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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
November 12, 
A BUNCH OF QUESTIONS 
Is this—end of October—a good time for 
transplanting young fruit trees, setting 
them out; also small fruit bushes? Should 
they he mulched when set out? 
This is the time for Fall planting if 
you prefer it. We should cut the trees 
well back, pack the soil firmly around 
the roots and mound around these about 
a foot high with soil. A mulch of ma¬ 
nure, straw or weeds around the tree will 
help by keeping the soil moist and cool 
and preventing earl}- freezing. Do not 
leave this mulch close to the tree, for 
in such case mice will work under and 
gnaw the trunk. In our own case we 
have given up Fall planting and set the 
trees in Spring. 
I have a quantity^—not very large—of 
shocked corn which has molded (mil¬ 
dewed) in the inside of the shocks. Can 
this be treated in any practicable way so 
that it may be fed without danger to 
either cows, horses or pigs, or all of 
them? It is now dried out. 
Our method of handling such fodder 
is to run it through a cutter into a light 
box or barrel, pour in boiling water and 
cover with a blanket and leave it to 
steam over night. It then makes a fair 
“imitation silage” for cattle. We would 
not feed it to horses. If the stalks are 
badly mildewed we should cut them and 
throw into the pens for the hogs to 
work over. 
What will he the best way to treat a rye 
and vetch crop in the Spring to turn under 
for green manure? Shall I use the Cut¬ 
away harrow first and then plow, or vice 
versa? Ground is sandy loam with many 
good-sized pebbles, and will be used for 
diversified crops. s. H. s. 
We do not use the Cutaway at all in 
such situations. When the growth is 
some two feet high we plow it under, 
hanging a chain in front to turn the rye 
down into the furrow. Then we use a 
roller or heavy drag and pack the ground 
solidly, fit the surface and plant with¬ 
out turning up the rye. A Cutaway or 
disk will bring much of the rye to the 
surface, and make a bad job in seed¬ 
ing and cultivating. We want the rye 
below ground, crushed into compact 
form. To turn the rye under and leave 
it open and loose is the worst sort of 
farm practice because the layer of rye 
will dry out and prevent the free pass¬ 
age of water through the soil. By 
packing it down we overcome this 
trouble. 
Peach Varieties for Michigan. 
W. E. L.> Kalamazoo, Mich .—I am think¬ 
ing of putting out a pcacli orchard, and am 
at a loss to know what kind to set out. 
My soil is well adapted to all kinds of 
fruit. I would like some advice in regard 
to kinds, also the kind most free from the 
yellows. 
Ans. —Most peach growers hesitate 
to recommend a list of varieties, as there 
are so many things to consider, such as 
location, kind of soil, etc. The Elberta 
may prove the most profitable variety 
one year and be a failure the next. 
There are few, if any, varieties that can 
always be depended upon. For good 
strong soil, the following should be 
good: Dewey, 10 per cent; Early Mich¬ 
igan, 10 per cent; Engel’s Mammoth, 10 
per cent; Elberta, 20 per cent; Kalama¬ 
zoo, 15 per cent; Oceana, 15 per cent; 
Late Crawford, 10 per cent; Hill’s Chili, 
10 per cent. For lighter land would drop 
out Oceana and Chili. In the matter of 
yellows, no variety seems to be immune 
or approximately so. Some years it 
will seem to spread worse in one va¬ 
riety, the next year in another, and this 
year in all. Try to buy trees that were 
not raised in a yellows-infected section, 
or that were surrounded by orchards ad¬ 
joining with the yellows. We have rea¬ 
son to believe that many canning factory 
pits find their way to the nursery rows, 
sometimes by being shipped South and 
returned as Tennessee seedlings and 
sometimes going direct. Many of our 
canning factories use only the very poor¬ 
est Reaches, with a strong probability of 
having all of the diseases in the cata¬ 
logue. Sometimes it is almost impossi¬ 
ble to secure buds from trees free from 
infection. These things have much more 
to do with yellows breaking out in an 
orchard than the selection of varieties 
immune from the yellows. L. J. post. 
Kent Co., Mich. 
What Kind of Lime ? 
R. H., Morristown, N. J .—Which sort of 
lime would be best to use on a clayey loam 
which gets a hard crust on it after rains? 
