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Witherbee, Sherman*& Company 
2 Rector Street, New York City 
Wants a Location for Growing Pears 
I Iiav'' made plans to go East and look 
for a location to grow Bartlett pears, and 
any information you could give in that 
regard would be highly appreciated. I 
would prefer to be within 50 to 75 miles 
of New Y'ork City, and if there are any 
success! ul commercial plantings there, 
would like to have alt the- information I 
could get about them—location, advan¬ 
tages and disadver cages, and the prin¬ 
cipal difficulties encountered. w. a. c. 
Most likely some location in the Hud¬ 
son Valley wou G suit. New Jersey is 
often mentioned in this connection, hut 
we oouh*- : .f Bartlett pear-growing would 
prove safe in most sections of that State. 
There are a few places where the Bartlett 
does well, but the pear bligh^ is very bad 
in most sections of New Jersey. The 
following notes are from the two most 
succcessful Bartlett pear growers we 
know of in New Jersey: 
I hesitate to offer try advice on Bart¬ 
lett pear-growing in New Jersey, because 
I realize that as much money has been 
lost here as made, because of the blight 
and other hazards. I would hesitate to 
plant Bartletts myself in any of the prin¬ 
cipal fruit-growing sections, because the 
blight seems to get them there sooner or 
later. My own orchard has been quite 
satisfactory and profitable, and practically 
free from blight. This may in part be 
due to my system of cultivation, "but I at¬ 
tribute it principally to the soil. My or¬ 
chard is planted on the shores of the Del¬ 
aware. on old river bottoms. Personally 
I would not hesitate to plant Bartlett's 
extensively on such soil, and there are 
many acres available between here and 
Port Jervis. In short, I would not 
recommend New Jtujsoy as a Bartlett 
‘NMc. though I helirve there is a strip 
of river bottom land where they will sue- 
WILLIAM Y. BLACKWELL. 
Mercer Co., N. J. 
I have 50 acres of Bartlett pears 1.1 
years old. The orchard is in good shape, 
but I would not recommend the venture 
as a safe proposition, as mine is the onlv 
commercial orchard left in this section. 
„ „ LESTEK COLLINS. 
Burlington Co., N. J. 
Failure of Carnation 
I set out ->0 plants of white carnations 
and 50 plants of a pink variety. All the 
white carnations grew, but thie other 50 
plants of the pink variety all dried out. 
I used two inches of old, rotten horse ma¬ 
nure and four inches of new soil. 
Greenwich, Conn. e. t. 
The question regarding the loss of the 
pink carnation plants is not definite 
enough iu details for me to give a satis¬ 
factory answer. As a guess I would im¬ 
agine that the white variety was Match¬ 
less, which in some soils is' rather easily 
transplanted from the field to the house, 
and the other variety may have been Mrs. 
Ward, which is more difficult to handle. 
If the soil was not too rich, and the roots 
were placed iu the soil, and not down into 
•the manure when planted, other con 
ditions being right. I can see no reason 
why they should not grow. There would 
be trouble to get any variety to start off 
properly if the bed was made up of two 
inches of manure and four inches of soil, 
and in making the hole to set the plant 
too much earth was removed and the roots 
were placed in the manure. The past 
Fall has been rather a difficult time for 
many growers of carnations to get their 
plants started properly, on account of 
too much rain during August, causing the 
plants to grow rapidly and become very 
soft. When such large, soft plants are 
put into the house quite a little more care 
must be taken with them than is 
usually necessary with a smaller and 
hardier plant. The glass should be 
heavily shaded, and the soil watered thor¬ 
oughly around the plant when planted, 
and then allowed to dry off slightly before 
more water is applied. An excellent 
method to assist the plants into quick 
growth is to shade them with newspapers 
at all times when the sun is shiniug. re¬ 
moving the paper toward evening. Soon 
as the plants are established all the shad¬ 
ing can be removed, but do it gradually, 
which will allow the plauts to gradually 
become accustomed to the sun’s rays. 
E. J. V. 
Clearing Out Water Cress 
In answer to the man who inquires 
about horsepower to remove watercress, 
I have always observed that watercress 
grows only iu pure, unpolluted water. I 
have yet to see it iu a polluted stream. 
Therefore if the stream was polluted, say 
With a few bushels of rock salt, it would 
most likely be as dead as a mackerel, 
when it could be raked out; that is, all 
that didn’t wash away. I suggest salt 
because it would not be injurious to 
stock or the user farther down stream. 
Don’t forget him; he has a right to water 
as good as reaches you. Other things 
that kill plant life will suggest them¬ 
selves. w. S. R. 
Norwalk, Coun. 
A few years ago I had a large bed of 
watercress which I wanted to keep. My 
geese and ducks found the beds, and iu a 
short time they were ruined. One of my 
neighbors had a brook which was com¬ 
pletely choked with the cress. The same 
method was fatal to the cress. F. s. 
Middleburg, N. Y. 
Seven Little 
forming Mistakes 
That Were Costing Me $4200 a Year 
<<TFIAD never fed milk or 
[_ meat food to my poul¬ 
try. But when it came 
to figuring up, a small loss 
on each fowl was noticed. 
A change to beef scrap, 
however, produced a profit 
of $10, which was later 
raised to $11 by the feeding 
of buttermilk. 
‘‘Fifteen years' cropping 
of 1 scrub wheat had never 
yielded more than 23 bush¬ 
els to the acre. The use of 
phosphates and a good grade 
of hybrid wheat boosted 
my yield from 21 bushels to 
47 bushels. 
‘‘Continuous cropping of 
corn for three years yielded 
me only 35 bushels each year 
to the acre. A three-year 
rotation of com with soy 
beans, oats and clover 
brought me 06 bushels. 
‘‘I didn’t think soy beans 
needed liming. About 2.7 
tons of beans to the acre wasn't so bad. I 
thought. I changed my mind. Liming 
brought me 7 tons per acre. 
“I had 40 scrub dairy cows and but one 
cow of good breed. At the end of the year 
my records showed that the 40 cows had 
earned me only $31 net profit. My one good 
cow had alone brought me $31.25. 
‘‘On one section of the farm I had been 
growing oats continuously for four years and 
averaged about 23 bushels per acre. I rotat¬ 
ed oats and cow peas and got 40 bushels of 
oats to the acre. 
"I was beginning to get disgusted with 
raising hogs. Then I adopted this ration: 
Corn silage, cottonseed meal and oat straw 
through the winter, and the last two months 
finishing them on blue grass, cottonseed meal 
and the last of the silage. On this ration 
they started the season at 400 pounds and 
finished at 800 pounds.” 
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