The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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Kudzu in an Orchard 
What would you think of putting an 
orchard down in kudzu. the plan being to 
plow it under early every Spring, and let 
it come up again in the Fall? It would 
put nitrogen in the soil to feed the trees. 
Newark, N. .T. E. a. w- 
This might answer for one season, but 
after the kudzu has become well estab¬ 
lished, so that it would make a good sea¬ 
son’s growth unchecked, there would be 
great trouble. The kudzu would climb 
the trees and almost hide them from view. 
One who has never seen this crop grow 
cannot imagine how it spreads. It would 
be impossible to kill it out by simply 
turning the crop under. Some cultivated 
crops would be necessary in order to get. 
rid of it. We would like to make it 
thoroughly clear that this is not a crop 
for gardens or cultivated fields. If it is 
to be used at all, it must be put in waste 
land, which would entirely be used as 
pasture, and where its growth would not 
interfere with ordinary farm crops. We 
want to give this warning the most prom¬ 
inent place we can find. Do not plant 
kudzu except in 'back fields. If you do, 
it will chase you off the farm. 
Wild Carrot Hay 
Will wild carrot make good bay? Does 
it improve poor land? Is any part of it, 
root or stem, poisonous at any stage? 
A. H. D. 
For many years we have cut wild cor- 
rot for hay. Horses are particularly fond 
of it. We have never observed any in¬ 
jury from its use. Of course there is not 
enough of it to give even a fair yield. 
Mechanical Fruit Pickers 
Having noted your request for informa¬ 
tion concerning the use of fruit pickers 
by orchardists. I will say that they un¬ 
doubtedly have a place in the orchard. 
We have never been particularly im¬ 
pressed with the fruit picker for general 
use until last year, when our local hard¬ 
ware shop secured a supply of a wire 
basket type with picking fingers shaped 
about as indicated in the picture. With 
these pickers several people harvested 
their apples from a tree or two. without 
the use of ladders and I will confess that 
I was surprised to note the efficiency of 
this type of picker, in which several 
apples can be gathered at one time and 
then emptied safely, and with no bother 
at all, into some suitable container. 
At the beginning of the season, we se¬ 
cured two of these fruit-picking baskets 
and fitted them on light poles, and find 
them extremely handy in cleaning out 
the fruit from upper branches in our 
younger orchards, where the apples are 
badly scattered this year, saving us the 
bother of carrying ladders from tree to 
tree and enabling us to get them with, 
perhaps half the expense in time the 
other method would have taken. 
As with many oth.w things, a little 
“horse sense” in using things is needed. 
If the apples had been thick enough on 
trees, we would have used ladders and 
hardly touched the fruit pickers; the grow¬ 
er must determine for himself when to 
take the pickers to the orchard and when 
to leave them at home. Perhaps there 
is a place for one, or two, in the orchard 
at any time, while the harvest is on. As 
indicated in the start, we have not given 
the picker a very extensive try-out, as 
yet, but I may say that the two pickers 
cost us 110 cents (45 cents each) and 
have paid for themselves the first day 
we used them. H. p. demarest. 
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