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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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Cover Crops in Orchard. 
We have a few acres of rye in a young 
apple orchard, that, we would like to sow- 
in Red clover this Spring. If we cut 
the rye, before it seeds, will it be best 
after cut to rake it off, or will it smother 
the clover if we leave it on the ground? 
We have another apple orchard where 
we would like to sow Canada field peas 
and oats. Will the peas and oats in¬ 
jure orchard if left and cut for hay? 
(’an I sow Red clover when I sow the 
peas? R. H. B. 
Hightstown, N. .T. 
It is never good practice to grow rye 
or other grain crops in a young orchard. 
Unless the season is very wet this prac¬ 
tice is sure to dry out the soil and hurt 
the trees. In the case you mention we 
should cut the rye early, rake it and pile 
it around the trees. This would probably 
overcome the effect of growing the rye, 
and would give the clover a fair chance. 
We have never succeeded in obtaining a 
good catch of clover when seeded with 
oats and peas. This crop grows thick 
and rank, and is apt to smother out a 
seeding. We assume this second orchard 
is older than the first one. Otherwise 
we would not advise you to sow the oats 
and peas, or any other grain crop in it. 
Barley makes a better seeding or “nurse” 
crop. 
Fertilizer for Fruit Trees. 
What fertilizer will take the place of 
unleached hard wood ashes for fruit 
trees? Apples and pears more particu¬ 
larly. W. J. B. 
Unleacbed ashes of good quality con¬ 
tain in one ton about 100 pounds of 
potash. .15 of phosphoric acid, and over 
000 pounds of lime. This amount of 
plant food will be obtained in 200 pounds 
of either sulphate or muriate of potash, 
in 250 pounds of basic slag and 1000 
pounds of air-slaked lime. This combin¬ 
ation will give you the actual plant food 
contained in the ton of ashes, yet this 
mixture might not give as good results 
in the orchard as the unleached ashes 
would. Our experience goes to show that 
the natural ash of good quality gives hot¬ 
ter results than any mixture of chemicals, 
offering an equal analysis. There are, 
however, some adulterated samples of 
ashes on the market, but the pure ash 
will give good results. 
Broadcast Phosphate and Potash. 
Will it be advisable to go to the ex¬ 
pense of broadcasting 100 pounds of muri¬ 
ate of potash and 500 pounds of Thomas 
slag to the acre, or would it be better to 
withhold the fertilizer for the crop, prob¬ 
ably clover, to be sown when the rye is 
turned under the following Spring? 
New York. J. it. 
We would by all means use the fertilizer 
on the cow peas or clover, especially in 
case this crop is to be plowed under for 
corn or some similar crop. The cow 
peas, clover and similar crops are use¬ 
ful for taking nitrogen from the air, and 
on general principles the more we feed 
them, the larger they will grow, and the 
more they will thus add as green manure 
or fodder. Many wise farmers follow 
the practice of applying their phosphate 
and potash to the cover or sod crop. They 
get a larger growth in this way, and the 
chemicals are not lost, but are made use 
of by the cover crop, and thus carried on 
to the crop which follows them. At the 
same time there is usually more nitrogen 
gathered by the cover crop. The com¬ 
bination of slag and muriate of potash is 
not the best one. Sulphate of potash 
would be better for this combination. 
The action of the salt in the muriate 
would be to form a combination with 
lime, which is easily washed out of the 
soil, while most of our efforts now in the 
East at least are with a view to retain¬ 
ing lime and not wasting it. 
The Strawberry Weevil. 
What is a good remedy for weevil in 
strawberries? We are living in South 
Jersey now, and our friends say straw¬ 
berries do not fruit well on account of 
weevil. M. E. S. 
Ormond, N. J. 
There is evidence to show that plants 
sprayed with Bordeaux mixture and 
Paris green are decidedly less troubled 
than those not sprayed- Of course, this 
may be due to the Bordeaux mixture, 
which is objectionable to many insects 
and serves to protect treated plants, even 
when it does not kill the insects. When 
the strawberry weevils are very abundant 
it is surely worth a trial. The Bordeaux 
should be made of four pounds of copper 
sulphate and four pounds of lime to 50 
gallons of water, and one-half pound of 
Paris green or two pounds of arsenate 
of lead should be added to each 50 gal¬ 
lons of the mixture. The application 
should be made just before blossoming 
begins and should be very thorough. 
