THE RUR.A.I> NEW-YORKEK 
777 
General Farm Topics 
The Buffalo Tree-hopper. 
Can you give me a remedy, outside of 
clean cultivation and vigorous pruning 
out of the infested wood each Spring, for 
trees severely injured by Buffalo tree- 
hopper? I have an acre of young apple 
trees about three years old, on which my 
tenant has heretofore raised corn and 
vines between the trees, which are almost 
destroyed, limbs are covered with deep 
irregular scars which have checked the 
growth of the trees. I gave the trees a 
vigorous pruning and painted the remain¬ 
ing limbs with one to six lime-sulphur 
solution with a paint brush in month of 
March as an experiment, hoping I could 
reach the eggs in the bark. It was a 
tedious job. but I hated to have those 
insects get the best of my orchard. What 
do you think of a strong solution of ar¬ 
senate of lead, say two ounces to a gal¬ 
lon of decoction of tobacco applied to 
the limbs with a paint brush, as I did 
with lime-sulphur last March, just before 
the female cuts the bark to lay the eggs? 
Will you also tell me what month the 
eggs are laid? I have an old orchard 
adjoining which is in an Alfalfa field 
that is also becoming badly infested, also 
another orchard, six years old, orchard 
ground planted to clover, that is slightly 
injured. c. e. o. 
Chicago, Ill. 
From the rather meager information 
that we have concerning the life history 
and habits of the Buffalo tree-hopper it 
seems that the adults begin to appear 
about July 1, but that they are not 
abundant until after the middle of July. 
They seem to begin their egg laying, 
sometimes in late July, but the eggs are 
apparently deposited mostly in August 
and September. The eggs are deposited 
in two or three-year-old wood in the 
majority of cases, and they remain there 
until the following April. May and June. 
The nymphs either drop from the trees 
or crawl down the trunks and find their 
way to certain weeds upon which they 
feed. It will be seen from the foregoing 
data that any substance put on the 
branches of trees to deter the female 
from depositing her eggs must be applied 
by the middle of July at the latest. Per¬ 
haps in early seasons it should be on 
the branches by the first week in July. 
I am inclined to think, however, that the 
insect cannot be effectively controlled in 
this way. It would be impractical, it 
seems to me, to coat the branches of 
trees in an effective manner with any 
repellent material. At any rate, I would 
not recommend the use of a strong de¬ 
coction of tobacco and arsenate of lead 
applied with a paint brush to the limbs. 
It would be safer to use a repellent wash 
of fish oil or whale-oil soap. Dissolve 
two or three pounds of the soap in a 
gallon of water and add crude carbolic 
acid, if desired, at the rate of 1*4 
ounce to every gallon of the soap solu¬ 
tion. Paint this mixture on the branch¬ 
es. I do not, however, recommend this 
method of control with any great degree 
of confidence that it will be effective. 
Since the nymphs of the buffalo tree- 
hopper feed upon weeds, the most effec¬ 
tive method of control is clean culture in 
and about the borders of an orchard. 
GLENN W. HERRICK. 
Corn Growing. 
One of the most interesting bulletins 
that has recently come to my desk is 
Bulletin 2S2 of the Ohio Station. I 
have long thought that the work of Dr. 
Thorne is of greater importance to the 
farmers in general than that of most 
other stations. It is not laboratory 
work, but work that in its general results 
is of use not only to the farmers of Ohio, 
but to those of any section, and I have 
been glad to note that the results ob¬ 
tained up there in Ohio coincide with 
results I have had farther South, so far 
as the general principles are concerned. 
The Station shows the value of a short 
rotation even with no fertilizers on corn, 
for the three-year rotation as compared 
with the continual cultivation of corn, no 
fertilizers in either case, made a yield 
l'-’i per cent, greater, and this from rota¬ 
tion alone. It was found that as small 
an addition of acid phosphate as 40 
pounds to a ton of manure used at rate 
of eight tons an acre made 9.31 bushels 
an acre more than the same amount of 
manure with no acid phosphate. I have 
found, and so have others whom I have 
urged to use it, that where we have a 
crop of Crimson clover turned under for 
corn an addition of 400 pounds an acre 
of acid phosphate broadcast will immense¬ 
ly increase the corn crop, and as most 
farmers, especially in the South, have not 
the manure, the Crimson clover can very 
well take its place. 
Another fact in regard to the corn 
crop. I have always found that the best 
place to use lime in the rotation is after 
turning under a sod or Crimson clover 
for corn. And yet many authorities of 
late years insist that corn is less benefited 
by liming than many other crops. Dr. 
Thorne says that an abundance of lime 
carbonate in the soil is essential to suc¬ 
cessful corn production. He found that 
in a five-year rotation a ton of burned 
lime an acre applied when planting corn, 
and taking an average of the crop, in the 
rotation, the application was worth 
$14.21 per acre per rotation. 
