■Ghe RURAL. NEW-VORKER 
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Garden and Farm Notes 
Onions In Wayne Co., N. Y. 
On page 1044 an inquiry is placed by E. 
Q. B. on the advisability of rolling onion 
tops with a barrel to force development 
of the bulbs. The picture given below 
shows a large field of onions in Wayne 
County, N. Y., that have been brought 
almost up to harvesting time without any 
such practice. In this section, where 
onions are grown on a large scale, the 
growers in late years have ignored such a 
rule. Some of the older growers can re¬ 
call when it was thought a wise practice 
to roll the crop. The picture shows that 
a good many of the tops have already 
died down of themselves, leaving fully 
developed bulbs. An occasional sucker, 
here and there, running all to top, wmuld 
not amount to anything, regardless of 
whether rolled or not. 
In this section the onions are left in 
rows in the field after pulling where 
they cure for a few days after being 
topped. Another practice is to cure them 
in bushel crates in the field. Topping is 
all done by machinery. The smaller 
growers generally sell direct from th© 
sprouts develop roots above the main 
root. Then they are separated and 
budded or grafted, as may be desired. 
The quince stock is the ordinary quince 
of the orchard. It belongs to the pear 
family and bears a fruit somewhat re¬ 
sembling a pear, highly valued for making 
preserves but wholly inedible in its raw 
condition. The quince may be propagated 
by all methods, but mound-layering is the 
method most commonly employed, and the 
young shoots are used as stocks for dwarf 
pears. Plum stocks are used when it is 
desired to grow peaches. All of these 
stocks can be obtained from almost any 
of the larger nurseries. 
The dwarfs all come into bearing much 
earlier than the standards, and they also 
die much earlier. They make fine lawn 
trees, but are very shallow-rooted and 
hence susceptible to drought. Another 
objectionable feature is that they sucker 
very freely from the roots, and frequently 
the scion will develop roots above the 
graft and thus change the tree from a 
dwarf to a standard. The New York Ex¬ 
periment Station has demonstrated that 
A. Field of Onions in Wayne County, New York 
fields, as shrinkage and extra handling are 
thus saved. The large growers usually 
have special storage quarters and move 
their holdings on a favorable market. 
Wayne Co., N. Y. A. ii. P. 
Paradise and Doucin Stocks 
Will you explain Paradise, Doucin and 
quince stocks for fruit trees, where and 
how produced or obtained, and how 
budded or grafted? o. p. T. 
Dover, N. H. 
Both Paradise and Doucin are varieties 
of apples and apple trees, but their place 
in the botanical classification of trees is 
a matter of some dispute. Both are be¬ 
lieved to have originated in Southwestern 
Asia and to have been brought to France 
at a very early date. Both varieties make 
a very small growth of wood, and are 
grown chiefly for stocks upon which 
standard varieties are grafted for the pur¬ 
pose of dwarfing. 
The Paradise is much the smaller and 
trees grafted upon it make the smallest 
of. all dwarfs. The tree is a very pre¬ 
cocious and productive bearer, its natural 
fruit being yellow with a reddish blush. 
It ripens in August and has a mildly sub¬ 
acid flavor. It was formerly popularly 
supposed to be the identical variety with 
which Eve tempted Adam, whence its 
name. As a stock it makes a poor union 
with the scion and produces a tree which 
is not hardy in very cold climates. I 
should hardly expect it to succeed in New 
Hampshire. 
The Doucin produces apples of a green¬ 
ish color and a very sweet flavor, whence 
its name, from the French douce, mean¬ 
ing sweet. As a stock it makes a bettor 
union and a hardier tree. It is much 
larger than the Paradise and is com¬ 
monly known as a “half-dwarf.” Both 
varieties may be propagated by the vari¬ 
ous methods of propagation, but the one 
usually Wopted is. that known as “mound¬ 
layering." That is, a tree is cut off near 
the ground. Numerous sprouts spring 
from the roots. Earth is piled around 
these and allowed to remain until the 
dwarf trees are not profitable as a com¬ 
mercial enterprise. On the other hand, 
a number of practical orchardists find 
them highly profitable. c. o. ormsbee. 
Saving Labor In Corn Husking 
The New Jersey Experiment Station 
gave the following method of a farmer in 
Salem County, N. J., who does prac¬ 
tically all the work on a good-sized dairy 
farm with the help of two small boys. 
On such a farm the job of handling the 
corn crop is a serious one. Here is the 
way this farmer does it; 
“After attending to the morning barn 
work he goes to the field with the wagon, 
changes the team to the corn-binder and 
cuts the standing stalks husked the day 
before. He then hitches to the wagon 
and husks two rows down one side of the 
field and back the other, throwing the ears 
directly into the wagon, wduch is driven 
along the edge of the standing corn, and 
has the outer side built up nigh. Two 
row's around the field generally make a 
load and husking occupies the forenoon. 
“After dinner the load is cribbed, tlo; 
two husked rows cut with the binder and 
another two rows around the field husked 
out and hauled to the barn by quitting 
time. The bundles of stalks are set up 
and tied in large shocks or hauled to the 
barn and stacked every few days or when¬ 
ever bad weather threatens. 
“In this way the stalks are never driv¬ 
en over and broken down in husking and 
they stand no longer than is necessary 
and consequently do not lose many leaves. 
It is much easier and quicker to husk 
directly from the stalk directly into the 
W'agon, and by this method the corn is 
put into the crib with the least possible 
handling, and yet practically all the feed¬ 
ing A'alue of the fodder is saved.” 
Farmers in Franklin County have their 
crops nearly all secure except the potato 
crop, w'hich is being harvested with much 
difficulty on account of the recent heavy 
rains, the average yield per acre being 
about 100 bu. The price paid by buyers is 
$1 per bu. Farmers receive .$3.55 per 100 
for October milk at the station. Cow's are 
drying up rai)idly. but are being almost 
all fed in the barns. Butter, 65c per lb.; 
eggs. 52c per doz. n. t. j. 
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