How much should I put on to the acre, 
and when would be the best time to put 
it on, now or in the Spring? The land 
has been used for vegetables for the last 
two years, so now is bare. In the Spring 
I expect to plant Lima beans, tomatoes, 
etc., on it. Ground limestone costs $3.60 
per ton at station, one mile distant; burnt 
lime, 15 cents per bushel at kiln about 15 
miles distant. The cartage on burnt lime 
would be about 10 cents per bushel. 
Burnt or air-slaked lime would prob¬ 
ably give the quickest results on that 
soil. Ground limestone would be slower, 
but would also give results. You should 
use at least 1.500 pounds of burnt lime 
or one ton of ground lime. By "burnt 
lime,” we mean the lump lime as it 
comes from the kiln after it has been 
slaked. In this condition it has crum¬ 
bled into a fine powder. The ground 
lime is the pure limestone, as it comes 
from the soil crushed and ground to a 
powder, without burning. In figuring 
the comparative cost of lime, we should 
get the cost of a pound as we do when 
estimating the value of fertilizers. A 
ton of the ground lime will contain not 
far from 1,100 pounds of actual lime. 
At $3.60 per ton, this means about one- 
third of a cent per pound. A bushel 
of lime weighs 80 pounds. Slaked lime 
will contain close to 1,450 pounds of 
actual lime in a ton, or 25 bushels. At 
25 cents a bushel this means $6.25 for 
1,450 pounds, or a little over four cents 
a pound. 
Hedge Plant For Colorado, 
G. IF. H., Denver, Col. —Wbat do you 
consider tbe best plant for an ornamental 
hedge here that is also a strong growing 
plant ? 
Ans. —I believe the most successful 
hedge plant that I have seen in Colorado 
is the common privet, Ligustrum vul- 
gare. Comparatively few of our hedge 
plants are entirely hardy here. Some 
of them, as Berberis and Japan quince, 
are used with fair success in sheltered 
places, but fo r the most part these shrubs 
are none too hardy, and occasionally 
winter-kill in spots, leaving a ragged 
hedge. Mr. D. M. Andrews, a nursery¬ 
man of Boulder, recommends the privet 
very highly, and we know there are sev¬ 
eral very g^od privet hedges in Boulder, 
Fort Collins and Greeley, also other 
towns of the State. The California 
privet, which is more largely used in the 
East, is not sufficiently hardy to be de¬ 
sirable here. I take it for granted that 
your correspondent is inquiring for a 
formal hedge. If a flowering hedge is 
desired the Spiraea Van Houttei may be 
used. E. p. b. 
Treatment For Bedbugs. 
Reader, New York. —Can you tell me 
how to clear bedbugs out of a house? 
Ans. —Ordinarily these pests can be 
got rid of by thorough work with gaso¬ 
line. This may be applied to furniture, 
woodwork, picture frames, mattresses, 
etc., without injury, and it will kill 
every bug it touches. It is very in¬ 
flammable, however, and must not be 
used near a lamp or fire. Where rooms 
or buildings become badly infested, 
fumigation with hydrocyanic acid gas 
may lie necessary. To do this make the 
room as tight as possible, and arrange 
a window so that it can be opened from 
the outside. For every 100 cubic feet 
of space in the room use one ounce by 
weight of cyanide of potassium, two 
ounces by measure of sulphuric acid 
(commercial strength), and four ounces 
by measure of water. Put the water 
into an earthen vessel, add the acid 
slowly, being careful not to spatter, drop 
in the cyanide and get out at once, with¬ 
out taking a breath, as the gas is a 
deadly poison to all breathing things. It 
is best to have the cyanide in a paper 
bag and drop the bag in the liquid. This 
slightly delays generation of the gas. 
Keep the room closed for at least an 
hour; then open and air thoroughly be¬ 
fore entering. This fumigation is so 
dangerous that it is to be recommended 
only as a last resort, after persistent 
work with gasoline has failed. Fumiga¬ 
tion with sulphur, burning at least one 
pound of the sulphur candles to every 
500 cubic feet of space, is reasonably 
effective if the room can be made tight. 
Set the candles on bricks in a tub of 
water, and leave the room without airing 
for at least three hours. The sulphur 
fumes are likely to tarnish metals and 
bleach wall paper. Try the gasoline 
treatment first, repeating it in 10 days 
or two weeks to get any insects that 
may have hatched since the first dose 
was given. 
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