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TREATMENT.OF OLD ORCHARD. 
M. H. T., Oswego, N. Y .—I have two or¬ 
chards, in all about 250 trees, probably 40 
years old. They are in fine shape, but 
have never been sprayed at all. I do 
not know whether I have any San Jose 
scale, as I have only owned this farm for 
two years, and never had any experience 
in orchard work before. The treeg are most¬ 
ly Baldwins and Greenings and the land has 
always been pastured to cattle; never been 
plowed that I know of. The land is rather 
stony and hard to plow, the soil is gravel, 
well drained. This Spring I wish to spray, 
and don't know what to use. From what 
I have read the lime-sulphur is very hard 
to make, and as I am situated I don’t be¬ 
lieve it would be possible for me. The last 
two years there has been no crop to 
speak of hereabouts; in 1909 I got about 
800 bushels of good, bad and indifferent 
apples that netted me $275. In 1910 I 
did not get any. In 1908 there were 370 
barrels and 700 bushels of other apples 
selling at 35 cents per 100. The fruit in 
1909 (the first year I was here) was knotty 
and wormy, and inclined to be small. What 
few I got in 1910 were large, but wormy 
and were rotten in spots when picked. The 
trees are healthy and vigorous. Can you 
advise me what to use as spray and whether 
it would pay me best to buy some prepared 
mixture or make my own? I suppose hogs 
or sheep would be better for trees than 
cows, but as my other pasture is poor I 
require the orchards for them, unless I 
feed in Summer, and I am in such circum¬ 
stances that I must keep cattle to live on. 
Then, too, I have no place to house sheep in 
Winter, though I can buy the ewes at $5 
a head from a fine flock just now. I have 
no hogs at present, but intend to buy a 
few pigs in Spring. Pears do very well 
here and seem to be surer of crop than ap¬ 
ples. I have been thinking of setting a 
piece of about one-half acre to trees in 
Spring, but neighbors say set pears, as 
apples take so long to mature. How would 
it go to set some late maturing apples, like 
Northern Spys, 40 feet apart and pears 
as fillers between them? Wouldn’t they 
be over their usefulness before apples were 
large enough to interfere with them? W’hat 
varieties do you think would be best for 
my soil in apples and setting as I spoke 
of? Bartlett, Clapp’s Favorite and Seekel 
in pears are favorites here, and Baldwin, 
Greening, McIntosh Red and Spy in ap¬ 
ples. How many gallons of unadulterated 
fluid will it take to spray my orchard three 
times ? 
Ans.—T he proper thing to do with 
these orchards is first to prune out the 
dead wood and enough of the live wood 
to give the remainder a chance to de¬ 
velop good, strong fruit buds. Follow 
this with thorough spraying, using both 
lime-sulphur and arsenate of lead, and 
follow the directions as given in the bul¬ 
letin published at Cornell University. 
Spray whether there is any fruit in sight 
or not, the idea being to keep the foliage 
healthy so that the trees will accumulate 
a force that will produce fruit. As to 
the soil treatment, you need to increase 
the per cent of humus in your soil. There 
are two ways that you may do this, cover 
the ground with stable manure, plow 
and cultivate, and sow cover crops, which 
is an expensive method; or use the mulch 
method, which when properly used I am 
firmly convinced is the better way, viz., 
to cover the ground lightly with stable 
manure, allow what grass there is to 
grow, mow it rather high, and let the 
aftermath cover the ground. Each year 
with this treatment your per cent of 
humus will increase at a minimum cost, 
also the constant shading of the mulch 
will improve the mechanical condition 
of the soil. Do not pasture the orchard; 
the stock eats up the aftermath and com¬ 
pacts the soil by constant walking, espe¬ 
cially when wet, both practices being very 
detrimental to the proper mechanical 
condition of the soil. If this man’s hobby 
is live stock it will be hard for him to 
make a success of apple growing. The 
successful apple grower of to-day sees 
a big apple in front of him in his mind 
almost constantly. Fair a guess 200 
pounds arsenate of lead and 100 gallons 
of commercial lime-sulphur would an¬ 
swer for spraying orchard of 250 trees. 
Do not mix pears in with apple plant¬ 
ing. Spy, Greening, McIntosh and 
Fameuse are four good varieties for your 
section. grant g. hitchings. 
Onondaga Co., N. Y. 
Building an Icebox.—I wish to make an 
Icebox, and would like to be advised which 
is the better, a packed "box with charcoal 
or sawdust, or one with air space. Would 
two air spaces about 1% inch be better 
than one air space three inches? 
Taunton, Mass. ■ w. b. e. 
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One Animal and Three Hogs 
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T HIS is a fair estimate of the average feeding ability of 
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