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TTI-TE} RURAI) NEW-YOrtXER 
j-uly 20, 
FARMERS’ CLUB 
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Home-Raised Parsnip Seed 
J. A. II., Bala, Pa. —I am endeavoring 
to raise my own parsnip seeds this year, 
on account of the difficulty I have had in 
procuring good seeds in the past. Last 
Fall, I allowed several good sized parsnips 
to remain in the ground, and now they have 
grown tops to enormous size, have borne 
flowers, and the seeds are forming. I have? 
never tried to collect parsnip seeds before, 
and would like you to advise me what par¬ 
ticular points to be careful about in bring¬ 
ing them to maturity and in collecting. 
Ans. —Parsnips bloom very irregu¬ 
larly, the blooming season frequently 
extending over a period of two weeks 
or longer. It therefore naturally fol¬ 
lows the seed will ripen with the same 
degree of irregularity. The important 
thing is to gather all seeds as they 
ripen; as the seeds mature the branches 
should be cut off and placed thinly in 
tight-bottomed shallow boxes in a dry 
airy shed or similar place, and allowed 
to remain there until thoroughly cured, 
when they can be removed from the 
stems, bagged and hung in a dry cool 
place until Spring. Parsnip seed should 
never be used if more than one year 
old. K. 
Melon Louse. 
M. M., Roanoke, Ya. —Will you give a 
remedy to destroy a small black (or dark 
green) bug on cucumber leaves? It covers 
the under leaf and so saps it as to make 
it wilt and dry up. 1 have hearty vines 
full of bloom and small cucumbers which 
are turning yellow from effects of bugs sap¬ 
ping of vine. 
Ans. —The insects are black and 
green aphis, or lice as they are com¬ 
monly called. They sometimes attack 
cucumbers and muskmelon vines in 
great numbers, and destroy the whole 
planting, especially if the plants are of 
a weak, stunted growth. As they are a 
juice or sapsucking insect it is impos¬ 
sible to poison them; any remedy to be 
effective must come in direct contact 
with them. As they are mostly on the 
undersides of the leaves it is a very 
difficult matter to reach them with in¬ 
secticides. Kerosene emulsion is the 
remedy usually employed and to be ef¬ 
fective should be applied with a good 
force pump. Kerosene emulsion can 
be purchased ready for use from any 
of the leading seed houses. K. 
Forest Trees for Posts. 
II. A. B., Tuscola Co., Mich.—I desire 
information regarding forest trees for posts, 
etc. Can you give the good and bad quali¬ 
ties of the Black locust, Catalpa, Carolina 
poplar and such other quick growing trees 
suitable for Michigan? We hear from the 
nurseries the good qualities, but never get 
the undesirable. 
Ans. —Black locust is frequently at¬ 
tacked by borers, but is worthy a trial 
when fence posts and poles only are 
desired. Catalpa speciosa can be used 
for any purpose that wood is used for, 
but sheds its dead branches very slowly. 
If the best results are desired the dead 
limbs must be trimmed off. Chestnut 
makes good posts and poles, but here 
in the East millions of trees have been 
destroyed by blight. European larch 
is another good tree, though not so fast 
a grower as those just mentioned, and 
is susceptible to injury by insects and 
fungi. Carolina poplar has little value 
except for pulp and pictures. Locust 
and larch require well drained soils, 
chestnut a light porous soil, and Catalpa 
fertile soil. I would suggest that a 
portion of your planting be of larch. 
Locust, chestnut and Catalpa trees can 
doubtless be found in your vicinity and 
their behavior will assist you in decid¬ 
ing what varieties are best suited to 
your conditions. Buy seed and grow 
your own seedlings in a corner of your 
garden. Your profits will be much 
greater than if you bought the trees and 
paid freight or express charges, not to 
mention the convenience of having them 
close to the planting site when wanted. 
Prepare the ground for their perma¬ 
nent location as for a field crop and 
cultivate the trees up to August for two 
or three years, or until they are large 
enough to completely shade the ground. 
s. H. M. 
Stone Fruits from Seed. 
M. G. N., Waterford, 0 .—Do any of the 
valuable varieties of stone fruits, i. e., 
the plum, peach and cherry come true to 
seed? It seems to me an article on this 
would be of much interest to a number of 
readers. 
