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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
February 26 ; 
A Nursery Contract Scheme. 
£. II., Maine .—Last year an agent for 
apple trees came to this town selling trees 
for a New York company, and claiming a 
company had been formed to buy apples in 
this State, the No. 1 apples to be stored 
in a cold storage warehouse and shipped 
to London, and the poorer ones evaporated 
at a factory which he claimed was being 
built in Ellsworth, Me. The conditions of 
his buying were that he was to get 50 
customers in each town and each customer 
was to buy trees from him. lie sold only 
Arctic and Dudley Winter, which he 
claimed were Winter apples. I wrote you 
last year in regard to it, because I be¬ 
lieved him to be a fake, and you answered 
me at once, telling me that it was a scheme 
used by agents with farmers, and to keep 
out of it. It has proved as you supposed 
a very unreliable scheme. One man who 
bought a large number of trees wrote 
lo this company asking them if they would 
let him change his order to some Winter 
varieties which he preferred to those he 
ordered, and asking who their agent was 
in this town. The first letter he received 
no answer to, and he wrote again registering 
ihe letter and got a very saucy letter. 
They made no answer in regard to substi¬ 
tuting and in regard to the agent he was 
i old that they did not open their books 
to everyone. Now will you please tell 
me if there is any way of releasing these 
men from taking these trees? They are 
all honorable men and are willing to do the 
square thing, but took the trees hoping to 
get some one down here as a Fall buyer of 
apples. It is in an old town where there 
are many old orchards and the trees all 
grassbound, and only two of the farmers 
spray their trees. 
A ns. —As a general proposition we 
advise farmers never to contract with 
people who promise so much. This 
scheme, like many others, such as 
agreeing to come back and trim the 
trees, or selling at a high price collecting 
part to begin with and agreeing to take 
the balance in fruit will not work out. 
A little hard thinking ought to convince 
any farmer that when a stranger comes 
with any such scheme it is more than 
rn even chance that he is trying to 
“work” them. Many people sign the 
contract first and then do the hard 
thinking later. We do not believe this 
concern can make good, but without 
seeing the contract that was signed we 
could not say whether it is sound or 
not. 
Rolling Snow Roads. 
J. C. M., Hamilton, N. Y .—Having been 
named by our Grange as one of a commit- 
(ee to inquire into the matter of rolling 
our Winter roads, perhaps you can give 
us some facts and figures that would en¬ 
lighten others interested as well as our¬ 
selves. 
Ans.— Steel rollers, at least five feet in 
diameter (six or seven feet would be 
better), are used with good results for 
packing down the snow after a storm. 
Wooden rollers are all right under cer¬ 
tain conditions, but, if the snow is damp, 
it is apt to stick to them more than 
to. steel. Rollers of small diameter push 
the snow ahead of them and are very 
hard to pull. Large wooden rollers are 
satisfactory if covered with metal. Flat 
iron harrows are sometimes used, when 
snow is not very deep, and do good 
work under these conditions. Plows 
made especially for the purpose, and at¬ 
tached to sleds, are used on some road 
divisions in this country. There are, 
however, several objections to the use 
of plows. Deep channels are cut 
through, leaving high banks each side 
over which it is sometimes impossible 
to pull out when two teams meet. These 
channels fill in as soon as the snow 
drifts at all, and must be again plowed 
out before the road is passable. Then 
in the Spring, as the snow is melting, 
the track will be bare before the banks 
at the side have melted, leaving a road 
almost impassable either to sleigh or 
wagon. In this immediate vicinity no 
Winter work has been necessary on the 
roads for three years, while a few miles 
to the east of us, in the foothills of the 
Green Mountains, many roads had to be 
kept open by the use of rollers or plows. 
Last Winter we had over 100 days of 
good sleighing—much better, we think, 
than a succession of mud and frozen 
humps, which prevail in less severe 
climates. c. s. M. 
Spent Hops as Manure. 
D. II. J., (Syracuse, N. Y .—I live near a 
large city in central New York, and draw 
hops from one of the breweries, from two to 
three large team loads per week. What do 
you think of them as a mulch for straw¬ 
berries put on heavily, as compared with 
straw, or stable manure drawn from the 
city? What value would you place on them 
as a fertilizer for asparagus as compared 
with stable manure? Would you consider 
them of much value as a top-dressing for 
clover meadows, all land light gravel soil? 
Ans.— On an average spent hops con¬ 
tain about as much nitrogen as stable 
manure, but little if any potash and 
phosphoric acid. They are not as good 
as straw or manure for mulching berries, 
since they pack down hard over the 
plants and , may smother them. For 
working into the soil and for mulching 
orchards or grass lands they are good. 
You can safely call them worth two- 
thirds as much as ordinary manure. 
What Stock for Grafting Cherries? 
On page 48 of The It. N.-Y. I noticed re¬ 
quest for information on cherry grafting. I 
have had some experience in growing cher¬ 
ries, both in nursery and in orchard, and 
have tested about 20 varieties, planting a 
cherry orchard of 470 trees for commercial 
purposes. My experience is that all types 
of theBigarreau and Duke, should be budded 
on Mazzard stock, and all of the Morello 
family should be budded on Malialeb stock. 
The Mahaleb stock is imported from France, 
and is a very hardy stock, though not so 
fast in growth as the Mazzard. The Morello 
types of cherry are also slower of growth 
than the sweet types, hence the growth of 
both top and root will be more perfect and 
in keeping with each other if they are bud¬ 
ded in this way, and as the Mazzard stock 
is a very strong grower and make large 
1 rees, so also are most of the sweet types of 
the cherry. 1 have had some experience 
with fruit here in Ohio, though most of my 
experience and experiments were in Tennes¬ 
see'. where I had 20 years’ experience in the 
nursery business, and also commercial or¬ 
chard of apples, pears, peaches and cherries. 
1 also conducted experiments with new 
fruits as well as some of the older varieties 
for and in connection with the State Ex¬ 
periment Station. Very few nurseries take 
the trouble to bud their sweet, cherries on 
Mazzard stock, and the sour types on Maha¬ 
leb, but use either one or the other exclu- 
sivelv. The Mazzard stock sometimes gives 
some trouble from sprouting from the roots, 
especially if some of them are broken while 
cultivating or plowing the orchard. The 
Mahaleb stock will not give this trouble. I 
once bought a farm on which an isolated 
cherry tree was growing, which had been 
top-grafted on i wild plum stock. It was 
of the Bigarreau type, and grew so much 
faster than the stock that the graft was 
twice the size of the stock. Although it 
bloomed profusely every year it never boro 
any fruit. Doubtless it was self-sterile, and 
no' other cherry trees near to pollenize it. 
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