282 
May 5 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
Clover In the Barn. 
L, H. G., Flint, O.—Mr, Woodward’s 
advice to L. R. J., of Cape Girardeau, 
Mo., page 216, is very good, but does not 
go far enough. I have found, in my ex¬ 
perience with clover, that it is not well 
to pack it down. When put in the barn, 
it should be thrown in loosely and let lie 
for 24 or 36 hours, then tramped. Since 
I have adopted this plan, I have had no 
trouble with it. It may be put in the 
mow much greener in this way. This is 
Mr. Terry’s method, and I think it is all 
right. 
Lard and Snlphnr for Lice. 
1). L. B., Nuniia, N. Y.—Clean the hen¬ 
house thoroughly, nest boxes and all. 
Make some lard as soft as possible with¬ 
out melting, and stir in powdered sulphur 
till it becomes a thick paste. Spread 
this liberally on the perches. Sprinkle 
the nest boxes well with sulphur and 
ashes, and put in new nesting material. 
Sow broadcast land plaster or lime all 
over the roosting room, and the work is 
done for a year or more. 
About spraying poultry. I am no friend 
to tobacco, either dry or steeped, and the 
man who sprays his poultry with to¬ 
bacco infusion or kerosene emulsion 
either, should be arrested for cruelty to 
animals. I keep a small flock, from 25 
to 35 hens, and they are “business hens.’’ 
Plymouth Rocks and Wyandottes are my 
choice, either purebred or mixed. They 
are always healthy; we get plenty of 
eggs all winter. We have sold from 
eight to ten dozens a week in January and 
February, besides what we used in our 
family. 
A Black Eye for “Blackman” Plums. 
E. T. F., Bki.lkvii.lk, III.—Tell J. L., 
Mulvane, Kan., page 233, that the best 
thing he can do with his “ Blackman’’ 
plum trees is to dig them up, and the 
sooner the better. They are a fraud, 
a delusion and a snare. The tree is a 
beautiful one, a strong grower, but is a 
hybrid, and can never bear. I worked 
with them for over 10 years, and dug the 
last one out a year ago. The party or 
parties that brought them out and sold 
them to a confiding public—if they did 
so knowing wbat the plums really were 
—should have been sent to the peni¬ 
tentiary. Some advocate grafting them, 
but it is really time lost. Dig them out, 
and replace them with some good fruit. 
“ Prejudice ” Alls the South. 
C. M. T., B ABBounsviLT.E, Va.—O n page 
221 Thb R. N.-Y. asked, “ What is the 
matter with the South?’’ It is because we 
are Southerners, and nothing else. I have 
often wished that I had a friend in the 
North to whom I could ship my produce 
and he reship it, so that it would sell on 
its merits, and not be branded with the 
stigma, “Southern.” Enclosed find ac 
count sales of eleven pullets and two 
cockerels that were only five months old, 
and so stated in my letter of advice. It 
tells its own story. 
[At nine cents per pound, the poultry 
brought $5.76, with 31.14 charges. The 
commission-man’s comment was : “Very 
nice, but too heavy.” R. N.-Y.] 
We had a good many apple buyers 
through this section last fall, from the 
North and West. We laughed at them 
because they were so foolish about apples, 
packing apples which we considered un¬ 
salable. They said our orchards were a 
surprise to them ; they had no idea we 
could raise such apples. One gentleman 
made 50 cents per barrel by marking his 
apples Newtown Pippins instead of Albe¬ 
marle Pippins. Another shipped his ap¬ 
ples to Liverpool, England, early in the 
fall, and they netted him $5.60 per barrel. 
About one-half of the expenses was paid 
to get them afloat at New York. 
1 am afraid the fruit is all killed 
through this section this year, but if it 
is not, I will send The R, N.-Y. a sample 
of Albemarle Pippins to be compared in 
beauty and flavor with the Newtown 
Pippins which it may select, provided it 
will publish the decision as it has already 
published an article disparaging our ap¬ 
ples, The writer said that the Newtown 
and Albemarle Pippins were identical. 
I will agree with him there, but not 
when he says that the Newtown Pippin 
was taken to Albemarle County, N. C., 
took its name from the county, and is not 
so highly flavored. There is no Albe¬ 
marle County, N. C., and competent, hon¬ 
est Northern men who visit our orchards 
say they are as highly flavored as any 
apples they ever ate anywhere. 
I think I have shown that it is preju¬ 
dice that ails us. All we ask is an hon¬ 
est competition, and not to have our 
products condemned because they are 
Southern. 
Mr. Schultz Defends His Incubator. 
J. H, E. Schultz, Mountain View, N. 
•f-—The article by Mr. Lehmann, on page 
230 of The R. N.-Y. is worthy of careful 
reading, as the writer evidently under¬ 
stands artificial incubation. I do not re¬ 
ply for the sake of argument, but that I 
may “tell the whole truth.” I have 
several times hatched more than 90 per 
cent of the fertile eggs, and by fertile 
eggs I mean those containing life germs 
as they are shown at the second test. I 
consider this method of showing the per¬ 
centage as perfectly legitimate, as I sav 
distinctly fertile eggs. I agree with Mr. 
