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GIRDLING FRUIT TREES. 
D URING the last few months I have 
read in The R. N.-Y., as well as in 
other papers, advice whore apple trees 
were not bearing to girdle the limbs. 
I have several Pippins about 18 years of 
age in a healthy condition, but producing 
little fruit. I girdled some of the limbs 
during latter part of June by removing 
about a quarter of an inch of the bark 
from some of the limbs of half a dozen 
trees. At present the leaves on the gir¬ 
dled limbs have a yellowish cast and some 
have fallen to the ground. The ungir¬ 
dled limbs are not affected. Would you 
advise grafting in feeders before Spring 
or would an application of white lead 
and raw linseed oil prove beneficial? Do 
you think limbs will die from present in¬ 
dications? C. B. B. 
Crozet, Va. 
I note your suggestion of girdling apple 
trees to bring them to bearing. Why does 
not such girdling kill the tree? If a 
mouse did the work the tree would die. 
Why not when man does it? c. .r. F. 
Burlington, Yt. 
Replying to these two notes from those 
who are interested in the matter of gir¬ 
dling fruit trees to make them bear, I 
will say that it should only be done in 
the most stubborn cases, and then only 
on apple and pear trees, for peach and 
all other stone fruit trees would be 
killed outright. I have repeatedly tried 
it on apple and pear trees and never with 
any serious effects, and it did cause them 
to bear. Of course it is a slight injury, 
but if done during the flush of the 
growing season, June being the best time, 
and the greatest care used to leave the 
slimy coating of cambium on the wood 
untouched, there will be nothing hut a 
checking of the flow of sap downward. 
This is what causes an abnormal devel¬ 
opment of fruit buds from tin 1 retention 
of the plant food in the rich sap above 
the wound. New bark will form over 
the peeled surface very soon, and in a 
year the healing will be quite complete, 
unless the cambium and wood were in¬ 
jured by the operation. This is always 
done by mice when they gnaw off the 
bark, for they go entirely through the 
cambium, and their work is usually done 
in Winter, which is a fatal time for the 
trees. 
I wrote to C. B. R. asking him whether 
new bark had formed over the wounds, 
and he has replied that it has in part and 
that “the girdled limbs are looking fine, 
except one and that has lost most of its 
foliage. It has but a slight connection 
of bark.” It is probable that there was 
not the proper care used in removing the 
bark last June, and the exposed surfaces 
were marred, and if so that is why the 
new bark is not completely covering the 
wound now. The final result of the 
operation is what we should know about, 
that is, has it induced the formation of 
fruit buds on the girdled branches, and 
will the wounds heal over safely? I do 
not recommend girdling to any consider¬ 
able degree, nor is it often needed, and 
when it is done it should be with intelli¬ 
gence and extreme care. 
n. E. VAN DEMAN. 
Strawberry Leaf-roller 
A MAN in this place is likely to lose 
his strawberries on account of a little 
yellow worm. Apparently some kind 
of insect lays an egg on the leaf and 
weaves a web around it, and eventually 
from the pupa the yellow worm hatches 
out. <’an you tell me how to get rid of 
this pest? I do not think my strawber¬ 
ries have been attacked yet, hut probably 
they soon will be. Practically every one 
of this man’s plants have these worms 
on them, both old and new beds. 
Remsenburg, N. Y. It. L. 8. 
I judge the insect is the common straw¬ 
berry leaf-roller or folder. This insect 
is often destructive to this plant and is 
sometimes hard to control. Probably the 
best thing to do is to mow your field of 
strawberries, if tin 1 insects attack it, 
about as close as you think it will do and 
tlnui rake up the leaves at once, before 
they dry, and burn them as soon as they 
will burn. This grass will destroy all of 
the caterpillars. Some growers mow 
their plants and burn them without rak¬ 
ing. If you have read the Hope Farm 
Notes in The R. N.-Y. you will recall 
that the writer of these notes mows his 
strawberry field every season. I do not 
believe you can effectively poison the pest. 
It folds the leaves so that you cannot 
get poison where it will eat it. At the 
same time, if the post becomes serious 
it would be advisable to spray the plants 
with arsenate of lead at the rate of three 
pounds to 50 gallons of water to supple¬ 
ment the mowing. o. w. hfhiitck. 
f LEGAL FARM MATTERS. 
Private Lighting Plant. 
