THE KUKAL HEW-YORKER. 
September 16, 
Care of Tools. 
AVill you kindly tell me recipe for com¬ 
pound to be used on plow and cultivator 
shovels to keep them in condition when put 
away for the Winter? T. s. i. 
Connecticut. 
Our plan is to scour the metal parts 
clean and smear them over with some 
cheap grease. This will prevent rusting. 
Taint the wooden parts. 
Top-dressing for Alfalfa. 
I have four acres of Alfalfa seeded last 
Spring with barley as nurse crop. Shall I 
top-dress with manure now, or wait until 
late Fall or early Winter? w. H. A. 
New York. 
We should wait until early Winter and 
then top-dress so as to have as much of a 
covering as possible while the ground is 
frozen. We should handle the Alfalfa as 
we do strawberries in Winter. 
Crop to Follow Millet. 
Some say you cannot raise anything on 
the ground where millet was sown and 
taken off for hay. I sowed two acres last 
Spring and I got a big crop, 10 two-horsey 
loads. Can I grow anything after German 
millet, on the same ground? If so, what is 
the best crop to plant? A. G. 
Southold, N. Y. 
You certainly can if you give fbe soil 
enough plant food. Millet does not poison 
the soil. It is a heavy surface feeder—that 
is, its roots feed on the upper part of the 
soil. As it makes a very heavy growth, this 
means that the available plant food is used 
up. The crop following has little to feed on 
unless the soil is naturally very strong. You 
should give the millet stubble a good coat 
of manure or use fertilizer on the crop 
which follows it. The best crop to come 
after millet depends on when you cut it. If 
early enough you can sow buckwheat. If 
late, rye or wheat will do. 
Lime With Grass Seeding. 
I have read with much interest in The 
R. N.-Y. “A Review of Clark Grass Culture,” 
and am of the opinion this is the only 
way to get a first class set of grass that 
will last, but as it causes the loss of a 
grain crop in order to accomplish this we 
hesitate, especially where our acreage is 
small. The practice in this section is to 
drill the grass seed with the wheat in the 
Fall. This leaves the space between the 
drill rows without any and consequently 
does not give us a complete covering of the 
ground. Would the following be any im¬ 
provement on this and would it interfere 
with the growth of the wheat: After the 
ground has been manured and limed and 
a good seed bed made, sow about eight 
quarts of grass seed (broadcast) to the 
acre, then drill the wheat with about 
eight quarts more grass seed to the acre. 
Would the drill hoes or plows throw suf¬ 
ficient soil each way to the center to cover 
the seed sown broadcast, or would it be 
better to drill ground burned lime with 
the wheat instead of putting it on before 
sowing? c. b. n. 
We should put on the lime before seed¬ 
ing. We think broadcasting the grass seed 
and then drilling the wheat as suggested 
would be an improvement over drilling 
seed and grain together. 
Honey Bees and Tobacco. 
I find the following in a daily paper. Is 
it a fake? 
"Beekeepers in this section are having 
a terrible time with their prize honeymak- 
ers because of a vice to which the bees 
have become addicted. The bees, it was 
found to-day. have been gorging themselves 
on the nectar of tobacco blossoms. When 
one of the apiarists sampled the honey 
made by a colony of tBe bees to-day he 
found that the honey was dark, ill-tasting 
and unfit for sale. A conference of apiar¬ 
ists will be held within a few days to de¬ 
cide whether if will be advisable to put 
the honey on the market as chewing to¬ 
bacco.” M. it. 
Bees will gather nectar from almost any 
plant some seasons. We have had reports 
showing that they have gathered nectar 
from the tobacco blossoms, but nothing 
was said as to the quality of the honey. 
As a general thing the amount of honey 
gathered from a source of this kind is very 
small in comparison to that gathered from 
other plants. Whatever is taken by 
the bees is mixed with other honey 
nnd its identity lost. The presumption 
is that the honey gathered from the 
tobacco plant without being mixed with 
any other honey would have a strong 
flavor, taking on the characteristic tobacco 
odor. Honey gathered from the onion plant 
partakes somewhat of the flavor of the 
onion itself. In the same way, honey gath¬ 
ered from fruit bloom has a little of the 
aroma of the apple. Honey from the 
orange trees has a suggestion in it of the 
orange juice of the fruit itself. In my 
opinion, it is very doubtful if enough of 
honey from tobacco is gathered to demand 
a call for a conference of bee keepers to 
decide 1 what is best to do with it. Allow¬ 
ing that there was a dark, ill-flavored honey 
gathered, it would be my opinion that it 
was honeydew rather than a product from 
the tobacco plant, for I never knew of a 
case where tobacco yielded any consider¬ 
able quantity of honey. e. r. root. 
CROP NOTES. 
We had quite a drought in May, but have 
had plenty of rain since; had a good hay 
crop. Grain was medium. Corn is an im¬ 
mense growth in this section; early potatoes 
were a failure, but late ones are fine. 
