The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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Chemicals in North Dakota 
Wc use u<> fertilizer, only a little manure 
on the grain land. I r isert three crops 
for three years, and every year we had 
bad, rusty straw. In Austria our pro¬ 
fessor at fartmus* college said if Ihe straw 
gets weak, give the land an application 
of lime. I wonder if that, would help 
here against that blight, smut, or mildew. 
The local farmers call that disease rust. 
The dictionary calls it. blight, smut, mil¬ 
dew. Against smut we use formaldehyde, 
treating the seed. We have bore a sandy 
soil. l)o you think if I spread a few 
sacks of lime on a small field I -would 
get any results? If I could get. a small 
strip of baud covered with lime and have 
results, I could get lime from Ihe lumber 
yard iu 50-lb. bags. On which crop 
(wheat, barley, oats or millet) would I 
find best results, if any? L. H. 
North Dakota. 
We well understand what it means to 
advocate chemical fertilizers in the Far 
West. Yet, we believe there are many 
localities where lime, potash or phos¬ 
phorus would pay. We think the lime 
will make a good showing, hut potash 
would be likely to help when the grain is 
diseased. If you can get a quantity of 
unleached ashes of wood or straw, they 
eau be used as an experiment. It will 
not prove much, since the ashes contain 
lime and phosphorus in addition to pot¬ 
ash, but they might Show an indication, 
at least. If you could get a small quan¬ 
tity of acid phosphate or fine bone, we 
feel sure it would give results. 
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llSBBPWrN n^HE advice they gave 
M J -L him for getting on in 
if the world was simple and 
i^j'j familiar enough: “Keep 
what you have, and build 
on it. Be careful what 
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It’s a safe rule—with money or health, 
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health, until they have lost what they had. 
Then it’s hard to get a new supply. 
Postum is a splendid help in saving 
health from the very common losses 
through the drug elements of tea and 
coffee — whose effects on the nervous 
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Thousands of people who think it wise 
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They find this famous cereal beverage a 
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You can begin with Postum today, with 
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'"Save what you have, and build on it,’* 
is sound policy for anybody. 
Postum comes in two forms: Instant Postum (in tins) 
made instantly in the cup by the addition of boiling water. 
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Propagating the Strawberry 
I intend to go heavily into strawberries 
and wish to raise niy own plants (buy¬ 
ing, of course, the first plants to start 
with, i The plants the nurseries are sell¬ 
ing are. I suppose, the runner plants 
which the parent plant made the year be¬ 
fore. As I understand it, the nursery¬ 
man sets out his runner plant in (he 
Spring* and this plant becomes the par¬ 
ent plant, and he sells the runner plants 
of this plant the following Spring. What 
becomes of the parent plant? When the 
nursery people dig those plants in the 
Spring do they take out the runner plants 
and keep them for sale and take the 
whole row. old plant and all, or how is 
it done? Is the parent plant larger at 
(he time of digging than the plants which 
they sell? Why c-annot the rnnner plants 
be token up and (be parent plant, instead 
of letting it fruit, be left to produce an¬ 
other season of runners? Is thp plant 
capable of producing good runner plants 
a second year, or is the vitality of the 
plant exhausred after producing runners 
one season? Just how is this done? Do 
(he nursery men discard the parent plane 
at digging time? E. E. o. 
The strawberry is propagated prin¬ 
cipally by means of runners, as E. E. O. 
suggests. These are long, cord-like stems 
which are <ent out by the mother plant, 
and at their nodes, or joints, produce a 
cluster of leaves and later send down 
roots, forming a new plant. Each cord 
or runner may produce from one to three 
plants. If one is anxious to have the 
runners root in the shortest possible time 
and to get the largest possible number of 
plants, assistance can bo given by plac¬ 
ing a piece of sod over the joint, or push¬ 
ing it gently into the soil. The mother 
plant produces fruit at the same time the 
runners are growing and young plants 
forming. If the plant is examined, flow¬ 
er clusters will be found in tlie crown at 
the same time the long bare runners are 
growing around the sides. Some growers 
make a practice of setting aside a partic¬ 
ular bed for propagation purposes, in¬ 
stead of taking the plants from the fruit¬ 
ing rows, as is usually done. When this 
custom, is followed the entire row cun be 
dug at setting time, the best plants se¬ 
lected and the remainder discarded. This 
has two advantages: in that the fruiting 
bed is not damaged, and that the very 
best plants are used for setting. 
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A Hedge of Lilac 
Wc live on a farm of 57 acres, but our 
neighbor’s pasture comes to about 40 ft. 
from the south side of house. It is nn 
apple orchard ns well, with trees close to 
the Tine, so we <lr> not wish to set trees 
along wire fence, and yet wish foliage to 
bide fence. The pasture itself is pleasant 
to look into, but, fence posts and wire 
arc not. We cannot pay for a privet 
hedge, but can get all we like of white 
lilac. Does* that make a good hedge? 
Ttow does it act by pruning? Does Lt 
flower less? We would set about 18 in. 
or 2 ft. this side of fenee. and thou lower 
shrubbery this way. Hedge to be about 
100 ft. long. MRS. J. P. 
White lilac would be excellent as a 
hedge, though it could not he pruned to 
shape like privet. Any pruning must be 
done immediately after the flowering, 
when the faded inflorescence should be 
removed, and awkward and unshapely 
branches trimmed. Pruning at any other 
season will remove flower buds. A hedge 
of white lilac would be beautiful when 
in bloom, and if kept in good condition 
would be clean and attractive at all 
times. Anyone who can have a white 
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