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October 4, 101!) 
tion. Wooster, Ohio, issues a spray calen¬ 
dar that contains many excellent and 
standard formulas for spraying fruit trees 
and plants in combating insects and dis¬ 
eases. This publication will be sent free 
to all who write for it. The description 
of the plum is inadequate to enable us 
to determine with any accuracy as to the 
variety. There are several large blue 
plums, or purplish with a blue bloom. 
. Ohio. F. n. BALLOTT. 
Fall Planting for Roses 
I have three rose bushes which I would 
like to transplant this Fall. Can this be 
done, and in what manner? j. D. P. 
Dunellen, N. J. 
There are many advantages in planting 
roses in Autumn. They should be dor¬ 
mant ; that is, growth should have stopped 
for the season. If properly planted they 
become firmly fixed in their position, and 
usually small fibrous roots will be formed 
before Spring. Growth will start off in 
the Spring much better than when plants 
have only been in the ground a short 
time. If planted too early in Fall. soft, 
new growth may be started by a period of 
warm, moist weather. Late October and 
November, before the ground freezes, will 
be desirable. Plant as at any other sea¬ 
son, in well-drained, fertile soil. When 
the ground is well frozen throw a mulch 
over the surface to prevent heaving, giv¬ 
ing further protection in the case of ten¬ 
der Teas, which may be mounded up for 
six inches with sod. or given a shelter of 
dry leaves or branches. 
Trouble with Lettuce; Seedling Cannas 
1. The soil in my cold frames will not 
grow lettuce any more. I have been dig¬ 
ging under lawn clippings and weeds from 
the garden, also given it plenty of air as 
well as lime. The lettuce damps off. Will 
you give me a remedy to correct the same? 
2. Cannas which I raise from seed do not 
give any different colors. The color is al¬ 
ways red. and I would like to have sev¬ 
eral colors. w. s. 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
1. W. S. would possibly have better suc¬ 
cess with lettuce if the soil were renewed 
entirely, if that were possible. If this 
is not possible, try half pint of formalde¬ 
hyde to a 3x6 sash, applying it in several 
cans of water. I do not think lawn clip¬ 
pings and weeds would make a good soil 
for lettuce, as the most successful 
growers of lettuce have a very deep, 
loose soil, almost half sand, then add as 
CONTENTS 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, . OCT. 4, 1919 
FARM TOPICS 
A Visit to Rothamsted in England .. 1441. 1442 
The Land’s Value is in the Man . 1442 
A Greenhorn on the Tractor, Part II ... 1443 
One Farmer’s Opinion... 1446 
Undersirable Farm Neighbors . 1446 
“Kanred”, a New Kansas Wheat . 1452 
Dodder in Clover . 1452 
What is Acid Phosphate . 1454 
Hope Farm Notes . 1456 
White Grubs in Meadow . 1457 
Fruit and Vegetable Men and Icing Cars... 1459 
The Wheat and Bread Situation. 1459 
The Plenty Food League. 1459 
Western Farmers and the Farm Bureau... 1459 
“The Banner American County”. 1459 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY 
Candid Statement About a Canner. 
Hogging Down Corn and Rye. 
Buckwheat Straw for Horses. 
Peanut Feed for Steers. 
Desirability of Stone Barn. 
Cleanliness of Swine. 
Failure of Breeding Sire. 
Pasturing Hogs . 
Clover Meal for Steers. 
Pasture and Barn Notes. 
Paralysis . 
Poor Texture of Butter. 
Butter-making Troubles . . .._. 
Seeding Grass; Hay and Grain Rations.... 
Bloody Milk . 
Cowpox . 
Milk Fever . 
Indigestion . 
Shoeboil . 
Catarrh . 
Vomiting . 
Lame Mare . 
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THE HENYARD 
The Rooster and the Poet. 
Various Poultry Questions.. 
Increased Laying from Artificial Lighting.. 
What Ails These Hens?. 
Feed for Molting Hens. 
Trouble with Caponizing; Native and For¬ 
eign Leghorns . 
Why a Fresh Egg Sinks. 
Fattening Cockerels . 
HORTICULTURE 
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A Hail Insurance Contract. 1442 
Fall Planting for Roses. 1444 
Trouble with Lettuce; Seedling Cannas.... 1444 
No Use for a Weed. 1444 
Garden Notes from New England.1445, 1449 
A Bushel of Peaches. 1446 
New Plant Immigrants. 1453 
Caring for Quince Trees. 1454 
Straightening Trees . 1454 
Controlling Peach Borers. 1457 
Notes from a Maryland Garden. 1457 
WOMAN AND HOME 
From Day to Day.• • • ■ • 
Making Your Winter Coat.1462, 1463 
The Rural Patterns. 1462 
Drying Corn and Apples. 1463 
What About Children’s Wages?. 1463 
Embroidery Designs . 1463 
Wild Cherry Jelly. 1463 
Canning Pears; Green Tomato Mincemeat.. 1463 
MISCELLANEOUS 
Virginia Boys in Camp. 1446 
Destroying Snails . 1446 
Up-State Farm Notes... 1448 
Countrywide Produce Situation. 1448 
Gasoline for Woodchucks. 1449 
Events of the Week. it'' 1 !! 
