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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
October 
Certain “New Methods " 
W. J. Grekn, Ohio Exp. Sta.—I n The 
Rurah of September 22, reference is 
made to an extract from a horticultural 
publication, which credits the horticul¬ 
turist of the Ohio Experiment Station 
with having described a new method of 
propagating strawberry plants from the 
young tips by simply treating them as 
florists treat cuttings. I have practiced 
the method about 10 years, or before 
The Rural described it, and have some 
recollection of writing about it a num¬ 
ber of years ago, in words similar to 
those quoted. I suspect that the horti¬ 
cultural editor was napping when he 
clipped from an old publication, for I do 
not remember having called it new or 
writing anything about it for several 
years. The method was not new, how¬ 
ever, even when I first described it, for 
it seems to have been practiced for a 
ong time, and I would gladly strike out 
the word “new” from all that I have 
written concerning it. By the way, was 
not The Rural napping when it re¬ 
ferred to the practice of transplanting 
onions as the new onion culture ? In 
the October bulletin of 1890, of this sta¬ 
tion, it is stated distinctly that the prac¬ 
tice is not new. All that Mr. Greiner 
and I have done is to show the advan¬ 
tages in the method over the ordinary 
plan for certain varieties, and under par¬ 
ticular conditions. 
Crimson Clover and Corn. 
J. C. H., Rosemont, Pa. —I have been 
much pleased with your articles on 
“ Crimson Clover,” and will sow every¬ 
thing in the way of vacant ground that 
I have. In fact, my clover is now coming 
up nicely all through the corn ; it was 
sowed last month. I have just finished 
the potato ground. Have been selecting 
seed corn by going ahead of the cutters 
and saving only that which has two good 
ears on a stalk, and I am suprised at the 
large number found after our summer’s 
drought. I find a much larger yield 
than I expected ; in fact, it will be a fine 
crop. It is a large 100-Day Yellow dent, 
very productive. 
My attention was first called to Crim¬ 
son clover by your valuable paper, and I 
will be satisfied with it if it is half as 
good as recommended. I think the farm¬ 
ers make a great mistake in having any 
bare ground during the fall or winter 
months. T have just returned from a 
trip “land looking” through Maryland 
and Virginia, and am well pleased. I 
found many cheap farms that with some 
ambition and push could be made most 
desirable and profitable homes. 
R. N.-Y.—We did not at any time ad¬ 
vise such a heavy experiment with Crim¬ 
son clover. If ic succeed, take the credit 
yourself—if it fail, don’t charge it all 
to us. 
First FUllnc: of the Silo. 
E. P. B., Factoryville, Pa.—I com¬ 
menced to fill my silo on September 13, 
and finished on September 17. I used 
16-inch Ross cutter and six-horse-power 
engine, 10 men and three teams and 
wagons. I cut in one-half-inch lengths ; 
was three days cutting, taking five to 
seven minutes per load. Could have used 
another team, as the teams could not keep 
the cutter running. It was a surprise to 
me the way those big stalks and ears 
walked through that cutter. The silo 
settled over Sunday, and then we heaped 
it up and ran it over on the hay mow. By 
Wednesday it settled so we could put it 
all in and cover it. I have at least 200 
tons of ensilage, thanks to The Rural. 
One of our neighbors estimated 3J^ acres 
as good for 30 tons per acre. I never 
saw such corn in Pennsylvania, or has 
any one else about here. The clover is 
looking well, with Crimson in the lead, 
and as the drought is broken with a good 
rain, I think we may expect some fine 
pasture next spring. I will report later 
on what success I have with ensilage as 
a milk producer. 
Another Hedgre Plant Sncreested. 
W. G. W., Tyrone, Pa.—H. M., who 
inquires for a low hedge plant to succeed 
in dry soil—as along near the top of a 
supporting wall—might be suited with 
Ceanothus Americanus (New Jersey tea), 
which crowns its thick foliage with erect 
crowding corymbs of pretty white fiow- 
ers standing entirely above the leaves, 
and lasting most of the summer. It sel¬ 
dom attains to two feet high in dry soil 
here, and would need little or no trim¬ 
ming. The Purple barberry, advised on 
page 569, would be suitable and strik¬ 
ingly singular and pretty. Like most 
sports from the normal green leaf color, 
it grows lower than the common sort, 
seldom over five feet. The beautiful 
Japan quince is easily kept down to a 
height of four feet, seldom reaching 
above it, but is inclined somewhat to 
sprawl sideways. For an evergreen of 
suitable habit, the box-tree would an¬ 
swer well, especially if there is partial 
shade. A variety of it should be chosen 
that grows somewhat freer and taller 
than the dwarf kind (suffruticosa)othat 
is used for edgings along paths. 
