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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Crimson Clover at Home. 
R. S. C., Harmons, Md. —Speaking from 
the standpoint of a trucker and fruit 
grower, the value of Crimson clover for 
green manuring can hardly he overesti¬ 
mated. 1 have used it as a catch crop 
between seasons, and find it an easy mat¬ 
ter to grow a crop of clover while almost 
everything else is dormant. I usually 
sow it at the last working of late toma¬ 
toes, sugar or field corn, late beans, 
melons, etc., and wherever it does not 
interfere with the preparation and culti¬ 
vation of early spring crops. I find it 
especially valuable to sow upon upturned, 
weedy stiibble fields, about the middle 
of August, before the weeds form seeds. 
1 have frequently sown it upon pea .stub¬ 
ble when the weeds were as high as 
the horses’ backs, thus getting the benefit 
of the weeds turned under, besides de¬ 
stroying a host of them. 
A thorough preparation of the soil by 
repeated harrowings upon rough stubble 
lands, is necessary, however, to get a 
good stand. Sown early enough to get 
a good start, it will withstand our se¬ 
verest winters, and will make a quick 
and considerable growth during any mild 
spells that may occur before spring. 
Crimson clover will endure an astonish¬ 
ing amount of grazing during the fall 
and spring months. Last season I had 
a fine stand of this clover upon which 
horses and cattle grazed from October 1 
till November 1, reducing a six-inch 
growth down to almost the level of a 
sheep pa.sture. Ry way of experiment, 
I again grazed it in the same manner for 
one month in the spring with no evidence 
of its being injured thereby. At mowing 
t’lne, it was more than two feet in height, 
and seemed to be all the thicker from the 
severe grazing \indergone. 1 might note, 
however, that the catch was extra good, 
and a top-dressing of stable manure was 
given at the time of sowing, early in 
August. I have successfully grown a 
crop of corn year after year on the same 
land, sowing the Crimson clover at the 
last working, and plowing it in when in 
full bloom (about May 10). How long 
this can be kept up, remains to be seen ; 
but there is no reason why the crops of 
corn and clover should not improve each 
year. 
Its value for hay is no longer in doubt 
with me, as an experience of five years 
has proved. It is fully as satisfactory in 
this respect as the ISIedium clover. The 
greatest drawback arises from the fact 
that it is ready for cutting before good 
haying weather prevails. It should be 
cut when in full bloom, as delay will 
cause it to be bx'ash and woody, and much 
loss will follow by the shattering of the 
heads or blossoms. 
For pasture, a mixture of Orchard 
grass and Crimson clover sown in August, 
has given continuous grazing all through 
the season, the Orchard grass springing 
up through the clover stubble, and fur¬ 
nishing good pasturage throughout the 
rest of the season. Another experiment 
of sowing the two together, and cutting 
the clover for hay, was equally as satis¬ 
factory. The Orchard grass did not ap¬ 
pear to be very thick among the clover, 
and was seemingly smothered out, but 
quickly grew into the finest kind of a 
pasture two weeks after cutting the 
clover. 
Remarks on Experiment Stations. 
W., Monroe, Wis.— The R. N.-Y.is in¬ 
clined to criticise the experiment stations 
for being so slow with their wheat feed¬ 
ing experiments. Well, give them time 
(and money) and they will get there 
ultimately just as some of them did with 
Paris-green to destroy potato bugs. After 
Western potato growers had been using 
it for three or four years, some professor 
gravely informed them that from his 
scientific experiments along that line, it 
would kill the bugs and would not soak 
down the stalks, and thus poison the 
tubers ; or did it seem probable that it 
would, for .some time at least, poisdn the 
soil to any disastrous extent, at any rate, 
not if only enough was used to destroy 
the bugs ! It was reassuring and com¬ 
forting to know it in that way. Perhaps 
he thought the farmers would scatter it 
on like manure, by the wagon-load, if he 
didn’t tell them better. 
The farmers are solving the wheat 
question without waiting for any one. 
A Western man recently wrote to a 
Chicago daily, that he hAd fed thousands 
of bushels of wheat grown by him and 
other thousands purchased, to hogs, car¬ 
loads of them bringing the outside 
price in Chicago, never having known 
the taste of corn. Under the conditions 
then prevailing (wheat 35 cents and corn 
60 cents), or anything like such condi¬ 
tions, it does not take long for the West¬ 
ern grower to- solve the problem of 
wheat feeding to hogs and other animals, 
and to begin vigorously to put the sur¬ 
plus where it will do some good. Rut 
why farmers in that part of the West 
where corn can be grown should persist 
in growing wheat at prevailing prices, 
is strange, when they could grow enough 
corn on the same area to buy three or 
four times as much wheat or fiour as 
they produce. The chinch bug may yet 
mercifully compel them to quit, just as 
it did in this locality, once famous for its 
Milwaukee Club wheat, and now for its 
cheese and butter, and very much to the 
farmer’s benefit. 
