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'l'llli KUKAL XEW-VUKKEK 
March 2C i 
Talks About Fruits 
Pruning Injured Trees. 
OULD l'rof. Van Deman advise me 
to trim my apple trees? I have a 
nice little orchard, about ISO trees. 
1 took good care of them for the last 
eight years, and it paid me well. I sold 
last year nearly 3000 bushels of apples. 
I had no trouble with scale or other in¬ 
sects except borers, which killed a few 
trees, but last December we got an ice 
and sleet storm. The ice stayed two 
weeks on the trees; some trees split in 
two parts, big limbs split off and the 
whole orchard looks ruined. What is the 
best way to trim that orchard to give 
those trees shape again in a few years? 
Dublin, Pa. a. b. 
I can only suggest that common sense 
be used in pruning the trees, that have 
been broken by the sleet. Those that are 
split open may be ruined, but as they are 
only eight years old and in good vigor 
it may be that by cutting them back 
to mere stubs they will send out new 
sprouts that will form good heads again. 
All very badly broken branches should 
be cut off. It is wonderful how nature will 
repair the damage to young trees. All 
the wounds should be well painted or 
covered, with grafting wax put on hot 
with a brush. The sprouts should be 
very carefully watched as they grow out 
and trimmed so as to help them in form¬ 
ing new tops of good shape. 
H. K. VAN DEMAN. 
Crop to Follow Strawberries. 
S I raise two to three acres of straw¬ 
berries each year, and run the beds 
two years only, I have a bed to plow 
up each year. As the picking is usually 
over by July 10 I would like to plant to 
some money crop, peas, beans, or cab¬ 
bage, or anything else you could recom¬ 
mend. Do you think I could do this suc¬ 
cessfully? I usually let the beds lie idle 
till Fall and plow under as green fertili¬ 
zer. but would like a better plan. w. M, 
Otsego Co., N. Y. 
Such a crop will depend upon the local 
conditions. What will sell best in your 
market, and what do you know most 
about growing? When plowing under a 
strawberry crop of this kind, we have 
succeeded in growing cabbage, celery, tur¬ 
nips, carrots, mangels and potatoes. It 
will depend therefore upon what crop 
suits your conditions. It would be rather 
late for beans or peas to do well. We 
should think that celery or carrots would 
be most likely to succeed and be profit¬ 
able. 
A Dentist Extract# Peach Borers. 
1 FIND that Hope Farm has installed 
the R. I. Reds, my choice of all 
breeds, and a little farther on is an 
item that is to blame for this letter. You 
“showed the children how to kill peach 
borers.” When I read that I said, “I 
must tell them my way.” Born and 
raised on a farm, I, like many a boy, 
thought I saw something better than 
farm work in a profession, and that idea 
resulted in a college course in dentistry, 
and BO years of practice, when a physi¬ 
cal disability brought me back to the 
soil. So I am well acquainted with the 
possibilitiess of a little dental instrument 
called a “nerve broach,” a bit of finely 
barbed steel wire, used to extract a dead 
nerve from the root of a tooth. For years 
I used a knife, and a wire to push where 
I could not go with a knife. When the 
peach or apple borer gets up in the wood 
it is hard to cut to it, and one cannot be 
sure the wire punch has reached and 
killed it. But with very little cutting of 
bark or wood the barbed wire can ex¬ 
plore the cavity, the sharp point pierces 
the boier’s tough skin, the barbs catch, 
and as the grub has no holding-on power, 
out it comes. It is a delightful opera¬ 
tion from the operator’s point of view; 
the patient either in the dental chair or 
the peach tree may hold a different opin¬ 
ion. I found the dental nerve-broach too 
short and stiff for practical use, but a 
flexible copper wire sharpened and barbed 
with a sharp knife is just the thing. Of 
course in many cases nothing of the kind 
is needed, but in a long hole, up or down, 
it is "Johnny-on-the-spot.” Prof. Sur¬ 
face, our State economic zoologist, says 
it is a woodpecker’s tongue. 
