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tables, fencing charts, steel mill processes 
with illustrations, 1922 and 1923 cal¬ 
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WILSON FEED MILL 
For grinding corn in the ear and 
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WILSON BROS., Box 15 Esston, Pa. 
Horticultural Short Cuts 
Stocks lor Grafting 
I am in doubt as to what kind of root 
to use in grafting. Is it understood that 
the stock or root is to be of same species 
as the graft, or may it be of different 
species? I am anxious to try my luck 
next Spring on some peaches, apples an I 
pine or spruce. There is a lot of wild 
cherry in my section, and I thought of 
transplanting some this Fall and using it 
for grafting next Spring, but don’t know 
whether I am attempting the impossible: 
New York. s. G. s. 
The limits of grafting are easy to de¬ 
fine. In the first place, all trees with 
bark and pith can be grafted. As school 
experiments we even graft or bud Chrys¬ 
anthemums to get various colors on the 
same plant, and each year we graft to¬ 
matoes on potatoes. We cannot graft 
outside of the genus; that is. we can 
graft a Baldwin apple on a Spy, or we 
can graft an apple on a pear or quince, 
! as they belong to the same species, but 
I we cannot graft an apple on a peach, as 
these belong to different families; the ap¬ 
ple to the genus Pyrus and the peach to 
the genus Primus. 
Commercially, the apple is budded on a 
wild seedling known as French Crab, for 
standard trees. These seedlings can be 
secured from nurserymen, or seedlings 
can be grown at home by planting seels 
from wild apples. For dwarf apples. 
Doucin stock is used in the nursery. For 
pear stock the seeds from cider pomace 
are secured and planted. This is the 
native pear of France called Pyrus com¬ 
munis. For dwarfing, the pear is budded 
on quince stock. 
8. G. S. suggests starting on peach, 
apple, pine or spruce. As the peach buds 
the easiest of any fruit and as the results 
are most' satisfactory. I would suggest 
starting with this fruit. Secure some 
peach pits, preferably from the wild 
peaches of the Southern Appalachians, 
and plant them in rows in the Fall. The 
frost will crack the pits and the seedlings 
will be ready to bud in July of the next 
year. Pits from standard varieties can be 
used if no others are available. 
The pines and spruces require special 
care, and only an experienced worker 
should attempt to graft these plants. 
Either sweet or sour cherries can be 
budded on the wild cherry and fair siie- 
cess can be obtained here. The work is 
well worth trying. T. H. T. 
Hastening Maturity of Vegetables 
In looking over a sample copy of The 
R. N.-Y.. September 17 issue. I find an 
article which interested me very much, 
headed. “Fake Cucumber Flowers.” on 
page 1133, and an answer by T. H. T„ 
saying he had had cucumbers two weeks 
earlier by pinching the vines. At what 
time does he x>inch the vine? When they 
first start to run. or later? Could T. II. 
T. give me any hints on hastening crops 
of beans, peas or tomatoes? A. A. T. 
Elyria, O. 
Cucumbers should be pinched when 
i about 18 in. to 2 ft. long. Simply take 
I out the tip bud and the terminal shoots 
I grow from the buds in the axils of the 
leaves. 
Tomatoes can be hastened by removing 
the leaf directly over a cluster. When 
setting the plants be sure to set the first 
flower cluster away from the stake, as all 
the fruit comes on the same side of the 
vine. Mulch the tomato vines with cow 
manure and growth can he Hastened. The 
roots are very close to the surface and 
are injured by cultivation. 
With peas, the early crop is secured 
by late Fall planting. Sow the seed in a 
row and mulch until Spring. This prac¬ 
tice has unfavorable results on a heavy 
soil, as the seed rots. 
Early greens can be had by mulehimr 
old Swiss chard plants in the Fall and 
allowing it to start the Spring following. 
As the other greens mature the chard 
can he removed, as it will go to seed later 
in the season, being a biennial. For an 
early green the dandelion is excellent, 
though little used. Seed is sown in tows 
and blossom heads kept off. In this way 
no seed spreads to adjoining areas. 
T. H. T. 
Producing Raspberry Plants 
Can you give me directions for handline 
red raspberries? I wish to raise tlu- 
plants for market, and do not know how 
to go about it to get a lot of shoots 
(plants) and no fruit. I saw a field near 
North East, the rows a thick mass of 
foot-high shoots, but no berry canes in 
sight. They were mulched with buck¬ 
wheat straw and came up through it. 
Mayville, N. Y. f. m. b. 
The red raspberry produces cane growth 
the first season and fruit on these can^ 
the second season. Thus by mowing the 
canes in the early Spring no fruit, but 
plenty of shoots can be secured. Plants 
can also be propagated rapidly by root 
cuttings. Sections of the root about 3 in. 
long are covered with soil, and these root, 
forming new plants. In an established 
plantation new shoots can be started by 
injuring the root with a cultivator or 
spade. Whenever the root is injured a 
new shoot comes tfp. T. H. T. 
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