Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1895-12-06
MILFORD PIKE COUNTY. PA FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6. 1895.

curse of the eastern farmer is that
he tries to farm too many acres
Take what you cam cultivate tho
roughly and VOL, and let the rest so.
Study the varieties of fruits thax
grow well in your vicinity on Iaud
similar to yours and choose the bcst
Plant few early varieties of apples,
but rather those coming in after the
early fruits like peaches and plums
are gone, Good varieties are Du-
chess of Oldenbury, Gravenstcin,
Rhode Island Greening, a few Bald
wins, (but Sutton : Beauty are 1o0o6
better,) and Roburg Russet. 1t Is
a good plan to plant Northern Spy,
and graft.
Several questions were asked by
farmers present, leading to the ans
wers that there was money in evap-
Grating fruits, s,and that sweet apples
were excellent feed for stock "A num-
Der of varieties of strawberries were
named as among the better ones
Michaels EIrly, Cumberland Tri-
umph, Warfield, Haviland. Bubach,
Nos, Candy, Crescent and Sharpless.
The runners should be cut off and
the plants kept in rows, so they
were not less than inches apart.
He had one plant which raised 240
berries, Good varieties of sweet
apples, Lady Winter sweet, Baileys
Sweet and Crow Egg, which was
very fine. The peach yellow cannot
be cured. Its symptoms, the chang
ing in color of the leaves on the tops
of the branches, gradually extending
down, and Il bunch of fibrous twigs
growing from the trunk, Cut such
trees and burn them, Good culture
and thorough trimming (the best
way is to keep cutting the branches
back) may completely change the
character of an orchard which. has
yellow appearance, and this is some
times mistaken for peach yellows,
but is not. Too much water, bad
drainage will cause this appearance.
Remove the water, A northern or
western exposure is the best.
At the evening session, Hon. Thos.
j. Edge, Secretary of Agriculture
took up the matter of fertilizer. He
said the farmers are paying about
four millions of dollars annually in
this state for fertilizer, and are
throwing away about one million,
not because they do not get what
they pay for but because it is not
worth that sum to them. Under the
law in Pennsylvania there is Il heavy
penalty which may be inflicted not
only ON the manufactures, but on
the agent who sells fertilizer if it
does notanalyzo up to theadvertised
standard and it is the duty Of the
department. to see that fertilizer as
named is in the sack. Farmers do
not understand that when the an
alysis as printed is to - chat they
never get more than 6. The manu-
facturer does not give anything a.
way. He has his business reduced
to an exact science, and that science
is to beat the farmer, and does it, be-
cause the farmer does not know his
needs, and does not know what is
adapted to his land. The first col
umn is the test. Pure ground bone,
run of the bone means good deal,
after the umbrella handle makers,
the button makers, and the sugar re
finer, have had their pick, the bal
ance is run of the bone. Bone is val
liable according to its fneness. If it
is coarse you must wait longer time
for results. The kind of soil makes
a great difference as to kind of fer
tilizer you should use to secure best
results. A stream of water on the
farm may divide two kinds of soils.
Nearly all soils need phosphoric
acid and potash, few need nitrogen.
1t is waste of money to buy that
The difference between soluble and
insoluble, and what is phosphoric
acid, and rock, and its value were all
fully explained. Salt is no good for
cutworms, or white grubs. Fall
plowing is best. The remedy for po-
tato blight is Bordeax Mixture. In
order to prevent scab on potatoes,
which is a fungus, it is good to soak
the seed in a solution of OF. of
corrosive sublimate in 20 gals. of
water, soak for half an hour. This
will not injuire the seed and will kill
the spores of the fungi.
Prof. Butz, who has the care of
the greenhouses at the state college
addressed the institute on the sub
ject, " How Plants Grow" Life is