Will you write my name as a member 
of the Anti-Fake Club? It will be a 
satisfaction to continue in such good com¬ 
pany, a work at which I have already 
spent no little time and effort. For all 
frauds who prey on the farmer, and on 
the uninformed, the credulous and the 
helpless, let us adopt the sentiment of 
a German poet in his “Chant of hate 
against England.” 
“You will we hate with a lasting hate. 
We will never forego our hate.” 
May many more Thanksgivings be 
yours, and the lot of all who like you look 
on life with clear bright vision, and see 
in it so largely our great opportunity. 
Lock Haven, Pa. E. J. b. 
Care of Russet Apples. 
I should lik to obtain advice as to the 
best method of caring for Russet apples 
during the Winter. I have a good fruit 
room in my cellar, in which my Green¬ 
ings. Baldwins, Northern Spy and King 
apples keep capitally, the temperature 
ranging from 35 to 45 deg. My Russets, 
however, for several years wilt badly, 
and as I am very fond of this variety in 
March and April, I should like to know 
the trouble. Is it possible that I pick 
them too early? P. b. .t. 
New York. 
All Russet apples wilt, and but little 
can be done to prevent their wilting. 
Smooth-skinned apples are more or less 
covered with an oily bloom which pre¬ 
vents wilting, but the cuticle of all Rus¬ 
set apples is much broken up and it has 
been determined experimentally that the 
evaporation, probably for this reason, is 
much greater in Russet apples than in 
smooth apples. This is true also of Rus¬ 
set pears. About the most P. B. J. can 
do is to keep his Russet apples in a cool 
and moist cellar. A cellar dried out by 
a furnace is about the poorest sort of a 
place to keep any kind of fruit and 
quickly ruins the quality of all Russet 
fruits. 
Bartlett Pears on Sod. 
Can the Bartlett pear be successfully 
grown iu sod? I have a hillside, good 
loamy soil, northern exposure, that I 
would like to plant to pears, if it can be 
done in sod, but if kept plowed it would 
wash badly. What pear is the best to 
plant with Bartlett as a pollenizer? 
Would one row in 10 be enough if I 
planted it in the middle? H. b. h. 
Taylorsville, Pa. 
Pear trees of any variety may be 
grown in sod if they are properly fer¬ 
tilized and otherwise treated well. On a 
hillside where the soil would wash bad¬ 
ly if kept loose by cultivation, if the soil 
is good, ought to be a suitable place to 
plant a pear orchard and make it a suc¬ 
cess. The holes should be dug about 20 
or 25 feet apart and made at least three 
feet in diameter and two feet deep. The 
sod and some well rotted manure should 
be used to mix with the soil in filling up 
the holes. The sooner the holes are pre¬ 
pared the better and then allowed to set¬ 
tle until the trees are ready to plant. 
Without any long delay there should be 
a thick mulch of some coarse material 
spread over the dug surface to keep the 
soil moist. If the growing season is a 
good one the trees ought to make a fair 
start and this can be easily told by the 
vigor of the young shoots and color of 
the foliage. By looking into the soil un¬ 
der the mulch its state of moisture can 
be known. If the season should be very 
dry watering would be a wise thing to 
do. H. E. VAN DEMAN. 
The Dorset Pear. —M. S. P., Dan¬ 
vers, Mass., asks about Winter pears; 3^ 
want to say a good word for Dorset. It 
is a comparatively new pear, but a deli¬ 
cious one, shaped somewhat like Bose, 
nearly as large. While not quite as 
good as Bose it will not soften at core as 
Bose will sometimes. I consider it equal 
to Lawrence and far better than Anjou 
or Easter. The latter is subject to the 
disease of the fruit which I cannot con¬ 
trol with spraying. I do not know how 
late we could keep the Dorset, but they 
were so good we ate them all in Janu¬ 
ary. I am sure they will keep till Feb¬ 
ruary and possibly March. 
Long Island. E. G. miller. 
R. N.-Y. Index Ready. 
Readers who have not received the an¬ 
nual R. N.-Y. index for 1914, and desire 
it, will be supplied on application to this 
office. 
How To 
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Fruit 
Trees 
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