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THE R £J KAL NEW-YORKER 
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' PERMANENT LABELS. 
Every person who plants trees lias 
a desire to preser-ve a record so as to be 
able to judge of the merits of the fruit 
when come to bearing age. Particularly 
is this the case when planting new and 
untried varieties or specimen orchards. 
Tin cut in strips and marked with some 
sharp pointed instrument answers finite 
well, but in time the rust eats into them 
so as to render them illegible. Zinc 
labels on which is written the name with 
a lead pencil will answer temporarily, 
but in time these also become unreadable. 
I have tried everything ever recom¬ 
mended, but all unsatisfactory. This 
Spring I went to my druggist in this 
town and spent a half day in Buffalo 
among the drug stores, but found no 
one who could tell me how to mark zinc 
so as to make it permanent and plain. 
There is nothing finite so good as strips 
of zinc cut one inch wide at one end 
and one-quarter inch at the other, and 
long enough to wind about the tree or 
limb loosely, so as to expand as the 
plant grows. I began to experiment with 
various inks, solutions, etc, for writ¬ 
ing cn these to form writing that should 
show plainly and be permanent. T final¬ 
ly, much by accident, not necessary to 
describe, succeeded, as I think, to per¬ 
fection. It is of sufficient importance 
to be made universally known. Take a 
little nitric acid, a tablespoonful will 
make ink enough to mark a thousand 
labels, put it into a glass dish, and drop 
into it a piece of copper as large as a 
cent. When copper is dissolved add 10 
times as much rain water as acid, and 
with this write on the zinc labels. It 
will immediately turn black and in a 
few minutes should be thoroughly 
washed to remove all surplus ink, and 
the name will stand out plain, and no 
amount of washing and rubbing that 
does not remove surface of zinc will 
eradicate it. If the zinc is first rubbed 
with anything that will take off the oily 
polish it will be easier to write plainly 
on it. An ounce of this solution is worth 
its weight in gold, and won’t cost you 
two cents. J. s. woodward. 
PARIS GREEN ON CORN. 
In your “Brevities” you say, “Try 
that remedy for wireworms, page 5G6 
of this issue of The R. N.-Y.” Having 
tried tarred corn dried with a liberal 
amount of Paris green to stop the 
ravages of crows, I would prefer to take 
chances on what the crows and worms 
would leave for a crop, in preference 
to the poisoned corn germinating. In 
1908 the crows pulled tarred corn very 
badly, so we tarred some of the best 
seed we had in a liberal manner, using 
Paris green as a drier, say about one- 
quarter pound to a peck of seed. The 
corn planted all right with the planter, 
but hardly two per cent, of the earliest 
planting grew, and of the later planting 
hardly one per cent. grew. Last year 
a neighbor had to replant his corn, the 
same being a mystery to him as to the 
cause thereof, so we told about the above 
incident, which brought to his memory 
the recollection of drying his tarred corn 
with plaster and Paris green mixed to¬ 
gether for Potato bugs. I would ad¬ 
vise trying the above on a small scale, 
and be sure to get the right amount 
of Paris green. w. N. K. 
Saratoga Co., N. Y. 
R. N.-Y.—In printing the “remedy” 
we stated that Prof. Fernald reported 
success from many trials, but that full 
and wide testing was desired. 
The following note is from R. H. 
\\ hitcomb, who worked out this Paris 
green treatment originally: 
I believe the wireworm to be the most 
dangerous pest of farm crops to-day be¬ 
cause hitherto uncontrolled, whereas we 
have no excuse for enduring the scale, Cod¬ 
ling moth, Potato hug. etc. When a man 
has just had a field of corn wiped out as 
soon as planted, as in hundreds of cases, it 
gives very little comfort to know that he 
can gradually reduce the pest by repeated 
Fall plowings. Our treatment is the result 
of this predicament, and would only add to 
your published account, that there is no 
danger of getting the Paris green too strong 
<m the seed, but a weak application may 
not repel them. We have applied the Paris 
green full strength with no mixture of dust 
or ashes at all. and germination was per¬ 
fect. I care no more how many wireworms 
are in my soil than earthworms. It is 
ludicrous, however, to dig into a hill of the 
poisoned seed and see the little fellows 
patiently waiting for it to get toothsome. 
They are smart enough not to taste it and 
get dosed. 
THICKENING A STAND OF ALFALFA. 
