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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
November 14, 
FARMERS’ CLUB 
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Mutton and Hare for Meat. 
A LONG time ago, I think I saw in 
The R. N. Y. something about South 
Americans raising a sheep or two in¬ 
stead of hogs and salting them down as 
the Southern people do hogs. I do not 
like so much hog meat. Can you tell 
me if it is practicable here? It seems 
to me sheep could be raised a great deal 
cheaper than hogs, and I would like the 
meat much better. Also, how about 
keeping a few Belgian hares for meat 
once in a while? We eat very little 
meat anyway, but like to have a little 
on hand for company. Once we thought 
we must have meat three times a day, 
and now do not have it once a month, 
and find we get along just as well and I 
believe we are in better health, e. r. s. 
Virginia. 
The people of Argentina eat large 
quantities of mutton. A good account of 
their habits is given in Joe Wing’s book 
“In Many Lands.” The mutton is eaten 
fresh or salted and smoked like pork. It 
can be put in cans also—as we have so 
often described. We can see no reason 
why the mutton may not be kept as well 
as the pork. It would be a good change. 
As for Belgian hares, there was a “boom” 
over them a few years ago; it has now 
mostly died out. We know several peo¬ 
ple who started with these hares expect¬ 
ing to obtain a full meat supply. They 
have now all given up the business. This 
is a case where experience is needed. 
Who can give it? 
Trapping Rabbits. 
R W. C., New Jersey, page 1236, 
• wants to get rid of rabbits. Put 
up a poultry netting wire fence, two feet 
high, around the patch. Just tack it to 
temporary stakes. Every 50 feet make 
a square jog large enough to receive a 
barrel, which must be sunk in the ground 
I-O-O-1 
level with the top of barrel, as shown in 
diagram. Rabbits will follow along fence 
and go in on “tip-up,” which sets itself 
again after rabbit has dropped to bottom 
of barrel. Orange growers in California 
have these around their groves and they 
work to perfection. g. h. s. 
Monticello, N. Y. 
Late Cover Crop. 
I HAVE a piece of ground that was in 
potatoes dug about November 10. I 
wish to raise tomatoes on this piece of 
ground next season and desire to sow 
some cover crop this Fall that can be 
turned under next season. We set toma¬ 
toes about June 15, so thought that rye 
or barley could be sown this Fall and 
turned under before it grew too large next 
season, so that the ground would have 
time to settle and the green matter have 
time to decompose before the tomatoes 
were set. What do you think of this 
plan? Would it be well to sow a cover 
crop of this kind to be turned under in 
the Spring for the purpose of seeding Al¬ 
falfa in the Spring? The land in this sec¬ 
tion needs humus in the soil. Up to Octo¬ 
ber 25 we had no frost here this season. 
St. Michaels, Md. j. w. B. 
At this late date rye is about the only 
thing you can sow for a Winter cover. 
You could have sown Crimson clover 
after an earlier crop, and but for the dig¬ 
ging of the potatoes could have had a 
stand of clover among them as our grow¬ 
ers do among their tomatoes and canta¬ 
loupes. But in sowing rye sow a bushel 
and a half to get a good stand, and then 
turn it under before it gets stra-wy, or 
when it is about knee-high. In that green 
stage it will decay rapidly, while allowed 
to run into head it will decay slowly and 
be in the way in dry weather. Give the 
rye some acid phosphate and you will 
get it back for the tomatoes, for the soil 
will hold on to it, what the rye does not 
use, and what it does nse will be returned 
to the soil. Tomatoes need plenty of 
phosphoric add. I would never sow Al¬ 
falfa in the Spring, for the crab grass 
will be pretty sure to smother it. Bet¬ 
ter sow cow peas in the Spring after a 
Winter cover of rye, and you can make 
a good crop of hay and get the land in or¬ 
der to sow the Alfalfa in late August if 
you sow an early variety of cow peas. Or 
you can turn under the peas in August 
and give the land a heavy dressing of 
shell lime and prepare it for the Alfalfa. 
The first Alfalfa I ever saw growing was 
in your town in 1S52, and it was then 
called Lucerne. W. F. MASSEY. 
Killing Weed Seeds in Manure. 
W EED seeds in manure are often 
quite troublesome, and we have 
tried various plans and methods in over¬ 
coming them. Some years ago we no¬ 
ticed that the manure from spent hotbeds 
becomes very hot, sometimes as hot as 
125 degrees, and no seed of any kind can 
survive such a high temperature. Act¬ 
ing on this suggestion, we began to treat 
our manure to be spread on the garden to 
a violent heat. The process takes some 
time, but we have found that our work 
of fighting weeds has been greatly les¬ 
sened. We haul the manure in the gar¬ 
den in the Spring, in large, even, flat 
piles of about 20 loads each. When one 
pile has been finished, we commence an¬ 
other, and so on. When we find by the 
use of a hotbed thermometer that the 
heat has reached its highest point, we 
turn it, and allow it to heat up again, 
after which we spread it on the land. 
We continue treating pile after pile in 
this way until all have been treated. Of 
course, one heating might answer very 
well, but a double fermentation is much 
surer, as handling and displacing the 
manure twice makes all parts of the pile 
come inside, and consequently the weed 
seeds in the pile are much more likely 
to be killed. d. l. 
