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THE RUK.AU NE'W-VOKKEK 
October ... 
Cutting Alfalfa for Seed. 
W ILL you give me information in re¬ 
gard to cutting Alfalfa for seed? 
Derby, N. Y. C. J. s. 
The Alfalfa seed crop should be han¬ 
dled in about the same way as the clover 
seed crop. The crop should be cut when 
three-fourths of the pods are brown. If 
left any longer many of the earliest and 
best pods are lost. The self-rake reaper 
is commonly used in cutting the crop, and 
the self-binder is sometimes used. The 
crop is gathered from the piles with bar¬ 
ley forks and thrown into a header box, 
or into a hay 1 nek, the bottom of which 
is covered with heavy duck. It is usu¬ 
ally thrashed directly from the load, for 
the crop should be handled as little as 
possible. It may be put in small stacks 
and thrashed later. The regular clover 
liuller is very suitable for Alfalfa seed. 
It is run at a lower speed than is re¬ 
quired for clover seed, because the stems 
are brittle and are broken up unduly. A 
grain separator may be used. Three or 
four bushels to the acre is a fair crop. 
B. P. L. 
Massachusetts Asparagus Growers. 
T HE meeting of the Massachusetts As¬ 
paragus Growers* Association held at 
rhe Concord Experiment Station on 
September 9 was a very pleasant affair. 
The main work at present carried on 
there is breeding <>f new improved types 
and trying to discover what fertilize]- and 
cover crop gives the best practical re¬ 
sults in place of stable manure, which is 
considered too expensive in most cases 
for the average grower to use. Crimson 
clover and vetch are ideal cover crops 
to use where possible, but rye is very 
good also to sow later than the others, 
and if a growth of six to eight inches 
is obtained, it is of much benefit its a 
soil holder through the Winter, and to 
disk in next Spring. Some present had 
thought the proper way to dispose of the 
growth of old tops in the Spring was to 
eut and burn, but were emphatically in¬ 
formed they were burning up money by 
this practice, as the soil needs these very 
much, and to disk them in without any 
•tutting is the way the up-to-date grow¬ 
ers do with these. 
Careful study of the breeding of this 
plant has produced an almost, if not quite, 
rust-proof variety in the Reading Giant, | 
and the.Giant Argentcuil is probably sec¬ 
ond to this in this respect. Either this | 
fact is positive, or else something of an¬ 
other nature has assisted in destroying 
the rust, as none is _ present on the 
grounds or in the growing section about 
except a single row kept for the pur¬ 
pose of proving the new sorts immune 
after being associated with and exposed 
to this rust. 
President C. W. Prescott was re¬ 
elected, as were also "Wilfrid Wheeler, 
secretary and treasurer, and Erank 
Wheeler, vice-president. The black and 
red beetles were discussed: the latter 
feeds chiefly on the seed, but does some 
damage to the plants. The black may be 
controlled by use of arsenate of load put 
on in a very fine mist. 
Dr. William P. Brooks of Amherst 
gave a very good talk on fertilizer exp- " 1 
merits carried on in the past years. He 
stated no fertilizer has any effect in any 
manner in preventing or reducing rust. 
B<X) pounds of nitrate soda is enough 
ro use per acre, any above this amount 
does not pay in dollars and cents, al¬ 
though a larger amount might not harm 
the crop. Acid phosphate docs not do 
much good, as 8,000 pounds per acre was 
produced without any. but by using ,‘500 
pounds, costing $1.80, 500 bunches extra 
were grown, yet any above that amount 
would not probably give a corresponding 
gain. Muriate of potash at rate of -.000 
pounds per acre gave a gain of 820 
pounds of crop; 300 pounds gave gain of 
2,240 pounds per acre, while 400 pounds 
did not produce as much, showing 200 
pounds was enough, and more if used was 
wasted, at least for that crop. 
Prof. Wilkinson of Cornell gave some 
facts about New York growers and about 
rhe markets of the various large cities of 
his State. I-Ie stated that no large plots 
of 10, 20, and 30 acres are grown there 
as is the case in this section here, but 
mostly consist of two t<> five acres to each 
grower. They do not have a uniform 
package or bunch them either; they 
mostly sell by the dozen and pack in any 
kind of package, some holding one dozen 
others several dozen. Their bunches 
weigh a little over two pounds and have 
different lengths of stalks in same bunch, 
and hunches also vary in length. Here 
bunches are of uniform length and weight, 
1% pounds being the weight, and the 
package a bushel box. each holding the 
same number of bunches. Prof. Norton 
who has charge of the Concord Station 
explained very fully the methods of feed¬ 
ing and matters along these lii.es, and is 
thoroughly at home ou all subjects per¬ 
taining to asparagus and its enemies. 
