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July 12, 
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Cover Crops in Corn and Orchard. 
Would it be a good plan to sow Crim¬ 
son clover, rye and vetch in my corn 
at last cultivation V I wish to plow the 
lield and sow oats in part and oats and 
peas in the rest next Spring. About how 
much of each to the acre? The field 
is 10 acres, eight of which lies on a 
side hill and was an old peach orchard 
which I have taken out. The other half 
of field was Blue grass sod, which I plow¬ 
ed this Spring. 1 have another peach 
orchard of 1.000 trees that I put in this 
Spring, and have drilled red marrow 
beans between the tree rows. The beans 
have been planted about a week or 10 
days. What can I put in this orchard 
for a cover crop? This field is sandy 
loam and part of it is a knoll. N. s. m. 
Lock port, N. Y. 
It is very doubtful if Crimson clover 
will live over in your latitude. If you 
care to risk it we would advise half a 
bushel of rye, 10 pounds Crimson clover 
and 20 pounds of vetch per acre. We 
should also use at least one pound of 
Cow-horn turnip seed. For late seeding 
in the beans we should use rye, scat¬ 
tering it at the last cultivation or har¬ 
rowing it in after the beans are pulled. 
Squash Vine Borer. 
I have tried several times to raise 
pumpkins without success. They will 
grow nicely until the pumpkin is perhaps 
three or four inches in diameter, then 
the vine will wither up and die. By 
examining the vine I find that a worm 
or grub has dug out the heart of the 
vine. Can you tell me what to do in 
such a case? J. G. J. 
Milford, Conn. 
So far as I have been able to learn 
there is no practical remedy in the way 
of insecticides for the control of this 
destructive insect. Seldom if ever is its 
presence known until the plant begins 
to wilt, which is a sure indication of 
its presence. The infested vines should 
be pulled up and destroyed as soon as 
wilting is noticeable, as the borer will 
frequently pass from one vine to another 
until all the vines in the hill are de¬ 
stroyed. I have used bi-sulphide of 
carbon with some success in the destruc¬ 
tion of the squash-vine borer, but can¬ 
not recommend it as a savior of all 
infected vines, but in cases where the 
vine is not too much injured by the 
insect, this remedy will prove quite suc¬ 
cessful. When the presence of the borer 
is suspected or known, pour a half tea¬ 
spoonful of the bi-sulphide in a hole made 
near the vine with a stick, and imme¬ 
diately cover it with soil so the vapor 
cannot escape. Care must be observed 
in the use of bi-sulphide of carbon that 
no fire is brought near it, as the vapor is 
highly inflammable. K, 
Treatment for Brown Rot. 
It is late to be talking about brown 
rot in the peach, but there has come a 
flood of questions about it lately. Treat¬ 
ment for the disease should have begun 
early in the Spring. Growers sometimes 
ask if they cannot spray up to within 
a week or so of picking. The trouble 
with that is that the fruit is stained and 
does not clean off so as to look well on 
the market. The following note tells 
the story briefly: 
The treatment that we use and advise 
for the control of brown rot in peaches 
is essentially the same as the plan ad¬ 
vised by Scott a few years ago. The 
essentials of this plan are generally 
known, but a brief recapitulation may 
not be amiss. 
The principal materials are lead ar¬ 
senate paste, self-boiled lime-sulpliur 
(8-S-50) and water. The spraying times 
are as follows: 
First: Lead arsenate paste, lime and 
water (2-2-50) when the calyces or 
“shucks” are shedding. 
Second: Self-boiled lime-sulphur (8-8- 
50) and 2 pounds lead arsenate paste 
about one month later. 
Third: Self-boiled lime-sulphur alone 
(8-8-50) about three or four weeks be¬ 
fore the fruit ripens. 
The third application is open to the 
objection that it often stains the fruit 
quite severely and this stain is not al¬ 
ways washed off before picking time. For 
this reason, and also because it is cheaper 
and handier, we have been substituting 
a clear lime-sulphur solution at a strength 
of about 1.003 instead of the self-boiled 
lime-sulphur for the third spray. This 
strength is obtainable from the best of 
the commercial concentrates with a dilu¬ 
tion of about one to 100. It has given 
no important injury under our condi¬ 
tions, and it seems to be about equal to 
the self-boiled in efficiency. Whether it 
will be safe and efficient under all con¬ 
ditions or on all varieties, however, we 
do not attempt to say. 
. J. V. STEWART. 
Pennsylvania Station. 
NOTES ON STRAWBERRY CULTURE. 
Intensive Berry Culture. 