Ans.— This is a subject that has long 
been before the public, and has been 
worked out in a practical way thousands 
of times with varying results, but 
mostly against the theory of dependa¬ 
ble reproduction. The stone fruits are 
scarcely more apt to bring seedlings 
that are like the parents than any other 
class. There are certain strains of 
peaches that do produce seedlings very 
similar to the originals or parents in 
both trees and fruit, and the same is 
true of the cherries, but it is rarely that 
anyone who is well informed deliber¬ 
ately plants out such seedlings except 
as a matter of experiment. The further 
any improved variety is from the origi¬ 
nal native type the more likely it is to 
sport away from that type in its seed¬ 
lings. It is “the survival of the unlike” 
rather than of the like. The reversion 
towards the original type is often ap¬ 
parent, but not always seen in the seed¬ 
lings. Where the prepotency is so great 
as to make it a safe practice to plant 
seedlings that will be like any really 
valuable variety or strain it would be 
wise to plant seedlings, but not other¬ 
wise, and this exceedingly rare. Indeed 
it is so rare that it is scarcely ever done. 
And in view of the fact that the propa¬ 
gation of varieties by budding and 
grafting is very cheap and absolutely 
certain there is little reason for planting 
seedlings. h. e. van deman. 
OHIO FARM NOTES. 
Because of late corn cutting last Fall 
and wet weatlier most wheat fields were 
sown late. The Ohio Experiment Sta¬ 
tion advised late sowing to avoid Hessian 
fly, so those who sowed late felt that per¬ 
haps they were right after all. An ex¬ 
ceptionally severe Winter followed, with 
the result that late-sown -wheat is very 
poor, w'hile a few fields of early wheat 
are about up to the usual yield. No in- 
jury from fly was noticed cither last rail 
or this Spring, and it is a safe bet that 
most farmers will risk early sowing the 
coming Fall should the corn and the 
weather permit. 
The corn crop is late here, many fields 
were planted early and are doing nicely, 
but the great bulk of the corn was planted 
late on poorly prepared soil or was planted 
over where the early planting failed. The 
failure of the early planting in some cases 
was due to bad seed, in others to wet cold 
soil, cold weather and later to a badly 
crusted surface during a short dry spell. 
Much of the soil -was plowed wet and was 
worked too wet, but we could wait no 
longer, as June w r as at hand, and we 
wanted to plant before the middle of the 
month. With warm serviceable weather 
and a late Fall we shall be all right yet. 
Most fields have been fertilized, which 
will hasten maturity. It is rather dry 
now, with scattered showers, so we are 
busy working the corn and trying to keep 
a good dust mulch until the corn shades 
the ground. The few light showers we 
have had have done very little good and 
have necessitated reworking the corn. Old 
farmers say: “A dry June for corn.” and 
here’s hoping it is so. Meadows are light 
and weedy, but oats are good, and if we 
get a fair corn crop the feed question 
may answer itself, though prices will be 
high. 
There is some demand for stock cattle, 
but farmers are conservative. Some old 
corn is being sold or fed, but some is 
being held, as the prospects for a new 
crop are not reassuring. About every kind 
of a corn cultivating implement is in use 
here, though the twohorse riding and walk¬ 
ing cultivators are most numerous. Dur¬ 
ing the last five years nearly every farmer 
got one or more riding cultivators, but of 
late there has been a reaction to the walk¬ 
ing plow. The manufacturers tell us how¬ 
ever that the riding plow will come in 
favor here again soon, as that has been 
the history in other sections. They claim 
that the coining plow is a disk-gang riding 
cultivator; for a certainty the disks do 
good work in vines apd clods. 
Some of our corn was planted too shallow 
to be covered well, and as it turned dry 
for a time poor stands were secured. A 
few farmers unintentionally planted too 
deep late in the season, and as we had no 
baking rains, but warm dry weather, the 
corn came up all right, though it took two 
weeks instead of one to get up. As the 
weather is still dry, deep planting seems 
to have been a lucky mistake. Last year 
we needed to plant deep to get moisture 
but this year the reverse was true. Floats 
on the planter shoes would have regulated 
the depth for us. As I write this it is 
very plain to me that it pays to pack the 
soil thoroughly for corn when the weather 
is dry. We would do this packing every 
year if time permitted, but this year we 
had a surplus of moisture and no time to 
spare before planting, and now that the 
weather is dry the corn is too large to 
roll; but we are thankful that the loose 
unpacked areas are small. Really it all 
goes to show that farming is largely tak¬ 
ing chances with the weather, w. u. d. 
