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THE RURAL WEW-YORKER. 
Miscellaneous. 
C. S. C., Sweetsbunj , Canada. —1. In plant¬ 
ing corn on closer sod, should the ground be 
manured with barn-yard manure? The farm¬ 
ers here claim it would not be safe to risk a 
corn crop ou clover alone. An old farmer 
who has tried clover says he never could plow 
under all the clover. 2. Are the Black 
Champion Oats for sale; 8. In sheltered 
places, the ground here thaws as early as 
Aprd 1st; would it be safe to plant early 
garden peas then ? 4. How deep should corn 
be j»l Mi ted in drills' 5. Which is the best feed 
for sheep: barley, corn or oil cake, and how 
much should he given each sheep—they rre 
fed on Timothy bay? (>. Can a briar rose be 
crossed with other roses? 7. W. S. Weld, 
Jamestown, N. Y., ‘’nurseryman,” has a 
dollar of mine sent for strawberry plants; but 
several letters have failed to induce him to 
send mo either the plants or the dollar. 8. Is 
it a good plan to feed sulphur to cattle in 
Winter as a preventive of lice. 9. In plowing 
sod for potatoes, should the manure bo plowed 
under or scattered in Spring and harrowed in? 
ANS.—1. Soil so rich as to grow clover so 
large that it canuot be plowed under, should 
raise a good crop of corn. We should much 
prefer to cut the clover, feed it to some stock 
with plenty of grain, and return the manure 
to the land, thau to plow down the clover. It 
is worth nearly as much, and if fed with 
pleuty of grain, much more as manure, after 
than before it is fed. 2 They will be offered 
for silo by seedsmen next Spring; but they 
are pretty late, except where the season is 
long. 3. You will be safe in pluuting them 
4 Plant the same depth as for hill-planting. 
5. Barley or earn, and oil cake meal, in the 
proportion of two pounds of barley or corn 
und one of oil meal. If for fattening, com¬ 
mence feeding very lightly, and gradually 
iucrease the amount to all they will eat, and 
if they are t .0 be fed more than 13 weeks, they 
should have u ration of some green food at 
least twice each week, it would be better 
everyday. If for store use, feed enough so 
they shall not fall off in flesh. 6. They cau, 
no doubt, be crossed, if they bloom at the 
same time. 7. We are afraid he is a fraud. 
8. No; if enough is fed to have any effect, it 
has two much of a medicinal effect. Better 
keep them clean and card occasionally. 9. 
Much better scattered after the sod is plowed 
down, and harrow and cultivate in. 
P. V. S., Ued Bank, N. J.—What is the 
best way and time to manure an asparagus 
bed? (field culture.) It is now hilled up—tops 
not cut off. Last, year we used two tons of 
Lister’s fertilizer, putting it on the hill after 
plowing it open. What bind of manure will 
be the best now? 
Ans — A liberal application of coarse stable 
manure put on now will enrich and at the 
same time protect the plants. Salt and super¬ 
phosphates may be applied with good results, 
in the Spring. 
T. IS., MonturfIhi, lit.— How thick was the 
mulch on the potatoes at the Rural Grounds, 
and was it raked off before digging? 
Ans —The mulch was of cut hay about 
two inches thick spread in and across the 
trenches after the seed pieces had been cov¬ 
ered with two inches of soil. The fertilizers 
were strewn upon the hay and the trenches 
then filled with the soil taken out ot them. 
IF. C., Chariton, Ohio .—How should our 
Amaryllis vittata be cared for? 
Ans.— Plunge it out of-doors iu Summer, 
keep it moderately dry; iu Fall before frost 
comes, lift and bring indoors and keep nearly 
quite dry and cool (a minimum of 40°) during 
Winter. In Spring, give it a little more 
water aud introduce it to warmer, sunnier 
quarters. When active growth sets iu, water 
liberally. 
O.J., Orange tulle, Out. Canada,—W hat re¬ 
liable commission firm iu New York City will 
sell eggs ou consignment? 2. How can I learn 
the price of eggs at certain seasons of the 
year? 
Ans.— 1. E. O. Ward, 279 Washington St. 
2. The prices are given every week iu the 
market reports of the Rural. 
II. (r. C ., l.r.riiitjtun. Kg —What are the 
names of prominent dairymen iu New York- 
State from whom I might get prices and des 
crlptious of calves? 
Ans.— O. S. Blodgett, Fredonia, N. Y.; 
Harris Lewis, Franktord, N. Y.; F. D. Curtis, 
Charlton, N. Y. 
hi. Midland, Mich .—What is the best hedge 
plant for this section? It must be harexy, 
strong enough to turn cattle, aud be kept 
feet high wheu full-grown? 
