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RURALISMS 
The True History of the Wolf River Apple 
James J. Hatch and Jane Adams, his 
wife, were born and raised at Williams- 
tiiwn, Vt. They were members of the 
“Old (Juard” of Argonauts, who “trekked” 
west in 1S4S and 1849. They .settled in 
lola. Wis.. among the Indians, and cleared 
lip a farm there. Mrs. Hatch planted 
some apple seeds, and all the trees proved 
worthles.s. but one. This one was the 
oHginal "Hatch Seedling.” Some time in 
the seventies Win. Springer of Fremont, 
Wis.. another member of the “Old 
Guard.” came to lola. cut a bundle of 
scions from this tree, took them to his 
nursery at Fremont, grafted them and 
sold trees which he named “Wolf River 
Seedling.” The original tree was still 
alive a few years ago. I have two of the 
trees in my orchard at Gramton. Wis., 
which came from Springer’s nursery. 
We get four to six bushels per year from 
them. J. M. HATCH. 
Wisconsin. 
Trimming Kieffer Pears 
Would you advise trimming Kieffer 
pear trees, if so. how much? B, E. 
Wilson. N. Y. 
Kieffer pears need as much trimming 
as any other vainety. The young trees 
should be gone over each year, and broken 
and crossing branches taken out. All 
blight should be cut out every Summer 
and the cut painted with a strong solu¬ 
tion of corrosive sublimate. We use 
three or four of the commercial tablets 
in a two-quart pail of wann water. It 
is most important to cut well back of 
any canker that can be seen. Our rule in 
large trees is to cut two feet or more be¬ 
hind the canker. In small trees one can¬ 
not cut so far back and the tree usually 
dies. In Bartlett pears this trimming 
with the taking out of crossing limbs each 
Winter will be enough. In the case of 
Kieffer. it may be necessary, after the 
trees get 10 or 12 feet tall, to take off the 
last year’s growth at the end of the most 
vigorous limbs to keep them from getting 
too long. If the Kieffer trees have been 
allowed to get too tall it may be well to 
cut them back to a side lind). In doing 
this one should remember that the new 
sprouts which will come out where the 
top has been cut off will grow very fast 
so it is necessary to cut back several feet 
below where the new top is expected to be. 
A. C. W. 
Trou’ole With Radishes 
For the last few years I have had 
Iiad results in growing White 8rrasburg 
radishes, white tipped radishes and 
White Milan turnips, as the radishes will 
turn black and the turnips become both 
wormy and black. The soil is .somewhat 
gravelly, with a clay bottom, and for 
years the top soil had been removed by 
a florist. I used both fresh and old 
horse manure but find they result the 
same. I have used lime and fertilizer 
alone (without manure 1 but they will 
not grow as the soil seems to be poor. 
New York. F. G. 
Quite likely your soil is infested wtih 
one of the many forms of scab which 
sometimes affects radishes, turnijis. pota¬ 
toes. beets, etc. The trouble is mo.st 
l>revalent where the soil is alkaline and 
is favored by moif'iture. Wood ashe.s, 
stable manure, lime, etc., increasing al¬ 
kalinity, favor the growth of this fun¬ 
gus disease and cause increased amount 
of scab in soils already infected. Ma¬ 
terials which tend to decrease scab are 
commercial fertilizers, ammonium sul- 
I)hate, and acid phosphate. Planting to 
crops which are not susceptible to the 
ili<ease for a few years reduces, or even 
clears out. the disease. I’lowing under 
green cover crops would be a big help to 
your poor sandy soil because these green 
crops would conserve plant food which 
otherwise might be leached out by Win¬ 
ter rains. Organic matter would 'be 
added to build up the soil and if those 
cover crops were allowed to make a rank 
growth, before they were plowed down, 
the alkalinity of the soil would be 
counteracted by the decaying vegetable 
matter, because excessively heavy cover 
crops help to make sour soils. R. w. d. 
