still wondering what they are good 
for. The entire crop remains ungatliered 
in the garden, and the fruit doesn't grow on 
sunflowers here either. .Take a fool's ad¬ 
vice and don't plant any of the above- 
named berries. I'm getting shy of these 
windy seedsmen who make so much noise 
about useless things. Now please tell us 
about the wonderful Himalaya berry that 
seems to be the leading freak this year. 
A-shby, Neb. p. h. b. 
I notice in your issue of February 11 an 
editorial regarding spineless cactus. If you 
want any of it wc can send you tons of it 
from Mexico, where it is indigenous near 
the central part of the plateau in the 
States of San Luis Potosi, Guanajuato and 
Queretero, aud the Mexican government is 
sending it all over the country to propa¬ 
gate its use amongst the farmers and ranch 
owners as a forage for arid places devoid 
of pasture, as it makes a fine pasture for 
cattle, and when cut up in small pieces the 
barnyard fowls eat it with avidity. It re¬ 
sists the frosts we have here in this alti¬ 
tude of 6,000 feet above the sea, and will 
uo doubt he a great thing in the future for 
tbe arid districts, as it does not require 
water other than the occasional rains that 
we get in the rainy season from .Tunc to 
September. The fruit is also very sweet and 
palatable, and the natives live on it when 
the "tunas” are ripe, and I also am very 
fond of it, but it has uo banana flavor, such 
as you mention. I got stuck on the Won¬ 
derberry proposition and afterwards found 
out that we had locally a wild Solauum 
nigrum that beat it all hollow as to size 
and fruit. F' Innately I was only out the 
20 cents that t..c package of seeds cost me. 
Keep after them, and when they do get 
anything really original and worthy give 
them credit for it. but in the meantime 
warn all prospective purchasers to look out 
or they will be "bit.” Also recommend the 
Manila mango as the best that grows, as 
the one you represent in your cut is what 
we call the Corriente or most common sort, 
and the other is 100 per cent better both 
as to flavor, size and the amount of meat, 
as the seed is very small and thin, and de¬ 
void of fibre in the fruit. The fruit is 
from four to eight inches long and from 
three to three and a half inches thick. 
Mexico. E. MATHEWS. 
R. N.-Y.—It was no use wasting ammuni¬ 
tion on dead ducks—or Wonderberry—after 
the public had tried them. The “giant Him¬ 
alaya" is well worth trying in California. 
We understand that Mr. Burlwink claims 
that spurious plants are being offered. Our 
reports indicate that the plant is too ten¬ 
der for sections north of Alabama. 
NEW FORMS OF ARSENIC FOR SPRAYING 
In Colorado considerable damage is re¬ 
ported from tbe heavy use of arsenic in 
spraying. The arsenic has accumulated in 
the soil and caused trouble. Some form of 
poison must be used in order to fight tbe 
Codling moth successfully, and new materials 
are being used. Prof. C. P. Gillette of tbe 
Colorado College tells of some experiments 
with sulphide of arsenic. 
“We started out to find a more soluble 
arsenical poisoning to be used in place of 
arsenate of lead or Paris green for the de¬ 
struction of insects. At the suggestion of 
our chemist. Dr. Headdcn, I have been 
using sulphide of arsenic for the Codling 
moth for the past two Summers. In 1909 
the poison was used in soluble form, the 
sulphide being precipitated almost instantly 
on being thrown into the air. We were 
troubled somewhat by injury to foliage, 
however, and so during the past Summer 
we used the sulphide in precipitated form, 
making as many as four applications upon 
some of the trees treated. All went "well 
until after the last treatment, when con¬ 
siderable burning of foliage resulted, ap¬ 
parently because the sulphide was.kept in 
suspension in water for two or three weeks 
between sprayings, which undoubtedly re¬ 
sulted in some of the arsenic going into 
solution and burning the leaves after this 
fourth application. This poison, which is 
considered to be almost entirely insoluble 
in water, or even in the digestive fluids of 
the human stomach, was fairly effectual 
both last year and this in destroying the 
worms, but in neither ease did quite as well 
as arsenate of lead. My idea iu using this 
poison was to prevent the injury to fruit 
trees or other plants, due to the accumu¬ 
lation of arsenic in the soil. 1 am some¬ 
what disappointed in our results, and do 
not feel that it is safe yet to recommend 
this poison for general use. We hope, of 
course, that we may still learn to use the 
sulphide in such a way as to avoid the 
injury to foliage, and still have it effectual 
in the destruction of insects, which have 
remarkable digestive powers.” 
