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D. B. 
Spraying and Care of Mixed Orchard. 
HAVE about 20 peach trees, 10 cherry, 
12 apple, only about one-fourth of 
which are in bearing this year. I wish 
spray at the proper time. Will you 
give me necessary information ? The or¬ 
chard is in grass, on a gentle southern 
slope, and the soil is a sandy loam lying 
about 1,200 feet above sea level. I would 
like to know what should be done to 
make this orchard do its best next year. 
Peach trees are about 10 years old, and 
some are interlocking with the apple 
trees, now about eight years old, and 
three in bearing. The latter have a mass 
of foliage like wild trees, as the 
owner had been ill for several 
How about plowing this orchard, 
so, when ? C. 
Connellsville, Pa. 
It is now too late to spray these trees 
for any of the diseases or insect enemies, 
unless it might be some very late ones, 
that would help them this year. Spray¬ 
ing is a complicated job and covers a 
wide range of troubles, and should be 
thoroughly studied out before the next 
year’s work is begun. As there are many 
publications that give detailed directions 
that may be obtained from the State Ex¬ 
periment Station, at State College 
Pennsylvania, and of the United States 
Department of Agriculture at Washing¬ 
ton, they should be obtained and studied 
The sod should be turned 
plow this Fall, and the 
to rye, which should be 
next Spring, and the soil 
kept well stirred all of the next growing 
season. As the peach trees are ' inter¬ 
locking with the apple trees,” my advice 
is to dig them out or cut them back very 
severely. Evidently the trees are crowd¬ 
ing each other, and the apple trees are 
suffering. If they are to be expected to 
flourish and bear well they must have 
room and good tillage or they cannot do 
it. II. E. VAN DEMAN. 
inant. When the Colorado potato beetle 
(first began its eastward march in the 
sixties and seventies it created as much 
talk and consternation as the advent of 
the Mexican cotton boll-weevil has done 
in the South. Nowadays we think little 
of the potato beetle, and it is gradually 
oeiug held in check and forced hack into 
its normal proportions by its enemies. 
Welcome to all the bugs that will help us 
in our fights against our insect enemies! 
GLENN W. HERRICK. 
CABBAGE WORMS Destroyed by Dust- 
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So used for 30 years. 
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11. IIAMMONI>, JflshkUl-oii.lludson, New York- 
A Correction. 
In my letter quoted at bottom of page 
923 I am made to say 70 cents per tree. 
This should be cuts, not cents. I work by 
the hour and charge 20 cents per hour. 
I have been working on five-year-old 
Duchess apple trees and pruned 2GG trees 
in 8 y 2 hours—less than one cent per tree 
R B G. 
first of all. 
over with a 
ground sown 
plowed under 
I 
Grafting Peaches. 
HAVE 200 peach trees from seed 
planted last Spring, 2^ to 3 l / 2 feet 
high, and now growing. I may not 
get them budded this Summer. Can I 
cut them off near the ground next Spring 
and graft the same as apples? I have a 
neighbor who grafted a peach last Spring 
that bore one fruit. What per cent, or 
seedling peach will he likely to come true 
to parent? I. W. B. 
Rodeo, N. M. 
These peach seedlings should be budded 
this year, if possible, before the growing 
season is over. If this cannot be done it 
is possible to graft them next Spring, hut 
not with much hope of good results. 
Peach trees are not grafted with much 
success, so far as I have ever tried it or 
known of its being tried. In some cli¬ 
mates it may be done in a practical way, 
but I doubt it. If it is tried the method 
I would follow' would be to cut the scions 
about February, and store them in damp 
sphagnum moss aud keep them very cool 
until the stocks begin to start, then graft 
by the bark method. if. E. van deman. 
A Potato-bug Destroyer. 
I SEND a crude representation of a bug 
in this locality; it seems to be a spe¬ 
cies of squash bug. It is black trim¬ 
med with orange, and feeds upon potato 
hugs. It sticks its beak into them and 
sucks the life out of them. What do you 
know about them? A. d. 
Howell, Mich. 
The bug referred to in the foregoing 
letter may he called the potato-hug de¬ 
stroyer, for it lives very largely, at least, 
by devouring the worst enemy of Irish 
potatoes in this country, namely, the Com¬ 
mon Colorado potato bettle. We first 
found this predaceous hug (Perillus bio- 
culatus) in New York in 1911. It had 
been known before in the Western States, 
and is apparently working its way east¬ 
ward and probably will eventually spread 
over the whole territory now covered by 
the potato beetle. This bug is a /eleome 
guest, for it is an efficient aid in checking 
this old enemy of the potato. It devours 
both the young grubs and the full grown 
beetles. Each bug will eat three or four 
grubs a day. It is an axiom that the 
forces of nature will ultimately establish 
an equilibrium. That is, uo one plant or 
animal can long remain in the ascendency. 
