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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
September 3, 
FARMERS’ CLUB 
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LIME-SULPHUR VS, BORDEAUX. 
In western New York I found, as Mr. 
Woodward recently stated, that the in¬ 
jury from the use,of Bordeaux was quite 
general, and in many instances severe. 
Scab seems to have been controlled al¬ 
most if not quite as effectively by the 
lime sulphur as with the Bordeaux and 
with little injury or russeting of the 
fruit. In some instances injury to 
foliage was quite severe from the use of 
the lime sulphur, though not nearly so 
bad as the Bordeaux injury to foliage 
proved to be in many instances. Re¬ 
sults indicate that one to 35 is about as 
strong as the concentrated lime sulphur 
washes can be applied to apple foliage, 
and that possibly just as good results 
and less damage or injury will result as 
from a one to 50 strength. Combined 
with arsenate of lead it has proved effec¬ 
tive in controlling Codling moth if ap¬ 
plied at proper time. Apparently the 
total New York apple crop is less than 
last year. The apples are free from aphis 
injury, but inspection shows in many 
orchards a very large proportion of Cod¬ 
ling moth injured fruit. I should think 
the price should range fully as high as 
last year. Peach prospects were never 
better than this year over the entire 
State, and I fully expect that the west¬ 
ern New York crop will total above last 
year’s report, given out by the New York 
Central Railroad by at least 500 cars. If 
there is not quite a movement of peaches 
to the Central West from this territory, 
prices should rule low at eastern points. 
B. D. B. 
Mildew on Rose and Cherry. 
J. J. D., Clinton, Ind .—What is the mat¬ 
ter with my rose bush and also cherry tree? 
They have a white coating on their leaves 
and branches which looks like mold, and 
the leaves die and fall off. I have sprayed 
with tobacco water and also with Paris- 
green, some lye and soapy water; of course 
1 used this at different times, but seem 
to do no good. 
Ans. —The disease is powdery mildew, 
or its ally, rose mildew, which is trouble¬ 
some to roses both under glass and out 
of doors, and also attacks cherries, 
apples, quinces and various wild plants 
belonging to the Rosaceae. On rose 
bushes it usually yields quickly to a dust¬ 
ing of powdered sulphur, put on in early 
morning while the leaves are wet with 
dew, of a spray of potassium sulphide 
may be used, one ounce of potassium 
sulphide (liver of sulphur) dissolved in 
one quart of hot water, then diluted 
with cold water to make up 2 l / 2 gallons. 
Use this spray on the affected cherry 
trees. Pick up and burn all dead leaves, 
and burn all badly affected twigs, as they 
will carry the disease. Hot days fol¬ 
lowed by damp and chilly nights often 
provoke a severe outbreak of mildew in 
the rose garden, and some years cherries 
are badly affected. 
Chemical Fertilizer for Strawberries. 
A. II. 8., Cortland, N. Y .—I am much in¬ 
terested in the article on strawberry cul¬ 
ture on page 725, but I would much like 
some definite instruction regarding fertiliz¬ 
ing, the quantity needed for a bed of 1,000 
plants. There has been no barnyard ma¬ 
nure used on the bed and will not be. I 
cannot get sulphate of potash here, but the 
dealers say if used now muriate is as goiod. 
Is that so? After putting it close to the 
plants should the fertilizer be covered with 
earth? 
Ans. —The mixture suggested was 
equal parts fine bone, acid phosphate and 
sulphate of potash. If no manure was 
used we should take equal parts of 
muriate or sulphate of potash. In our 
own practice we use about 800 pounds 
per acre. As we set the plants there are 
about 7,000 on an acre. For your 1,000 
plants, therefore, you might use 125 
pounds of the fertilizer. Muriate will 
answer. We should scatter the fertilizer 
around the plant—about five inches out, 
and work it into the soil with cultiva¬ 
tor and hoe. 
MASSACHUSETTSXROPS AND WEATHER. 
This has been a very peculiar Summer in 
Massachusetts, a fairly early Spring in 
which much early planting was done only 
to be undone, after getting well started, by 
late frosts. The writer lost all his bush 
beans and had early corn cut and set back, 
also strawberries hurt quite badly, though 
these recovered and blossomed after, and 
gave a fair crop after all. These sold extra 
well in local markets, as nearly everyone 
else about here had lost his entire crop. 