White Wine Vinegar. 1452 
Editorials . 1468 
Draining Surface Water from Farmhouse.. 1474 
A Water Problem. 1474 
Water System . 1474 
Storage for Manure. 1474 
Publisher’s Desk . 1478 
much as three or even four inches of well- 
rotted manure, and dig it in to a depth of 
a foot or even more. This loose soil is 
thoroughly soaked with water at the time 
of planting, and this one watering is usu¬ 
ally sufficient to fiuish the crop, as it id 
too much water on the surface of the soil 
that often starts rot in the greenhouse or 
hotbeds. Should it appear to be suffering 
for water, apply to the soil direct, without 
wetting the foliage, if possible. 
2. Cannas are not propagated by the 
commercial grower from seed, as, like 
many other flowers, they do not always 
come true from seed. The better way 
would be to purchase a few plants or roots 
from some seedsman or nursery firm and 
grow them in very rich soil so as to get 
good large roots. In the Fall when killed 
by frost, and the stem is dry. dig up with 
some soil to the roots and allow them to 
dry for a few days where frost will not 
injure them ; then place them in a cellar 
that will keep Irish potatoes. Early in 
the Spring divide the roots, allowing one 
bud to each division, with as much root 
as you can leave to the bud. Pot these 
up in the greenhouse or hotbed and plant 
outside as soon as danger of frost is past. 
E. J. W. 
Seed from Large-flowered Cannas 
Prof. Massey speaks of planting seed of 
his large-flowered Cannas. IIow does he 
get them? My King Humbert makes 
pods, but not a seed in them. The small- 
flowered kind makes seed by the quart. 
Greenville, Tenn. w. h. b. 
Some of the large-flowered Cannas are 
self-fertilizing, but none of the so-called 
orchid-flowered type will set seed unless 
artificially fertilized. The matured pollen 
from one variety is applied to the fresh 
stigma of the other in order to set the 
seed. Then there are many of the finest 
new varieties which are self-fertile. I 
have now blooming 25 of the newest large- 
flowering Cannas, and all of them except 
King Humbert and Fiery Cross will set 
some seed naturally. I have_about 100 
plants or clumps of these 25 varieties, 
and will have a considerable amount of 
good seed for planting another season. 
Then I have a lot of seedling plants from 
the same varieties last year, which make 
good flowers, but I only save those which 
show some special merit, for we have 
about reached the limit in Cannas. Then 
I have some of the old small-flowered type 
which I keep for the tall growth and mas¬ 
sive foliage, in which they excel. I keep 
these only for foliage and keep all flower 
stems cut out before blooming. They 
make a fine background for some rows of 
large-flowering varieties of dwarfer habit. 
King Humbert is fine, but is not the only 
showy large-headed variety. The variety 
“Remarkable” pushes it closely, but has 
not the rich bronze of the King Humbert, 
though it has bronzy leaves. Wintzer’s 
Colossal is a very brilliant scarlet, im¬ 
mense flowers and good heads. Rosea Gi- 
gantea is also fine, with dark, rose-colored 
flowers of very large size. Eureka, a pure 
white, makes large flowers and massive 
heads, and Orange Redder is a wonderful 
grower and bloomer, with flowers as large 
as King Humbert. From its bold, erect 
flower stems and brilliant orange red. 
King Humbert certainly makes a fine 
show. But if you could see my beds now 
you would see that King Humbert is not 
the only pebble on the beach. 
\V. F. M. 
No Use for a Weed 
Does E. W., Maryland, page 1386. im¬ 
agine that land lying idle and growing up 
in weeds is “resting”? Is it not working 
just as hard as in growing anything else? 
Of course, it was accumulating some or¬ 
ganic matter to make humus. But could 
you not have had a better growth there 
than weeds? Land never gets tired. It 
gets starved for plant food, and the rest¬ 
ing in weeds will not permanently main¬ 
tain fertility. If you had had clover on 
that land you would have had just as 
much humus-making material, with the 
added capacity of clover to get you nitro¬ 
gen, and make the potash in the soil 
available as well as the weeds. But all 
the time, without using fertilizers, you 
are exhausting the phosphorus. You can 
do without buying nitrogen, and I know 
many Maryland farmers who have bought 
no nitrogen in fertilizers for many years, 
and have seen their crops increase. Most 
of them have bought potash till the war 
came, and have found that they wasted 
money in buying it. But none has found 
any way to maintain the phosphates 
without artificial application. Better keep 
your land hard at work in a good rotation 
in which the legume crops will bring you 
all the nitrogen needed, and the organic 
acids will release the potash abundant in 
your so... while you are liberal in the use 
of acid phosphate. I know that there are 
all around me men who imagine they are 
farmers, whr make a very poor crop of 
corn, rnen r’t the tons and lose a consid¬ 
erable par*- O': the little crop, and then let 
the old stapes stand on the field while the 
land grows weeds, and nothing “rests” 
but the dead cornstalks. A good farmer 
would have some better crop than wee^s 
n>'d dead cornstalks if only for the looks 
of the field. Daisies and wild carrots 
have flowers that are individually pretty, 
but a field of them on a farm is an eyesore 
to a real farmer. There are far more 
useful crops than weeds. lake all other 
tobacco-growing sections, with the sole ex¬ 
ception of Lancaster, Pa., our Maryland 
tobacco section is the most backward part 
of the State, though naturally as fine land 
as in any other section. Weeds are no 
credit to any section. w. F. Massey. 
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