1894 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
11 
Farmers' Club Discussion. Cow, Horse and Hired Man ** Pensioners. 
Continued. ^ S., Pendleton, S. C.-Charity be- 
. . „ , X.,. -L j i j gins at home, but should not be kept in 
of sowine the fertilizers broadcast and f, , . .i. x ^ 
, j the homes of those that are able to give, 
harrowing them into the soil, atterwards ^ 
top dressing the crop, it it is desired to humane charity upon dnmh bmtss 
do SO. This bone mixture 18 easily sown .xi. x j • • v _ ^.4 
x, nx 1 - without depriving his own family of 
In this way, hnt If hy the use of too much „ecess«ries of life or edu- 
waUr fpr lack of experience, it is too ehlldren, it is his duty to 
mois , some ry soi may e mixe wi^ put the faithful old farm hand, cow or 
it. It is a complete fertiliser and m on his pension list and take care of 
about the proportions-excepting too t^^m. But there is a point of equilibrium 
much lime for this—that plants need , o rara., 
^ between one’s ability to support a pen- 
theirfood. It 18 a method to be usefully on the farm and give his family 
adopted when the bones may be pro- the turning point of duty 
cured, as in a country village distant from ^ 
cities, and freights on fertilizers may be 
an obiect to avoid. with a fatal disease, and his meals were 
A vyater Strainer. sent to him regularly every day for a 
E. C. B., SonrHPOBX, Cokx.-Six years CrrftSl rpe"nro"f tTfarm^.'“we 
ago we invested in a hydraulic ram. In l^ave an old Jersey cow 15 years old 
the pond which feeds the ram the that has furnished the greater part of 
plumber put a tunnel shaped copper the milk and butter to raise five children, 
. . raurraw and I have soW over 81,000 worth of calvcs 
strainer with a neck which slipped over j thankful that I am 
the end of the IJ^-inch feed pipe. The able to give her decent care and food just 
holes were twice the size of a match, the same as the other dairy cows at her 
After the ram had been running a couple Tide, though she does not pay one cent 
. .xaaxjx.x • rm.' back for her keep. My children now 
of years, it had fits of stopping. This school the faithful old mare of 
trouble increased gradually until it be- the farm. She will soon fall entirely 
came serious. We ascribed the trouble upon the pension list, and I trust that I 
to all sorts of causes, and employed all ®aay be able to support her comfortably 
. . , , J. Tji- n xi,„ 1-0 lier life 8 end, but the moment that it 
kinds of remedies. Finally the doctors j to 
gave it up. I resolved to try a strainer care for any ef these pensioners on the 
with smaller holes. Taking a piece of farm and do justice to my family, they 
lead pipe such as is used for sink waste, way decently and 
of the right size to screw into the iron j 
PLANT FEIIRY’S SEEDS 
this year, and make up for lost time. 
f id Annual for 1894 will 
^any valuable hints A 
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“Stnntlne” Those Potatoes. 
M. F. Pierson, Mt. Pleasant, N. Y.— 
In The R. N.-Y. of January 27, O. T. P., 
Hallsport, N. Y., makes an unusual re¬ 
quest. It is a complaint that very sel¬ 
dom comes from potato growers ; hut as 
he is determined to stick to the Rural 
No. 2, it would be useless to advise a 
different variety to aid him. I should 
say that his land needed no fertilizer 
whatever at present. Land that will 
grow 350 bushela per acre, and tubers 
weighing 2^ pounds each, speaks for it¬ 
self. I would gladly have paid 81 each 
tuber for a barrel of them last fall for 
our State exhibit at Chicago. No West¬ 
ern State, even, could have matched 
such a show. If I were to advise the use 
of any fertilizers I would avoid the use 
of any nitrogen. 
Let O. T. P. try this method, either on 
a large or small scale, and report results 
in the fall: Plant in rows 28 or 30 inches 
apart each way (I prefer the check row 
always); cut the seed to one eye, or at 
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least two-ounce pieces. Drop three and 
four pieces in each hill, and try five and 
six in a few; it is my opinion that he 
will have a fine stock of Snowfiakes for 
the market next fall. Among the 100 
experiments made under my direction 
last year (see page 1, R N.-Y,, Jan. 6, 
1894), the fact was plainly seen that the 
increase of seed in pieces, not size, would 
always diminish the size of tubers and 
generally increased the yield. In the 
table given of the Rural No. 2, one-eye 
seed produced five large tubers weigh¬ 
ing 1% pound each; two pieces, 11 
tubers averaging 11 ounces each, while 
three pieces produced 17 tubers averag¬ 
ing only nine ounces each. While this 
was the most marked example, there 
were but two others shown where this 
rule varied, as in the Maggie Murphy 
test. This rule, applied to the smaller 
growing tubers like the Snowfiakes, pro¬ 
duced a large quantity of small, unmer¬ 
chantable tubers, yet the increase of 
yield was always in a corresponding 
ratio. I have grown of the Catherine 
variety with nine pieces to the hill 18(> 
tubers, while beside it only three were 
produced from one piece. 
TimbrellStrawberri 
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