Different Forms of Nltroeea. 
J. H. D., Freehold, N. J.—Relating to 
the question of supplying nitrogen from 
dijfferent sources for prolonged plant 
growth, I have found it decidedly ad¬ 
vantageous to use both the mineral and 
organic. I prefer to draw from the dif¬ 
ferent forms of these two classes, if not 
too much variation in cost; and also one 
must be guided by the crop to be grown. 
It is decidedly safer, not knowing the 
future condition of either soil or climate 
to have plant food that may become 
available at the different stages of growth 
of the plant. While in some seasons one 
source might answer, results have proved 
that it is better and safer to have two or 
more forms of nitrogen and phosphoric 
acid, while the potash may be taken 
from one form according to the crop to 
be grown. This season’s potato yield is 
nractically the same, with muriate and 
high-grade sulphate and the two com¬ 
bined. 
Wbat Does Broom Sedfe Indicate ? 
Prof. I. P. Roberts, Cornell Univer¬ 
sity. —Prof. W. F. Massey says, on page 
586, that it is his experience that Broom 
sedge is not an indication of soil poverty. 
The instances he gives appear to show 
plainly that Broom sedge crept into the 
run-out Timothy meadows because of 
soil poverty; that is, lack of sufiicient 
nitrogen to feed the Timothy. It is well 
known that Timothy, when properly 
fed, lives for many years, at least in the 
North. If pastured too close—that is, if 
the stalks are cropped below the last 
lower j oint, water gets into the bulb and 
che Timothy dies, but where the pastur¬ 
ing is not too severe, Timothy remains 
in our Northern fields for 20 or more 
years in full vigor, provided there has 
been nitrogen added to the land in some 
form. Soil may have an abundance of 
plant food, but one or more of the con¬ 
stituents necessary for a rapid and 
IN writing to kdvertlsera please always mention 
PHI Rit rat. . 
A Low Water Level 
In Rivers, Ponds, Wells, and other sources 
of drinking water threatens danger from 
malarial germs. This condi(jjon is usually 
found in the Fall, and it points to Hood’s 
l-l ood’s 
Sarsa¬ 
parilla 
r^ures 
Sarsaparilla as a safe¬ 
guard against attacks _ _ 
of disease. Hood’s 
Sarsaparilla makes 
pure blood, and thus guards the system 
from all these perils. It creates an appe¬ 
tite and gives sound, robust health. 
Hood’s Pills cure nausea, sick headache. 
healthy growth may be wanting in 
availability. If the land can be broken 
up, as shown in his article, and oppor¬ 
tunity given for nitrification to prepare 
plant food, then all goes on well for a 
time. My own experience, on a very 
large scale in Mississippi, is that Broom 
sedge is nearly eradicated by a liberal 
application of nitrogenous manures. In 
our cattle feeding here, we have used 
large quantities of cotton-seed meal and 
hulls. This manure spread upon the 
pastures, soon eradicated the larger part 
of the Broom sedge. Perhaps in the 
short article the term “soil poverty” 
was not fully understood. In the con¬ 
text, I supposed it would be readily seen 
that I meant available plant food. The 
same reasoning may be applied to the 
daisies. The university farm, 20 years 
ago, was covered with the common white 
daisy. They have been driven out by 
systematically fertilizing the land. 
Peter Henderson & Co., of this city 
now offer for the first time two of our 
wheats which the firm has kindly named 
Rural New-Yorker No. 57 and Rural 
New-Yorker No. 6. The first, of which 
an excellent portrait is presented at Pig. 
166, is a heavily-bearded variety, the par¬ 
entage of which is one of our cross-bred 
varieties fertilized with a cross-breed of 
Velvet Chaff. The down (“velvet”) upon 
the glumes is very light, though perhaps 
heavy enough to resist the green fiy, but 
not dense enough to invite mildew, which 
is often an objection to Velvet Chaff. 
We have raised our hybrids and cross¬ 
breeds only upon very small plots. Prom 
such trials, the No. 57 appeared to be a 
heavy yielder, with large, symmetrical, 
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