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Tht RURAL NEW-YORKER 
April 5, 1924 
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Also Early McIntosh, Medina, West¬ 
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Anyone who has ever bought 
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plants have to fight one another, and the 
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weeds. Ten to 12 lbs. would make finer 
stems for hay. nat l. kowe. 
Yellowing Foliage on Peach Trees; 
Growing Trees from Seed 
1. In the Spring of 1922 I purchased 
several hundred peach trees. They were 
growing nicely until the late Summer of 
1923, when about 20 of the trees showed 
signs of sickness. The leaves started to 
curl up and got a slight brown color; 
after several weeks the trees presented 
a very sickly appearance. The trees 
stopped growing, and the leaves turned 
yellow, some dropping to the ground. I 
examined for borers, but did not find any. 
I do not think that it was the dry weath¬ 
er, because more trees would have been 
affected. The orchard was plowed, ma¬ 
nured, and fertilized, also cultivated sev¬ 
eral times. I was thinking of spraying 
with miscible oil spray when the weather 
gets warmer to help check the disease. 
Is it good policy to spray peach trees 
at the tender age of two or three years? 
2. Last season we planted a hundred 
seedling peach trees. Since then we have 
been told that they would not bear the 
same variety of fruit that the seeds came 
from. Is this true? Is there any way 
to graft seedling peach trees that are 
two or three years planted from seed? 
Morristown, Pa. E. c. H. 
1. Since you have disposed of the ques¬ 
tion of borers to your own satisfaction 
w r e will not consider them here, though 
they would have been our first suggestion 
if you had not already mentioned them. 
Neither is the trouble likely to he due to 
leaf-curl, for the symptoms of this di¬ 
sease are quite striking fairly early in 
the season, so that there is no necessity 
for applying a dormant spray. (Leaf- 
curl, it may be remarked, is controlled by 
a delayed dormant spray, growers gen¬ 
erally using lime-sulphur.) The most 
likely of the remaining possibilities is 
the bacterial shot-hole, caused by a bac¬ 
terial infection of the leaves which re¬ 
sults in small dark spots on the foliage. 
The portions of the leaves affected 
finally fall away, giving the character¬ 
istic shot-hole appearance. Infected 
leaves turn yellow and fall, and many 
leaves may fall from infected trees with¬ 
out showing any signs of the spots on 
the foliage. Warm and damp conditions 
favor the disease, so that in regions 
where conditions are dry in Summer 
there is little damage from it, but in sec¬ 
tion having moist Summers the disease is 
serious. Spraying has proven ineffective. 
However, any treatment that adds vigor 
to the tree seems to aid in control. Ap¬ 
plications of 2 to 3 lbs. of nitrate of soda 
to the tree have been found helpful in the 
Southwest. 
2. Some varieties of peaches come fair¬ 
ly true from seed, but most of them do 
not. You may expect as many different 
types of trees and as many different 
types of fruit as you have sown seeds. 
Peaches are propagated by budding, 
though the stocks onto which they are 
budded are propagated from seed. It 
would be better to bud the trees than to 
graft them, the process being accomp¬ 
lished by making a light T-shape cut in 
the bark and slipping a bud under it. on 
the north side of the tree if possible. The 
end is then tied in place with raffia or 
coarse twine until it has set. which will 
be in 10 days or two weeks, when the 
string is cut. The new bud will lie dor¬ 
mant the remainder of the season, but 
the next year the seedling top is cut 
away and the bud will make a strong, 
vigorous growth. If the seedling trees 
are small and you are handy with a 
budding knife you need use only one 
bud to the tree, putting the hud on the 
"trunk.” On the other hand, if the trees 
are well-established you will have to bud 
two or three of the scaffold branches. 
And finally, if the trees lack uniformity, 
general vigor, and desirability, you 
would better take them out and set bud¬ 
ded stock, for after all one year is not a 
great deal in the life of an orchard, and 
success or failure may depend upon it. 
H. B. T. 
Sterility Among Cherries 
We have cherry trees, some that are 
quite large and perfect looking, and 
which have a few blossoms, but have 
never had any fruit on them the five 
years we have been here. The trees are 
probably 15 years old. j. b. 
Spring Valley, N. Y. 
