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The RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
July 26, 1910 
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Garden and Farm Notes 
New England Fruit and Garden Notes 
The Fruit Outlook.— Strawberries 
have been a rather light, crop, owing to 
the drought. Our best varieties are Sen¬ 
ator Dunlap, Golden Gate. Marshall, Bar¬ 
rymore and William Belt. Prices have 
been very high : 15 to 50c pel* qt. Rasp¬ 
berries wintered well and are a good 
crop; so arc currants and blackberries. 
A good many gooseberries were scalded 
during the heat wave of July 3, 4 and 5, 
when we had shade temperatures e^ch day 
of 101 degrees. Plums are a good crop, 
and all peaches are overloaded and need 
much thinning. Flowers were not open 
at the time of the April cold wave and 
sustained no harm. Cherries have been a. 
very heavy crop, and grapes, which yield¬ 
ed little in 1018. are hack to normal. All 
pears and apples are well cropped ; among 
the latter Baldwin and McIntosh, tho two 
leaders, are particularly full cropped. 
The Marshall Strawberry. — Dis¬ 
covered as a wildling at Marshfield, 
Mass.. 25 years ago, Marshall easily re¬ 
tains its supremacy as the finest straw¬ 
berry coming into the critical Boston mar¬ 
ket. It surpasses all others in size, color 
and flavor: a vigorous grower, and when 
given suitable ground, crops for a long 
season. We picked our first berries on 
June 15 and the last on July 9. Mar¬ 
shall needs a deep but not too heavy loam, 
and I have found hog manure unequaled 
for the production of fancy fruit; from 
hill culture plants set out. early in Au¬ 
gust we get our earliest and largest fruit, 
but our largest berries are picked from 
the second-season plants, which arc al¬ 
lowed to form matted rows. Our straw¬ 
berries are mulched in DeccmV-’ and this 
covering is not removed lv fore May. A 
too early removal is liabi- to co^se an 
•early bloom, which a late frost w : U sadly 
cripple. I find it pays to remove the 
mulch and cultivate for two or three 
weeks rather than pull it into the rows 
for the fruit to rest on. A top-dressing 
of dried blood and nitrate of potash, the 
former to stimulate leaf growth, the lat¬ 
ter to help build up the fruits, is given 
after mulch has been removed. The ad¬ 
ditional labor of removing and replacing 
mulch is more than made up for in the 
increased yield of strawberries secured. 
The Judith Strawberry.— This early 
strawberry was raised by N. F. S. DeT.no 
of Needham. Mass., who has specialized 
in strawberries for some years. Mr. De 
J.ue also raised the Golden Giant sweet 
corn which is a vast improvement on the 
popular Golden Bantam. Judith is of a 
rich crimson color, similar to Marshall, 
but comes in season very early; it 
brought $1 per quart at wholesale in 
Boston this season. The flesh is firm and 
the flavor good. This fruit has been 
awarded a silver medal before the Mas¬ 
sachusetts Horticultural Society, and 
promises to be a very welcome addition 
to our list of early strawberries. 
Ixsect Tests. —In 1918 we had hardly 
any potato beetles. This year their num¬ 
bers have seemed innumerable. Fortu¬ 
nately, arsenate of lead easily cares for 
this pest. Here we are right in the cen¬ 
ter of the gipsy-moth section, hut persist¬ 
ent ereosoting egg clusters in "Winter and 
spraying with arsenate of lead in late 
May and early June have reduced their 
numbers appreciably, so that we now see 
very few defoliated trees. Only a few 
miles distant, however, large stretches of 
woodland are now about as bare of foliage 
as in midwinter. It is an expensive job 
to keep the gypsy moth in subjection ; it 
means 114 to two tons of dry arsenate of 
lead annually, used at the rate of 25 lbs. 
fo a 500-gallon tank. A pressure of 250 
lbs. permits us to cover the tallest trees 
without the use of ladders. We will never 
properly overcome the gypsy moth and 
some other destructive pests by the use 
of poisonous sprays. Their cost is now 
almost prohibitory. "What we must have 
are more natural parasitic fees. more 
birds, and the introduction or’ disease cul¬ 
tures to keep them in control. In several 
European countries where thi*-; pest has 
existed for generations it does no great 
damage where the three controlling influ¬ 
ences named exist. Cutting away the 
brush in our New England woodlands, 
which Is always done where gypsy moths 
are found, destroys the natural nesting 
places of a great proportion of our in¬ 
sectivorous birds, and the later spraying 
at high pressure undoubtedly causes the 
abandonment of many nests. A few years 
ago an entomologist told us of the fearful 
havoc the brown-tail moth would cause 
in our orchards and woodlands. lie 
scared us badly for a time, and did a little 
damage, but where is he now? I have 
not seen one for over two years. Dis¬ 
ease seems to have cleaned them out. 
Cannot some bright spirit produce a cul¬ 
ture which will put the quietus ou the 
gyiisy? The most serious shade tree pest 
we have had to contend with here the past 
few seasons is the oak leaf-roller. It re¬ 
stricts its attacks to oaks and nuts, 
and gets in its work while the foliage is 
very young and tender. Arsenate of lead 
has proved disappointing in fighting this 
foe, but a Winter spray of a soluble oil 
on trees while dormant, followed by one 
of “Black Leaf 40 ’ and soap as the foli¬ 
age starts to grow has given good results. 
