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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
July 28 
The Best Strawberry Plants. 
allows for surrounding' the zinc box with 
about four inches of sawdust, which 
with a lid over each box, that for the 
zinc box being padded on the under side 
with papers, makes almost a perfect non¬ 
conducting creamer, which does with 
half the ice the other required and costs 
less than one-fourth as much. 
A. W. Slaymakkr, Delaware —Early 
spring or just after the plants have 
begun to grow, is the time when the 
strawberry plant is the strongest and 
easiest to transplant, but under favor¬ 
able conditions, it will bear transplant¬ 
ing at any time from July to May. The 
best plants are produced from newly set 
beds. Early and careful setting, and 
liberal dressing with manure and ferti¬ 
lizer, is our method of producing plants. 
Deep and frequent cultivation is neces¬ 
sary to produce good, strong roots and, 
of course, all weeds must be kept down 
at all times. I restrict runners only 
where two varieties are inclined to run 
together, or where fruit and not plants 
is our object. The crop of berries will 
nearly always be improved by removing 
all runners not needed to make a good 
row. 1 prefer plants grown in September 
away from the parent plants, as they 
grow stronger and more surely, and the 
reason for this is evident when we re¬ 
member that the first made plants, 
almost before they are firmly established, 
themselves begin to throw out runners 
and become parent plants, of course ex¬ 
hausting themselves somewhat in the 
effort to reprcduce. I use potted plants 
only in special cases where fruit is 
wanted the following spring, and the 
bed has not been set at the proper time. 
Potted plants must not be left too long 
in pots, or a stunted growth will follow 
and probable loss of the plant the follow¬ 
ing winter. 
Crimson Clover In Tennessee. 
J. B., Franklin, Tenn. —I bought four 
1 ounds of Crimson clover seed last fall 
and sowed with turnips on three acres 
of land I did not know the seed was so 
large or I would have bought 12 pounds 
of clover to one of turnips. As it was, 
in a fine stand of turnips, the clover did 
not have much chance. Still it held its 
own, grew during the winter and even 
withstood that terrible March freeze. I 
needed the land for potatoes, and had to 
plow it up except at the edges and cor¬ 
ners, where I let the clover grow. My 
idea about it is, that the plant is need¬ 
lessly boomed in order to sell seed. Its 
greatest drawback is its early ripening. 
Farmers are mostly too busy to make hay 
in the beginning of May, and the weather 
is not suitable. Where a man rotates 
his crops, as corn, oats, wheat and clover, 
or can raise Alfalfa, Orchai-d grass, etc., 
he has no use for this plant. But it cer¬ 
tainly has a place in the dairy, orchard, 
vineyard or market garden. If the plant 
would bloom, say, the last of May, one 
might dispose of the blooms on Decora¬ 
tion Day. It’s a fine plant to make seed 
if one can sell it. 
R N.-Y.—We fail to see anything in 
this experience that would condemn the 
plant. 
A Homemade Creamer. 
C. E. C , Stephenson, Va.—N ot being 
satisfied with the non-conducting prop¬ 
erties of a glass can creamer I had 
bought, I ordered of a tinner a zinc box 
40 inches long, 20 inches wide and 22 
inches high, with a waste pipe 18 inches 
from the bottom at one end, and three 
rod stays, or supports, across it at the 
same height, which also serve the pur¬ 
pose of dividing it into four depart¬ 
ments. Into each of these I can set two 
five-gallon tin milk cans, and around 
these, which are 20 inches deep, the 
water and ice rise to the waste pipe 18 
inches high. This zinc box is placed in 
a wooden box, which is made by nailing 
one-half-inch boards on a suitable frame 
—covering these with several thicknesses 
of newspaper, and then putting on an¬ 
other thickness of one-half-inch boards. 
This box is 48 inches long in the clear, 
28 inches wide and 28 inches high, which 
Crlmion Clover With Timothy. 
J H. D,, Freehold, N. J.—In a recent 
R. N.-Y. is a question in regard to sow¬ 
ing Timothy with Crimson clover. I 
seeded, in the fall of 1893, a piece of 
potato land to Timothy, as wheat was so 
low in price. It was treated with 1,500 
pounds per acre of home-mixed fertilizer 
when I planted the potatoes; nothing 
was put on at the time of sowing the 
grass seed about September 20. It yielded 
about two tons per acre. I sowed one 
strip at the rate of about six quarts per 
acre with Crimson clover additional. The 
result was 30 per cent more hay. I 
thought my hay would be damaged by 
having the clover in it, as the clover 
ripened so early, but it did not make any 
noticeable showing at the time of cutting. 
I shall seed a piece of land this fall in 
the same manner. My soil is a natural 
grass soil, being moist. My mowing 
lands this season will yield from 234 to 
334 tons per acre. 
