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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
April 22, 
PLANTS POTATOES BY HAND. 
E. F. 8., Akron, N. Y.— Would E. V. A., 
who wrote the article on “Potato Growing 
in Michigan,” inform us how Mr. Woodman 
plants his potatoes, whether by hand or 
with a machine? 
Ans.— Some few years ago, when Mr. 
Woodman began growing potatoes for 
market, a potato planter was tried, but 
it was discarded, as it bunched the 
potatoes more or less. Since then they 
have been planted by hand. A portion 
of the field is furrowed out, and im¬ 
mediately planted while the soil in the 
bottom of the furrow is still moist. The 
covering is done by a team. By plant¬ 
ing in this way and having a seed end 
in every hill, a perfect stand is assured. 
Last Fall they were digging potatoes 
when the writer visited the farm, and it 
was impossible to find a skip, i he field 
of eight acres yielded over 350 bushels 
to the acre. __ E - v. a. 
CONCENTRATED LIME-SULPHUR 
MIXTURE. 
It is not strange that Prof. Patten has 
found some technical mistakes in my arti¬ 
cle on page 160-161. The wonder to me 
is, there is ever anything written on lime- 
sulphur that some one does not criticise, 
because of the fact that hardly any two 
of our chemists, entomologists, patholo¬ 
gists or horticulturists, agree today as to 
be c t*way of making or handling or using 
lime-sulphur washes. I surely made one 
misstatement, at least apparently. What I 
should have said, and really meant to say, 
was that 40 pounds of lime and 80 pounds 
of sulphur was the largest amounts that 
could be economically combined with water 
to make 50 gallons, the word economically 
having been omitted. 
The next part saying the mixture so 
made would test a little over 28 degrees B. 
should have said a little under 28 degrees 
B That this is not a great exaggeration 
as Mr. Patten seems to think, I will say 
that four lots when boiled as nearly under 
farmers’ conditions as possible, by Prof. 
Parrott at Geneva, averaged exactly 27% de¬ 
grees B. two of which lots tested 29 degrees 
B And further to show there is ground 
for the belief that greater amounts of lime 
and sulphur to water to make 50 gallons 
<lo not materially increase the strength of 
the mixture, but do add greatly to the 
amount of sediment when made under farm 
conditions, will add that four other lots, 
made under these conditions by the same 
persons, and especially for comparison, 
where 60 pounds of lime and 125 pounds 
.of sulphur were used, to water enough to 
make 50 gallons, the average test was only 
27% degrees B., while the sediment was in¬ 
creased from four to five times the amounts 
contained in lots where the smaller amounts 
of lime-sulphur were used. 
The past week I have boiled 12 lots 
under different conditions, and with various 
amounts of lime and sulphur; my results 
have been just about the same as Prof. 
Parrott’s. There is apparently a great dif¬ 
ference between boiling these ingredients 
together by the ordinary man, and reduc¬ 
ing them to a chemical combination in the 
laboratory. 
I have neither the time nor inclination 
to enter into any argument with Prof. 
Patten or anyone else; yet I believe 1 am 
justified because of the stand Prof. Patten 
has taken, in saying some things in order 
to set myself right before the people who 
have been following this lime-sulphur mat¬ 
ter. Prof. Patten says what I wrote was 
not the claim of the N. Y. Station authori¬ 
ties, saying they recommend 36 pounds of 
lime to' 80 pounds of sulphur. This is so, 
and yet why not print it all, which says 
this is based on pure lime, and that no 
lime is pure? Therefore when lime is only 
90 per cent pure, 40 pounds must be used, 
and as lime is cheaper than sulphur and we 
should always have enough lime to unite 
was the sulphur, we recommend a slight ex¬ 
cess to allow for impurities, or 40 pounds 
of lime to 80 pounds of sulphur. 
And then, too. Prof. Patten's data is all 
based on the supposition that there are 
50 gallons of water in addition to the other 
ingredients at the finish, when he will find 
by a more careful study of my article and 
also of Bulletin 3lZ9 that all are based on 
a final product of 50 gallons which theoret¬ 
ically would give about the per cent of 
sulphur in solution Prof. Patten says it 
should have, rather than under 15 per cent 
as he says it does have. As to Prof. Pat¬ 
ten’s claim that the same amount of sul¬ 
phur may be brought into solution in two 
boilings by using the 60-120-50 formula, as 
with three boilings of the 40-80-50 formula, 
made in the ordinary way, I claim it is 
absolutely impossible to get anywhere near 
that result. Apparently all of the lime- 
sulphur work up to the past season has 
been mostly accident or guess work. Last 
year the New York State Experiment Sta¬ 
tion took this work up. First the chem¬ 
ists worked out by exhaustive experiments 
the most practical and economical amounts 
of the ingredients to use in making, the 
mixtures. Then the entomologists took this 
mixture and by careful experiments in the 
field, worked out the amounts of dilution 
that were practical and most effective, thus 
putting the work on a scientific and prac¬ 
tical basis. I believe until the other sta-_ 
tions take up the work along these lines 
there is sure to be more or less dissension 
over everything that is written on the sub¬ 
ject, and as long as this is so the fruit 
growers and farmers will be undecided as 
to which is right and whose directions to 
follow. This surely is a bad condition, for 
the fruit growers need and are entitled to 
the best information on this subject. 
W M. HOTALING. 
The prospect for tree fruit in this sec¬ 
tion at the present time is more promising 
than for several seasons past. Apple and 
pear trees of most varieties show plenty of 
fruit buds, and the peach buds have passed 
the Winter apparently unharmed. The feel¬ 
ing of the fruit growers in this section is 
one of confidence. In the great and rapidly 
growing population of New York City and 
the surrounding territory he sees an almost 
unlimited market, within easy reach. The 
grower who aims to have his “stencil” serve 
as an advertisement and guarantee of an 
honest package, has no fear of an over¬ 
stocked market. Spraying has become quite 
general in this neighborhood, but has been 
directed almost wholly against the San 
Jos6 scale. The scale is passing from the 
scene, but it has left a valuable legacy. In 
combating it the grower has learned the 
art of spraying, and finds that the proper 
material will not only destroy injurious 
insects, but will also greatly lessen fungous 
troubles. The good farmer will keep on 
spraying. There is no noticeable increase in 
tree planting over former years, but there 
seems to be a disposition to take better 
care of orchards already planted; also the 
trend is toward planting more largely of 
the better quality of fruits. J. e. k. 
Cliffwood, N. J. 
In Northern New Y’ork.—I n this 
(Washington) county there is not enough 
fruit grown to be a commercial factor ex¬ 
cept apples. It seems a pity that more at¬ 
tention is not paid to the horticultural 
possibilities of this section. We are in the 
section where the Northern Spy and 
Fameuse types of apples can be grown to 
perfection. The low price.of land, together 
with the ease that all the New England 
towns can be reached, makes this upper 
Hudson Valley one of the best opportunities 
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Almost every tree that I have examined 
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orchard, but T notice that many of our 
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chard. I can point out a number of young 
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