THE RURAI) NEW-YORKER 
March 26. 
388 
TOO MUCH NITROGEN FOR POTATOES. 
B. ])., Lynchburg, Va .—I am at a point 
in my farming where I don’t know just 
what to do. Two years ago I fenced off 
a piece of pine forest one-half acre, put 
in about 40 shotes and fed them offal from 
slaughter house about six months. I then 
grubbed out those trees that averaged about 
40 feet high and worked the land to a 
depth of about 10 inches deep and planted 
to potatoes. Those plants grew from five 
to seven feet high, but scarcely any po¬ 
tatoes. The potatoes were very large, but 
one, two and three tubers to a plant. I 
think the land carried too much nitrogen. 
I want to plant potatoes there again. Can 
you tell me how to treat that soil? It 
seems an ideal place or rather condition for 
potatoes. The potatoes that grew there 
were smooth and fine table quality. The 
land is sand and clay loam, with red clay 
subsoil. This land was not burned over, 
but the pine tags and woods mould was 
worked into the soil. 
Ans.— The land was too rich in nitro¬ 
gen, which drove the potatoes to vine. 
The slaughter-house ofTal contained ni¬ 
trogen and phosphoric acid, but no pot¬ 
ash. The deep working helped make 
more nitrogen available. You need pot¬ 
ash and phosphoric acid. If about half 
an acre we should use 300 pounds acid 
phosphate and 100 pounds sulphate of 
potash broadcast after plowing. 
GRAFTING BARTLETT ON KIEFFER. 
//., Bodus, Mich .—On two or three oc¬ 
casions I have seen in The R. N.-Y. opinions 
lo the effect that Kieffer pear was not a 
good stock for grafting purposes, and that 
Bartletts especially would not do well on 
Kieffer stock. 1 think Prof. Hedrick was 
quoted, and as there are many Ivieffers 
being set here for that purpose, I should 
like to know more fully how the top-worked 
Kieffer behaves, and what the defects are 
in that combination. 
Ans. —Ordinarily the Bartlett seems 
not to take very well on the Kieffer. In 
most cases, as 1 have seen the union of 
these two pears, after a few years the 
two varieties become dissimilar in size 
of the growth and a weak union results. 
The Bartlett branches in most cases, 
when loaded with fruit, break at the 
point of union, or are blown off by wind, 
or die, possibly because of poor nour¬ 
ishment. I have seen some examples 
of Kieffers top-worked with Bartletts 
which had endured for a number of 
years and seemed to be in every way 
satisfactory. But these are the excep¬ 
tions and not the rule. I greatly doubt 
the advisability of planting Kieffers to 
be top-worked with Bartletts. 
U. P. HEDRICK. 
A “PATENT-INSIDE” PAPER. 
Reader (No Address ).—Will you toll us 
what is meant by a “patent inside”? I 
have been told that John Lewis Childs ad¬ 
vertised the Wonderbcrry in patent insides, 
and thus reached many country people. 
Ans. —The “patent inside” is a paper 
partly printed in a large city and sent 
ready printed to the local publisher. You 
probably know that newspapers are 
printed on both sides of a large sheet, 
and then folded so the pages run in or¬ 
der. A company here in New York will 
take a sheet of paper of the proper size 
and print advertising, and reading mat¬ 
ter on one side of it. This is sent all 
printed and flat to the local publisher 
who puts up his local matter and adver¬ 
tisements and prints them on the other 
side of the sheet. Thus when it is folded 
the local editor is really responsible for 
only half his paper,'the other half or 
“patent inside'’ being printed before he 
got it and having nothing to do with his 
office. This arrangement is often an 
economy for a local paper, as it saves 
the cost of typesetting, and the entire 
printed sheet can be bought for only a 
little more than the cost to him of white 
paper. The “patent inside” man gets his 
money out of the advertising. Many 
country people do not know of this plan. 
Some of them have sent us an advertise¬ 
ment of the Wonderbcrry with a long 
article about it cut from the local paper. 
They have blamed the editor, when lie 
was not to blame. It is evident that Mr. 
Childs bought space in this “patent in¬ 
side” and thus forced the advertisement 
upon many local papers. In the article 
which they were thus compelled to use 
the following falsehood is printed: 
A director of the New York Agricultural 
Experiment Station says it fruits abun- 
danliy even in pure sand. In the short 
season of Northwestern Canada it is a god¬ 
send, and fruits long after frost has killed 
most garden truck. 
We have repeatedly stated that no di¬ 
rector of the New York Station has ever 
endorsed the Wonderberry, and of 
course the director would not know how 
it behaved in British Columbia. This is 
simply a contemptible trick to obtain ad¬ 
vertising by a misstatement. 
Grafting Cherries. 
C. A. M., Albion, N. Y .—Can anyone 
tell anything about grafting cherries? What 
time should the scions be cut and what 
time should the grafting be done? Is the 
cleft-graft or the slip-graft the better? 
Ans. —Grafting cherry trees is possi¬ 
ble, but I would not call it very practica¬ 
ble. Budding seems to be a better way 
to change the tops of nearly all of the 
stone fruits. I have tried it several 
times with all of them and cannot say 
that it has been very successful, except 
with the apricot. The best way to do 
the grafting, according to my own ex¬ 
perience, is just after the bark begins 
to peel and by the slip or bark method. 
The stump is not split but the bark only 
and the scion trimmed on one side to a 
long, slim point and inserted under the 
bark. This can only be done properly by 
holding back the grafting wood in some 
cold, damp place where it will not start 
until after the bark will slip. 
H. E. VAN DEMAN. 
“ Grafting Pear in Apple. 
A. J. G., Jackson, O .—Can a pear be 
grafted in an apple with success? If so, 
what kind will unite most successfully? 
Ans. —Grafting the apple and pear to¬ 
gether has been done quite often, and I 
have tried it myself, but the union is not 
perfect, and success is only temporary. 
There is no real need of intergrafting, 
these trees, because there are plenty of 
trees of each to be found and grafted 
each on its own stock. 
H. E. VAN DEMAN. 
Substitution of Trees. — About 25 or 
30 years ago I sent an order for trees to 
A. H. Griesa, of Kansas. To my disgust, 
he sent several varieties of peach trees in 
place of some that I had ordered. I thought 
that I knew what 1 wanted, but the old 
man thought he knew better than I, and 
he did. The substitutes he sent me were 
far more valuable than the ones I ordered, 
as I discovered some years later. It de¬ 
pends. Jf the nurseryman is honest and 
seeks the good of his patrons, it is all right 
to substitute. Otherwise decidedly not. 
Rluff City, Kan. a. w. d. 
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