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Ruralisms 
Bisulphide of Carbon for Peach Borers. 
A. II. P., EuTberton, N. Y. —I have an 
orchard of several hundred five-year-old 
peach trees which were looked over for 
borers last June, but neglected in the Fall. 
I now find at this date many which con¬ 
tain several full-grown borers. On page 
oG5 you have an article on carbon bi¬ 
sulphide. Were I to rig a rubber collar 
that could be easily put around the tree 
be more or less hard and tough. I 
would advise you to take up your roots 
and cut all roots that are one-quarter 
to one-half inch thick into pieces four 
to six inches long and replant them in 
the manner directed above. j. a. k. 
Killing Cutworms. 
0. B., Florida, _Y. Y .— IIow much ar¬ 
senate of lead to 100 pounds bran or mid¬ 
dlings to be effective for cutworms? Is it 
just as good to sow poison before onions 
or lettuce are up, or is it better after? 
Ans. —Paris green is considered the 
and close to the ground, and with the right best and surest remedy for this trouble- 
kind of a syringe or pump force in the some and destructive insect, and may 
right quantity of bisulphide, could I kill be used in the following ways with good 
those borers, and at what expense? results. Moisten cabbage leaves with 
Ans.—I do not know of any instance water « and dust them with Paris green 
of the use of carbon bisulphide for on 9 ne s '^ e » winch should be laid next 
i t i ’ ; to the ground about 12 feet apart each 
destroy ng peach borers, but surely it way Cut grass or green c l over) dusted 
is worth trial. The peach borer larva heavily with the poison and a small 
often does not have a well-defined bur- bunch laid at some distance apart each 
row, but is embedded in a mass of gum , w ‘9’ on ,^ ie .» roun d three or four days 
and ooze under, or even outside the before planting will usually rid them 
bark. As a rule carbon bisulphide is ~ out. Lse five pounds of pure 
most effective as an insecticide in dry , ns & reen to 100 pounds of wheat 
soils and in clear-cut burrows, in which )ian ’ thoroughly mixing it, moisten with 
the vapor may be closely confined, such wa , until it will stick together. I 
as those made by the apple and quince usually use water sweetened with mo- 
tree-borers. The problem would be to ] asses > as the bran will stick together 
hold the vapor in contact with the grubs ^etf er ant *? ot .T ? ut so quickly. A 
long enough to destroy them. Pouring SI ? a ‘ spoonful of this placed alongside 
a half ounce or so of liquid about the , eac 1 tomato, cabbage, or in fact any 
base of the tree and confining the fumes P ant transplanted to the field will be 
with the rubber collar, as suggested, or , m ver y little danger of being destroyed 
a mound of damp earth might prove cutwoims, as they seem to much 
effective. The cost should not ex- P re . the moistened bran, and readily 
eat it, to their destruction. All land 
that is known to be infested with cut¬ 
worms should be plowed 10 or 12 days 
before planting; this allows time for all 
that have been turned under deep to 
make their way to the surface again, and 
Ans. — A dwarf tree is one worked K tlle Poisoned cabbage leaves or grass 
upon stock which results in dwarf- 1 f usec ^ as directed above, three or four 
ing the growth; apples grafted upon ^ a ^ s ^_ e ^ ore planting, there will be very 
Doucin or Paradise stock, pears 
upon French quince, and cherries 
ceed three cents the tree. 
Dwarfs, Fillers and Pyramids. 
A. E. F.j Camden, N. J .—What is the 
difference between dwarf, filler and pyramid 
trees ? 
little if any loss from cutworms. 
J. a. K. 
headed in closely upon Mahaleb stock 
A filler is a variety of orchard tree 
lhat comes into bearing quickly, and 
Sparrows and Cherries. 
