Healing help

RD: I have a question regarding my Wolf River apple tree, hollow at trunk base for several years, yet still thriving. I want to draw large suckers to trunk, open my cambium layers, and bandage well, hoping these nutrient sources will steady up the old girl.

Sequence anyone?
RD: Several years ago, I put a want ad in Rural Delivery for the game Sequence. A man coming to Halifax from his cottage in P.E.I. had one, and we exchanged it for a jar of apple jelly. A few weeks ago, I had a call from someone in New Brunswick looking through old copies of RD, saw the ad, and had found a game in an old camp. He dropped it off at my granddaughter’s, in Fredericton, who gave him a jar of jelly (which I will replace, as it was part of her Christmas box). Advertising works – even years and two jars of jelly later!

Beverly Sears
Brookfield, N.S.

Food for thought, 10 times a year
RD: Thank you for doing such a great job! We are not farmers, but we enjoy most of the articles. Your magazine is educational and keeps us up to date on ongoing projects.
I would like to keep reading about local legends of music. Growing up, my father played mostly country and western records on our record player (yes, I am that old!) – Hank Snow, Patsy Cline, Johnny Cash, etc. Hank Snow was a good friend of our former mayor, Curtis Rogers. All gone now.

RD gold, savoured
RD: I have so enjoyed receiving my Rural Delivery magazine for many years. In our small town of 100 Mile House, B.C., I was happily surprised to see my first copy – way back then. My mother was from LaHave, N.S., and my husband and our family were small ranchers in this area – so Rural Delivery drew me like a magnet.

Watering for carrots
RD: Perhaps we can help Gary Saunders with his carrot problem (RD July-Aug, “Weeding for sanity,” page 28). We plant Veseys pelleted carrot seed, and always have good carrots.

Singing a new song

RD: Greatly enjoyed your latest magazine. The new song mentioned in your editorial (“Changing our tune,” RD June 2021, page 6,) has arrived in Linwood along with the White-throated sparrow. (It was here last year, too, but I didn’t know what bird it was.)

Big thanks for small things
RD: Just a note to thank you for your magazine. It is truly a way for those in rural areas, and those who are interested in small, to learn what others are doing.

Jennifer Palmer
Kingsley, N.B.

Apple ladder specs
RD: I appreciate your printing my inquiry on how to build an orchard ladder (RD April, “A fruitful climb,” page 9). Also, the reprint of Gary Saunder’s article (“How to build a Victorian apple ladder,” page 28) and comments by Judith Peach.

Free-use pre-patent apples
RD: Thanks for the articles on apples and cider in the March issue of Rural Delivery. In the article on Suprima Farms (“All the difference,” by Emily Leeson, page 33), there was mention of the breeding program at Perdue, Rutgers, and Illinois universities (PRI).

Honest Maritime pride
RD: I always enjoy Rural Delivery for the innovative ways in which people express themselves through what they do. There is honest pride, which shows in the pictures of the people and their product or means of production. So for me, the magazine glows with a kind of Maritime sense of victory, with land that is not always kind to farms and to farming.

Growing (up) on Big Tancook Island

RD: Upon reading the article about Chris Sanford and the Tancook Island cabbage, “Propagating cabbage, preserving heritage,” in the December issue (page 20), I took a journey back in time. After supper on cool, early-spring evenings, Dad – Percy Langille, born and raised on Big Tancook Island – would go behind the house where he selected a couple hundred tiny cabbage transplants.

Hugs for pumpkin pie
RD: Granddaughter Michalann Perry with pet, Hugs. Ahmmmm, bet that tastes good.

Maggie Perry
Hilden, N.S.

RD reception Down Under
RD: I am a country music broadcaster on Radio 4K1G 107.1-FM, Townsville, Queensland, Australia. I recently came into possession of the January-February edition of Rural Delivery. There is a very nice feature about Michael T. Wall in this edition. I have recently been in contact with Michael, and I feature his music in my programming, and I can guarantee that the set of music on his CD From Newfoundland to Australia is well worth the effort to obtain and put into anyone’s collection.