1914 . 
THE RURAL NE W-VOiM.4viiivi 
1313 
Apples Among Grapes. 
W OULD you advise planting apple 
trees in a grape arbor? I have 
more grapes than I want, and 
thought of planting Delicious apples and 
also some Duchess in the grape rows. 
Then when the tree gets of any size, I 
should take out that row. What is your 
advice? T. s. 
South Bend, Ind. 
It is never advisable to interplant ap¬ 
ples with grapes; of course, it can be 
done, but as a rule not successfully. The 
root system of the vines being already 
well established it is an uphill fight for 
the apple roots to gain a foothold. Cer¬ 
tain insects that are common to the grape 
feed on apple foliage when the latter is 
offered. Far better results can be ob¬ 
tained through tearing out entirely that 
part of the vineyard, and after turning 
under a green crop, as rye, clover, etc., 
plant the apples. F. e. gladwin. 
Orchard and Hens. 
1 IIAVE a five-acre orchard of young 
trees. The soil today is in nearly per¬ 
fect condition. I have been a great 
believer in cover crops and have used in 
addition hen manure and commercial fer¬ 
tilizers. I have now a large flock of hens 
in the orchard. They have laid bare 
about half the orchard, and will be likely 
to complete their work another year. 
This renders cover crops impractical. 
Will the soil in time become deficient in 
humus? If so, what is the remedy? 
What needs to be done to such an or¬ 
chard by way of fertilizing in addition 
to the presence of the hens in it? 
Lynn, Mass. s. P. 
We assume that this is an apple or¬ 
chard. The hen manure will furnish 
much organic matter, but cover crops 
will help. Our plan would be to put 
temporary fences of high netting so as 
to divide the orchard into three parts. 
Seed two while the hens run in the third 
and change from one to another as the 
crops grow. You can sow at different 
times oats and peas, clover, rape, rye, 
wheat or buckwheat, and let the hens 
harvest the grain crops if you desire. 
Or you can raise corn with a cover crop 
in one part of the orchard by keeping 
the hens out until the corn has a good 
start. Different combinations of grains 
or other seeds can be used for this pas¬ 
ture. lien manure is rather high in 
nitrogen to use alone for an apple or¬ 
chard. It will cause too much wood 
growth and rather poor color. We 
should use 400 pounds per acre of a mix¬ 
ture of 300 pounds acid phosphate and 
100 pounds muriate of potash. 
s. s. M. 
Cherries Fail to Bear. 
I HAVE one sour cherry tree and one 
sweet Windsor; both are healthy and 
thrifty growers. I spray them every 
year. They blossom well, but neither sets 
any fruit. The sour cherry tree had a 
few quarts; its age is about 20 years, and 
the Windsor about 12 years. What would 
you advise to do lo get fruit? Girdling, I 
believe, would kill the tree. s. L. 
Allentown, Pa. 
If a cherry tree will not set fruit up to 
even 10 years from planting I would top- 
work it to some variety that is known to 
be a reliable bearer. The Windsor is 
usually a good bearer without the aid of 
the pollen of any other variety, and this 
tree may not be true to name. In any 
case I would graft both the trees to other 
kinds next Spring. The Schmidt would 
be a good one for the Windsor tree, and 
Montmorency for the sour one. Scions 
should be secured about the month of 
March and put in damp, cool storage un¬ 
til the buds start on the trees to be 
grafted, when the work should be done. 
Late grafting with perfectly dormant 
scions is better for stone fruit trees than 
early grafting in the Spring. Girdling 
the trees would be fatal. 
II. E. VAN DEMAN. 
Top-working Quinces. 
1 IIAVE several hundred quince trees 
which were set out six years ago for 
Orange quince. They have turned out 
to be a variety which apparently will not 
mature in this section. Is it practical to 
have these trees grafted or budded? Or 
should they be pulled out and reset? 
Williamson, N. Y. p. u. v. 
There need be no serious difficulty in 
grafting over the quince trees to the true 
Orange variety, which is the one usually 
of most value for growing in New York. 
The later kinds do not always come to 
full maturity then, and the trees com¬ 
plained of must be of that character. 
The greatest care should be used to secure 
scions from trees of the Orange variety 
that are in bearing, and no doubt of their 
correctness. The grafting should be done 
next Spring. h. e. van deman. 
Rot of Hyacinths. 