E. C. B., Southport, Conn. —If W. F. 
wishes to get his field “into grass as soon 
as possible,” why doesn’t he sow the Tim¬ 
othy without the Crimson clover ? In that 
way he will be doing a surer thing than 
by mixing the two. Crimson clover is 
still something of an experiment. He 
can sow red clover at this time with his 
Timothy, and get a good crop next year 
if he wishes a nitrogen crop to mix with 
his Timothy. I have just put in the barn 
(.July 12) 634 tons of mixed Timothy, Red 
Top and clover hay from a scant three- 
acre field, which was seeded without a 
nurse crop August 3, 1893. July 16, I in¬ 
tend to sow a bushel of Timothy and a 
bushel of Rep Top—Timothy 45 pounds, 
Red 'l op 36 pounds—on a four-acre field 
of corn. I shall then cultivate both ways, 
hoe out what weeds are left and lay it 
by. I have another four acres of corn to 
be treated in the same way a little later. 
I would hardly want to risk Crimson 
clover on those fi elds till better acquaint¬ 
ed with it. If I can clear the ground soon 
enough, I intend to sow an acre of Crim¬ 
son clover after potatoes and early corn, 
but it will be after August 15. 
Queer. —On July 6, the writer was 
looking over his most promising potato 
seedlings—those of 1892 and 1893. One 
little lot of three hills attracted notice 
because the vines were many, slender, 
prostrate and beginning to change color. 
We gathered the stems of one hill—there 
were 20, averaging from a quarter to a 
half inch in diameter—and pulled steadily 
and gently. An almost solid ball of 
tubers, from the size of peas to two inches 
in diameter, was pulled out of the soil. 
The ball was nearly a foot in diameter, 
and there were one hundred and hfty-six 
tubers, not one remaining in the soil. 
In writing to advertlsert please always mention 
THI BURAIi. 
Weak All Over 
Hot weather always has a weakening, de¬ 
bilitating effect, especially when the 
blood is thin and impure and the system 
j^ood’ 
g Sarsa¬ 
parilla 
ures 
c 
poorly nourished. 
By taking Hood’s 
Sarsaparilla strength 
will be imparted, and the whole boay 
invigorated. People who take Hood’s Sar¬ 
saparilla are almost always surprised at 
the beneficial effects. 
Hood’s Fills are safe, harmless, sure. 
The longest vines were 234 feet; most of 
them were about 18 inches only. This is 
an experiencaquite new to us. But one 
small potato (seed of R. N.-Y. No. 2 from 
Belgium) was planted in a hill. The 156 
tubers weighed 2034 ounces. 
Does the Red-flowering horse chestnut 
ever bear fruit with any of our friends ? 
It does not at the Rural Grounds. We 
have tried to cross it, but failed. 
C, G. Bushnell, of Centerbrook, Conn., 
wrote us, under date of July 6, that they 
have just finished picking 103 quarts of 
Pine Hill No. 20 strawberries from 16x18 
feet of land. They began picking June 
5. No rain had fallen since May 15. This 
variety was commented upon last week 
under Notes from the Rural Grounds. 
Mr. j. H. Hale, the famous Connecti¬ 
cut peach grower, gave Ruralisms some 
interesting facts regarding his methods 
of peach culture, during a flying visit to 
the Rural Grounds a few days ago. He 
wanted to see how the Loudon raspberry 
behaves there, having seen it as it grows 
upon the land of the originator in Wis¬ 
consin. 
Mr Hale never buys mixed fertilizers 
—he cannot afford to do so and pay the 
dealers’ profits, as well as several dol¬ 
lars a ton for mixing them. He uses, 
for the most part, bone flour and muriate 
of potash, as our readers are aware. 
These he spreads separately upon the 
land for the reason that it is far less 
trouble and takes far less time than to 
dump them out of bags, mix them, put 
them back in the bags and then spread. 
He buys by the car-load at wholesale for 
cash, and probably saves at least 30 per 
cent as compared with dealers’ prices. 
He knows just how much phosphoric 
acid and nitrogen his bone contains, and 
just how much potash the muriate con¬ 
tains, so that there is never, as is often 
the case with dealers’ mixed brands, a 
loss to the purchaser of from 10 to 50 per 
cent, as shown by the station analyses. 
Mr. Hale uses at least 500 pounds of 
muriate and 1,500 pounds of bone to the 
acre. He never uses rock or superphos¬ 
phates. With one exception, this amount 
has given him satisfactory results. The 
one exception was an orchard the soil of 
which is gravelly. The trees did not 
grow vigorously, and showed that some¬ 
thing was wrong. Mr. Hale conjectured 
this land needed more nitrogen than 
the bone gave (say three per cent), and 
he applied about 200 pounds to the acre 
of nitrate of soda. The trees at once 
responded by a healthy growth and an 
abundance of fruit. 
Mr. Hale regards the Crosbey as favor¬ 
ably now as hitherto. Peach raisers do 
not treat it right. It is inclined to over¬ 
bear and the fruit must be thinned out 
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