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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
March 24 
R. F., Bound Brook, N. J.—On page 
130 of Thk R. N.-Y., in answer to W. B. 
C., Bryansville, Pa., you say that 700 
pounds dissolved bone and 3.60 of nitrate 
of soda to the ton will give about 23 ^ per 
cent nitrogen. 1 think you will find 
that the per cent of nitrogen will be very 
near 33^, which is about as much as the 
average potato fertilizer contains. You 
say use 150 pounds more nitrate in place 
of plaster. I think you would have your 
nitrogen in a better form by using less 
nitrate of soda and substituting dried 
blood. It is always preferable to get 
nitrogen from several different sources. 
R. N.-Y.—The mistake was in the 
amount of nitrate used. It should have 
been 250 instead of 350 pounds as printed. 
Crab Apple Experience. 
Isaac Hicks, Wkstbury, L. I.—Some 
20 years ago, we planted about 30 crab 
apple trees with the intention of selling 
the fruit. There were more than a dozen 
kinds, but largely Transcendents. The 
result was that the Transcendent ripened 
too early for the New York market and 
we could not sell them. We afterwards 
grafted part of them with Fallawater, 
Mann and a few other kinds. They grew 
very thrifty, bore very finely for a few 
years, but are now dying or dead. They 
should have been grafted with slow- 
growing varieties. The grafts outgrew 
the stocks and caused their death. We 
have not found the Transcendent profit¬ 
able for the reason that there is but 
little demand for early ripening crab 
apples. It is not as beautiful or as regu¬ 
lar form as some other sorts with us. 
Powers is our favorite for family use. 
Montreal Beauty is good, the most showy 
of any, and a great bearer, ripening after 
the former when there is a demand. 
Hyslop is large, dark purple, very attrac¬ 
tive and late. These four are prolific, of 
good quality and size and we prefer them 
to the many others we have tested. We 
took 40 bushels of Transcendents to a 
cider mill; result, wretched stuff, one 
taste enough. 
Failures with Grapes. 
B. B., Farmingdai.e, III. — Thk R. 
N.-Y.’s list of grape failures is rather 
startling, in consideration of the enthu¬ 
siasm with which many of these varie¬ 
ties, in their newness, were greeted and 
toasted. Yet the fact remains that the 
Concord is not superseded as an all-pur¬ 
pose, universal grape. I do not think 
Lady Washington, Grein’s Golden, Elvira 
and Woodruff entirely without merit in 
many localities ; still the Concord leads 
them, all points considered. Let me ex¬ 
tend the list:* August Giant, Amber 
Qaeen, Antoinette, Brant, Black Eagle, 
Black Defiance, Belinda, Cornucopia, 
Canada, Duchess, Eva, Hayes, Irving, 
.Jefferson, Jagers 62, Linden, Monroe, 
New Haven, Oneida, Oriental, Prentiss, 
Progress, Rochester, Ulster, Vergennes. 
Now, I would rather have one Concord 
vine than three of any of the above, and 
by culling still closer, twice as many 
more would go, (besides The Rurau’s 
list) and still the Concord remain. 
Some Baled Ensilag^e. 
C. 0. N., Homer, N. Y.—In The R. N.- 
Y. of January 27, in an article on baled 
ensilage, the question was asked : Whj^ 
would it not be a good plan to bale corn 
as fast as cut in the field ? Some 12 years 
ago, I tried it. I had in my baling barn 
a very powerful S3rew hay press. One 
day I cut, just at curing time, a quantity 
of sweet corn. I made a bale, putting on 
the full power of my press, weighing 
nearly COO pounds. Putting the bale one 
side, I watched. It went through a great 
heat, molded, decayed and spoiled. An¬ 
other time I tried clover in the same way 
and with the same result. I have run 
dried corn stalks after the corn was 
husked, through a hay cutter, cut them 
very short, baled them like cut hay, and 
found that they kept well and made ex¬ 
cellent fodder all winter. 
Items of interest, critidsnns, or corres¬ 
pondence of any kind intended for, or sug¬ 
gested by, this column, should be addressed 
to Jluralisms. 
Salicylic acid is widely used in this 
country in canning vegetables and toma¬ 
toes ; probably it is also used in canning 
fruits. So remarks Prof. Caldwell in a 
recent lecture, as reported in our excel¬ 
lent neighbor. Garden and Forest. Then 
we have two kinds of tin plate—the 
“bright” and the “terne.” The latter 
contains much more lead than the former. 
In Germany the law requires that tin 
plate used for canning foods shall not 
contain over one per cent of lead. In 
the chemical laboratory of the Depart¬ 
ment of Agriculture, at Washington, the 
tin of 50 cans, in which peas had been 
put up, was examined for lead; 30 of 
these were found to contain from one- 
half up to 13 per cent of this poisonous 
metal. 
In respect to the drying of fruit, we 
have again a temptation to depart from 
scrupulous honesty in sulphuring to an 
excessive extent. Dr. Hilgard, Director 
of the California Experiment Station, 
does not believe in the bleaching, any 
way, and calls the handsome, light- 
colored slices of dried apple “ whited 
sepulchers.” He believes that this sul¬ 
phuring may be used to cover up dirty 
and damaged fruit, and that fruit ex¬ 
cessively sulphured is less digestible, be¬ 
cause it contains so much of this anti¬ 
septic; for all antiseptics, whether borax, 
salicylic acid or sulphites, are unfavor¬ 
able to digestion when taken into the 
stomach with the food. 
All will agree that any manipulation 
which can cover up defects has its 
dangers, and that an extensive trade in 
any article may be seriously damaged 
by dishonest practice ; and that in such 
cases many honest people suffer for the 
misdeeds of a very few rascals. But the 
public has acquired a perverted taste, 
and demands the “ whited sepulchers 
so till the public taste can be reformed. 
IN writing to adyertlsers please always mention 
THl BUBAL. 
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business must conform to it. But let 
this be done honestly, by using only the 
best materia], and only just so much sul¬ 
phuring as is necessary to bleach it to 
the desired point. 
Concerning the preservation of fresh 
fruit, a rather singular method is pro¬ 
posed by Monclar, in a recent volume of 
the French Journal d’Agriculture Pra¬ 
tique. It consists simply in bedding the 
fruit in lime. He gives the following 
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tomatoes, onions, potatoes, grapes, pears, 
apples, sugar-beets and chestnuts with 
their shells removed. Tomatoes kept 
well for two weeks, and half of them for 
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