1910. 
THE RURA.I> NEW-YORKER 
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DAMAGE TO TREE BY DEER. 
I noted in a recent ,issue of The R. 
N.-Y. the query, - “How, much does it 
hurt cherry trees to be browsed by 
deer?" I send a photograph,'shown in 
Fig. 188, taken in one of our cherry or¬ 
chards. The only difference between the 
two trees in foreground is that one has 
been trimmed by deer, while the other 
has been let alone by them. Last sea¬ 
son the deer damaged my orchards more 
than one thousand dollars. The State 
is supposed to pay the full amount of 
all damage done by deer. What they 
really paid was a trifle over three hun¬ 
dred dollars for the destruction of over 
250 trees. The matter of injury by deer 
is becoming a serious question in this 
section. There is very little use trying 
I have used the flowers of sulphur for 
several years with nearly perfect success. 
I buy fresh seed annually,"-$8.50) to $4.50 
per barrel. Always get more or less scabby 
potatoes. Our raising from same hardly 
show a scab. We.cut them in a tight box, 
Sprinkle sulphur in layers, stir and shake,* 
until each piece is coated. It is a perfect 
drier. o. w. m. 
Maryland. 
Until the last three years we treated our 
seed potatoes for scab by soaking them for 
two hours in water with formalin added, 
one pint to 50 gallons. This controlled 
the scab from becoming very bad, but did 
not prevent it on ground that had never 
been sown to potatoes before. It seemed 
to us that in cutting the potatoes after- 
treatment they became again inoculated, 
so we give them a double treatment, soak, 
in formalin as before, spread out to dry’ 
and then cut and dust with sulphur while 
fresh: this does not require much; sulphur, 
VERMONT CHERRY TREE BROWSED BY DEER. Fig. 189. 
to grow fruit trees and deer on the 
same land. amos i. eaton. 
Windsor Co., Vt. 
R. N.-Y.—We have dozens of sim¬ 
ilar complaints from New England. The 
damages paid for such work have be¬ 
come a serious tax. There is one serious 
case in New Jersey where a poor man 
has been practically driven from his 
little farm by State protected deer. The 
State protects these worthless animals, 
but there is no law. in New Jersey un¬ 
der which a farmer can collect- damages, 
when his crops are destroyed. 
SOAKING POTATOES FOR SCAB. 
In regard to treating seed potatoes for 
the scab, I used two ouuces corrosive subli¬ 
mate in 18 gallons water, soaking potatoes 
for two hours, and every 10 buShels put in 
one more ounce of sublimate. I did this 
for several years, and never missed but 
one; then I drew out horse manure thick 
and plowed it under and planted to Late 
Hebrons immediately, and the potatoes 
were so scabby I fed them to stock. I 
remember being at the station delivering 
potatoes in car; there were two loads ahead 
of me and two behind me. I sat on my 
wagon waiting my turn, when the other 
men would come and look at my load and 
ask me how I raised such potatoes. I 
would tell them that I soaked my seed. 
They wanted to know how many scabby 
potatoes I had sorted out. «I told them 
none; all I had to sort out was the small 
ones. They would say they had sorted 
theirs and they were not as good as mine 
without, being sorted. They were shoveling 
in bushel crates, and the man that took 
them in would paw them over in the crates 
and would sort out two to four bushels 
out of a load. When I drove up he pawed 
over three bushels and took out one po¬ 
tato ; then he stood up and said: “These 
don't need sorting.” When I was unloaded 
he picked up the one he had sorted out 
and threw it on the pile. w. s. 
Orleans Co., N. Y. 
Three or four years ago all the potatoes 
in this vicinity had scab; vines died the 
first week in August. I am what you call 
a small potato; raised a crop" averaging 
from .80 to 00 bushels a year, though get¬ 
ting as large size as anyone. A few of 
the neighbors as well as myself dug’them 
at once, the' others waited a while and 
were then spared the trouble of digging. 
My seed was the only one that kept and 
the following Spring I had to supply all 
of them with seed because I was the only 
one to soak my seed in formalin. Since 
then quite a number are soaking theirs in 
formalin. I would, however, advise against 
soaking for early crops, as the stuff will 
retard sprouting 10 to 15 days. h. 
- New Hampshire. 
and can be easily done by dusting the 
sulphur with a shovel into a barrel as you 
cut them. The sulphur prevents wire- 
worms and increases the vitality of the 
cutting, and gives us a crop absolutely free 
from scab. «■ h. a. a. 
Ohio. 
SHIPPING POTATOES IN ICED CARS. 
The editor of “Cold” is asked if potatoes 
shipped in refrigerator cars heavily iced 
will be less apt to freeze than they would 
if cars were not iced. The answer is in 
part:— 
“There is no question but that, with ice 
bunkers filled with ice, especially if the 
galvanized tanks are used, it would to 
some extent protect goods in the car. The 
reason is this: Ice is.an insulator, against 
low temperatures and as the temperature 
of melting ice (32°F.) will not freeze po¬ 
tatoes it necessarily follows that until 
the body of ice is cooled down to and be¬ 
low the freezing point that the ice in the 
bunkers will act as an insulation against 
the penetration of cold from the ends of 
the car and from the , trap doors above. 
Further than this, it' is practicable to 
allow the, galvanized iron tanks to stand 
partly full of melted ice (water) when 
shipping potatoes, and as this water would 
retain some heat, it would necessarily tend 
to prevent the temperature from falling 
in the car. There is very much in the 
way of misinformation, not to say non¬ 
sense, prevalent in connection with the 
shipping of perishable goods. It has for a 
long time been stated that potatoes would 
not freeze as long as they were kept in 
motion. Of course-it is well known that 
any liquid or solid body will not freeze 
as quickly if kept in motion, but it will 
freeze just as surely in motion as it would 
at rest. The scientific explanation is that 
ice crystals form more quickly in liquids 
or bodies at rest.” 
Sawdust in Manure. 
Will stable manure mixed with sawdust 
be all right to use in the hills for early 
tomatoes and cucumbers, Lima beans, and 
so forth? I can get plenty of it, but do not 
know whether it is as good to use as straw 
manure under the hills. it g 
Elmer, N. Y. 
We should not want to use the sawdust 
manure in tomato bills. Unless the saw¬ 
dust has been soaked and fermented in the 
manure long enough it will be too acid. It 
will dry up and cake in a drought. We 
prefer straw manure for hill planting. 
WANT TO KNOW. 
Cold Storage in Icehouse. 
T have an ice house 20x22 feet, all on 
top of ground, with good drainage. When 
filled to top it holds 100, tons ice,, three 
times as much as I have any use for 
Can you g\ve me a good, simple plan for 
building a cold storage within it, suitable 
for keeping apples, some vegetables, and 
fresh meat? t. h , m , 
Connecticut. 
It. N.-Y.—-As there have been several 
calls for such information, we ask our 
readers to describe any such cold rooms 
which have proved successful. 
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