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they are great. Ton can tell where the 
old hoghouse was by the strength and 
color of the vines. On one part of this field 
we used our dust of sulphur and lead 
arsenate. There is no injury, and I think 
the yield will prove it a fine bit. Some 
of the eggplants are already as big as a 
small baby’s head, and prices are good 
thus far. I shall know this year about 
what we may expect as income from an 
average vine of tomato or eggplant. 
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As to the future we can only guess. 
There seems to be a big apple crop, 
though I think the early and Fall apples 
are in greater supply than the Winter 
fruit. Prices, at least in our market, 
will depend very largely upon what is 
done with the cull. If a lot of this in¬ 
ferior stuff can be kept off the market, the 
good fruit will do well. If it must com¬ 
pete with culls, “bulk shipments” and 
poor stuff generally, we shall not get what 
our apples are worth. I think potatoes 
will come back in price somewhat, but it 
is doubtful if the crop on small fields 
will pay much profit. In our own case 
I expect to come out just about even, 
depending on what we can get for the 
late fruit. Fate may hand us a bouquet 
or a bottle of medicine, and we will try 
to take either with a smile. We took our 
chance and put in our capital, which 
means that we backed our own judgment. 
If that judgment proves to be the wrong 
horse, we must stand for it. If we are to 
lose, however, I shall hate to see the con¬ 
sumer passed by, as usual, with no benefit 
from our high prices. I see our sweet 
corn selling in restaurants at 10 and 15 
cents an ear; baked apples at 15 cents; 
single boiled potatoes at 15 cents, and one 
tomato and some lettuce in a “salad” at 
30 cents. Are we to growl hopelessly at 
this evidence of the 35-eent dollar, or fig¬ 
ure this retail price in the food we eat 
at home and thus cla-ss ourselves with 
millionaires? H. w. c. 
Damage from Painting Trees 
You have printed several communica¬ 
tions about experience of persons using 
different kinds of fruit-tree protectors to 
save the trees from mice damage in Win¬ 
ter. Last Fall. 1910, I painted the trunks 
of my trees with a mixture of white lead 
and linseed oil. flavored with arsenate of 
lead powder, with color mixture darkened, 
so as not to be conspicuous on trees, with 
lamp black in oil. These ingredients were 
made into a. thick mixture and applied 
to the trees with a brush. Very little 
damage from mice resulted. There were 
less than half a dozen instances on about 
a thousand trees of any attempted an¬ 
noying whatever from mice. A compara¬ 
tively simple and inexpensive method for 
preventing mice injury seemed to be 
found, but let me advise your readers not 
to attempt this method, for now, the 
middle of .Tuly. a number of the trees 
begin to show the effects of injury, and 
in many cases the bark on the trunks 
underneath the paint has been entirely 
or partially killed, and the foliage on the 
trees is quite yellow. Fruit was been 
stripped from such trees with the hope 
that that may help save them, but little is 
expected. The variety principally af¬ 
fected was the Wagener, although there 
are a few cases where McIntosh and 
Duchess also were injured. Perhaps a 
knowledge of this experience may prevent 
some of your readers from following a 
similar course in the future. H. a. d. 
Massachusetts. 
It. N.-T.—We have often beeu urged 
to advocate the use of lead and oil for 
painting trees. We hesitate to do it, 
although many good growers have report¬ 
ed great success. We are afraid of the 
mixture, and have had a good many re¬ 
ports like the above. This painting has 
been advised by some of the experiment 
stations. We do not recall any horticul¬ 
tural practice which has given more con¬ 
tradictory results. 
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Low-headed Apple Trees 
What is your opinion of this plan? 
pet young apple trees that have not been 
headed and set them 00 to 80 ft. apart. 
Allow the first limbs to start out at the 
ground and grow up like a pine tree. Seed 
Alfalfa between the trees. Would the 
trees crowd each other to race up? Would 
the trimming be minimized? Mould they 
bear earlier? Would the limbs be less 
liable to break down? Would the Alfalfa 
benefit the trees? S. J. E. 
Fairport, N. Y. 
T do not approve the plan; a lo 
headed tree, is not satisfactory. As 
progresses in bearing it is too mu 
trouble to gather the apples that dre 
or to set a ladder against the tree. T 
consider now that 30 in. from ground 
Tight, for first limb. It would be hard 
to control the pruning which conics lat 
n the life of the tree. The bearing won 
not he any earlier than if headed 30 i 
1 , I don’t think it would ma 
nmch difference about the breaking. A 
ll cert ainly benefit the tret 
“ left on ground after cutting t 
turn*,* 00u < be planted 50 per acre wi 
er.v assurance of success. 
GRANT G. HITCUIN GS. 
er 1 r,j l i K1U ' Y lad >’ entering taxica 
so slowly, for I am 
his L fi at 5 Must in from IIol 
»»thefi„t time I have ev< 
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cab. —Credit Lost. 
Wheat 
Winter Oats 
and Rye 
should receive the right kind of fertilization 
if they are to be profitable under the present 
trying conditions on the farm. 
Use a fertilizer containing 3 % to \% of 
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