1914. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
lias 
WHAT TO DO WITH YOUNG CLOVER. 
O NE of our readers says he has a new 
seeding of clover this year, which has 
made quite a heavy growth. He wants 
to know what he can do with it to get the 
most out of it. Should he clip it and 
leave the clippings on the ground for 
a mulch, let it alone just as it is, or turn 
in the stock for a pasture? This man 
is located in Tioga Co., New York. Will 
you give your own practice in handling 
the clover crop? 
If feed is as high and pasturage as 
short up in Tioga County as it is here in 
Orange, I would lose no time in convert¬ 
ing it into milk. You do not say whether 
this clover is in bloom or not. If in 
bloom, I would take a mowing machine, 
and after the dew has disappeared, mow 
enough every other day for four feeds, 
rake up and draw in after two in the 
afternoon. I find my cattle relish Alfalfa 
and clover much more after the sun wilts 
it, and it also makes the idea of cutting 
every other day more practical. Give 
one-half ration the first feeding, and if 
the supply is plentiful, all they will eat 
up clean twice a day thereafter. Not 
later than September 10 cut all that re¬ 
mains, and cure in cocks in the field, 
using as wanted, and taken to the barn 
when dry should any remain at that per¬ 
iod. 
Assuming it will not mature to the 
point of blooming, but has made a luxur¬ 
iant growth, turn the cows in one-half 
hour the first day, an hour the second and 
all day thereafter, until they have hogged 
it off to a length of two inches above the 
ground. This will leave some stubble for 
protection through the Winter. In soil¬ 
ing with Alfalfa and clover I am between 
cuttings, confronted with intervals when 
some other entertainment must be pro¬ 
vided. I have prepared a piece of ground 
with a convenient barway leading into 
the road, which will be sown with rye 
this Fall; one part with a full seeding, 
the remainder lightly, which in the Spring 
will be sown to oats and peas. 
When the rye is cut a coat of manur¬ 
ing will be applied, and a heavy earing 
variety of sweet corn will be planted on 
the ground. It is not profitable to buy 
feed to make milk in the Summer time. 
A variety of soiling crops to eke out the 
supply of clover and Alfalfa will keep 
down the feed bill. It is a very pleasant 
feeling on a hot day in a dry time to know 
one’s cattle have access to water, and a 
good liberal feed of green fodder awaiting 
them in the barn. geo. e. howell. 
New York. 
WESTERN NEW YORK HORTICULTURAL 
HAPPENINGS. 
S CALE DISAPPEARING.—Evidently 
in this section the scale, after having 
wiped out many apple and pear or¬ 
chards, and seriously damaged thousands 
of apple, pear and other trees in orchards 
still standing as such, has received a sud¬ 
den check, and some of the once infested | 
trees are gradually recovering, and show 
only slight infestation now. This I re¬ 
port about trees that have not been 
sprayed at all, or at least not regularly 
or thoroughly. I am not in the situation, 
however, to tell for a certainty what is 
the real cause, whether atmospheric 
(Winter’s cold, etc.) or the newly dis¬ 
covered parasite. I first noted the grad¬ 
ual disappearance of the dreaded pest 
last year. The San Jos6 scale may have 
been of untold benefit to the fruit-grow¬ 
ing industry as a business; but we would 
not mourn over its disappearance as a 
serious factor in fruit production. In¬ 
sects come, and insects go. This is shown 
in several other instances. 
The Black Squasii Bug. —A dozen 
or 15 years ago the black squash bug was 
present every season in large numbers, 
and compelled 11 s to watch the pumpkin, 
squash and similar vines persistently, and 
hunt up the ill-smelling depredator every 
few days. In the Fall the late broods 
would often by hundreds of young bugs 
cover the vines and fruits, and I have 
often sprayed the vines, after the fruits 
were gathered, with kerosene, covered 
them with a little straw and set fire to 
it, thus destroying the young bugs with 
the 
vines. Then came an unusuallv 
severe Winter, and not a bug was seen 
for years. Even now I only find an occa¬ 
sional one in Winter quarters, in some 
crack or crevice, or hidden under some 
rubbish, and we have not suffered any loss 
or inconvenience from this pest for years. 