Lehmann and Mr. Hunter, that, taking 
the average through the hatching sea¬ 
son, if one-half of the eggs incubated 
produce chicks, they are doing well; this 
applies to hens as well as to artificial in¬ 
cubation. Here are the results from my 
hatcher of last season and thus far this 
season. Three hatches from a 75-egg 
incubator in the spring of 1893—75 eggs 
being used each time—produced 43, 52 
and 48 chicks. Two hatches from a 100- 
egg incubator—100 eggs used each time— 
gave 70 and 53 chicks. The 53 chicks 
were from eggs received by express from 
the late Francis A. Mortimer; they came 
about 300 miles and were hatched J une 
25, The chicks were as strong and 
bright as one would wish to see, 50 of 
them being raised. Thus far, this sea¬ 
son, I have had but two hatches, one 
on April 6, 56 chicks from 100 eggs and 
one April 15, 20 chicks from 150 eggs; 
the latter hatch was poor owing to the 
immaturity of the parent stock ; of the 
150 eggs over 60 per cent were infertile. 
As to regulators, far from thinking 
them “no good,” I believe that a good 
regulator is just what Mr. Lehmann says 
it is, but my success without regulators, 
compels me to say that they are not 
an absolute necessity. As for instructing 
the whole family to watch and care for 
the incubator, it is nonsense; I have no 
difiiculty in maintaining a sufiieiently 
accurate temperature for a good hatch 
to come out on time, and my incubators 
do not interfere with my work or sleep. 
If I am obliged to be away from home 
for several hours, my wife looks after 
the incubators ; aside from this, no other 
member of the family ever touches them. 
I attend to the incubator the first thing 
in the morning, about 5 o’clock; the eggs 
are turned and the lamps filled and 
trimmed. After my chores are done and 
breakfast eaten, I look at them again, 
which is sufiicient until noon; when I 
come in from my work, about 5 p. m., the 
eggs are again turned and the lamps at¬ 
tended to. I usually look at them an 
hour before retiring and again the last 
thing before going to bed. It is a rare 
thing to find more than three degrees 
change in temperature by morning, and 
this is usually lower than in the evening, 
as I purposely turn the wicks down a 
little to guard against the possibility 
of too much heat. My incubators are run 
in a cellar basement, which I consider 
an ideal place; next to this I believe a 
good cellar to be the best place. One 
of the best incubators for hatching 
is the Poultry Keeper incubator. The 
heat is maintained by drawing off the 
cool water at stated intervals, and re¬ 
placing it with boiling water. This, too, 
is a homemade incubator, but for myself, 
I prefer lamps as easier than this method. 
I have secured from Mr. Oakes a ther¬ 
mostatic bar which I expect to attach to 
my next incubator as a self-regulating 
device, but I expect no better hatches. 
History of a Big Root Crop. 
H. D. W , Arnot, Pa.—Q uite a number 
who saw my field of rutabagas last year 
have asked me how in the world I man¬ 
aged to raise such “dandies,!; I plow the 
ground in the fall, barrow several times 
in the spring until well mellowed, then 
mark with a corn marker three feet 
apart. I follow these marks with a com¬ 
mon shovel plow, making good furrows, 
and then scatter liberally some fine barn¬ 
yard manure, and on top of this scatter 
600 to 800 pounds per acre of commercial 
fertilizer. I go between the drills with 
the shovel plow, covering the manure 
nicely, and go over it with a roller, and 
the ground is ready for sowing with any 
good garden drill. The best seed I have 
found is Improved Long Island, bought 
from G. W. P, Jerrard. This variety is 
nearly round and has a very short neck. 
I BOW from June 20 to 30. Last year I 
sowed July 5 and harvested Novem¬ 
ber 10. I always leave them out as long 
as they are safe from freezing up solid ; 
hard frosts sweeten them. I feed them 
whole in the field, or in the stable. Any 
one who has cattle, sheep or hogs can 
make it pay to raise them. I never had 
stock so healthy as this spring, and they 
have helped my short hay crop immense¬ 
ly. I cultivate as soon as possible after 
they begin to come up, the more often 
after that the better until the ground is 
covered with tops. I thin to about eight 
inches in the drill. My man worked two 
days on one acre with a hoe, thinning 
and weeding, which was all the hand 
work done until pulling. It pays to sow 
rather thick, and chop out with a hoe 
rather than transplant. 
High Praise for BncXwheat. 
A. T. T., Franklin Park, N. J.—Some 
time ago. The R. N.-Y. contained an ar¬ 
ticle, or perhaps several of them, relat¬ 
ing to the action of buckwheat on soils. 
In talking with a successful farmer of 
middle New .Tersey on the subject, he 
stated that his experience had been such 
as to convince him that the crop was a 
most beneficial one on stiff soils. His 
opinion was that it greatly increased 
the porosity of a stiff soil, and had an 
effect very similar to lime in that respect. 
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usually pro- '\\ 
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appetite and 
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Sickly chil- 
dren obtain -- v/ ' 
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Scott's Emulsion 
of cod-liver oil with Hypo- 
phosphites, a fat-food rapid 
of assimilation and almost 
as palatable as milk. 
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