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THE FJ.UR.A-Iv N EW-YOKKER 
February 3, 
Keeping Turnips. 
J. R. B., Hanford, Wash .—Would you tell 
me how to put away turnips for the Win¬ 
ter so that they may remain brittle and 
retain their natural flavor? Last season 
I put them in a good cellar and they be¬ 
came pithy, shriveled and useless in a very 
short time. This season I pitted them on 
top of the ground, and the result is the 
same. They are irrigated stock. 
Ans. —Make an excavation about 
three or four feet deep on well-drained 
land, as large as will be necessary for 
the quantity of roots to be stored. 
Sprinkle a little chaff or other litter in 
the bottom of the pit. Now fill in with 
the roots a little above the level of the 
ground and round up in the centre. 
Cover the roots with a generous supply 
of salt hay or other litter (cornstalks 
will do). For an air vent insert a piece 
of iron pipe. Shovel over the litter a 
foot or 18 inches of soil. If it is de¬ 
sired to use any of the roots during 
the Winter season a small place may 
be left on the southerly side covered 
slightly with soil. Turnips or other 
roots stored in such a way will come 
out in the Spring in prime condition. 
Trimming Spruce Hedge. 
E. P. F., IlUl -dalc, N. Y .—r have a Nor¬ 
way spruce hedge, which has grown to a 
height where it needs trimming. Some of 
it is quite large. Will you tell me the 
proper season of year to trim without in¬ 
jury to the trees? 
Ans. —The hedge should be trimmed 
in Summer, after it has made its first 
growth; it will then make some Autumn 
growth, which will thicken it. If 
trimmed in Winter or early Spring it 
will “bleed” to a dangerous degree. 
Dynamiting for Planting Fruit Trees. 
What information can you give as to 
the use of dynamite for planting fruit 
trees? I expect to set out quite a few 
this Spring, and am wondering if it would 
be the thing to use on my land, which 
has a shallow top soil, about 18 inches 
of gravelly subsoil, underneath which is a 
very hard, clay hardpan. The dynamite 
makers claim great things for their product. 
I would like to hear what others have to 
say who have used it. J. w. m. 
Connecticut. 
It. N.-Y.—We want actual \experience 
about this if we can get it. 
Treatment of Sod. 
I have about one acre of turf land 
which has not been turned under for about 
six years. Could I have it planted this 
Spring with oats or barley and cut in 
time to sow Ited clover to be plowed under 
late in Fall, so that I could plant with 
potatoes next year? I would use oats or 
barley for litter for chickens. a. n. 
Fairfield, Conn. 
This certainly can be done, but it is not 
the best way. We should sow beardless 
barley, cut the crop when ready and then 
sow a mixture of rye, Crimson clover and 
Hairy vetch. This will make a heavy 
growth. Let it alone. Do not plow in the 
Fall, but let it remain all Winter. It will 
start up in Spring and can then be plowed 
under for the potatoes. 
Salt on Meadow. 
I have a six-acre meadow. I would like 
to put two acres in potatoes, two acres in 
cabbage, one acre in tomatoes, one acre in 
sweet corn. They tell me that 1 ought to 
put about 150 pounds of salt to the acre to 
kill worms, etc. Would it be too early to 
haul manure on said meadow now? Meadow 
has been one year in wheat and three years 
in hay. J. k. 
East Amherst, Mass. 
Who tells you that 150 pounds of salt 
per acre will kill worms in a sod? Such 
a small dose will do nothing of the sort. 
If you used salt enough to kill the worms 
the soil would not produce any crop. We 
do not believe this soil needs salt. If the 
meadow is level without a flow of water 
over it we should haul the manure at any 
time. 
Crop Before Potatoes. 
I have a field which grew a good crop 
of clover in 1910. The past year, 1911, it 
was in corn, which yielded well. At the 
last cultivation 1 sowed rape and Cow-horn 
turnips, which made a good growth, but 
of course died down when Winter came. 1 
wish to sow this field to some crop this 
Spring, which will make hay. and be off in 
time for potatoes to be planted about June 
15. I had thought of oats and Canada field 
peas. Would they be satisfactory? How 
should I treat this field with regard to fer¬ 
tilizers, cultivation, etc.? I wish to grow a 
big crop of potatoes. L. J. K. 
Ohio. 
The oats and peas will make the only 
crop that you can hope to get off in time. 
though Spring rye would give considerable 
fodder. The oats and peas will not be ripe 
by June 15. but you can cut and cure a 
fair crop. Then plow and fit for potatoes. 
We should use at least 800 pounds per acre 
of a high-grade potato fertilizer. You have 
probably grown oats and peas and know 
that the peas are plowed under and the oats 
seeded on top and harrowed in. 
Whiting the Tree Agent. 
I note that you are looking for H. M. 
Whiting, the nursery agent. I take pleas¬ 
ure in assisting you. He has been selling 
trees in this vicinity. He styles himself 
as one of the Whiting Nursery Co. His 
specialty has been making sales of three- 
year-old' Stark apple trees at 50 cents each, 
and Shropshire Damson plums at 35 to 40 
cents. He says ‘‘Stark cannot be purchased 
at less anywhere in the United States.” I 
note that another firm quotes them at $1S 
per hundred. Can Whiting compel these 
people to take the trees? My brother was 
one of the persons who bit, and I hate to 
see him pay such prices for trees. L. F. a. 
Wayne Co., N. Y. 
The more we hear of H. M. Whiting the 
more we feel inclined to put him at the 
head of the guff brigade. Of course trees 
of Stark can be bought at less than 50 
cents each. As for breaking a contract, 
no man has any right to do so unless he 
can prove misrepresentation and fraud. We 
do not know what Whiting said when he 
sold the stock. We do know that readers 
of The R. N.-Y. were fully warned. 
Solution 
Kills Scale 
I F you permit these insects to 
multiply in your orchard there 
is but one end—unsaleable 
fruit and the ultimate destruc¬ 
tion of your orchard. A spray¬ 
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the trees are dormant, with 
Sherwin-Williams Lime-Sulfur 
Solution will control scale in¬ 
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fruit buds. This material is a 
very economical remedy be¬ 
cause it is a strong solution, 
testing 33° Baum6, the recog¬ 
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retains its strength indefinitely 
and can be used as a fungicide 
with proper dilution. 
Increase your profit by spray¬ 
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