JT/ic RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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Two Views of the Hunting Nuisance 
Use the Hunters Right 
X re])l.v to M. D. Williams, Mklclleport, N. T.. 
l)age lotlT. would like to state my experience 
with hunters. T have lived on my farm for 19 
years and there have been a great many hunters 
hunting all over it. I have become well acquainted 
with lots of them. They sometimes leave their autos 
ill my yard and in the afternoon when they get 
hack they often say. “Thanks, have a smoke,” and 
hand me over from 25 cents to .$1 and hid me good 
nirht. T find the majority of hunters gentlemen 
and it pays me to cater to them. I deliver to their 
Iiomes in the cities all kinds of farm products which 
they pay me well for. As far as killing off the 
game goe.s, they don’t kill enough birds to make any 
difference, as I see about as many AA'hen the season 
closes. They kill off the squirrels and deer, which 
T am glad of, as they are pest.s. The latter two 
varieties are easily shot, hut the quail and par¬ 
tridge are too much for most of them and from 
what they say T guess tl'vy realize there is lots of 
atmosphere around the birds to shoot in Avhen the.v 
fiy up. One hunter boarded a bird dog Avith me 
at .$0 per month for one year. ITe shot on my farm 
and several other farms 14 birds the season. With 
shells, gun.s. clothes, etc., the birds cost him about 
.i:? each. Most hunters are good-hearted men fond 
of outdoor sport. They have never brought disease 
on their feet to my farm, but they have brought 
dollars to the farm in their pockets. 
H. P. MACKINNEY. 
The Hunter on a Spree 
T have read Avith much interest your printed let¬ 
ters on the relations of the farmer and the hunter. 
T Avould like to emphasize a phase of the subject 
Avhich has received too little attention. Some years 
ago T lived in Vermont. T was there during the 
open season for deer, which was either 10 days or 
tAvo Aveeks. T do not remember the exact time, but it 
is immaterial auyAAmy. At the end of the open season 
a man. aa’Iio had hunted incessantly since the first 
morning, told me that, he “had not drawn a sober 
breath during the whole time.” As T kneAV him 
well there is no reason for doubting his frank 
statement. This man and scA^eral friends of the 
same tendencies had roamed over the country all 
armed Avith high power rifles, and fired at every¬ 
thing Avhich took their fancy. No attention was 
])aid to Avhere the bullets might go if they missed 
the mark, and the sound of musketing mined the 
sport of all true huntei’s for miles around. T do 
not say that all hunters are like this, for I know 
they are not, but I do know that there are so many 
Avho belicA’c a day’s hunting is an excuse for a wild 
spree that they ai’e a great menace to life and 
l)roperty. For this one reason alone a farmer ought 
to have the power to keep hunters from his land 
entirely. 
There are many farmers Avho suffer from the 
depredations of different Avild animals Avho Avelcome 
hunters on their premises. The farmer should have 
the right to say who, if anyone, is to hunt on his 
land, just as the village man has a right to say 
AA'ho shall hold a picnic on his lawn. 
Massachusetts. Kenneth h. atwood. 
New Insect Enemy of the Peach 
[The following .statement regarding a new danger to 
the peach orchard is sent us by the Entomologist of 
the IT. S. r>'opartmen't of Agriculture.] 
Ills is the Avork on a peach tree and its fruit 
of the larva of a destructive insect believed 
to be noAV to the United State.s. So far the Bureau 
of Entomology of the U. S. Department of Agricul¬ 
ture knows of the existence of the insect in this 
country only in the District of Columbia and in 
adjoining regions in Maryland and Virginia. If the 
insect is active or has been active elseAA'here in the 
Thiitod Sta.tes the entomologists Avould like to be 
informed of the fact. 
The insect is known to science as Laspeyresia 
molesta. In its adult form it is a broAvnish moth, 
and in its larval form a small white and pink 
caterpillar. It confines its attacks to the tender 
shoots and the fruits of peaches, plums, cherries 
and kindred trees, but is most destructive to the 
peach. 
The pi'esence of the insect can best be determined 
in most cases by the nature of its injury to peach 
trees. The larva bores into practically every ten¬ 
der tAvig, and causes new shoots to push out from 
lateral buds. These are attacked in turn, the stim¬ 
ulation of lateral growth i)roducing a much branched 
and bushy plant. A copious fioAV of gum from the 
twig-ends often folloAVS the attacks of the cater¬ 
pillar, as shown in the accompanying figure. Moths 
emerge in the Spring for egg laying by the time the 
shoots are well out. 
li. N.-Y.—If any readers liaA’e knoAvledge of this 
insect Avill they notify the Department of Agricul- 
tui’e at Washington at once? 
Apple Growing in North Georgia 
T he apple-groAving industry is developing rapid- 
l.v on the southern extremity of the riedmont 
Plateau. The Piedmont has an elevation of from 
An Improved Elder. Fig. 11. See page 43 
1.500 to 2,000 feet in this district, and is protected 
on the nortliAvest by the Blue Ridge Mountains. 
There are no sAvamps in the district, and this, to¬ 
gether Avith the fact that there are many clear 
streams furnishing pure soft and cold Avater, con¬ 
tribute to the fact that the death rate in North 
(Jeorgia is the loAvest of any district in the country. 