•J. II. II., Darliiif/ton, Mil. —I have a 
small field of Alfalfa sown about two years 
ago. While the Individual stalks of Alfalfa 
look well there are many spots with the 
plants far apart. I have recently been told 
t> disk-harrow the field. What do you 
think of this plan. viz. : to cut the Alfalfa 
now growing, and then sow to additional 
seed in the vacant spots and then disk- 
harrow the whole? What will be the 
result? IIow deep should I disk-harrow? 
Axs.—In this State it seems to be 
impracticable to try to thicken an im¬ 
perfect stand of Alfalfa. It is not neces¬ 
sarily imporsible, either, but experience 
has shown that with us it does not pay. 
I have tried many different ways and 
on many different occasions, and in¬ 
variably lost seed, with the exception of 
just one year. That time l had a 20- 
acre field which I had seeded with oats, 
the oats lodging and smothering the 
young Alfalfa until I had about a half 
stand. I was discouraged trying to 
thicken Alfalfa, and so seeded this field 
to Alsike, hoping to get a good enough 
stand to make a meadow that 1 could 
leave down a few years. I ran out of 
Alsike just before finishing the field, and 
used Alfalfa on one strip. I think that 
all of the Alfalfa survived, giving a 
splendid stand, and the Alsike did poor¬ 
ly, so that the succeeding year I plowed 
the whole field up. This field had less 
preparation given it than other fields 
which I had tried previously. I have 
thoroughly' disked the land seeded to* 
Alfalfa, broadcast and disked the seed 
in, or harrowed it in, or rolled it in, 
and have seeded when the ground was 
honeycombed without any preparation, 
without trying to cover the seed, and 
all to no avail, excepting the one year 
mentioned. At that time I gave the 
field a fairly good disking and seeded 
with a disk drill. 
I believe that with us, one reason for 
the failure of the young plants is that 
the older plants which have lived shade 
the younger ones too much, and thus 
kill them, but this hardly explains the 
whole thing, because the young plants 
will live, and apparently we will have a 
good stand until the middle of the Sum¬ 
mer. after which time they will simply 
disappear. It is quite possible that the 
frequent mowings given the field injure 
the young plants. 1 am sure that this 
would be true, but whether it would be 
sufficient to kill them or not, I do not 
know. With J. H. H. the conditions 
are somewhat different. I know of at 
least one man in the New England 
States who expects to thicken his Alfalfa 
fields every year by disking and sowing 
more seed; thus he can keep his mead¬ 
ows in perfect condition for many years. 
Whether this is due to a different cli¬ 
mate from that of Ohio or not, I am 
unable to say. The matter needs more 
careful experimenting with in different 
sections of the country than it has yet 
received before anyone can give any¬ 
thing like the positive advice. As a 
general rule, however, especially where 
the soil and climate are similar to ours 
in Ohio, I do not think that it will be 
found practical to thicken fields without 
plowing them up. If I did try to thicken 
them, I would thoroughly disk the fields, 
and. especially on fields that are troubled 
with weeds, I would sow as much seed 
as if I had no plants on the ground at 
all. would sow early in the Spring, and 
use one bushel per acre of beardless 
barley for a nurse crop, removing the 
barley for hay the first of July, if pos¬ 
sible ; then I would not clip the field 
more than once the rest of the season, 
and there will be a possibility of getting 
a fair stand. I do not believe that disk¬ 
ing would kill very many of the plants 
that have survived. I would prefer a 
Cutaway harrow to a solid disk, as a 
solid disk might shear the crowns off 
instead of using a spading action. 
CHAS. li. WING. 
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Summer Spray for the Scale. 
. II. It.. Worcester, 1 lass. —Will it be 
safe, or wise, as late as it now is, to 
spray apple trees for tlie Sail Jos6 scale? 
Will it not hurt the foliage and fruit of 
this season? Or will it be better to spray 
this Spring only for Codling moth, and 
go for the San ,ios<5 scale later in the Fall 
or Winter? 
Axs.—We should spray for the Cod¬ 
ling moth, give the trees good care to 
encourage growth, and not spray for 
the scale until Pali. A mixture strong 
enough to penetrate the scales would 
injure the foliage and buds. You could 
only hope to kill the young scales as 
they crawl about on the tree. You might 
kill one such brood, but within a short 
time other broods would come out and 
the tree would be plastered, unless you 
could keep spraying all Summer. The 
aim in spraying for scale is to kill the 
parent insects under the scales or crusts, 
and this can only be done with safety 
while the tree is dormant, for then 
strong mixtures can be used. Leave 
these trees until Fall—late October or 
November, and spray with oil. Next 
Spring soak them with lime and sul¬ 
phur. Many questions are asked about 
the Oyster-shell bark-louse. Usually 
this louse and the San Jose scale are 
not found close on the tree together, but 
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