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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
July 1!>, 
FARMERS’ CLUB 
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Transplanting Shrubs. 
Please state when to transplant the 
following flowers: Paeon ies, s.vringa, 
roses 'and lilac. These are of the old 
hardy varieties, that have been neglected 
for years. However, all are blooming 
well but the lilac. Soil is a heavy clay. 
Would wood ashes, stable manure or 
commercial fertilizer be best? F. is. h. 
Madison, O. 
All these plants and shrubs are best 
moved in the early Spring, while as 
nearly dormant as possible. If conditions 
permit it would be well to prepare the 
ground thoroughly the previous Fall, 
spading in well-rotted stable manure; it 
is then easily prepared in early Spring. 
The hardy Hybrid Remontant roses like 
a clayey soil, Pseonies like a deep rich 
loam, and as they are gross feeders a 
supply of cow manure trenched in, will 
be beneficial. Syringa or mock orange, 
will do well in almost any well-drained 
soil, while the lilac prefers one that is 
moist and rich. Yours may be a little 
starved, and thus lessened in bloom. 
Wood ashes will be helpful to the roses, 
but of course you will not mix ashes with 
the manure. There has been little use 
of commercial fertilizers with ornamen¬ 
tal shrubs; bone dust is useful, espe¬ 
cially for roses, but in general gardeners 
still hold to horse and cow manure for 
such uses. 
Robber Bees. 
Will you tell me whether there is any 
way of preventing one hive of bees from 
robbing others? X,. E. s. 
Augusta, Me. 
Any colony of bees too weak to defend 
themselves are liable to be robbed out, 
and it is difficult to prevent this unless 
they can be built up in numbers and 
made capable of self-defense. It will be 
of great help to a weak colony if the 
entrance to it^ hive is contracted until 
only one or two bees can pass at a time; 
this narrow entrance is more easily 
guarded, and if the colony has a good 
queen it should increase in numbers un¬ 
til it can hold its own with its neighbors. 
Robbing is most likely to take place dur¬ 
ing a dearth in the honey flow, or after 
the bees have obtained access to a supply 
of honey or other sweets that has been 
exposed to them. Great care should be 
taken, particularly when it is necessary 
to feed bees, that they do not become de¬ 
moralized by finding easy honey some¬ 
where and thus started on a criminal 
career. Having once learned that honey 
or syrup is to be obtained without work¬ 
ing for it, bees are apt to throw aside 
all self-restraint and regard for their 
neighbors’ rights, and having exhausted 
the original supply, to force their way 
into any hive too weak to keep them out 
and steal its stores. Robbing may be 
guarded against then, by keeping all col¬ 
onies as strong as possible; by contract¬ 
ing the entrances of the comparatively 
weak hives and seeing to it that they 
have good vigorous queens; and by care 
not to leave broken honeycomb or other 
sweets about the apiary where the bees 
can find it, being particularly cautious 
when feeding weak colonies and when a 
shortage in the honey flow makes the 
bees more than ordinarily anxious to find 
a supply of nectar. M. b. d. 
New Potato Pest. 
The potato tuber moth, for some time 
destructive in California, has appeared 
in other States and is doing so much 
damage that the Department of Agricul¬ 
ture has issued a general warning to 
prevent its spread. 
Potato growers are urged to sort the 
seed two weeks after digging, and then 
to sort them over two weeks later. The 
tubers unaffected by the tuber moth 
should then be placed in a moth-proof 
bin. It is easy to pick out the infested 
tubers because of the excrement of the 
moth, which adheres by means of a web 
to the outside of the potatoes and can 
be easily detected. 
The tubers in the moth-proof bin, after 
final sorting, should be fumigated by 
carbon bisulphid to kill any moths which 
might have bred out or have slipped in 
through crevices, and when the bin was 
opened. Carbon bisulphid is applied by 
pouring about one pint into flat vessels 
such as milk pans or pie tins. An aver¬ 
age of 3 pounds should be used in 1.000 
'cubic feet of space. It is more effective 
at high temperatures, 80 to 90 degrees 
Fahrenheit being best. The pans are 
placed in the bins at the top. The gas 1 
being heavier than air penetrates the 
mass of potatoes, reaching those at the 
bottom. The bin should be tightly closed 
for 124 to 36 hours. The utmost care 
should be taken that no fire, such as that 
from a cigar, electric fan, stove, or even 
a gas light or lamp should be brought 
into the vicinity, as the gas is very in¬ 
flammable. Rubbish, weeds, tops. <*tc., 
left in the field should be burned, as they ; 
furnish a harbor for the pests. 
