THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
April 'J' 
Crimson Clover With Oats- 
A. IL B., Lambertvillk, N. .1.—In 
reply to J. A. N., Middlebush, N. J., 
about Crimson clover, I will g'ive my ex¬ 
perience with it last season. April 5, 1 
sowed 15 pounds of seed on one acre with 
oats, harrowing it in with the last har¬ 
rowing of the oats. The oats were too 
thin as the season proved; they did not 
stool out. The clover came up promptly, 
and grew about 18 inches high. Some 
had blossomed at the time of cutting the 
oats, others bloomed later, and seeded 
the ground thickly. I plowed under a 
thick clover sod in September for wheat, 
aud regret that I did not sow the whole 
field with clover. It shows an improve¬ 
ment in the wheat now, and I am well 
pleased with the results. I shall seed 10 
acres of oats with 15 pounds of Crimson 
clover per acre this spring. I drill 23^ 
bushels of oats per acre—13^ bushel each 
way to choke down the clover so as not 
to cut it with the oats. As a green 
manure, I think it is a success, and would 
advise all to try it. 
Sbavlncrs Manure Ae:aln. 
J. K., Idaho Falls, Idaho. —On page 
105 of The R. N.-Y., E. L. asks if shav¬ 
ings in manure will do injury in the gar¬ 
den. lie says that gardeners and fiorists 
think that such manure produces a 
fungus in the soil. For some years, 
while keeping a greenhouse in Iowa, 1 
went several miles to get decayed wood 
which I mixed with sandy soil, and it 
gave me better results with all fine and 
fibrous rooted plants and vegetables than 
any other compost I could get. The 
decaying wood will produce some fungus, 
but I could not see that it did any injury, 
it certainly did not for me. 
About Asparagus. 
L. B. P., Tai.lmadge, O.—The remarks 
about keeping asparagus in water is an 
example of how the most plausible 
theory may sometimes be at variance 
with actual practice. It will not do to 
keep asparagus in water a great many 
hours or it will get crooked and sprawl¬ 
ing and begin to feather or branch out. 
Grocers in Ohio all have galvanized iron 
pans about 18 inches by two feet, by four 
inches deep, in which they stand vege¬ 
tables like asparagus, lettuce, etc , but 
they put in only about what they will 
sell in one morning, the remainder being 
kept in the cellar. I live some ways from 
town and cannot go in every day, and 
I find that the best way to keep aspara¬ 
gus is to bunch it and lay it compactly 
in a basket, pour water through it, cover 
with paper, put sphagnum over it, and 
set it in the cellar. In this way it keeps 
fresh and straight, and, although I cut 
every day, I market it but twice a week. 
In Ohio, the old way of cutting three or 
four inches under the ground has gone 
out of fashion, and all growers cut even 
with the surface, and thus sell a pala¬ 
table and succulent article insted of a 
leathery, half-root article that has 
neither tenderness nor goodness. 
Although cut even with the surface, it 
is still best to plant in the old way with 
the crowns four inches beneath the sur¬ 
face, for then one can cultivate and clean 
the whole surface early in the spring 
without reference to the rows. A good 
many growers do not bunch the grass at 
all, but sell it in bulk by weight. This is 
the fairest to both buyer and seller, and 
saves the labor of bunching and the waste 
from evening the ends. Of course, this 
can be done only where the market is 
local. For shipping it must be bunched, 
and some are now using rubber bands ■ 
for tying. These cost 10 cents per box 
of 100 bands, but I presume if bought by 
the 100 boxes they would not cost much 
tnore than one-half that. In growing it, 
I find that very early locations are not 
an advantage if subject to spring frosts. 
I planted a warm southern slope, but the 
frost cuts it so I get it but little earlier 
than on more backward soil. Ingrowing 
young plants, I fancy that strong super¬ 
phosphate can be used to advantage. I 
once grew 10,000 plants from a pound of 
seed by the following method. I put the 
seed to soak in an earthen crock about 
May 15, and set it beside the kitchen 
stovepipe on the chamber fioor. I drained 
off the water, but kept the seeds damp 
and covered with a thick cloth. In about 
two weeks the seeds began to sprout, and 
I warmed some dry sand in the oven, 
dried the seed with it enough so it would 
not stick, and sowed it thinly in drills 
one foot apart, trying to have about 12 
or 15 seeds to the foot of drill. When it 
was fairly started, I hoed it twice a week 
and manured it with manure water that 
accumulated in the lower edge of a barn¬ 
yard. The plants grew wonderfully and 
the soil took on the color and appear¬ 
ance of phosphate, although I had never 
seen that article at that time. The re¬ 
sult was a magnificent lot of plants that 
equaled commercial plants graded as 
two years old, and I sold them to a nur¬ 
seryman who used them as such. 
Is the Robin a Robber 7 
J. H. B., North Germantown, N. Y.— 
Why is the robin protected by law ? I 
don’t think anything else with which 
the fruit grower has to contend is such 
a nuisance. Insects can’t compare with 
it. We fight the insects until the fruit 
is ripe, then the robins come in fiocks 
and take it; as for the insects, he kills 
such as angle worms and a few grass¬ 
hoppers which don’t harm us at all. I 
have had the robins come in flocks And 
clean out the currants in one day, so that 
there were hardly enough left to pay for 
picking. The same is true with cherries, 
grapes and all berries. Still they are 
protected, and the sparrow has to go, 
although it is decidedly the best bird of 
the two for the fruit grower. I some¬ 
times think that it would be a good plan 
to have practical men to make our laws, 
men with some experience instead of 
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J. P. J., New Vernon, N. J. —I make 
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nure, about half the value of common 
stable manure. It does better put on in 
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