RURAL NEW-YORKER 
321 
DtTST ou Spray. —You will remember 
that some years ago I wrote an article 
on “Dust Si)ray” for The It. N.-Y. At 
that time most of the scientific men, as 
well as leading fruit growers, were fight¬ 
ing it, and contended that nothing hut 
the liquid spray would give satisfactory 
results. Some admitted that “dusting” 
might do for killing in.sects, hut all coni 
sidered it worthless as a fungicide. Nev¬ 
ertheless I have kept on using the dust^ 
as well as the liquid, in my orchard, and 
I could never tell much difference in re¬ 
sults, except in the cost of the two appli¬ 
cations, which were always in favor of 
the dust. Dut times have changed and 
so have the minds of many of our smen- 
tifie men and leading fruit growers, and I 
am afraid that some of the latter are go¬ 
ing to the other extreme hy.doing away 
entirely with liquid and adopting the dust 
as a panacea for all the ills of the oi'- 
chard. For instance, I have -two neigh¬ 
bors who have extensive apple orchards 
nhout eight and 12 miles west of my 
place; they are quite intelligent men and 
jirogressive, up-to-date orchardists. They 
often come to see me. especially during 
the sjiraying season, and never failed to 
per car of 15 to 20 tons, according to dis¬ 
tances of hauling. AVhile I could hardly 
advocate continuous cultivating of our 
Ozark orchards, I deem it necessary to 
turn the sod under every two or three 
year.s, as it not only adds humus to the 
.soil, hut heljis to keep the tirchard in bet¬ 
ter sanitary condition. 
I. 1 IVE Stock and Fertility. —Keeping 
live stock, especially sheep, in an apple 
orchard may do very well in some of the 
Fasterii httates where trees are generally 
high-headed, hut around here, wJiere we 
grow low-headed tree.S, it will not do. I 
thought for a time it would do. but when 
T saw the damage done-to limbs by'brows¬ 
ing I colicluded it more than olfset the 
fertility they added to the orchard. iNlany 
of dur up-to-date growers are therefore 
r|‘l'ying'on stable manure to build iip and 
maintain their ' orchards,/finding it the 
cheapest and most practicable metliod-. 
There is also an inclination, which is 
quite noticeable in recent years, to do 
more intensive and less extensive orchard¬ 
ing. “Surplus land” is being used more 
and more for rai.sing live stock and for 
gcMieral farm crops, which I consider a 
move in the right direction. I think grad¬ 
A Farmerette and a Cover Crop of Rye 
make ftin of my dusting operations and 
the way F was “.scattering dollars to tin* 
winds.” You can therefore imagine my 
surprise when I was told a few days ago 
that they had been converted and resolved 
to use dust entirely in their orchards 
this Spring. The leading sjiirit of the.se 
two orchardists told my son that they 
had traveled extensivtdy last Summer and 
Fall through New York, PiMinsylvania, 
Virginia and other States, and fully sat¬ 
isfied themselves from what they had 
.seen that wherever dust has been applied 
in the orchards the apples Avere .fust as 
good and in some instances better than 
where they had used the old liipiid pro¬ 
cess. Now, while I was very glad to 
hear this, for there is nothing so agree¬ 
able as being vindicated for having pur¬ 
sued a certain coursi* or method in siiite 
of opposition, I will continue as hereto¬ 
fore to make the liiiuid applications in 
connection with tlu' dust in my orchard.s. 
In xtremely dry weather I believe the 
liquid has some advantage over the dust, 
as it will adlu're ladter to the foliage*, and 
for blotch and bitter rot I regard it de- 
cidi'dly more etlicacious. Then'fore, where 
an am])le supply of wate'r is conve'uie'iit 
and the ground fairly dry and level, I 
would not advise anyom* having an outfit 
of good spray machines on hand to aban¬ 
don the liquid process entirely, or at least 
not till furth»>r experiments with dust 
have demonstrated that it is in all re¬ 
spects equal or superior to the rniuid. 
OOMUTIO.NS FOR Sl'C'CE.S.S. —D.v long ex- 
lierience we have gradually found out that 
spraying alone will not iiroduce satisfac¬ 
tory apple crops in this Ozark section and 
that there is a good deal of humbug about 
proclaiming it as being “naturally” adaiit- 
I'd for fruit growing. It takes, lu're. as it 
does elsewhere, soil fertility to grow “big 
red apples,” and the Den Davis is no ex¬ 
ception to it. In order to bring about 
this .soil fertility there is nothing eciual to 
stable manure, v.hich in recent years is not 
only produced to greater extent than 
formerly on our farms, but very <‘xten- 
slvely shipped in from the stock yards at 
Kansas City, and all of it scattered 
around the trees and broadcast in the or¬ 
chards, as may be deemed most suitable. 
