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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
March 29, 1924 
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Time to Spray for Peach Leaf-curl 
The man who lias peach trees has a 
j'ob to finish before growth starts in the 
Spring. It is to give his trees a thorough 
spraying with lime-sulphur, one gallon 
in 15 of spray .solution, some bright day 
when the temperature is 40 or above, to 
kill the fungus that causes leaf-curl. Bor¬ 
deaux mixture may he used in place of 
lime-sulphur, but the lime-sulphur is 
more generally used. If scale is present 
the proportion should be one gallon in 
9 of spray solution, so that the double 
job of killing scale and fungus may be 
accomplished by the same spray. 
The danger from leaf-curl is more se¬ 
rious iu uncared-for orchards than in 
well-managed ones. Here it may result 
in defoliation of the trees with conse¬ 
quent loss in vigor and shortening of the 
fruit crop. The disease if* caused by a 
fungus which attacks the young loaves 
early in the Spring causing a thicken¬ 
ing of the veins and midribs and a puff¬ 
ing and swelling of the leaves. The edges 
of the leaves usually show- a yellowish, 
reddish, or purplish discoloration which 
is quite striking and very characteristic. 
The spores from the fungus winter over 
on the buds and twigs where they may 
be easily killed by the sprays mentioned 
above. Special pains should be paid to 
covering every twig and every hud. A 
little attention now. will be worth lots 
of explaining in a c-onple of months. 
H. B. T. 
Notes from Maryland 
At a time when we should cheerily 
await the coming of Spring, my heart 
feels a touch of sadness at the absence of 
“Notes from a Maryland Garden” from 
ihe pen of our venerable Prof. Massey. I 
feel like supplying a few “notes” from 
Maryland, more as a tribute to him than 
any thought of being able to emulate his 
interesting style and practical talks based 
on actual experience. The “Notes from a 
Maryland Garden” spoke of garden prac¬ 
tice on the kind, easily worked sandy 
loams of Eastern “Sho, v while the fol¬ 
lowing account will tell how. we have to 
manage a garden soil that bakes (Chester 
loam), on Western “Sho.” 
Fall Preparation. — We like to have 
our gardens plowed late in the Fall, turn¬ 
ing under all the manure the orchards can 
spare. After this work is doue, it is the 
common practice here to ridge with a 
potato-digging plow, that portion of the 
garden intended for the earliest vege¬ 
tables. Our .soil dries out very slowly 
in the {Spring, and this plan often enables 
one to work the ground 10 days to two 
weeks ahead of that not so prepared. A 
running start of two weeks at this season 
is worth its weight in gold to the one 
that can boast of the first lettuce and po¬ 
tatoes, or of peas for “Qua’t’ly Meetin’.” 
(The Friends’ Quarterly Meeting is held 
the first week in June.) Why, some of 
us gardeners would think we were out of 
the running if we didn’t have peas, sweet 
peas, lettuce, radishes and onion sets 
planted by St. Patrick’s Day; but what 
with a foot of snow and 4-ft. drifts on the 
10th of March, I am afraid we will have 
to how to the will of nature this year. 
IIot-water Hotbeds. —It is because of 
r 4 hese ‘severe climatic changes *at the 
awakening of Spring that we must rely 
implicitly on hotbeds and cold frames and 
boxes in the house for the starting of 
early plants. I have been unusually suc¬ 
cessful this year with a type of box of 
my own design for starting plants in the 
house. I had our local tinner make 
square 12-in. deep water containers which 
fit snugly in rhe bottom of the flats or 
boxes, and have spouts for tilling with 
hot water, which 1 do once a day or 
oftener if the nights are very cold. This 
method supplies the seeds and young 
plants with an equitable bottom heat, so 
essential to the proper germination and 
growth of seeds and seedlings, which can¬ 
not be had with ordinary room heat. It 
is most fascinating to watch the little 
rows of plant life burst from the soil, al¬ 
most ahead of time, and start growing in 
vigorous fashion. 
An Early Start. —At the present 
writing (March 10) I have the following 
varieties of vegetables and flowers grow¬ 
ing in the house: Dry Weather and Bur¬ 
pee’s Best Early cauliflower, Fordhook 
Mainstay Early and Danish Ball-head 
cabbage, Fordhook Emperor celery, 
French Breakfast radish, Black Seeded 
Tenuis Ball lettuce, Fordhook Matchless, 
Golden Queen and Burpee’s Self-prun¬ 
ing tomato (usually sow some Sunny- 
brook Earliana but failed to order seed). 
Mainstay Early and Danish Ball-head 
eggplant; also blue Salvia—wonderful as 
a cut flower— and a fine selection of tall 
annual snapdragons. Owing to limited 
space, flowers are obliged to stand by for 
a time, but we are very fond of them and 
plant many kinds during Spring and 
Summer. Since using the hot water 
method we have found it unnecessary to 
start much seed in the hotbeds, reserving 
these for the transplanted seedlings. 
