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THE RURAb NEW-YORKER 
CARE OF NEGLECTED PEACH TREES. 
I came in possession of a peach orchard 
that had been neglected; a good many of 
the trees are pretty good yet, hut a great 
many limbs are dead. Would it be all 
right to cut them out now, and later on, 
when the leaves have fallen, spray them 
for the scale? How should I make the 
stock solution of lime and sulphur? 
Pennsylvania. G. s. s. 
We should not cut the trees back now, 
but wait until late October or November. 
In order to do a good job you must cut 
into the living wood below the dead stubs. 
If this is done now the trees may bleed 
too much. Wait until they are dormant 
and then cut them back severely. Then 
soak them with soluble oil or lime sul¬ 
phur. The directions for making a “stock 
solution” are: In making 50 gallons of 
concentrate the proved re follows: Mate¬ 
rials: 50 pounds best stone lime (not over 
10 per cent, impurities), 100 pounds sul¬ 
phur, 50-55 gallons of total product at fin¬ 
ish. Put 10 gallons of water in kettle and 
start (ire. Place lime in kettle. After 
slaking is well started, add the dry sul¬ 
phur and mix thoroughly, adding enough 
water to maintain a thin paste, which re¬ 
quires about five gallons. After the slak¬ 
ing and mixing are completed, add water 
to tlie height of 50 gallons on the measur¬ 
ing stick and bring to boil and stir until 
the sulphury scum practically disappears. 
Then add water (preferably, but not nec¬ 
essarily, hot) to the 60-gallon height and 
boil again to 50 gallons, if storage space 
is limited. If it is not limited, a little 
more water may be added the third time 
and boiling stopped at about 55 gallons. 
The material should be kept well stirred, 
especially during the early stages of the 
process, and any lumps of sulphur or lime 
should be thoroughly broken up. 
THE OZARK COUNTRY IN MISSOURI. 
This is a very good sheep country; there 
is plenty of cheap land for pasture. The 
common pasture is Blue grass ; this land is 
cheap because it is rough, but it is good 
land. This is not a mountain country 
really; here at Springfield is a nice rolling 
country ; some as nice smooth land as you 
see anywhere. All over this southwest part 
of the State there is some smooth land and 
some rough ; along the rivers is the rough 
laud. There are not near as many sheep 
here as might be, still we find some scat¬ 
tered everywhere. This is considered an espe¬ 
cially good dairying country. Springfield 
is the largest city right here, about 42,UU0 
people. This is a splendid market. Joplin 
is about as large a mining town. This is 
thought to be a good apple country. There 
are lots of orchards here, some large ones. 
Ilowell county has more fruit than Green ; 
tlie counties bordering on the edge of Ar¬ 
kansas raise lots of peaches. There are 
thousands of acres of strawberries around 
Springfield, Republic, Monette and Golden 
City, all along the railroad. There are 
thousands of acres of land fit to put in 
orchard that can be bought cheap. Ho 
not understand me to say all laud here, is 
cheap, for it is not. Some land near Spring- 
field, small places, has sold for $150 per 
acre, but it is all the way down to $10 
or $15, according to the kind and where. 
We do raise almost all general farm crops. 
Some crops will be poor one year or an¬ 
other, but a general failure we never have. 
Chickens and eggs are produced in this 
country quite largely. There is a lot of 
small timber and some large, all hardwood, 
and as good water as anywhere on earth. 
Missouri. E. P. HORNING. 
Concerning markets, as the towns of this 
section are generally small, we ship to 
Kansas City and St. Louis, distance 150 and 
175 miles, respectively. For cattle, sheep, 
etc., we receive within 75 cents to $1 of 
the price of those markets. Dairying is 
not carried on extensively in tills section. 
Several creameries were built around here 
a few years ago, but were only operated a 
short time. Some ship/ cream to Kansas 
City now. A Swiss settlement on the south¬ 
ern slope of the Ozarks is making dairying a 
success. Sheep raising is not engaged in 
as extensively as could be in this country, 
although a good many are raised in dif¬ 
ferent localities. Fruit growing is carried 
on more extensively on the southern slope 
of the Ozarks. Late frosts are not so fre¬ 
quent. Fruit growing is. generally carried 
on on a large scale by individuals, a com¬ 
pany or community, so as to get better 
shipping facilities. Poultry raising in this 
country is immense; any town from .‘500 to 
700 population lias from one to three poul¬ 
try firms, who deal in poultry all the time. 
The soil of this country is varied. Some 
upland will make from 40 to GO bushels of 
corn and 20 to 30 bushels of wheat, and 
some not half that. Itut little attention is 
given to improving the land. Some of the 
land is quite rocky, known as (lint. Water 
excellent. Climate healthful. The country 
Is pretty well supplied with schools, 
churches, rural routes and telephones. Price 
of land ranges from $10 to $60 per acre. 