_ - I have a nice lot of five-year-old Early 
thus begins to give profitable returns Richmond and other cherries just in bloom. 
while slower-grow in 0- varieties are not J^nglish sparrows have attacked and 
f ... Y, , , , eaten every one raised so far. Is there 
fruiting; the fillers are mterplanted be- any way to rid myself of this pest before 
tween permanent trees, and are cut out uiy , cherries ripen? They call both early 
when the nermanent*? rennire the room , «itc, and it I liad a hundred trees I 
vvnen me permanents require tne room, would never get a peck. How about pois- 
Peaches are somtimes set between ap- oning them? Please tell me bow to use the 
pies, the apples 40 feet apart, the peaches w111 c,eun them up. j. v. t. 
midway between them, but this is criti- T , 1I .“ ini . ,l ‘ 
cised bv manv orrhardists who nrefei- • 1 oisoning sparrows is not advised; there 
(.scu lay many orctiai costs wno pretei is always risk of poisoning other birds or 
an early bearing apple, such as Wealthy, animals, and strong possibility of getting 
where Baldwins or other slowly ma- trouble with local humane societies. The 
luring sorts are planted. Pyramids are pSsone°d braufor "cut wo /ms' 1 was t0 seriously 
trees trained into pyramid form, with questioned by a humane society, on the 
strong, broad laterals at the bottom, that it caused risk to birds. We 
i i , ’ll i t , 9 advise the European plan of covering* the 
and shorter side branches above, taper- trees with netting fine enough to keep out 
ing in width to the central leader. This the birds. In England damaged fishnets 
form of training is applied most fre- ar U second-hand for this purpose, 
,i.i c 11 and it is possible that you could get such 
quently to dwarf pears. nets in your town. Several large seed 
houses carry netting for fruit protection. 
Such netting is looked on as a matter of 
course by many gardeners in the old coun¬ 
tries, though we are less familiar with it 
here. In Holland and England entire or¬ 
chards are covered with netting as soon as 
the cherries begin to ripen. This netting 
is rendered easier by growing dwarf trees. 
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Culture of Horse-Radish. 
O. B. Florida, N. Y. —Last Spring I 
planted four rows (or 1,000 sets) of horse¬ 
radish roots being only five or six inches 
long, 18 inches in the rows, 2% feet be¬ 
tween rows. Horse-radish grew well, as 
far as leaves are concerned, but instead -- 
of growing thick roots, four or more from p vrnv r;ii c „ 
each set grew thin, a foot or longer. Would > rox nils the barrel with the apples 
it be best to let them grow another year, that used to go on top. Write Bowker 
or dig them up and plant over, as there T _ , 
are fine, long sets now? The soil is black insecticide Co., Boston, for book.—Adv. 
muck. 
Ans. —Not knowing the character of 
the soil nor the conditions under which 
the crop was grown, I am unable accu¬ 
rately to determine the reason why your 
plants failed to make marketable roots, 
but I think your soil lacks the necessary 
fertility, and perhaps the manner of 
planting also had something to do with 
it. To grow good marketable horse¬ 
radish the soil must be in highest state 
of culture, made rich and friable by 
heavy applications of barnyard manure, 
applied annually for two or three years, 
as ordinary farm land cannot be made 
rich enough by a single application of 
manure. Ground should be well plowed 
and harrowed, after which it may be 
lined off in rows two feet apart, and 
with a light crowbar or long planting 
stick make holes 16 to 18 inches apart 
in the rows, and eight to 10 inches deep, 
dropping a set in each hole top end up, 
pressing the soil in around the root with 
the foot in the same manner as in set¬ 
ting any other plant. As the tops of 
the sets will be three to four inches un¬ 
der the surface they will be slow in com¬ 
ing up, many not appearing until latter 
part of June if planted about May 1. 
If desired a crop of early cabbage, cauli¬ 
flower, beets or lettuce may be grown 
between the rows of horse-radish and 
cleared off before seriously interfering 
with its growth. Horse-radish is almost 
always unfit for use or market if al¬ 
lowed to grow the second year, as many 
of the roots will be hollow and all will 
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