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THE RUHAt N K W-YORKER 
March 7, 
Sifting Compost. 
The picture given here shows an opera¬ 
tion quite common with many good 
gardeners. This is sifting garden soil 
or compost, so as to have a fine material 
for plant boxes, and for use in starting 
small seed. A screen is used with a mesh 
suitable for the fineness of soil desired. 
The soil or compost is thrown upon the 
screen, and slightly tapped with the fork 
as it runs slowly down. In this way soil 
of the desired fineness is obtained, and 
this may be used in any way that such 
fine soil is needed. We find too that 
some farmers are also making use of 
screens of this kind for use in seeding. 
This very fine soil after being screened 
is thoroughly mixed with a small quan¬ 
tity of lime, or with such material as 
set free and the nature of the soil is im¬ 
proved so as to hold more moisture. 
Probably your readers have noticed at 
the foot of hills or even on the hillside 
where a good sod is holding the wash as 
it comes down from above and raises the 
ground perceptibly, even covering up 
fences or filling up several feet around 
trees. It pays to save all you have and 
hold all you can get as it is washing 
away. On hillsides one can often get 
considerable land of another without a 
deed and hold it too. The thrifty neigh¬ 
bor profits from the careless one when 
the former is located below him and has 
a sod to catch the wash. To him that 
hath shall be given and from him that 
bath not, even that which he hath shall 
lie taken away. Another case of the ad¬ 
basic slag. Then Alfalfa or grass seed 
is mixed all through this fine soil, and 
the whole thing run through the drill in 
seeding, or it may be broadcast as needed. 
In this way a perfect distribution can be 
obtained, and the seed is put in in jusf 
about ideal shape. 
[ Horticultural Needs of Southern Ohio. 
Conservation of natural resources is 
or was one of the most important needs 
of this part of the country, but our 
fathers were too near-sighted to see it. 
and cultivated our fields too long, so that 
much of the soil washed away and we 
have lifeless soil in many of the fields 
that are left. If cover crops and grasses 
and clovers had been used in proper 
rotations and care given to the land in 
keeping it supplied with humus and 
something growing to save the fertility 
all the year round, our lands would now 
be in far better condition, many fields 
being practically worthless now that can¬ 
not be reclaimed on a paying basis ex¬ 
cept near a city or some place where 
high values make it worth while. To 
keep more fields from becoming worthless, 
we need to have the soil filled with 
humus, so as to retain as much water as 
possible for the feeding crops and to be 
prepared in case of drouth to prevent 
serious damage due to lack of moisture 
in the soil. By so doing there is more 
growth on the land to decay and make 
humus and more roots in the ground to 
prevent washing. With plenty of humus 
and moisture in the soil tho plant food in 
the soil becomes available or if fertilizers 
are used one can get better results on 
soil full of humus and moisture. I do 
not think the hillsides were intended for 
cultivation year after year, but to be 
covered with something to prevent wash¬ 
ing and make fertility available. Rota¬ 
tion of crops as practiced on level land 
is out of the question here. Permanent 
grass sod seems to be the best thing for 
our hills and we can grow orchards in 
in sod, or pasture the land or make 
hay, or it can go back to woods to 
be rebuilt for the next generation. If one 
thinks be must plow ana grow a crop, he 
should get it back in grass or clover or 
some such crop as soon as possible, or 
grow a Winter cover crop of Crimson 
clover or other clover or Winter hairy 
vetch or rye, or something to cover the 
ground and make use of the available 
plant food in the soil, and to fill the soil 
with roots to prevent washing. With 
the decomposition of the plant more 
humus is made and more plant food is 
monition given to be thrifty and multiply 
the talents. 
It has been proven by our experiment 
station officials that the orchards can be 
improved by using nitrate of soda and 
acid phosphate to feed the trees, and 
also that the grass can be made to yield 
twice as much or more and even bring 
in kinds that did not thrive before the 
application. Land that has not been 
gullied so it can’t be used, can be brought 
back to its former state and made to 
yield profitable crops and keep up its 
fertility if rightly managed. Under the 
wrong kind of management it will go 
down, it being much easier and quicker 
to depreciate than it is to appreciate 
when at the low ebb. u. T. cox. 
The Grimes Golden Apple. 
As an industrious member of your Ap¬ 
ple Consumer’s League 1 am also joining 
the ranks of apple producers, and within 
a short distance of the National Capital 
am raising many kinds of Crimes Golden 
apple trees, but that hope is now tinged 
with sadness. Col. G. B. Brackett, pom- 
ologist of the Department of Agriculture, 
tells me my trees are probably doomed to 
an early death, as are most trees of that 
variety that are grafted on ordinary 
stocks in the eastern section of the coun¬ 
try. There is something uncanny about 
this. Here is a fruit in which nearly all 
the good qualities exist; pleasing to the 
eye and the taste alike; just tart enough, 
and not too sour, nor too sweet; a golden 
globe of delicate richness, its crisp, juicy 
flesh dashed with just the right flavor. 
An intelligent and discriminating friend 
of mine, who is a great admirer of your 
paper, says lie desired nothing better than 
to be able to have a Grimes Golden apple 
on his table nine months in the year. 
What is the matter with Grimes trees 
here? Col. Brackett says that after a 
few years of bearing period the trunk 
gets scabby, the bark dies and the tree 
goes into a general decline. No one knows 
the cause. 
The remedy? Col. Brackett says that 
for the past two years he has been ad¬ 
vising nurserymen to double-work all 
Grimes trees. Northern Spy on its own 
root is a good stock, he says. If I had 
but known that eight years ago, when I 
was putting out my Grimes orchard. 
LINDSAY S. PERKINS. 
R. N.-Y.—What is the fact about this? 
Our own trees of Grimes are worked on 
wild seedling stocks or on bearing trees. 
The apples are rather small but fine in 
quality. 
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