1910. 
in its use until we know more about its 
effect, both on the insects and on the 
foliage. 
What May We Expect Xext Sea¬ 
son? —A few years ago we should have 
said that we could no more answer this 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
eties of potatoes. On the other hand, it has 
never been proven that potatoes need run 
out if so handled. I would he verv glad to 
get in communication with potato growers 
who know the history of present varieties. 
Possibly most of such men will be elderly 
men who have been interested in potatoes all 
of their lives, and can from memory, tell 
201 
WEAK GROWTH RESULTING FROM APHIS ATTACK. Fig. 104. 
question with any assurance of accuracy 
than. we could fly. Now, it is quite 
possible that our chances of flying next 
Summer are much greater than are the 
chances that this question can be 
answered with any degree of surety. 
We have examined apple trees on which 
the lice were abundant last Summer, but 
what they know about old varieties of pota¬ 
toes. If interested people will write to us we 
will be very glad to send them blanks for 
reporting. It is hoped that eventually these 
histories may be published, possibly with 
cuts or even_ with colored photographs. A 
project of this kind is one that every seeds¬ 
man should be glad to help along, because 
the combined report will be of use to every 
seed house handling potatoes, c. l. fitch. 
Colorado Experiment Station. 
apple buds infected with aphis. 
Fig. 105. 
Chestnuts Not Maturing. 
I have several Paragon chestnut trees, 
planted some 15 years ago; they are on 
low hillside facing the east; soil is sandy 
loam, clay subsoil. They have not made 
much growth, but always produce plenty of 
burrs. The nuts never mature. Can any¬ 
one tell me the cause? The ground is well 
cultivated, and the seasons are generally 
quite dry, but even in wet Seasons the nuts 
do not mature. Altitude about 2000 feet 
above sea level. 
H. F. 
We know no reason why your Paragon 
chestnut trees should not bear, except that 
they may be imperfectly pollenized. Here 
in the East Paragon usually has sufficient 
pollen, and is a reliable cropper. Occasion¬ 
ally the male blooms are injured by frost, 
so that little pollen is formed, and burrs 
start to grow as usual but never fill out 
with good nuts. In that case as your trees 
grow older the defective pollen production 
may become less and they may bear good 
crops. If you can secure grafts or trees 
of the common Eastern native chestnut it 
would be well to put them in your Para¬ 
gon, or in case of the trees, set them near 
so that they may aid in pollenizing. 
have not found an abundance of eggs 
But even if eggs were present now it 
would not be a sure indication of an 
abundance of aphides in 1910, because 
the weather conditions and parasites may 
almost wholly prevent the aphides from 
breeding. If the temperature and pre¬ 
cipitation during the coming months of 
April, May and June could be known 
with surety a more confident prediction 
could be made concerning the activities 
of these insects next Summer. Hun¬ 
dreds of ladvbugs went into hibernation 
last Fall, and only last week we saw 
several actively crawling on a window 
pane in a dwelling house. If these 
last through the Winter and the Spring 
is warm enough for their development 
we shall have a fine buffer against the 
lice with which to start the season. 
U e venture the opinion that the present 
fine Winter weather, especially if it con¬ 
tinues, may be taken as a favorable omen 
for a mild normal Spring and a dearth 
of aphides next season. We seldom have 
two successive infestations of these pests. 
■Do not be lulled into a’sense of security 
and carelessness, however, because of 
this prophecy of ours, for it is only a 
prophecy and liable to all the failures 
of guesses. glenn w. herrick. 
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