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FALL DISKING RECOMMENDED 
Experimental tests and practical experi¬ 
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will increase the value of your soil, save 
you time and labor later on, and give you 
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privileges which come with that “second 
bloom” is saying: 
“You must go and dig some potatoes 
for the fishballs tomorrow.” 
A worthy errand, that, so I take my 
hoe and a basket up to the potato patch 
back of the barn. The day is ending beau¬ 
tifully. The west is full of glory. The 
last of the sunshine splinters "on the 
peach orchard, where the fruit hangs in 
red clusters. Well, it’s fine to be alive 
with evidences of that “second bloom” at 
every hand. On my way back to the 
house I think I will go through the straw¬ 
berries and eat some more fruit. Digging 
potatoes is exercise ! h. w. c. . 
Woodchucks and Azaleas 
I noticed a letter from J. B. S., on 
page 955, in which he asks, “Who eats 
woodchuck mea't?” J. S. Patterson gives 
the market master’s information, blit I 
can speak from a consumer's viewpoint. 
We eat all the young woodchucks we can 
catch or shoot during the Summer, and 
think they are one of the best of wild 
meats. As for being a European, you 
would have to go back for several genera¬ 
tions, and then would find our ancestors 
in the British Isles and Germany. 
J. B. S. should catch a nic# fat wood¬ 
chuck and skin it, remove all the fat from 
between the shoulders (that being the 
cause of a strong taste), then parboil in 
water containing a teaspoonful of baking 
soda. After boiling for a few minutes, 
pour off water and replace with fresh wa¬ 
ter and cook until tenders Roll in flour 
and fry, the same as Spring chicken, or 
if preferred, after parboiling, xmast. He 
will find he has a delicious piece of meat 
for dinner. I have had people refuse to 
taste it if they know what kind of meat it 
was, and have also had them ask for a 
second helping and then look foolish on 
being told what they had eaten. 
I noticed in reading about “The Wild 
Flower Garden,” on page 961, “A Farm 
Woman,” asks about the lovely wild 
Azalea in cultivation. 1 would like to 
tell her how they can be had in her wild 
garden if she will go to the woods when 
they are in bloom, and select the speci¬ 
mens she wishes and mark them; then 
the next Spring take them up before they 
begin to leaf out. We just caught ours 
close to the x-oot and pulled them up with¬ 
out using any tools. In planting I gave 
them a mulch of leaves the same as they 
were used to, and 'was rewarded with 
some beautiful blooms this Spring, while 
in the yard of the cottage on the farm 
the owner, Miss Clarissa Searight, has 
the most beautiful Azalea I have ever 
seen. She got the plant about six or seven 
years ago and it has grown to be quite a 
clump now. In color it is a beautiful 
shade of pink, shading to pale yellow. 
AN e watch each year, but have never been 
able to find another plant like it, so are 
thinking of trying to bud one from it. We 
have four plants growing now, two in 
shaded spots and two in the open, while 
Miss Searight has hers at. the root of a 
shade Itree, so if “A Farm Woman” 
wishes Azaleas she may have them in her 
garden, too. 
MBS. AGNES BROOKS SEARIGHT. 
Pennsylvania. 
P. N.-Y.—The chief thing to observe in 
transplanting these wild Azaleas is to 
move them before the leaves open. The 
common pink variety, called wild honey¬ 
suckle or Pinxter flower, blooms before 
the leaves come out, and may be lifted 
when in flower. This is Rhododendron 
nudiflorum, these wild Azaleas being 
classed as Rhododendrons by botanists. 
It is possible tha : t the yellow variety is 
R. calendulaceum. the flame Azalea, na¬ 
tive to the Alleghanies. 
Pruning Grafts 
I top-worked Delicious upon Smoke¬ 
house trees this Spring. Many of the 
scions have every bud growing. Some of 
the shoots are pretty close together and 
an occasional shoot is growing from a 
bud on the scion down in the cleft. I 
fear that when heavy with apples later 
some of these will split down or break 
off at the union. How should pruning 
of them be done if at all? w. f. h. 
Huntingdon, Pa. 
This has been a very good year for 
cleft-grafting in spite of the severe in¬ 
festations of aphis. We should permit 
the scion to make all the growth it can 
provided it does not put out some long 
spindly shoots that will be broken off by 
the wind. Even then it is questionable 
whether or not it is not better to take 
the chance of their coming through rather 
than cutting them off so as to decrease 
their resistance to the wind. 
A scion that is making good growth 
will make a good union, so that from this 
standpoint the more growth it makes the 
firmer it will be knit to the stub. Little 
trouble is usually experienced from 
grafts breaking out if they have made a 
good union. Of course, it goes without 
saying that any branch is liable to 
breakage if the crop of fruit is more than 
it can hold. Thinning or propping are 
the common expedients. h. b. t. 
1161 
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