1914. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
141 
The Home Acre. 
. Value of Lime. 
On page 11, in answer to M. M. W. of 
Nyack, N. Y., you recommend using one 
ton of slaked lime per acre? I)o you 
mean water-slaked or air-slaked? I am 
in about the same fix as M. M. W., with 
this difference. My top soil is sand from 
two to four feet deep, then clay, but it 
stands drought well. This field of 20 
acres has been cropped for 25 years, and 
the soil is getting thin. I am quoted 
prices of pure lime at $5.GO per ton and 
hydrated lime at $7.30. The field is seed¬ 
ed to Winter rye now. Would it pay me 
to turn this rye under next Summer, and 
follow your directions to M. M. W. at the 
cost of lime as quoted above? It looks 
to me like a very expensive way to build 
up this field. As I figure, it will cost 
about $13 per acre. D. w. T. 
Quaker Springs, N. Y. 
We do not quite see how you figure 
the cost of $13 unless you count the value 
of the rye. IIow can you strengthen this 
soil at less cost? Figure the price of 
manure or fertilizer needed to make this 
soil productive. The rye will add humus 
and the lime will sweeten the soil and 
help its texture. If you will sow buck¬ 
wheat and clover after the rye, let the 
buckwheat die down and the clover grow, 
you will improve still further. On the 
other soil mentioned the top soil had 
been taken off and we advised slaked lime. 
In your case on sandy soil the ground 
limestone will answer. We referred to 
air-slaked lime though there is no diffei’- 
ence unless too much water is used. 
Barren Plum Trees; Hog Manure for Apples. 
1. I have some Quackenboss plum trees 
which fail to set fruit, although they 
blossom full every year. What is the 
best thing to do to make them produce 
a crop? These trees have been pruned 
and are making a good growth. 2. I had 
about 250 barrels of Baldwin and North¬ 
ern Spy apples this Fall. They were 
light colored—the Baldwins were covered 
with bitter-rot, and the Northern Spy 
were covered with smut. I have been 
fertilizing with hog manure. These ap¬ 
ples were poor keepers. w. B. 
Weston, Mass. 
1. It is quite probable that the plum 
trees do not set their fruit because of 
lack of pollination of their flowers, for 
there are some varieties that are noted 
for this fault, the Quackenboss being one 
of them. If this is the cause the remedy 
would be to graft a few of the highest 
branches with some other variety that 
will pollinate the bloom, and almost any 
two that bloom at the same time will 
branches have died off. .but it is not a 
thing that a man usually succeeds with 
the first time he tries it. For methods 
see Bulletin 254, Bureau of Plant In¬ 
dustry, U. S. Department of Agriculture. 
But I should think that there might be 
a good deal of difficulty in getting such 
buds to start. It would certainly be 
necessary to cut back the tree severely 
to get the new buds to start and that 
cutting alone ought to start up dormant 
buds already present on the tree. My 
own idea as to getting such a tree into 
shape again would be to cut off every¬ 
thing except one vigorous shoot and then 
to cut this back to three, or four buds so 
as to start a new head. It is desirable, 
probably, to have nut trees headed higher 
than fruit trees. I do not know the 
cause of the injury that II. M. W. re¬ 
fers to. It may be due to lack of vigor 
from various causes, or it might be due 
to what has injured many walnut trees in 
this part of the country, namely the 
walnut weevil, which bores into the new 
growth of the trees and kills it. It can 
l’eadily be detected by examination, and 
the borer found in the injui’ed stem dur¬ 
ing the growing season. w. c. D. 
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cross-pollinate each other. 
2. Stimulating the growth of fruit 
trees with very nitrogenous manures, like 
the hog manure mentioned, is apt to 
cause the fruit to be late in maturing 
and of poor color, and this is pi’obably 
the ti-ouble in this case. The keeping 
quality is also impaired by it. The 
smut and bittei’-rot can be kept down 
by spraying intelligently and frequently. 
li. e. van deman. 
Handling an Asparagus Bed. 
In answer to J. B., Concord, Mass., 
page 4, I would like to give a little de¬ 
scription of an asparagus bed I worked 
in during 1912 and 1913. When this 
asparagus bed was bought by the present 
owner the Fall of 1912, it had been cut 
for two years. It had had a coat of New 
York manure every year, which cost 
$2.15 per ton at the station three miles 
away. It also had a top-di’essing of 
fertilizer. This bed did not improve as 
it should until this present owner took 
charge. Then there was a change in the 
fertilizer. We cultivated the bed until 
about August 15, then we sowed one-half 
bushel of Crimson clover seed to the 
acre, plowed early in the Spring and 
sowed 200 pounds of muriate of potash, 
and 800 pounds of acid phosphate to the 
acre. The second Spring after this way 
of fei’tilizing this bed it was fine. Some 
was cut that measured 6% inches around 
at the ground level. This method is in¬ 
creasing in Southern New Jersey, and 
is giving fine success. d. r. w. s. 
Port Norris, N. J. 
Budding a Persian Walnut Tree. 
I have a young tree of Persian walnut 
which has been injured so that the limbs 
on one side are gone. Can I put in a 
bud on this injured side, so as to develop 
new limbs and thus even the top of the 
tree? n. m. \v. 
New Yoi’k. 
It is, of course, perfectly possible to 
bud the tree on the side where the 
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