The total cost of putting this Kansas City 
manure ou the laud is arouud lii.‘?r) to $40 
ually this Ozark section is getting on the 
right track to make fruit growing pay, 
and if all signs don’t fail the ever increas¬ 
ing by-iiroducts of the apple will juit it on 
a safer and sounder foundation than it 
has ever been in the past. i,ouis Eim. 
Missouri. 
A “Farmerette” and a Cover Crop 
The iiicture shows Helen playing “far¬ 
merette” while “daddy” gets the picture. 
Here we are turning under a crop of rye. 
I have often seen the question in The It. 
N.-Y., “How late can we sow rye for a 
cover crop?” The field in the jiicture Avas 
sown about Nov. 1. lOKi. after potatoes 
and beams. The Fall of as well as 
IttlT was late. Potatoes wt're dug with a 
diggi'r, vines raki'd. I then .sowed about 
1 >4 bushels broadcast, then harroAved 
with a spring-tooth, Avhich Ave usually do 
Avith jiotato ground Avhen Ave dig by ma¬ 
chine, then picked u]) those Avhich the har- 
roAV brought un. 'Pbe beans were harvi'st- 
ed Avitli a pullei, then rye broadcast and 
harrowed in, so you will see the expemse 
outside cost of seed Avas A'ery small. The 
picture shows the result. Most of it Avas 
over five feet tall, Avas ploAved under the 
last AV(‘ek in ,fune. lt>17. for ri'd kidney 
beans. Dather late, but the Spring Avas 
AA'et and baclcAvard. Ilesult? The biggest 
crop of vines and pods I ever saAV. Imt the 
beans almost total failure. The Summer 
of 11)17 was cold and Avet; neither corn 
nor beans avc'c able to mature, so I do 
not blame the rye. Deans Avere also plant¬ 
ed too late because of the Avet Spring. 
This is in toAvn of Manchester, northern 
part of Ontario County. I use a chain 
and find no difficulty in turning under 
this tall rye. frank ue vey. 
New York. 
liETii): “SaAV a veterinary surgeon going 
into your place this morning. Anything 
sick?” Creene: “Yes. the car. Some¬ 
thing’s the matter with its insides.” 
“Dut Avhat does a veterinary surgeon 
know about a car?” “I don’t know. 
Only, I do knoAV that once he cured a 
horse I oAvned of balking, and T thought 
it wouldn’t do any harm to let him try 
bis hand ou the car.”—Yonkers States¬ 
man. 
Cheaper Labor 
and 
More Live Stock 
The only way to reduce the cost of labor is to 
help the hired man produce larger crops. Ex¬ 
periment Stations have demonstrated that on 
corn, wheat and oats, as well as on sugar beets, 
labci* can produce 50 to 125% more on fertilized 
land than it can on unfertilized land. 
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Fertilizers make it possible to increase the farm stock. 
Top-dress the meadows and pastures, fertilize your corn, 
and see for yourself how many more head the increased 
crops will carry;—how much you can save on your grain bill 
' and how much more manure will be produced. 
A. A. C. Fertilizers 
pay for themselves in the big crops they produce; and the 
larger crops leave a larger amount of humus material in 
the soil to lighten it up, make it more friable and more re¬ 
tentive of moisture. 
The rapid and steady increase in the use of A. A. C. 
Fertilizers has been because of their actual merit and demon¬ 
strated ability to produce profitable crops. They represent 
the accumulated manufacturing experience of more than 
fifty years. 
They are compounded of organic and inorganic mate¬ 
rials of recognized crop-producing power in such forms and 
proportions that they are capable of feeding the plant con¬ 
tinuously. They cause a quick start, vigorous growth and 
early crop maturity. 
If we have no agent in your town, we want one. Write us for 
our nearest agent’s address or ask for an agency yourself. 
The Company maintains an Agricultural Service Bureau 
conducted by Dr. H. J. Wheeler, for many years Director 
of the Rhode Island State Experiment Station, whose 
Crop Bulletins, services and advice are free to all farmers. 
American Agricultural Chemical Co. 
2 Rector Street, New York, N. Y. 
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