There is also the advantage of getting 
ahead of any weeds that may have es¬ 
caped the sterilizing process. 
Ant Attack. —Last year we lost near¬ 
ly an entire planting of early cauliflower 
by being girdled by ants. As this was a 
new one for me, I can only say that I 
discouraged the ants, and some of the 
plants, too, with a strong solution of 
lime-sulphur, but. this heroic remedy did 
not completely drive them away. Ants 
seem to be too shrewd ro “take poison.” 
and I would be glad if some it. N.-Y. 
reader would give some light on their 
control. 
Strawberries ax’d Asparagus. — The 
strawberry patch was nicely mulched and, 
although it suffered more than usual from 
cutworms, there is promise of a good 
yield, especially with the Ford, a new 
and highly recommended variety, both for 
home and market, for this section. Pre¬ 
mier has given rhe best all-round results 
of any kind 1 have tried. Our asparagus 
bed (Barr’s Mammoth) consists of six 
rows about 200 ft. long, less than an 
eighth of an acre. Besides all we could 
stuff (what better word describes eating 
tender asparagus shoots in the Spring?) 
this bed has returned an average income 
of .$30 a year for at least eight years; 
enough to more than pay the garden seed 
bill! It receives a heavy coat of manure 
in the Fall and a liberal application of a 
high-grade garden fertilizer in the early 
Spring. The fact is, I used a little extra 
nitrate last Spring and had a most lux¬ 
urious Summer growth. Our plan is to 
keep the rows slightly hilled, with clean 
cultivation before cutting. 
S. P. THOMAS. 
Montgomery Co., Md. 
Spray Schedule for Apples 
What is the right proportion of lime 
and sulphur to use with a given amount 
of water as a dormant spray for apple 
trees, also what other sprays to use and 
when? h. a. s. 
Nortliville. N. Y. 
Commercial lime-sulphur Is used at the 
rate of one gallon of lime-sulphur to 
eight of water or, in other words, one gal¬ 
lon of lime-sulphur in nine gallons of 
spray solution, or 11 gallons in 100 of 
solution. 
A common spray schedule for apples is 
as follows: 1. Delayed dormant spray, 
lime-sulphur at the rate given above plus 
2 ] /j lbs. of lead arsenate and % of a pint 
of nicotine sulphate in 100 gallons, applied 
when the leaves of the blossom buds are 
just coming out. 2. Pre-blossom or clus¬ 
ter-hud spray, consisting of lime-sulphur 
‘-Vi gallons and lead arsenate 2^ lbs. in 
100 gallons, applied when the blossoms 
show pink but before they have opened. 
3. Calyx spray, using the same materials 
as in the preceding spray to which is 
added one pint of nicotine sulphate to 100 
gallons and applied when the last of the 
petals are falling. If the weather is wet 
and cool a 10-day spray of 2 J /j gallons of 
lime-sulphur and 2 1 /o lbs. of lead arsenate, 
made 10 days after the calyx spray, is 
good insurance against scab, while an ad¬ 
ditional spray of the same materials 
should be made three or four weeks after 
rhe calyx spray when scab or codling moth 
are prevalent. h. b. t. 
-- -■ — 
CONTENTS 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, MAR. 29, 1924 
FARM TOPICS 
Estimating: Values of Standing Grass 539, 540 
My Experience With Kudzu Vine . 540 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY 
The Care of Orphan Lambs . 539 
Experience With a Flock of Exves ... 539, 540 
Wants to Check Milk Returns . 555 
Too Expensive Mixture . 560 
Using Peanut Products . 560 
THE HENYARD 
Laying Questions; Line Breeding . 540 
Bergen Co.. N. J., Egg Contest . 664 
Thin-shelled Eggs . 564 
More Egg-eating Hens . 566 
Basement Henhouse . 666 
Hatching for Broilers . 566 
New York State Egg-laying Contest .568 
How to Keep Cockerels . 568 
Roup . 569 
Paralyzed Pullet .569 
Hen With Tumor . 569 
HORTICULTURE 
Dirt Bands for Early Planting . 541 
A Sm^all Garden for Eight People .541, 542 
Starting Cantalotipes in Veneer Bands .... 543 
New Plant Immigrants . 543 
WOMAN AND HOME 
The Pastoral Parson .544. 546 
More About Mother’s Day .546. 560 
Late Winter in Vermont . 553 
Bovs and Girls ..556, 557 
The Home Dressmaker ....558, 559 
Talks With a Trained Nurse ..549. 550 
A Farm Woman’s Notes . 550 
MISCELLANEOUS 
The Eight-hour Day . 539 
Destruction of a Coin Certificate . 539 
This Man Favors Restricted Immigration.., 545 
Editorial . 554 
New Co-operative Law . 555 
Age of Girls’ Majority . 564 
Publisher’s Desk . 570 