Ohio. 
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None Give Better Returns when They Fruit 
Buy Direct From the Nursery 
and save agent’s discounts and middleman’* 
profits. When you buy our trees you get a 
Dollar’s Worth of Trees 
for every one hundred cents you remit to us. 
PEACH and APPLE TREES 
a specialty. CATALOGUE FREE 
JOS. H. BLACK, SON <S CO. 
HIGHTSTOWN. N. J. 
C ABBAGE, CAULIFLOWER and CELEItY 
PLANTS. Price List Free. Basil Perry, Cool Spring,Del. 
109-11 WARREN STREET. NEW YORK 
N. B. Either of these boxes meets the require¬ 
ments of Section one of the Supplement to the 
Sulzer billwhich has already passed the House 
of Representatives and reads as follows: 
Section 1. That the standard box for apples shall 
be of the following: dimensions when measured 
without distention of its parts: Depth of end, ten 
and one-half inches; width of end, eleven and one- 
half inches; length of box eighteen inches inside 
measurement, representing as nearly as possible two 
thousand one hundred and 6eventy-three and one- 
half cubic inches. 
Calendar and CDCC 
Directions I II kb 
We make Bucket, Barrel, 
Knapsack, 4-Row Potato 
Sprayers, Power Orchard Rigs — 
Sprayers of all kinds for all purposes. 
Automatic liquid agitators and strainer cleaners— 
up-to-date sprayer line. Ask for free spraying book. 
FIELD FORCE PUMP CO., 2 1 1 th St., Elmira, N. Y. 
F OU SALE —Cabbage plants, Danish Ballhead, Rorkhead, Winter 
Flat Dutch and Savoy. W. S. FORD & SON, Ilartlr, Del. 
C ABBAGE and CELERY PLANTS-Best variety, $1 par 1000, 
$7.50,10.000;Toniato, Sweet Potato and Peppers,$1.50 per 
1000; Cauliilower, $2.50 per 1000. J. C. Schmidt, Bristol, Pa. 
A II n |J Rrj—Celery. Cauliflower, Strawberry, 
UJtDDHUCi Asparagus plants. Catalogue free. 
HAKKY L. SQUIRES, Good Ground, N. Y. 
ICnu C 0 f« Cow Peas, $2.00 to $2.50 bushel: 
nltr <3(110 Crimson Clover Seed, $6.00 to 
$7.00 bushel; Red Clover Seed, $12.00 bushel. 
JOSEPH E. HOLLAND.... Milford, Delaware 
WE HAVE ENOUGH FOR EVERYBODY 
Tomato, Cabbage and Celery Plants 
Can fill your orders for as many as you want,. Spe¬ 
cial prices on large lots. Send for our 1912 price-list. 
ROMANCE SEED, PLANT & TRUCK FARM, 
Caleb Boggs S Son, Cheswold. Del. 
ALFALFA™ clover 
Seeding Time is Upon Us 
Why Not Prepare Thoroughly and“ Do it Right This Time? ” 
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ALFALFA has practically the Same Feeding Value as Wheat Bran. 
CLOVER HAY is nearly as good. 
Why not cut your grain bill to l /z its present size by raising 
these wonderful crops ? 
“Won’t grow on your farm?” Don’t be so sure of that. It is 
all in “knowing how” and in having the right things to work with. 
Why not find out from our farm people how to do it on Your 
Farm? 
We can tell you what to use and how to use it to get paying 
results. 
Mr. Newton Shultis (farm in Ulster County, N. Y.), 
reports on July 8, 1912 :— 
“Our first cutting of Alfalfa netted us over 2 tons to the acre and was got 
under cover in nice shape without any rain. I enclose sample, 12 inches 
high, of the second crop which shows two weeks’ growth with* the dry 
weather we have been having lately.” 
M. W. Wright of Salisbury Mills, N. Y., reports:— 
“ALFALFA, third year(1912): First cutting June 10th, 2 Tons per Acre. Soil- 
clay loam; no manure. Fertilizer applied in April. Will cut twice more this 
season.” _ _ 
Mid-Summer Seeding is Best 
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