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NEW-YOEKER 
January 11, 
FARMERS’ CLUB 
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Lime With Blood or Hen Manure. 
I. C. F., Ashland, 0 .—Will you tell me 
what would be the effect of lime mixed 
with fresh, warm blood as regards the use 
of the blood as a fertilizer? What effect 
has lime mixed with hen manure as re¬ 
gards the fertilizing properties of the hen 
manure? In each case the mixture would 
stand for several weeks before being used 
on the land. 
Ans. —Yes, we can tell you that using 
lime on the blood and the hen manure 
would be the worst thing you could do. 
The effect of lime upon such organic 
matter is to induce a chemical change 
which puts ammonia into the form of 
a gas. In this form it escapes into the 
air and is lost as plant food. This is 
one of the first things to remember 
about farm chemistry—lime drives am¬ 
monia away from organic matter like 
blood or manure. Use gypsum or land 
plaster. This will dry out the blood 
and there will be little loss. 
Girdling Apple Trees. 
A. L. B.. Vermont. —H. E. Van Deman 
advises G. W. M. to cut a ring of bark six 
inches w r ide around an apple tree and peel 
it off in June (when the bark peels freely), 
as a cure for tardy bearing of said tree. 
Here in Vermont it would surely kill the 
tree if even a ring an inch wide were taken 
off. 
Ans. —It may seem to some who have 
not tried it that to take out a ring of 
bark from an apple tree in early Sum¬ 
mer would kill or seriously injure it, 
but I have done so repeatedly and known 
of others doing it without any real in¬ 
jury whatever. It is not at all likely 
that the trees of the climate in Vermont 
are any different from those of other 
sections of our apple-growing country. 
The way to know beyond a doubt is to 
try the experiment on an apple tree or 
two that may be of little or no value, 
such as often grow up in pastures. It 
should be done when the trees are in 
the most rapid state of wood growth, 
for it is then that the cambium layer 
between the wood and bark is soft and 
shiny, and the bark will not only come 
off easily, but a new bark will quickly 
cover the wound. This operation will 
check the growth above the ring some¬ 
what, and often cause formation of fruit 
buds that otherwise would not be 
formed. It would kill a peach or other 
stone fruit tree. h. e. van deman, 
Christmas Florists’ Trade. 
It is the general opinion that more 
ornamental plants were sold in the New 
York market than ever before, the de¬ 
mand being so great that many dealers 
were unable to fill late orders. The 
prices of plants at wholesale ranged 
within the following figures: Aucubas, 
75 cents to $4; Ardisias, $1 to $4; orna¬ 
mental peppers, 25 cents to $1; English 
pot holly, $2 to $5; Jerusalem cherry, 
20 cents to $1; Otaheite orange, $1.50 
to $5, or at the rate of 25 cents per 
fruit on the plant; Araucaria, 75 cents 
to $4; Croton, 35 cents to $3; Dracaena, 
35 cents to $6, acording to size and 
variety; Boston ferns, 35 cents to $5; 
maidenhair ferns, 50 cents to $2.50; 
palms, 50 cents up, some fine specimens 
of Phoenix and Kentia going up to 
$ 20 . 
The flowering plants included Azaleas, 
50 cents to $5; Gloire de Lorraine 
Begonias, 50 cents to $4, in fair, but 
not excessive demand; Cyclamens, 35 
cents to $2, fine quality and good de¬ 
mand ; Primulas, Sinensis and Obconica, 
15 to 25 cents, and demand less than 
at Easter; heath, 50 cents to $5, demand 
good; Camellias, $1.50 to $5, no great 
supply, but high quality; Poinsettias, 
single plants, 20 to 50 cents, pans of 
several plants, 50 cents to $5, very 
popular. 
The heavy snow on Tuesday upset the 
flower trade, as consignments from 
outlying points were delayed in reach¬ 
ing the city. This, combined with 
the fact that plants are generally 
preferred to cut flowers for Christ¬ 
mas trade, caused a large surplus; 
it was generally reported that several 
hundred thousand violets, 100,000 carna¬ 
tions, chiefly white or light-colored, 
and many pink and white Tea roses 
were unsold Christmas morning. Some 
extra violets sold for $1.25 to $1.50 per 
100 , but $1 was the general price for 
good quality; extra special Beauty roses 
in limited quantity commanded $15 a 
dozen and a few fancies were $50 and 
$75 per 100. Among other roses, per 
100, Killarney sold at $15, extra, $20 
to $25; White Killarney, $12 to $15; 
My Maryland, $15 to $20; Richmond 
(red), $35 to $50; Chatenay and Lady 
Hillingdon the same; Bride and Brides¬ 
maid, $10 to $15; Sunburst. Mrs. Aaron 
Ward and Bulgarie, $25 to $30; com¬ 
mon Tea, $3 to $6. Carnations sold 
rather better than roses, running all 
the way from $3 to $12 per 100,' reds 
bringing the highest price. • Mignonette, 
75 cents a dozen for the best; sweet 
peas, $1 to $2 a dozen bunches; wall¬ 
flowers, 50 cents a bunch; lily of the 
valley, $4 per 100; hyacinths, $2 to $3 
per 100. A few yellow Chrysanthe¬ 
mums still hung around at Christmas 
at $1.50 to $3 per dozen. 
