The  RURAL  NEW-YORKER 
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Preventing  Growth  of  Apples 
We  have  two  cows,  and  we  have  a  small 
place  for  pasture.  In  this  pasture  place 
are  some  apple  trees.  These  apples  never 
grow  to  be  good.  They  are  always  green 
and  little.  We  do  not  like  to  cut  the 
apple  trees  out  because  they  give  some 
shade  on  the  pasture,  and  we  do  not  want 
the  cows  to  eat  the  apples  when  they 
fall  down.  Is  there  anything  for  us  to 
do  so  that  these  apples  should  not  grow? 
High  Falls,  N.  Y.  m.  m. 
This  is  the  second  question  we  have 
had  about  killing  fruit  on  the  trees.  We 
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do  not  know  how  to  do  it  without  cutting 
the  trees  down.  Someone  may  have  in¬ 
vented  a  spray  that  will  kill  the  blossoms, 
but  we  have  never  used  one.  Our  people 
want  to  know  how  to  make  fruit  develop. 
Very  likely  this  fruit  is  poor  or  worthless, 
because  it  is  not  sprayed.  We  should  try 
spraying  the  fruit.  In  that  way  you 
may  get  more  value  from  them  than  the 
pasture  is  worth.  Of  course,  if  they  are 
just  natural  fruit  or  seedling  they  will 
have  little  value  except  for  cider.  We 
should  turn  the  cows  in  until  the  fruit 
begins  to  fall.  If  the  cows  get  too  many 
apples,  they  will  bloat  and  perhaps  be 
killed.  May  be  the  trees  are  placed  in 
the  orchard  so  that  you  can  fence  them 
off  and  let  the  cows  run  in  the  part  where 
there  are  no  trees.  In  such  case  a  small 
piece  of  land  near  by  can  be  seeded  to 
millet  or  fodder  corn  and  provide  green 
feed  cut  and  thrown  to  the  cows.  In 
some  cases  where  there  are  only  a  few 
trees  a  stout  fence  around  the  trees  will 
protect  the  cattle.  It  will  have  to  be 
stout,  for  cows  will  fight  to  get  at  the 
apples  if  they  are  in  sight.  If  anyone 
can  tell  how  to  kill  the  apples  without 
killing  the  trees,  they  may  have  the  stage. 
Wealthy  Apples  and  Stone  Chicken- 
house 
The  sentence,  “Perhaps  there  was  a 
touch  of  irony  in  the  name  ‘Wealthy,’  ” 
in  the  description  of  Peter  Gideon’s  great 
apple,  on  page  332,  awoke  some  memories. 
Where  had  I  seen  the  statement  that  Mrs. 
Gideon’s  name  was  Wealthy,  and  that  the 
apple  was  named  after  her?  In  a  box 
with  other  paragraphs  about  pioneer 
women,  clipped  from  old  It.  N.-Y.’s,  I 
found  it.  Breeze  Boyaclc  of  the  Colorado 
Experiment  Station  is  the  authority  for 
the  statement  that  Mrs.  Gideon’s  maiden 
name  was  Wealthy  Hall.  The  other  facts 
are  the  same  as  those  given  on  page  322. 
While  we  remember  Peter  Gideon,  let  us 
not  forget  the  brave  woman  who  shared 
his  trials. 
From  apples  to  chicken-houses  may  be 
a  long  jump,  though  we  put  some  of  our 
first  Wealthy  trees  in  our  chicken  yard, 
but  when  reading  that  a  subscriber  wished 
to  build  a  stone  chicken-house,  I  could 
not  refrain  from  saying,  “Don’t.”  We 
have  one  built  over  50  years  ago,  so  I 
know  whereof  I  speak.  It  is  a  handsome 
building,  but  “pretty  is  as  pretty  does” 
when  it  comes  to  henhouses.  Except  for 
looks,  would  much  rather  have  one  that 
an  old  friend  made  out  of  cast-off  lumber 
and  drygoods  boxes  to  house  his  Barron 
Leghorns.  There  were  many  stone  build¬ 
ings  in  this  section  of  Wisconsin,  put  up 
years  ago,  but  they  are  being  torn  down 
and  the  stones  crushed  for  roads.  The 
objection  is,  of  course,  that  they  are 
damp.  There  is  a  sort  of  chill  in  the  air 
in  our  chicken-house,  even  when  the 
weather  outside  is  quite  warm.  We  have 
used  it  all  these  years,  but  it  is  very  well 
built  and  well  ventilated,  with  a  frame 
addition  which  the  hens  seems  to  prefer. 
To  jump  again  from  bens  to  cow,  in 
the  March  3  issue  someone  speaks  of 
silage  and  tuberculosis.  My  father  had 
one  of  the  first  silos  in  Wisconsin ;  it  was 
filled  for  the  first  time  in  1884  or  1885, 
and  has  been  filled  every  year  since,  and 
emptied.  Our  cattle  are  Jerseys.  They 
never  have  had  any  tuberculosis  or  any 
other  chronic  wasting  disease.  Neither 
have  they  had  attacks  of  indigestion,  as 
some  of  our  neighbors  who  have  no  silos, 
or,  rather,  had  no  silos,  for  almost  every 
farmer  has  one  or  more  now.  There  have 
been  many  infected  herds  in  this  vicinity, 
but  the  disease  in  every  case  was  brought 
into  the  herd  by  a  previously  infected  ani¬ 
mal.  That  silage  caused  tuberculosis  is  a 
new  one  to  me;  but  the  neighbors  used 
to  tell  mv  father  that  it  would  cause  the 
cows’  teeth  to  decay.  These  several 
prophets  have  silos  of  their  own  now. 
The  way  of  the  pioneer  is  hard. 
Wisconsin.  CHAS.  G.  joxes. 
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Together 
I  noticed  in  “Tennessee  Notes”  last 
Fall  that  fruit  was  going  to  waste.  I 
have  often -wished  for  dried  apples,  but 
could  only  get  those  from  culls  at  18c  a 
pound,  home-grown,  but  supply  was  lim¬ 
ited.  Why  could  not  our  Southern  friends 
find  a  market  for  dried  fruits?  The  Cali¬ 
fornia  fruits  are  all  too  high  and  sold 
only  by  retailers  at  stated  prices.  Com¬ 
mission  houses  are  the  only  ones  where 
they  can  be  bought.  c.  c.  G. 
Wooster.  O.  . 
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