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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
are growing too rapidly that oau be 
brought into bearing by girdling. Where- 
ever possible it is best to cheek such 
trees by reducing the amount of nitrogen 
which is supplied to them, or by with¬ 
holding culture at the proper time. There 
ajje sometimes instances where individual 
trees have been planted in a particularly 
favorable spot, and if the varieties are 
like Spy or Gravenstein they may be slow 
in coming into bearing. In the East, 
where there is plenty of moisture and 
apple trees continue to grow late in Sum¬ 
mer. one may often check the trees some¬ 
what by making complete circular in¬ 
cisions in the bark around the trunk four 
to six inches apart. This may be done 
by taking a sharp knife and cutting 
through the bark to the wood right around 
the tree. Do not remove any of the bark, 
however. This circular cut the width of 
a knife blade will soon grow together 
again that season, so that no great harm 
is likely to occur to the tree. One such 
circular cut will probably not check the 
growth very much, but two or three sev¬ 
eral inches apart will often slow down 
growth to a sufficient degree to result in 
bud setting. It is common that apple 
trees from seven to 10 years of age are 
considered for treatment Bark upon 
such trees should be easily cut. The re¬ 
moval of bark or severe girdling in any 
form is to be discouraged, and girdling 
of stone fruits is not advised. When 
girdling is attempted upon apple trees it 
should commonly be done in June in the 
East, while the trees are still making 
growth. It should not be done after 
growth has practically stopped. I would 
not advise this man to girdle cherry 
trees. Tree growth also stops early in the 
Northwest. I understand that it seldom 
occurs after July 15. which is quite dif¬ 
ferent from the conditions which prevail 
here, so I think that if he attempts to 
girdle any apple trees that it should be 
done previous to July 1 ; further, it would 
be well for him to secure advice from the 
horticultural division of the Agricultural 
College and Experiment Station at Pull¬ 
man, Washington. M. A. ULAKEv 
Notes from a Maryland Garden 
I am getting rather proud of my gar¬ 
den. People from a distance come and 
say they read about it in The It. N.-Y. 
and come to see it. Then a friend who 
has won honor and promotion in the 
Argonne-Meuse fights, and has since visit¬ 
ed several parts of France, told me that 
he saw- nothing prettier in France. But 
the garden has had a fight to keep any¬ 
thing alive, for the 26th day of June is 
giving us the first rain since the 6th. and 
then only a light one. The last heavy 
rain was May 10. and then a few- scatter¬ 
ing dust-laying showers to June 6. The 
Irish potato crop is greatly shortened. 
There are plenty of potatoes in the hills, 
but they stopped growing in the intense 
drought, and are now done and ripe, and 
we are getting them out of the ground to 
get at late Summer and Fall crops. 
CONTENTS 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, JULY 12, 1919 
FARM TOPICS 
The Faimer’s Eight-hour Day.1065, 1065 
The Story of the Pictures. 1066 
The High Cost of Wheat Raising. 1066 
Extra Horse en the Hay Loader. 1067 
Soldier Farmer and the Truth. 1067 
Cutting Oats for Hay. 1067 
Killing Burdock . 1068 
Fertilizer Questions . 1071 
The Corn Crop. 1072 
Hope Farm Notes. 1074 
Farmer on Teamsters’ Strike i. 1077 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY 
Summer and Winter Milk Costs. 1066 
Stunted Bull Calf. 1080 
Balanced Ration for Milch Cows. 1080 
Ration for Young Pigs. 1080 
Care of Cows on Pasture. 1080 
Bamesville, 0., Cow-testing Association.. 1080 
Berkshires Sell Well. 1080 
Guernsey Cattle Transfers. 1080 
High Acid Milk. 1082 
THE HENYARD 
Fgg-laying Contest . 1084 
Raising Guinea Chicks. 1084 
HORTICULTURE 
Girdling Fiuit Trees.1067, 1068 
Notes from a Maryland Garden. 1068 
The Fruit Outlook. 1070 
Pennsylvania Fruit Notes. 1070 
Dust Spray for Peaches. 1071 
Controlling Striped Cucumber Beetle. 1071 
Fruits for a Suburban Garden. 1075 
Fruit in Western New York. 1077 
WOMAN AND HOME 
From Day to Day... 1078 
Making a Rose Jar and Rose Beads. 1078 
Notes from Tennessee.1078, 1079 
Ways with Blackberries. 1079 
Embroidery Designs . 1079 
Tested Preserves . 1079 
Canning Cabbage . 1079 
Removing Grease from Carpet. 1079 
MISCELLANEOUS 
Lifting Water from Small Spring 
Reservoir with Drilled Well. 
Acetylene for Power. 
Events of the Week. 
Destroying Sumac .. 
Who is to Produce Food?. 
Defeat Land Boom Scheme. 
An Appreciation . ... 
Experience with Tractors. 
The Moon, and Crops. 
What the Soldiers Want......... 
