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THE RURAt, NEW-YORKER 
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APPLE STORAGE. 
The picture shows my apple house 
and pond. In building the dam I was 
told to use only earth. I had it nicely 
done and ready to harvest ice, when the 
ice dropped to the bottom, muskrats hav¬ 
ing burrowed from the other side and 
let the water out. I then dug out the 
earth and laid a stone wall 18 inches 
thick, pointed with cement. Since then 
I have had no trouble with the musk¬ 
rats. 
The apple house has a cellar and stone 
wall, pointed inside and out. It holds 
2,500 barrels of apples and stood the 
cold of last Winter, 20 below zero, with¬ 
out freezing. Under the roof there is 
room to store 1,000 empty barrels. As 
shown in the picture this building stands 
on a little slope. This made less work 
About June, if the plants have made good 
growth, you can draw more soil into the 
furrow, so that the plants are set deeper, 
and a mulch of lawn clippings is desirable, 
as it keeps the roots cool. Only the thin¬ 
nest top soil must be moved in hoeing, 
or the roots will be interfered with. Sup¬ 
port with wire or with brush. When the 
plants are little watch out for the abom¬ 
inable cut worm, which docs a lot of dam¬ 
age. The dry heat of the past two Sum¬ 
mer has not been favorable to sweet peas 
with us, and our own sowings have been 
more disappointing than usual. Over-rich 
soil produces excess of foliage and few flow¬ 
ers. The inquirer gives no details of treat¬ 
ment, but he may have treated the soil too 
generously. 
Country Labor on Garments. 
I note your editorial in reference to the 
garment workers’ strike with much interest. 
I have slaved at the same industry since I 
was 12 years old and have had 18 years 
of it. I am glad I left it but sorry that 
APPLE STORAGE AND ICE POND. 
in building and is very convenient for 
loading and unloading. , H. K. 
W. Coxsackie, N. Y. 
Grafting English Walnut. 
O. D.j Staunton , Va .—What is the proper 
time to graft English walnuts onto the 
Black? When should grafts be cut? 
Ans. The grafting over of wild or 
native walnut trees to the Persian (Eng¬ 
lish) varieties is much too particular an 
operation to use anything but the great¬ 
est care and skill in doing it properly. 
Small trees, that are not more than two 
to 10 years old, might be grafted di¬ 
rect, as we graft apple trees with some 
slight hope of success, but even those 
of any age above two or three years 
should be cut back severely to induce 
a growth of young sprouts, and these 
should be grafted or budded. When 
they are about four months old, or about 
August of the first year, they may be 
budded, or this may be deferred until 
the next Spring after the bark begins 
to peel. The ordinary style of budding 
will not prove successful, but the patch 
style of budding may be made to suc¬ 
ceed with proper management. The 
details of this method are too lengthy 
for this reply. 
Grafting is always done in the Spring, 
and as a preparation for this the scions 
should be cut before there is the slight¬ 
est starting of the sap, and then put in 
a very cool place to keep them so until 
the stocks to be grafted begin to start. 
Any good style of grafting may be done 
but if the scions are perfectly dormant 
and the stocks slightly started and if 
there is the strictest attention given to 
the setting of the scions and waxing 
there will be far more chances of suc¬ 
cess than without all or any of them. 
H. E. VAN DEM AN. 
Sweet Pea Culture. 
Will you inform me how to plant sweet 
peas? I have tried It repeatedly and could 
get no flowers. The soil’ here is sand and 
clay; which is the better? j. j. k. 
New York. 
Sweet peas like a moderately rich soil in¬ 
clining to clay loam, which should be well 
prepared the previous Fall. Sow just as 
soon as the frost is out. Prepare a furrow 
about four inches deep, and cover the seed 
one inch in the furrow. It is preferable 
to have rows running north and south. 
I could not take my health along—I am a 
back-to-the-soiler now. It may be somewhat 
suprising for some of the farmers to know 
that their daughters are being used by the 
large city factories as a whip for the city 
workers. By this I mean that most large 
garment factories, especially those of 
ladies’ garments, have branch factories 
throughout the country districts. The 
small towns in which they establish them¬ 
selves offer free rent and power for a 
period of years and the country girls are 
taught and paid a ridiculously low price 
for the work. Millions of garments are 
made in this manner each year. The city 
worker is well aware of this fact, and at 
certain periods of the year when work 
slackens down the girls are given the 
option of either making certain kinds of 
work at the same figure it would cost 
made in the country (commonly called 
country work) or go home. It is hard to 
describe what flashes over the mind of the 
poor girl at that moment; however she 
considers it better than nothing and com¬ 
petes with the country girl. Every once 
in a while the foreman will run in a little 
harder work on the same basis, and the 
girls would simply have to swallow the pill 
and wait for the busy season so they 
could strike and regain the price. It is a 
rare case when a foreman will set the 
price back to the original figure after he 
has once made a cut in dull seasons. You 
can easily see how the farmers’ daughters 
and a good many of their sons as well act 
as a sort of whip over the heads of the 
city shop-girl. It would be well for small 
towns to consider what the workers will 
get out of the factories they establish in¬ 
stead of what the storekeeper will get. I 
am glad to see you treat the subject as 
you did. iiakry i. hirsch. 
New Jersey. 
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