The J. H. Hale Peach 
I note in your issue of December 2.3 
that you are inviting comment on the 
merits of the Hale peach. Here are the 
RURAL NEW-YORKER 
following points which I gathered with 
regard to the Hale peach as grown in 
Georgia. 
It hung on the trees for a period of 10 
days or more, during which time it had 
sufficient size and color for picking. This 
is an advantage over other varieties in 
that the grower has plenty of time to 
harvest his crop. It is an excellent 
shipper, due I think to its tough.^ thick 
skin. It is an excellent yielder in com¬ 
parison with Klberta. That is, it does not 
seem to shed its fruit as much as Flberta 
early in the season. The fruit buds seem 
closer together than on Elberta. It is a 
good looking poach, and tends to grow to 
good size where given good care. It 
ripens about the Elberta time, although it 
may be picked earlier than the Elberta, 
due to the fact that it colors earlier. The 
tree, itself, seems to he a more stocky 
grower than the Elberta. 
These are some of the points which we 
gathered with regard to the variety grown , 
in Central Georgia I have heard since j 
that the Hale is considered more hardy j 
than the Elberta. as it does not seem to i 
suffer as much Winter injury. 
A. .T. GUNDERSON. 
Illinois Exp. Station. 
Rusty Kieffer Pears 
Can anything be done in the way of 
spraying to prevent the fruit of Kieffer 
pears becoming rusty, dark and discol¬ 
ored? Much of the fruit of late years is 
dark-skinned, which spoils its appearance 
and injures its sale. g. r. c. 
Ohio. 
Prom the description given I am un¬ 
able to identify the disease with certainty. 
It may have been the brown blotch, de¬ 
scribed in N. .7. Sta. Circ. 52, or it may 
have been the sooty mold which follows 
an attack of pear psylla. If the disease 
is brown blotch the trees .should be 
thinned and pruned to secure a free circu¬ 
lation of air and sprayed with Bordeaux 
mixture or lime-sulphur. If it is sooty 
mold the pear psylla must be controlled.* 
Geneva, N. Y., Station. F. c. stfavart. 
Early Bearing Apples 
On page 1580 I note what William 
P. Belden, of Northern Michigan, says 
about the early bearing of the Duchess 
apple. The Duchess. Wagener, Wealthy, 
and Y’ellow Transparent are the earliest 
of all apples to bear, so far as my experi¬ 
ence goes. I planted an orchard in 1901. 
Then a few years later I set out four 
more rows, 14 trees to the row, one row 
being all Yellow Transparent. These 
were heavy, well-branched, two-year-old 
trees. This was nine years ago the past 
Fall. I trimmed the roots, heeled them 
in and .set the followi. r Spring. I did 
not head them in. but cut out two-thirds 
of the branches close to body of tree. 
One tree came out full of bloom on every 
tip of the remaHjing branches. I sheared 
off all blooms. All grew in fine*shape. 
This same tree the following Spring 
hloomed out full again. I sheared the 
blooms to one to each branch, later cut 
them to le.ss than twenty, and later cut 
them again, leaving just nine well-set 
apples. Eight of the 14 trees bloomed, 
but not so full as this one. I sprayed 
all that bloomed three times and every 
apple was pei-fect and very large. The 
tree first spoken of dropped one apple in 
strawberry time. Two days later we 
ate it and called it fine. June 29. One 
tree had four, all on one spur, about 
five inches long, and were very large, 
about one-half bushel in 1.5 months from 
planting of the trees. The fifth year I 
got .$70 for the product of the row, .$5 
jier tree. All bore about alike. A 
Wealthy tree (I had only one) produced 
.$5 worth the fifth year, but bore none 
till the third year, when it was very 
full, as well as fourth and fifth -years. I 
found Winter Banana about the next 
early in order of bearing and of fine 
quality. ISAIAH lower. 
Ohio. 
The kindergarten had been studying 
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the teacher said, in her most enthusiastic 
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today in the trolley car. the door opened 
and something came softly in and kissed 
ine on the cheek. What do you think 
it w'as? And the children joyfully an¬ 
swered, “The conductor !”-^lIarper’6 
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