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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
June 2 
DISCUSSIONS 
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A Good Hatch! 
N. M., Hutchinson, Minn —I made an 
incubator after the plan given in The R. 
N.-Y by Mr. Sjhultz. I put in 108 eggs, 
tested out five on the seventh day, and 
six more on the fourteenth day, leaving 
97 eggs. From these 89 live chicks were 
hatched ; three or four of these were 
weak the others strong and healthy. 
Six of the eggs left contained dead chicks 
and two were not good. It was the best 
hatch I ever had in any incubator. I 
run it in a cellar, and had no more 
trouble to keep an even temperature 
than with one with a regulator. I used 
a Hydro-Safety lamp, C style. 
Date of First Flam Blossoms. 
P. G., Southern Connecticut. —The 
following figures show the dates on which 
first blossoms appeared : 
April 28 
April 24-Osron. 
25—Abundance. 
Burbank. 
Satsuma. 
27- Red N agate. 
Willard. 
Spaulding. 
Marianna. 
28— Normand. 
Sweet Botan. 
Bradshaw. 
Grand Duke. 
Monarch. 
Saratoga. 
Shippers Pride. 
19 —B ack Diamond. 
Uueil. 
Niagara. 
30 - Bailey. 
May 2-Poole. 
Prairie Flower. 
Wolf. 
5-Gartleld. 
Mo. Apricot. 
The average is two weeks earlier than 
last year. 
He Went Sonth! 
H., Athens, Ga.— The best advice I 
ever received was from The R. N.-Y. It 
said, “Go South.” I left Manitoba in 
February, 1893, and now enjoy this 
promised land as much as I did at first. 
We have 365 pleasant days every year, 
lovely scenery, good markets, cheap 
labor, cheap land, and dear money. We 
don’t have to put in 160 acres of crop, 
and have our store bill carried over to 
next fall because the wheat was frosted. 
When wheat or oats are frostbitten here, 
the farmer can make them into hay, 
worth 310 a ton, and plant a crop of 
corn, of which the average yield for 
this county is 10 bushels at 50 cents, but 
a white man can do better if he try. 
Corn is grown only where nothing else 
will grow, and large quantities come in 
from the West. I wish I had come five 
years before. This State is not so health¬ 
ful for tramps as Kansas, but a man who 
can get along without working out can 
do so here and enjoy himself. 
Outdoor Cellars. 
Reader, Minnesota. —I saw in The 
R. N.-Y. of May 5 an editorial on the un¬ 
healthful cellars under the living rooms. 
We have a cellar that is in general use 
here that is nearly perfect and is also 
cheap. We dig an oblong hole the size 
needed, cover with plank or good-sized 
poles, and brace strongly from the in¬ 
side. Cover this with 12 or 15 inches of 
straw or wild hay, and cover that with 
two or three feet of earth, with a short 
passageway and two tight doors to make 
a dead air space. No frost can get in. 
Potatoes, onions, or in fact almost any 
vegetable may be taken out in May or 
J une perfectly sound and as free from 
sprouts as when they were put in. The 
thermometer frequently drops to 40 de¬ 
grees and stays there for days at a time, 
but if this root house is properly built, 
it is perfectly safe. My cellar opens from 
the woodshed, and is just as handy as 
one under the house. It is so much bet¬ 
ter that there is no comparison between 
the two. They can be bricked up inside 
or simply planked, if they are built in a 
dry place. 
The “AU“ In the Hens. 
W. H. R., Langley, B. C.—I was about 
to write for information about the dis¬ 
ease in hens asked about by J. C. S., on 
page 257. My neighbors and I have both 
suffered heavily from the same com¬ 
plaint. The symptoms are the same as 
described by J. C. S., except that ours 
will limp around for weeks before losing 
the use of their legs. I hope you or your 
readers may be able to give the cause 
and prevention. As for the cure, I soon 
became of your opinion, that the ax was 
the only remedy. My chickens are kept 
in a dry, fairly warm, henhouse (our 
winters are not cold but very wet), have 
free range, are fed on wheat twice a day, 
with a third feed of either oats, peas or 
boiled potatoes and shorts. They have 
gravel and enough burnt bone to prevent 
their laying soft-shelled eggs. The hens 
are Brown Leghorns and the healthy 
ones have laid well since Christmas. Is 
it injurious to feed whole wheat twice a 
day ? The hens have access to the turnip 
pits which furnish them with abundance 
of vegetable food. 
Celery Blanched In Straw. 
U. D., Evans Lake, Mich. —Blanching 
with straw carit be anything but a suc¬ 
cess as I look at it. One can't pack it 
too closely or get too much around it. 
