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The  Imported  Liniment 
HEALING  and  ANTISEPTIC 
Apples  — Peaches 
and  other  Fruits 
State  Experiment  Stations, 
Horticulturists  and  F arrn  Papers 
now  acknowledge  that  Nitrogen 
is  the  limiting  element  in  suc¬ 
cessful  Fruit  Growing  and  are 
recommending  the  use  of 
Nitrate  of  Soda 
2  to  10  pounds  per  tree  to  furnish  this 
Nitrogen  because  it  is  immediately 
available. 
Your  own  station  will  advise  you 
how  to  treat  your  own  orchard.  My 
Free  Bulletin  Service  will  give  you 
much  useful  advice  on  fertilizing  all 
kinds  of  crops.  If  you  wish  to  receive 
jt  send  me  your  name  and  address 
and  to  identify  this  advertisement 
add  the  number  2019. 
Dr,  William  S.  Myers,  Director 
Chilean  Nitrate  Committee 
25  Madison  Avenue  New  York 
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rigs,  barrel,  bucket, 
knapsack  and  hand 
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request. 
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Alsika  Alone 
Would  it  be  all  right  to  seed  Alsike 
clover  alone  with  a  piece  of  oats  I  want 
to  sow  this  Spring  or  would  it  be  better 
to  mix  Timothy  with  this?  I  want  the 
clover  to  feed  to  chickens  through  the 
Winter,  and  therefore  would  like  to  seed 
it  alone.  A  neighbor  thinks  that  the 
clover  alone  will  not  stand  up  without 
the  support  that  Timothy  will  give. 
New  York.  H.  j.  G. 
We  have  seeded  Alsike  with  oats  sev¬ 
eral  times.  The  clover  made  a  good  catch 
and  grew  well — so  well  that  it  matted 
down  badly.  We  could  not  cut  it  to  ad¬ 
vantage.  We  should  sow  a  little  Timothy 
with  the  Alsike.  That  will  help  hold  the 
clover  up. 
Hay  from  Sprayed  Orchards 
The  fanners  in  our  section  say  that 
arsenate  of  lead  in  an  orchard  hurts  or 
poisons  the  hay.  What  is  the  danger  of 
poisoning  stock  in  orchards  from  spraying 
apple  trees  with  arsenate  of  lead  or  cal¬ 
cium  arsenate?  Will  it  affect  the  hay? 
New  York.  d.  s.  w. 
Under  ordinary  conditions  there  would 
be  no  danger.  There  are  thousands  of 
cases  where  hay  has  been  taken  from 
sprayed  orchards  and  fed  with  perfect 
safety.  When  the  usual  strength  of 
poison  is  employed  and  the  trees  have 
just  enough  of  the  liquid,  there  would 
not  be  one  chance  in  50  that  the  hay  will 
prove  poisonous.  There  are  usually  sev¬ 
eral  rains  between  spraying  and  haying, 
and  the  grass  makes  quite  a  little  growth. 
The  danger  would  come  in  a  dry  season, 
when  the  trees  are  drenched  so  that  the 
spray  liquid  runs  off  the  limbs  and  leaves. 
There  have  been  a  few  reports  of  injury 
where  stock  is  pastured  in  a  sprayed  or¬ 
chard.  In  most  cases  the  trouble  may  be 
traced  to  using  too  much  liquid,  or  blow¬ 
ing  off  the  dregs  of  the  sprayer  into  a 
pool  on  the  ground.  In  some  cases  the 
hose  is  thrown  on  the  ground  while  the 
pump  is  working.  The  result  is  a  little 
poud  of  the  spray  mixture.  There  are 
usually  animals  with  some  abnormal  taste 
that  will  hunt  up  these  pools  and  lick  up 
the  deposits,  and  thus  get  too  much  of 
the  poison.  With  proper  precaution, 
however,  there  need  be  no  worry  about 
stock  pasturing  in  sprayed  orchards  or 
eating  hay  made  from  the  grass. 
More  About  Top-working  Kieffers 
It  speaks  well  for  the  thorough  inter¬ 
est  that  The  R.  N.-Y.  family  takes  in  its 
paper  when  a  small  item  at  the  bottom 
of  a  page  will  start  a  storm  of  discussion. 
It  has  been  good  to  hear  of  the  successful 
cases  of  top-working  Ivieffer  trees.  But 
there  seems  to  be  a  difference  of  opinion 
even  among  those  who  have  top-worked 
Kieffers  successfully,  for  while  Mr.  John¬ 
son  reports  “satisfactory  results  in  prac¬ 
tically  every  case,”  J.  J.  H.  says  that 
Clapp  Favorite  “is  the  only  kind  which 
can  be  successfully  put  on  Ivieffer  stock.” 
Unquestionably  there  are  cases  of  success, 
but  we  still  feel  that  they  are  the  excep¬ 
tion  rather  than  the  rule.  If  we  had 
any  Ivieffer  trees,  we  should  either  put 
up  with  them  or  else  cut  them  out  and 
plant  other  varieties  in  their  places.  We 
would  not  take  the  trouble  to  top-work, 
with  the  possibility  that  several  years 
later  we  might  find  ourselves  just  that 
many  more  years  behind.  Evidently  there 
are  others  of  a  different  opinion,  and  we 
respect  their .  views. 
It  is  interesting  to  note  what  Prof. 
John.  Craig  of  Cornell  University  had  to 
say  in  this  regard.  He  sent  question¬ 
naires  about  the  country  to  men  who  had 
top-worked  Kieffers,  and  in  summing  up 
his  tables  he  says :  “Wherever  the  age 
is  given  at  which  Ivieffer  was  top-worked, 
with  one  exception  all  the  men  who  com¬ 
mend  it  as  a  stock  have  used  a  two-year- 
bid  tree.  This  fact  seems  to  signify  that 
older  trees  may  not  be  top-worked  suc¬ 
cessfully.” 
The  most  plausible  explanation  for  the 
difference  of  opinion  is  that  suggested  by 
G.  C.,  namely,  blight.  Ivieffer  is  a  vigor¬ 
ous  stock,  and  when  it  is  cut  back  to 
receive  scions,  the  latter  make  rank 
growths  that  are  especially  subject  to 
blight  and  also  to  Winter  injury.  Per- 
hans  it  is  for  this  reason  that  top-working 
young  Kieffers  seems  more  generally  suc¬ 
cessful  than  top-working  older  trees.  It 
may  be  that  those  who  have  reported  suc¬ 
cess  did  their  top-working  in  years  when 
blight  was  not  severe  or  in  a  locality 
where  blight  is  never  as  bad  as  it  is  with 
us. 
We  wish  that  there  was  some  way  to 
get  at  the  reason ;  then  we  should  get 
somewhere.  It  is  a  problem  that  some 
experiment  station  should  get  hold  of, 
taking  a  representative  lot  of  varieties 
and  top-working  them  on  different  varie¬ 
ties,  not  merely  stopping  at  Kieffers. 
II.  B.  T. 
“Mamma,”  cried  little  Albert  J.  from 
the  bathroom,  “please  get  me  another 
sponge.”  “Why,  what’s  the  matter  with 
the  one  you  have?”  asked  the  mother. 
“It’s  full  of  holes  and  leaks  awfully,” 
was  the  reply.. — New  York  Globe. 
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