The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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Damage from Deer in Pennsylvania 
What can I do with deer? They are 
getting very thick and tame; they ruin the 
corn by milling the ears from the stalk be¬ 
fore they are fully grown, so they dry up 
to uotkiug: also ruining grain by tramping 
through the grain fields when soft in the 
Fall and Spring. They are a pest in 
Bucks County. Every farmer in this place 
would like to got them away; they are no 
good tii anyone, The game warden pro¬ 
tects them well, watches them, so the 
dogs are tied and cannot drive them. 
What can we do? f. ir. 
Tinicnm, Fa. 
You can enter complaint with the 
Board of Game Commissioners at Har¬ 
risburg. Pennsylvania has not yet pro¬ 
vided for indemnity for damage done by 
wild animals, though the State ought to 
make good on such losses. Last year a 
law was passed providing that whenever 
deer, elk, hears, rabbits or blackbirds be¬ 
came a nuisance in any part of the 
State, the Game Commission may remove 
or kill such animals or birds. Under this 
law auy farm or garden owner catching 
such animals in the act of destroying his 
crops may kill them. lie must be able 
to prove that “material damage” was be¬ 
ing done, and must report such killing to 
the nearest game protector within 24 
hours. lie must also dress and properly 
care for the carcass, and have it ready 
for delivery to some charitable institu¬ 
tion. as directed by the game officers. 
Crushing Bones on a Cuban Plantation 
We have found ground bone a fine fer¬ 
tilizer for our fruit trees, and have bought 
more or less in Havana or at the slaugh¬ 
ter-house at Camaguey. It lias cost about 
•$i>0 per ton. About a year ago they 
stopped making it, and since then we 
have been hauling the bones out iu a 
field nearby, ns they kill 50 head or more 
every day, and the meat is cut from 
many of the larger bones. There are car¬ 
loads there going lo waste. They can be 
bought as low as 50 cents per ton. The 
freight to our place is $30 per car. Can 
we take the raw bones and make a satis¬ 
factory fertilizer? I have an idea that 
it miglif be done with quicklime, but do 
not know just the process. 1 kuow the 
bone meal the florists use is made by 
using sulphuric acid, but doubt if we 
could do it tbnt way here. The bone 
meal we formerly bought was cooked by 
steam under pressure, but that way also 
is out of the question. I think it would 
have to be the quicklime method or a mill 
that would grind or crush it. say to about 
like cracked corn. I hate to think of all 
those bones going to waste while they 
might be doing us so much good here. 
Cuba. e. 
Of course any farmer would hate ro 
see all these hones going to waste. They 
contain all the phosphorus that a dozen 
plantations peed. We have told several 
times how such hones may be handled. 
Quicklime will he of little help with the 
larger bones. Packing in wood ashes 
and keeping the mass moist will soften 
the bones somewhat so they can be 
smashed with a heavy sledge. The fertilizer 
makers steam such bones under high pres¬ 
sure. and this fierce cooking makes them 
easier to crush. Y'our best plan, unless 
you have a steam cooker, is to smash the 
hoties as well as you can and crush them 
in a mill or grinder. Special mills for 
this purpose are made. If you have 
power from a tractor you can doubtless 
rig up some sort of homemade contrivance 
for smashing or cracking the hard hones. 
We have seen such things made like a 
triphammer and an anvil or a pile-driver. 
If you can smash the bones into fair¬ 
sized pieces the grinder will crush them 
reasonably fine. The manufacturers use 
sulphuric acid, but we do not advise its 
use on the farm. This is (oo good a 
chance to let go, and it will pay you to 
spend some money on an outfit. 
Marketing Wild Cherries 
What can I do with ripe wild cherries? 
I have about 75 trees full, and all ripe. 
Gan T dry them? What do the above 
bring in New York market when dry? 
Lakewood. N. J. h. g. 
There is practically no market for dried 
wild cherries this Fall. A very limited 
demand brought tic a pound, but there 
would be little use in shipping here. Wild 
cherry bark brings to Okie a pound, 
the higher price being paid for “all thin 
and green.” Try to prepare a pound of 
this dried bark and see how it will pay 
for the labor. Among other prices for 
barks and herbs this Fall are: Black 
haw. bark of root, 16c; burdock root. 
7 Vjc; catnip leaves, 8 to 13c: dandelion 
root, tie; lady slipper root, 26c: sumac 
berries, 3c ; tansy leaves, 12c. and sassa¬ 
fras roots, 2c. 
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