1912. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
306 
Fight Against Codling Moth. 
Continued from page 393. 
cost of poison and, in many instances, 
probably the expense of treatment. 
Should there be sufficient fungus or dan¬ 
ger of fungus infection to warrant ap¬ 
plications for this purpose, by all means 
use poison in the latev applications. 
A small crop generally means a great¬ 
er percentage of wormy fruit, and if 
the prospects are fair for good prices, 
the third spraying (the latter part of 
July) is advisable because of the addi¬ 
tional protection from possibly severe 
injury by the second brood of the Cod¬ 
ling moth. There is no reason why pro¬ 
gressive fruit growers should not watch 
developments, and if wormy apples ap¬ 
pear somewhat common in early July 
protect themselves against further pos¬ 
sible injury by making this third treat¬ 
ment, and thus destroy many of the 
second brood apple worms before they 
can enter the fruit. The second spray¬ 
ing three weeks after the blossoms fall 
is advisable whenever the first applica¬ 
tion is not thorough for some reason or 
other. The essential is to recognize the 
possibilities of the first spraying and 
concentrate every effort thereupon, be¬ 
cause it is the one which gives the most 
satisfactory returns. This treatment, if 
local conditions justify, should be sup¬ 
plemented by additional sprayings either 
within a few weeks or in midsummer. 
Cutting Back Grapes. 
TF. E. W., Wilton, Conn .—I have some 
grapes that have made very long growth 
from the main branches. Can I cut them 
back to two or three feet from ground, with 
a fair chance of new branches starting from 
the old wood and so make a new head? 
They are Worden and have done well. 
Ans. —It is finite probable that new 
shoots would come out on the main 
branches if they were cut back almost 
to the ground. The Worden is a very 
vigorous variety of grape and the vine 
is not easily killed or seriously injured 
by severe cutting back. New bearing 
wood near the parent stock could be 
formed in this way but one year of 
bearing would be sacrificed by cutting 
back as suggested. 
H. E. VAN DEMAN. 
Wormy Hickorynuts. 
0. P.y Stratford, Conn .—A very tall 
hickory tree bears heavily, but 99 per cent 
of the nuts are wormy. A tree 50 feet 
away has nuts about 25 per cent wormy. 
One tree 50 feet farther bears nuts not 
over live per cent wormy. Two trees on 
the edge of a henyard bear nuts that are 
probably less than one per cent wormy. It 
would not pay me to spray these trees, but 
if there is any other remedy I would try it. 
Ans. —There is considerable trouble 
in some sections with weevil that in¬ 
fests the hickory nuts. The Northern 
species is usually more affected than 
the Southern ones, so far as I have 
noticed them both. It is a very difficult 
matter even to check the depredations 
of this insect pest except by gathering 
the nuts as soon as they fall and burn¬ 
ing all that are wormy. But this is a 
big job, especially if there are many 
trees in the vicinity. As Mr. F. H. 
Chittenden of the U. S. Department of 
Agriculture at Washington, D. C., has 
made a study of these pests for many 
years past, it would be well to call on 
him for any possible relief that he may 
SUggCSt. H. E. VAN DEMAN. 
Grafting Plums. 
E. V. II., Clcclum., N. C .—I would like 
some advice about plum stocks to graft. I 
have a lot of Wild (loose plums on my 
place, trees and root sprouts, also a lot of 
wild little plums about M>x% inch in size, 
with a very tough skin, large seed and a 
little sweet pulp when fully ripe. I also 
have some Abundance, Burbank and Itcd 
June and other plum scions on my place. 
My boy wishes to do some grafting, and I 
wish him to learn. Would these scions do 
well if grafted into piece roots or stocks 
of the wild plums described above? 1 want 
him to do well with his grafting to en¬ 
courage him. 
Ans. —Plum grafting is not nearly so 
successful even in the hands of an ex¬ 
pert as grafting many other fruits, and 
it would be a very severe or unfair 
test of the skill of a novice to try it. 
The Japanese varieties mentioned will 
not succeed well on any of our native 
American stocks, and I would not rec¬ 
ommend grafting them so in any case. 
It would be far better to have the boy 
make his first attempt at grafting on 
apple or pear trees. 
H. E. VAN DEMAN. 
A Weedy Old Asparagus Bed. 
II. L. 1\, Itlverdale, N. J .—Let me know 
the best method by which one may treat an 
old asparagus bed, especially how to keep 
the weeds from over-running it. 
Ans. —First of all, most old asparagus 
beds should be plowed up and destroyed 
and replaced with new roots. A new 
bed may be started before the old one 
is removed, however. Most old beds 
are very near the surface, and the treat¬ 
ment must depend on how shallow the 
crowns are. Commercial beds are 
wheel-harrowed, plowed or cultivated, 
keeping in mind the fact that the crowns 
must not be injured. Garden patches 
are spaded and raked, using the same 
care. This is the common Spring 
treatment. The fertilizers, chemicals 
or manure may be worked in at this 
Spring cultivation. Of course weeds 
arc sure to make their appearance soon 
after the beds are harrowed. The time 
to kill weeds is before they come up. 
On large areas a horse weedcr is used, 
taking two rows at once: for garden 
patches use the rake, but in either case 
do it before you can see the weeds. 
Take a hot day and the small thread¬ 
like stem of the weed quickly succumbs 
as the supporting earth is moved, allow¬ 
ing the sun to kill it in an instant. The 
above performance must be carried out 
after every rain if the weeds are to be 
kept down. This is the common method 
of handling weeds in an asparagus bed. 
Some use large quantities of salt, but 
this is an expensive way to handle them. 
I once saw an asparagus bed covered 
about six inches deep with marsh hay; 
this kept the weeds down and the aspar¬ 
agus came up through it all right. This 
also is laborious and expensive. So 
much for the common methods of weed 
control. The best way is so simple that 
most people (until they try it) will call 
it ridiculous. Use chickens, and small 
ones at that, three broods of about 20 
each to an acre. Place the coops near 
the bed and keep the hen confined all 
the time, providing her with shade and 
food and water. The little chicks will 
clean out every cutworm, beetle and 
weed that appears. The fertility they 
leave on the ground is of great benefit 
to the crop. Get the chickens on early 
before the weeds come and they will 
surely keep them in check. Some beds* 
are located so that this plan will not 
work, as crows and hawks are very 
troublesome and like nice young chick¬ 
ens. I know of one asparagus grower 
who lost over 500 chickens in one sea¬ 
son by crows. When the asparagus 
grower can get such nimble help in 
keeping down the weeds, have them fer¬ 
tilize the crop and furnish many a good 
meal later on, he ought to know about 
it and take advantage of it. 
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