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The  RURAL  NEW-YORKER 
Varieties  for  the  Commercial  Apple 
Orchard  in  Vermont 
1.  I  am  planning  to  set  out  2,000  trees 
next  Spring.  42x20,  on  a  40-acre  meadow 
in  the  very  height  of  cultivation,  which  is 
excellent  potato  soil.  What,  in  your 
mind,  are  the  most  profitable  varieties  to 
grow,  and  the  proportion  of  each  for  this 
climate?  I  cannot  depend  upon  local 
market,  and  I  am  not  planning  to  put  the 
fruit  into  storage.  What  do  you  think  of 
Delicious  for  Vermont?  2.  What  are  the 
best  magazines  on  apple  culture? 
Springfield,  Vt.  J.  A.  w. 
1.  It  is  a  good  idea  to  get  the  pet  ideas 
of  a  number  of  people  and  then  make 
your  own  decision  in  regard  to  the  va¬ 
rieties  you  plant.  Assuming  that  half  of 
the  2,000  trees  are  to  be  fillers,  we  would 
suggest  500  Rome  Beauty,  250  Wealthy 
and  250  Oldenburg  to  make  the  1,000  fill¬ 
ers,  and  400  McIntosh  and  the  remaining 
600  balanced  between  Baldwin,  North¬ 
ern  Spy,  R.  I.  Greening  and  Delicious  for 
the  standards.  If  you  are  in  a  section 
where  McIntosh  scabs  very  badly  you 
might  cut  down  on  the  number  of  that 
variety,  while,  if  Northern  Spy  does  well 
on  your  land  you  should  increase  the  pro¬ 
portion  set  to  Spy.  Whether  Baldwin 
thrives  or  winter-kills  will  determine  the 
share  of  Baldwin  trees  planted.  Some 
would  doubtless  criticize  the  high  propor¬ 
tion  of  Rome  Beauty  suggested,  but  we 
consider  that  variety  strongly  as  a  filler. 
It  comes  into  bearing  early,  the  tree  is 
not  large,  the  fruit  hangs  well,  and  when 
the  times  comes  to  cut  out  the  fillers  the 
Rome  is  producing  small  fruit  and  the 
owner  is  not  regretful  or  undecided  about 
removing  it.  Delicious  seems  to  be  doing 
well  in  Vermont,  but  we  are  inclined  to 
hold  fast  to  the  varieties  that  are  known 
as  “Eastern  varieties.” 
2.  Better  Fruit  and  The  American 
Fruit  Groiver  are  two  of  the  best  maga¬ 
zines  devoted  largely  to  apple  growing. 
II.  B.  T. 
Well-rented  Bird  House 
This  bird  house  is  3  ft.  square.  It  has 
four  floors  and  attic ;  a  hall  on  each 
floor.  Every  floor  has  14  outside  rooms 
and  six  hall  rooms ;  six  rooms  in  attic ; 
total,  SG  rooms.  On  August  1  I  had 
more  than  100  purple  martins,  old  arid 
young.  A.  B.  L. 
Long  Island. 
Trimming  Currants 
I  have  a  row  of  cherry  currant  bushes 
which  do  not  produce  as  large  currants 
as  they  should.  I  have  been  advised  to 
trim  out  all  the  old  canes  in  the  Fall.  Is 
that  the  proper  thing  to  do  to  produce 
more  and  larger  fruit?  ii.  A.  s. 
Long  Island. 
Very  likely  your  currant  bushes  do  not 
have  the  vigor  that  is  needed  for  the  pro¬ 
duction  of  large-sized  fruit.  You  would 
be  making  a  great  mistake  to  cut  out  all 
the  old  canes  in  the  Fall,  yet  you  will  do 
well  to  remove  some  of  them.  A  bush 
should  be  making  vigorous  terminal  and 
strong  lateral  growths.  The  practice  of 
pruning  should  aim  to  keep  vigorous  new 
shoots  arising  to  take  the  place  of  canes 
over  three  years  of  age,  to  take  out  the 
latter,  and  to  remove  any  excess  young 
shoots  and  cut  back  the  more  vigorous 
growing  ones.  It  is  generally  the  rule  in 
commercial  plantations  to  have  from  five 
to  eight  canes  to  a  bush.  H.  B.  T. 
The  Largest  Orchard  Owners 
In  the  World  Use  SCALECIDE 
American  Fruit  Growers,  Inc.,  are  the 
largest  orchard  owners  in  the  world.  They 
operate  orchards  in  practically  every  im¬ 
portant  fruit-growing  section  of  the  United 
States.  If  anybody  knows  orcharding,  they  do 
— and  they  use  large  amounts  of  SCALECIDE! 
The  picture  above  was  taken  in  one  of  their 
York  Imperial  Orchards  at  Flora  Dale,  Pa. 
This  orchard  was  part  of  the  property  owned 
by  Tyson  Bros,  before  the  founding  of  the 
present  corporation.  It  began  bearing  when 
nine  years  old;  and  when  18  years  old  it  had 
borne  10  consecutive  crops,  each  one  larger 
than  the  preceding — the  average  for  the 
tenth  crop  being  30  bushels  per  tree.  And 
now  for  19  years  SCALECIDE  has  been  its 
only  dormant  spray ,  except  for  one  year  when 
they  tried  something  else!  Do  you  need  more 
proof  that  SCALECIDE  is  profitable  to  use? 
When  concerns  like  the  A.  F.  G.  use  SCALE¬ 
CIDE,  why  not  let  SCALECIDE  be  your  dormant 
spray  ?  Then  you  will  know  that  you’ve  done 
all  that  can  be  done  at  that  particular  time  by 
any  dormant  spray  or  combination  of  sprays. 
Fall  spraying  with  SCALECIDE  controls  psylla 
and  peach  leaf  curl.  Spring  application  con¬ 
trols  aphis,  pearthrips,  leaf  minor,  case  bearer 
and  leaf  roller.  Either  fall  or  spring  spraying 
with  SCALECIDE  controls  scale,  bud  moth, 
European  red  mite,  fungus  or  blight  cankers 
from  which  are  spread  fire  blight,  collar  rot 
and  root  rot.  And  in  addition  to  controlling 
these  insects  and  diseases,  year  after  year  use 
of  SCALECIDE  invigorates  the  trees . 
W/E  GUARANTEE  that,  if  you  will  divide  an  orchard,  your  worst  or  best,  in  two  parts  equal  in  general  condition,  and 
'  *  for  three  years  spray  one  part  with  SCALECIDE  according  to  our  directions  and  the  other  part  with  lime  sulfur,  giving  the 
same  summer  treatment  to  both  parts,  the  part  sprayed  with  SCALECIDE  will  be  better  than  the  part  sprayed  with  lime  sulfur 
— in  the  judgment  of  three  disinterested  fruit  growers — or  we  will  refund  the  money  you  have  paid  for  the  SCALECIDE. 
If  your  dealer  doesn’t  carry  SCALECIDE,  show  him  this  advertisement — or  order  direct  from  us.  In  any  event,  write  today 
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