Indiana. 
Sour Honey. 
W HAT use, if any, can be made of 
comb honey that has soured? How 
prevent souring? e. j. l. 
Briarcliff Manor, N. Y. 
I do not know of any use that can be 
made of soured comb honey; possibly, 
some reader may have discovered a 
method of utilizing it. Honey should al¬ 
ways be stored in a warm, dry place, to 
prevent its souring. The mistake is fre¬ 
quently made of storing it in the cellar, 
where moisture collects upon the comb 
and results in diluting and souring the 
contents of the cells. A warm, dry attic, 
or upper room, where the honey cannot 
freeze, is the most suitable place for keep¬ 
ing the surplus supply of this sweet. The 
writer now has several sections of white 
clover honey that have been kept for two 
years in the chimney closet of an upstairs 
bedroom without deterioration. M. b. d. 
Battling With Peach Borer. 
A T what season, or part of the season, 
is it necessary to pursue the peach 
borer? In other words, is its piracy 
continuous, or is it troublesome at cer¬ 
tain periods, and what periods? 
Mendota, Ill. l. b. c. 
In our own case we begin now to dig 
out the peach borer. The eggs from 
which this insect is hatched are gener¬ 
ally laid in this latitude in late June or 
early July. The insects hatch at the 
base of the tree, and begin to gnaw their 
way down to the root. Many peach 
growers now follow the plan of spraying 
the trunks of their trees near the ground 
with a thick solution of lime-sulphur. 
This destroys many of the young worms, 
and prevents others from working into 
the tree. It hardly pays to dig out the 
borers until October or November, as 
they are not large enough to be readily 
seen earlier in the Fall. We follow the 
plan of scraping away the dirt from the 
base of the tree, finding the hole which 
is made evident by gum containing saw¬ 
dust, and working down through the 
hole until the insect is found. A sharp, 
small knife is good for this purpose; 
make sure to slit or cut down the trunk 
and not across it. After this digging a 
mound of earth or coal ashes is piled 
around the tree, and in late April in the 
following Spring we go over the trees 
again, for any borers which may have 
been left at the Fall digging. This treat¬ 
ment with washing or spraying the tree 
trunks with lime and sulphur is as good 
as anything we know of. Soft asphalt 
is being used by some growers, who re¬ 
port fair results from its use. We have 
continued to use the digging method. 
Strong, heavy, spreading root3, grown the 
William P. Stark way, produce healthy, vir¬ 
ile, fast growing trees that establish them¬ 
selves quickly and come in to bearing veryyoung. Wil¬ 
liam P.Stark’s Ozark Mountain trees are famous f or their 
unusual root-systems. You will find the trees we ship you 
far surpassing your expectations in the splendid root- 
growth they have made this season. These roots are ex¬ 
ceptionally heavy, thick, fibrous, with strong laterals and 
tap-roots. They are trees of an “over-value.” They are 
trees that we guarantee will please you. Write for our 120 
page catalog now. Get your list in early. It pays. 
I. H. Hale Peach—Paid $1420 Per Acre 
Those are Mr. Hale’s returns from his J. H. Hale 
peach orchards. Never before has there been a peach like 
this. Averages l A to A larger than Klberta: round shape; 
golden yellow flesh, carmine skin; practically fuzzless like 
an apricot; flesh firm and meaty as a cling, yet perfect 
freestone; weighs 12% more than Elberta: ships immense 
distances; wonderful keeper; exceptionally hardy; late 
bloomer; long fruiting season; ripens 5 to 7 days ahead of 
Elberta: brings 33% to 50% higher prices. Read whole 
story in catalog. 
Genuine Trees Only fromWm.P. Stark Nurseries 
Be on your guard against unscrupulous agents or concerns 
offering so-called J. H. Hale peach trees. We grow J. H. 
Hale trees under exclusive contract with Mr. Hale and are 
the only authorized distributors. Genuine J. H. Halo peach 
trees, budded from Mr. Hale's own orchards and bearing tag with hia sig¬ 
nature can be obtained only from Wm.F.StarkNurseries, StarkCitv.Mo 
True Delicious Apple Trees at Grower’s Prices 
Delicious, the most profitable apple you can grow. Wo 
furnish genuine Delicious trees, Stark-Ozark Mountain crown at prices 
you ordinarily pay for inferior varieties. Get our money-savin? prices 
on all other tested profitable varieties listed in our catalog. 
These are the 
kind of trees 
you get from 
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Apple Trees 
Trained to 
Bear Heavy 
Loads 
Our two-vear old trees 
Our two-year old trees 
are especially grown with 
branches cn upper 14 to 
16 inches. You can prune 
to form open, vase-shaped 
heads, without weak 
crotches — either medium 
or low head, aa you like. 
Such trees are longer-liv¬ 
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and bear heavier loads 
without breaking than 
trees asjordinarily grown 
in nurseries, with all 
branches starting from 
one point near the top. 
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Box $.55 
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SAMUEL FRASER, NURSERYMAN, 
124 Main Street, :: Geneseo, N. Y. 
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