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June 24, 
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Late Setting Strawberries. 
Is it too late to set out a family straw¬ 
berry patch? Can I set it out in Fall to 
bear next year? Vicinity Rochester, N. Y. 
A. H. N. 
It is too late now to set out layer plants 
though we have done it. We should now 
wait until late July and set potted plants. 
They will give only a few berries next year, 
but the following season will give a full 
crop. 
Chestnut Leaves and Stock. 
I have sold some chgstnut trees which 
have been cut and the tops and leaves lay 
on the ground. I wish to pasture this 
ground with horses. Will the wilted chest¬ 
nut leaves injure the horses or cows if pas¬ 
tured when they could eat the leaves. 
New York. f. j. g. 
Our stock has eaten wilted chestnut 
leaves without any injury to them. I)o not 
let stock eat wilted leaves of peach or wild 
cherry. This will mean death if the ani¬ 
mals eat their fill. Such foliage develops 
a poison on wilting. 
Killing Burdock. 
_ Can any readers tell me what is good for 
killing burdock? The ■weed grows very 
thick between and around the buildings 
where it is impossible to cultivate. I have 
tried putting salt and also kerosene on the 
roots, but find that it does not kill the 
weed. a. G. A. 
Michigan. 
On our own farm we cut the plants off 
about two inches below ground by driving 
a sharp spade through them. This clears 
them out but constant work is required as 
the soil is full of seeds and young plants. 
Sprouts on Peach Trees. 
I set out about two acres of peach trees 
this Spring. Quite a number are sprouting 
out all the way up the stem, making a 
shrub. Have been advised by some farmers 
not to touch them until next Spring. What 
do you say? a. h. n. 
New York. 
If the season were dry we should rub 
these sprouts off up to where the head was 
to be started. That would relieve the tree 
somewhat and the upper limbs would make 
more growth. In a wet season with no dan¬ 
ger from lack of moisture we should let the 
tree alone and in the Fall head back and 
cut away the lower limbs as desired. 
Alfalfa on Long Island. 
I have been preparing my land, sowing 
Canada peas and oats with the idea of turn¬ 
ing the crop under and sowing Alfalfa in 
August or September. But I see that “The 
Agronomist,” a Long Island publication, 
strongly urges sowing Alfalfa in the Spring 
and not in the Fall on Long Island, the 
contention being that owing to the change¬ 
ableness of the Winter climate on the 
Island, the soil “heaves,” and this kills the 
young Alfalfa. The Agronomist gives no in¬ 
stance to support the statement. Can any 
of your readers on Long Island who have 
Alfalfa give me their opinion or experience 
in this matter? F. L. 
This is referred to our Long Island read¬ 
ers. Our own preference is August seeding 
and most farmers along the Atlantic Coast 
seem to agx-ee with that plan. There may 
be local conditions on Long Island which 
make Spring seeding preferable. 
Succession of Onions. 
Among the crops that come marching up 
the world with the season is our strong 
friend the onion. The Egyptian onion prob¬ 
ably comes into the market first. This 
onion is hard and a good shipper. It be¬ 
gins to be exported about the first of March 
and Egypt supplies the markets of the 
world with fresh onions until Spain fol¬ 
lows. Then comes Texas and Florida with 
the onion crop. The Egyptian onion is not 
only early, but of peculiar quality so that 
it commands a big price. This last season 
Egypt produced over two million bags of 
onions of 110 pounds each. In Alexandria 
the price was about 70 cents per hundred 
pounds. The greater part of the crop 
went to England, although about 75.000 
bags were shipped to this country. At the 
height of the season Texas onions are 
shipped across water to Egypt, so that we 
may understand how all growers of the 
world are now contributing to feed the 
people. 
Maple Worms. 
Several people have written about green 
worms which appeared in large numbers 
Upon maple trees. They were referred to 
Prof. Herrick, who says: 
We have had reports from other locali¬ 
ties concerning these maple worms, and I 
have received a few of the actual culprits. 
