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The Home Orchard 
The articles under the above heading 
in The I{. N.-Y. have been very interest¬ 
ing to me because I have been working 
along that line with my neighbors for a 
long time. In the past r have worked 
as ,a State orchard inspector, and having 
thi“ opportunity to see so many of the 
home orchards in my State I can point out 
several of their mistakes. 
First, as mentioned on page 354. so 
many persons make the mistake of setting 
all one or more varieties, instead of a 
dozen or more, so as to have an abundance 
of fruit th<‘ whole season. Then another 
thing very important is getting varieties 
suitable for your locality. I have seen 
whole orchards that were standard va¬ 
rieties, but yet not a tree in them gave the 
owner any profit because* they were not 
suited to that; locality. For instance the 
list of fruit given by Mr. Hollister would 
not he suitable for my section of West 
\ irginia at all. nor for very much of it 
anywhere, yet I am sure that is just what 
they need in his State. There are a few 
varieties that do well everywhere, of 
course, and then there are others that 
have their special localities. 
List of apples for this section would be, 
in order of ripening, Red Astrachan, 
Yellow Transparent ; I cannot explain 
why I reverse tin* order of these two 
apples, but it is a fact, that the Astrachan 
ripens first with us in almost all cases. 
Then if we want some sweet apples we 
will have to put in Golden Sweet and 
Queen of Sweets. Wealthy comes next. 
Summer Rambo. Fall I’ippin. Twenty 
Ounce, Baldwin, Grimes Golden. Falla- 
wnter. Delicious, Rome Beauty and Stay- 
nian. ^ A good Winter sweet is the Para¬ 
dise Sweet. For a home orchard in this 
section the above would give nearly a 
continuous supply of apples. 
For pears, we would set Bartlett. 
' Iapp, I >wlu‘ss. Garber and Seckel. 
Peaches. Belle of Georgia. Champion. El- 
berta. Late Crawford. Salway and Ban¬ 
ner. Y\ e have no use for anv of the 
Japan plums here. We would set Yellow 
Egg. Green Gage. German Prune and 
Shropshire Damson; cherries. Early 
Richmond. English Montmorency and 
Governor Wood. Quinces. Orange and 
Champion are the best two. 
In most of the articles on this subject 
they do not go far enough, for tin* smaller 
fruits are as important, if not more so. to 
the farm home Ilian the orchard fruits. 
I hen we want a corner of that home or- 
Hiard for grapes. There is no easier 
fruit grown here than grapes. We want 
some good raspberries, blackberries, cur¬ 
rants. a few gooseberries, and last but 
not least a good-sized bed of strawberries 
1 hose small fruits as well as the large 
must be chosen to suit your locality. As 
Hope harm knows, there is nothing that 
makes a farm home more attractive in the 
eating line than plenty of good fruit. 
Iresb from the trees and vines the whole 
season. And then, after you buy and get 
your trees set. don't turn the family cow 
in to browse on them. It may be good 
for the cow. but hard on the trees I 
helped a man select about ->20 worth of 
trees last Spring, and I notice this Winter 
that there is not a tree living, for the cow 
has got them all. L. G. ZINX. 
'Vest Virginia. 
Fruit Trees in Vegetable Garden 
Suggestions as to 100 fruit trees for 
e\cry farm whore there is room: Plant 
in vegetable garden ; ... both sides 
to protect from cultivator. Prune onlv with 
a penknife. “The best time to prune a 
young tree is when your knife is sharp " 
Alter four years move the vegetable gar- 
den. seed down the orchard. Never plow 
or cultivate it again. Use dry mulch or 
pasture with young stock or hogs and 
poultry. 1 hen set new trees in the new 
vegetable garden, and so on indefinitely, 
the cost of large bearing trees bv this 
method ought not to exceed the original 
cost of the trees, exclusive of spraying. 
Less labor—more trees, w. n. weltt.vg 
New York. 
Banding Trees Against Insects 
How can I mix (lie adhesive compound 
used in banding trees against crawling i»- 
„ it. j z. 