New Insect Enemy of Peach. Fig. 12. Injured Twigs; 
Larva in Peach 
The rainfall is about 00 inches per year, and the 
distribution is satisfactory for crop production. 
The principal crops raised are cotton, corn. Win¬ 
ter oats, peaches, tomatoes, string beans, sweet po- 
tatoe.s. Alfalfa, etc. A succession of crops can also 
be rai.sed, such as peas followed by string beans 
and later Irish potatoes. Many settlers from var¬ 
ious parts of the country are rapidly introducing 
diversified farming and are i-aising more stock, poul- 
(ry. \-egetables and a greater variety of fruits. 
A relatively small proportion of the apple or¬ 
chards have come into bearing; but tho.se Avliich 
haA'e are A-ery successful. Home of the striking ad¬ 
vantages of apple r.aising are good markets, 1 o\a^ cost 
of production, good (fuality and appearance of fruit. 
The southern markets are particularly good, as this 
is the southern limit of commercial apple produc¬ 
tion, and this district is nearest to these markets. 
I.ow cost of production is due to low cost of labor 
(u.sual price .$1 to ,$1.25 per day), and low cost of 
land. Land sells at from $10 to .$40 per acre. The 
soil is a red silt loam and contour farming is gen¬ 
erally ])racticed in order to prevent soil erosion. 
Much of the land is quite steep, but this hill land 
is particularly prized for apple gi'OAving. The trees 
grow A'ery rapidly, due to the long sea.son, and come 
into bearing at an early age. The fniit is of very 
good quality and has high color. The principal 
varieties groAvn are Y^ellow Transparent, Grimes. 
Kinnard, Winesap, Htayman, Yates. Terry and Ben 
Davis. 
As previously stated settlers are rapidly develof)- 
ing the countiy and up-to-date methods are crowd¬ 
ing out the old Georgia plow stock and stump land 
farming. Land is still relatively cheap for apple 
production and corn and hogs can be grown here 
as cheaply as any place in the United States. 
c. jr. Av. 
Soils Over Limestone Rock 
N page 4439 you say “We Avould like to have 
our lime experts tell us AA'hat they think of 
this soil.” I cannot qualify as a lime expert in any 
AA'ay. but have an idea in this case, that clay soil 
overlying limestone rock Avas not formed from the 
rock at all. In glacial times during the melting of 
the ice. Lake Champlain stood at a A’ery much 
higher IcA’el than at present, and Avhat is now the 
Champlain Yalley AA’as covered by the lake Avaters, 
which dejwsited a layer of .sediment over the Avhole 
valley. The limes'tone ledges were probably stripped 
entirely bare of their pre-existing limestone soil by 
the ice movement and later Avere covered by this 
lake mud, Avhich contained little or no limestone ma¬ 
terial, as the lake waters AA’ere filled Avith the sedi¬ 
ment Ava.shed in from the .surrounding granite and 
sandstone mountains and hills, by turbid streams fed 
by the melting ice. This type of soil is classed by 
tlie L'^. S. Soil Survey, Avith the Yergennes Serie.s, 
and does not, hoAvever, show any deficiency in lime, 
[lossibly due to some extent to capillary action bring¬ 
ing a small amount up in the soil from the slowly 
disintegrating rock helow. 
In this county (Schoharie) a limestone formation 
cros.ses the northern part of the county somewhat 
irregulai’ly from East to West, and the glacial ice 
in places carried material from shale and .sandstone 
formations to the East ui)on the limestone forma¬ 
tion, and formed the soil known as Yolusia silt 
loam—a soil low in fertility and A’ery acid as Avell. 
In other places the ice stripped the soil from the 
lime rock, tore iq) the rock itself, ground it to sand 
and gravel fineness and .spread it as a mantle of 
varying thickness over the shale, forming the fer¬ 
tile alkaline soil knoAvn as Ontario loam. In this 
immediate vicinity the greater part of the old stone- 
Avall fences consist of hardheads brought from the 
Adirondack.s, although they are nearly ,50 miles 
distant. It is not at all inconsistent that a soil 
overlying lime I’ock in the glacial region .should 
need lime, as it is apt to be derived largely from 
acid x’oeks. avm. m. kling. 
Schoharie Co., N. Y. 
Apple Eating at College 
T he students of the DeiiA’er UniA’ersity are 
learning to eat apples ;is a part of their col¬ 
lege course. At that univorsit 3 ’ they celebrate Avhat 
they call “a da.y in memoiy of Adam and Ev’e.” 
This year it required eight boxes of apples, or 
about 7,50 in all, to go around, and each boy and 
girl munched an apple as a part of their college 
work. It is likely that each one of them got a 
full mark of 10 on that examination. Now’’ hero 
is an idea for the coming year. There must be 
nearly 40.000 students at our agricultural colleges. 
Milk, apples and eggs Avill surely make a plea.sant 
balanced ration, and these are the products Avhicli 
need boosting. These students ought to be trained 
to eat for agx-iculture. One healthy student taught 
to understand that he cannot properly complete a 
day Avithout drinking milk and eating eggs and ap¬ 
ples can do Avondei’s for agriculture—perhaps as 
much as he Avill Avith his class-room w’ork. Multi¬ 
ply him by 40,000 and the cow and the hen and the 
apple tree become more important members of so¬ 
ciety. Give us educated apple eaters by all means 
