1912. 
T'HID RURAL) NEW-YORKER 
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Marl on Orchard. 
W. A. TV., Monroe, N. Y .—Would it pay 
me to buy greensand (marl) at $10 per 
ton to use as a fertilizer on my orchard? 
Ans. —No—it would not. This green¬ 
sand marl at its best rarely contains 
more than $2.50 worth of available pot¬ 
ash and phosphoric acid, and many sam¬ 
ples will run as low as one dollar in 
value. Years ago this marl was largely 
used in parts of New Jersey and was 
very useful. That was before the pres¬ 
ent great development of the fertilizer 
trade. Other forms of fertility are now 
cheaper than this greensand marl. If 
you were to pay $10 a ton for it you 
would give five or six times as much as 
it is worth. 
Weaver Sweet Apple; May Duke Cherry. 
A. J. G., Doylcstown, O. —1. There is an 
apple tree in this vicinity known as the 
Weaver Sweet. Can you inform me where 
I can secure trees o-f this variety? I cannot 
find them listed in any catalogue. 2. Can 
you name a cherry from the following de¬ 
scription : A large, dark red cherry, neither 
sweet nor sour, although classed as a sour 
cherry. The tree is cone-shaped with 
branches upward similar to a pear. Cher¬ 
ries hanging in bunches. Some think it 
Tartarian but I don’t. 
Ans. —1. Weaver is a yellow, sweet 
Winter apple that is almost unknown, 
and trees are not likely to be found in 
any of the nurseries, except it be in the 
locality where it is grown, which is 
in Ohio. If they are not to be found 
there the best way to secure them is to 
cut scions from the bearing trees and 
get some nurseryman to grow trees 
from them. Or, some undesirable tree 
that may be in the orchard can be top- 
grafted with such scions. 2. It is prob¬ 
able that the cherry referred to is May 
Duke or Late Duke, for both of these 
varieties have trees and fruit similar to 
the description of A. J. C. Windsor is 
a still later variety of the same charac¬ 
ter. Tartarian^ is early and gets very 
dark, a black when fully ripe and is 
sweet in flavor. h. e. van deman. 
New Ideas About Deer. 
On page 121, T. B. K.,- Newport, N. 
J., asks “will deer eat strawberry vines?” 
In reply would say yes, they will, 
especially the blossoms, just as quickly 
as apple blossoms or Japan plums in 
bloom. As the deer eat a nibble here 
and there as they walk along one might 
not notice they had done so, did he not 
follow the tracks across a bed. I do 
not think they would eat the vines as 
quickly as clover. I have had little 
loss from this cause, but on a few rows 
besides an apple and Japan plum (used 
as fillers) orchard I noticed they did 
once in a while try a bite of strawberry 
leaves or blossoms, and they did little 
damage to the apples as long as there 
was plenty of Japan plum foliage. 
Neither have I had any serious dam¬ 
age to peach set beside Japan plums, 
but these would be stripped entirely of 
foliage. I heard such a good thing the 
other day I think it best to pass it 
along. At an instStute meeting addressed 
by a representative of our agricultural 
college, the statement was made that it 
was not the deer eating the foliage and 
small branches that damaged the trees 
so seriously, as that there was a some¬ 
thing about the mouth or teeth, prob¬ 
ably the latter, that poisoned the tree, 
and so stunted it. Although I am aware 
that the average agricultural professor, 
takes for truth without any question, 
what another may preach, if there are 
any such as may have an inquiring 
mind, I would suggest that he obtain a 
tame deer, preferably with poisoned 
teeth, and let the deer trim a tree and 
a student another in a similar way, and 
see how much difference there really is 
in the damage done each tree. This 
may account for the great difference 
in views in regard to the damage done 
by these pests. I see that “Farmer,” 
Connecticut, in a late issue, put his 
neighbors in the Ananias club and then 
goes on to tell how plentiful deer were 
on his lands. They had eaten some 
beans, sunflowers and clover, and never 
did 10 cents damage, and I hardly 
knew where to place him, until I hap¬ 
pened to think perhaps they have be¬ 
come so tame and civilized that they 
have lost their wild and woolly teeth 
that poison trees and plants. 
Massachusetts. h. o. mead. 
Talks About Harrows. 
In reply to E. E. C., page 124, would say 
that the Cutaway harrow is a fine idea, but 
it is not the harrow for gravelly or rough 
stony land as we have here. There are 
several plain disks here and Acme harrows. 
We have the only Cutaway in the imme¬ 
diate neighborhood, and like it for the 
smooth land. Don’t be misled with the idea 
that a couple of light ponies will run it 
around all day with ease. It is hard on 
horses. Over three parts of our harrow¬ 
ing is done with the old spring-tooth which 
seems best adapted to this section. r. g. 
Pennsylvania. 
In answer to the inquiry relating to 
harrows, the question, what is the object 
in using a harrow is pertinent. The object 
in the use of all tillage tools is two-fold, 
first, to make available the plant food that 
is in the prepared seed bed, and second, to 
conserve the moisture in and underneath it. 
The killing of weeds through harrowing the 
soil is secondary, though many farmers con¬ 
sider that the chief function. If making 
plant food more available is one of the 
chief purposes of harrowing, then it fol¬ 
lows that the harrow that most thoroughly 
manipulates, and reduces the soil particles 
to the final consistency is the most val¬ 
uable implement to use. That the double¬ 
action Cutaway harrow does this most com¬ 
pletely there is no doubt. As clay soil 
cannot always be plowed in just the right 
condition, it is more or less lumpy, and 
there is no implement equal to the double 
Cutaway for grinding and crushing the 
lumps, or if not lumpy for putting the soil 
in fine mechanical condition. The action of 
the disk or of the spading harrow is dif¬ 
ferent, neither of which is capable of pro¬ 
ducing the grinding or crushing effect upon 
the soil. The double-action Cutaway may 
be so set as to make an exceedingly fine, 
shallow top soil finish that will aid in con¬ 
serving the soil moisture over a long dry 
period, while at the same time there is no 
more effective weed killer. Thorough till¬ 
age is the best system of irrigation for the 
East. GEORGE T. POWELL. 
New York. 
Honey and Pollen. 
Do honey bees gather honey from the 
pollen of the flower, or is pollen only wax? 
New York. p. a. 
Honey, pollen and wax are three entirely 
different things. Honey is the gathered 
nectar of the flowers. Pollen is collected 
by the bees for the purpose of feeding young 
broods. Beeswax is a natural substance 
secreted by the bees for the purpose of 
building their combs. 
Will some of your readers give their ex¬ 
perience in raising Speltz for fodder or 
grain? I see in a seedsman’s catalogue it 
is given great praise for producing a big 
crop. M. N. 
Laconia, N. II. 
We tried this in New Jersey, but did not 
consider it equal to either barley or oats 
as a Spring grain. In the Far West 
it is well spoken of, but we doubt if it 
will prove superior in our humid Atlantic 
coast climate. 
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