President Prescott, on whose farm the 
station is located, is also thoroughly 
posted on matters of asparagus, and cer¬ 
tainly deserves the hearty thanks of all 
growers for the work he lias done and 
assisted in doing, and also made possible 
for others, by furnishing a place for them 
to do it. A. e. i*. 
Slitting Bark for Blight. 
T HE question asked by Walter C. 
Black, relating to slitting the bark 
on trees to prevent blight, I notice 
you have left to wise men for solution. 
I do net consider myself in that class, 
but an observation from me I am certain 
will do no harm. 1 have kept in mind for 
many years that there could be no effect 
without a specific and absolute cause. 
Now if slitting the bark produces the 
effect of eliminating blight, then the 
blight must be caused by the bark around 
the tree being too tight. If this be true 
might it not be that the sap flow was ob¬ 
structed by this pressure, and the end of 
the twig the furthest from the source of 
supply would suffer to such an extent 
that it would die of starvation? 
West Virginia. T. F. l. 
Treating Wheat for Smut. 
Having had many requests for the 
method of treating seed wheat to prevent 
the stinking sni”t disease we print the 
following advice from a Cornell note: 
1. Select, as clean seed as possible. 
2. Treat seed as follows: (a) Pour 
into a wash tub or other large shallow con¬ 
tainer. until it is two-thirds full, a solu¬ 
tion of formaldehyde made by diluting one 
pint of standard formaldehyde in 45 gal¬ 
lons of water, (b) Pour seed into tub 
and stir it thoroughly, (c) As this pro¬ 
cess is going on skim off all smut balls, 
elmff, and light kernels that rise to sur¬ 
face. (d) Remove grain and spread it 
out to dry, after which it is ready to 
sow. 
The loose smut of wheat which destroys 
the entire head and changes it to a 
smutty mass cauuot be controlled by this 
treatment._ 
Tree Surgery. 
1 8 there such a tool made as a “hook 
gauge” used for removing fungus from 
heart of decayed apple trees? In cases 
where all rot cannot be removed what is 
the proper way to proceed? I find some 
farmers clean out what they can and then 
iill cavity with cement. It strikes me in 
such cases the rot will continue. T. K. 
Manchester, N. II. 
The Ohio Experiment Station has is¬ 
sued a good bulletin on this subject. It 
will give you much information. After 
cutting out the decayed wood the cavity 
is sterilized by washing with an anti¬ 
septic. _ 
Selecting Seed Potatoes. —The South 
Dakota Experimental Station sums up 
the principle of selecting good seed ns fol¬ 
lows : “Seed selection may best be prac¬ 
ticed in the field as follows: When dig¬ 
ging (lie potatoes in the Fall, take a bun¬ 
dle of small stakes to the field. When a 
hill having an exceptional number, say 
five or more, even sized tubers is found, 
sot a stake to mark it. Let the picker 
pick up these seed hills first. When a 
sufficient amount of seed selected in this 
manner is found the hand digging may be 
discontinued. The hand digging is really 
about the only extra work involved in this 
method of selection. The < )liio Experi¬ 
ment Station has found that this method 
of selection iucreases the yield. The 
Son-th Dakota Station reported in Bulle¬ 
tin No. 140, a gain of 28 per cent. In 
yield from simple selection of seed tubers 
and use of resulting large seed pieces. 
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Motorists are paying—on the average—$930,000 
weekly for this new HUDSON Six-40. And they 
have for weeks. We are building and selling ! 00 
cars per day. 
They would buy more if we could build them. 
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heavy—152 HUDSONS were delivered to users. 
finest car of the day—sold at one-third what class 
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Y ou will see how clever designing and costly 
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new-type motor which has reduced fuel cost about 
30 per cent. 
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We are selling five times as many HUDSONS 
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the factory output. But on August 1 we were 4.000 
car? oversold. 
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