I HAVE a flower bed 4x12 feet that I 
used a number of years, for hyacinths, 
. but two years ago the bulbs practical¬ 
ly all rotted after blooming. I took them 
up every year or so after the leaves died, 
and replanted later, and occasionally 
added some new bulbs. The soil is good 
leaf mould, and I wish to plant hyacinths 
again after waiting two years. Would it 
be safe in the same soil, or would a treat¬ 
ment with lime-sulphur, Bordeaux or pure 
sulphur render it suitable to plant them 0 
Carthage, Ind. T. x. N. 
I have never had experience with the 
trouble mentioned with hyacinth bulbs 
rotting, though results are not very satis¬ 
factory if old bulbs are used season after 
season. New bulbs may correct the 
trouble, though a good coat of lime may 
help put the soil in better condition. I 
do not think sulphur or Bordeaux mix¬ 
ture would be of any benefit. Growing a 
heavy crop of oats or rye and digging 
down when eight inches to one foot high 
might help in addition to the lime, 
though, new bulbs would be best. E. j. w. 
Peaches for Columbia Co., N. Y. 
ILL Tiie It. N.-Y. state what it 
deems a good assortment for a peach 
orchard of 400 trees in this vicinity, 
for commercial purposes, and in what 
proportion for each variety? This sec¬ 
tion is only moderately a peach country, 
but I have a three-year-o'd apple orchard 
on ground that I am eultivarng, but that 
is too rough to intercrop, so I plan to put 
in the peach trees as fillers—apples set 
45 feet apart—with l ; ttle loss of labor 
aside from pruning and spraying and no 
loss of ground. s. 
Columbia Co., N. Y. 
We are in the lower part of the Hudson 
Valley, and find the following varieties 
profitable: Carman, Belle of Georgia, 
Mountain Rose, F.lberta or J. H. Hale. 
Chair’s Choice, Salway, Iron Mountain. 
We think J. II. Hale is to take the place 
of Elberta. Carman and Belle of Geor¬ 
gia pay us best, though in a season like 
the present one Salway as a late peach is 
very profitable. These varieties may not 
be at all suitable 100 miles north of us, 
but they do well here. We shall not put 
any more peach trees as fillers among 
apples, as we have become convinced that 
Wealthy or other apple varieties of that 
shape, are much better. 
Corn With Defective Ears. 
1 NOTICE on page 1209 J. B. inquires 
for reasons why Golden Bantam sweet 
corn fails to fill out properly. I have 
planted Golden Bantam, Evergreen and 
Kendall’s Early side by side on soil that 
had not been plowed previously for at 
least 25 years. The two latter varieties 
filled out perfectly, but Golden Bantam 
failed to do so. This would seem to indi¬ 
cate that Golden Bantam needs some¬ 
thing more than the other or “white” va¬ 
rieties require, I think, and I hardly 
think this thing is potash, either, be¬ 
cause, by pure chance, I put an applica¬ 
tion of kainit where the Golden Bantam 
was planted, and not on the remainder. 
Perhaps the soil needs lime—I am sure 
mine is too acid. If J. B. will tell how 
long it has been since h's soil has been 
limed and how much has been done in 
the way of green manuring perhaps we 
can find the answer. -\y. p. m. 
WANT TO KNOW. 
HO can tell the weight of a cord of 
hard and soft wood—say hickory or 
white oak and chestnut, g"een or 
dry, or both? 
H AVE readers of The It. N.-Y. any ex¬ 
perience in the use of dynamite for 
draining out small swai ps in our 
New England meadows? Mv side-hill 
farm has an average of perhaps a 15-de¬ 
gree slope and there are many small 
swampy places covering from a few 
square rods to half an acre or more. In 
hardly any case is there running water in 
them, but much of the time they are too 
soft to work. About two feet below the 
surface in these places I find hardpan, 
which I imagine from the general forma¬ 
tion in this section is underlaid by solid 
ledge. I have read of some who have 
drilled through the hardpan, and by using 
d.vnam’'te to break and loosen it have 
drained out certain typ^s of sod. Where 
there is gravel under the hardpan I can 
see that it would work, but would it in 
my case w : th the possibility of ledge? In 
the successful cases how permanent is the 
method? _ Does it not have to be repeated 
after a time? If any one has had expe¬ 
rience in a like case and can give me any 
advice I would be greatly obliged. L. if. 
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