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THE RUKAL WEW-YOREEE 
May 29, 1915. 
Garden and Farm Notes 
Buckwheat and Rye After Barley. 
I am a bit puzzled in regard to the 
planting of barley, buckwheat and rye 
on page 692. I want to try out this 
scheme of planting, but it is not clearly 
explained whether the barley and the 
buckwheat are to be harvested the same 
season. If so how late can they be put 
in? My farm is located in Connecticut. 
The climate is colder than in the coun¬ 
try nearer to New York. w. F. 
New York. 
Barley is a Spring grain, and should 
be seeded about the same time as oats. 
It is rather late now for sowing barley. 
The plan was to sow barley early. The 
grain would mature in early July. Then 
the buckwheat and rye would be seeded 
together—the buckwheat cut in late Sep¬ 
tember, and the rye left to grow on. 
A Vine With a History, 
The parent stem of the immense Scup- 
pernong grapevine now growing on Roan¬ 
oke Island. North Carolina, is shown on 
the first page. Like the banyan tree of 
India, the area covered by the vine has 
been increased from time to time by turn¬ 
ing down branches on the outer circum¬ 
ference, which have taken root, till at the 
present time there are several stems or 
trunks, none being as large as the one 
here shown, which is 69 inches in circum¬ 
ference. The vine covers an acre of 
ground, and the yield of fruit is prolific, 
varying of course from year to year, ac¬ 
cording to weather conditions. It is 
known that the fruit from old vines of 
this species is often inferior in size, and 
of poor quality, but the reverse seems 
to be the case in this instance, as the 
grapes are unusually large, juicy and lus¬ 
cious. This Monarch of the Vineyard is 
known to be over 300 years old, and ac¬ 
cording to the tradition of the Island it 
is said that the original slip was plant¬ 
ed way back in 1585-87 by Sir Walter 
Raleigh's early colonists. A. d. dart. 
Eradicating Horseradish. 
What will kill horseradish? 
Whitehall, N. Y. A. N. D. 
If it is in a location where other vege¬ 
tation of value will not suffer, heavy ap¬ 
plications of salt will sometimes prove 
quite effective. The ground should be 
covered with salt all around the plants 
and for at least a foot away from them. 
When horseradish becomes well estab¬ 
lished in congenial soil, it is almost im¬ 
possible to get entirely rid of it, as every 
bit of root left in the ground will in a 
short time throw up a leaf sprout, and if 
not chopped out promptly will soon be¬ 
come a well-established vigorous plant. 
When once well established in rich moist 
meadow land, it is doubtful if it can ever 
be eradicated. In cultivated land there 
is a possibility of finally getting rid of it 
by keeping persistently after it and never 
allowing it to make much growth before 
rooting it out. To begin with, every 
plant should be turned out with a strong 
spade, and every particle of root that can 
be found, picked up and removed from 
the land, and by digging up those that 
show up later, as soon as noticed, you 
may in the course of a couple of years 
get rid of it. The writer adopted this 
plan with a small patch in the garden 
some years ago. It was finally eradicated 
but it required four years to do it. K. 
Hay Crop After Potatoes. 
What would you use after potatoes as 
a catch crop for hay? I have heard that 
millet is poor for horse feed. The land 
is sandy loam, never very dry. M. 
Of course it depends on the time these 
potatoes are dug. Are they early pota¬ 
toes—dug in August? Millet makes good 
cow hay, and when cut before the heads 
form is* safe feed for horses. After the 
heads form there will be danger in feed¬ 
ing it to the horses. You can sow barley 
and rye together—three pecks each to 
the acre. The barley can be cut for hay 
in October while the rye will live over 
Winter and make grain or green ma¬ 
nure next year. 
Lime Sulphur and Tent Caterpillars. 
I note on page 679 a favorable report 
on the use of lime-sulphur, Winter 
strength, for tent caterpillar. This is 
quite a pest in neglected orchards here 
but we have found lime-sulphur, one to 
eight, to control it satisfactorily. Some¬ 
times a few worms come out of egg mass¬ 
es on sprayed trees, but never in numbers 
sufficient to cause any serious damage. 
Michigan. w. w. clark. 
Yes. Thorough dormant lime and 
sulphur spraying one or two weeks be¬ 
fore buds swell in Spring will clean out 
tent caterpillars as well as San Jos4 
scale, and a lot of fungus troubles. 
“Great stuff,” lime-sulphur. 
j. H. HALE. 
Old Bones in Orchard. 
