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April 5, 
A NEEDED GAME LAW. 
I have been much interested in read¬ 
ing the communications published in 
The R. N.-Y. regarding the hunting 
nuisance. I am both a farm owner and 
a hunter, and will say that my sympa¬ 
thies are entirely with the farmer in 
this matter. On our farm in Maryland 
we found it sometimes dangerous to 
walk through the woods during the 
open season for fear of being shot, and 
quite a few farmers did suffer the loss 
of dogs and other animals around their 
farms from careless hunters. Our farm 
in Western New York is along the 
eastern slope of a valley well known for 
abundance of small game, and large 
numbers of hunters resort thither dur¬ 
ing the proper season. Twenty or ,30 
have sometimes gotten off at our sta¬ 
tion, and with their dogs have scat¬ 
tered over the hillsides. The woods in 
many places are thick, and it is abso¬ 
lutely dangerous for a man to walk 
through them when these city chaps are 
abroad with their guns and are ready to 
shoot at a sound as well as identified 
game. I have wondered whether some¬ 
thing could not be done to have a law 
passed embodying provisions similar to 
those drawn up as a resolution by an 
Ohio Grange and noted on page 211. 
The prohibiting of hunting, shooting or 
trapping on any farm in New York, 
except by the owner or tenant thereof, 
or by written permit of the owner, with 
proper penalties for violation, would 
appear to cover the matter pretty well. 
I like to hunt very well myself, but be¬ 
lieve the time has come when the farm¬ 
er should be protected from the careless 
and often arrogant hunter from the 
city. A little definite action would be 
better than a great deal of talk, and I 
would like to see suggestions as to how 
something can be done to ameliorate the 
present undesirable condition. 
Buffalo, N. Y. w. t. davis. 
R. N. Y.—The principle which should 
be worked into legislation is that the 
wild game found on any farm belongs 
to the owner of that farm and must not 
be destroyed without his permission. 
Enact that into law, and the farmers 
of a district or section can combine 
and keep the sports and reckless hunter 
off. 
LATE APPLES FOR PENNSYLVANIA. 
Mammoth Black Twig, or Arkansas, 
is an apple which is deserving of much 
popular favor, perhaps more than it 
gets. The tree is vigorous and has 
proven a profuse bearer with us. But 
this is not its distinctive quality, for 
many other apples as good or better are 
equally productive. Its late keeping 
quality is its chief attraction, for long 
after many other more choice varieties 
are past, this beautiful red apple remains 
sound and of really good eating quality. 
Nurserymen give it a season from De¬ 
cember to April or May, but it is not 
yet good to eat in December. Not until 
towards Spring does the firm flesh be¬ 
come mellow enough to eat. Even then 
the skin is thick and tough, and the flesh 
firm, but crisp. Color of flesh is light 
yellow, moderately fine grained, sub¬ 
acid, but of good flavor. The outward 
appearance of the fruit is a beautiful 
red over yellow, this in particular where 
the tree has been properly pruned and 
sprayed. Some people have kept this 
apple until June. Our cellar is too 
warm for proper apple storage, yet at 
this writing (middle of March) there 
are scarcely any specked ones among 
them, while the York Imperial, the 
only other variety left (and of decided¬ 
ly inferior quality) is rotting badly now. 
Both were grown and stored under the 
same conditions. I shall plant more 
Mammoth Black Twig. They seem well 
adapted to conditions here in Central 
Pennsylvania, though their natural ter¬ 
ritory lies southward rather than north¬ 
ward. DAVID PLANK. 
Pennsylvania. 
Elm Leaf Miner. 
O. R. J.j Babattus, Me .—-What methods 
of control, if any, can he employed where 
leaf miners are troublesome? They appear 
to attack a variety of plants. 
Ans. —There are so many different 
species of these insects that the remedy 
for one might not do at all for the 
other. I have found that the Black-leaf- 
40, a tobacco extract, when diluted at 
the rate of one pint to 100 gallons of 
water with five pounds of ordinary 
laundry soap dissolved and added to the 
mixture, will control the miner in the 
leaves of the English and Camperdown 
elms. I have just now completed a bul¬ 
letin on the control of this pest in elm 
leaves. I would not, however, like to 
TI-1LC I’tURAL 
say that this material sprayed on the 
leaves of other plants would control the 
miners, because the different species of 
miners are not equally susceptible to this 
material. For example, the Black-leaf- 
40 did not satisfactorily control the 
Plum leaf miner. However, this ma¬ 
terial is worth trying on those plants 
which are infested with leaf-miners. If 
it is tried, I would suggest that it be 
sprayed on the leaves, both the upper 
and under sides, as far as possible, at 
just the time the miners are beginning 
to show in the leaves. It is necessary 
to catch these miners while they are 
young and tender. Black-leaf-40 is a 
tobacco extract containing 40% of nico¬ 
tine, while Black-leaf is a tobacco ex¬ 
tract containing only 2.7% of nicotine. 
