1914 . 
46 
The Home Acre. 
Tree Surgery. 
Can a sugar maple tree be saved if 
decayed part is cut out clean and filled with 
cement 3:1 for grouting, finished with 
cement and sharp sand 1:2? The cavity 
extends from the ground to a height of 
12 feet. About 1,500 pounds of material 
will be required to do the work. The 
tree showed good vitality this year. 
Pennsylvania. s. I. 
Yes, such tree can be saved if there is 
still enough of the live bark left to pro¬ 
vide for a proper sap circulation. The 
operation may be likened to filling a tooth. 
All the decayed wood in the cavity must 
be cut out. Then it should be washed 
with an antiseptic solution, and the con¬ 
crete packed in solidly so as to keep out 
all air and moisture. Good judgment is 
required in doing this but it is possible to 
save many trees which have begun to 
decay. 
Failure of Peas and Onions. 
I limed my garden, about 100 feet 
square, with 400 pounds hydrated lime, 
cultivated it in and then cultivated in 
four pounds of Crimson clover seed. I 
do not think that over 200 plants were 
the result. What was the trouble, poor 
seed or too much lime, or what? What 
is lacking when peas and onions are 
almost failures, and every other sort of 
truck produce abundantly. f. h. 
Ohio. 
That was less than one ton of lime to 
the acre, not enough to do any damage. 
Crimson clover does not usually require 
as much lime as Re<j clover or Alfalfa. 
You probably had a lot of “dead” seed. 
Where other crops do well while peas 
and onions fail we suspect maggots on 
the onions and plant lice on the peas. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
the slightest trouble with them, except 
that they are heavy to handle. I would 
not go back to the old single-glazed sash¬ 
es on any account. w. f. massey. ' 
Fruit Questions. 
Transplanting Large Trees. 
I have 1G0 peach trees that are planted 
on a hillside, southeast exposure. They 
were set two years ago; some were bear¬ 
ing this yeai’, and the owners of the land 
sold the land this month. Would it be 
wise to transplant them, in Spring? 
Allentown, l’a. s. r,. 
We should try it. Start early while 
the soil is moist and before growth starts. 
Cut back half to two-thirds of the top. 
Dig up with a large ball of earth around 
the roots and transplant as quickly as 
possible in moist earth. Dig a hole just 
a little larger than the ball of root earth 
and plant about an inch deeper than the 
trees now stand. If possible pour a 
bucket of water around the trees after 
Setting, throwing soil over and pack 
down hard. You will have to make spe¬ 
cial arrangement with the owner of the 
hind, for such tx'ees have become a part 
of the freehold or real estate. 
Treatment of Fallow Land. 
I have a field of three acres that I am 
not prepared to utilize for about three 
years. What would be the best treatment 
for it? I want something that will take 
care of itself and at the same time in¬ 
crease fertility. Would Sweet clover 
answer, and will it re-seed itself? Laud 
is gravelly light clay, well drained. 
W. H. 
In this case, whei'e there is no need 
of working the soil for several years, we 
should start clovers. You will probably 
have to use lime at the beginning. Fit 
the soil well and seed to Sweet clover as 
usually advised, and add three pounds 
each of Red and Alsike. Let the crop 
alone to mature, fall down and reseed 
itself. 
Moisture on Double Glass. 
I have some double-light sashes which 
1 am using on a cold frame. These sashes 
steam so between the glass that the sun 
never gets through to the plants. The 
steam condenses so that the drops of 
water collect as large as a five-ceut piece, 
I raise the sash every nice day but it 
does not seem to help. Will you advise 
me? I aixi afraid this moisture will 
freeze and break the glass. j. w. s. 
Center Moriches, N. Y. 
I have been using the double-glazed 
hotbed sashes for three years, and have 
never found any such difficulty on a cold 
frame. I do not use hotbeds, and it may 
be that on a hotbed there may be some 
accumulation of moisture between the 
glasses. I have these sashes on lettuce 
now heading finely (Dec. 20) and have 
never seen any accumulation of moisture 
under the outer glass. If the glazing is 
tight I cannot see how such a conclition 
can arise, and really I do not thiuk that 
it can do serious harm. I have a large 
lot of these sashes, and have never had 
1. I have a Rome Beauty tree, about five 
years old, that was doing finely; but this 
Fall I noticed the leaves commence to die 
rather early. Two weeks later I exam¬ 
ined it, dug away the dirt, and from the 
top of the ground down the bark was 
dead all the way around the tree, and the 
roots seem to be all dead, too. What is 
the cause and what is the remedy? 2. I 
need about a dozen plum ti’ees to fill out 
a row. How are the Wickson and Climax 
for a home market? 3. I can grow black 
currant bushes, but they don’t bear like 
the red ones. What is the trouble? 
Beaver Falls, Pa. w. 3. 
1. There may have been something piled 
about the base of this apple tree that 
heated and thus killed the roots at their 
junction with the trunk. Or, it may be 
crown gall or woolly aphis that has been 
working on the roots for years past. As 
to a “remedy,” I would suggest that there 
is no remedy now but dig out the old tree 
and plant another. 2. The Wickson and 
Climax plums are of the Japan type, and 
will succeed in Pennsylvania. The fruit 
sells fairly well. It will be necessary to 
spray the young fruit thoroughly to pre¬ 
vent rotting, for this is one of the trou¬ 
bles that has to be met in the culture of 
this fruit. 3. There is much complaint of 
the black currants not bearing well, and 
yet there are cases of good bearing. It 
is probably because of differences in va¬ 
rieties, and any who have bushes that bear 
well should let it be known and give the 
name of the varieties that succeed. There 
is a good market for the fruit. 
II. E. VAN DEMAN. 
Mixed Chemicals. 
I can get two carloads very cheap of a 
mixture consisting of the following chem¬ 
icals in powder form : (50% barium. 19% 
lime, 15% nitrate of soda. 2% sulphate 
of soda, 4% water. Will you tell me 
whether this? has any value as a fertilizer, 
or whether I can mix it with anything to 
make it valuable as a fertilizer? 
E. Aurora, N. Y. c. w. E. 
If this mixture contains 15 per cent of 
average nitrate of soda it shows 2.4 per 
cent, of nitrogen. We doubt if it will pay 
to mix it with other chemicals. We 
should broadcast and harrow it in for 
corn, grass or grain, and use potash and 
phosphoric acid in the hill or drill. 
Sod for Strawberries and Oats. 
I am a back-to-the-lander, having 
bought an abandoned farm up here in 
Vermont. Will strawbemes amount to 
anything if set out on sod ground plowed 
in Qie Fall and cross-plowed in the 
Spring? Will oats do anything if sown 
on sod. J. F. M. 
Halifax, Vt. 
The troubles with old sod for straw¬ 
berries are white grubs and weeds. Such 
sod is usually full of these grubs, and 
they are death to berry plants. The grass 
and weeds follow an old sod, and are 
hard to keep down. It is better to have 
some hoed crop follow the sod. Oats will 
do quite well after sod. 
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the first year afterstumps are 
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