Summer Spraying for Scale. 
The Hope Farm man has at different 
times spoken regarding the control of the 
young louse of the 8an Jose scale during 
the Summer. Some experiments were 
conducted in Western Michigan during 
the season of 1911 bv Mr. E. W. Scott, 
Entomological Assistant of the Depart¬ 
ment of Agriculture of the U. S. Govern- I 
ment, designed among other things to test 
the effect of different sprays for this pur¬ 
pose. Some of the results of these tests 
relating to the control of the Codling 
moth are published in Bulletin No. 115, 
Part 2, of the Bureau of Entomology, 
but I do not know whether those relating 
to the scale control have been published. 
Some of these findings are very striking, 
however. In the particular orchard of 
which I write the trees, 205 in number, 
were all sprayed with the lime-sulphur 
solution, Winter strength, before growth 
started. Mr. Scott then took entire 
charge of the spraying operations and 
gave four applications with various 
sprays. The first was made May 12. af¬ 
ter the cluster buds opened but before | 
blossoming. The second was made May 
25, soon after petals had fallen; third 
June 14. and fourth July 25. 
For some reason the first application ; 
was not as effective in killing the scale as 
usual and there was considerable 
throughout the orchard during the sea¬ 
son. Five trees were selected in each 
plat in the demonstration and at harvest 
time the fruit from these trees was care¬ 
fully counted for scale as well as for 
scab and worms. In the check plats as 
well as in that sprayed with Bordeaux 
from 50 per cent to as high as NO per 
cent were infested with scale. But in 
the plat sprayed with commercial lime- 
sulpliur. 1.14 gallons to 50 gallons of 
water, but eight per cent was infested, 
while with an application of home-boiled 
lime-sulphur made in the proportion of 
four pounds of sulphur to two pounds 
lime to 50 gallons of water less than two 
per cent was scaly. The home-boiled 
mixture was practically a clear solution 
which had been cooked 45 minutes with 
steam. 
Now the interesting feature about this 
experiment is that the scale control must 
have been effected largely by the last of 
Summer application, as the insect would 
only have begun to increase until the 
time of the June spraying, and the first ! 
two could have had practically no effect 
on the scale. It is evident from this 
demonstration therefore that where 
scale is known to be present in an or¬ 
chard thei’e is a decided gain by giving 
the Summer spray of lime-sulphur. 
Michigan. edward iiutchins. 
FROM WYOMING COUNTY, PA. 
In this section nearly all the farmers 
market their own produce, except butter 
and eggs, which are usually sold at the 
country store, or are gathered up by 
hucksters. If to the former they are 
traded for merchandise or credited on 
account, for I believe at least two-thirds 
of the farmers have standing accounts 
with the merchants. At present butter 
is bringing 26 cents a pound and eggs 
24 cents a dozen. The merchant markets 
these in the Wyoming A’alley which is 
but 13 miles from here, and gets 30 cents 
for the butter and 26 to 28 for eggs, or 
sells at his door for the same price in 
cash as he gives in trade. 
Cattle are scarce and high for this sec¬ 
tion ; milch cows, fresh, bring $50 to $60 
for mixed grades and $75 for Holstein 
grades. Those having been fresh in the 
.Spring or before bring about $15 less. 
Beef cattle have all been picked up at 
about five cents a pound, estimated 
weight on the hoof. Very few calves 
are being raised; as veal was so high in 
the Spring. Milk is contracted by the 
year at 3 y» cents for Summer and 414 
for Winter, delivered in the city. A few 
do a little better than that by selling to 
men who have small routes in the city. 
Gardening is not carried on much, but 
fruit raising is picking up. Red rasp¬ 
berries are being grown quite extensively ; 
the price has been $4.50 per bushel, sell¬ 
ing in the market to wholesale men or 
hucksters. Apples are the main fruit 
crop, but prospects are not very good 
this season, about 60 per cent, I should 
think. The late frost and twig blight 
have both injured the crop. The past 
two or three years the farmers have been 
spraying, trimming and fertilizing their 
orchards as never before, and many new 
ones have been planted. This has been 
a poor farming section, or a section of 
poor farming, and only the last few 
years have things begun to improve. Po- j 
tatoes have been a staple crop, usually j 
about the only money crop. All the grain 
is fed on the farm and it does not go 
half way around, for nearly all buy feed 
more than half the year. j. H. u. 
Beaumont, Pa. 
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Fertilizers; they enrich the earth and 
those who till it.”— Adv. 
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