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THE RUKAI. NEW-YORKER 
767 
LITTLE ALFALFA SERMONS. 
No. II. 
In 1904, we sowed 1J4 acre to Alfalfa 
during the month of May. We did not 
inoculate the soil. May was at that 
time deemed the best time to seed to 
Alfalfa. Weeds largely took posses¬ 
sion. We clipped them off with the 
mower twice during the season. We 
applied about 25 bushels lime per acre, 
and 1000 pounds of fertilizer per acre. 
This was next after a corn crop, and the 
result of this experience was a positive 
failure. In 1905, we sowed this plot to 
oats and peas, applying about 500 pounds 
of fertilizer per acre; cut a bountiful 
crop, and soiled for cattle. As soon as 
this crop was removed we plowed the 
ground, and kept in good condition un¬ 
til August 10, when we inoculated the 
1J4 acre, again seeded to Alfalfa and had 
a good catch. Applied at this time 
about 800 pounds additional fertilizer, 
and 25 bushels additional lime. We be¬ 
lieve we cut from this 1% acres the next 
season not less than six tons of hay. 
After the second year plantain and 
other grasses began to crowd out the 
Alfalfa. 
We mowed this 1% acre five years, 
with a decreasing yield from year to 
year, although we top-dressed each 
Spring and used the Cutaway harrow. 
This Spring we plowed this plot, and it 
is now in potatoes, and on August 10 
we shall seed to Alfalfa again with 
every assurance of a successful out¬ 
come. We have since sown two more 
acres with fairly good success, but not 
as bountiful a yield as the first crop 
gave us the second year. We located 
our Alfalfa near our farm buildings, 
which we did for convenience. This 
soil is rather heavy, as it has a clay 
subsoil. 1 would choose an open sub¬ 
soil if it was convenient by preference, 
as Alfalfa is a deep-rooting plant. A 
sandy loam, gravelly subsoil, would be 
my ideal of conditions to bring best re¬ 
sults. In again seeding the first plot 
next August I shall apply about 50 
bushels stone lime and 1,000 pounds of 
chemical fertilizers, and shall expect a 
bountiful harvest. I must add that my 
experience has taught me not to keep 
Alfalfa longer than three years before 
reseeding, as other plants than the Al¬ 
falfa takes possession and root out the 
Alfalfa. My tenant last year pastured 
my three acres and did much damage. 
The first mowing was not as good as 
the second will be this yeai. 
New Jersey. d. c. lewis. 
PECAN WORKED ON HICKORY. 
I send you the enclosed merely to 
show what I have been doing with the 
method of budding described in your 
issues of January 22 and 29 this year; 
and also to call your attention to the 
progress we are making in budding the 
pecan on hickory. I feel every assur¬ 
ance that the experiments will prove a 
success—giving the Missourian’s proof 
—show it. The pecan buds on hickory 
undoubtedly take as well and grow off 
as well as when put on another pecan. 
Not only that, but I feel satisfied now, 
after an experience of four seasons, that 
buds from trees in the warm, humid cli¬ 
mate of the coast region become more 
hardy when put upon native pecan and 
hickory stocks in the up-country. This 
is in line with the work of the Citrus 
fruit men, who by budding on hardier 
stocks are slowly but surely extending 
their field northward. Think of what it 
means successfully to work the hickory 
and prove its value as a stock for pe¬ 
cans ! c. L. EDWARDS. 
Texas. 
R. N.-Y.—Mr. Edwards refers to an 
article he wrote for Farm and Ranch. 
A summary of his experience with this 
method of grafting for four seasons 
shows varied results but on the whol« 
its advantages haye been demonstrated. 
Mr. Edwards says: 
The successful setting of pecan buds by 
any and all methods Is a work of pains¬ 
taking and careful attention to details. Not 
only must this detail work be done prop¬ 
erly. but weather conditions, the condition 
of tlie tree and of your budding, must all 
be favorable. And when careful work fails, 
there is just one thing to do : Try again. 
No quitter will ever make a successful nut 
grower, nor a successful grower of any 
other fruit. 
Those who have not succeeded with 
Spring-set buds, must have neglected some 
of tin* instructions in my former articles. 
Two instances will illustrate my meaning. 
One gentleman living in Oklahoma owned 
land having a natural pecan growth, many 
of ttie trees being small. He did his best, 
but could never make a saving of more 
than 10 per cent. On visiting me, and hav¬ 
ing me to do some work, explaining details 
as the work progressed, he suddenly ex¬ 
claimed : “I see; I see where I missed it; 
I didn’t tie on my buds tight enough.” 
Neglect of this detail is fatal every time. 
