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RURALISMS 
Mounding the Girdled Trees 
On page 880 the Hope Farm man men¬ 
tions damage to young trees by mice and 
rabbits. The. writer has saved many and 
many a tree that was either partly or 
completely girdled by mice, simply ly 
mounding earth around and well over the 
damaged part. Make a mound fully a 
foot above the girdle, pack it closely and 
let it come out two feet from the base 
of the tree in every direction. Do the 
work as s'oon as possible in the Spring, 
just as quickly as the frost is out for an 
inch or two. .so that .soil can be secured. 
Sometimes we make a small mound very 
early, and follow later, when the digging 
is easier, completing the job. 
Tt is 00008017 to do the work so that 
moist earth will be in contact with the 
girdled surface until W (>11 along in the 
growing season. An examination of the 
mounded part of the tree in IMiiy will 
show that each little spot or shred of 
cambium remaining on the apparently 
cleanly scraped surface has enlarged or 
gi'own until with the downward growth 
from the bark above and the rapid up¬ 
ward growth of the soft whitish, cheese- 
lik»‘ new bark the entire surface will have 
been well covered. Let the mound re- 
m.iin throughout the Summer, or :it least 
well along through the growing season. j 
Due Spring we found 40 trees, some of | 
them large hearing ones, either partly or j 
I'omplelely girdled, and saved every one 
by thoronghl^i mounding, early, followed I 
b.v a little later attention. ! 
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TKe KNOWN car will 
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Van Dyne Fall Pippin 
After reading the interesting article on 
page .112 .about ‘“Some Hood V.arieties of 
Apples .\lmost Extinct.” I wish to call 
attention to another. When I went to 
live in 1878, just 40 years ago. at what 
is now Camp iNferrltt. Cresskill, N. .7., 
tliere were on the six acres, about 20 old 
ti-ees, part of an orchard set out in 1827 
or earlier. Most of them were Newtown 
Pippins, several of which are still bear¬ 
ing. and there were in one row, six trees 
of Fall Pipi)ins of a variety called by 
the oldest residents the ‘‘Van Dyne,” 
which is far superior to the ordinary 
Fall IMppiu as .. llaldwin is to a Ben 
Davis. Mhen building a large hospital 
on my place, the contractors cut down 
two of the largest of them, for which they 
allowed me a large sum, but there are 
two or three left, from which I .should 
hope that some enterprising nurseryman 
would get scions and perpetu.ate this 
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iiol)Io fruit. I had grafted two yming 
trees, which tlie engineers have s|)ared 
up to this time, at my urgent re(|ue.st. 
and for which I would n<<t accej)t a 
thousand dollars. These apples ripen in 
September and October, .-ind will keep 
until February. For eating or cooking 
I have never found their equal, a. c. w. 
Tomato Plants in Brooder House 
We intend to raise some garden truck 
on our fruit farm. 1 find difliculty in 
finding the right kind of tomato plants. I 
have a brooder house heated by hot water 
pil>es. Could I use this house to start 
my plants in boxes, then transplant to 
the cold frame? How long a time would 
1 have to sow the seed before I could get 
the plants large enough to set? 4'ariety, 
I '.arliana and Chalk’s Early .Jewel, .r. F. 
Ited Creek, N. Y. 
If a brooder house can he heated to a 
temperature of So degrees, ami is well 
sui)plied with sunshine, tlnu-e is no reason 
why tomato seedlings cannot be suect'ss- 
fully started in it for flats, l-'roni four 
to five weeks later the seedlings nuiy be 
transplanted to cold frames, .and in four 
or five weeks more excellent plants .should 
be ready for the field. However, experi¬ 
ence is quite essential in all agricultural 
eudetivor, and most especially so in early 
l)lant production. If you have .s.ash avail¬ 
able for the cold frames, why not make a 
quickly-constructed hotbed for the growth 
of the seedlings? The quality of an early 
tomato plant is not judged by its height. 
.\ sturdy growth, a heavy I'oot system, a 
stocky stem, leaves of firm tissue and a 
tiny cluster of buds jiust appearing, indi¬ 
cate ttiat the plant is ready to endure the 
cold soil and hard winds when it is first 
set out. R. A'", p. 
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