THE APPLE BUSINESS 
Is a sure thing—if you have the right kind of 
a tree. People may plant too many oranges 
but the good old apple is a sure thing. T he 
time to get in with that hillside is right now 
—this Spring. 
There is some discussion about the best 
aged tree to plant. Some want big trees and 
some little whips. We have them all! 
The size is a matter of opinion hut every¬ 
body agrees that the health and life of the 
tree is more important. We put life and 
health in our trees—or they doit themselves. 
They grow in strong ground with no 
check from start to finish and with a long 
fall season to harden and ripen their woods. 
They are sound, free from disease and 
ready to grow. Every variety you want 
and every tree right. 
The Catalog tells all about it. 
HARRISON’S NURSERIES, Box 15, BERLIN, MO. 
FRUIT TREES AND PLANTS SL 
Apples ... $15.00 per lOO 
Peaches ... $8.00 per lOO 
Cherries ... $10.00 per lOO 
Strictly First-Class Stock, Government In¬ 
spected. Write today for our free catalogue 
on Fruits and Ornamentals, and l>uy direet 
from the growers. Our trees are grown in that 
great nursery belt of Ontario County. 
ONTARIO NURSERY CO., Inc. 
GENEVA. N. Y. Box No. 21 
DONT FAIL TO PLANT 
SOME OF THE 
Meadowvale Gladioli 
THIS SEASON. 
Write for Free Illustrated Catalogue at once. 
ARTHUR COWEE 
Meadowvale Farm. Box 54, BERLIN, N. Y. 
FRUIT TREES and PLANTS 
At prices that will astonish you. Send for Whole¬ 
sale Price List and Lithographs. Several good 
collections cheap. We have a complete assortment 
in all varieties of fruit trees and plants. Special 
Strawberry Catalog. Headquarters for the Old- 
Fashioned Sweet Cherry. No crooked or inferior 
stock sold at any nrice Satisfaction guaranteed. 
L’AMORKAUX NURSERY CO., Schoharie. N. Y. 
Black's Peach Trees-1911 
>. j Peach Trees are one of our specialties—we* 
£T row for quality and not quantity alone. Our 1 
trees - however, cost little, if any, more than thel 
ordinary sort—we employ no agents, but seljl 
direct,saving middleman’s profits.i ■ ■ 
^New booklet, “Springtime and ^||IJ3|)I0 
Harvest for the Fruit-grower,” free. r\ ■ ■ ■ 
Joseph H. Black, Son & Co. DOOKlCl 
Box V^Hightstown^JcwJtereev ppgg 
CHERRY TREES 
100 Early Richmond Cherry 
TwoYear, 5 to 6 Feet, $16,00 
Freight paid to yonr station. All other nursery 
stock sold direct to planter at lowest possible prices 
for high-grade stock. Send for descriptive price list. 
NEW HAVEN NURSERIES 
NEW HAVEN, MISSOURI 
FRUIT TREES 
Pears, Bartlett, Seekel and others. Fine, 
trees. Cherries, very low in price. Plums, 
best varieties. Poaches, grown from buds 
from bearing trees. Guaranteed true-to- 
labeL Also extra fine 
Currants and Crapes, 
any quantity. Spe¬ 
cial 40c, $1 and $2 A0 
Lot Offers, for gar¬ 
den planting for home 
use: Our prices liave not 
advanced to meet the recent 
general raise. Ggt wholesale 
prices direct from us and save J 
to }. Free catalog. Write. 
W. P. RUPERT & SON, Box 20. Seneca, N. Y. 
Also Breeders of Prize. Hampshire JSheep. 
I 
are large, bright, glossy green and the foli¬ 
age remains bright a..d attractive through¬ 
out the entire growing season. The illus¬ 
tration shows a small part of a photograph 
of one Climbing American Beautyin bloom. 
Hose-lovers will certainly take great delight 
in this wonderful new rose. We will be 
pleased to send you, by mail, postpaid, one 
or as many more as you like of these beau¬ 
tiful roses. One-year-old plants $ 2.00 each. 
Write for complete descriptive literature. 
