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Packet 10c. Pint 30c. Quart 60c. 
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Brookdale Eight-Row 
Yellow Flint Corn 
selected by me for 6 successive 
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Ripens with us in Putnam County 
90 days and yields 100 bushels 
shelled corn per acre. Just the 
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Golden Orange, 8 row, Yellow 
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Less than $1 per acre seed cost. 
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likely that fertilizing 
seriously reduced. 
Mr. Taylor’s orcliardist’s entomology is 
certainly not at all in agreement with 
the studies that have been made. They 
indicate in every case that that the cod¬ 
ling-moth adult emerges and gets on the 
wing between two and three weeks after 
the blossoms fall. While connected with 
the Kansas Station I made a brood study 
of the codling-moth, an account of which 
will be found in Volume 6, No. 5, of the 
Journal of Economic Entomology, pages 
389,395. You will note in that paper 
that the date of emergence of the first 
brood of moths substantiates the state¬ 
ment which I have just made. 
THOMAS .1. IIEADI.EE. 
New Jersey State Entomologist. 
Planting Root-pruned Trees 
The picture of peach roots on page 353 
is printed through the courtesy of Country 
Life in America. It represents the out¬ 
come of an experiment in root-pruning at. 
Hope Farm. At the suggestion of the 
The Agen Plum. Fig. 98. See page 352. 
late II. M. Stringfellovv of Texas we 
planted a peach orchard under peculiar 
conditions. Little .Tune-hud- trees were 
used, and they were cut back to the size 
and shape of the slip which the boy holds 
in his left hand. Holes were punched in 
the ground with a crow oar and these little 
stubs put into the holes with the hole 
filled with sand and water well packed 
down. The theory was that this would 
force a deep tap-rooted system. The 
larger stump shows what came of it. The 
tree grew well and developed a deep sys¬ 
tem of roots after the manner of clover 
or Alfalfa. We thought this an advan¬ 
tage, as the tree withstood dry weather 
well. There were some disadvantages in 
the method, and we have since then cut 
the top back closely but left stubs of roots 
about three inches long with which to 
anchor the tree. We believe in small 
holes and closely-pruned roots, with the 
soil packed hard around them. 
Beauty in the Farm Home 
The picture on page 351 shows the front 
of the Summer home of Dr. (5eo. M. 
Twitchell at Monmouth, Me. It is easy 
to understand how much comfort and 
pleasure (to say nothing of the material 
value) such a showing will add to any 
home, and it cannot he said that this 
beauty and pride of home must be re¬ 
served for the rich or people of leisure. 
Dr. Twitchell tells us in the following 
brief note how it was done ; 
Failure to cultivate the aesthetic side 
of one’s nature has made life drudgery in 
many farm homes. Without this there 
can be no well-balanced life. A geranium 
in a tin can in the window has many 
times brought a song to tired hearts and 
lips. It is not the volume but the fact 
which saves. When I commenced experi¬ 
ments at Inglenook in 1908 I determined 
to give, if possible, a practical demon¬ 
stration of an inviting Summer home, 
without expense or burdensome labor. 
The vine bittersweet, os as known to 
some Nature’s waxwork, grows wild in 
one or two places in Maine but is common 
in Massachusetts Six small roots were 
set in 1910 at a cost of 50 cents, and since 
then the labor has consisted of fastening 
to the posts and overhead finish with 
strips of leather, mulching each Fall with 
leaves and a bushel of dressing to a root, 
and later, in cutting back each Fall to 
the edge of the eaves Perhaps one-half 
day’s time yearly is given to this labor, 
and four wheelbarrow loads of dressing 
yearly. The Hydrangea cost 35 cents and 
the time necessary to set and prune as 
well as a few shovels of dressing yearly. 
As roots have spread it has been a pleas¬ 
ure to supply others with a start in the j 
same direction. In 1908 I brought from j 
the woods pine, spruce and fir trees one ! 
inch in diameter and set on the north side 
for protection, and a windbreak. These 
trees are now eight or more inches in 
diameter and taller than the bungalow. 
So trivial has been the labor and so great 
the comfort and satisfaction that I cannot i 
understand why so many farmhouses 
stand bleak and desolate, without shrub, 
vine or tree. Bittersweet is a clean vine, 
does not attach to a house, as does wood¬ 
bine. grows rapidly and holds its foliage 
green until heavy frosts. 
DR. GEO. M. TWITCH El.I.. 
Use of Hand Stump-puller 
I would like experience with a hand 
stump-puller. I have no horses, and 
teams are very expensive, .$8 per day for 
eight hours. Besides that, I could devote 
only part of my time to the work. Some 
of our stumps are 3 ft. and more in diam¬ 
eter, but the timber has been cut about 
seven to eight years. While I do not ex¬ 
pect to pull big stumps without the aid 
of dynamite with a hand stump-puller, 
yet I am not sure if these pullers are 
good enough to pull stumps of about 2 ft. 
in diameter, F. K. 
Warren Point, N. J. 
The pulling of stumps with hand-power 
stump-pullers is uot an entirely satisfac¬ 
tory plan. When the stumps are few and 
well decayed, it is often practical to pull 
them out. but with large, strong stumps, 
it is better to use more power. If your 
time is worth much you cannot afford to 
pull the stumps by such slow process. If 
there are not too many of them, and it is 
not easy to get horses, you can loosen the 
stumps with dynamite, using an amount 
in proportion to the size of the stumps. 
The dynamite has the added advantage 
of shaking the roots free of dirt, while 
the stump-puller, if used in wet weather, 
leaves a great mass of wet earth, which 
adds to the weight of the stump and pre¬ 
vents its being burned. I would suggest 
that you blow your stumps out with dyna¬ 
mite and then hire a tractor for two or 
three days to pull out the roots and haul 
them together into convenient heaps for 
burning. We have found that the cap- 
Seetioniil I ieir of Ape < Plum. hig. 99. 
»S ee jiiigt Soil. 
stan or windlass style of horse-power 
stump pullers will pull out very large 
stumps, but if you had a large tract to 
pull, a steam-driven machine is preferable 
to horse-power. The best method will de¬ 
pend entirely ou the amount of work 
which you have to do. If you have only a 
few stumps and plenty of leisure, you can 
pull them with a hand-power machine, 
but do not attempt a large area in this 
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can't attack you anywhere else, he tries 
to get ou your n ind.”—Washington Star. 
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“What I don’t see is, how such wonderful 
furs can come from such a low. sneaking 
little beast.” Father: “I don’t ask for 
thanks, my dear, but I insist ou respect. ’ 
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