The score card judges at the corn 
shows have uniformly insisted on a cylin¬ 
drical ear and an ear well filled at the 
tip. At the Ohio Station in a nine-year 
average the tapering ears have excelled 
the cylindrical ones by 1.G5 bushels an 
acre, and ears with bare tips were very 
slightly behind those with covered tips. 
I have found that the ears with bare 
points showed an effort of the plant to 
make a longer ear, and that the ears with 
covered tips tended to make shorter ears. 
It was found that grains from tip and 
butts made hardly any difference in yield, 
maturity or any important feature, but 
of course in machine planting the grains 
should be of uniform size, and hence the 
middle grains are used. 
Only on one point am I inclined to 
differ somewhat with Dr. Thorne. He 
says: “The principal causes of barren 
plants are variations in season, in fer¬ 
tility and time of planting.” Of course 
there will be more barrenness in a pov¬ 
erty-stricken soil, but on a soil of uni¬ 
form fertility and well cultivated, barren¬ 
ness is a matter of heredity. We have 
here in Maryland one good farmer and 
corn breeder, Mr. W. Oscar Collier, who 
has entirely eliminated barrenness from 
his fields by simply pulling out the green 
tassel from every stalk that showed no 
ear, and this preventing them from scat¬ 
tering their pollen and increasing their 
number and character. I went through 
Mr. Collier s field of 30 acres in every 
direction and failed to find a stalk with¬ 
out an ear, a thing I never saw in any 
other field, and that field made 98% 
bushels of corn an acre. 
Maryland. w. f. massey. 
Grain With Crimson Clover. 
What grain is best to sow with Crim¬ 
son clover for hay? a. b. 
We should use Winter wheat with the 
Crimson clover, if we wanted to make 
fodder out of it. Rye will give more 
bulk than wheat, but it does not make 
as good a hay. Wheat and Crimson 
clover cut together when the latter is in 
bloom will make a fair combination, 
which most stock will eat readily. 
Lime With Rye. 
Would it pay us to use about 300 
pounds of hydrated lime to the acre on 
ground with rye to plow under? Will 
it increase the yield? \v. v. 
Lawrence, Mich. 
This is a very small quantity of lime if 
you expect immediate results.* The object 
of using lime when plowing under a green 
crop is to prevent souring the ground if 
possible. The lime also acts to decom¬ 
pose the green rye and make it more 
quickly available. In our own case we 
plan to use about 500 pounds of air- 
slaked lime whenever we plow a crop of 
rye under, and have found it a profitable 
thing to do. 
Rye and Winter Vetch. 
Does rye and Winter vetch make very 
good hay when cured, to feed cattle in 
the Winter? A . r. 
Rye never makes a first-class hay; it 
is too tough and wiry, the worst of the 
grains in this respect. You can cut it 
before it comes in head and make a fair 
quality of fodder, but it is never equal to 
hay made from oats, barley, or wheat, 
lhe vetch cut before its seed is ripe and 
cured along with the rye will help the 
quality somewhat, and the vetch by it¬ 
self makes a fair hay, although the cattle 
do not eat it readily at first. Any fod¬ 
der, however, made of rye is more or 
less of a makeshift, and never equal to 
haj made from other grain. If you want 
to make fodder of grain and vetch sow 
wheat. 
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WHAT !?e t s h ? LUMBER FOR THE FARM? 
CYPRESS, OF COURSE. 
WELL, FOR WHAT? AND WHY? 
S'T 3 Stable floors, and for floors in the garage, cellar, poultry house, 
corn crib and root cellar, because there is always plenty of 
moisture in these places and no known wood stands up against 
moisture as does Cypress. 
fTO R Water tanks, hog troughs, water troughs, vats, swill tanks and 
tubs, and especially for the floor in the hog pen or in front of 
the hog troughs, because these uses are the most trying on the 
endurance of wood and Cypress is famous for its endurance. 
fTO R V el1 , and Cist , ern to P s - spouting to carry water at the spring or 
elsewhere, culverts under the public highway or under a private 
—— road, because Cypress outlasts all other known woods in these 
and other like services. It truly is “the Wood Eternal.” 
YOU CAN GET CYPRESS 
AH you need to do in order to get Cypress lumber and shingles for use on 
the iarm, is to insist that your local lumber dealer furnish it to you. If he 
does not carry it in stock regularly, he may be induced to get it by the per¬ 
sistent insistence of a few of you farmers. But if he sticks it out and refuses 
to provide the one lumber that is most famous for lasting, then you write 
to us and we will tell you of the nearest __ 
lumber yard that carries Cypress in stock. 
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126 Hibernia Bank 
Bldg., 
New Orleans, La. 
or 
1 26 Heard Nat’l 
Bank Bldg., 
Jacksonville, Fla. 
(Address nearest office 
tor quick service) 
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Department 126 
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New Silo book. Vol. 37. Free Plans 
Barn Book (4 plans) Vol. 4. 
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