The last annual report of our own 
State Experiment Station is packed and 
crowded with facts, figures, tables and 
conclusions of vital interest to cultiva¬ 
tors, feeders and dairymen, and yet I 
look in vain for a helpful word about 
varieties of small fruits, or anything of 
much importance on any horticultural 
topic. It is to be hoped that with a hor¬ 
ticultural building well equipped, pro¬ 
fessors and presumably pupils, \\ e shall 
eventually learn from them something 
about varieties and the best treatment, 
especially when other departments are 
so admirably conducted—and results so 
tersely and clearly set forth. 
The Pickett’s Late Peach. 
C. P. S., Da-Uphin County, Pa.—O n 
page 668, The R. N.-Y. wishes to know 
what kind of a peach the Pickett’s Late 
is. I have 200 trees, five years old. which 
have borne two full crops and a part of a 
crop. It is a good grower and bearer, 
large to very large, and the sweetest and 
best fiavored peach in the orchard or our 
nursery. It is round in shape, yellow 
with a red cheek, thick in fiesh with a 
small pit. The fiesh sticks somewhat to 
the pit. 
“Phosphate " Not a Good Word. 
J. C. S., Ore Ranks, Va.—W hy does 
not C. S. Rice say that he hauled 10, 20, 
30 or more loads of fertilizer on an acre 
of ground ? Manure is a fertilizer, and, 
though of an organic nature, may con¬ 
tain the same proportions of fertilizing 
elements contained in the inorganic or 
mineral fertilizers he is pleased to call 
by the generic name “ phosphate.” Why 
doesn’t he call a lemon pie a custard pie? 
I have known both to be made with 
identically the same articles, only in dif¬ 
ferent proportions. Why does he not 
call corrosive sublimate calomel ? Roth 
are composed of the very same sub¬ 
stances, mercury and chlorine. There 
is a difference of but a single atom in 
their composition, but oh, how terrible 
the difference as a whole! Why not 
have his biscuits made with carbonate 
instead of bi-carbonate of soda ? The 
ingredients are the same, only there is a 
single atom more of hydrogen supplant¬ 
ing an atom of sodium in a molecule of 
the latter. Why not call his well a lake? 
The constituents and, possibly, even the 
proportions, may be the same. Uric acid is 
composed of carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen 
and oxygen. Then why not call the at¬ 
mosphere by the same name, for, on 
analysis, Mr. Rice will find it containing 
the same elements ? Ah, there is some¬ 
thing in a name. Charcoal, graphite 
and diamond are all carbon, but the 
blacksmith does not call for a load of 
diamonds when out of charcoal. 
Agriculture is getttng to be a more 
and more exact science, and it be¬ 
hooves us to make use of exact nomen¬ 
clature. A “phosphate” is a combina¬ 
tion, not mixture, of phosphoric acid 
with some other substance for which it 
has a chemical affinity. A mixture is no 
longer a phosphate. In some of the 
mixed fertilizers, phosphoric acid may 
be the least factor, and, if the prepon¬ 
derance of an element were to be our 
guide, it would be more proper for us to 
call the mixture a nitrate or a muriate, 
or, possibly, a nitro-muriate. 
Outwit the Squash Bugs. 
G. A. S., lIuBRARDSTON, Micii.—Some 
one in a late Rurai. asks how to grow 
squashes. Like many others, the in¬ 
quirer has failed on account of the squash 
bug. This is the way I outwit the squash 
bug : In some back lot, if possible, in 
one corner or even the middle of the corn 
field, with no pumpkins in it, I plant one- 
eighth of an acre to squashes only, and 
at or just after planting corn, about June 
1. I have tried this plan twice, and have 
had all the squashes I wanted and to 
give to neighbors. This year, 1 grew 
two wagon-loads, and had there been 
more rain, I would have had double that 
amount. 
Get Rid of Corn Stumps. 
C. P. A., Westville, Conn. —In reply 
to the question about how to get rid of 
corn stumps, I suggest that the best way 
is not to have any. My corn fields, after 
the crop is removed, show no evidence of 
having been planted to corn. The only 
tool fit to cut corn with, is a clam hoe, or 
—as some of your inland readers do not 
know the bliss that accompanies the 
process of digging clams—a common hoe 
that has been worn down by use until it 
has been thrown aside. Cut oft' the 
handle about two feet from the shank, 
grind or file the blade to a keen edge, 
and you have a tool that will cut corn 
rapidly and well, if there is a good man 
or boy at the end of it. A swinging blow 
clips oft' the stalks in a hill just at the 
surface of the soil, leaving no stumps, 
and the blade also will pick up fallen 
stalks readily. I have cut an acre of 
heavy corn in five hours with such a tool, 
and set it up over a stacking horse in 
five hours more. For a consideration, I 
think 1 could do it yet. 
Meat for Cotton Growers. 
C. C., Shreveport, La.—F armers here 
are all cotton planters ; they admit, how¬ 
ever, that with cotton at 41^ cents per 
pound, something must be done. One 
man whom I induced to plant Alfalfa, 
makes his own hay and has 185 hogs on 
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