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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
March 15, 
Plum Rot. 
C. E. R., Monroe Co., N. Y .—I have 100 
Lombard plum trees; have been set 10 
years. The plums rot every year about 
the time they are fit to pick. Would it 
do to graft them to Burbanks or Abun¬ 
dance, and about what time ought it to^be 
done? 
An..—I would not advise that Lom¬ 
bard plums be top-grafted to any of the 
Japanese varieties, Burbank or Abund¬ 
ance included; would advise rather that 
they be top-worked to the Fellenburg 
prune or Middleburg, Reine Claude or 
Niagara plums, which belong to the Do- 
mestica or European type. Brown rot 
could probably be controlled by seeing 
that all rotted fruit of previous season 
was plowed under deeply, mummied 
fruits removed from the trees and tlfe 
fruit sprayed soon after setting with 
Scott’s self-boiled lime-sulphur wash 
with two pounds arsenate of lead added 
to each 50 gallons. This would control 
curculio which would assist materially 
in reducing brown rot. If this spraying 
was repeated at two or three week in¬ 
tervals up to about three weeks before 
the fruits ripen, I should expect but 
little loss from brown rot. b. e. v. 
Plums in Apple Orchard. 
C. E. R., Monroe, N. Y .—What do you 
think of setting Burbank or Abundance 
plum trees in a Baldwin apple orchard 
that has been set six years? The trees are 
40 feet each way. 
Ans. —An apple orchard set six years 
and well taken care of should soon be 
in condition to produce apples. Bald¬ 
wins are among the strongest growers 
of any of the commercial varieties, and 
40 feet apart is none too wide for the 
permanent trees. You might set one 
tree in the center of each square; this 
would double your number of trees per 
acre. This tree could safely be an early- 
bearing apple, or in some instances sour 
cherries have proved good fillers. This 
is especially so where there is a good 
market for sour cherries for canning 
factory purposes. It is also a crop 
that brings in money early in the Sum¬ 
mer, and the work of harvesting is out 
of the way before other tree fruits re¬ 
quire much attention. Best varieties are 
the Montmorency and English Morello. 
Burbank and Abundance plums as fill¬ 
ers between apples might not be entirely 
satisfactory, the leaves of the Japan 
plums being very susceptible to spray 
injury, and the spray material used upon 
the apples being carried by the wind in 
quite large amounts to the plums might 
seriously injure the leaves, and therefore 
the quality of the crop. b. e. v. 
Manurial Value of Cabbage. 
R. W. 8., Holley, K. Y .—Can you tell me 
how much a ton of cabbage is actually 
worth for manure? 
Ans. —There seems to be a demand 
this year for analysis of vegetables and 
similar products. Apparently many such 
things are being given away as wastes. 
Here is a table showing the pounds of 
plant food in various substances. These 
things rot easily and the plant food is 
quickly available. 
Pounds in one ton : 
Cabbage . 
Carrots . 
Apples . 
Beets . 
Lettuce . 
Muskmelons . 
Onions . 
Potatoes . 
Stable manure . 
Phos. 
Nitrogen Acid. Potash. 
6 2 8 
5 
3 
10 
1 
1 
2 
5 
2 
10 
5 
2 
9 
4 
2 
8 
5 
2 
4 
7 
3 
10 
10 
6 
12 
This gives a fair comparison of plant 
food. Except for potatoes few of such 
wastes are worth more than half as 
much as stable manure. 
Controlling Flea-beetles, 
L. G. R., Stamford, Conn .—I am troubled 
every Spring by having my young rnusk- 
melous, cucumber and squash* vines eaten 
by little black bugs, as soon as they come 
through the ground. They bother most 
during the month of May and part of 
June. On account of their attacking the 
plants, when they are so small and deli¬ 
cate it is very hard to prevent them from 
destroying the whole patch in two or three 
days. I have used ashes and dusts of dif¬ 
ferent kinds, but these help very little. The 
little bugs have wing's and fly as soon as 
vou touch the plant, and are so small that 
15 or 20 get on a muskmelon plant the 
day it comes through the ground. 
Ans. —The common and most effec¬ 
tive remedies employed in driving these 
destructive little insect pests off musk¬ 
melons, cucumbers and squash is air- 
slaked lime and soot dusted freely upon 
the young plants. In the planting of 
these crops four or five times the num¬ 
ber of seeds should be planted to the 
hill as would be necessary if all were 
certain to survive the attacks of the 
various insects that prey upon the 
plants; in other words, about 15 seeds 
should be planted to each hill. This 
will allow for considerable loss, with 
the chances greatly in favor of enough 
surviving to insure a good stand. In 
localities where the flea-beetle and the 
Striped melon-bug is abnormally plen¬ 
tiful and destructive, it is sometimes 
necessary to protect the young plants 
with cheese-cloth coverings until they 
make their second or third tier of 
leaves, the simplest as well as the best 
method of doing this is to take No. 
10 or 11 galvanized wire, cut in lengths 
of 30 inches or more, bending them in 
semicircles like croquet arches, using 
two to each hill at right angles to each 
other, with the ends inserted in the 
ground with the curve uppermost, over 
which the cheesecloth or gauze is placed, 
and the edges are then covered with 
earth to hold it in place and to prevent 
the bettles from working under it. When 
these protecting cloths are used plant¬ 
ings may be made a week or 10 days 
earlier, which will be quite an advan¬ 
tage, both in the way of getting ahead of 
the insects and the early maturing of 
the crop. _ K. 
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inventions that have been made practical 
in the past 20 years. I offer these sugges¬ 
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it, or discuss it if it has any drawbacks. 
Lawrence Co., O. u. T. cox. 
On page 24G I find .T. .T., E. Chatham, 
N. Y., inquiring about Winter onions. We 
in Piedmont, Va., grow the yellow potato 
onion; plant on good ground by 15th or 
20th of September. As cold weather comes 
on we top-dress with coarse manure. By 
May 1 you will have a mild delicious bulb 
from one to two inches in diameter. They 
propagate by bunching around the set and 
have from five to seven small onions which 
are used to plant. They are quite prolific 
and I always plant them in my garden for 
home use. Although I did not set out till 
late in October they are now six inches 
above the ground. i. 8. w. 
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