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U'tiiC KUKAb NEW^VORKER 
November 20, 1915. 
General Farm Topics 
Dormant Spraying of Peach. 
It is a common practice in this State 
to spray peach trees with concentrated 
lime-sulphur just as the buds are be¬ 
ginning to swell in the Spring. Such 
spraying answers a double purpose, as 
it not only controls scale, but also has 
proved very efficient in controlling the 
curl-leaf of the peach. For the past five 
years in our own orchards we have used 
nothing but the dormant spray with lime- 
sulphur for curl-leaf, and during that 
time I have not seen a single instance of 
the trouble. The first year the peach 
orchard was in existence it was not 
sprayed, and we had a large amount of 
“curl-leaf. The next two years we used a 
spray of weak Bordeaux. Since that 
time we have used the lime-sulphur. The 
practice is a common one in this State. 
C. A. mc CUE. 
Delaware Exp. Station. 
Keeping Peach Pits ; Transplanting 
Raspberries. 
1. Will you tell me how to keep peach 
pits until planting time, how and when 
to plant them, and the best location to 
plant them in? 2. Which is the better 
time to transplant raspberry bushes, Fall 
or Spring? K* II. D. 
Wenham, Mass. 
1. The simplest and best way to care 
for peach pits during the Winter is to 
bury them in the ground, where there is 
good natural drainage, and somewhat 
sheltered by trees, buildings or fence on 
the north side. If the ground slopes a 
little to the south all the better. Open 
a trench 10 inches or so in depth into 
which place the pits mixing with them 
pulverized soil, filling the trench to with¬ 
in three or four inches of the top, then 
finish filling in with soil and round off the 
top somewhat the better to shed the 
water. By Spring the pits should be 
mostly cracked and growth will probably 
start in your latitude by May I, when 
the sprouted pits should be planted in 
well-drained soil, in rows about 3% feet 
apart, and four to five inches apart in the 
row and three inches or so deep. As soon 
as they come up in sufficient quantity to 
make the rows distinguishable cultiva¬ 
tion should commence and be continued 
at frequent intervals until budding tim°, 
which will be about the middle of Au¬ 
gust, when all the young stocks that are 
large enough should be budded with such 
sorts as succeed in your latitude, being 
particular to label each variety with its 
true name, plainly written or printed on 
a substantial painted stake. 
2. Fall-set raspberries sometimes suffer 
considerable injury where the tempera¬ 
ture goes much below 20 degrees. There¬ 
fore, I would advise that you defer set¬ 
ting out raspberry plants until early 
Spring. K. 
Notes and Comments. 
Storing the Summer Boots. —Mr. 
Ward’s plan (page 1295) is all right for 
his climate. Down here I have found 
that Dahlias keep best buried out doors. 
The only cellar I have has a hot water 
boiler in it, and is rather too warm and 
dry for Dahlias. I grow seedling Dahlias 
every year, and select those worth carry¬ 
ing over and leave the rest to their fate. 
But I have often had these to survive the 
Winter where they grew. To store the 
roots I dig a pit about a spade deep and 
pack the roots in this and cover thickly 
with old newspapers. Then the earth is 
put on and mounded up thickly in a 
rounded top to shed the water. I have 
never lost a root stored in this way, and 
they are generally well sprouted when 
opened in the Spring. I have kept Can- 
nas in the same way, but if the Winter 
is unusually severe they are apt to rot. 
Several years ago I sold a neighbor 50 
roots of the King Humbert Canna. He 
has buried them outdoors every Winter, 
and now has hundreds of them. My 
Cannas are taken up in a mass with all 
the soil that adheres to them, and piled 
in the corner of the cellar. About the 
last of February they are divided into 
pieces with about two eyes, and are 
planted to start naturally the latter part 
of March. Canna seed planted in late 
Fall will grow better in the Spring than 
if kept over dry. The hard hulls get 
softened and ready to grow with the first 
warm weather. 
Ginger. —I have grown ginger in the 
greenhouse and made fair-looking roots. 
But years ago a friend who had been a 
missionary in Africa concluded that he 
could grow ginger in Baltimore. He 
planted a small bed with the fresh roots 
in his back yard, close to a hydrant, and 
kept it well soaked with water all Sum¬ 
mer, and he actually made quite a lot ol : 
good s new roots. 
Bantam Corn. —Mr. Cosgrove notes 
that I do not endorse the Golden Bantam 
corn here. I fully agree with him as to 
the quality of this corn. It is certainly 
excellent if we can get it. But in this 
climate none of the extra early varieties 
of sugar corn will give any satisfactory 
crop. I am apt to plant a little of the 
Golden Bantam every Spring in order to 
get a taste of the early ears, but every 
Summer I conclude that it has been very 
largely a waste of ground. The earliest 
good ears we can get here are grown on 
the Norfolk Market corn, a great im¬ 
provement on the old Adams Early. Not 
a sugar corn, of course, but a very early 
dent with good-sized ears, and it comes in 
very handily before the Country Gentle¬ 
man and Stowell are ready. For a main 
crop and late corn I found last season 
that Kendall’s Giant is excellent. It 
gives us good ears and of good quality, 
though hardly equal in that respect to 
Stowell. Any sweet corn maturing here 
in June and July is always damaged by 
the corn ear-worms, while that coming 
in in August and September is usually 
free of the worms. I am thinking of 
planting next Summer some of the Gol¬ 
den Bantam to come in in September. The 
ears are so short that when the worms 
have taken part of the ear there is little 
left to cook, and this corn is so good that 
it is worth while to try to get some per¬ 
fect ears. 
A large part of the trouble with sweet 
corn here is due to the fact that people 
generally buy the seed every Spring, and 
this seed, grown far North, is not accli¬ 
mated, and as in the case of seed corn of 
the field varieties, does not do its best the 
first season. If the seed is grown here 
and carefully selected we can grow far 
better sweet corn crops, w. F. massey. 
Some Peach Varieties. 
I agree with your view that it is bet¬ 
ter to have a succession of varieties fol¬ 
lowing each other through the season 
rather than only two or three kinds. 
Owing to variations of the crop in differ¬ 
ent sections of the country, the peaches 
which ripen when they are bringing a 
high price this year, may be the variety 
to strike the worst of a glut next year. 
By planting a succession, you are more 
likely to hit the top prices somewhere 
along the line, which will help your aver¬ 
age price for the season. It will also be. 
easier to get and keep good help during a 
longer picking season- Labor should be¬ 
come more efficient. The same buildings 
and equipment for packing will be put ro 
profitable use during a longer period of 
the year. 
In selecting varieties for a commercial 
orchard I would be conservative and ve- 
tain only standard kinds of proved excel¬ 
lence for their season. The following list 
is suggested for a succession. Greens¬ 
boro, Carman, Miss Lulu, Ililey, Cham¬ 
pion, Belle of Georgia, Elberta, J. II. 
Hale, Chair’s Choice, Fox Seedling, 
Beers Smock, Iron Mountain, Krummel’s 
October. On heavy land I would omit 
Champion, and on very light soil omit 
Chair’s Choice. H. H. Albertson. 
Burlington Co., N. J. 
I have never fruited Carman, but have 
some young trees growing. Our earliest 
peach is Mountain Rose, followed by 
Oldmixon, Reeves, Elberta, Chair’s 
Choice, Stevens’ Rareripe, Bray’s Rare¬ 
ripe and Salway, in the order named. 
This list has worked well with me, and 
has given us a succession lasting for over 
eight weeks. I suppose some of the large 
growers would displace some of these 
older sorts for newer ones, but until I 
find better I shall stick to the old- 
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