B-Ac RURAL NEW-YORKER 
549 
Starting a Pear Orchard 
r>n my farm in upper Westchester 
County. N. Y., I have noticed wild pear 
trees growing by the hundred, on a hill' 
side sloping to the northwest. The soil is 
rather light, not having been plowed for 
probably 20 years. I have never seen 
such vigor, health or luxurious growth in 
any pear tree as there is in any of these 
wild trees, some of the ■‘rees running from 
one-half to two inches in diameter, and 
growing from two to four feet in a single 
Summer without any cultivation what¬ 
ever. Would it be advisable to graft any 
of them or not? I have been thinking of 
setting out 1.000 or more pear trees on 
this slope, and the question now arises, 
should the wild trees be set in rows and 
grafted or should new nursery stock be 
used? Again, would it be advisable to 
piow and cultivate this soil (same being 
on a steep hillside) or would you plant 
them in the sod and mulch the trees in¬ 
stead of cultivating? On account of the 
steep hillside, cultivating is more or less 
difficult and T have been thinking on ac¬ 
count of the luxurious growth now showii 
that the wild trees with a mulch system 
might be advisable. What do yovi know 
about the Lincoln pear? I expect to plant 
Tlartletts with some other good variety 
that you might suggest. ir. K. :u. 
New York. 
If II. K. M. can find these pear seed¬ 
lings plentiful enough so they can be 
thinned to stand at the proper distance 
from each other, and will row faiily 
straight in one direction as they stand 
without transplanting many: and, if 
after accomplishing this he can be sure 
of getting them properly top-worked, I be¬ 
lieve he would do well to establish his or¬ 
chard in this way and keep it under a sod 
mulch. If too many of these seedlings 
will have to be moved to fill in open 
spaces and to get fair alignment I believe 
you would do better to get nursery-grown 
trees, and my preference, from my under¬ 
standing of the conditions, would be for 
strong one-year trees. If this side hill is 
steep the rows should be laid out not nec¬ 
essarily to conform to the boundaries of 
the field, but rather to facilitate caring 
for the orchard and harvesting the fruit. 
I know nothing whatever about the 
T.incoln i)ear. and would rather stick to 
some standard variety for commercial 
planting. 
Poultry in Sprayed Orchard 
I wish to enclose an acre of orchard for 
a poultry run. What are my chances for 
trouble from the spraying of the trees? 
Connecticut. C. II. I.. 
We have had many reports on this, 
and they seem to agree that there is little 
chance for trouble when the spraying is 
properly done, and the stock is kei)t out 
of the orchard for several days immedi¬ 
ately after the spraying. In the great 
majority of cases rei)orted to us the trees 
were sprayed too heavily. They were 
drenched with the liijuid which ran down 
the trunk, or dropjx'd so as to wet the 
grass thoroughly. Hither that or the 
nozzle was left open when lying on the 
ground, or the dregs from the tank were 
run out on the grass. Most cases of pois¬ 
oning to stock appear to come from such 
places, but wheiHi si)raying is reasonably 
done with not too much put on the trees 
and no dregs run on the ground there will 
be little trouble to the stock. 
Value of Fruit Trees 
I would suggest to Wm. A. Edson, on 
page .‘169 (who fails to state whether his 
trees were in bearing when destroyed) 
that if they were in bearing, here is a 
simple rule of values: If a tree produces 
annually $0 worth of fruit, net, that tree 
is worth one hundred dollars for aianifest 
reasons. .JOHN F. kkenan, m. d. 
Maryland. 
I see on page 969 an article on the 
value of orchard trees. While I never 
collected a fire claim for damage done to 
an orchard, I have collected several claims 
for forest timber and for fences. To put 
up a big bluff, and want to .settle for 
about one-third value of property de¬ 
stroyed is the offender’.s game. If a spark 
from passing train started fire they must 
settle for full value of property destroyed 
is the law of this State. I would have 
four or five disinterested persons appraise 
trees destroyed ; stay right with their ap- 
in-aisement and you can surely collect it. 
As soon as they see you mean business 
they will come across. oka g. hooke. 
Delaware Co., N. Y. 
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