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Identifying Apples by Truelle’s Line 
If we cut an apple across at its widest 
circumference with a sharp knife, we 
notice, faintly outlined on the pulp, a 
delicate tracery bracketing the sectors be¬ 
tween the carpels. It is suggested that 
this “core limit line” be called “Truelle’s 
line,” after a French pomclogist, Mon¬ 
sieur A. Truelle of Trouviiie-sur-Mer, who 
finds that this line is a fixed anatomical 
character, by which an apple variety may 
be identified, even when its external ap¬ 
pearance differs from its usual varietal 
characteri-'^-’-s. In other words, just as 
we may identify varying humans by their 
finger prints, we may identify varying 
apples by Truelle’s line. 
Size “H,” 
1-horse cultivatora 
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Price $2.10 
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Handies, $2.40 
Vour dealer can supply 
you; if he does not, mail 
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will ship prepaid. 
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Box 3, Boydell Bldg.^ROIT, MICHIGAN 
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POSTHOLE 
AUGER 
Root-pruning Grapevines 
The Italian who works for me, insists 
that once a year all roots of grapevines 
should be cut off, for a distance of about 
eight inches or one foot from the surface 
of the soil. Do you know if there is 
any truth in this, or is it merely an Ital¬ 
ian superstition? r B 
Oradell, N. J. 
While the practice of root-pruning 
grapevines is not uncommon in European 
countries with the Vinifera varieties, it 
has never been practiced to any extent 
in the United States, either with the 
native types or the foreign in commer¬ 
cial vineyards, and but slightly so in the 
home garden. The extent of the root- 
pruning that usually obtains in commer¬ 
cial plantings is done by the tillage im¬ 
plements, and most vineyardists avoid 
this cutting as much as possible. It is 
quite probable that any cutting would 
be eliminated entirely if this be possible, 
but the customary practices of plowing, 
horse-hoeing and cultivating do not al¬ 
low of this. From our observations a 
moderate root-pruning from these sources 
is not particularly objectiouable with 
loose deep soils, as the attached portions 
quickly send out other rootlets to com¬ 
pensate for those lost. But in the soils 
of stiffer texture the renewal is not so 
rapid, and in a season of drought dis¬ 
astrous results have resulted. If the 
root system has proven insufficient to 
produce ample fruiting wood, prune the 
canes shorter and fertilize with nitro¬ 
genous fertilizers. If on the other hand 
the roots force a rank growth of top with 
but little fruit, prune longer, withhold 
nitrogenous fertilizers, but add those 
carrying phosphorus. f. e. G. 
Destroying Bermuda Grass 
We are troubled badly to get rid of 
Bermuda grass. What compound or in¬ 
gredient will kill it? w. ir. R. 
Blythe, Cal. 
Bermuda is a sun-loving grass, and 
will not thrive in the shade. To destroy 
it shading with smothering crops is the 
best method. Plow the sod shallow, so as 
just to get under the creeping stems. 
Then rake out with a harrow and hay- 
rake all you can get, and haul it off to 
some waste place or gully. Then sow the 
land thickly in cow peas. Cut the cow 
peas for hay, and sow the stubble in 
Crimson clover as a Winter cover. Turn 
the clover under in Spring, and if there is 
no grass or little left you can cultivate 
the land in a clean hoed crop. If the 
grass still persists, give it another smoth¬ 
ering crop of peas the next Summer. I 
have cleaned out a sod in one season of 
smothering. In 1885 I broke up the old 
Contraband camp ground at Fortress 
Monroe. This was a compact sod of Ber¬ 
muda. I plowed it off in sheets and raked 
it out, and hauled off to a marsh, and one 
smothering crop cleaned it out. 
\v. F. MASSEY. 
The Price of Currants 
I notice that you are interested in the 
question of the cost of living and would 
call your attention to the fact that for 
the past two years I have allowed thou¬ 
sands of quarts of beautiful currants to 
hang on the bushes simply because I 
could not get a price which would cov¬ 
er the cash outlay, aside from showing a 
profit; we pay two cents a quart for 
picking, ship by express'so as to insure 
reaching the New York market in good 
condition and yet some remittances, after 
deducting freight, cartage and commis¬ 
sion only netted one-quarter cent per 
quart; in spite of this I did not hear 
of currants ever retailing at less than 
12c per quart. We have 17,000 currant 
bushes, and are beginning to pull them 
out; if prices are not better next year 
shall take them all out, although just in 
their prime. Yet if the New Y'ork buy¬ 
ers would pay us 7c or 8c per quart 
would be glad to ship all we could pro¬ 
duce, and it seems to me that they would 
receive profit enough if they retailed at 
10c, instead of 12e to 18c, which w’as 
about the market range. c. E. clapp. 
Columbia Co., N. Y. 
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