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THIS R.TJRA.L, NEW-YORKER 
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VARIETIES OF APPLES FOR OHIO. 
F. TV. B., Begley, O .— I would like to 
have some advice regarding selecting va¬ 
riety of apple trees for a 12-acre orchard- 
I am located in eastern Ohio, Columbiana 
Co. Would the Stayman Winesap be profit¬ 
able in this latitude? Is it an early bearer 
and thrifty grower? Has anyone bad ex¬ 
perience with Sweet clover in orchard, to 
be used as mulch? I understand it is a 
rank grower and would not have to be 
reseeded. 
Ans.— The inquirer does not state 
what season he prefers to have his apples 
mature, but from the acreage it is pre¬ 
sumed the planting is to be of Winter 
varieties. He is located sufficiently' far 
north to ' be unquestionably in the 
“Baldwin latitude" of Ohio, and this 
variety would no doubt be a profitable 
one for him to plant freely. The Stay- 
man is very promising—especially from 
central Ohio southward. It may prove 
to do well even as far north as Colum¬ 
biana County. The young trees as a 
rule do not show as highly-colored fruit 
as trees that are older, and comparative 
dullness of color is one of the objec¬ 
tions to the Stayman. The Stayman at 
the experiment station, in 1909, devel¬ 
oped beautiful color, but the trees are 
now 10 or 17 years old. Previous to 
1909 there had been poor coloring. The 
Jonathan and Grimes Golden should be 
among the varieties profitable for the in¬ 
quirer to grow. If the trees could be 
found I should also highly recommend 
the Baltimore—one of the most depend¬ 
able and profitable apples at our experi¬ 
ment station, which is in the same lati¬ 
tude. Canada Red is also one of the 
good varieties for northern Ohio. North¬ 
ern Spy does excellently for early Win¬ 
ter market, but is longer in coming into 
bearing than Grimes and Jonathan, 
which will probably be more profitable in 
the long run. There are a great list of 
newer varieties that might be mentioned, 
but as it takes many years to determine 
the real value of varieties for commer¬ 
cial planting, it is safer to “stay by” the 
better known and dependable old ones. 
Personally, I do not know of any or¬ 
chards in which Sweet clover is being 
used. I am not favorably impressed 
with coarse growing plants of other 
species which I have observed growing 
in orchards. A smooth, thickly set cov¬ 
ering of finer grasses is preferable. 
When a coarse, heavy growing class of 
plants is utilized for this purpose there 
is left, after cutting, a very unpleasant 
crop of stubble to work over and among, 
with much almost bare surface of the 
soil exposed to the parching sun where 
the large plants have shaded and killed 
out practically all the finer growths. 
The Sweet clover would be all right for 
mulching, but I should prefer to grow 
it upon some waste part of the farm, if 
such an area exists, and haul it to the 
orchard, endeavoring to secure an or¬ 
chard covering of Blue grass, Red-top, 
other countries, and this statement holds 
true with regard to this grass. It is known 
under the name of large water-grass and 
golden crown-grass, and has been tried 
quite extensively in this country. In the 
Southern States it appears to be at home, 
and may give fair results there, but it is 
not likely that it will ever be of economic 
importance in the North. On applying to 
the Department of Agriculture for infor¬ 
mation we received the following from the 
Bureau of Plant Industry, which is a fair 
statement of the matter. Our advice is 
not to spend time or money on this grass 
in the Northern States. 
“It is rather unfortunate that this grass 
should have received such extensive adver¬ 
tising as it has in this country, as it has 
led many farmers to go to considerable 
trouble and expense in testing it in sections 
where it is by no means adapted. The 
grass, as you doubtless know, is a native 
of the Southern States, and in certain lo¬ 
calities it is quite valuable as a hay and 
pasture grass. The areas upon which it 
grows in pure culture are by no means 
large, but it is, nevertheless, valuable on 
account of the quantity and quality of for¬ 
age produced. We have conducted numer¬ 
ous tests with this grass on cultivated land, 
but so far our results have not been very 
satisfactory. Although the grass does well 
in many places on unbroken land, it does 
not seem to thrive under cultivation. While 
the grass has undoubtedly proven a valuable 
forage plant in Australia, It is very ques¬ 
tionable whether it will ever be very popu¬ 
lar as a cultivated crop in any portion of 
this country.” o. h. powbll. 
Acting Chief of Bureau. 
Why Timothy Killed Out. 
J. It. II., Indianapolis, Ind .—I have a i 
Timothy meadow seeded according to the 1 
Clark method in 190S, and from which a 
good crop was taken this season. Grass 
was slow in ripening and cutting was about 
two weeks later than usual, so that it was 
about July 20 when the ground was bare. 
About three acres have never been green 
since and are now as brown as in Winter 
and apparently dead. Just after cutting 
there was much rain followed by hot 
weather. Can any of your readers tell why 
it died? Was it scalded? The rest of the 
meadow is all right, green and growing. 
There was no lack of rain. Potash and 
phosphate in proper quantities were put on 
last Fall, and nitrate of soda in the Spring 
in two doses. Why did it die? 
Ans.—W e do not know. It might be j 
due to any of the following causes—or ; 
others: The soil may be sour or have, 1 
spots somewhat like the “alkali” in , 
western soils. The grass may have been 
cut too late and too close. In such cases 
we have known Timothy to fail in a very 
dry season. The soil may be a sticky 
clay in spots and poorly drained. In 
such case in a dry season the soil would 
bake hard on such spots, and the grass 
being rooted quite shallow would die out 
when its roots were destroyed. This is 
not uncommon. Red-top stands such 
treatment better than Timothy. 
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October, 1911. Then he can use same 
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