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Dipping Potatoes for Scab. 
On page 591 appears an article accom¬ 
panied by a sketch showing the writer’s 
method of dipping potatoes for scab. About 
20 years ago I had occasion to treat the 
seed used to plant eight acres and the 
method I used was effective and it seemed 
to me much less work than Mr. Keller’s. 
11 was as follows: 
I purchased two molasses hogheads 
bolding a little over two barrels each. I 
knocked the end out of each, cleaned them 
and set them on the edge of a platform 
about IS inches high; bored an inch hole 
in hogshead in the side close to bottom 
end. to which I fitted a plug. I then 
tilled both hogsheads with the potatoes 
to be treated and covered one with the 
solution which I had previously prepared 
in another barrel, and after letting it 
stand the required time drew the solution 
from hogshead No. 1 into pails, by remov¬ 
ing plug at bottom, and emptying them in 
hogshead No. 2, adding enough to fill 
same from barrel previously prepared. 
My man and T then proceeded to cut 
seed taken from hogshead No. 1, and by 
the time it was finished No. 2 was ready. 
We of course drew the solution from 
No. 2 and turned it into No. 1 which we 
had filled with potatoes again. 
'[’he whole arrangement took but a very 
short time to prepare, and there was no 
expense except for the hogsheads, for 
which I paid 75 cents each. We used 
the corrosive sublimate solution. At that 
time I had not heard of the formalin 
treatment. The seed after cutting was 
spread on the grass to dry. After we 
finished cutting all the seed, we com¬ 
menced planting. We found the seed 
much pleasanter to handle, and never had 
seed come so quickly or as even. 
New York. ,T. a. 
Cucumber Wilt. 
1. For the past two seasons I have 
spaded under a fairly good quantity of 
hen manure; planted corn, beans, peas, 
cucumbers, early and late squash, toma¬ 
toes, Swiss chard, in general what one 
would want in a garden. I have kept it 
reasonably moist. There has been a good 
growth of stalk and vine. The cucum¬ 
bers have grown to a good length. Every 
day I find that the largest vines are wilt¬ 
ing; in course of day or so are dead. On 
examining I find the stalk just at the 
ground is split and covered with a kind 
of brown granulated crust. Over half 
of the vines have died. 2. A walnut has 
been troubled with a disease that perfor¬ 
ates nearly every leaf of this kind of a 
tree in this locality. What can we do to 
check this trouble so the tree can finish 
the year’s growth properly? .t. t.. s. 
Ann Arbor, Mich. 
1. This disease seems to be pretty gen¬ 
erally distributed throughout the melon 
growing districts of the northern and 
western portions of the county, and in lo¬ 
calities where a thorough system of spray¬ 
ing is not practiced the loss is quite fre¬ 
quently as great as 50 to 75 per cent, of 
the crop. The symptoms are a sudden 
wilting of the vines throughout its entire 
length, with very little if any spotting of 
the leaf being noticeable. The cause of 
the wilting is a species of bacteria which 
enters the stem at the base and clogs the 
water-carrying veins of the plant, thus 
depriving the vine of the required moist¬ 
ure, causing it to soon wilt and die. The 
distribution of this disease can be laid 
almost entirely to the operations of leaf¬ 
eating insects, the exception being prob¬ 
ably due to infection of the soil. Though 
this is not known to be a fact, it will 
be the part of good husbandry to practice 
rotation of crops as a preventive meas¬ 
ure. When the disease is known to be in 
the neighborhood, spraying should begin 
as soon as the vines begin to run, and re¬ 
peated every week or 10 days as long as 
seems necessary, using the 3-G-50 form¬ 
ula Bordeaux mixture with Paris green 
or arsenate of lead. The Bordeaux as a 
fungicide with the addition of Paris green 
or arsenate of lead as an insecticide, will 
go far toward checking the spreading of 
the wilt, but will not cure vines already 
infected, nor will the spraying for wilt be 
as effective in the bringing of the disease 
under control, as are the leaf-blighting 
diseases. It is very important that tire 
spread of the wilt disease be lessened by 
very possible means, and to this end it is 
recommended that all infected vines be 
pulled up and burned as soon as they be¬ 
gin to wilt. 