Spraying while in bloom is objectionable, 
because of the danger of preventing pol¬ 
lination by bees and other insects. 
It has been demonstrated that the 
plants can be kept free by covering the 
rows with muslin or other light fabric, 
put in place a week before the first buds 
are ready to open, and that the covering 
promotes early ripening and better fruit. 
The cloth must be a little wider than 
the rows, and must be kept above the 
plants by fastening to lines of pegs set 
near enough together to hold the cover¬ 
ing taut. The covering need remain only 
until the first berries begin to color, be¬ 
cause by that time the plants would be 
no longer attractive to the beetles. This 
method is practicable only on small 
patches. The most promising measure 
of all is, however, to be found in the 
selection of varieties. Pistillate varieties 
are not subject to attack by the beetle, 
and it should be possible to secure a good 
pistillate variety to form the main bulk 
of the crop. This will need, as a pol- 
lenizer, a profusely flowering stamiuate 
variety, which may form every fifth row 
in the field, and the crop from which may 
be sacrificed to the beetles if they furnish 
(lowers enough to pollenize the others. 
This staminate variety should be a little 
earlier in blooming than the pistillate va¬ 
riety, so that there may be an abundance 
of pollen as soon as the pistillate varieties 
open. T. S. 1IEADLEE. 
A Fruit-growing Township. 
Clover Leaf Grange recently, through 
a committee, made a fruit census of 
North East township, Pa., with the fol¬ 
lowing statement: We have no doubt 
these acres will average $200 each in 
value of output. 
We the undersigned committee, ap¬ 
pointed by Clover Leaf Grange, No. 1205, 
P. of II. to ascertain the acreage of fruit 
grown in North East township beg to 
submit the following report, which we 
believe to be comparatively accurate: 
Acres. 
Grapes . 0,986 
V nnl«s . . 411 1 
Peaches . 444 
Plums . 122 
Prunes . 21214 
Cherries . 32614 
Pears . 3614 
Strawberries . 2S 
Red raspberries . 8414 
Black raspberries. 34 
Currants . 57 
Gooseberries . 19 
Blackberries . 614 
Total . 8,793 
Long Island Apple Culture. 
On page 46 you say for years the ex¬ 
perts taught that Long Island is out of 
the 'apple belt. I am sending you by 
parcel post, two Greenings and two Bald¬ 
wins from two of my 50-year-old trees, 
standing in sod. on high rolling land 
about eight miles from salt water on the 
north and south. The orchard includes 
such varieties as Porter. Fall Pippin. 
Yellow Bellflower, Northern Spy, Seek-No- 
Further. Greening and Baldwin. Some of 
the trees are very large, spreading 40 to 
48 feet, and a 20-foot ladder dot's not 
reach near the top of a few. Fifteen 
years ago, when apples were low in price, 
these trees were badly neglected. Then 
about the time The R. N.-Y* started Ap¬ 
ple Consumer’s League, and prices im¬ 
proved. I began scattering wood ashes 
around some of them, spreading stable 
manure over the ashes and coarse litter 
over all to prevent washing. This caused 
the trees to bear freely, but in a few 
years the apples rotted badly after lack¬ 
ing. Believing that the manure caused 
this I discontinued its use. and my pres¬ 
ent practice is this: As early in Summer 
as my other work will permit I sow 
around each of my best trees a half 
bushel of sifted hard wood ashes. 25 
pounds of a 3.29-S-7 fertilizer, and the 
past season I added a waterpail full of 
agricultural lime to a few trees: then 
cover with whatever coarse litter I have. 
These trees have never been sprayed and 
only partly pruned, and I have consid¬ 
erable defective and decayed fruit, but so 
far as production is concerned I think 
Long Island is "in” the "apple belt.” 
On October 6 I picked 12 bushels of 
Greenings from the tree from which I 
send you two, and one bushel from the 
ground, as there had been a high wind. 
Suffolk Co., N. Y. w. v. it. 
R. N.-Y’.—The apples came in good con¬ 
dition and were well colored and flavored 
and of good size. When Long Island pro¬ 
duces such fruit there is no question 
about the “apple belt.” 
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