Of course this means a heavy expense, 
but grand old trees which a century will 
not produce are worth it. 
Dangers from Taxgle-eoot.— When 
the gypsy-moth plague was first let. loose 
in Massachusetts, tangle-foot was exten¬ 
sively used on the noted estate of the late 
General Samuel C. Lawrence of Medford 
and thousands of trees were banded with 
it to catch the crawling moths and cater¬ 
pillars. That it caught and killed many 
of them is true, but it is equally true 
that the smearing of this sticky substance 
for two or three successive seasons com¬ 
pletely rotted the bark and girdled and 
killed many handsome trees. The same 
occurred on other estates, and the use of 
tangle-foot applied directly to the, hark 
cannot be too strongly condemned. While 
I still see it used in spots, it is very trifl¬ 
ing compared with 20 years ago. If 
tangle-foot is applied to any tree, a band 
of burlap should first be tied as tightly 
as possible round the trunk and the smear¬ 
ing applied to the burlap and not the 
bark. I would urgently counsel any of 
your readers who may plan to apply 
tangle-foot or similar substances to trees 
to remember that here in Massachusetts 
it killed many handsome trees, and that 
no practical man with any regard for 
trees would dream of using it directly on 
the bark of trees. 
Peas a Poor Crop.— Not for years lias 
the yield of peas been so poor as this sea¬ 
son. Seeds germinated only moderately 
and seemed for sonic reason to be lacking 
in vitality. Plants were so badly at¬ 
tacked by green aphis in .Tune that some 
growers, despairing of any decent returns, 
plowed up their crops. I have never 
known peas to be so scarce and high- 
priced in Boston as this season, and if 
conditions in other States parallel at all 
those existing.liere I am afraid prices for 
seed will be higher than ever next season. 
Such grand main crop varieties as Aider- 
man. Quite Content and Telephone, are 
not producing over half the crop of a few 
years ago. even when on irrigated land 
and free from aphis. A very fine new 
dwarf pea raised by Sutton of Reading. 
England, has greatly pleased me this sea¬ 
son. It grows IS to 20 in. high, carries 
large pods similar to those of Alderman 
(which I consider the finest main crop 
pea we have today) and was in season 
here from July 4 to 10. Its name is Pres¬ 
ident Wilson—not a difficult one to re¬ 
member. \y. X. o. 
Massachusetts. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—The Depart¬ 
ment of the Interior calls attention to 
the fact that upon the recommendation 
of Secretary Lane and Secretary of Agri¬ 
culture Houston the President on June 
12. 1919, signed a proclamation adding 
certain areas in Northern Nevada to the 
Humboldt National Forest aud excluding 
certain other areas therefrom and re¬ 
storing the public lands in such excluded 
areas to homestead entry in advance, of 
settlement or other disposition. Such 
lands will become subject to entry only 
under the homestead laws requiring resi¬ 
dence at and after nine o’clock a. m., 
August 14. 1919. and to settlement, and 
other disposition on and after August 21, 
1919. About 12.000 acres will be ire- 
stored under this proclamation in EJko 
County. Nevada. These lands are chiefly 
Surveyed and in small scattered tracts. 
It is reported that while some of the 
lands have possible agricultural value 
they are chiefly grazing lands. For in¬ 
formation concerning the restored lands 
communications should be addressed to 
the United States Land Office at Elko, 
Nev. 
The Vegetable Growers’ Association of 
America will hold its annual meeting at 
Detroit. Mich.. Sept. 9-12. This organi¬ 
zation is composed of many of the leading 
vegetable growers of the United States 
and Canada. There will be a trade ex¬ 
hibit. an educational exhibit and a small 
vegetable exhibit. Anyone wishing a copy 
of the program or any other in¬ 
formation relative to the convention 
should write to Samuel W. Severance, 
secretary. Louisville, Ky., or to C. W. 
Waid. chairman of the convention com¬ 
mittee. East Lansing, Mich. 
No quarantine against wheat shipments 
from Illinois, Indiana. West Virginia. 
Virginia and Georgia because of grhin 
diseases in those States will be declared 
at this time by the Federal Horticultural 
Board. The board held that the situation 
created in Virginia, West Virginia and 
Georgia by the appearance of the eel 
worm disease could be handled success¬ 
fully by the State authorities. 
The Government is preparing to give 
financial aid to cattle producers of the 
country to stimulate beef production. 
Senator Kendrick (Wyo.), after a con¬ 
ference July 14 with the War Finance 
Corporation and the Federal Reserve 
Board, announced that the corporation 
soon would issue a statement that it was 
prepared to make loans on proper security 
to corporations and individuals for the 
purpose of increasing beef exports. Gov. 
Harding of the board told Senator Ken¬ 
drick he would urge banks in the cattle 
growing districts of the West to help 
stockmen temporarily in need of financial 
assistance. 
Hook: “Oldboy is the most melan¬ 
choly fellow 1 know.” Crook: “You’re 
right. He proposed to a girl ouce by 
asking her how she would like to become 
his widow.”—Tit-Bits. 