( hester. O. 
The problem is get something which is 
ipiite sticky even at low temperatures and 
will not run at Summer heat. Quite a 
number of mixtures have been tried, tin* 
theory being to stiffen up something stiekv 
m, ,t . W1 . 11 " ot , nm auil still stay stiekv. 
Mil* best of them will got hard in time, 
since flu* volatile part will dry out sooner 
or later. Here is a mixture, all parts be¬ 
ing by weight, which will likely work as 
well as any you can make without jacket- 
"r^nig kettles and mechanical stirrers. 
I itch 10 parts; rosin, eight parts; rosin 
ml. three parts; palm oil. one part; tal- 
knv. one part. Melt together and mix 
well If you cannot get palm oil. double 
I n* tallow. Vary the rosin oil to increase 
the softness and stickiness. Materials of 
this sort differ a little, and you have to 
modify the formula by experience. Those 
w ho make these things on the large scale 
usually get in a little ’ rubber or similar 
gum, but that is beyoud the experimenter. 
f. n. c. 
Modest Farmers 
are the Minch Brothers, but they have 1500 
fertile acres at Bridgeton, New Jersey, where 
they are making money. They grow about 400 
acres of potatoes, and in some of their orchards 
the rows of trees are more than half a mile 
long. Incidentally, they grow a lot of produce. 
I hey started with only a few acres, but they made these 
pay real profits, reinvested the profits in land and equipment, 
and learned farming by experience as they went along. 
They always kept accurate accounts to know just what it 
cost each year to handle each acre and just what they got 
out of each acre. They are careful even now to avoid any¬ 
thing that is not profitable. 
Jan. 5, 1919, they wrote: “We have used Pyrox for 10 
years on potatoes and apples, and find nothing on the market 
to equal it. It is always smooth and easily applied. We can 
cover the ground very rapidly and do it thoroughly.” 
i. U. S. PAT. OPP 
MARK REGISTERED 
has been called by others who use it 
"The Spray that Adds to Your Profits" 
If that correctly describes it, and those who have used it 
longest say it does, isn’t it the spray you have been looking for? 
Notice that Minch Brothers emphasize in their letter what 
they consider to be three essential factors of a good spray 
material. 
A spray must be uniform 
First —It is “always smooth/ 
to be dependable. 
Second— It is “easily applied.” Pyrox is easily mixed 
and goes through the pump and nozzle without 
any trouble. Positively no clogging. 
Third —It “covers the ground very rapidly and does it 
thoroughly.” That means time saved just when 
every minute counts. 
Think of the convenience and saving of time. Many a 
man could save his crop if he had a spray all mixed and 
ready to use. If the rush of the season’s work finds him 
without time enough to do both the compounding of the 
raw materials and the spraying, both the crop and the profit 
are lost or reduced. 
Blights have robbed many a man of the profits he might 
have had just as well as not if he had sprayed with Pyrox 
instead of with a mere poison. It pays to kill all fhe 
leaf-chewing insects with Pyrox and at" the same time 
thoroughly protect the crop against fungous diseases such as 
potato blight and apple scab. It pays to keep the foliage 
healthy and green throughout the growing season, to give^it 
greater vigor and enable the plant and trees to work for you. 
The cost of your spraying material is very small when 
compared with the total expense of growing the crop. 
Labor is still high Why not make each acre and every man 
hour of labor earn more for you by using Pyrox? You can 
buy Pyrox at most hardware and seed stores. If your dealer 
does not have it on hand, put his name on the coupon. 
It you would like to know more about Pyrox and more about protect¬ 
ing your crops as Minch Brothers protect theirs against the destructive 
attacks of hugs, worms and plant disease, send for a copy of the Pvrox 
book. We make no charge for it. Use the coupon. 
Bowkcr Insecticide Company 
43-A Chatham St., Boston 1002 Fidelity Bldg., Baltimore 
w f ant TO SAVE YOUR CROPS — USE THIS COUPON 
I would like to read your Pyrox Crop Book R N Y 41 
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