1910. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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A LATE SWARM OF BEES. 
W. B. S., East Wareham, Mass. —Yester¬ 
day (September 14), we found a swarm of 
bees on a fence rail, and now have them in 
a hive. Is there a way to save these bees? 
They will not be able to make honey for 
their daily lise much longer this season. 
Ans. —Swarms of bees which issue too 
late to fill a brood chamber with comb 
and honey are absolutely worthless if 
hived in an empty hive. They may be 
saved if the swarm issues during hot 
weather, by regular feeding, which is a 
kind of imitation honey flow, and the 
bees will build comb and raise brood 
nearly as well as if the nectar were 
gathered from natural sources, but this 
plan would be impracticable in this lati¬ 
tude much later than July 15, and while 
it is an interesting occupation to en¬ 
gage in, it is very doubtful whether it 
would pay for the trouble. The only 
way of saving very late swarms is to 
have brood chambers filled with combs 
containing honey sufficient for winter¬ 
ing, and hiving the swarms on these 
combs, but as late as September 14 it 
would be an uncertain proposition how¬ 
ever managed. j. A. crane. 
LEAD AND OIL FOR FRUIT TREES, 
About 10 years ago a professor of tbc 
Virginia Experiment Station advised plant¬ 
ing apple trees with lead and oil, and I 
was credulous enough to go one cold No¬ 
vember day, when I had a day off from 
the shop where I work, three allies from 
my farm, and paint mv trees with white 
lead and oil. I had 130 fine l-i-year-okl 
trees. Tne material was bought fioin one 
of the most reliable firms in the city of 
Waterbury and was saiu to be pure lead 
and linseed oil. A short time after I had 
painted my trees I saw an article iu The 
I t. N.-Y. from some young man who had 
just painted a young peach orchard of four 
or live hundred trees, and it nad killed 
them all. My wife read it and said to me: 
“Well. I guess you have fixed your orchard 
now," but I replied that apples and peaches 
were not alike by considerable, and that 
I guessed Prof. Elmer would not recom¬ 
mend such treatment unless he know it was 
all right. Still I had some misgivings, and 
to tell the truth I felt a little uneasy about 
that orchard all the Winter. The orchard 
looked fine with the trees all so clean and 
white, and when the Spring opened and it 
was time for the apples to blossom nearly 
every one of those trees put out a solid 
mass of bloom. I took a walk through the 
orchard one Sunday and came into the 
house, saying to the wife: “I guess we 
won't have to buy apples this year.” But 
we would only for the fact that the day I 
painted had not been long enough for me 
to go over the whole of the orchard, so 
the rest of them did not get pai_ted and 
so they are alive and bearing fruit to-day, 
but the painted ones were all birt six of 
them pulled out that Summer, and carried 
to the woodpile, the most expensive fuel 1 
have ever burned. Not one of those trees, 
except the six mentioned, put out a leaf, 
but in a few days after bloss >miug the 
blossoms all withered up and toll off. I 
had Prof. Britton of the Connecticut Agri¬ 
cultural Experiment Station come and see 
the orchard, and lie said there was not the 
slightest question but that it was the paint 
that killed them. My trees which did not 
get painted were in splendid condition and 
are thriving to-day. A few wh- ic I only 
painted a narrow ring around the bottom 
were not seriously injured, although with 
several of them the bark came off part way 
around them, and they were put back for 
two or three years. If anyone says any¬ 
thing to me in favor of white lead and oil 
I say “Don't.” The orchard was replaced 
the vear following and is uow eignt years 
old. ' z. c. BOWEN. 
Connecticut. 
Paris Green On Seed Corn. 
On page 857 you say: “Does Paris green 
spoil seed corn? ” I think without doubt 
it does. Some years ago, when planting 
corn, we found the presence of moles iu 
the field. After planting about half the 
field we decided to dress the corn with a 
solution of Paris green and kill the moles. 
I don't know how many moles we killed, 
but we fixed the corn all right. Not a 
hill of it grew. We replanted that part 
of the field and it came along, right after 
the other. J. s. 
Michigan. 
It. N.-Y.—We doubt if you killed any 
moles, for these animals rarely if ever eat 
vegetable food. They live almost entirely 
upon insects. 
In regard to Paris green spoiling seed 
corn I will give you my experience. The 1 
land that I wanted to plant to corn being 
two miles out from the city, the seed has j 
to be protected from the crows. In years 1 
gone by I have used pine tar, but noticing 
in the The Rural New-Yorker about 
putting Paris green on in addition to tar 
for wireworms I prepared my seed corn 
that way. It seems to me that every 
kernel came up. I saw one stalk of field 
corn that the crows pulled; in the sweet 
corn they pulled 12 feet in one row. u. 
On page 837 I notice the complaint of 
Mr. Gibbs, about the seed corn which failed 
to germinate. It has been the practice to 
use Paris green and coal tar on seed corn 
for a number of years. I have forgotten 
where I first got the idea, but I presume 
it was in The R. N.-Y. It was only one 
of the hundreds of good things that you 
serve up to your readers every year. Mr. 
Gibbs must have used a large quantity of 
Paris green, or else it was a different kind 
of stuff from that generally on the market. 
I use one teaspoonful of coal tar and one 
tablespoonful of Paris green to one peck 
of corn. I have seen twice this amount 
of poison used without injury, but the 
above named quantity is sufficient. Crows 
or other pests have no appetite for corn 
treated in this way. I generally tar seed 
corn two or three weeks before planting. 
By doing this the tar has a chance to 
harden and does not stick in the nlanter. 
Thomaston, Conn. j. s. u. 
Poisoning Seed Corn. —On page 857 
you ask experience in regards to Paris 
green on seed corn. I saw the item last 
year and decided to trv it. I onlv plant 
about three acres. After selecting such 
cars qg apnealed to me most suitable of the 
selection made while husking, I shelled 
same, stirred it with coal tar unto black, 
took a lard kettle nearly full of flowers 
of sulphur, put in it a large teaspoonful 
aud a half of Paris green, stirring it well, 
then poured mixture gradually ever the 
tarred corn, stirring simultaneously. I only 
needed two-thirds of this suiphur-Paris 
green mixture. Tile weather was very dry 
for two or three weeks, but corn came up 
slow but fine. Cutworms were plentiful, 
also the worms that get in the stalk and 
feed on it while it grows were worse than 
I ever saw them. 1 think while it is harm¬ 
less, it is not beneficial. f. w. 
Egg Harbor, N. .1. 
Maple Tree Troubles. —In many parts 
of Connecticut during the past season 
maple leaves were perforated ea lv in the 
Summer by the attacks of canser worms, 
which were abundant locally. Later on, 
hundreds of trees were injured by what is 
commonly known as “sun scorch,’ or “leaf 
scorch,” being a physiological trouble 
caused by the inability of the trees through 
injury of the roots or excessive drought, to 
supplv a sufficient amount of moisture to 
take the place of that given off from the 
leaves. The leaves, theiefore, collapse and 
the tissues die. usually around the edges 
of the leaf first. This sometinns is ar¬ 
rested and goes no further, and sometimes 
it imolves the whole leaf. In fact, this 
past season there has been a great deal 
of thi trouble, and I have seen small trees 
entirely dead as the result. 
Conn. Exp. Station. w. e. britton. 
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