1911, 
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A NORTH CAROLINA COTTON FIELD. 
While one of our readers is telling 
of growing potatoes at Fairbanks, 
Alaska, another reader sends us the 
picture shown at Fig. 471. Some of 
us who are thankful for the cloth 
which covers us spend little time re¬ 
membering the cotton picker at the 
South or the sheep shearer in the 
West. Yet a good share of our com¬ 
fort as well as the world’s wealth is 
based on the finger and thumb which 
grasp the cotton and handle the shears. 
There is demand for a mechanical cot¬ 
ton picker and several machines are 
already at work—none of them entirely 
successful. The problem of mechan¬ 
ical cotton picking is a difficult one, and 
should there be a successful machine 
the social problem involved in throwing 
a large number of workers out of the 
employment which has long provided 
for them would be serious. Cotton is 
the money crop of many parts of the 
South, as milk is for many Northern 
dairy sections. Both crops are some¬ 
times produced at what amounts to a 
business loss, because they are the only 
ones which offer a cash return for 
labor. The cotton crop this year seems 
THfcC RURAL NEW-YORKER 
An '‘Everbearing” Apple Tree. 
The latest horticultural blast comes from 
Albany, Oregon. It is stated that an “ever- 
bearing” apple tree was sold for .$600. This 
tree is said to be 10 years old and “growing 
in a fence corner.” It is wonderful how 
many of these “novelties” start in that 
humble place. The report says : 
“It is now 10 years old, and for several 
years has borne ripe fruit from May to 
November of each year, having blossoms, 
green fruit and ripe fruit all on its branches 
at the same time during the Summer. The 
apples are of good quality. The tree was 
bought by a nursery company, which is to 
have all its products for 10 years. The tree 
will bo left in its present situation and the 
company will utilize it in securing buds and 
scions in an effort to propagate the ‘ever- 
bearing’ variety.” 
There you have the whole business. With¬ 
in a few years these “everbearing” trees will 
be for sale! Surely the tree fake schemers 
are everbearing. 
Sowing Grass Seed in Spring. 
I sowed 10 acres of good heavy sod to 
rye October 1, and it looks fine. I think I 
will sow 10 pounds of Alsike and 15 pounds 
of Timothy per acre, the best I can get, on 
this rye land, in March, just before the 
snow goes away, and trust that the grass 
seed will get in deep enough by the frost 
going out. As soon as the frost is out 
enough so the spreader can be used I will 
broadcast 150 pounds of nitrate of soda per 
acre on the rye and seed. What do you 
LIFE IN A NORTH CAROLINA COTTON FIELD. Fig. 471. 
to be disappointing. What with in¬ 
creased demand and the damage done 
by insects it was thought prices would 
be higher. As it is, they are low and 
unsatisfactory. 
Grafting Good-sized Peach Trees. 
27. g. P., gwarthmore. Pa .—I have two 
peach trees wit-h stocks about two inches 
in diameter. They sprung up from the seed 
and I took a chance on the fruit turning 
out to be of good quality, but lost. Would 
you advise cutting back the branches to 
stubs and grafting in the Spring, or cut¬ 
ting them down and planting new ones? 
The latter course seems like murder as the 
trees are three years old and healthy. 
Ans. —The peach is one of the most 
difficult of all fruit trees to graft. The 
young wood is so spongy and the pith 
so large that the grafts seldom grow, 
and when they do there is seldom a 
perfect union. About the only way 
peach grafts may be made to grow is, 
to cut the scions with a small piece of 
two-year-old wood at its lower end 
and insert this in the stock. This being! 
less spongy than the new wood, “takes” | 
more readily, but even then it is seldom 
satisfactory. (If all two-year wood is 
used there will be no buds to start 
growth.) Inasmuch as a peach tree 
usually comes into bearing two or three 
years after planting, it is seldom profit¬ 
able to top-work old trees, and it is 
always more satisfactory to plant new 
trees. These should never be more 
than one year old. Peaches are propa¬ 
gated by budding rather than by graft¬ 
ing and the buds are set in vigorous, 
new wood. Buds seldom succeed when 
set in old wood. w. j. w. 
Mrs. Nuwed: “Mary, for dinner I 
think we’ll have boiled mutton with 
caper sauce. Are there any capers in 
the house?” Mary: “No, ma’am.” Mrs. 
Nuwed: “Then go out in the garden 
and cut some.”—Harvard Lampoon. 
think of the plan? Before sowing the rye I 
plowed the sod eight inches deep and pul¬ 
verized it well and used one-half ton, of 
lime and 500 pounds of $35 pertilizer, 3-8-6, 
then sowed the rye, harrowed and rolled. 
You see it already has enough acid phos¬ 
phate and potash, and the nitrate will start 
the grass seed as well as the rye. a. b. 
Gloversville, Pa. 
This ought to give a fair “catch,” though 
we obtain best results with Fall seeding or 
grass. The best advice is to sow the seed 
on some still frosty morning when the upper 
surface is frozen and full of cracks. The 
seed falls into these cracks and when the 
soil thaws the seed is covered. A light 
working with a weeder will help cover the 
grass seed and will not injure the grain. 
I want to provide hot air heat for a 
house with no cellar, the furnace to burn 
wood and be placed either in an outbuild¬ 
ing or on first floor of the house. Any 
experience or suggestions from readers will 
be much appreciated. w. p. 
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