The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
1829 
The Japanese Walnut 
I notice on page 1743 an appreciation 
of the .TaDanese walnut. I bought a tree 
some years ago on the strength of a cata¬ 
log description. I set it in the back yard. 
It did well and in a few years it began 
to bear the nuts described by C. W. M. 
Everyone knows what a tough husk the 
butternut has. I have heard that a corn- 
sheller will clean them off. No trouble 
shucking the Japanese nut. When the 
first ones fall in the footpath boot heels 
will peel them the first day. Those that 
lie in the grass a few days will rot so 
that thumb and finger will clean them. 
I have found the new nut a surer annual 
bearer than the butternut; it bears every 
year. They come easily and profusely from 
seed, just lying in the grass or on the 
ash heap covered only by rain and frost. 
Move them any time. Take an old ax 
and cut a litte sod around the 6-in. plant. 
Visitors from other States carry them 
away in a suit case. Though they seed 
no freely, they are not a nuisance. They 
are easily destroyed. The lawn mower 
takes care of most of them. No one need 
regret a Japanese walnut, w. s. bates. 
Massachusetts. 
Sulphur, Rats and Apples 
As to sulphur keeping rats away from 
apples. I had a few tons of commercial 
Hour surphur stored on the floor of my 
barn over Winter. I had some rats in 
the barn, and they had runways through 
the spaces between the sacks, and al«o 
holes in some of the sacks. The rats 
scratched some of the sulphur out of the 
sacks, and never went around the sulphur, 
but through it all Winter. Whoever 
claims sulphur will drive rats away makes 
too broad a statement, unless he has a 
different kind of sulphur or an aristo¬ 
cratic stock of rats. I am inclined to 
believe sulphur will prevent the develop¬ 
ment of diseases. • and apples may keep 
better, but I have had no experience. 
While influenza was so bad two years 
ago. someone told that sulphur placed in 
a person’s shoes would prevent his tak-, 
ing the disease. I heard of several peo¬ 
ple trying it, and they did not have the 
“flu” then. Some other people who did 
not try it escaped the disease also." I do 
not know that the sulphur had anything 
to do with it. u. T. cox. 
Ohio. 
Estimating Standing Timber 
Can you tell me the stmdard and re¬ 
liable method for estimating the number 
of board feet of lumber in standing trees? 
Can you tell me about how long it ought 
to take to make an estimate on 160 acres, 
which will cut approximately 2,000,000 
feet? I wish to engage a man to do such 
work for me in Montana, where my tim¬ 
ber is located. I realize that a dishonest 
man could merely make a guess and send 
me the bill. c. C. N. 
Pennsylvania. 
Formerly timber cruising was more or 
less of a gamble. The cruiser, a man ex¬ 
perienced in the work, would make a 
superficial examination of a tract or more 
or less representative portions of it. and 
from this casual examination estimate 
the timber that could lx* cut from it. The 
value of the estimate so formed depended 
very largely upon the judgment of the 
cruiser, and his experience in similar 
stands of timber, as it was largely a guess 
on his part, based upon his knowledge of 
similar conditions. With the former low 
value of timber this did very well. A 
purchaser was usually satisfied if the es¬ 
timate of the cruiser under-ran the cut of 
the tract. At the present time, however, 
more exact methods are desired, for if the 
cruiser’s estimate much under-runs the 
actual cut of the tract, the prospective 
purchaser will be deterred from buying, 
and lose a prospective profit in tins way. 
while if it over-runs and the prospective 
purchaser buys he is slated for another 
loss. 
In the most careful estimates of the 
present time tin* trees are actually count¬ 
ed. their diameters calipered, their mer¬ 
chantable height measured and contents 
in board feet determined. This degree of 
care is not always exercised, and will 
vary with the value of the timber being 
Estimated. In some cases representative 
portions of the tract are measured and 
the total cut estimated from these sample 
areas. 
^ The United States Department of Ag¬ 
riculture. Forest Service Bulletin No. 36, 
“The Woodsman’s Handbook,” contains 
much valuable information along the line 
of timber cruising, the measurement of 
logs and lumber, a collection of tables 
showing contents of various sized trees 
and much other miscellaneous information 
relative to lumbering. It is a pocket-eize 
volume, containing about 200 pages, and 
should be of value to you. It can be ob¬ 
tained from the Superintendent of Doc¬ 
uments, Government Printing Oftice, 
Washington, D. C., for a nominal sum— 
10 cents, I think. A letter to the Mon¬ 
tana State College at Bozeman should 
bring you information as to the exact 
methods practiced in the section of the 
State in which your tract is located. 
R. h. s. 
Johnny startled his mother by asking, 
suddenly: “Mamma, is there hair oil in 
this bottle?” “Mercy, no. dear.” she ex¬ 
claimed. “That’s g u m.” “Oh!” said 
Johnny. Then after a short silence: 
“Perhaps that’s why I can’t get my hat 
off.” New York Globe. 
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N O matter where you live, on the 
farm, in the village or the city, 
you have a community interest. Even 
involuntarily you find yourself ac¬ 
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instinct which promotes successful 
living. 
Community interests are fostered 
under the scientific direction of Farm 
Bureaus, Development Associations, 
Business Men’s Associations and 
Chambers of Commerce, each tack¬ 
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is sound and the practice is attaining 
satisfactory results. 
The New York Central Lines are 
one of the “home folks,” taking an 
active interest in advancement of 
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