Rodman, N. Y. E. J. R. 
1 made a trip to Prince Edward Island 
this Summer and found they had no rain at 
Montague from February till August 15. 
Hay was very light and all other crops 
very thin. Nearly all wells dried up, springs 
barely flowing, swamps all dried up and 
flies very bad on cattle, pasture all dried 
up and little or no milk. w. s. 
Revere, Mass. 
We have not had a good rain since April. 
Simply light showers, and the ground is 
dried deeper than I ever saw it before. 
This is the first year I ever saw when we 
did not some time in May o. June get a 
good soaking two or three days’ rain, but 
all told not two inches of rain fell in both 
months this year. What we lacked in rain 
we have made up in heat. More days with 
the mercury above 90 degrees than in any 
year in my memory. One solid week with 
the mercury not below 80, day or night, 
and often near the century mark. Lots of 
apples sun-blistered on one side hanging on 
the trees. The quality of apples was never 
better, but there is not such a crop as 
dealers would like to make out. Some 
orchards have a good crop, but many have 
none, and, take the county together, there 
is not over 20 per cent, more than last 
year, which was a poor one. Buyers are 
trying to get the apples for little money, 
but any man who has good apples does 
not want to lose his nut; put them up in 
good style and remember the country is 
prosperous; everybody is at work at good 
wages and every apple will be wanted at a 
fair price. j. s. woodward. 
Niagara Co., N. Y. 
I have driven over quite a bit of Wash¬ 
ington Co., Ark., and have talked with a 
good many fruit growers, and I am satis¬ 
fied in my own mind that there will not 
be over 15 per cent of the apples shipped 
out of this county that there were during 
the season of 1910. The apples are rot¬ 
ting on the trees, and a large per cent of 
them are dropping. We are getting now 
00 cents per bushel at the evaporators for 
any apples that will do to peel and 30 
cents per bushel for the vinegar stock; 
it does not make any difference how small 
they are, or how rotten just so they look 
like an apple. A good many are shaking 
their trees and taking their orchards clean 
as they go. We have three large evapora¬ 
tors at Springdale, Ark., and they are 
working up between 3,000 and 4.000 bush¬ 
els per day. The canning factory is also 
using a large amount, and there are also 
quite a number of small evaporators scat¬ 
tered over the county, run by the farmers. 
Our drought ended here July 13, and we 
have been having an abundance of rain 
since then. Corn in the valleys and bot¬ 
tom land has come out wonderfully, and 
will make a fair crop. An immense acre¬ 
age of cow peas, millet, cane and Kaffir 
corn has been sown, and they are making 
a great growth. Pastures are fine; farm¬ 
ers who got scared during the dry spell 
and sold their stock at a sacrifice are wish¬ 
ing now that they had them back, as it is 
almost impossible to pick up a cow, steer 
or calf at the present time. G. w. c. 
Fayetteville, Ark. 
COMING FARMERS* MEETINGS. 
Illinois State Fair, Springfield, September 
29-October 7. 
New Haven, Conn., Horticultural So¬ 
ciety, September 13. 
Ohio State Horticultural Society, Torch 
Hill, September 19. 
Connecticut Horticultural Society, Hart¬ 
ford, September 19-20. 
Vermont State Fair, White River Junc¬ 
tion, September 19-22. 
Michigan State Fair, Detroit, September 
18-27. 
Apple Carnival, Martinsburg, W. Va„ Sept. 
27-29. 
New Jersey Fair, Trenton, September 25- 
29. 
Connecticut State Fair, Berlin, September 
26-29. 
Connecticut Pomological Society, Berlin, 
September 26. 
Virginia State Fair, Richmond, October 
9-14. 
New England Fruit Show, Boston, Mass., 
October 23-28. 
National Dairy Show, Chicago, Ill., Oc¬ 
tober 26-November 4. 
National Creamery Butter Makers’ Asso¬ 
ciation, Chicago, November 1-3. 
Indiana Apple Show, Indianapolis, No¬ 
vember 6-11. 
Massachusetts Corn Show, Springfield, 
Mass., November 11-18. 
Boston Chamber of Commerce Agricul¬ 
tural Exhibit, October 2-31. 
National Apple Show, Spokane, Wash., 
November 27-30. 
The Labor Question. —If N. M. C., on 
page 862, wants to escape his labor prob¬ 
lem, let him come here where labor is plen¬ 
tiful at 50 to 75 cents per day, or $10 to 
$12 per month ; where we can grow crops 
the year round, and as to markets we have 
them at our doors, or can ship direct and at 
water rates to all the Eastern markets, from 
Baltimore to Boston. 
ALBERT H. STODDARD, JR. 
South Carolina. 
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page 862, of the trouble in finding suitable 
labor, would no doubt reply ‘‘there’s no 
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