All that is necessary, however, is to have 
straw enough to exclude the light, and 
if it be held in place by wire or small 
sticks stuck on each side of the row, or 
by any other plan, the straw may be 10 
or 15 inches high. Celery blanched with 
straw is far better in fiavor and more 
crisp than when blanched with earth, 
boards or building paper, all of which I 
have tried. I can prove my position by 
the appearance of the row when the 
covering is removed. In every case, there 
was exposed on both sides of the row 
a mass of yellow, wilted, partially de¬ 
cayed growth, except when straw was 
used. Although with the straw blanch¬ 
ing some few leaves are wilted and look a 
little yellow, still there is no rank smell 
and no rotten stems. Why? I don’t 
know, unless it is because with straw 1 
have free circulation of air around the 
plants. It is more work to put it up to 
the plants, but not so much as one would 
think. It costs but little, even if pur¬ 
chased and delivered, whereas a small 
pile of boards costs a big pile of money. 
The boards must be handled very care¬ 
fully, and nicely piled up in the fall— 
the straw will do your land good. 
What’s the matter with straw for humus 
and a high grade fertilizer and no weeds, 
instead of barnyard manure and so many 
weeds that it almost discourages one 
trying to keep the ground clean? 
R. N.-Y.—We see nothing the matter 
with it! 
plot No. 3, 400 pounds of sulphate of 
potash ; plot No. 4, 400 pounds of nitrate 
of soda; plot No. 5, 800 pounds of dis¬ 
solved boneblack, 400 pounds of sulphate 
of potash, and 400 pounds of nitrate of 
soda. Our regret is that we omitted a 
sixth plot with potash and phosphate. 
The omission was one of necessity, how¬ 
ever. 
Our desire is to acquaint our readers 
not only with the results of our own 
comparatively unimportant investiga¬ 
tions as to this interesting clover, but 
also to place before them, as occasion 
offers, the results of all investigations 
made elsewhere. Our faith in it grows, 
whether it be regarded as a nitrogen 
catcher or for any other purpose .for 
which Red clover is valuable. Is it more 
valuable than Red clover, and for what 
reasons ? On what land is it more valu- 
ble ? And, finally, when should the seed 
be sown to give the farmer the most bene¬ 
fit for his special needs ? 
Scarlet clover, as we learn from a 
late United States Department of Agri¬ 
culture special bulletin (No. 16) thrives 
on soil too light for other clovers. The 
Delaware Station tells us that 2,340 acres 
were sown to Scarlet clover in 1891, of 
which 1,277 acres were used for green 
manuring. The quantity of seed sown 
varies from 5 to 15 pounds per acre. We 
would advise the larger amount and even 
more. Upon The R. N.-Y. plot, sown 
August 28 last, we sowed 40 pounds to 
the acre and a more beautiful, luxuriant 
plot of verdure we have never seen. The 
plants are now 15 inches high and just 
coming into bloom. Every inch of soil 
is covered, and the height of the plants 
is uniformly as above stated. A beating 
rain occurred 10 days ago and parts were 
prostrated. But the next day’s sun 
brought them all up upon their feet as 
thrifty and upright as before the rain. 
In Delaware, it appears, from the 
bulletin above alluded to, a large acre¬ 
age of field corn is sown to Scarlet clover 
just after the last cultivation of the corn. 
It is sown the latter part of July or dur¬ 
ing August. We would not sow, if our 
bON’T ACCEPT 
THE PROCTER & GAMBLE CO.. CIN’TI. 
ioo^PURE 
iniTAT 10 N 5 . 
Our readers will please recall the ex¬ 
periment now going on with Scarlet 
clover to determine whether it will thrive 
as well with potash or phosphate as with 
nitrogen (nitrate of soda), potash and 
phosphate. The land has never received 
any manure, as has been stated. It has 
received fertilizers only in the form 
known as high-grade potato fertilizer 
containing 'about four per cent nitrogen, 
eight per cent phosphate and six per cent 
potash. The soil is naturally poor—a 
thin pebbly, rather than a sandy loam. 
Plot No. 1 received no fertilizer ; plot 
No. 2, 800 pounds of dissolved boneblack, 
which furnishes only phosphoric acid ; 
In writing to adyertUera please always mention 
Thi Bubal. 
“I Suffered from Catarrh 
For more than a dozen years. I concluded 
to try Hood’s Sarsaparilla. I have taken 
over six bottles and I am now perfectly 
Hood’s ptm. 
free from ca- 4 4 
tarrh. I am U. K 
looking and 
feeling better. I recommend Hood’s 
Sarsaparilla for any complaint caused by ^I 
impure blood and especially for catarrh.” 
James C. Schimel, 4662 Edmond Street, 
Frankford Station, Philadelphia, Pa. 
Hood’s Pills are purely vegetable. 
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A temperance drink for temperance 
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Purifies the blood, tickles tlie palate. 
I’.'ickage makes five gallons. 
Ask your storekeeper for it. 
Take no substitutes. 
Send z-cent stamp to Chas. J5. Hires 
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Made from fruit juices. Will 
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They are also largely Interested In, and call especial 
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