The RURAL. NEW.YORKER 
For More and 
Better Fruit 
Kill the scales and clean up 
your trees during- mild winter 
days. 
The Barium-Sulphur insecti¬ 
cide and fungicide (both in¬ 
gredients active) is more ef¬ 
fective and much more easily 
handled than lime-sulphur so¬ 
lution. A fine, dry powder 
which quickly dissolves in cold 
water. 
Ask for Free Bulletin 
explaining B T S advantages. Our 
Service Department gives free advice 
on spraying operations. You are in¬ 
vited to consult us about any spray¬ 
ing problem. Address 
General Cliemicalr 
Insecticide Dept. 25 Broad St. N-wYork'X. \2* 
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Short Cuts 
Removing Old Blackberry Patch 
Several years ago I set out a bed of a 
few hundred Snyder blackberry bushes. 
In the Fall of 191!) I put the tips down, 
but in the following December, while the 
ground was bare and we suffered a severe 
cold spell, they all froze out and instead 
of several crates I lrad about one cup 
of berries. I was unable to do anything 
in Spring or Summer of 19-0 but carry 
out the dead bushes. There is a large 
growth of bushes, weeds and grass. What 
do you advise me to do with it? Is it 
worthy trying to bring back? I intend to 
set out a large bed as soon as convenient. 
Ballston Spa, N. Y. f. b. 
A combination of blackberries, weeds 
and grass is a rather hard problem to 
tackle. It reminds me of the Hope Farm 
man’s strawberries during the past sea¬ 
son. With weeds and grass we generally 
find disease and insect pests. I would 
examine the canes, and if they appear 
free from disease, clean out the rubbish 
and give them a new start. A good sup¬ 
ply of “stick-to-it-iveness” is very essen¬ 
tial. If the canes are healthy and nor¬ 
mal. the fruit buds for next season should 
show on the sides of the canes now. and 
a good crop should be realized the coming 
season. I do not understand why the 
canes froze during the Winter. This 
section is one <>f the coldest in New York 
State, and wo do not protect our Snyder 
blackberries in any way. I have never 
noticed any injury due to freezing, and 
always suppposed them to be perfectly 
hardy. t. HVT. 
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Not an experiment, but the old 
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Hudson, Michigan 
Regina Lettuce 
Some time ago I saw an article in The 
H. N.-Y. about a new lettuce called “Re¬ 
gina.” The man who wrote the article 
claimed that it could be grown in July 
and August, the seeds could be sown any 
time, and the young plants could be set 
out in the hot weather. I cannot find 
the seeds listed in any of the seed cata¬ 
logues. Can you give me any informa¬ 
tion about the lettuce? c. s. 
Riverside. Conn.' 
1 have never seen or grown the Regina 
lettuce, and your letter is the first men¬ 
tion of it that I remember. There are 
several varieties of lettuce which stand 
the beat for a time, but while a lettuce 
may live and grow in hot weather, it 
does get of poor eating quality in Sum¬ 
mer. no matter what the variety. The 
lettuce that stands the heat best in my 
experience is Wonderful, which seems to 
be so near the same thing as the New 
York that I have not been able to dis¬ 
tinguish them apart. The Ilanson. too, 
stands well. These are all strains of the 
Curled India species. There is an old 
lettuce sold on the Baltimore market 
under the name of Deer Tongue in Sum¬ 
mer, which meets the hot weather demand 
pretty well. It is loose lettuce, with 
strap leaves. Perhaps it may be had 
from Baltimore seedsmen. But the fact 
is that lettuce is hardly worth eating iu 
Summer, and 1 grow endive, the Green 
Curled sort. I blanch it by placing some 
plant protectors, which I use in Spring 
to protect tomato plants on cool nights 
after setting them out. These are simply 
conical waterproof cardboard, which fold 
and fasten by booked tips. I never trv 
here to have lettuce after the first of 
.Tune till we start the Fall plants. 
W. F. MASSEY. 
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Pruning Grapevines 
I have four Concord and two Agawam 
grapevines planted along the garden 
fence, about 11 ft. apart, and did not start 
them out right. I would like to prune 
them toward Spring. They are two years 
old and have branched out into four or 
five canes from the ground. I have been 
reading up on training grapevines, and 
would like to know whether, if they are 
pruned to a single stem again, it would 
be too severe, or what would be best to do? 
North Tonawanda, N. Y. w. t. m. 
T nder the conditions which the vines 
are growing it would seem advisable to 
prune all the wood away except two canes 
of last season’s growth that arise from 
near the ground level. If these vines are 
making a vigorous growth they will prob¬ 
ably stand a maximum of 40 buds each, 
varying the number as vigor is indicated 
through the growth of the past season. 
Early - in the season remove the suckers 
that arise from near the ground level. As 
the vines are dependent on the fence for 
support, the training of them should etim- 
ulatc that of the so-termed fan method. 
That is. the fruiting canes are annually 
secured from near the ground, hut prefer¬ 
ably from a single short trunk. Canes 
other than those retained for the crop 
of the current season are spurred to 
lengths of two or three buds ou this 
trunk, and the wood arisiug from these 
spurs will furnish fruiting canes for the 
succeeding year. f. e. gladwin. 
A little Buffalo lad who had got to the 
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“I always thought mooses grovved up like 
dogs and cats.” he said thoughtfully. “I 
didn’t know they made them iu factories.” 
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power requirements. 
How much do idle horses, kept to 
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you? Their expense goes on just 
the same whether they are working 
or not. 
Idle horses are nonproducers. The 
feed and pasture they require would 
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