I F I should desire to install an electric 
light plant on my farm at the brook 
which runs through the farm (an ex¬ 
pert. has informed me that there is enough 
fall for the required power) and should 
desire to supply my neighbors with light 
at. prices to be fixed h,v themselves and 
myself, would I be required to get per¬ 
mission from some officials “higher up” 
in this State, or could I manage the 
plant as I desire regardless of other out¬ 
side opposition? n. 
If you supply no more than 10 neigh¬ 
bors and get the permission of the prop¬ 
erty owners, to whom you sell the light, 
to cross their land with your wires, you 
do not need the permission of any offi¬ 
cial. This is merely a personal enter¬ 
prise and no one can interfere. If, on the 
other hand, you incorporate and exercise 
the privileges of a lighting corporation 
which is given the power under certain 
restrictions of condemning land, you 
would have to comply with all the require¬ 
ments of law. This being an individual 
enterprise you cannot cross any person’s 
land without their consent. 
Locating Division Fences. 
H OW is the law about the section line? 
My neighbor wants to move the fence 
on my land about 24 feet. He says 
that line is not straight. My land was 
cultivated 40 years ago, and this fence 
was made about 30 years ago. My land 
is all cultivated and his land is cultivated 
about one-fifth and rest is woodland. Can 
lie move the fence? ic. v. I,. 
New York. 
The principle that controls in a case 
like this which is supported by most of 
the decisions is that if a division fence be 
wrongly placed by mistake of the parties, 
there being at the time no dispute and no 
representation by either to induce the act 
of the other, neither one is estopped to 
have it corrected; but when one acts in 
reliance and on the representation of the 
other or each upon that of the other, as 
when for instance the structure is fixed 
in settlement of a dispute or there is a 
“practical location” of the boundary in 
reliance on which one or both make im¬ 
provement an estoppel arises and each 
of them may insist against the other that 
the fence is rightly placed. The rights of 
your neighbor, however, would depend 
upon the question of how the present line 
was established. If it is the result of 
agreement he cannot move it now and you 
should take all necessary means to pre¬ 
vent it, and do not let him move the fence 
anyhow until you are sure of your facts 
and your rights. M. D. 
Tenants and the Lime Question. 
W HEN I came into possession of some 
farms in Delaware 1 found the fol¬ 
lowing agreement existing between 
landlord (my father) and tenant. Land¬ 
lord had one half of all crops—corn, 
wheat, tomatoes, a four years’ rotation, 
one field corn, two wheat, one clover for 
one of tenant as pasture. Landlord paid 
one-half of fertilizer for wheat and corn, 
and all for tomatoes. Tenant furnished 
all seed for wheat and half of clover. 
No lime was used and there were no 
co\ : crops; the one-year clover always 
closely pastured. I concluded, after a 
few years, that the farms were deterior¬ 
ating, meaning less income for tenant 
and landlord. I then talked the situa¬ 
tion over with the tenants, and for two 
years have been making them acquainted 
with the ideas of The R. N.-Y T . as to the 
importance of manure saving, the value of 
cover crops, the necessity of liming, etc. 
I propose now to revise our rental agree¬ 
ment and shall offer the following: Land¬ 
lord to pay for half of all fertilizer, ten¬ 
ant same; landlord to furnish half of all 
seed—corn, wheat, tomato and clover, 
tenant same. Landlord to pay for half 
the lime and seed for cover crop, tenant 
the same, each to have half of all crops. 
I would like you to consider this last 
proposition from the tenant’s viewpoint, 
as well as that of the landlord. I am 
sure tenants will make one of the old, 
old arguments—that lime is a permanent 
improver of land, and as the tenant only 
holds his tenantry by the year; he is not 
willing to pay money (for lime) for the 
benefit of his probable successor. The 
same for cover crops—perhaps in a less 
degree. Why should any tenant refuse 
to pay for half of lime, or cover crop seed, 
when they willingly pay for commercial 
fertilizers, and then again if this plan is 
universally adopted in a neighborhood, 
would not each one get the benefit of the 
other’s outlay, no matter how frequent 
the removal? - - • farmer. 
Maryland. 
Your proposed change of the rental 
agreement would seem to be fair to the 
tenant. The old argument that lime is a 
permanent improvement of the laml has 
no standing when we realize that there is 
really no plant food in lime, but that it 
merely acts on the soil in such a manner 
that the plant foods already there are 
made available. With this knowledge, 
there seems to be no reason why the ten¬ 
ant should not pay half of the cost of 
the lime, because by the use of lime the 
plant food already in the soil is used up 
faster than it otherwise would be and it 
really is taking substance from the farm 
and therefore from the owner quicker 
than it would without the use of lime. 
M. D. 
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