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THE RUKAL NEW-YORKEB 
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Ruralisms 
MISSOURI NOTES. 
Last year was a great season for nuts 
of all kinds and for forest mast. Not 
for several years has such a crop been 
seen. As the weather during the Fall 
months was unusually fair and pleasant 
and the nuts were plentiful, it is prob¬ 
able that not for many years has such 
a store been laid up in town and farm 
homes. The variation in the hickory- 
nuts was infinite, and I send a picture 
illustrating some of the types.' The 
shell-bark type varies even more than 
the so-called pignuts, but the nuts arc 
readily indentified by their white point¬ 
ed and flattened shells. The very large 
nut in Fig. 140 is known as the swamp 
hickorynut from its habitat in the low 
lands. Pignut trees bore enormous loads, 
covering the ground with their fruit, 
which in scarce years is gladly welcomed 
by the children. Nuts are approved by 
authorities of all schools as a wholesome 
strengthening diet but, while I like them, 
I find an insuperable difficulty in dis¬ 
covering an occasion for their use. I 
consider them too heavy for dessert and 
too tedious to combine with other foods 
suit a weak digestion. Its one require¬ 
ment is that it must be protected from 
poultry and live stock, who will devour 
and destroy it, and from freshets that 
might uproot it. It is seen only in the 
markets of the large cities, and in thou¬ 
sands of towns where it is unknown, a 
profitable trade could readily be de¬ 
veloped, and a new source of income 
created. 
It is admitted that spraying pear trees 
enables them better to resist the blight, 
but it is possible that its influence is 
greater than is suspected. I had a row 
of six Clairgeau pear trees in bearing. 
One of the end trees became infested 
with the scale. I sprayed the tree heav¬ 
ily with whale oil soap and applied it 
with a brush on the trunk and larger 
limbs. The same year the other trees 
began to blight and in another year or 
so were all dead. The sprayed tree 
alone remained healthy and it was not 
till six years later that it showed the 
first sign of blight. It is still living. 
Here is a case where a certain wash 
seemed to immunize a tree and make it 
blight-proof for a time and it may be 
that for this purpose there is nothing 
equal to whale-oil soap which has, how¬ 
ever, practically gone out of use. 
Soon after the inauguration of the 
parcel post here, and while everybody 
was showering the farmer with advice 
as how best to take advantage of its 
benefits, an enterprising druggist scored 
one for the town by buying up a half 
page in the local paper to announce to 
TYPES OF MISSOURI HICKORYNUTS. Fig. 140. 
at the table, and between meals I dare 
not follow the ways of youthful stom¬ 
achs. Only on the occasion of a cold 
lunch do I find them acceptable. 
The price on these nuts both here and 
in St. Louis ruled at about $1 per 
bushel, retailing up to $1.50. The 
large swamp nuts sold for less. Black 
walnuts were offered at 60 cents and 
pecans, which grow wild on the low¬ 
lands, at 10 cents per pound. There 
are great variations in these two nuts 
also. I found one walnut tree 'whose 
nuts were twice the size of the ordinary 
ones. 
Persimmon trees followed the lead of 
nut trees by bearing heavy crops, also 
of infinite variation in size, color, shape, 
quality and time of ripening. What a 
splendid thing it would be for every 
farm to have together with its orchard 
of fruit, an acre planted to the different 
nut trees and including the persimmon 
and mulberry! No spraying or culti¬ 
vating would be necessary here; only 
the ground sown to grass and lightly 
pastured. To my mind this collection 
of trees would be one of the most in¬ 
teresting imaginable and generations of 
children would find delight in gathering 
the products of these wards of nature. 
I want to put in a word for water 
cress, as the season is now at hand to 
sow its seed. Here is a delicious vege¬ 
table that is wantonly overlooked by 
those farmers, and their number is le¬ 
gion, whose farms are blessed witli run¬ 
ning springs. To my taste it ranks with 
lettuce and celery and it is gathered in 
bebruary and March when there is a 
dearth of green things, and when man’s 
appetite is craving the fresh and whole¬ 
some flavor of growing plants. Five 
cents will buy a packet of seeds, and 
sown at the edge of the water they ger¬ 
minate easily and eventually will fill 
with plants the channel of the spring 
and continue to travel down it with 
the water. Millions of farm tables could 
be enriched with this delicacy at no 
cost except the gathering, and many 
a jaded appetite would recover its tone. 
I have seen the sick whose stomachs 
rejected everything else that the mar¬ 
ket afforded, turn with a real relish to 
water cress, and nothing could better 
the farmers that he was prepared to 
promptly supply all country orders that 
came in by ’phone and that he would 
assume the entire cost of postage with¬ 
out raising the price of his goods one 
cent. This was certainly a neat stroke 
of business enterprise and one that 
ought to count strongly in his favor. It 
amounts to offering a rebate on all rural 
business by parcel post. This man’s 
eyes are keen enough to see the vast 
potentialities in capturing the farmers’ 
trade, and he was resourceful enough to 
discover a clever form of inducement. 
Missouri. l. r. johnson. 
Potato Flea-beetle. 
We Long Island potato growers are 
being gradually driven out of business by 
the ravages of the potato tlea-boetle, and 
we would like to know if any of tin? State 
experiment stations have anything to offer 
to check them. We have used Bordeaux 
with Paris green, arsenate of lead and 
white arsenic with very little success as 
they are a sucking insect and do not eat 
the outside of the leaf where the poison is. 
Bordeaux is a help; they do not like it 
and feed more on the lower leaves, but 
even when well sprayed with Bordeaux, 
especially during a dry spell, they do un¬ 
told injury to the vines. a. T. p. 
(•len Head, N. Y. 
Wo will ask the stations for a remedy. 
So far as we know Bordeaux mixture and 
tobacco solution arc best for the purpose, 
hut It is hard to keep the plants covered. 
1 he McI’ikk Grapic.—L. It. Johnson, on 
page 219, tells experience with McPlke 
grape. The McF’ike, If true to name, is 
slightly larger than Eaton, does not ripen 
as evenly and has not as healthy foliage 
as Eaton. The Mcl’lke seems to lack vigor 
of vine according to all with whom I have 
talked, several who have the genuine Me- 
l’ike. My stock is from a larger plant 
given to my father by the originator, Mr. 
,,,, , wm. JACKSON. 
Illinois. 
SWEET Pea Cm. tpre.- if j. j. K„ who 
nsks for advice on sweet pea culture on 
page 2;>7, will try the ‘‘trench" system of 
preparing Ids land lie will succeed. Take the 
top soil off or a strip about two feet wide, 
and desired length, placing' It to one side, 
then break up thoroughly the subsoil to a 
depth of one-half foot, working into this 
some well rotted stable manure and tread¬ 
ing «B down firmly. Then replace top soil 
and plant according to your advice. Last 
season drought had no noticeable effect on 
lily “Spencers" and bloom continued until 
frost Do not plant two consecutive years 
in tin* same place. m. t. a. 
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