1914. 
THS RURAL NEW-YORKER 
886 
JUNE BUDDING. 
LEASE tell me how is June budding 
done on peach trees? Can it be done 
on apples? J. d. c. 
Jevvett, O. 
June budding is adapted to both peach 
and apple trees. There are many fac¬ 
tors to be considered if success is ex¬ 
pected. The operation of budding is not 
a complicated one, though it requires pa¬ 
tience and care. The bud is taken from a 
well-developed shoot of the current year’s 
growth, as shown at Fig. 366. The bud 
is cut from the twig with a sharp knife. 
The cut should start about three-eighths 
of an inch below the bud, and pass under 
the bud deep enough to remove a small 
chip of the wood. Another cut is made 
across the twig above the bud, which re¬ 
moves the bud from the twig. Some 
propagators remove the chip of wood 
from the under part of the bud. Cherry 
buds will do better if this chip is not 
removed. After the bud is ready a T- 
shaped cut is made in the bark of the 
stock as near to the ground as conven¬ 
ient. This cut should be opened as at 
3, Fig. 306. A regular budding knife has 
a thin handle for this purpose. The bud 
The feeding should be done always in the 
same place, to make it easier to clean up 
occasionally the refuse that is left. 
There should be at least four pens in 
a commercial turtle farm: (1) a breeding 
pen with a large Sand bed that is always 
above water where the eggs can be laid. 
Provision must be made to keep the 
young from getting into the water in 
this pen as they would be promptly eaten 
up by the old ones. (2) A pen for the 
young from the time of hatching until 
they become active the next Spring. (3) 
A pen for the young during the next year. 
(4) A pen for the turtles from the sec¬ 
ond Spring until they are sold or put 
into the breeding pen. These pens should 
have water two or three feet deep over 
most of the area, but should have some 
dry land where the turtles can crawl out 
to sun themselves. They should be so 
fenced as to keep in the turtles and keep 
out vermin. A suitable fence can be 
made of concrete or boards. It should be 
two feet or more high, with a cap of 
dressed lumber or sheet metal to keep 
the turtles in, and should extend two feet 
or more into the ground. It should be 
possible to draw off the water when it 
is then inserted as shown at 4, Fig. 300. 
About one-half inch of the stem of the 
leaf should be left on the bud to facili¬ 
tate handling. When the bud is pulled 
down as shown at 4, it is ready 
for tying. This is done with raffia. 
About three turns are given above and 
below the bud so as to cover the cut, 
leaving only the bud exposed. 
Do not leave the raffia on the tree 
after growth commences in the bud, or 
the bud may be killed. When the bud 
has advanced far enough to have leaves 
of its own, part of the stock should be 
removed. All the top should not be re¬ 
moved at one time as it would be too 
severe a check on the growth of the bud. 
Seed is usually planted in the Spring, 
and budding commences about the last of 
June. Care should be taken not to let 
the bud or cut on the stock become dry. 
Young trees may be top-worked by bud¬ 
ding though the work must be done on 
the younger shoots. The buds should be 
taken from the best trees of the variety 
one desires to propagate, as the bud will 
perpetuate the character of the tree it is 
taken from. The best is none too good. 
R. B. G. 
RAISING SNAPPING TURTLES. 
OULD you give me any information 
about the care and feeding of snap¬ 
ping and mud turtles? n. p. f. 
Stamford, Conn. 
Wild snapping turtles are probably al¬ 
most entirely flesh eaters and are not at 
all particular to have their meat fresh. 
If they can catch fish, frogs, young ducks 
or any other water animals they eat 
them, and they can be found near any 
dead animal in the water. Old farmers 
in this region say their flavor is much 
improved if they are kept in the swill 
barrel for a few weeks before being 
killed. With the possible exception of a 
few terrapin growers the raising of tur¬ 
tles in this country is apparently con¬ 
fined to the experimental terrapin farm 
of the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries at Beau¬ 
fort, N. C. There is a turtle farm in 
Japan which has been in successful oper¬ 
ation since 1875. These two farms fur¬ 
nish the most reliable data we have on 
the care and feeding of turtles. 
The food given turtles which are being 
grown commercially should be mainly 
meat of some kind; fish if that is avail¬ 
able and cheap; liver and clean meat 
scrap can be given at times; and when 
no other is available they may be kept 
for a time on a cooked mash of eornmeal 
or wheat fed alone or mixed with meat. 
is necessary to clean the ponds. There 
should be a good layer of soft mud in 
the bottom and it will be well to encour¬ 
age the growth of water plants in the 
pond and along the shoi'es. In the Jap¬ 
anese turtle farm it has been found profit¬ 
able to keep fish in the ponds to keep the 
water stirred up and muddy. Carp, eels 
and bullheads (horned pouts) would be 
suitable for this. 
The enemies the young turtle has to 
fear are rats, skunks, larger turtles, 
muskrats, snakes, herons and kingfishers. 
Rats and skunks will dig up the nests 
and eat the eggs. Larger turtles will eat 
the young when they can catch them. 
Muskrats cause the most damage by mak¬ 
ing holes in the embankments and let¬ 
ting the turtles out or into ponds with 
larger ones. Snakes will eat the young 
when they can get them and herons and 
kingfishers are under suspicion. After 
the young get three or four inches long 
(length of upper shell) they have prac¬ 
tically no enemies except man. 
ALFRED C. WEED. 
Wayne County, N. Y. 
SHORT STORIES. 
OISON IVY AGAIN.—The lime-sul¬ 
phur application for poison ivy trou¬ 
ble is an easy and most likely a 
handy remedy for that poisoning. For 
those who do not spray or use liine-sul- 
phur I would say dissolve a rounding 
teaspoonful of permanganate of potash 
crystals in a quart of water and apply. 
I wish anyone trying this would report 
results. It has cured two members of 
our household in 20 minutes on different 
occasions. e. ii. a. 
Connecticut. 
C ITY WORKERS.—Regarding posi¬ 
tions on farms for students without 
practical knowledge of farming, tin* 
experience of farmers in this section with 
help of that kind has been most unsat¬ 
isfactory. While we may enjoy associa¬ 
tion with these men, at best they are 
very expensive help, because they do not 
know the fundamentals of farm work. 
Each small detail has to be personally 
overseen. One drawback is that our 
busiest seasons are the early Spring and 
late Fall, when they cannot be with us. 
Of course there are exceptions, but for 
us the average man without any farm ex¬ 
perience is worth little more' than his 
board. roy p. mcpiierson. 
Genoa Co., N. Y. 
Uneven Growth Of Oats. —On page 
01S C. W. B. writes that the oats on the 
northern incline of a field rusted, while 
the oats on the southern side did not. 
The oats on the northern slope, or in¬ 
cline, received the sun’s rays more direct¬ 
ly, and the dew became, before evapora¬ 
tion, hotter than on the southern slope; 
therefore the northern slope was more 
favorable to rust. The sun did it. B. 
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