I intend to set out six or eight fruit 
trees on a city lot—50x60 feet—next 
Fall. I can get a lot of old dried beef 
skulls from a slaughter-house for the 
hauling. Would I derive enough benefit 
for my trouble breaking these old skulls 
and horns up with a sledge hammer and 
putting a layer of three or four inches in 
bottom of hole before setting the trees? 
Arizona. c. E. 
Yes. this will pay. The results from 
such bones will be slow but. in time, as 
the trees grow stronger their roots will 
reach the bones and slowly utilize them. 
Sweepings from Asphalt Paving. 
Is there any truth in the belief that 
street sweepings are injurious to soils on 
account of a possibility of there being oils 
absorbed by them from asphalt paving? 
I should be able to get them in large 
quantities at much less than stable ma¬ 
nure. j. F. s. 
Progress. Pa. 
Not much. Very likely some samples 
of the sweepings contain oil. but not all. 
If there is a chance to obtain large quan¬ 
tities it will pay to have a fair sample 
analyzed. We would like to hear from 
readers who have used these sweepings. 
Pasturing in Sprayed Orchard. 
If I spray an orchard with arsenate of 
lead, four pounds to 50 gallons of water, 
how soon would it be safe to turn cows 
or horses in it? G. S. 
Waynesfield, O. 
It depends on the weather, the mate¬ 
rials you use and the methods. Ordin¬ 
ary spraying with the equivalent of three 
pounds of arsenate of lead to 50 gallons 
of water would be safe if the stock were 
kept out three days. Many farmers turn 
the stock in as soon as spraying is done. 
So far as we can learn actual damage is 
confined to cases where sprayers were 
careless. They put too much liquid on 
the trees, making a heavy drip on the 
grass or let the sediment run on the 
ground. Stock will sometimes hunt these 
places and feed. 
Events of the Week. 
DOMESTIC.—Ten thousand mine em¬ 
ployes and mill workers, smeltermen and 
laborers will share in the distribution of 
$500,000 which is to be distributed by 
the Calumet and Ileela Mining and Asso¬ 
ciated Corporations on June 11. Em¬ 
ployes of twelve companies whose wages 
were reduced last September on the adop¬ 
tion of a policy of curtailment, the cause 
of the financial and industrial depression 
brought about through the declaration of 
war in Europe, will receive sums equal 
to the amount they lost during the de- 
pi'ession. The mining companies are re¬ 
ceiving th highest price per pound for 
their output of copper in 10 years. 
Clarence B. Whitman and John B. 
Faunce, New York real estate operators 
involved in wrecking the Roseville Trust 
Company in Newark, N. J., were con¬ 
victed in that city, May 14, on charges 
of conspiracy. John B. Scarlett, a di¬ 
rector, and Charles A. Nones, a former 
depositor, were given State prison sen¬ 
tences for their part in the affair. At the 
same time Harry W. Foster, also a di¬ 
rector, was given a year in the county 
penitentiary. Whitman and Faunce were 
found guilty of conspiracy to defraud the 
Roseville Trust Company in deals 
through the Intercity Land and Security 
Company, which they operated. 
The Supreme Court of Alabama hand¬ 
ed down a decision, May 13. declaring 
constitutional the Denson anti-advertis¬ 
ing liquor law. The court’s decision af¬ 
firms the judgment of Judge Saffold 
Berney of the Mobile Law and Equity 
Court in granting an injunction restrain¬ 
ing the Mobile Item from publishing 
liquor advertisements in violation of the 
Denson law and reverses the decision of 
Judge J. H. Miller of the Birmingham 
City Court in refusing to grant an in¬ 
junction restraining W. C. Delaye, a 
news dealer in Birmingham, from selling 
papers containing liquor advertisements. 
Yaqui Indians, who attacked a colony 
of 65 Americans, including women and 
children, near Esperanza, south of Guay- 
mas, Mexico, have killed three and 
wounded several others, according to ad¬ 
vices received May 13. Fifteen Ameri¬ 
cans, headed by “Tex” O’Reilly, left the 
border on that date near Nogales. Ariz., 
to rescue American women and children 
in the Esperanza district. Governor 
Maytorena, heading the Villa administra¬ 
tion in Sonora, is said to have sent all 
the troops he can spare from nearby gar¬ 
risons. and believes they can control the 
situation. It is known, however, that the 
best of all troops in the State have joined 
General Villa in his prolonged battle with 
the Carranza forces under Obregon. south 
of Leon. The colonists are concentrated 
at Yaqui Pueblo, ready to proceed to the 
coast if the troops do not quell the dis¬ 
turbance so they can return to their 
properties. 
