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May 17, 
THE RURAI, NEW-YORKER 
Remedy for the Corn Worm. 
I saw an inquiry in your paper about 
combating corn ear-worms. Your cor¬ 
respondent may find help in the results 
obtained in a test at the Kansas Agri¬ 
cultural College, the results of which I 
send your herewith. 
If Kansas farmers 'will plant their corn 
about May 1 the annual toll of four t* 
eight million dollars exacted by corn ear- 
worms may be reduced nearly 50 per cent. 
A three-year test recently completed by 
the ‘•department of entomology at the Kan¬ 
sas Agricultural College shows that corn 
planted the first day of May suffered less 
damage from worms than five other plots 
planted at intervals of two weeks and 
cultivated under similar conditions. Not 
only that, but the plot planted May 1 
yielded 18 bushels more to the acre than 
any other plot in the test. In the experi¬ 
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bushels which received the last spraying. 
My last spraying therefore reduced the 
percentage of rot due to late blight from 
about 7.8 per cent, to 1.1 per cent. 
HARRY K. FOWLER. 
Lehigh Co., Fa. 
BUFFALO MARKETS. 
“Everything is cheap now but meat.” 
said the produce dealer at the uptown re¬ 
tail market. “You can buy a whole arm¬ 
ful of green stuff for what a pound of 
meat will cost, and 1 do not believe that 
things are going to be much higher this 
year than they have been. They are be¬ 
ginning to come up from the South quite 
low already.” It is a fact that asparagus 
is retailing for five cents a small bunch, 1 
spinach is cheap and the homegrown rhu¬ 
barb is getting plenty. New cabbage is 
about as high again as old. but that price | 
leaves it pretty low still. The onion 
dealers are venturing to ask five cents for 
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EXACT SIZE OF FENCE WIRE. Fin. 227. 
{See page 671) 
these dates: April 15, May 1, May 15, 
June 1, June 15, and July 1. In every 
plot three rows each of Boone County 
White, Kansas Sunflower, and Hildreth 
were planted. In the case of the corn 
planted April 15, 64 per cent, of the ears 
Were injured by worms; that planted May 
1, 58 per cent.; May 15, 70 per cent.; July 
1, 100 per cent. The reduction in the ear- 
worm injury in the May 1 planting was 
due to the fact that the corn had finished 
silking before the large third brood of 
moths was out. The increase in yield 
probably is due to the fact that the corn 
was in silk before the really hot weather 
came. Charles dili.on. 
Kansas State College. 
R. N.-Y.—Of course every farmer 
knows that he takes a risk planting 
corn May 1. In many cases the soil 
would be too cold, and there would be 
danger of a late frost. A new method 
is being tested in New Jersey. This 
consists in dusting the corn at about 
earing time, using a dust containing 
dry arsenate of lead and fungicides. 
The dust is put on by machinery. 
SPRAYING NOTES. 
As to the proper time to begin spraying 
potatoes to prevent blight, I think it best 
to begin when tops are small, as after 
they get to be large it is hardly possible 
to get all the leaves coated with the spray. 
The slugs usually begin to show by the 
time tops are six to eight inches high, 
and this is the signal for me to begin 
operations, as I want to make their first 
bite their last one also. I frequently hear 
a farmer say : “I don’t believe it amounts 
to anything to spray. I have sprayed my 
potatoes three or four times this season 
and they blighted after all, while my 
neighbor’s field just over the fence was 
not sprayed at all and held green until 
frost.” After inquiring into some such re¬ 
ports I believe they are practically always 
the result of imperfect work, either in ma¬ 
terial or application, or poor judgment as 
to when to spray, or stopping too soon. As 
before said, I spray first when slugs ap¬ 
pear. One nozzle to a row will do this 
time, but I use two, applying Bordeaux 
and arsenate of lead, and intend to spray 
as often as every two weeks through the 
season, and if weather is unusually hot 
and muggy every 10 days. I used to pre¬ 
pare my Bordeaux at home, but was never 
able to make anything that would stick 
like a prepared article, or that would work 
as nicely in the sprayer, so I have used 
the prepared mixture for the past three 
years. Since I began spraying some 10 
years ago I have had occasionally a few 
rotten potatoes, but never many, and have 
always thought I could trace them to some 
neglect in spraying. Undoubtedly there are. 
seasons that potatoes will not blight if 
not sprayed. So there are years and per¬ 
haps a lifetime that our buildings may not 
burn, but that doesn't prove that we 
should not have them insured. A 10-acre 
field of potatoes properly planted and fer¬ 
tilized represents quite a bit of money, 
and I think it just as necessary to insure 
it by thoroughly spraying as it is to have 
my buildings insured. I would not plant 
potatoes if I did not plan to spray as above, 
early and often. e. d. r: 
Maine. 
Following are the 1912 dates for spray¬ 
ing potatoes, as given in my diary, June 
29, July 8, 19; August 1, 16. 26; Sep¬ 
tember 12. I start spraying when the 
plants are five or six inches high and aim 
to keep them covered with Bordeaux 
(5-5-50) throughout the remainder of the 
season. In the first three sprays I add 
arsenate of lead. At the last spraying, 
September 12, 1912, my stock solutions 
ran out before I had quite finished the 
field, and a small part was therefore left 
unsprayed. This part yielded about 700 
bushels, and from these 55 lnishels of 
rotten tubers were thrown out; 81 bushels 
of rotten tubers were found in the 7,300 
a single quart, but in quantity the prices 
are still 45 cents a bushel to retailers. 
