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were destroyed by the dormant spray. 
I do not understand that the writer in 
The R. X.-Y. claims the eggs were de¬ 
stroyed by a dormant spray, as under 
the method of spraying suggested by him 
we might conclude they were killed after 
they hatched. This may be true in part, 
but we are again confronted by the fact 
that in only about one season in four or 
five is any serious harm caused by the 
aphids, although the eggs and first brood 
may have been quite numerous, eveu 
where the trees are not sprayed. They 
are destroyed in the other years by var¬ 
ious natural insect enemies, and these 
may have been the years in which the 
immunity attributed to the very strong 
spray was noted. Even though the lime- 
sulphur solution at dormant strength is 
as effective as claimed in destroying the 
aphids, I would hesitate to advise its use 
unless scale insects are present. Black 
Leaf 40 and other 40 per cent nicotine 
solutions are specifics for these insects, 
and when used with the one to 40 lime- 
sulphur solution for the pre-pink spray,, 
the results will not only be better, but 
the cost of the combined spray will be 
less than for lime-sulphur of dormant 
strength, to say nothing of the other 
objections against the use of the latter 
after growth lias started. L. R. TAFT. 
Michigan. 
Fertilizer for Beans 
I am about to plant several acres of 
string beans; I have a lot of pine ashes 
and phosphate, two per cent ammonia. 10 
per cent phosphoric acid, also henhouse 
manure. How about mixing one part of 
ashes, one part phosphate, one-half part 
hen manure? Is lime good to broadcast 
after plowing for beans? \v. T. H. 
Eden, Md. 
You would better use the 2-10 fertilizer 
on your beans after spreading the ashes 
broadcast and harrowing them in. Pine 
wood ashes that have been kept dry will 
have about two per cent of potash, but 
they will also have some lime, and lienee 
should never be mixed with animal ma¬ 
nures or any organic matter carrying 
ammonia, like fish scrap, for instance. 
The lhne will tend to carbonate am¬ 
monia from the manure, and it will be 
volatile and be lost in the air. Better 
use the hen manure by itself, spread on 
some other crop, as beans do not need a 
high percentage of nitrogen, being able 
to get some from the air if well supplied 
with mineral fertilizers. If your land is 
acid and needs lime, as it probably does, 
it will be all right to spread 3.000 pounds 
of slaked burnt lime or a ton of ground 
shells per acre, and harrow in well before 
planting the beans. Run out furrows 2*4 
feet apart and put the fertilizer in them 
.100 to 800 pounds an acre. Then turn 
two furrows over these, and run the 
smoothing harrow lengthwise of the ridges, 
flattening them. Then drill in the beans 
down the beds. tv. f. massey. 
A Bunch of Notes 
Orchard on Ledge. —On page 504 ad¬ 
vice is asked regarding the best method 
of planting an orchard on land where the 
ledge is very year the surface—too near, 
in fact, to allow of successful planting by 
ordinary methods. This question is an¬ 
swered by G. M. Twitehell, who is or¬ 
dinarily one of the best authorities in Xew 
England, but, in this case, he is in error. 
The correct method in such cases is to 
plant the seeds where the trees are to 
grow, and, when the trees are large 
enough, to bud or graft them to the de¬ 
sired varieties. Nature will develop a 
tree from the seed in a location where all 
the skill of all the horticulturists in the 
world cannot make a transplanted tree 
live for a single season. 
Newtown Pippin in Hudson Valley. 
—In the same column is an inquiry re¬ 
garding the practicability of growing the 
Newtown Pippin in the Hudson River 
Valley. This is answered by Win. Ilotal- 
ing. also one of the best of authorities, 
but he fails to cover the question fully. 
The Newtown Pippin originated in Long 
Island, and it will do well in certain 
places in the Hudson River A alley, but it 
is one of the most, particular of all trees 
in regard to soil and climate and, in con¬ 
sequence, there are more localities in that 
section where it is worthless as a com¬ 
mercial apple than where it will thrive 
to anything like perfection. All localities 
in the valley will produce large, handsome 
apples.- but the .pawren tags -of-salable fruit 
is small and, except in the more favored 
localities, the flavor is inferior. The tree 
is a vigorous grower, though not espe¬ 
cially large, but the foliage is more sus¬ 
ceptible to scab than most varieties. It is 
fairly precocious and, with good care, 
will come into bearing in six or seven 
years, even though the tree" may com¬ 
paratively small. While the Newtown 
Pippin tree will thrive in certain limited 
areas in the Hudson River Valley, the 
best way for a resident of that valley to 
get the apples, as a rule, is to grow the 
Rhode Island Greening and exchange with 
Some resident in the Piedmont region, 
where the Pippin thrives to perfection, 
and the Greening is an inferior variety. 