Some sections south of here land is cheaper, 
but less improved. Plenty of timber, though 
not as large ns in the East; 60 years ago 
this country was all prairie witli the ex¬ 
ception of scattering trees here and there, 
and along creeks was where the settlers 
got their wood. Now it makes considerable 
lumber over the country. I am a native 
of Ohio, and have resided here 14 years. 
Holivar, Mo. n. a. w. 
This is a good country for sheep, but 
sheep must have attention. I find they are 
bothered considerably with stomach worms. 
I would not recommend this as a fruit 
country, although there .are some very large 
orchards in Webster County. This is an 
ideal stock country for all kinds of stock ; 
dairy industry is growing very fast. There 
is room here for any number of energetic 
farmers. Young men can come here and 
do very well, if willing to stay and work. 
Our markets are Springfield. St. Louis and 
Kansas City. Land can be bought from $10 
to $50 an acre. We have mild Winters, 
good water and a very good class of people. 
I have not much knowledge of the rest 
of the Ozark country, only Webster County, 
in which I live, as I moved here five years 
ago from good old New York State. 
FRED BEST. 
USING SULPHATE OF COPPER 
On page 841 I note inquiry of E. J. W., 
Barrington, It. I., who has some pear trees 
that are not doing well. As to the Seckcl 
pears, the following is offered as a supple¬ 
ment to the answer of Prof. Van Deman. 
Two Sockets, dwarf trees, grafted on 
quince, were planted about 12 years ago 
on well-drained land, and received good at¬ 
tention. But they made poor growth. The 
leaves were thickly dotted witli black spots 
and the fruit shriveled, falling to the 
ground before maturity—tasteless and 
worthless. Tim- leaves also were shed be¬ 
fore frost. On tliis same piece of ground 
a number of peach trees had died years be¬ 
fore of a disease we call “cottonroot rot,” a 
fungus trouble which seems to originate in 
the soil. Since bluestone (sulphate of cop¬ 
per) is the body of most preparations for 
fungus diseases above ground, an effort 
was' made to reach the supposed under¬ 
ground trouble witli the same remedy. In 
tlie Fall of 1908 a quarter of a pound of 
finely pulverized bluestone was sprinkled 
on the ground around each of the Seckel 
pear trees, extending as far out as the 
branches reached. Fall and Winter rains 
dissolved the bluestone and carried it down 
into tlie ground. The following Spring and 
Summer the foliage of these trees was en¬ 
tirely free from the black spots, but the 
fruit still shriveled and fell off. This year 
both fruit and foliage are all right, though 
the trees have received but the one treat¬ 
ment. 
Some pecan trees planted on the same 
piece of land where the peach trees per¬ 
ished showed unmistakable symptoms of 
rosette during the Spring, of this year. An 
application of pulverized bluestone .on the 
surface was followed by a change for the 
better after the first good rainfall, tlie trees 
resuming growth. Applied in the same way 
it has caused’black spot disease to disap¬ 
pear from rose bushes. During the Fall 
of last year an ugly development of crown- 
gall was found around the collar of a hand¬ 
some Wlckson plum tree. Two ounces of 
bluestone dissolved in a quart of water 
slowly poured over and around the excres¬ 
cence caused dlstintegration to begin, and 
in a few weeks it was broken off, leaving 
the collar of the tree clean. The same tree 
bore a good crop this year. Not all of our 
fungus diseases are due to influences of at¬ 
mosphere, climate or season. Some of 
them originate in the soil, and I have come 
to regard bluestone as almost a specific for 
fungus troubles whether above or below 
ground. The ease with which it may be 
applied in underground troubles commends 
it. CHAS. L. EDWARDS. 
Texas. 
Hen Manure and Wood Ashes for Corn. 
You Eastern people sure go heavy on the 
commercial fertilizer. This Spring I put 
in two acres of clover sod in Golden Beauty 
corn. I mixed hen manure and wood 
ashes, three to one, and put a teacupful to 
each hill. Is that good practice? 
Arcadia, Mo. s. s. 
Eastern farmers use fertilizers because they 
pay. It is not good practice to mix hen 
manure and wood ashes. The ashes con¬ 
tain lime and the manure organic nitrogen. 
A combination of these two means a sepa¬ 
ration of ammonia, which escapes into the 
air. A better practice Is to put the hen 
manure in the hill and broadcast the 
ashes. If mixed together in the soil there 
will be little loss, for the soil will absorb 
and hold the ammonia. 
A Pear Disease.— I wonder if any of 
your readers have been troubled with pear 
leaves falling off this season? A good 
many of my trees have practically shed 
their leaves, which turn black and then- 
fall. Some of the pears seem to bo af¬ 
fected in the same way. These trees were 
sprayed ont-e with lime sulphur and once 
with Bordeaux and arsenate of lead. We 
have had a great deal of dry weather; in 
fact the past three seasons have been dry, 
and it may he that this has something to 
do with it- The trees in question are in 
both sod and cultivated land, tlie ones in 
sod are most affected. 
Massachusetts. wilfrid wheeler. 
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