Other plants or animals will eventually 
crowd out or devour the one that is dom- 
CROP REPORTS. 
July 31.—Up to this date Warwick 
County is experiencing another dry year, 
the worst in its history, and as a result 
all crops, except wheat, are being affected. 
Corn is almost burned up in some sec¬ 
tions ; no oats nor early potatoes. To¬ 
bacco, of which there was a large acreage 
put out, is badly damaged. Eggs. 14; 
butter, 14; fowls, 11; Spring chickens, 
14 ; wheat, 80; corn, 85. R. s. K. 
Boonville, Ind. 
July 25.—Wheat, 
Turkev 
in 
red, G8 per 
bushel; oats, 27 ; barley, 35 ; flax, $1.57 ; 
hogs, $7.25 per cwt.; Spring chickens, 15 
cents a pound; butter fat, 22; butter, 25; 
eggs, 20; potatoes, GO; cherries, $2.25, 
case of 24 pints; currants, $2.25, case 
24 pints; apples, early Summer varie¬ 
ties, $1 a bushel; onions, 75 to $1 per 
cw T t. Sheep, dressed. 8 to 10 cents a 
pound; cattle, dressed, 10 to 12. 
Columbus, Mont. w. D. j. 
August 1.—Good strawberries sold 
from $4 at start of season down to $2.50 
at close; black raspberries, $3 to $4.50 
here at home, but I shipped the balance 
of my berries to Detroit and most of them 
sold for $4 per bushel. Red raspberries, 
$4 to $5 per bushel. Potatoes. 75 to $1 
Harvest apples. $1. Cattle, best steers, 
$7.25; live weight; veal. $9; milch cows, 
$50 to $150. The creameries are pay¬ 
ing 25 cents for butter fat. Wheat, oats, 
corn, potatoes and sugar beets are the 
staple crops, also hay. Hay, fair crop, 
wheat and oats a bumper crop, with the 
outlook for bumper crops iu all other 
lines. New wheat is bringing at the ele¬ 
vators $21; oats, 32. Army worm just 
broke out iu this county but doing little 
damage as yet. g. w. W. 
Otisville, Mich. 
July 30.—We have had very fine hay¬ 
ing and harvesting weather. Both hay 
and wheat have been secured in fine con¬ 
dition. Wheat has been a heavy crop; 
one who has thrashed his crop, reports a 
yield of 48 bushels average on 45 acres, 
a pretty big story. Clover hay was light, 
while Timothy has been heavy as a rule. 
Alfalfa made a good growth. Our second 
crop has just been put in. in very fine 
shape. Buyers are offering $12 per ton 
for hay haled. Millers are paying 70 
cents per bushel for new wheat. Corn is 
making a rank growth, and potatoes are 
doing finely. Oats and barley are doing 
well and will soon he ripe. Small fruits 
have been a good crop except strawber¬ 
ries. Gooseberries and currants have 
been good. Sour cherries were a very 
heavy crop. Plums seem to hang well, 
while Bartlett pears are a failure. Ap¬ 
ples in this section are a good crop. But¬ 
ter. 20; eggs, 21; potatoes, $1 per bushel. 
Canandaigua, N. Y. E. T. B. 
August 1.—We here in the central part 
of Missouri are having a destructive 
drought and very hot weather. There is 
no speck of green in the pastures; when 
cattle walk over it raises dust. Water is 
scarce and often hauled for quite a dis¬ 
tance. There was no hay to speak of. 
and eattle must he fed as in late Fall or 
Winter. Corn will he a failure unless we 
have a soaking rain very early, which 
would help some of the latest planted. 
The plants of strawberries are mostly all 
dried out and everything is in had shape. 
Garden stuff very scarce; out of five 
plantings of beans the first was picked 
over just once. Where to get feed for 
stock for the coming Winter is a puzzle, 
more so as we must now feed already, 
and only iu August. But what gets me 
is when some salaried State or Govern¬ 
ment professor lets loose some articles 
which are gladly taken up by the big 
papers, saying there is no drought “with 
proper working no damage will result, the 
crops are no failures, etc.” In many 
cases this is nothing hut hack-porch 
prophecy, and does not give true condi¬ 
tions. Glad to say that the north and 
south part of Missouri are iu good con¬ 
dition to give a fair crop. c. P. 
Jefferson City, Mo. 
Tommy was throwing stones, and his 
mother caught him at it. “Don’t let me 
catch you throwing stones any more,” 
she cautioned him. “Well, what will I 
do when the other fellows throw them at 
me?” demanded Tommy. “Just come 
aud tell me.” 
“Why, you couldn’t hit 
a burn !”—Everybody’s. 
Tell you !” he exclaimed. 
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