HOOPES. BR0. 8 THOMAS COMPANY, West Chester, P*. 
Grow this Beautiful Rose 
In Your Garden 
It is the American Beauty Rose, but very 
much improved. Instead of being a plant 
that will only flower in the 
hothouse, it will thrive and 
bloom wherever a climb¬ 
ing or pillar rose will. 
It has the sam' 
exquisitely fra¬ 
grant, rosy-crim¬ 
son flowers 3 to 4 
inches iu diameter 
—but instead of a 
few flowers it is 
one mass of bloom 
in June,and contin¬ 
ues to bloom occa¬ 
sionally through¬ 
out the season. 
The leaves of our 
Climbing 
American 
Beauty 
1 : 7 c 000 apple and 
PEACH TREES 
Our prices are 50 per cent less than you 
pay agents and dealers, because* in 
buying direct from the growers you 
SAVE TWO PROFITS 
and run no risk. Every tree as repre¬ 
sented. True to name. Fresh dug. 
Personal attention given each order. 
2 Apple Trees i 
postpaid for 25 cents. 
Everybody send for Free catalogue. 
Maloney Bros. & Weils, 
Box 13 , Dansville, N. Y. 
BEAUTIFY YOUR HOME 
GROUNDS WITH A PRIVET HEDGE 
X will sell you enough good, strong, heavily rooted 
California Privet hedge plants to go around your 
home grounds, planted six inches apart, for 9c per 
yard, packed to carry anywhere, delivered to It. It 
station at Salisbury, Mel. Measure distance around 
your grounds, see how little it costs and sen.d your 
Older tow. F. ALLEN. Salisbury, Maryland. 
McKAY’S Peach Trees - 
McKAY’S Dwarf Apple Trees—- 
Me MAY’S Acre Cherry Orchard, SI5-- 
McKAY’S Rose Bushes on their own roots- 
McKAY’S Fertilizer Chemicals- 
McKAY’S Agricultural Lime, $3 per ton 
McKAY’S Catalogue tells about them—and more 
'W. L. McKay, Geneva, N. Y. BoxR. 
EVERGREENS 
Nursery grown, suitable for all pur¬ 
poses. 94.50 and up per thousand. We 
have 50 millions. Our low prices will 
astonish you. Also Hardy Forest trees, 
Shade, Ornamental and Fruit trees, 
Shrubs, Vines, etc. Our beautiful Cat¬ 
alog is crowded with valuable informa¬ 
tion. This and 50 Great Bargain Sbeet are Free. 
Send for them today. 
D. HILL NURSERY CO., Box 212, Dundee, III. 
Evergreen Specialists 
OLYMPIC NATURE NURSERY 
Rhododendrons, Madronas,Oregon Grapes, Huckle¬ 
berries and other wild shruhs, plants and flowers. 
By mail, 10 for 50 cents, 24 for SI.00 postpaid. 
Money hack if not satisfied. 
JOEL BHOMAKFlt, Nellila, Washington. 
PEACH TREES 
KLItUltTA, C A OMAN, HIE LEY, and all the 
leading varieties at prices that will save you money. 
We have APPLE, PEAR, PLUM, and other varieties of 
fruit trees also. Catalog free. 
BARNES BROS. NURSERY CO. EL £S ,To«» 
FRUIT TREES 
Our Proof to date after years of service is that 
we can save you not only money, but disap¬ 
pointment when your trees begin to fruit. 
This Proof will be submitted witb our new 
catalog —ask for it today. * * * * * 
H. S. WILEY & SON, Box 122, Cayuga, N. Y. 
CATALPA 
SPECIOSA TREES 
Mine are true to name. 
Free booklet tells all 
about the 150 acres I am growing for telephone 
noles. H. C. ROGERS, Box 111, Mechanicsburg, 0. 
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THIS BOOK 
sent free for the asking, 
is full of reliable infor¬ 
mation concerning Trees and Plants hardy in New 
England. It is well worth sending for. 
Our stock includes a most complete line of Fruit 
and Ornamental Trees, Shrubs and Vines, as well as a 
great variety of Roses and Perennials, whose quality 
suits the most discriminating buyer. We solicit cor¬ 
respondence relative to any planting problem. 
<Ihe NEW ENGLAND NURSERIES, Inc. 
BEDFORD MASS. 