Therefore, they are two very different 
materials. The Black-leaf is diluted at 
the rate of one gallon to 65 or 70 gal¬ 
lons of water, but the Black-leaf-40, 
which contains 16 or 18 times as much 
nicotine, is diluted at the rate of only 
three-fourths of a pint or a pint to 100 
gallons of water. It can be used 
stronger, but there is no need of it, and 
since it costs $1.60 a pint one does not 
care to use it stronger than recom¬ 
mended. After it is diluted, however, 
the resulting mixture does not cost any 
more than lime-sulphur or other contact 
insecticides. glenn w, herrick. 
Apple Orchard and Fillers. 
O. J. B., Union, V. V.—I have GOO apple 
trees to set this Spring, and wish to set 
them in blocks, each variety by itself. The 
largest block will be Northern Spv. The | 
field to be set is a long strip, which will ; 
have 07 rows with nine trees to the row; 
or nine rows with G7 to the row. I would ' 
like to set 175 Spy in a block, or 19% i 
rows, and then 50 trees of Greening, then 
25 Baldwin. Does a Spy need another 
apple near it to pollenize it? The rest of 
the blocks will be small. I wish to set 
200 plums, 200 peach, and 100 pears for 
fillers. What do you think of the fillers? 
Ans.—I know of no information 
which tends to prove that the Northern 
Spy is a self-sterile variety. One horti¬ 
culturist states that the variety is a 
shy bearer when not cultivated. I have 
seen no instance in the orchards of 
Western New York which tend to show 
that the variety is one which is not self- 
pollinated. The soil conditions of the 
field on which the trees are to grow 
might determine how the blocks would 
best be arranged. Personally, I would 
set the Greening on the heavier soil 
of the field. Spy and Baldwin will do 
best on the medium heavy loams. All 
soils on which fruit trees are to be 
grown should be well drained, either 
naturally or artificially. It is not a 
wise policy to set plums or pears as 
fillers in an apple block. Even peaches 
are not proper fillers. A filler should 
be a tree which comes into bearing be¬ 
fore the permanent varieties do. In the 
first place the pear or plum will not 
bear before the Spy, Greening or Bald¬ 
win. Then the pear and plum produce 
too valuable a crop to use the trees as 
fillers for only the short space of a few 
years. In the second place the misty 
sprays at the time they are applied to 
the apples, sometimes blow over on the 
fruit and foliage of the filler pear, plum 
and peach, where it does severe injury, 
especially to the foliage o' the peach. 
Of the three fillers which you named, 
the peach would give the best results 
here because we know that the trees 
will stand the climatic conditions, and 
that they come into bearing in three or 
four years. I believe that better re¬ 
sults are obtained where Fall varieties 
of apples are used as fillers, rather 
than some other kind of fruit. 
Niagara Co., N. Y. l. f. s. 
Salt in Liquid Manure. 
a. R., New York .—On my farm in Vir¬ 
ginia I have a manure liquid pit, and in 
a recent conversation with a friend he has 
told me that where the liquid is new, the 
addition of salt would greatly increase its 
value. As 1 have never heard of this be¬ 
fore I would like to ask you how much 
salt and what kind, per barrel of liquid, 
should be used, and what benefit will there 
be to the crops. In another conversation 
1 overheard two men speaking; one said 
he had built a cistern in his barnyard 
where hardly any liquid got into it, then 
he let rain water into it and added salt to 
it. This was then left stand for a few days 
before sprinkling over the fields. 
Ans. —There is probably some mis¬ 
take about this. Common salt would 
add no actual plant food to the manure 
and in ordinary farm practice would do 
little good. In some cases where grass 
or grain grows on very rich soil the 
salt helps by holding the crop back and 
preventing the soil from giving up its 
nitrogen too freely. Very likely what 
your friend referred to was a potash 
salt—muriate or kainit. These salts 
dissolved in the water will add potash 
and to that extent strengthen the liquid 
manure. 
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