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<Iht RURAL NEW-YORKER 
March 15, 1919 
The Small Orchard of Fruit 
At first your slogan, “100 fruit trees 
"U every farm,” seemed a little too large 
to be practical. Then I counted up the 
fruit trees on my half acre and found I 
had 47, some of them dwarfs, of course. 
1 do not see why a farmer could not easily 
care for 100 trees in a region where in¬ 
sects and other pests are not too vigorous. 
Here in Eastern Massachusetts it would 
mean a good deal of labor, for all the 
poets stop here to get acclimated before 
traveling inland. 
On this place 11 years ago I found 
three Roxbury Russet trees badly inter¬ 
laced. a dying Baldwin, a dwarf Wealthy, 
two standard pear trees, and four dwarfs, 
and on(> sour cherry tree. The cherry 
tree began work at once, and the pears 
bore a little, but it was not till after 
four or five years of pruning and spray¬ 
ing that the apple trees responded freely. 
I next secured a OS-cent collection of trees 
from a mail-order nursery, and every tree 
lived. Next I transplanted six seedling 
peaches from a vacant lot; one proved to 
be a very big variety, three very delicious 
white peaches, and two very handsome, 
only good for cooking. The other trees I 
have added from time to time since. They 
are set around the edges and corners of 
the garden, and many are still small. 
The soil is dry gravel, so some of the 
trees have grown very slowly, but the 
results have been satisfactory for our 
small family. There are four to six bar¬ 
rels of apples each year, the Russets last¬ 
ing till strawberries come. Most years 
there are plenty of pears—a bushel or so 
of Clapp, more Kieffers than we usually 
want, and others a few at a time—Bart¬ 
lett. BufTum, Seckel and Lawrence. 
Blums do not grow fast on this dry'soil, 
so we are pleased to harvest two quarts 
as a maximum. Peaches last us for a 
month or more, and we have from 20 to 40 
quarts of cherries. Grapes are a banner 
crop, and usually there are two or three 
bushels, from IS vines. 
I have chosen varieties which give a 
good succession in each kind of fruit, and 
plenty of variety. Once the new trees 
get well under way we shall have an 
abundance; our supply is already ade¬ 
quate. I have a portable hand sprayer 
and give a dormant spray with lime-sul¬ 
phur and three other sprayings for ap¬ 
ple and pears with p.vrox. Last year I 
added some tobacco juice to one of the 
P.vrox sprays. Fruit is not by any means 
100 per cent perfect, but is good in qual¬ 
ity and appearance. 1 now have 11 apple 
trees, nine pears, 11 peaches, nine plums, 
five cherries, two quinces and IS grain 
vines 
llingham. Mass. 
c. 11. K. 
Leaf Spot and Wilt 
Can you tell me what to do to get rid 
of leaf spot and wilt in greenhouse? 1 
have many kinds of plants: everything 
was in good shape till this trouble started. 
It seems that it is getting hold on every¬ 
thing. M. B. 
Morristown, X. .T. 
We have little data here to work on, 
as nothing is said about the plants affect¬ 
ed. Wilt is a disease very troublesome to 
lettuce under glass, and is of fungus 
origin. The disease begins with wilting 
of the outer lower leaves, which droop 
and fall upon the ground. The disease 
progresses until it looks as though the 
whole plant had been scalded. All infect¬ 
ed plants should be pulled and burned as 
soon .as the disease is noticed, and as an 
additional precaution it is well to spray 
the place where the infected plant stood 
with Bordeaux mixture. All lettuce trash 
and remnants should be removed prompt¬ 
ly from the bed. Compost containing let¬ 
tuce leaves should be avoided. The re¬ 
moval of infected plants before the fun¬ 
gus has time to form spores, and the dis¬ 
infection with Bordeaux will eliminate 
the disease; soil disinfection is also of 
great value. Similar treatment should 
be given for leaf spot, but this disease 
appears to be largely spread by watering. 
Perhaps the plants involved are not let¬ 
tuce. for wilt and leaf spot are trouble¬ 
some with many plants, including car¬ 
nations. but wherever such diseases occur 
the destruction of infected specimens is 
urged first of all. A close, humid, at¬ 
mosphere, deficient ventilation and lack 
of care in watering encourage such 
troubles with lettuce, carnations and 
many other plants. 
Frugal Syrup Making 
A great many people in this country 
have, a few maple trees, not enough to 
wa: *nt their buying an expensive sugar 
or syrup making outfit. We have 50 
trees, and last season made over 25 gal¬ 
lons of fine syrup at a very small ex¬ 
pense. We procured a galvanized pan 
from a tinner, size 22x52 inches, five 
inches deep, that fits to top of a six-hole 
range. Cost, $1.00'. Also 50 sap spouts, 
$1.50. Total cost. $5.10. In the alley 
back of the village bakery I secured 50 
one-gallon tin cans, such as pie material 
came in. cost, nothing. The top cut out 
of the can. with a wire attached, made a 
cover to keep out. rain : can bung to 
spout book by hole punched with a nail 
near top of can. I cleaned out reservoir 
of stove and heated sap in it to dip hot. 
into the pan. Each morning poured 
syrup from the pan into porcelain kettle 
to finish off on kitchen stove, clarified 
with milk, strained syrup through mus¬ 
lin bag into glass cans. One cord of 16- 
foot wood would make 11 gallons of 11- 
pounds per gallon syrup. Can anyone 
beat it? W. S. LANGLEY. 
Michigan. 
A Failure with Sweet Clover 
I will give my experience with Sweet 
clover and seek the reason for my fail¬ 
ure. In the Fall of 1017. just before 
snow came, I sowed a small piece, cover¬ 
ing very lightly. As I could not procure 
unhulled seed. I sowed the hulled, un¬ 
scarified. The ground remained covered 
until Spring, and when the snow went off 
I could see many of the seeds on the sur¬ 
face, well sprouted. According to rule 
these should have been covered by the 
freezing and thawing, and with those 
covered in the Fall, should have given me 
a stand. The fact is that T could not find, 
a single plant. Why did not those sprout¬ 
ed seeds grow? Can the scarified seed be 
sown in the Spring with oats with any 
probability of success, that being the 
usual method of seeding to grass and 
clover in this section? A few stray plants 
in my garden grew six or seven feet high 
the past season, without lime. F. w. i\ 
Norwich, X. Y. 
F. W. I’, did the very thing that he 
ought not to do. I have always fought 
against sowing scarified before March 1. 
as it sprouts very early and then freezes 
oil'. Scarified seed sown in the Spring 
with oats, if the seed is good, ought to 
give a good stand. The trouble is that so 
much seed is sold that is not fully ma¬ 
tured. because it is cheap, and in the end 
it is the most expensive. It is better for 
any kind "of cloVer seed if only a bushel 
or a bushel and a half of oats are sown 
per acre, and many think the oat crop 
will be just as good. If F. W. 1*. will 
sow 15 lbs. per acre of good scarified seed 
with his oats he ought to cut a fair crop 
of Sweet clover hay in October. 
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