They are the striped maple worms that also 
'occasionally work on fruit trees and are 
very injurious to apples, eating into the 
sides of the fruit. 1 found these larvae in 
I great numbers at Marion, Wayne County, 
1 last year, and warned the apple growers 
that- the larvae might appear this year in 
great numbers. If they begin to work on 
the apple we shall hear much more about 
them. Fortunately they are now nearly 
full grown and seem to have confined them¬ 
selves mainly to forest trees. The worms 
are attacked by several parasites that will 
probably hold them in check. These larvae 
are one of the kinds that have their “ups” 
one year and then are “down” for several 
years. The chances are they will not be 
very troublesome next year, although it is 
unsafe to make a prediction. They could 
have been poisoned by spraying early, be¬ 
fore they became so large, with arsenate of 
lead, three pounds to 50 gallons. Small 
trees may be protected by jarring them, 
when the caterpillars will fall. Then the 
trunk should be banded with a sticky ma¬ 
terial to prevent the caterpillars ascending. 
g. w. HERRICK. 
Destroying Thistles.—B y cutting off 
at the surface of the ground and applying 
kerosene oil freely to Canada thistles, would 
It thoroughly destroy them? N. s. 
I Elkhart, Ind. 
CROP PROSPECTS. 
Iowa Notes. 
For over 30 years we ran this farm as a 
butter and live meat factory, but age be¬ 
gan to tell on one of the principal opera¬ 
tors and the butter part was given up 
about six years ago; quite a per cent of 
the strenuosity is eliminated, with results 
quite as satisfactory. Our last year’s meat 
crop was a little over 38 tons on foot, all 
home-grown except about one-half of the 
grain fed (4,000 bushels), which was bought 
from neighbors; no purchased stock. The 
advantage of our present kind of farming is 
in shortening the day’s work, but a steady 
job the year around the same as before. 
We (that means two boys and myself) 
farm 100 acres, grow corn, oats and hay. 
The work now is plowing the corn, about 
50 acres, with a prospect of making a good 
crop. Oats are heading out with short 
straw. Hay will be light. We had our 
first mess of green peas and new potatoes 
June 6. Strawberries commenced coming 
on the table May 29, and the amount eaten 
would bankrupt the firm, wife says, if we 
had to buy them. More rain is needed 
for the later ones. All fruit we grow here 
will be plentiful except plums. Early 
cherries are ripe, and lots of them. A little 
incident happened to-day out of the or¬ 
dinary. The road boss telephoned that yes¬ 
terday he completed a cement culvert; this 
morning he went after the form which had 
been left until the cement hardened. He 
found a swarm of bees had taken possession 
and objected to any interference. I, with 
one of the boys, took a hive, which the 
bees accepted as a home, in the place of 
the culvert. We delivered the form to the 
road boss, for which he was duly grateful, 
and we have the bees for our trouble. But 
it is hot; the Government thermometer lo¬ 
cated here is registering 99 degrees. 
Corning, Iowa. J. S. 
Ohio Fruit Prospects. 
The setting of apples in southeastern 
Ohio, where the writer is engaged in field 
work for the Ohio Station, lacks uniformity. 
As a rule there is a generous crop in sight 
where the soil is reasonably fertile, but 
upon the thin uplands the trees (especially 
of Rome Beauty) failed to blossom well and 
many of the blossoms failed to set fruit. 
Ben Davis under similar conditions set 
much more freely. Where the trees oc¬ 
cupy good soil even Rome Beauty is heavily 
laden, and will need thinning. The third 
successive crop of Rome Beauty is a heavy 
one in one large orchard in the Ohio Val¬ 
ley. Other smaller orchards under similar 
conditions are equally promising. Rome 
Beauty trees well fertilized and mulched or 
cultivated—even upon the poor, thin slopes 
—are full of fine fruit and will have to be 
thinned or propped to save the trees from 
breaking. The greatest problem in apple 
orcharding in southern Ohio is that of re¬ 
storing a sufficient amount of fertility to 
the badly worn soil. The severe drought 
in many sections of Ohio is rendering the 
growth of all crops very discouraging. Local 
showers have relieved the situation tem¬ 
porarily in small areas, but the State as a 
whole is in the throes of one of the most 
disastrous dry periods occurring in a long 
time. At the writer's own home in central 
Ohio a lack of uniformity in setting of 
apples is also apparent. Jonathan. Rome 
Beauty and Ben Davis are full, while York 
Imperial, which bloomed profusely, set very 
few apples. All varieties of plums which 
are planted at the same place are bearing 
well this season. Kieffer pears were killed 
in March. Small fruits are suffering ex¬ 
tremely from dry weather. Potatoes will 
be a failure if rain does not come soon. 
F. H. BAI.LOU. 
Farming in Mexico. 
