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PULVERIZER 
JOHNSTON HARVESTER GO. 
FARMERS' CLUB. 
(CONTINUED.) 
filled up so that they are now doing less 
damage. 
“ This field was originally a brushy 
swamp and hush pasture, and I have 
used in bringing it up commercial fer¬ 
tilizers almost entirely, the foundation 
of which has been bone, potash and 
nitrate of soda. It has now been seeded 
four, five and six years, and all of it is 
doing very well. Year before last, the 
third year after it had all been seeded, I 
cut 64 tons of well-dried hay from the 16 
acres. Last year, a bad season, I cut 
but 60 tons and 1,300 pounds, a little less 
than four tons per acre. The very wettest 
portion of the field produced, in these 
two years, a little over six tons of well 
dried hay to the acre. Thus far it has 
cost me for fertilizers, from $3 to $5 
per ton of hay—less per tou upon the 
moist land. I use one to three coats of 
fertilizer upon each grown crop, accord¬ 
ing to the progress of the growth of the 
crop. So far as I can now see, it will be 
possible to continue a good stand and a 
large annual crop of grass, for many 
years, as the stand now appears very 
healthy. 1 am experimenting this year 
more particularly on the dry portion of 
the field. I used some of my spring fer¬ 
tilizers upon this dry portion just before 
the frost went in in the fall, and am 
to-day again coating it for the purpose 
of getting an extremely early growth, 
hoping thus to obtain a much larger crop 
upon the dry field. I believe that if the 
moisture were correct, with proper fer¬ 
tilizers, eight tons of well-dried hay 
could be secured at one crop from one 
acre. No animal is allowed to feed upon 
my grass field. The last work performed 
upon it before the snow falls, is to cut 
it as closely as possible with a sharp 
mower, rake it clean and leave the 
stubble free and bare for winter. 
“The seed which I adopted as the 
best, is 14 quarts of Timothy, 14 quarts 
of Red-top, and four quarts of clover for 
each acre. While large grass can be 
grown with barnyard fertilizers, not 
more than two-thirds as much can be 
grown with them as with the proper 
kind of commercial fertilizers, for the 
reason that its bulk is such that it takes 
up too large a portion of the surface, 
and thereby interferes materially with 
the stand. I haye cut all of my grass in 
its early blossom. Timothy and Red-top 
mature well together, and when in the 
proper proportions, increase the weight 
about one-third. The weight of hay 
heretofore given includes only the first 
crop. Where a second crop is expected, 
another application of fertilizer is 
needed.” 
Treatment for Diseased Seed. 
Several Subscribers .—What is a good method for 
soaking grain or potatoes to cure smut or scab 't 
What device is used ? 
Axs.—Mr. R. W. Main, of Condo, N. 
D., sends the following description of 
his method of treating seed wheat which 
has proved very satisfactory to him : 
Make a water-tight box, 1 2 feet long, 3 feet wide 
and 1 foot deep; take a board six inches wide, 
cut to fit crosswise inside the box, saw five or six 
notches in the board, four inches deep by four 
inches wide, tack common screen wire over the 
board, and fit the board in the center of the box, 
and you are ready for business. Place the box in 
or near the granary, on a piece 6x6, six inches 
from the center; it will then be a little out of bal¬ 
ance, thus making one end of the box heavier 
than the other, and so giving the operator full 
control over the box in tilting it; naturally the 
heavy end will rest on the ground. Pour the 
bluestone solution in the box until it comes up to 
the lower edge of the screen board; tilt it up until 
the solution runs to the other end of the box; the 
screen will not let any straws, dirt or pieces of 
bluestone run in; shovel in the wheat until it 
comes up nearly level with the top of the screen 
board; then take an old hoe or rake and stir the 
wheat until satisfied that it is all thoroughly 
soaked, and after three minutes it will be ready 
to draw off. You will now find floating on top all 
the unbroken smut balls, chaff, oats, and all other 
dirt that will float; now you are ready to take all 
the smut, oats and dirt out. Tilt the box up until 
the water starts to run over the screen board, and 
you will see smut balls, dirt, etc., floating down 
to the center, and when the right time comes as 
the operator can tell, give it a quick tilt, and over 
goes all the smut balls, oats and dirt, floated over 
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