1895 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
245 
FARMERS’ CLUB DISCUSSION. 
(continued). 
the purpose. I continue in this way, 
until all the materials are on the pile. 
I mix a ton at a time. We then take 
hoes and commence cutting straight 
down the pile, being careful to just cut 
enough to pull back the hoeful ; if too 
much is cut off it will not mix so well. 
Any one can see the wisdom of this 
after he has mixed a ton or two. I cut 
it over in this way twice, when the 
materials are thoroughly mixed. This 
formula may not look right to you, but 
it works well in this section. I have 
tried this mixture beside fertilizers cost¬ 
ing more than twice as much, and never 
could see any difference in yield or any 
other way. 
Crimson Clover in New York State. 
S. M. W., Ripley, N. Y.—I was the 
first one to sow Crimson clover in this 
town. I sowed August 12, in the corn, 
one acre, some poor sandy knolls in the 
vineyard, and some other small patches 
on different soils varying from clay to 
black loam, with and without a light 
dressing of fine manure. The seed was 
in the ground from August 12 to Septem¬ 
ber 5, before the rain came to start it. 
The stand is not so good pn that account, 
no doubt ; but in every place it has 
passed the winter all right; even where 
it was poorest, and the snow was all 
blown off. Where it was covered with 
three or four inches of snow, it is as 
green and bright as before the frost 
came last fall. The thermometer was 
down to 14 below zero at one time. My 
land adjoins Lake Erie. I treated my 
potato seed with the corrosive sublimate 
solution last spring, two ounces to 16 
gallons of water, and soaked one hour. 
I grow only for my own use. 1 did not 
have one bad scabby potato, some had a 
few small scabs. 
A Dandelion Farmer. 
W. G. D., Belleville, 0.—To The 
It. N.-Y.’s comment on that raspberry 
story, on page 177, I heartily say, amen ! 
But I have already been and done like¬ 
wise, two years ago this spring, and now 
we expect with much satisfaction to 
reap the rewards of our labor this com¬ 
ing summer. 1 wish to say that there 
is another thing besides berries that 
many a wife goes hunting through the 
fields and fence corners for, which is 
also well worthy of cultivation in our 
gardens. I refer to the lowly dandelion, 
so much relished early in the spring for 
greens. The first spring after I was mar¬ 
ried, my wife spent many hours at a 
time, a good many times, in getting to¬ 
gether enough for a mess, and then 
hardly ever got enough to satisfy us all, 
for I myself am as fond of this kind of 
greens as any woman. I told her she 
should not have to do that way another 
year, but that we would have even dande¬ 
lions, the best that ever grew, right in 
our garden just as carefully cultivated 
as anything else. I bought a couple of 
papers of seed of the improved variety, 
and sowed it in two long rows in rich, 
well-prepared ground in early spring. I 
then watched and waited for many weeks 
to see them come up. I know that most 
men would have declared that never a 
seed came up. But at last, by looking 
very closely and carefully, I found here 
and there, among the weeds, very small, 
few, and far between, what I believed to 
be the dandelions ; and time proved that 
I was right. 
I hunted the two long rows all over, 
and carefully transplanted each little 
seedling to one short row, about a foot 
or more apart in the row. I write all 
this in order that others who may be in¬ 
duced to try it, may not be discouraged ; 
and shall tell you later how very easy it 
is to raise dandelions after you once 
know how. That one short row did so 
well—being well cultivated and cared 
for, of course—that the next spring we 
had a great many large messes of greens 
from it. Such large, broad leaves that 
it was a pleasure to pull and look over 
enough for a mess. Even my mother- 
in-law, after becoming used to these gar¬ 
den dandelions, declared that the wild 
ones were so bitter that they were not fit 
to eat at all any more. We picked off 
hundreds of the blossoms, but let a few 
go to seed, and I planted some of the 
seed as soon as it was ripe, and was sur¬ 
prised to see how quickly and how thick 
it came up. 
This is the secret : seed procured from 
the seedsmen comes up so very poorly, 
that you might think that not one came; 
but once get started in the way I have 
described, and then, by planting the 
freshly ripened seed in May, it is the 
easiest thing in the world to raise. Thin 
out the plants when wee seedlings, to a 
foot or 15 inches apart, and a hundred 
plants more or less, will abundantly sup¬ 
ply a family. In gathering a mess, pull 
the leaves, and do not cut off the crown 
of the plant. Of course, they are as per¬ 
fectly hardy as grass ; but I think it a 
benefit to give a winter protection of 
strawy manure, and leave it around them 
all the spring to keep them clean. 
RURAL/SMS. 
It was about 20 years ago that reading 
of castor oil beans and plants as mole 
exterminators or repellants, and being 
sorely pestered with this destructive 
little beast, we placed castor beans in all 
of the runs. In a rose bed that seemed 
a favorite foraging ground, many seeds 
were planted and, later, the little grove 
of plants was well cared for. Instead 
of driving the moles away, it so happened 
that the castor grove was selected as the 
headquarters of the mole family that in¬ 
fested that particular bed. The soil was 
tunneled so that it resembled a miniature 
range of many mountains. The castor 
oil bean and plant have since been thor¬ 
oughly tried as a mole repellant, and 
scores of reliable reports have been 
printed to show that it is absolutely 
worthless for the purpose. Now we 
have in the American Agriculturist of 
March 23, a half column article which 
tells us that the castor bean ‘-has no 
equal as an exterminator of moles - ’. 
Abstracts. 
-Dr. G. C. Caldwell: “Try Crimson 
clover by all means rather than pay 17 
cents for nitrogen.” 
-C. A. Green, in Green’s Fruit 
Grower : “I saw hundreds of farms 
in the South, on which houses had 
been erected, wells dug, trees planted, 
stumps removed and rubbish burned, 
which were deserted and all going 
to decay. These are monuments which 
should warn people who are ever mov¬ 
ing to new fields and fresh pastures. 
Stay where you are. If you have 
money enough to move to another 
State, use that money in making your¬ 
self comfortable and prosperous where 
you are. You cannot succeed anywhere 
without enterprise, economy and indus¬ 
try ; with those qualifications, you can 
succeed almost anywhere.” 
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