THE MAILBAG 
Chemicals Burn a Lawn 
I Imve put our lawn in had condition. 
Can you tell me where I made the mis¬ 
take? I generally give it a dressing of 
bonemeal in middle of .Summer. This 
year I gave it as follows; One part 
nitrate of soda, three parts sulphate of 
potash, six parts acid phosphate. 20 parts 
bonemeal. Mixed all together and spread 
broadcast by hand. In 21 hours the lawn 
was burned up. I spread it ou during 
one of our recent rainstorms. Hailey’s 
“Farm and Garden Rule Book” advises 
these four fertilizers for lawns, and I 
made the proportions much less than he 
advises. What would you advise to do 
now? w. H.P. 
Connecticut. 
There is absolutely nothing in the 
chemicals you name which could possibly 
burn the lawn as you describe, unless you 
used too heavy a dressing. We would 
be willing to use 1,000 lbs. of such a 
mixture per acre. You may have used 
too much, or you may have used some 
poisonous or corrosive chemical by mis¬ 
take. A mixture such as you name 
would not hurt grass. We think the 
lawn will recover and show green once 
more in a short time. 
A “Snake” to Scare Birds 
In a recent issue someone asked about 
getting an artificial snake to put in trees 
to keep birds away from cherries. Pieces 
of rope about ft. long put Tip near the 
top of the trees answer the purpose. 
Sparrows especially bothered a big. 
black, sweet cherry tree, and we put a 
piece of rope in it and they have not 
disturbed the cherries since. The tree is 
loaded with late cherries at the present 
time. Mrs. c. R. Y. 
Albion, N. Y. 
A Roomier Open Car—A Greater Chassis 
You can have no appreciation of smoothness is even more pro- 
what this price buys until you nounced. You will instantly note 
examine and drive it. its greater beauty. Its care and 
rr-, ,, i j r- t attention are easier, cleaner, 
To all that made Essex such a more convenient . 
wonderful value in the past are 
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never before offered in a car of suspected in any except the large 
its price class. Roomier seating, costly cars. 
wider doors and greater riding j t f oves in Service 
ease, contribute something new ^ 
in personal comfort. Old owners tell you of a car so 
enduringly designed 
and built that its per¬ 
formance improves for 
thousands of miles. 
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Peach Borers and Tobacco 
Tobacco dust, as you say, will do the 
work for cucumber beetles. It will also 
keep borers out of peach trees if used 
freely at top of ground and just below. 
It is also good fertilizer for the trees. 
North Carolina. II. D. L. 
R. N.-Y.—This is new to us. We did 
not know that tobacco dust will kill 
peach borers. 
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Back of the new Essex 
is all we learned in 
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A Dog and Woodchucks 
We have seen articles in The R. N.-Y. 
about killing woodchucks, and thought 
you might be interested in Peter’s story. 
Peter followed our team home just before 
Christmas. l!)20. lie was minus both a 
name and a collar. We called him a 
“Christmas present,” and he seemed to 
want a Christmas present of a home. At 
any rate, be stayed with us, and before 
long we wanted him to stay. 
The Summer before the woodchucks 
had destroyed the garden and tramped 
down the grain. We tried every way 
to catch them, and couldn’t. Very soon 
in the Spring Peter began bunting wood¬ 
chucks. lie was soon killing one every 
day. sometimes three. When one gets in 
a stone wall and be can’t get it out, be 
barks until someone comes to help him. 
Just move a few stones—Peter does the 
rest. Tn one week we know that he killed 
11 woodchucks. 
This Summer lie is at it again, but, 
needless to say, there are not so many 
woodchucks about. He watches every 
woodchuck hole and stone wall on three 
farms, and is very business-like about it, 
going the rounds every day. That is how 
a little dog earned for himself a home, 
a name, and a license collar. G. R. C. 
New York. 
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Pumpkin Seeds for Worms 
Since writing about the use of pump¬ 
kin seeds for worms iu dogs ‘and cats, I 
have received several requests for more 
definite directions. Cats will eat the 
dried seeds, either cooked or raw. and 
will often beg for them when needed. 
Four or five seeds are usually enough at 
a rime, though one cat who, to the horror 
of his mistress, ate 20 at one sitting, 
suffered no ill effect. For my dogs, which 
are full-grown collies, I cook and grind 
or cut up the 1 seeds and put them with 
the food with the water they were cooked 
in. though l am not sure there is much 
good in the water. Fifteen or 20 at a 
time are not too many. They may be 
cooked and added to the dough of dog 
bread and so baked, 
I have not bad experience with different 
sized dogs, so can say nothing definite 
about the relative number of seeds to 
give, but they are harmless to animals, 
though fatal to worms. I think the seeds 
should bo dried and not fed to the ani¬ 
mals green. MRS. c. W. PAUL. 
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I.\ Texas tlm short notion crop forced 
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One of these applied for a job at oue of 
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a eagle.”—Credit Lost. 
