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March 20, 1020 
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the road will say: “Too bad to see that 
farm going back. It used to be as well 
eared for as any place in the county.” 
Fektilizeb and Spray. —For fertilizer 
we are planning to use only nitrate of 
soda. When the fruit is setting we will 
scatter it around each tree. The second 
application will be made in July, after 
we are assured of a crop, around each 
tree whieh has a good set of fruit, and 
any tree whieh looks yellow and sickly. 
But a tree bare of fruit and in good con¬ 
dition will not be treated. I will admit 
that of all of the important things to he 
done on the farm this conrng season we 
are most interested in the dusting of the 
fruit trees. For the past, three years we 
have been experimenting, and have only 
come to the conclusion that if is a subject 
which requires more investigation and 
that it is of such vital importance as to 
warrant fhe expenditure of more time. 
In discussions between dust men and 
spray men the sprayers usually l ave the 
best of it. This is to a great extent be¬ 
cause their experience covers more years. 
Anyone with power on his farm can 
greatly lessen the cost of the dust by 
mixing it himself. There is the added 
advantage of knowing what goes into it 
and of trying out different mixtures. We 
would like to take one of our host or¬ 
chards of about six acres, divide it into 
two blocks, dust, one and spray the other 
with the advice of experts, keep careful 
records and study the results. A farmer 
just naturally hates to see scab on his 
apples. And it is not chiefly because he 
loses money by it. but he wants the 
I satisfaction of raising a perfect crop. 
The peach orchards will he cultivated 
like the apples. We shall use nitrate of 
soda once, and would like to use it twice 
if there is a cop. Most of the trees were 
sprayed last Fall for curl-leaf, and will 
he dusted to prevent brown rot. What 
we hope ‘most earnestly to do this year 
is to take, good care of our farm in spite 
of all the difficulties thrown upon us in 
this after-the-war period. The land, like 
children, needs stern discipline and lavish 
care. It lias a right to these things, just 
I as the children have. We must not fail. 
Wayne Co., N. Y. a farmer's wife. 
Grafting Seedlings in an Ohio Pasture 
Some years ago one of my neighbors 
spread a large amount of apple pomace 
over his pasture lot. the resulting being 
a very thick growth of young apple trees, 
which at present vary in size from two to 
15 feet in height and from one inch to 
four inches in circumference. Would it 
be profitable to top-work these trees to 
good standard varieties of apples? If so. 
how long should they remain in present 
location after the grafting had been done 
before transplanting, and what size would 
you advise to select to do this grafting in? 
Would these trees he given to the growth 
of suckers from the root, causing trou'ble 
after they had been planted in the orchard 
rows? l. w. c. 
Ohio. 
In Western Pennsylvania, where I was 
born, it was a common practice to graft 
or bud the wild apple trees that chanced 
to grow in the fence corners and hush 
patches. Most of them were allowed to 
remain where they sprung up from the 
seed, hut many were dug up and planted 
in orchard a year or two after being 
grafted, and. as I remember it. these wild 
stocks produced quite as satisfactory tree 
in every way as those grown in the nur¬ 
sery. Fifty years ago the nurserymen 
procured all their apple seed at the cider 
mills. Many tubfuls of pomace the writer 
washed out for the seed, when a boy, 
for planting to produce stocks for bud¬ 
ding. In my early boyhood all nursery- 
grown apple trees were propagated by 
budding two-year-old stocks. We knew 
nothing about root-grafting in those days; 
that came later. Then a few years later, 
•erhaps 40 years ago. the nurserymen 
in the eastern section of this country be¬ 
gan to advertise the French crab stocks, 
claiming they were far superior to our 
native stocks. I know old orchards that 
were worked on native stocks, and some 
not (piite so old that were worked on 
French crab. I venture to say no person 
can distinguish any material difference 
between them. Within the last few years 
many growers have used native stocks 
almost exclusively, and no doubt this 
great majority of the young apple trees 
planted are worked on stocks grown from 
cider anple seed. The young trees you 
speak of are no different, generally speak¬ 
ing. from millions of stocks used every 
year for budding and grafting, except that 
they are larger and are volunteers and 
have grown without assistance of man in 
the way of cultivation, etc. I should not 
hesitate to graft them, at least all that 
are one inch or more in diameter, three 
to four feet above ground. The smaller 
trees I would bud at any point above 
ground that I found the most suitable for 
it. They may sucker some, of course, hut 
perhaps not more than top-grafted or 
budded nursery-grown stocks would do. 
The top-grafting stocks would better stand 
two years before removal, hut the budded 
stocks can be moved after the hud has 
had one year’s growth. When the trees 
are taken up they should he carefully ex¬ 
amined for borers before they are set in 
their new quarters. K. 
A man hurried to a quick lunch coun¬ 
ter and called to the waiter, “Give me a 
ham sandwich,” "Yes, sir,” said the 
waiter. “Will you eat it here or take 
it. with you?” “Both,” said the man.— 
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