Countrywide Produce Situation.. 
Publisher’s Desk ............... 
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1072 
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1077 
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July 12, 1910 
The late plants for the canning crop 
of tomatoes have been kept waiting for 
the rain now falling. Early tomatoes 
have been held back by the cool nights, 
while naturally they should now be ripen¬ 
ing in abundance. The plants are loaded 
and rapidly adding to the load. They have 
been twice sprayed with Bordeaux mix¬ 
ture. but there are evident signs of leaf 
blight in the lower leaves. This is one 
of the hardest fungi to prevent. But I 
will spray again and try to keep all the 
leaves practical. 
The rain will save the remainder of the 
raspberry crop, for, after starting well, 
they seemed about to dry up. The Greens¬ 
boro peaches are coming in. and soon the 
peach harvest will be in full swing, and 
there will be plenty to go around. The 
melon growers have been hard hit by the 
dry weather, and the crop of cantaloupes 
will be late, but it is too late to save the 
early sugar corn. Crops under the Skin¬ 
ner pipe are all right, and before another 
Summer 1 hope to have it extended to 
all the garden. 
Two letters I have received recently 
show plainly the shortsighted practice of 
farmers in buying clover seed. One man 
sends me a bunch of the Western plan¬ 
tain. Plantago aristata. one of the worst 
weeds, and said that his wheat field is 
covered with it. Another man says that 
he had a beautiful stand of Bed clover 
sown in 191S, and a little yellow vine ap¬ 
peared here and there, and finally spread 
over the whole plot and has killed the 
clover. Now I feel sure that both in¬ 
stances the farmers brought trouble on 
themselves by buying low-priced clover 
seed, and failing to submit it to the in¬ 
spection of their experiment station. This 
Western plantain has been brought east 
almost entirely in clover seed, and the seed 
of the Cuscuta or dodder that the other 
man saw as a yellow vine also was bought 
and paid for in the clover seed, and the 
farmer simply stood by nad let it devour 
the clover. It is not hard to get rid of 
the dodder if taken as soon as a vine ap¬ 
pears. Put a bunch of straw on it and 
set fire to it. and this will not only kill 
the plant but will kill the abundant seed 
it makes. But a field set in the tall plan¬ 
tain is another problem. Some years ago 
a good farmer in Virginia asked me how 
to get rid of the plantain, for by buying 
clover seed in Richmond he had got his 
farm infested with it till he could not 
make clover. How to clean land of such 
a persistent weed and one which seeds so 
abundantly is a difficult problem, but I 
know how to prevent its getting on the 
land. That is never to buy clover seed 
except by sample, and either examine 
with care every sample, or have it done 
by your station, and take no seed that is 
not absolutely clean, even if the price is 
three times as high as the common grade. 
Low-priced clover seed is the dearest 
thing a farmer can buy. for he is sure to 
be buying weed seed to infest his soil. 
This is a diversion from the garden notes, 
but it came to be so evident that I wanted 
to put it in. for with the high price of 
clover seed there is a temptation to econ¬ 
omize. and it is the worst sort of ex¬ 
travagance to buy low-priced clover seed. 
W. F. MASSEY. 
Killing Burdock 
In a letter to you last year on how to 
kill burdock, I stated that I would try 
to kill the plants by cutting them very 
late in the season and burning the seed 
burs. The plants so treated were greatly 
benefited ; they grew wonderfully well this 
Spring. Moral: Gut the burdock and 
give it a dose of kerosene. It will then 
die and stay dead. w. it. w. 
Ne\v Jersey. 
What you did v T as to fertilize the bur¬ 
dock. The ashes gave plant food to the 
roots and they responded as any other 
plant will do. You can kill the burdocks 
by cutting them off two inches or more 
below 7 ground, under the crown. A little 
kerosene or carbolic acid on top will make 
6 ure. 
Blasting Land to Make Fruit 
I notice on page S44 R. V. asks why 
his Gilliflower apple trees do not bear as 
well is his other varieties. Not knowing 
anything about the location or soil which 
his trees grow upon. I would judge prob¬ 
ably the soil the Gilliflowers are on does 
not suit them. From experience on such 
lines I would judge the ground to be what 
is known as sour. We had a row of Red 
Astrachans, seven trees; four of them 
always gave us apples each apple year, 
while the three other trees always 
bloomed as full as the others but never 
had enough fruit on them to be worth 
mentioning. If all the trees had been on 
the same soil we would have condemned 
them all. After many years we discov¬ 
ered the cause of their bearing but very 
little fruit. The trouble was they w 7 ore on 
sour ground. If B. Y. finds his Gilli- 
flowers growing on sour land, if he will 
drill some holes and shoot with dynamite 
to break the hardpan he will find his 
trees will bear apples, and will feel well 
paid for his trouble. Ground that is 
termed sour has hardpan and will not let 
the water down below it. I believe it will 
pay to shoot an orchard with dynamite 
even if there should not be hardpan there. 
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