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THE? RURAli NEW-YORKER 
April 0, 
FARMERS’ CLUB 
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Put questions on a separate piece of paper.] 
Trimming and Pruning Young Pines. 
6. D., Jay, N. Y .—I have a lot of small 
White pine and Norway pine and some 
spruce. Will it pay me to trim them up 
to a certain height and thin them out where 
they are too thick? Some tell me that 
where there is a green limb cut off the 
pitch will run out and cause a bad place 
in the lumber, and will also check the 
growth of the trees. I have seen small 
White pine that had been trimmed where 
the pitch had run down the whole length 
of the body and I have seen other trees 
that did not seem to run hardly any. Is 
there any difference in the time of the 
year for trimming? 
Ans. —Thinning your small trees so 
that they will stand about five feet apart 
will prove profitable, especially so if the 
thinnings can be sold for Christmas 
trees. Pruning, however, is of doubt¬ 
ful economy. Close spacing usually 
results in sufficient natural pruning to 
produce tall, straight stems. The re¬ 
moval of dead branches of White pine is 
advisable if you can do the work at 
a time when more important things are 
not pressing. Do not remove any of 
the trees or shrubbery from the edges 
of your forests, as doing so permits 
strong winds to blow away the forest 
lloor or covering. Be sure, too, that 
the trees you cut down for timber are 
mature, as cutting immature trees, un¬ 
less necessary for improvement thin¬ 
nings, is like drawing money out of a 
bank just before the interest falls due. 
Your questions suggest problems that 
can best be answered by a forester who 
personally examines conditions, and if 
your wooded acres are many I would 
advise taking the matter up with your 
State Experiment Station. 
S. H. MADDEN. 
Cornstalks for Garden Soil. 
E. A. P., Georgetoicn, Conn .—I have 
about two tons of shredded cornstalks 
which molded on barn lloor; cow will not 
touch it. I do not want to take the time 
to make a compost heap. I have large 
gardens for private use only, soil rather 
heavy and compact. Can I use say one 
inch of these stalks to spade under to ad¬ 
vantage? I also intend planting one-fourth 
acre potatoes on sod ground. Would an 
application of stalks be of any benefit to 
potato ground? If so, before plowing or 
after? I have '40 bushels hen manure; 
how can I use this to best advantage, on 
above gardens or potato ground? I am 
not a farmer but enjoy garden work and 
am anxious to obtain best results. 
Ans. —You can spread the cut stalks 
and plow or spade them under. They 
will slowly decay in the soil. The ob¬ 
ject in composting them is to break 
them down and make them more avail¬ 
able as manure. Worked into the soil 
without composting they will not be as 
useful to the crop, but will help the soil 
hold moisture. The straw and cut 
stalks can be spread on the sod and 
plowed under or used as a mulch. In 
the latter case plant the potatoes three 
or four inches deep and spread the 
straw and stalks over the top of the 
ground and leave them there. The po¬ 
tato vines will grow up through. You 
can have the dry poultry manure 
crushed fine and broadcast over the 
field after plowing, or mix it with 
chemicals as we have often stated. The 
first plan is easier—the second more 
effective. 
Killing out “Wire Grass.” 
IT. M. P., Preston, Md— 1. What is the 
quickest way to destroy wire grass? I have 
15 acres that I had in tomatoes last year, 
and in August I sowed this field in Scarlet 
clover, and am going to turn this clover for 
corn. .This wire grass bothered me a great 
deal last Summer, as the tomato plants 
would not live in wire grass, also the culti¬ 
vators carried this grass to different parts 
of field, and all of it has taken well, n. -.e 
died during the drought. 2. I am building 
a barn 36x80, and wish to cover entire 
building with galvanized material. What 
gauge would you use, and where can it be 
bought cheapest? 
Ans. —1. What the grass you call wire 
grass is is the question. I find that in 
the upper part of this peninsula both 
the Bermuda and the northern quack 
grass have come in, and both are called 
wire grass. It is probable that your 
grass is Bermuda out of its latitude. The 
way to destroy it is to plow it out shal¬ 
lowly and rake off all you can, and haul 
it away to some wash or marsh, and 
then prepare the land well and sow cow 
peas thickly. Sow these as early as the 
soil is warm enough in May and cut 
them for hay and then disk the stubble 
well and sow to Crimson clover. The 
Bermuda will not grow in the shade, and 
the only way to get rid of it is to 
smother and shade it out. By putting 
the land in peas this Summer after get¬ 
ting out all the running stems you can, 
you will smother most of it. Then by 
having a Winter cover of Crimson 
clover you can have a good thing to 
turn for corn next Spring or for toma¬ 
toes. 2. The galvanized material used 
for roofing here is the corrugated article, 
and you can buy it from the various 
hardware dealers nearby about as 
cheaply as you could freight it from the 
North in small quantity. 
W. F. MASSEY. 
A LONG ISLAND IRRIGATING SYSTEM. 
On page 337 you have a question and 
answer on the Skinner irrigation system. 
I will describe the system as I have it 
on an acre and a quarter here on Long 
Island. I put it all up with the men 
on the place, simply bought the material. 
The strainer joint and the nipples I 
bought in Ohio. My outfit has cost very 
little. I also bought the necessary drills 
and a small hand drill. I drilled the 
holes for the nipples about three feet 
apart and some four feet apart. My 
lines of pipe are 125 and 180 feet long, 
and I use 34-inch galvanized iron pipe; 
the pipe is put on posts four feet above 
the ground and the posts are 12 feet 
.apart, planted in the ground about 18 
inches. The lines of pipe are 50 feet 
apart, so that I can plow easily between 
them. I have 40 pounds pressure of 
water from a tank 90 feet in the air. My 
sprays interlock and I get perfect rain. 
My main feed pipe is of one-inch iron 
and the system is about 500 feet from 
the main supply. The distance apart 
for the lines of pipe is governed by the 
water pressure; with less pressure than 
40 pounds the lines must be closer. The 
proper distance apart for the lines can 
be demonstrated by a test of the water 
to be used. I also have a circular spray 
that covers a 75-foot circle. I have a 
five-inch cap filled with nipples and this 
is placed in the center of the circle, and 
by closing off the water supply or turn¬ 
ing it on water the entire circle in 
windy weather. The sprays in the garden 
must be regulated at times, otherwise 
no labor is required to wet the whole 
place. The system is not popular with 
the superintendents of the fine places on 
Long Island because it saves labor, I 
have been told. The pipes are fastened 
to the posts by ordinary iron staples. 
Long Island. a. neilson. 
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