Potato And Flea Beetle. —That “in¬ 
sects come and insects go” is also shown 
in the practical disappearance of the po¬ 
tato beetle this season, and of the negligi¬ 
ble number of flea beetles that we found 
on all our garden crops and potatoes this 
year. The cause of the potato bug’s non- 
appearance must be climatic or atmos¬ 
pheric. I have seen none of the natural 
insect enemies of the potato beetle in 
unusual numbers this year; in fact, there 
were but few. The potato beetles simply 
failed to show up. I have patches of 
potatoes in my grounds here and there, 
some planted earlier and some later, but 
in some of these patches not a single potato 
beetle could be found, and in only one or 
two a few of the less vigorous plants were 
attacked by the usually so numerous bee¬ 
tles and somewhat injured. All these 
patches were close to or even on the iden¬ 
tical spots were potatoes had been grown 
last year, when potato bugs were more 
plentiful. I did not have to use any 
poison this year. 
The Uneven Bartlett Crop.— The 
Bartlett pear has the reputation of being 
self-sterile. In this county this pear is 
often found in solid blocks, or planted 
singly far away from other pear trees. 
Yet in most years every tree seems to 
bear a full crop. The present is one of 
the years when we 1 ave a partial failure. 
Some trees have no fruit at all; others 
have a few, and still others bear a full 
crop. In previous seasons of partial 
Bartlett failure I have observed that the 
Bartlett trees standing not far from other 
pear varieties, such as Ducliesse (An- 
gouleme), Clapp’s Favorite, Seckel, Shel¬ 
don, etc., were the ones that had the 
most and best pears, while the lone trees, 
and the trees standing outside of the in¬ 
fluence of the other varieties, were mostly 
wholly barren, or had only few and crip¬ 
pled, lop-sided specimens. As a rule, this 
is true again this year; but occasionally 
we come across a lone tree, or trees, 
standing at considerable distance from 
other varieties, which are well set with 
fruit. Some of such happenings are not 
so easily explained. However, if I were 
to set a new orchard of Bartlett pears, I 
would feel a good deal safer, even, in 
this blessed Bartlett pear section, if a 
few Duchesse, Seckel, Clapp, Anjou, 
Sheldon, etc., were set intermixed with 
the Bartletts. 
Water In The Garden. —A little 
water used in the garden may often be 
the turning point of failure to success. 
On July 31 I sowed two little patches of 
Silverskin and other onions for green or 
bunching onions (for early Spring). The 
ground was rather dry, as it frequently 
is at that time of the year. In one of 
these patches water was applied from the 
village water works, by means of %-inch 
hose and a good lawn sprinkler, for near¬ 
ly a day, under a pressure of about 60 
pounds, and the sprinkling device moved 
every two hours or so. This gave the 
upper two or three inches of the soil a 
fairly good wetting. A rod or two at one 
end of the patch was left without water¬ 
ing. The plants came up promptly in 
a little over a week’s time, except oii the 
end not reached by the sprinkler. Rains 
came at about this time, making the 
ground plenty wet enough. But it has 
taken nearly three weeks’ time for the 
young onion plants at the end, as also in 
the other patch that had no water (being 
too far from the supply) to break ground 
and show enough to admit the use of the 
wheel hoe. In the meantime, in this 
patch, the weeds have taken such a start 
that it is uphill work to get them out of 
the rows, and we may even be forced to 
give up the job if weather should con¬ 
tinue wet. People living in the suburbs 
of cities and villages, who have a little 
garden, and a ready supply of water un¬ 
der pressure of thirty or more pounds 
from a near tap, have an opportunity for 
garden making which few of them fully 
appreciate. It is water that makes the 
garden grow, of course, with due applica¬ 
tions of plant foods. But with irrigation 
it is often possible to grow on a quarter 
acre what an acre would not produce 
without it. Plan to make full use of the 
water when you have the chance! 
T. GREINER. 
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