The purchase of the United States 
navy’s first dirigible balloon was author¬ 
ized. May 14. by the Secretary of the 
Navy. It will cost $45,636. The 
dirigible ordered is designed to carry 
eight men, four of which will be the crew, 
making it possible to ship four student 
observers. The dirigible will be 175 feet 
in length and 55 feet in height and will 
have a gas capacity of 110.000 cubic 
feet. She is designed for a speed of 
twenty-five miles an hour and at any time 
her x’adius of action, which is about two 
hours, may be doubled by replacing the 
weight of the extra men with the same 
weight of gasoline. 
The Interstate Commerce Commission 
decided. May 15. that the railroads own¬ 
ing and operating steamship lines on the 
Great Lakes must give them up after 
December 1. The principal Eastern 
trunk lines, which carry the great vol¬ 
ume of freight traffic between the Atlan¬ 
tic seaboard and the West, are affected, 
and the decision may partially alter the 
trade routes over which are moved mil¬ 
lions of tons of the West’s rich stores of 
raw materials—principally grain and 
ores—to the East, and millions of tons 
of manufactured products to the West 
and Northwest. In effect the decision es¬ 
tablishes a water route, independent of 
railway control, from New York to Du¬ 
luth and other westernmost points on 
Lake Superior, and to Chicago and other 
points on Lake Michigan, through a 
chain of waterways—the Hudson River, 
Erie Canal, the Great Lakes and con¬ 
necting rivers. 
The heaviest snowfall in May in many 
years was reported. May 18. from North¬ 
western States. The Dakotas, Minne¬ 
sota. northern Wisconsin and Michigan 
were covered with light snow and the 
fall was noted at points in the central 
Mississippi Valley. While reports of 
heavy damage from frost come from 
northern points the snowfall, Weather 
Bureau officials say, saved berry crops 
and fruits. In the fruit belt of Michigan 
and Wisconsin growers burned charcoal 
gas stoves. May 19 a blanket of snow 
from two to eight inches deep covered 
western Nebraska, eastern Colorado and 
Wyoming and a part of South Dakota. 
At Cheyenne the snow was five inches 
deep. From Sterling, Col., to McCook, 
Neb., it was from two to eight inches 
deep. At Alliance, Neb., the depth was 
seven inches. In the eastern half of 
Nebraska a general rain fell. In north¬ 
western Kansas three inches of snow fell 
May 19. 
May 17 President Wilson visited New 
York, where he reviewed 5.000 sailors 
from the Atlantic fleet. The great fleet 
left the Hudson, May 18, for ocean man¬ 
oeuvres. It was said that greater pre¬ 
cautions were taken in guarding the Pres¬ 
ident than at any time since the Civil 
War. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—Montana 
reports heavy damage to wheat from the 
army cutworm. There are reports from 
the Pacific Northwest of depredations by 
the “devastating eel-worm.” a nematode 
infesting bulb crops. It is very destruc¬ 
tive in some parts of Europe, but has 
not appeared as a dangerous pest in this 
country heretofore. 
Prof. D. S. Lumsden of Ithaca has re¬ 
cently been appointed superintendent of 
the department of floriculture of the New 
York State Fair by Hon. C. S. Wilson, 
Commissioner of Agriculture for New 
York State, The building originally 
erected for the Manufactures and Lib¬ 
eral Arts will be used for all horticul¬ 
tural products. 
The new department of farm markets, 
which was created by the last Idaho legis¬ 
lature, officially came into existence at 
Boise. May 8, with Director W. G. 
Scholtz in charge. This department will 
include a listing bureau for farm lands, 
to facilitate sales and purchase of farm 
property and a free employment bureau, 
as well as those special lines of activity 
concerned with the distribution of farm 
products. 
The New York State Department of 
Agriculture, May 18, removed the quar¬ 
antine against foot-and-mouth disease in 
St. Lawrence, Lewis and Jefferson 
counties. 
“For the Land’s Sake, use Bowker’s 
Fertilizers; they enrich the earth and 
those who till it.”— Adv. 