Very likely the failure of the trees to 
set fruit is due to lack of proper fertiliza¬ 
tion of the blossoms. The cherry is par¬ 
ticularly apt to be self-sterile; that is, 
unable to set fruit when pollenized with 
its own pollen. An interesting illustra¬ 
tion is given by investigations in the 
West, where it has been shown that the 
three leading commercial varieties of 
sweet cherry are all self-sterile; and, 
moreover, that these same three varie¬ 
ties, namely Napoleon, Lambert, and 
Bing, are also inter-sterile, that is un¬ 
able to set fruit when pollinated with 
pollen from each other. Further investi¬ 
gations have shown that Black Republi¬ 
can, Black Tartarian, Centennial. Gov¬ 
ernor Wood, Coe. and Elton are all good 
pollenizers and are therefore suitable for 
planting in blocks of the varieties that 
are non-fruitful. In case you have no 
other cherry trees in the immediate vicin¬ 
ity which might provide pollen for fer¬ 
tilization, we should suggest that you 
either plant some other variety adjacent 
to the trees or graft a branch over to it 
in each tree. On the other hand, the dif¬ 
ficulty may be due to nothing other than 
killing of the buds by low Winter tem¬ 
peratures, something which you can 
readily detect by an examination of the 
buds or th e flowers to see whether the 
central flower parts are a dead brown or 
black, or a lively green. h. b. tukey. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, APRIL 5, 1924 
FARM TOPICS 
How to Handle Bones ... 576 
Experience With Sweet Clover .576, 577 
Large or Small Potato Seed . 579 
Killing- Germs of Potato Scab ... 579 
Agricultural Colleges and Farmer Advance¬ 
ment . 588 
Hope Farm Notes ... 594 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY 
Four Years of Co-operative Wool Market¬ 
ing .575, 576 
A Plain Story of Sheep . 576 
Why License the Horse . 588 
What the Milk Situation Needs . 597 
Borden’s Dividends . 597 
Good Horse Sense ... 597 
Levy Dairy Company Indicted . 697 
Feeding Three Cows . 602 
Grain With Alfalfa and Corn Fodder.602 
One More Pig Per Litter . 604 
Home Cheesemaking ... 604 
Dairy Disinfectants . 604 
Beet Pulp With Silage . C06 
Feeding Calves . | 606 
Swollen Glands . 608 
Summer Itch of Horse .608, 609 
Run for Dog . 609 
Salt Crystals on Butter . 609 
Curing a Restless Horse . 609 
THE HENYARD 
Shell We Keep Hens ... 577 
Damp Henhouse . 610 
Lack of Ventilation . 612 
Wheezing Hens .. 612 
Trouble With Thick-shelled Eggs . 612 
Inbreeding or Cross-breeding . 614 
A Prize-winning Jersey Black Giant _ 614 
Gas in Hover ... 614 
New York State Egg-laying Contest . 616 
Skinning a Guinea Fowl ... 616 
HORTICULTURE 
The Cortland Apple, a Coming Variety.... 577 
Cover Crops for Orchards . 579 
Apple Tree Training as Practiced on Sea- 
brook Farms . 580 
Aphis on House Plants ... 580 
Steely Beetle on Grapes . 582 
Varieties of Red Grapes for Market . 582 
Controlling Damping Off . 582 
A Long Experience in Grafting.. .583, 584, 585 
Apple Blossoms Blasted . 685 
Apple Maggot . 589 
An Uncommon Fungus on Apple Shoots.... 589 
Raising Onions and Tomatoes . 589 
Planning the Home Garden . 593 
Building a Hotbed . 593 
Second Early Tomatoes in Hotbed; Prun- 
in Grapevines . 593 
Raising Locust Trees for Posts . 593 
Propagating Roses; Plant Lice . 595 
Culture of Christmas Cactus . 595 
Annihilating the Wild Flowers . 595 
WOMAN AND HOME 
From Day to Day . 598 
Tennessee Notes . 598 
The Rural Patterns . 598 
The Best One-egg Cake ..... 598 
Letters of an Indiana Farmer . 599 
Simplified Bread Making . 600 
Another Kind Word for the Small Potato-. 600 
Canned Beef and the Roaster .. 600 
MISCELLANEOUS 
“Title by Adverse Possession” . 576 
Filling Cistern from Barn Roof . 586 
Farm Water Supply . 586 
Holding Power of Tractor . 586 
Pressure Pump . 586 
A Union Man Talks . 588 
Cats and Catnip . 591 
A Plea for the Cat .j 591 
Breaking a Gun-shy Dog . 591 
Dogs Do Reason . 591 
Editorials . 596 
Making the Records . 597 
The Village Bee Bill and Others . 597 
An Opinion on the School Bill . 597 
A Country School Teacher Talks . 597 
Setting Telephone Poles on Private Prop¬ 
erty . 607 
Technicalities in Probate of Will . 607 
School Board’s Liability for Workman’s 
Compensation ... 607 
Question of Inheritance . 607 
Homemade Comb Foundation . 610 
Poison Dust and Bees . 610 
Country-wide Produce Situation . 611 
The “Antique” Buyer . 611 
Farmers, Beware of Tourists . 611 
Publisher’s Desk ,,,,,,,,,,, ... 618 
