7-4 
January 17, 
THE. KUKAb NEW-YOKKEK 
Catawba-Concord Grapes. 
Can you toll us anything about the 
Catawba-Concord grape? Does it prove 
all the claims made for it? w. F. B. 
Ann Arbor, Mich. » 
The Catawba-Concord is a compara¬ 
tively new production, fruited for the 
first time the past season. However, the 
fruit was grown from wood of the Cataw¬ 
ba-Concord grafted upon a six-year Con¬ 
cord root. The grafting was done in the 
Spring of 1012. But a few small clus¬ 
ters, due probably to Winter killing of 
buds, as a result of but one rank growing, 
some having developed the previous sea¬ 
son. The quality of the fruit indicates 
that the variety possesses possibilities. 
Another year we expect to fruit it on its 
own roots. F. E. G. 
about 
rid of 
where 
as it 
Removing Large Stump. 
When I laid out my place 15 years ago, 
a poplar tree wps planted on a terrace 
bank on the corner of my stable. It 
died last Summer and I have had it cut 
down. It has left a large stump, 
three feet wide. How can I get, 
it, as 1 want to plant a lied cedar 
it was? It cannot be dug out, 
would destroy many shrubs planted near 
it, and cannot be blasted out as it would 
disturb the foundations of my stable. My 
old colored man says he thinks holes 
could be bored in it and something put 
in these holes. frank h. presby. 
New Jersey. 
The papers often contain stories about 
using saltpeter to “rot out stumps,” but 
such a plan will not satisfy you. Under 
the circumstances we should try the fol¬ 
lowing : Dig the soil away from one side 
of the stump and get some expert wood 
chopper to cut it off ns far below ground 
ns possible. Cut it much the same as 
wooden meat blocks are cut off. Then 
bore several holes in the stump and pour 
in kerosene. Build a little furnace of 
brick and soil over the stump with a 
long stove pipe runing out from the side 
away from the barn. Leave an opening 
in the other side for draft and start a 
fire with kindling on top of the stump. 
By watching the tire carefully and blow¬ 
ing in on feed draft, you can burn the 
stump down to the roots. Leave the 
ashes in, fill with soil and plant. 
New York State Fruit Growers. 
The New York State Fruit Growers’ 
Association started their program on Jan¬ 
uary 7. In addition to the usual reports 
of committees, there were addresses by 
the following persons: Prof. E. I*. Felt, 
of Albany, as State Entomologist, and 
Prof. Glenn W. Herrick, of Ithaca, spoke 
on the fruit-tree leaf-roller and its con¬ 
trol. Prof. F. G. Stewart, of Geneva, 
and Prof. Donald Ruddick, of Ithaca, 
discussed plant diseases; and Prof. P. J. 
Parrott, of Geneva, talked on spraying. 
Mr. Edward Van Alstyne had charge of 
the question box. Prof. F. C. Sears, of 
Amherst, Mass., gave the story of his six 
years’ experience in running a fruit farm. 
Seth J. Bush, of New 7 York, discussed the 
problems of peach production, and also 
of cooperative marketing. Prof. A. P. 
Sandies, of Columbus, Ohio, was also 
down for a talk. 
Prof. U. P. Hendrick, of Geneva, gave 
a report of his experiments, covering the 
past 10 years, on sod mulch vs. culture. 
'There was also a prize speaking contest 
open to students in the Department of 
Pomology at Cornell. Dr. W. II. Jordan, 
of Geneva, discussed the relations be¬ 
tween Federal and State Agricultural 
Extension Service. Prof. C. S. Wilson, 
of Ithaca, gave an address on packing 
sipples. Dr. W. J. Spillman, of Wash¬ 
ington, discussed the cost of growing 
apples, and Prof. II. B. Knapp, of Ithaca, 
compared prices of apples for 10 years. 
Mr. F. E. Gladwin gave the story of a 
live-year fertilizer experiment with grapes, 
and O. M. Taylor, of Geneva, started a 
discussion of bush fruits. There was the 
usual tremendous exhibit of fruit, in 
charge of Mr. Geo. R. Schaiiber, and a 
great exhibit also of all appliances and 
materials and machinery needed for culti¬ 
vating or caring for fruit. 
A local paper tells of a clergyman 
who received this note telling him to per¬ 
form a marriage ceremony: “This is to 
give you notice that I and Miss Jemima 
Arabella Brearly is coming to your church 
on Saturday afternoon next to undergo 
the operation of matrimony at your 
bands. Please be prompt, as the cab is 
hired by the hour.”—London Opinion. 
COMING FARMERS’ MEETINGS. 
Massachusetts Fruit Growers’ Associa¬ 
tion, convention and trade exhibit. 
Springfield, Mass, January 15-17. 
New York State AfP'h'ultural Society 
annual meeting and convention, Albany, 
N. Y„ January 20-21. 
Vermont State Poultry Association, 
seventeenth exhibition, St. Albans, Vt., 
January 20-22. 
Connecticut State Dairymen’s Associa¬ 
tion, Hartford, Conn., January 20-22. 
Ohio State Horticultural Society, an¬ 
nual meeting, Cleveland, ().. January 20- 
23, in connection with the Fifth Annual 
Ohio State apple show, 
Virginia State Horticultural Society, 
annual meeting, Richmond, Va., January 
21-23. 
Annual Corn Show, Pennsylvania Live 
Stock Breeders’ Association, Pennsyl¬ 
vania Dairy Union, Pennsylvania Horti¬ 
cultural Association. American Berk¬ 
shire Congress, York, Pa., January 20-22. 
New York State School of Agriculture, 
Alfred, N. Y„ short course in agriculture 
beginning January 2G; Farmers’ Week, 
February 23-20. 
Forty-first annual meeting, New 7 Jer¬ 
sey State Board of Agriculture, Trenton, 
N. J., January 29-30. 
Farmers’ Week. State School of Agri¬ 
culture, Canton, N. Y., January 26-31. 
Ohio Corn Improvement Association, 
Mansfield. O., January 27-30. 
Western New York Horticultural So¬ 
ciety, Rochester, N. Y., January 28-29- 
30. 
Farmers’ Week. Ohio State University, 
Columbus, Ohio, February 2-0. 
Sixth National Corn Exhibition, State 
Fair Ground, Dallas, Texas, February 
10-24. 
Granite State Dairymen’s Association, 
Concord, N. H., February 12. 
Massachusetts Agricultural College, 
Amherst, ten-weeks’ Winter course, Jan¬ 
uary 0-March 13. 
Thirty-ninth annual meeting of the 
American Association of Nurserymen, 
Cleveland, O., J une 24-20. 
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