Fail Planting ; Whitewash Against Frost. 
My intention is to put in about 250 
peach trees next Fall. The land lias been 
in garden and horse corn this year and 
two years ago. Nothing grown last 
year. Could I put in rye next Spring, 
turn it under and follow with cow peas, 
to be turned under also, in time to plant 
trees? What time in Fall is best to put 
trees in? What varieties would you recom¬ 
mend for this section ? My desire is to 
have them all ripened and off the trees 
say in two weeks in September. How 
would Carman and Elberta do? Do you 
recommend Fall planting? When is the 
proper time to spray peach trees-set out 
1910. in Spring, with lime, to prevent 
freezing of buds? h. a. c. 
Vineland, N. J, 
In general, Fall planting is not to be 
recommended for peach trees, so that un¬ 
less your land is in a very poor condition 
you could plant the trees the coming 
Spring. Good commercial varieties, for the 
Vineland section, are Carman, Hiley, Belle 
of Georgia. Elberta and Fox Seedling. If 
the fruit is to be sold in the wholesale 
market I would advise you to plant not 
less than 50 trees of a variety, and 100 
would be better. Small shipments, con¬ 
sisting of a few crates of peaches, are 
not very satisfactory when sold at whole¬ 
sale. 
Trees sprayed with whitewash during 
the Winter, are said to be retarded in 
blooming somewhat, however, Spring frosts 
very seldom cause any damage about Vine- 
land and there is considerable doubt as to 
whether the spray would pay. Peach trees 
sprayed with a good lime-sulphur solution 
for scale and leaf-curl are not white 
enough because of the material to retard 
blooming to any extent, but this spraying 
for scale and leaf-curl is of much ' im¬ 
portance for the direct purpose for which 
it is applied. One of the State experiment 
peach orchards is located on the grounds 
of the New Jersey Training School, at 
Vineland, and fruit growers are welcome 
to visit the orchard at any time and ob¬ 
serve methods practiced there. 
N. J, Experiment Station. M, A. BLAKE. 
Poison Ivy. 
There have been several communications 
recently on the subject of remedies for ivy 
poisoning, but I have not seen any men¬ 
tion of the only one I have found at all 
effective. That is the homeopathic drug 
known as “Ilkus Tox.” [This was referred 
to by a previous correspondent.— iEds.] 
This drug is made from the poison sumach, 
a plant whose toxic qualities are similar to 
poison ivy. Consequently the remedy is 
similar in theory to the dangerous experi¬ 
ment of eating the ivy leaves, though with¬ 
out the risk of that method. Any drug 
store can supply the medicine in pellet form. 
A cooling wash which will relieve the skin 
irritation is easily made with a teaspoonful 
of cooking soda in warm water. In very 
bad cases, particularly where the inflamma¬ 
tion is about the eyes, it is well to keep 
the skin constantly covered with linen wet 
with the soda solution. n. 
Kerhonkson, N. Y. 
When victims of ivy poisoning cannot 
get jewel -weed, hyposulphite of soda so¬ 
lution. as used in photography, is a good 
antidote. e. s. m. 
Wading River, N. Y. 
I wish to add my testimony as to the 
efficiency of jewelweed as an antidote. A 
schoolboy friend of mine, who “took poi¬ 
son” from the ivy, used the jewelweed with 
great success. To demonstrate its effective¬ 
ness he would crush the leaves of the ivy 
in his hands,, and follow this with the suc¬ 
culent stems and leaves of the jewelweed. 
With this treatment he was never poisoned. 
After many of his botanizing trips, how¬ 
ever, when he accidentally touched the 
ivy, he would have his face and hands 
covered with the characteristic blisters of 
ivy poisoning. c. w. p. 
Westtown, Pa. 
WANT TO KNOW. 
Growing Tomatoes for Canning. —The 
farmers in this vicinity have been asked 
to grow tomatoes for a canning factory 
which would locate here provided they 
could contract tomatoes for five years at 
30 cents per bushel, delivered at 'the fac¬ 
tory by the growers. Would some one 
having had experience along that line tell 
us what the general price is and system 
followed by other factories, and would it 
be well to contract for five years to grow 
a certain number of acres of tomatoes? 
In average seasons, what would they bring 
per acre, also system followed in growing 
the plants, transplanting, etc? a. d. 
Saugerties, N. Y. 
Sweet Clover For Green Manure.—I 
would like to ask some of your readers 
what experience they have had in growing 
Sweet clover to add humus to the soil. 
It grows along the roadside in the stiff 
clay, and I think perhaps it would catch 
and grow vigorously on ordinary clay soil 
where humus is very deficient. What is 
the best method to follow, cut for feed or 
plow it all under? I feel that if we could 
grow this clover as vigorously as it grows 
by the roadside we could soon get our 
clay hills in fine condition to produce im¬ 
mense crops without barnyard manure. I 
am thinking of seeding with this Sweel 
clover this Spring to plow under nex-t Fall 
for coiyi the following season. Will some 
one give his experience? a. d. 
Saugerties, N. Y. 
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