2. Spray the walnut trees with Bor¬ 
deaux and arsenate of lead, which should 
control the trouble mentioned. ic. 
Lime-sulphur for l ent Caterpillar. 
The article on page 394, prompts me 
to write and say that here we are not 
troubled with the tent-caterpillar if we 
spray well with the lime and sulphur 
solution; Winter strength, before they 
hatch. I was told that this was an ef¬ 
fective preventive before I had the scale 
to contend with, and several years’ ex¬ 
perience has proved it to be a fact. I 
think it strange that I have never seen 
the above in print. I consider it worth 
the trouble of spraying to get rid of the 
caterpillars before they do any damage 
trees are not infested with 
A. R. i.. 
Lime-Sulphur Formula. 
On page 350 you give the formula for 
preparing the regular lime-sulphur used 
at the N. J. Experiment Station. The 
directions given call for: 15 pounds stone 
lime, 15 pounds sulphur, 50 gallons water. 
This formula has not been used by the 
New Jersey Experiment Station for at 
least three or four years, and is no long¬ 
er published in the Experiment Station 
bulletins and circulars. The formula 
which is now used is as follows: 50 
pounds stone lime, 100 pounds sulphur, 50 
gallons water. These materials give us a 
concentrated lime-sulphur which in most 
cases tests about 1.24 specific gravity. 
ARTHUR J. FARLEY. 
the 
even if 
scale. 
Virginia. 
It. N.-Y. 
about this. 
We have had several reports 
Some were favorable while 
others did not find the method fully suc¬ 
cessful. The time of spraying may have 
caused this difference. 
Germination of Soy Beans. 
I have some Soy beans two years old. 
M ill they be likely to germinate freely? 
They were treated with bi-sulphide of 
carbon to kill the weevils. s. ,t. 
It would be wise to germinate the Soy 
bean seed before planting. The second 
year they may grow satisfactorily and they 
may not. The third year they are worth¬ 
less for seed. It is unnecessary here to 
treat them with bisulphide of carbon, as 
weevils pay no attention to them. 
C. b. w. 
Bees and Pear Blight. 
In The R. N.-Y., page 514, “II. G. A.” 
inquired whether bees can be charged 
with carrying blight. You are right in 
saying that bees do carry blight, but they 
are by no means the only carriers, prob¬ 
ably not the chief carriers. In a paper 
written by Prof. II. A. Surface, of Penn¬ 
sylvania, he gave this statement: “I wish 
to establish the thesis that pear blight 
often appears without the intervention of 
bees, and that bees are not by any means 
the sole agent capable of the dissemina¬ 
tion of such germs. The pear growers 
are not justified in condemning the bee 
and desiring to exclude it from our or¬ 
chards.” A recent authority states that 
bees have far less to do with the spread 
of pear blight than many other insects, 
especially the aphids. e. b. b. 
The Flat Pea. 
Will you give description of the “flat 
pea,” Lathyrus sylvestris? ill it grow 
in this State? What length of time after 
planting does it mature? f. b. 
Angelica, N. Y. 
The flat pea, Lathyrus sylvestris, is a 
native of Europe, having a straggling or 
climbing stem three to five feet long, rose 
and purplish flowers, pod two to three 
inches long. In its native habitat it 
grows in thickets and rocky places. It is 
weedy in appearance, but is said to make 
good forage for cattle, and to be excellent 
for turning under as green manure. It: 
grows well in poor sandy soil, is not af¬ 
fected by drought, and is quite resistant 
to frost. It continues to grow and form 
seed all Summer. It would probably 
grow as well as other European legumes 
in New York, but is not generally cata¬ 
logued among farm seeds, and we infer 
that it has not been grown to any great 
extent in this country. 
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