However, if one wishes to try his luck at 
growing Pippins in a locality not specially 
adapted to their growth, the best method 
is to plant trees that are but one year 
from the bud, and to re-bud them imme¬ 
diately. That is, to double-work them 
when small. There is nothing to be 
gained by grafting upon another variety. 
Neither is there any gain in allowing the 
stocks to reach an age of five or six years 
before grafting, but the chances are that 
much will be lost. This plan might not 
prove objectionable if Mr. Ilotaling were 
to do the grafting and to have subsequent 
care of the trees for a number of years, 
but it must be remembered that not one 
man in a thousand can top-work a tree of 
that age and bring it into a desirable 
shape. 
Controlling Curculio. —On the same 
page there is a question in regard to the 
control of the curculio. Formerly this 
insect attacked only the plum, but of 
late years it has become an enemy to the 
apple as well as most of the tree fruits. 
There is little that can now be done to 
check its ravages for next year. If steps 
have not been taken in that direction it is 
now too late. The mature insect hiber¬ 
nates through the Winter under sticks or 
stones or other rubbish, and appears rath¬ 
er early in the Spring, attacks the apple 
while it is quite small, and lays its eggs, 
one in a place, just beneath the skin. The 
eggs hatch in a few days; the minute 
worms feed for a short time on the tissue 
of the apple, then emerge and drop to the 
ground, where they complete their trans¬ 
formation and emerge as perfect insects in 
six or eight weeks from the time the eggs 
were deposited. From this time until cold 
weather the mature insect feeds upon the 
foliage of the apple tree, and responds to 
arsenical poisoning. It is not, however, a 
voracious feeder, and hence the leaves 
must he pretty well covered with the 
spray. The poison must he applied much 
later than for most other posts: that is. 
from the first of August until the leaves 
fall. This treatment will surely lessen the 
number of parents insects for the follow¬ 
ing season. When disturbed this insect 
has a habit of “playing ’possum,” and 
hence the practice was formerly to spread 
sheets under the trees, shaking the trees 
and catching the insects on the sheets. 
Considerable may he accomplished by this 
method if one keeps everlastingly at it. 
Clean cultivation, also, by destroying its 
hiding pi a cos, has some influence towards 
a control of the pest, but the main de¬ 
pendence should be upon arsenate of lead 
applied late in the season. The injury 
consists of indentations in the-surface 
corresponding to the punctures made by 
the insect, thus dwarfing the apple and 
giving it a rough, unsightly appearance. 
The curculio, however, is not responsible 
for all the damage which is laid^at its 
door, for a heavy frost, occurring about 
the time the apples are the size of mar¬ 
bles, or a little larger, may produce a dis¬ 
figuration of the surface very nearly iden¬ 
tical in appearance. 
Bones for Fertilizer. —< )n page 600 
is a query in regard to using bones as a 
fertilizer. The best way to handle them 
for this purpose is to run them first 
through a bone-cutter and then through a 
flock of liens, and apply the resulting ma¬ 
nure to the soil. If it is not practicable 
or desirable to do this, a good plan is to 
crush them as fine as may be convenient, 
using a heavy sledge in default of a better 
implement. Then fill a barrel with hard¬ 
wood ashes. Run water through it sev¬ 
eral times, until half a barrel of the 
strongest lye results. Pack the crushed 
bones into a tight barrel and pour the lye 
over tln'in. filling the barrel. Let stand 
a year and draw off the lye. Dry tile 
bones and they may be crushed as fine as 
flour, while the lye itself will he an ex¬ 
ceedingly rich potash fertilizer. The time 
required to render the bones brittle may 
be reduced to a couple of days by boiling 
them in ail iron kettle together with the 
lye. 
A Weedy Lawn. —On the same page is 
an inquiry in, regard to seeding a weedy 
lawn. It seems that the lawn had been 
neglected for many years and meantime 
had grown to weeds which had been al¬ 
lowed to go to seed, and thus the ground 
had become thoroughly well stocked with 
undesirable weeds. As first aid towards 
reclaiming it the sod has been broken, 
the land fertilized, a crop of beans grown 
with clean cultivation, and the soil is now 
in good condition. The question asked is, 
how long ought the land to be cultivated 
before seeding to lawn grass. In spit*' 
of all that may he said to the contrary, 1 
want to say sow your lawn grass seed 
just as early as the weather will permit. 
I'se plenty <»f seed and the grass and the 
lawn mower will take care of all the weeds 
that will ever appear. c. o. ormsbee. 
