1910. 
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INTERPLANTED PEACH AND PEAR 
TREES. 
C. R. B., Bethel, Pa .—I am going to set 
out an orchard of peaches and Kieffer pears 
mixed, so that when the peach trees are 
worn out the pears are in profit. What do 
you think of the idea? The soil slopes 
north, and is sandy loam with small 
stones. I am thinking of buying the med¬ 
ium size peach trees, as they are much 
cheaper than first-class, and small size pear 
trees. 
Aks. —If I were planting orchards of 
Kieffer and peach, I would plant them 
separate. A peach tree cannot be ex¬ 
pected to bear any amount of fruit until 
the fourth year after setting in the or¬ 
chard, and by that time the Kieffers will 
begin to bear some fruit. I have seen 
plenty of orchards planted with peach 
and pear, also with peach and apple, but 
in my opinion such plantings are not as 
profitable as separate planting. A peach 
orchard, if given good care, ought to 
bear profitable crops for 10 years or 
more after they come into bearing, and 
if they are not cared for properly, then 
better not plant at all. After the peach 
gets to be four or more years of age 
it needs all the plant food in the soil 
to sustain it, and to make growth 
enough to prepare for another year’s 
crop, while at the same time bringing 
to perfection the present crop. If at the 
same time there are as many pear trees 
on the land as there should be without 
the peach, both peach and pear will be 
starved, and neither prove profitable. 
But if they are plentifully supplied with 
plant food, the trees will be crowded 
by the tops, and the sunlight and air, 
which is so necessary for the develop¬ 
ment of fruit and to prevent rot, will 
be shut out. The consequence will be 
fruit without color or quality—two very 
essential qualities to make it sell. A 
coarse russet-colored or cloudy Kieffer 
fruit is unsalable, as is also a fuzzy 
peach lacking color, either white or yel¬ 
low varieties. I would prefer planting 
half the number and leave the whole 
space necessary for each, and get more 
and better fruit and more profit from 
it than by over-crowding. Trees and 
plants are hindered in their growth and 
development by overcrowding, just as 
much as animals are when crowded and 
starved in close quarters. A three to 
four-foot, or even a good two to three- 
foot peach tree will make a bearing tree 
just as quickly as a larger tree. The 
only trouble will be in running over the 
small trees when cultivating the first 
year. A small Kieffer tree—a good one- 
3 r ear tree, four to five feet—is the best 
kind of a tree to plant. Never buy a tree 
two or more years old and stunted, be¬ 
cause it is cheap; always buy from a 
reliable nurseryman and let him know 
that you will only accept thrifty stock 
of the grade and age you order from 
him. e. s. BLACK. 
THE RURAL 
Apples for Pennsylvania. 
One of your readers asks for a com¬ 
plete list of varieties of apples suitable 
for home use near Philadelphia. I be 
lieve that the following, in the order 
named, would cover the full season, 
and an ordinarily good cellar for keep¬ 
ing the Winter varieties would insure 
apples all the year round, especially if 
some extra precautions were taken, such 
as wrapping the Stayman and York Im¬ 
perials: Yellow Transparent, Starr, 
Primate, Summer Rambo, Wealthy, 
Smokehouse, Grimes Golden, Hubbard- 
ston, Baldwin, Jonathan (if ground is 
high), Winter Rambo, Rome Beauty, 
Stayman Winesap, York Imperial. 
c. J. TYSON. 
Sec. Penn. Horticultural Assoc. 
NEW-YOkKER 
Sterile Winesap Apple Trees. 
On page 1066 W. A. M., Burleys, 
Va., wants to know why his Winesap 
trees do not bear more fruit. The an¬ 
swer is that they have probably had 
too much nitrogen and not enough phos¬ 
phoric acid. I want to suggest another 
possible cause for the trouble. It may 
not be generally' known that the Wine¬ 
sap produces very little, and many times 
scarcely any, pollen. We have demon¬ 
strated this many times in our efforts 
to secure Winesap pollen for crossing 
with other varieties. W, A. M. does 
not 'say so, but we are left to infer that 
his orchard is entirely made up of 
Winesaps. If that is true, I am con¬ 
vinced that if he will set a number 
of trees of one or two other varieties 
which blossom at the same time as the 
Winesap. through the center or along 
two sides of the present orchard, he 
will notice a decided difference in his 
crop of Winesaps as soon as these 
young trees begin to bear. Quicker re¬ 
sults might be obtained by top-working 
some of the trees to other varieties. 
I lere in Indiana we do not expect to 
Ret paying crops of Winesaps without 
mixing in other varieties, j, troop. 
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Crimson Clover with Peas and Oats. 
IF. R. C., Flemington, N. J.—l have an 
old peach orchard that I have had in 
corn for two years. The first year I sowed 
Crimson clover in the corn, and in parts 
I got a nice stand; in other parts there 
was nothing to plow under. The last time 
it was in corn I planted with machine ; 
could only work it one way. The weeds 
•Rot the start of me. I pulled them out 
of the best parts of the corn; the others 
grew with corn. I desire to put in Can¬ 
ada peas and oats for hay this Spring. The 
ground needs humus. I was thinking of 
sowing Crimson clover with the peas and 
oats. Would it be better to cut the peas and 
oats as early as possible, and sow it to 
cow peas and plow them under, and seed 
to wheat or rye in the Fall. 
Ans. —Do not sow Crimson clover 
with the oats and peas. This is not a 
Summer clover. Red clover seeded with 
the oats and peas will give y'ou a fair 
growth for plowing under, but you will 
get more humus by cutting the oats and 
peas early, plowing at once and seeding 
to cow peas. These can be turned under 
in time for wheat seeding. 
A Rotation for Sandy Loam. 
J. G. VPittsburgh, Pa .—Would you con¬ 
sider the following rotation a good one? 
There are four 10-acre pieces, and the soil 
is a sandy loam, mostly bottom land, and 
is located in Venango County, Pa. Ten 
acres each in corn, potatoes, oats and clover 
to turn under. The piece which was to go 
in oats the following year would receive 
the year’s accumulation of manure after 
the potatoes had been harvested. Would 
you consider this a good rotation, and a 
proper return to the soil, or can you sug¬ 
gest something else in the way of fer¬ 
tilizer? Also please advise what kind of 
clover you consider best for use as a green 
manure. 
Ans.— We should put the manure on 
the clover and plow all under for corn. 
With us this is more satisfactory than 
using the manure on oats. We assume 
that you seed the oats with the clover, 
and that you sell potatoes and oats and 
leave the hay, cornstalks and straw on 
the farm. It is the general opinion of 
Eastern farmers that a fertilizer con¬ 
taining a small amount of available nit¬ 
rogen and a fair analysis of potash and 
phosphoric acid should be used on the 
potatoes in such a rotation. We should 
experiment with chemicals. 
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