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Seedling or Budded Peaches. 
R. E. O'.', Lisbon, O .—Would you advise 
planting seedling peach trees in this sec¬ 
tion (southeastern part of Columbiana 
County) rather than budded fruit? Per¬ 
haps the difference is .$1 to $2 per hun¬ 
dred in price. Until recent years we were 
successful with the budded fruit. We have 
been considering whether to set a com¬ 
mercial (apple) orchard of several acres 
on a field too rolling for corn, or do you 
think the apple business will be overdone? 
Of course, we shall be obliged to invest 
in a spraying outfit. 
Ans.— Were I planting a peach or¬ 
chard, no matter in what section of 
Ohio, I certainly should not plant seed¬ 
ling trees. The profits of growing any 
class of tree fruits depend largely upon 
the uniformity of size and color of fruit 
and style of packing. From a hundred 
seedling trees there would be more than 
a possibility that there would be from 
90 to 100 different kinds of peaches— 
few of them of any real merit. It is 
true that all our excellent and well- 
known varieties originated as seedlings, 
but none of these varieties can be de¬ 
pendably perpetuated except by budding- 
I should by all means buy the budded 
trees of such leaders as Elberta, Cham¬ 
pion. Smock, etc., as I believe that to 
purchase seedling trees at a saving of 
only $1 to $2 per hundred would be a 
very poor business proposition. While 
there is a great awakening regarding 
apple orchard planting, I can see no 
immediate danger of overdoing the busi¬ 
ness. As ever before, there will be 
many of those who jump into the busi¬ 
ness of planting who will never bring 
their orchards to give profitable accounts 
of themselves. The man who plants 
with the determination to grow just a 
little better fruit than any of his neigh¬ 
bors, then lives up to his good resolu¬ 
tion, will not find himself with an over¬ 
production of fruit that he cannot find 
market for. The time may be upon the 
way when the apple business will be 
overdone; but it will not be until mil¬ 
lions of people who are now doing with¬ 
out apples because apples are beyond 
reach of the ordinary working man’s 
family, have all the fruit they can eat 
and cook. Instead of apples being a 
luxury as they are now, for the few, 
their economic value as a great factor of 
the food supply of our country justifies 
their being planted to the extent that 
this desirable end may some day be 
realized. The man who means business 
—who means to take care of his or¬ 
chards and grow sound, perfect fruit, 
and lives up to his plans—need not wor¬ 
ry himself over the apple business being 
overdone for a good many years hence. 
F. H. BALLOU. 
Poison Ivy Remedies. 
Having had an extensive experience, per¬ 
sonally as well as medical, having tried 
about everything known for this poison, 
the latest and best remedy is 10 to 12 
drops of carbolic acid in one ounce of dis¬ 
tilled or rain water. No pain, no exfolia¬ 
tion. no itching, sure and speedy relief. 
L. G. 
Last Summer, when suffering from poison¬ 
ing. I had occasion to use a sheep dip, and 
in its use soaked my nands well. To my 
surprise, I found that the itching from the 
ivy poisoning ceased. Since then we have 
tried the dip again with like results. Used 
on the face, it causes smarting for a time, 
hut two or three applications kill- the itch, 
though the water blisters may remain. I 
give this experience for what it is worth. 
Connecticut. h. d. goodall. 
Here is my mother’s recipe for poison 
*vy. i have read many different ones, but 
I think this one is the nicest to apply: 
Oet at the drug store five cents’ worth of 
pulverized sugar of lead, take two-thirds of 
cup of sweet cream, stir the sugar of lead 
thoroughly into the cream. It will thicken 
and make a fine ointment. Then apply and 
cover with cloths and a few times will kill 
the poison. mrs. .t. j. c. 
Greenwich, N. Y. 
Lest people injure themselves with the 
poison ivy remedies given on page 244, let 
me suggest that the most useful remedy is 
free application to the eruption of common 
spirits of camphor, the common liquid 
camphor in use. Sometimes the suppression 
of this eruption, by wliateyer local applica¬ 
tion (and the same is true of all eruptions) 
may lead to other and deeper troubles. 
Should any trouble—as muscular or joint 
pains, u-orse at rest —follow the suppression 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
of this particular eruption, one dose of rhus 
toxicodendron 200 will dispel it. 
Maryland. johx f. keexax, m.d. 
An old-fashioned country remedy is a tea 
and bath made from archangel, a weed that 
grows in low, damp places. It has a square 
stem from six to 20 inches high, a long 
narrow, light green leaf which grows in 
pairs on opposite sides of the stem. The 
flowers are small, white and grow in wreaths 
entirely around the stem at each pair of 
leaves. Steep and have two bowls, one to 
bathe the poisoned places and one to drink. 
Bathe frequently, take a swallow as often. 
Boston, Mass. f. h. s. 
Pigs and Poison Ivy.—I f any person who 
has a spot of ivy growing on his farm will 
make a pen inclosing it, and put in pigs, 
they will eat every leaf and kill it out. It 
will not hurt the pigs at all. This is the 
best cure, I know, and is better than waiting 
until you have it on the hands. r. s. c. 
Massachusetts. 
CROP THIEVES 
HOW TO EXTERMINATE THEM 
A Pet Terrier. 
As our folks take so much pleasure in 
seeing the pictures in The R. N.-Y. I 
enclose a picture of our rat terrier, 
THE RAT TERRIER. Fig. 152. 
“Nancy,” at “Attention!” She is 13 years 
old, and a great pet. c. m.de k. 
Portsmouth, N. FI. 
Sweet Clover in Corn. 
Will you give your opinion of the value 
of Sweet clover sown in corn at the last 
cultivating to be plowed under the follow¬ 
ing season to furnish humus and fertility? 
Peekskill, N. Y. d. f. 
We have never tried Sweet clover for 
this purpose, but Mr. Wing, of Ohio, says 
the plan is a good one. 
Hired Man on Wealthy Farm. 
I am a hired man, and am working a 
farm for wealthy people, wjio farm rather 
to spend money than to make any, and, 
although it has its advantages, yet to 
the man who is looking forward to some 
day owning his own farm it has also many 
disadvantages as well, particularly in the 
way of extravagance which is so easy to 
learn. s. j. 
Connecticut. 
There can be no question that some of 
the "money farmers” do damage in a farm 
neighborhood. By their reckless extrava¬ 
gance they make many young people dis¬ 
contented, and break up habits of economy 
and frugal living. The money they spend 
in a neighborhood is a small offset for the 
example they set. 
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