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•Pie RURAL NEW-YORKER 
May 1, 1920 
Spark Plugs and 
Harvesting 
T HERE you are, ’way out in the field, far from 
the barn. A spark plug goes dead. You’ve got 
to hold up the binders until you can send back to the 
barn for a new plug. The hands have to wait till you 
make repairs. 
The surest guarantee we know of against these 
spark-plug delays is to use sure-fire Bethlehem Spark 
Plugs in every cylinder. Bethlehem construction 
lessens the possibility of their misfiring when there’s 
work to be done. 
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plug stands the brutal punishment of tractor operation. 
The great International Harvester Company, after 
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standard equipment. Bethlehem Automobile and Truck 
Plugs are equally dependable. Studebaker,Marmon and 
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Orchard Notes 
How to Make Bridge Grafts 
The whole work of bridge-grafting a 
boy can do. One of the oldest and best- 
known fruit-growers in New Jersey 
taught mo when a boy, 35 or more years 
ago. Just show a boy (or girl) the trick 
and explain the idea of it. 
The first thing is to get a lot of long, 
slim scions of the previous year’s growth. 
These are kept fresh and prepared as 
needed by making one smooth, sloping 
cut, say one inch or more in length, at 
both top and bottom, on the side where 
it fits against the wood underneath the 
bark, and also a small piece is removed 
on opposite or front side if desired, al¬ 
though this is not necessary, but may be 
more convenient at times in pushing in 
place under the edge of bark. Have tried 
to show the back, front and side view of 
the scions in the pictures. 
The work is best done after the bark 
slips a little, and where injury is wide 
enough so the scions can be bent to got 
both ends in place, simply cut back the 
edges of the bark above and below the 
injury, to where it is fresh, leaving a 
smooth, horizontal edge where the ends 
of the sci s are to go above and below. 
Then with point of knife make a short, 
vertical cut through the bark and raise 
the edge of bark slightly each side of the 
vertical cut, just enough to make a place 
to start sharpened end of scions. Push 
lower sharpened end of scion down in 
place until it tits firmly and smoothly 
against the smooth wood under hark, 
then measure the length of scion required, 
which will be about three-quarters to an 
inch longer than the upper edge of in¬ 
jury, where the place is already prepared 
Method of Saving Small Trees. Fig. 239 
little pipe linos which carry the sap back 
to the roots. Of course, as the scions 
grow and the old wood in the body of the 
tree gets harder, the bridging scions form 
the pipe lines each way. Hence, the 
planting of apple seedlings around the 
base of an injured tree and fitting the 
upper ends up under the edge of the bark 
above the injury is all w <ng. as it simply 
lets the roots starve to death, and later 
the tree stands on a dead stump and the 
stilts around it. 
Whore trees are small a simple method 
of saving them, where girdled all round, 
is shown in Fig. 239. A long scion with 
terminal bud 32 or 15 inches or longer 
is simply sharpened by making one 
smooth, sloping cut on one side at base, 
or removing a small bit of bark on front 
side also, if preferred .and a place pre¬ 
pared for it same as for bridge-grafting. 
After pushing in place, it can be waxed, if 
desired, but if banked with earth well 
above the injury it is not needed. Two 
scions can be used if desired, and then 
after a year’s growth has been made the 
body of the tree above the place of union 
can be removed, or the top removed, 
leaving the body to stand a year longer as 
protection. If top is removed after one 
year, a stake will be a protection. This 
is better than leaving the tree to force a 
growth fom below the injury, as the 
sprouts may come below the graft and 
lose another year or two. The inserted' 
scion can be tied loosely to body of tree 
above. i. c. R. 
Dansville, N. Y. 
Peach Varieties on Long Island 
I was very much interested in the de¬ 
scription of poaches on page 730 by 
Trucker, Jr., and wish to remark that he 
has given the only honest-to-goodness, 
Bridge Grafts and Their Application. 
Fig. 240 
for it. Now remove the scion and pre¬ 
pare the upper end in same way as lower 
end, making the slope so it will lie flat 
and smooth against the wood under the 
upper edge of the bark. The scion is now 
ready to place, and after again inserting 
the lower end in place, hold it firmly with 
thumb while the scion is bent out so 
upper end may be slipped in under upper 
edge of bark already prepared for it. 
Repeat the operation as often as desired, 
according to size of tree. 
Where injury is not too high, bank up 
with earth well above injury, and that is 
all that is needed where the bark is thick 
enough to hold ends firmly in place, or a 
tiny wire staple can be driven astraddle 
the end of the bridging scion and waxed. 
Ranking up will keep the exposed wood 
fresh where bark is eaten off. so the sap 
can pass unhindered up through from 
roots to top. which it cannot so well do 
if the wood dries out, cracks and gets 
too hard. Also in many cases the ‘inside 
bark may still be left in spots that touch 
enough so it can still do its work and 
save the tree, anyhow. 
Where the injury is too narrow one 
may place scions from the lower edge 
to any smooth place in bark above, or may 
work from both above and below the in¬ 
jury by simply making a horizontal cut 
through the bark and remove a shaving 
through to the wood to get it out of the 
way of pushing the scions snugly in place, 
and proceed as before described. 
The immediate object of bridge-graft¬ 
ing. however, is not to carry the sap up 
across the gap, but exactly the opposite. 
The sap goes up from the roots through 
the body of the tree, and unless it can 
get back after being changed in the 
leaves the roots simply starve to death. 
The bark on the bridging scions are the 
truthful description of Red Bird I have 
seen. I bought it in 1910. and have 
several times tried to find out who and 
how they used the fruit. Now Trucker, 
Jr., comes along and says they can be 
sold. I doubt if it can be done twice to 
the same person. However, appearance 
is a great thing in selling, and I suppose 
a new one always comes along tor the 
next lot. for the pooches certainly have 
a catching appearance. Perhaps that is 
why I still keep part of the tree, with 
the 50 other varieties I have. The only 
two on tlie list that I have not tried are 
Ponuett and Miss Lola. I did have 
Ililey, but thought Reeves Favorite 
more attractive. I think Alton a nne 
fruit, about a week later than Mayflowei. 
I also think Waddell good; it is small, li 
not thinned, and in size cannot sit y 
Carman, but for home use the wile s* . • 
it is the first real peachy peach ot tne 
season. Krummel’s October is allot 
favorite of mine, coming so late m uil 
25 years ago T could grow some 
of 'Rivers Early York and Bate 
i. but of late years cannot seem 
me results. Brown rot seem. 
nes worse, and the insect 1 
reasing until it is a stain I 
?et anything decent. Refore 
scale struck this section w 
ry much about the fruit 1 • 
good apples, pears, pcachc- • , 
ut the San Jose scale chan-, 
?ry quickly, because at m- . 
know it. and secondly, lll n 
w to handle it for several ye" 1 -- 
mv first satisfactory salvation 
sing the limoid kerosene mixture 
.tone fruit trees and pure cn 
