T ME RURAL NEW-YORKER 
March 7, 
Spray with 
new wa 'i. 
and bulphur Solution for 
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^ Soluble I 
A Florida Yarn. 
The big Florida yam shown herewith 
weighed IS pounds—length 27 inches and 
circumference 21 inches. The amount of 
food that can be produced on an acre of 
this vegetable is astonishing. Probably 
A Good-Sized Yam. 
the banana is the only plant which can 
surpass it. How thin light soil can pro¬ 
duce such crops is a marvel. 
Apple Orchard on Side Hill, 
Five years ago I brushed a 3y 2 acre 
side hill and put in apple trees and 
plums for a filler. The land was rough. 
I kept it brushed until last Summer, 
when I took the above off and plowed 
the land, sowed rye, in which condition 
the plot is now. I am advised to sow 
clover in the rye in March, let the rye 
mature preparatory to clover for per¬ 
manency. Would j’o.i advise' to plow 
the rye under in the Spring? I have no 
team of my own to do the work; help of 
that kind is very scarce,- especially so 
at that time of the year. The former 
course would suit me better, as.the clover 
would be less work for a team, only I 
do not know whether the ripening of 
the rye would deplete the land more 
than the grain. The land is. not sour, 
had plenty of wood ashes from burning 
brush and also considerable decayed leaf- 
mold. j. s. 
Port Jervis, N. Y. 
You can sow clover on the rye this 
Spring. From choice we should like to 
run over the rye with a weeder, just 
after the clover seed was put in. Let 
the rye grow until it begins to form seeds. 
Then cut it promptly and pile the whole 
of k around, these young trees, over a 
space five or six feet out. Before you 
pile tiie rye put on about two pounds of 
good fertilizer around each tree. Then 
let the clover come on, clipping it from 
time to time, so that it will not make 
seed. This is the cheapest way of handl¬ 
ing the orchard. The trees will not make 
as good a growth on this plan as they 
would it the rye was plowed under, 
thorough culture given up to August, 
and then rye seeded again, but the plan 
of piling the rye around the trees saves 
labor and plowing, and is a method 
within reach of your own labor without 
hiring, except for cutting the rye. If 
the trees are of fair size, we should fol¬ 
low the plan of cutting and piling the 
rye and leaving the clover. 
Coloring the Lime-sulphur Spray. 
The time is approaching when the 
fruit grower will have to go into the or¬ 
chard to battle against insects and tree 
diseases. I suppose a large majority of 
the fruit growers use the lime-sulphur 
spray, and no doubt all of those who use 
it have studied the formula for making 
it and the manner of applying it. I have 
read a number of experiment station bul¬ 
letins, nursery catalogues, and circulars 
issued by the makers of lime-sulphur 
solution. In none of these that give the 
formula for making the lime-sulphur 
spray, is any mention made of the addi¬ 
tion of a coloring substance to the spray 
mixture which will enable the operators 
of the spraying machine to know posi¬ 
tively which trees have been sprayed. It 
has been my practice to mark the first 
and last tree sprayed with a given tank¬ 
ful. by using a brush with whitewash. 
Sometimes the men forget to mark the 
trees, then we have to depend on the 
driver or some one of the operators, and 
again the track of the sprayer is used as 
a guide, which is not satisfactory, and 
leads to disputes. It has occurred to me 
that something could be added to the 
lime-sulphur spray to color it so that it 
could be easily seen after it is on the 
trees. Of course whatever substance is 
used to color the spray, it must bo some¬ 
thing which will not lessen the efficiency 
of the spray* The naming of this color¬ 
ing matter and the amount used to the 
gallon of spray, it seems to me, should 
be the work of the chemist. 
Illinois. CHARLES HEAD. 
R. N.-Y.—There have been several 
similar suggestions before. We would 
like a discussion of the subject. 
Don’t Pay Frei 
Rome Beauty Apple in New York. 
I have not yet had much experience 
with Rome Beauty. I am planting them 
only as fillers in a Northern Spy or¬ 
chard. The general impression is that 
this apple does not do well in New York 
State. However, I have seen some very 
handsome specimens grown here by the 
lake. I am using them as a filler with 
Spy, because the blossoming season comes 
at the same time and so does not inter¬ 
fere with the spraying. 1 am' planting 
extensively good old Rhode Island Green¬ 
ing, Northern Spy, Tompkins King and 
Esopus Spitzenburg, using as a filler in 
Greenings, the Wagener; in King Twen¬ 
ty Ounce; in Spitzenburg McIntosh, and 
in Spy, Rome Beauty. I consider the Spy 
as grown here on the lake one of our best 
commercial apples, an annual bearer, al¬ 
though requiring a great deal of care in 
pruning, cultivating, especially in spray¬ 
ing, and in handling and packing. Sim¬ 
ply the prices it brings in comparison 
with other varieties, this year $7 per 
barrel for No. 1 and $4 25 for No. 2, 
make it one of our best money-makers. 
Wayne Co. f. w. Cornwall 
On advice of S. D. Willard about 10 
years ago I planted 50 Rome Beauty. 
They came into bearing five years after 
planting and have done well since; no 
Winter injury at all. Since these trees 
have come into bearing I have planted 
a good many Rome Beauty. Part of 
these have come along all right and part 
have shown a good deal of Winter in¬ 
jury, especially one-year old trees and 
trees planted in Fall. We are planting 
now only two-year-old trees and plant¬ 
ing them in the Spring. 
GRANT G. IIITCHINGS. 
Onondaga Co., N. Y. 
I have no trees in fruiting, but have 
observed it at the New York State Ex¬ 
periment Station at Geneva, and upon 
fruit forms in both Western New York 
and the Hudson Valleys In all three in¬ 
stances it was proving a first-class com 
mercial apple. The tree may not be 
hardy enough -for the colder sections of 
the East, and it is not a very vigorous 
grower. It has qualities such as. hanging 
on late, good color, fair quality,* -tough 
skin, etc., that make it very hard to find 
a substitute. I know of none. 
New York. B. D, V. B. 
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