TWO-YEAR OLDS 
Five to Seven Feet High 
25 cents Each 
$18 per 100 
Baldwin, McIntosh Red, Gravenstein, 
Northern Spy, Tolman Sweet, 
Hubbardston, Duchess 
ALL FRESH FROM THE GROUND 
VERY FINEST QUALITY 
New England Nurseries 
212 Concord Road, Bedford, Mass. 
Our Improved 1913 
ACRE-AN-HOUR SIFTER 
boats every hand implement for killing 
Bugs, Cabbage Worms, etc. Applies Plaster, 
Lime, etc., mixed with Paris Green or Arsenate 
ot Lead. Regulates to cover big or little 
plants, also to apply any quantity of any 
kind of manufactured dry insecticides. Will 
operate as fast as desired. Better, easier 
and faster than any $5, $10 or $1.7 spray 
pump. Insist on >onr dealer showing you 
this wonderful little implement. Prepaid, 
?5c. Circulars. 
ACRE-AN-HOUR SIFTER CO., Oept.H, Poughkeepsie, N.Y. 
FRUIT PACKAGES 
Peach, Truck and Berry Baskets, Berr} 
Crates, Apple Boxes, Ladders, etc 
Write for Catalog 
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Dept. A Baltimore, Md 
LARGE* 
Friend sprayer 
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Grimm Alralia 
Produces piants with large branching roots which 
resist winter conditions. Leafier and of better 
feeding value than other varieties. 
Booklet, “How I Discovered The Grimm Alfalfa”, 
and sample free. Will nlso send testimonials from 
patrons in your locality. 
A. B. Lyman, Grimm Alfalfa Introducer 
Alfalfadale Farm, R. F. D. 3, Excelsior, Minn. 
THOUSANDS 
I plants—$1.50 pei 
A NT) THOUSANDS OF 
PLANT S—Sw net potato 
plants—$1.50 per 1,000; $1.25 per 5,000 lots. Cab¬ 
bage and Tomato, $1 per 1.000. Order direct 
or send for free catalog. Prompt delivery. PENROSE 
PLANE & TRUCK FARM, W. P. Drake, Prop., Dover. Delaware 
COW PEAS at WHOLESALE 
Write for prices. 
C. N. Robinson & Bro. 
Dpt. 162, Baltimore, Md. 
Established 1870. 
MILLET b CLOVER 
Seed Growers and Importers. 
TOMATO 
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l—PEPPER-EGG—SWEET POTATO and CELERY 
PLANTS. Price List on application. 
CUXO BECKER, : VINELAND, N. J. 
P A D CAI F —Sweet Potato Plants, 100 
r V rx iTHUL 50c. 300. $1.00. Postpaid. 
$2.00 per 1,000. Tomato, $1.00 per 1,000. Catalogue 
Free. IV. S. FORD & SON, HA11TLY, DEL. 
Cabbage, Celery, Kohl Rabi, Beets, $ 1(H) pm- 
1,000. $8.60 per lO.OOO: TOMATO, SWEET POTATO, $1.50 
per l.OOO; fAl MKI.OWER, PEPPEKS. Efifl PLANTS, $2.50 
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VEGETABLE PLANTS 
CABBAGE, SWEET POTATO. TOMATO. PEPPER, 
CAULIFLOWER. CELERY, EGG PLANTS 
Leading, varieties. Large or small lots, by express or 
mail. Catalogue free. 
HARRY I,. SQUIRES Remsenbiirg, N. Y. 
Vpo-ptahlp Planfc - 'Tomato, Pepper, Celery, Caulr- 
icgclaUlc rIdIIlb flower. Cabbage and sweet pota¬ 
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SW F' F 1 T SEED, of high Quality, specially 
v - > ” * treated for full, quick germination, 
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L/LrVJ V trK E. BARTON, Bax 29, FalmoiKh, Ky. 
For Sale: 500,000 TOMATO PLANTS 
Cabbage. Pepper, Sweet Potato anti Celery Plants. Send 
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STRAWBERRY PLANTS 
Earliest, Latest, Largest, Most Productive 
Varieties* 
RASPBERRY, BLACKBERRY. GOOSEBERRY . 
CURRANT, GRAPE, ASPARAGUS. HORSE¬ 
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Catalogue free 
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P LANTS— Leading varieties of Tomatoes, $1; Cab¬ 
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$1.50 per 1,000. Pamphlet free. C. E. FIELD, Sewell, N. J. 
C>| 5 » r»+C — ^Tomato, Cabbage, Pepper and Cel- 
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reasonable. CHESTER N. DE VINE. Cheswold, Delaware 
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Chas. C. Gelder, Princess Anne, Md., says:— 
"My stand of Crimson Clover sown in over 60 
acres of standing corn in 1913 by the Eureka One 
Horse Seeder was the best and most uniform 
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clover, alfalfa, timothy, rye, wheat, oats, buckwheat, etc. 17 flat 
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