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December 20, 1924 
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General Farm Topics 
The Value of Harding 
Grass 
[There have been several newspaper 
references to “Harding grass,” a plant 
grown on the Pacific coast. Some of our 
people have asked about it.] 
The Harding grass is a grass that has 
been grown in California for a time un¬ 
der the name of Phalaris stenoptera. I 
believe that the California Station has 
published on this grass a time or two, 
and at first they considered it an excel¬ 
lent grass, but have revised their opinion 
to some extent. I believe that they still 
consider it to have some place in their 
agriculture, but are not as enthusiastic 
about it as they were some time ago. 
Our own experience with the Harding 
grass has not been so favorable, although 
we find that there is a great deal of varia¬ 
bility in the grass, and that it may be 
possible to develop some types out of it 
that will have some merit. There is one 
type of Harding grass that seems to have 
more promise than the rest, and seems to 
live longer, although since it was started 
by root rather than by seed, and as there 
may be some problem of seed production 
in connection with it, we are not ready 
yet to recommend it. We believe that a 
pasture mixture consisting of English rye 
tire of the tree to bear, and we should ad¬ 
vise strongly against cutting the tree 
back severely. It would be far better to 
feed the tree some nitrogen-carrying ma¬ 
terial than to dwarf it by severe cutting. 
It may be mentioned in passing that some 
Wistaria vines bloom very late in life, 
while some never bloom at all. 11. B. t. 
Clover in Pasture 
I have a pasture two years old. Can 
I disk it next Spring and sow Sweet 
clover? My idea was to cut the sod 
straight, not turn it, as I do not care 
to spoil the sod by disking too heavily. 
This field had a nice crop of Alsike clover 
last year, but I would like more pasture. 
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The result will depend very largely 
on the amount of lime you use. Alsike 
clover will make a fair growth on such 
land, but most old orchards are sour, 
and Sweet clover will not succeed unless 
you use lime freely. 
Top-working- and Moving 
Young Apple Trees 
I have in my garden a lot of two-year 
apple trees that I shall top-graft and 
move to permanent places in the orchard. 
My plan was to graft this coming Spring 
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On this Wayne County farm, the tractor is moved into the wood lot and 
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grass, Orchard grass, Tall oat. Kentucky 
Blue grass, Timothy, Red clover and 
White clover is very much better suited 
to the same condition, and the seed costs 
considerably less per acre for pasture 
purposes. For some of the rather moist 
soils, Reed canary grass has shown a 
great deal of promise. This is Phalaris 
arundinacea, and it is very hardy, very 
palatable, very durable, and makes good 
hay under extremely wet conditions. Its 
limiting factor, too, is the matter of seed, 
as it shatters very readily and is rather 
difficult and expensive to harvest. 
G. R. IIIGBY. 
Oregon Experiment Station. 
Sweet Cherry Tree and 
Wistaria 
I have on my premises a large cherry 
tree with luxuriant foliage. It is now 
four years since I acquired this place, 
but the tree has never given but very 
few cherries, and of small size. There 
is a Wistaria vine at the base, growing 
to the top of the tree, which also does not 
bloom. Should I cut back the tree to 
one-third its size now or in the Fall, 
hoping thereby to obtain new wood and 
fruit next year? Is the Wistaria vine 
detrimental to its bearing? w. M. E. 
Bethel, Conn. 
Wild sweet cherries, or Mazzards, as 
they are commonly known, frequently 
produce small fruit. Moreover, there are 
varieties of sweet cherry which are not 
large or which are poor or inferior m 
some conditions, while large and high in 
quality in other regions. This may be 
the answer to the question of size of 
fruit. As to the production of fruit, 
lack of pollination, frost or Winter in¬ 
jury, or low vigor, may be responsible for 
poor crops. Practically all sweet cher¬ 
ries need cross pollination, something 
which causes more difficulty of this kind 
than any other factor. The Wistaria 
should have nothing to do with the fail- 
and reset them a year later, but I am 
told that it is possible both to move and 
graft them the same season. Will you 
advise if this is good practice? E. f. ii. 
Billerica, Mass. 
There is no reason why you cannot 
move and graft the trees at the same 
time. The cutting-back attending trans¬ 
planting will balance the loss of roots. 
The work should be done early in the 
Spring, and whether or not you adopt 
the one-year procedure will probably de¬ 
pend upon whether you can handle all of 
them in a short period of time. If you 
graft them before transplanting you are 
running the risk of disturbing the grafts, 
while if you do it after the trees are in 
their permanent positions you may be 
rushed by the onset of Spring and' you 
will also have to cover the same ground 
twice. 
On the other hand if you graft the 
trees this year and transplant them next 
year the grafts will make a better 
growth, though they will be in turn 
checked when the trees are moved. All 
in all it is a good subject for discussion, 
but I doubt if it will make a great deal 
of difference in the long run, aside from 
personal convenience in attending to the 
tasks involved. h. b. t. 
Handling Columbian 
Raspberry 
I wish information on the care of Co¬ 
lumbian raspberry plants; these plants 
since bearing have had all old canes cut 
out and have been staked up but as some 
plants are from 10 to 12 ft. high would 
like to know if they should be cut back 
and when. c. H. r. 
New York. 
Twelve feet is considerable growth for 
purple canes to make in one season un¬ 
less a special effort is made to get this 
long type of growth. Ordinarily the 
plants are headed back during the grow¬ 
ing season at the desired height like black 
raspberries and the laterals that are then 
thrown out are cut back before Spring to 
the desired length. Some growers, how¬ 
ever, prefer to let one long shoot grow 
and cut that back to any desired height 
and stake it. Fertilizers should be put 
on in early Spring. h. b. T. 