We are busy harvesting a two-thirds 
crop of strawberries, about 8,000 quarts 
on two acres; but prices are good. The 
first 3.000 quarts sold for from 16 to 20 
cents per quart; now selling from 11 to 
12*4 cents. I shall not complain, as I 
raised 1.000 bushels of onions last sea¬ 
son between the rows of strawberries, 
which were set last Spring. I also sold 
100,000 strawberry plants this Spring 
at $4 per 1.000. I shall finish picking 
strawberries by the middle of first week 
in July, shall plow and plant shell and 
butter beans. I am practically sure of 
a crop of butter beans, but the shell 
beans possibly may be cut by a frost. I 
shall take my chances, as very late beans 
generally sell for a good price, and land 
is quite high and escapes most of the 
early frosts. You see we have to work 
the land for all it is worth. I shall sow 
clover seed about the first of September 
at the last cultivating of the beans to 
plow under next Spring. B. KING. 
Middlesex Co., Mass. 
A New Seedling. 
The plant pictured on the first page 
was brought here by Emil Grafe, of 
Staten Island. The picture is about half 
the size of the original plant and shows 
the heavy setting of fruit. The flavor 
is fair. The berries are of good size 
and the plant strong and hardy. Mr. 
Grafe sends us the following statement 
of the variety: 
“This past strawberry season has been 
oue of the most peculiar I ever witnessed. 
Two heavy frosts in blossom time killed 
off the first blossoms, and they always 
develop the largest berries. Then came 
the heat and drought, which cut the size 
of the berries considerably ; some plants 
dried up completely. In my section of 
Staten Island the large flowering varie¬ 
ties like Chipman and all kinds with a 
strong upright blossom stem suffered 
most severely from the frost. The Gol¬ 
den Gate stood frost well, as it blooms a 
long time on short stems, and the blos¬ 
soms are well protected by the large 
leaves. These leaves also protect the 
berries from the hot sun, but in a rainy 
season they rot badly. Several years ago 
I set out 200 seedlings of the Glen Mary 
pollenized by Senator Dunlap. Only one 
of them was superior in plant and fruit 
to the parents. This makes a stronger 
plant than Glen Mary and bears more 
fruit than the best Dunlap. 
“The berries are about as large as Glen 
Mary with no hard tips, ripening all 
over, and are as shiny and attractive as 
a well-developed Dunlap. It stood the 
rainy season of 1011 when I had only a 
few plants of them; the berries lay in 
water and ripened up well when it dried 
up. This year I fruited it next to the 
Manhattan which were nearly all killed 
by frost. The seedling was badly killed, 
too, but the plants brought out so many 
new blossom stems that I picked a heavy 
crops of berries. They are of course 
showing the effects of the severe dry 
weather, and are not in size this year 
what they should be. The picture. Fig. 
208, will give an illustration of the bear¬ 
ing quality. It is not an extra large 
berry, but stands frost in blooming time, 
wet and dry weather in bearing time 
better than all other varieties on my 
place; color is rich dark red when fully 
ripe and high quality. I picked berries 
for 1*4 weeks before photograph was 
taken, and on June 30th we are still 
picking in the same patch where this 
plant stood.” 
“Rastus, does ’yo nex’ do’ neighbah 
keep chickens?” “Wer—er—huh. huh ! 
He keeps ez many ez he kin. Yas, sail!” 
—Credit Lost. 
Set Out Lovett’s Pot-Grown Strawberry Plants 
In July or August and Have a Crop of De¬ 
licious, Big, Juicy Berries Next June 
I am recognized throughout the country as a strawberry plant grower. For 35 years and 
more I have specialized in strawberries, and know my plants almost ns intimately as you do 
your children. 
Some of the most widely known and most successful varieties were introduced by me—for 
instance, the Gandy, Morning Star, Silver Coin, etc. 
Readers of Rural New-Yorker want berries quickly. None of you want to wait two springs 
for a crop as you positively must if you set out anything but pot-grown plants. 
This year 1 have a magnificent lot of plants of the wonderful Van Fleet hybrids, varieties 
that I have been testing during the last five years, and I can conscientiously say I have never 
grown a strawberry that I can recommend more highly, as best in every way. 1 have named 
them Edmund Wilson. 
EARLY JERSEY GIANT LATE JERSEY GIANT 
They are strong, healthy growers, and immense yielders of brilliant red berries of 
enormous size with the exquisite liavor of the wild strawberry. 
WRITE FOR MY STRAWBERRY BOOKLET, I will gladly mail a copy to you free. It 
tells all about the Van Fleet Hybrids, and gives full descriptious of many other choice varieties 
with prices, and 
full cultural direc¬ 
tions. 
NOW IS THE 
TIME TO ORDER. 
It takes time to 
properly prepare 
the bed for plants. 
I’ll tell yon how to 
do it for largest 
yield of biggest 
and juieest berries. 
Write now while 
you think of it. 
J. T. LOVETT, 
MONMOUTH NURSERY 
BOX 16!, 
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