Everything in an agricultural way here in 
Mexico this year will be greatly retarded, 
and in some cases entirely ignored, on ac¬ 
count of so many of the ranches being de¬ 
nuded of the workmen who usually are 
peacefully following their pursuits, having 
joined the ranks of the revolutionary party. 
We are now (June 4| planting corn and 
this will be continued through this 
month, followed by beans. We do 
our own farming here on shares. That 
is, the owner of the land furnishes 
mules or horses, oxen, plows and other im¬ 
plements, all seed (corn, beans, etc.), and 
the peons or renters furnish their labor. 
During the growing season we advance to 
each man at the rate of from 50 to 60 
pesos, $25 to $30 IT. S. value, for each 
team used. This is in some cases paid in 
goods or in cash as per agreement. At the 
end of the season the crop is gathered and 
placed all in one pile and then an equal 
division is made of same, one-half for 
owner, the other half for renter. Of the 
amount advanced him during the season he 
pays on receiving his half either in cash 
or ’in an amount of the crop at current 
crop prices. Also the owner has the option 
of purchase of the half of the renter’s in 
case he cares to purchase, otherwise the 
renter takes his share and disposes as he 
sees fit. Farm hands (peons) receive here 
usually 50 cents Mexican currency per day, 
when working on salary. e. o. m. 
Parral, Mexico. 
Extra warm here this Spring, 98 in the 
shade last Sunday and 96 to-day, but have 
had rains and crops are looking well. Gut 
three acres of Alfalfa to-day. L. c. b. 
Indiana. 
Apple trees blossomed well and set more 
fruit than they could possibly carry. The 
June drop has been heavy, but I think the 
trees will hold all that they can possibly 
bring to maturity. Some may require thin¬ 
ning. Teaches only set a moderate crop 
of blossoms and mo.st of them fell off. I 
do not expect more than 10 per cent of a 
crop. Pears dropped nearly as badly as 
peaches, and with the exceptiou of Bartlett 
and Seckel will be a short crop. Grapes 
were attacked by a new bronze (or blue) 
beetle that ate the bunch as soon as it 
was formed, when the whole bunch was 
hardly half as large as a pea ; they did a 
great deal of damage in a very short time. 
Arsenate of lead cleared them off in one 
day. as soon as we discovered them, but I 
think the crop will be reduced fully one- 
fourth on account of their work. Straw¬ 
berries are yielding well, and raspberries 
and blaokberries have set a large crop. 
Pennsylvania. gabriel hiester. 
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PRODUCTS, PRICES AND TRADE. 
Experiments in fruit growing in Labra¬ 
dor are to be made soon. The first at¬ 
tempts are to be made with cranberries, 
gooseberries and huckleberries. 
South American Fruit. —The shipments 
of fruit mentioned on page 655 were not a 
profitable venture. The grapes were un¬ 
salable, being rotten. The oranges were 
fine fruit, in good condition, but roughly 
packed. On this account they brought only 
half their actual fruit value. 
The first car of new crop wheat was sold 
at Kansas City June 12 at 86% cents. It 
was grown in Oklahoma. 
The cotton crop for 1910 was valued at 
$963,180,000, the highest on record. Ten 
days earlier than the previous record the 
first bale of new cotton was sold June 12 
in Houston, Tex. It brought a fancy price, 
$1,015 for the 493 pounds. 
In Louisiana land has recently been 
bought by an English cotton spinning con¬ 
cern for the purpose of growing their own 
cotton. They use a high grade of staple 
that they have had difficulty in buying in 
sufficient quantity in the open market. It is 
probable that other manufacturers will 
adopt this plan, as it will ensure them a 
supply of the grades desired and to some 
extent free them from the clutches of the 
speculative market. 
Moisture in Butter. —The Internal 
Revenue Commissioner has ruled that 
farm made butter shall not be subject to 
the 16 per cent moisture law, so long as it 
is in the original package. Because of this 
ruling an impression has got out that it 
will be easy for rogues to work with dis¬ 
honest farmers in turning out large quan¬ 
tities of water-soaked butter. This is a 
false impression. Any farm that habitu¬ 
ally produces loaded butter will be under 
suspicion of dishonest intent, because it is 
well known that farm butter as ordinarily 
made and reasonably well worked will sel¬ 
dom run over 16 per cent moisture. There 
are laws against picking pockets and rob¬ 
bing henroosts, but honest people need not 
feel specially concerned about it. That is 
the case with this ruling. It is intended 
to reassure honest producers but not to 
open a way for selliug the contents of the 
well at butter prices. w. w. H. 
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