Ans, —All things considered, we should 
choose the ornamental Japan Quinces—Pyrns 
J aponica. 
Will J. H. Rhoads who sends three subscrip¬ 
tions, please send his address. 
DISCUSSION. 
C. W. G , Waynesboro, Pa.—I, too, can¬ 
not see the application of the old saying, 
“penuy wise and pound foolish,” to manuring 
in the hill for corn or other plants. We put 
manure in the hills to give “the plant a start” 
—just so. A vigorous plant will shoot its 
roots and rootlets more lustily, and thus, bav- 
iug more feeders, will he able to secure plaut 
food where a poor plant will nearly starve. 
A strong plant, well rooted, will be able to 
use thi water from rainfall or irrigation to 
advantage, while evaporation will deprive 
the poor plant, poorly rooted, of the same 
benefit. 
R. N.-Y.:— It is true the corn plant vigor¬ 
ously started has the advantage of one that 
begins life otherwise. But it should be re¬ 
membered that the larger and more vigorous 
the plaut, the more food it needs. When aud 
after the ears set is the time wheu it most 
needs food. The roots then extend from row 
to row or hill to hill. The plants manured in 
the hill alone are provided with the least 
food wheu it is most needed. Iu the one case 
you have a fat infant which is starved as it 
grows older; iu the other,a somewhat delicate 
infant, that is well fed afterwards. The right | 
way. however, is to spread manure enough to 
supply an abundance of food during all stages ' 
of life. 
M. II , Warren, Ohio, —In the Rural of 
November 29, "Stockman,” speaking of the 
fuss made about contagious diseases of live 
stuck, and the means already taken to suppres- 
them, says: "It is time for stockmen to take 
the business into their own hands, and out ot 
Government control: for there has been no 
instance in history % ot - any Government inter¬ 
fering in the management of private business 
without making a mess of it.” How can the 
stockmen take the suppression of contagious 
diseases into their own hands? Each mau 
who owns diseased animals might, it is true, 
slaughter or strictly quarantine them for the 
benefit of his neighbors; but. all experience iu 
this and other countries goes to prove that 
very few stock-owners are so public-spirited 
as to be willing to incur a personal loss for the 
advantage of others. Before the average 
stock owner will consent to lo*o an ailing 
beast,he will try to cure it, or will sell it alive or 
dead. If stockmen form associations for the 
suppression of these diseases, such associations 
cau have no authority beyond the influence of 
public opinion; and, how, therefore, are they 
to enforce any regulations they may have 
formed? 
Is the suppression of a contagious disease 
that threatens enormous injury to the live¬ 
stock interests of the country at large, a 
“private busims?” It is acknowledged on all 
bands that the protection of the people agaiust 
contagious diseases is the duty of the public 
authoiities; lienee quarantines against yellow 
f ever, cholera, etc.; aud the Isolation of pati¬ 
ents suffering from small pox aud other danger¬ 
ous contagious diseases,in cities; the embargo 
ou rags from cholera-infected countries, etc. 
—why should it not bo likewise the duty 
of the public authorities to protect the people’s 
property from threatened loss of stupendous 
extent? In whut country in the world huvo 
private parties ever stamped out or even 
checked any contagious diseases among men 
or beasts? A week or two ago, the cable in¬ 
formed us that,for the first, time iu many years, 
Great Bn ain was entirelyjfree from rout arnl- 
mouth disease among its live stock: was free¬ 
dom secured by private co-oporafciou or by 
governmental action? Isn't it a fact, that the 
energetic measures adopted by the Govern¬ 
ment to effect this end, caused a great deal of 
discontent among a large proportion of stock¬ 
men? Could Great Britian have over been 
freed from the plague, by the action of pri¬ 
vate parties? Vet combination among stock¬ 
men would be much more eusily formed and 
influential there than here, owiug to the 
smaller sizo of the country, the greater con¬ 
centration of the stock-owning interests, and 
the absence of special sectional interests. 
Again 1 ask how can stockmen take this busi¬ 
ness out of the control of the Government; 
bow can they conduct it themselves, aud is 
the suppression of a widespread disease that 
threatens an appalling public calamity a 
•‘private business?” 
COMwnmcATioas kbckivko eon this wkkk kndiru 
Saturday. Dec, 13. 
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P. W.-P. MKi. N. G.-U. E. M —H. S. —K. M.-T.K. 
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