Another citizen of a southwestern county 
came to see me on a similar mission ; he 
bad been putting buds from one-year-old 
wood on stocks having wood two and three 
years old. With careful work, a fair sav¬ 
in" can sometimes be made by putting one- 
year buds on two-year wood, but in Spring 
work it is better that both should be of 
the same age. 
This method has several young orchards 
to its credit, and in some of them pecan 
buds were put on hickory. Having an 
anxiety to know just what pecan buds 
would do when put on hickory. I proposed 
to some farmer friends living near Edge- 
wood, in Van Zandt County, to go over and 
work some young hickory trees and sprouts 
for them, making no charge for the service, 
if they would pay my railroad fare and 
take care of me. To this they readily as¬ 
sented. The buds did excellently, though a 
good .many were lost through want of ex¬ 
perience in the after care of them. Some 
six weeks ago I visited a few of these 
young trees. They had made good growth 
and were heavily fringed with male flowers. 
It was not time yet for the bearing blooms 
to appear, though I felt confident they 
would do so. 
i THOSE HOPE FARM STRAWBERRIES. 
Your notes on strawberries are very 
interesting. I was watching for this 
year's report to see the results of your 
methods, as I suppose others were, too. 
The fact now comes out plainly that with 
some varieties and on some soils the hill 
culture does not work well. I failed 
at it, with the Sharpless, when that vari¬ 
ety was new, and while the subject of 
varieties is dangerous ground, still I 
read everything I find on the different 
varieties and their behavior under vari¬ 
ous conditions. Even the best descrip¬ 
tion that can be given does not always 
convey to the mind of the reader what 
soils are like in another part of the 
country. Having spent two years of my 
childhood near Mr. Hunt's place, and 
having eaten watermelons grown there, I 
take the more interest in what he says. 
There is but very little such land as his; 
at least in his vicinity. For instance, 
note the difference in conditions five miles 
north of Mr. Hunt’s place. Mr. Kevitt 
may also be working with conditions 
very different from yours or mine. 
John Peters, who lived at Christiana, 
Del., on a red clay soil, could not learn 
from correspondence why his young 
chickens did not behave just as the 
chicks of Hammonton, N. J., so he went 
to Hammonton. As soon as he stepped 
off the train he saw what no one had 
made him understand. Hammonton 
was a bank of sand, and few persons 
could even imagine Mr. Hunt’s soil or 
that of five miles to the north of him, 
without seeing it; or the soils of Kent 
and Sussex, Del. Again I am waiting 
to see if you can keep a bed of straw¬ 
berries by the hill system for several 
years, as it will not do well here. 
Newcastle Co., Del. 
A. E. RITTENIIOUSE. 
GETTING RID OF HONEYSUCKLE. 
G. II’. Snow /fill, ild .—It lias boon 
but a few years since a sprig of honey¬ 
suckle wafc planted upon my iot in town. 
To-day it is running all around and cov¬ 
ering the enclosure of the five acre lot, and 
constantly trying to got inside, and often 
succeeding, so much so that it has become a 
decided nuisance. 1 have tried at great 
expense to get rid of it by thorough grub¬ 
bing and raking in August, but when Spring 
comes, the honeysuckle comes too. Now 
can it not be eradicated by copious drench¬ 
ing of Paris green diluted? Would it go to 
tin* roots and kill them? If efficacious 
this would prove cheaper than constant 
grubbing. If not Paris green cannot some 
other stuff be recommended to do the trick? 
A ns. —I have had the same task in 
North Carolina, and here, right across 
the street from my place, the honey¬ 
suckle is covering the remains of an old 
Osage orange hedge. Which of them 
is the greater nuisance I am hardly pre¬ 
pared to say, but I am watching the 
honeysuckle to keep it from getting on 
my side of the street. In Raleigh, North 
Carolina, it had matted completely one 
part of my garden before it came into 
my possession. I got it completely un¬ 
der control by cutting it off persistently 
all Summer and not attempting to grub 
it out. No plant can long survive if it 
is not allowed to make green leaves 
abov’e ground, and the continual hoeing 
off of the tops during the whole Sum¬ 
mer will destroy the honeysuckle. Grub¬ 
bing simply increases the number of 
plants, and the only way to stop it is 
never to let it show above ground, but 
to clean off every shoot as it appears. 
After one season of this persistent treat¬ 
ment I planted the land in hoed crops 
and had hardly any more trouble with 
the honeysuckle. I am applying the 
same treatment to nut-grass, with which 
my garden, which I bought only last 
Winter, was infested, and already nut- 
grass is getting scarce, for I have gone 
after every shoot every day this Sum¬ 
mer. With these persistent things the 
only way is absolutely to prevent their 
growing. Grubbing and then letting 
alone will never do it, no matter if done 
in August or any other month. If no 
green shoots are allowed the roots must 
die. w. F. MASSEY. 
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