Some one should teach us to raise the 
Spanish onion, which sells for $1 the small 
crate to retailers. The cool April has kept 
the producing line pretty far south, but 
the retailer can now get strawberries at 
15 to 18 cents a quart for fanev The rule 
here is to begin eating strawberries at 
pretty low prices during the last half of 
April, but April has given us only a few, 
though of good quailty. that one could afford 
to buy regularly. Spring is late, for at 
May 1st there are no strawberries begin¬ 
ning to show flowering stems in the garden 
row s. 
Apples are somewhat stronger, but they 
have rotted badly of late. The crop 
brought few people a fortune, for fancy 
reds are only 83.50, with common sorts 
down to $1 to retailers. I am rather glad 
that the western apples have taught us 
that it is appearance that sells them, 
though there have been plenty of very 
poor grades on the market. We are bound 
to learn the lesson, though, or go out of 
the market. The scarcity of oranges and 
especially of lemons has helped other fruits. 
The apple season is quite a little longer 
than it used to be and it will be still 
longer when the cold storage system is 
perfected. Fruits cannot well be spoiled 
in storage and then sold, as is quite possible 
with poultry. 
Butter is dropping off, having declined 
five cents in the last 10 days, the quota¬ 
tion to retailers being only 32 cents, for 
extra. John w. Chamberlin. 
THE BOSTON MARKET. 
All fruits, with the exception of straw¬ 
berries, perhaps, are selling high in Bos¬ 
ton market. These are somewhat plentiful, 
coming from several sections of the South 
at this time, which keeps the supply am¬ 
ple. Best fancy ones bring as high as 25 
cents per box, others go at 20, 15 and even 
as low as 12 in some cases. A few cran¬ 
berries still hold out and go at $12 per 
barrel. Lemons are easier at from .$4 
to 87 per box. Oranges short and high, 
California and Floridas bring 84 to 86 
per box. Bananas, 83.50 for best large 
bunches, others 81-50 to 83. Apples are 
getting short, as poor stock is either sold 
or spoiled, and the supply left is about 
equal to the demand at this season. Best 
Baldwins. 84 to 85 per barrel; Russets, 
82.50 to 84 ; Spy, 84 to 85 ; Ben Davis, 82. 
Box fruit. 81.25 to 81-50 if good ; Western 
box fruit, 82 to 83. 
The vegetable supply is ample in most 
cases, and prices are lower on most of 
these except potatoes and squash ; the lat¬ 
ter brings 3% cents per pound wholesale, 
Maine stocks of potatoes are not heavy, 
and bring 81.50 per bag; New Floridas 
bring 85 to 85 per barrel. Onions in 
good supply from Texas and other sections; 
a few poor natives are still left and go 
at 50 cents to 81 a hag; Egyptians, 82.50 
to 82.75 per bag; Texas stock, $1^35 per 
crate. Old beets, 75 cents per bushel: car 
rots, 60 to 81; parsnips, 75 ; turnips, White 
Egg, 75; Purple-top. 50; rutabagas, $1.25 
per barrel. Cabbage, native, old stock, 81 
per barrel : Southern, $2 ; Southern Sum¬ 
mer squash, 82.50 per crate; cucumbers. 83 
to 87 per bushel ; lettude, 75 per box; 
spinach, 75 per box; beet greens, 75 ; dan¬ 
delions. 50 per box. Native tomatoes, 30 
cents per lb.; Southern, 83.50 to .$4 per 
carrier; rhubarb, 75 to 81 per box. 
Butter is now dropping, best going 33 
per pound by tub, and 34 in small boxes; 
other grades, 31 and 32, with supply plenty. 
Cheese holds about the same or slightly 
lower perhaps; best cream, IS and 19 cents 
per pound; sage, 19; other grades. 13 to 
16. Eggs in fair supply only, and best 
bring 25 and 26 for fancy fresh; other 
grades, 22 to 24 per dozen. Best dressed 
beef. 12% for sides: 14% for hind quar¬ 
ters; fores, 10% and 11. Best veal, 15; 
others. 9 to 14; best mutton, 12; lamb, 
13 and 14, and best Spring. 16. Dressed 
hogs, 10% to 11% per pound; live West¬ 
ern, 9 cents at Brighton market. Dressed 
poultry, 17 to 21; broiler chicken, 38; 
ducks, 21; live hens, 18. 
Cornmeal. 81.26 per 
oats, 36 to 42 per bushel 
per ton : mixed feed. 825 
cotton-seed meal, 833 to 
seed meal, 828 per ton : 
horse hay, 823 per ton : 
100 pound bag: 
; bran, .$21 to 822 
and 826 per ton ; 
$34 per ton ; 1 in¬ 
gluten, $26; best 
good. $20 to $22; 
common. $18; stock hay, $13 to $16 per 
ton ; rye straw, short at $22 per ton ; oat 
straw, $12 A. e. p. 
“For tlie Land’s Sake, use Bowker’s 
Fertilizers; they enrich the earth and 
those who till it.”— Adv. 
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Alfalfa Plant on left In¬ 
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Bacteria; on the right 
not Inoculated. From 
Government Bulletin No. 
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