Peas were late as a rule in getting around, 
and sold for low prices, except the very 
early ones. Sweet corn is very late and 
has sold well up to date, bringing 20 and 
25 cents a dozen now. Most garden truck 
is selling very well in Boston market up to 
date, much better than usual. Apples are 
a large crop, especially the early ones, and 
as the market is clogged they are not 
selling well, even the fancy varieties put 
up in first-class shape only bring about 
half as much as usual. Pears sell very 
well, as the supply is small comparatively, 
blight having wiped out many of the best 
orchards near the city, and is working out 
this way also. It was very dry up to the 
first part of August; since then we have 
had some hard showers and rains and the 
ground is in fair condition now. One 
storm, mostly wind, struck a small section 
of Framingham very severely, tearing up 
trees a foot through at the trunk, took 
tomatoes and pole beans out of the ground, 
and did much damage generally in the sec¬ 
tion it struck. On August 11 the worst 
hailstorm I ever saw struck us at seven 
o’clock in the evening. It only covered a 
section of about a half mile wide and per¬ 
haps two miles long, but my place was 
right in center of it and got the full bene¬ 
fit. My tomatoes were all ruined, also 
my cucumbers, which had never looked 
finer; the corn was stripped and young 
apples were badly dented and what few 
cranberries left by the frosts were also de¬ 
stroyed. It hailed for about 15 minutes, 
the ground was covered all of an inch 
deep on the level. It also rained, or you 
might say poured, at the same time, filling 
all the hollows and washed the roads very 
badly. The hail was four inches deep about 
the house the next morning, and some was 
not melted at eleven o’clock. The milk 
supply is somewhat short, and has been 
ever since the strike was settled. Some did 
not put their milk on again, and others 
only a partial supply. If the conti’actor 
takes the two cents extra out for freight, 
as they say they will, I think it will cut the 
supply still more, as many will not stand 
it. A. E. V. 
Ilopkinton, Mass. 
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Gypsy, Nigger, Poole and Harvest King. Highest 
yielders. Heaviest weight per measured bushel 
at Exp. Sta. Recleaned. Grain bags and samples 
free. Low price. Write PROSPECT SEED 
FARM. Madison, O. 
and Peach Trees - Free Catalogue 
SALESMEN WANTED 
Mitchell’s Nurserv, Beverlv, Ohio 
Apple 
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LOVER HAY WANTED. From producer to consumer, 
50 tons prime clover. HAAS, MILLINGTON. N J. 
POOLE WHEAT —Recleaned, ready to sow. 
C. C. VALE, 
Write for prices and samples. 
New Carlisle, O. 
PEACH BUDS 
... TRUE TO NAME ... 
I can furnish buds of Leading Orchard Varieties, 
the stock for which was obtained from tlie best 
strains in the most famous orchard in N. Y. State 
and which I believe to be absolutely true to name. 
PRICES AND KINDS ON APPLICATION. 
A. 1). PRATT, Nurseryman, Plttsford, N.Y. 
Send for CIRCULAR 
to Originator of 
JONES WHEATS 
St. Louis Grand Prize and Red Wave Wheats. 
A. N. JONES, No. 118 Summit Street, Batavia, New York. 
TO EACH 
ONE QUART OF STRAWBERRIES plant 
KEVITT’S SYSTEM. Send for my Mid-Summer 
Catalogue. T. C. KEV1TT, Athcnin, N. J. 
orrn IA/UCAT Head’s Vermont. New 
OLlU WllLnl variety sown Sept. 20, Aver, 
yield 5ti tins, to acre. Big money in wheat. Writefor 
circular now. G. A. Read, Read's Exp. Farms, Charlotte, Vt. 
PARRAfiE CELERY. BRUSSELS SPROUTS AND 
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Peach and Apple Trees 
For fall or spring planting. Prices right; stock 
right. MYER & SON. Bridgevilie, Del. 
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Write for prices and samples to 
J. N. MacPHERSON, Pine View Farm, Scottsville, N. Y. 
That German Rye. 
THREE CHOPS IN ONE YEAH possible. 
Write me for particulars. 
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SEED WHEAT and NURSERY STOCK 
Red Wave Wheat and First Class Fruit Trees for 
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