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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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Rural Grouuds the past season; and if so, 
which was the earlier? 
Ans. —1. By no means. Five years are 
needed to fix any cross- The cross is shown the 
first year in color and otherwise; but seeds of 
this cross will vary indefinitely for several 
years, depending upon the potency of the 
male or female parent. 3. No, the Early Ohio 
was not included. We bavs tried it many 
times, and find it the earliest of potatoes. 
Market Gardener, East New York .—Which 
is the most valuable fertilizer of the follow¬ 
ing: 
A. BRAND ANALYSIS. 
Ammonia.1*6 to 5 per cent. 
Avail, phos. acid. S to 9 “ 
Actual potash.9 to 10 “ “ 
B. BRAND ANALYSIS. 
Ammoula.(! to ll*e per cent. 
Avail, phos. acid.8 to 9 “ “ 
Actual potash.5 to 8 11 “ 
2. Please say which would be best for each of 
the following crops: Potatoes, peas, straw¬ 
berries, tomatoes, beans, buckwheat, cab¬ 
bages, melons, cucumbers and squashes. 
Wheat, rye, oats, corn, onions, turnips, beets, 
carrots? 
Ans. —1. In commercial value there is but 
little difference. 2. Manure the first group 
with the A brand, and the second group with 
B brand. Much will depend upon the land, as 
will also the quantity to be used. 
K. K., Pair nee City, Neb. —1. What do you 
know from personal experience of Whitney’s 
No. 20 crab apple? 2. When shall I make 
cuttings of Russian Mulberry, and how care 
for them? 
ans. —L Whitney’s No. 20 is among the 
best of the crabs, aud worth trying where 
ordinary apples do not succeed. 2. Cub the 
limbs into six to eight inch lengths; tie into 
bundles and bury them below the frost in any 
dry place, aud plant in Bpring as soon as pos¬ 
sible. This mulberry, however, is worthless 
for everything except perhaps as food for 
silk-worms. 
H. E. M., Linden, Cal. —t. If six-month- 
old palms are moved will they grow? 2. How 
is the retinispora progaga ted? If from seed, 
where can 1 get it? 3. Will the Kilmarnock 
Weeping Willow grow from cuttings? 
Ans. —I. Yes. 2. By seeds, cuttings and 
layers. You can procure seed of J. M. Thor- 
buru & Co., New York, or of Thomas Mee¬ 
han, Germantown, Pa., or of Robert Douglas 
& Son, Waukegan, 111. 3. Very readily: but 
unless grafted on stocks (Capraja is best) it 
will form a low, spreading bush. 
S. C. S., TFestorcr, Md .—What varieties of 
raspberries would be the most profitable here 
for market, earliness, productiveness and 
shipping qualities considered? 
Ans. —We think you cau find no better late 
berry than the Cuthhert, or Queen of the 
Market, us it. is culled in some places. For 
early, try Hansel), Rancocas and Marlboro in 
a small way. Any one of these you can get by’ 
sending us a dub of subscribers: in this way 
they will cost you only a good word. 
Subscriber, Oakland, Ky.—l. What is a 
remedy for cabbage worms? Strong soap¬ 
suds aud kerosene emulsions have proved uo 
real remedy. 2. The past season 1 lost a lot 
of Rutabagas. The decay seemed to have be- 
guu at the bud and to have extended down 
through the center of the turnip; what was 
the cause? 
Ans. —1. We think you will flud Pyrethrum 
effectual. 2. The rot is caused by hot, wet 
weather, or sometimes by blight. 
E. G. S., Athens, Ohio .—Is there any profit 
in paying one eighth toll to have corn ground 
to be fed to calves, young cattle, aud cows, in¬ 
stead of feeding it shdled? 
Ans. —It depends upon circumstances. If 
the cattle are followed by hogs or fowls, and 
are kept as stores only’, we think it will scarce¬ 
ly pay; but if they are fattening and fed suf¬ 
ficiently high for that purpose, we would prefer 
to feed the ground grain. 
M. E. Mc.M., Lockport , N.Y .—To what part 
of the South should a person go to escape 
asthma and bronchitis in Winter, and where 
he cun have good society ? 
Ans. —Aiken, 8. C., is praised as a resort for 
persons so affected; but it is a dull place. We 
should prefer the mouutaiuous region of North¬ 
western North Carolina, or the dry country 
around San Antonio, Texas. 
R S. C , Creeford, Manitoba .— Will the 
progeny of a Black Hamburg cock with Ply¬ 
mouth Rock pullets be as good fowls, and 
particularly as good mothers as the pure 
breeds? 
ans.— We should much prefer to breed the 
Plymouth Rocks pure for all purposes, and 
especially as sitters and mothers. 
IK. R. K., Abimjiton, la.—Wliat, would be 
the effect of throwing chamber urine on 
wood-ashes during the Wiuter, aud mixing 
the ashes with plaster in the Spring, the mix¬ 
ture to be applied to corn? 
Ans.— It would merely tend to leach out the 
potash of the ashes, aud it would set the am¬ 
monia of the urine free. 
-4. G., Jasper, Tenn .—Where can I get the 
£te&$ anti plants. 
J. M. THORBTJRKT dks OO., 
15 JOHN STREET, NEW YORK. 
The OLD ESTABLISHED SEED HOUSE of JYew \‘orh. 
GROWERS AHTD IMPORTERS OF 
SEEDS AND BULBS. 
Will IVEiLIXi FREE THEIR NEW FH1CEX3 CATALOGrUE of 
SEEDS, SEEDS, SEEDS, 
Atoout title Middle Of January. 
ingredients of the remedy for asthma given in 
a late Rural? 
Ans.—A ny drug store ought to be able to 
fill the prescription. 
DISCUSSION. 
G. H. A., Penn Yan, N. Y.—In your issue 
of the 13th inst., you kindly answer some 
questions with regard to the value of certain 
commercial fertilizers. You figure on this 
basis: Soluble phosphoric acid is worth 10 
cents a pound; reverted is worth 7 cents a 
pound; coarse insoluble is worth 5 cents a 
pound; nitrogen is worth 13 cents a pound. 
On this basis ymu make the value of the ma¬ 
nure in question, $30,27. But by inclosed 
sheet you will see that Prof, Kedzie says that 
soluble phosphoric acid is worth 15 cents; re¬ 
verted, 10 cents; insoluble, (i cents; nitrogen, 
25 cents; making the value of the same fertil¬ 
izer, $40 22. In Encyclopedia Britaunioa 
(ninth edition,) under “Manure,” Prof. Voelek- 
er gives phosphate of lime worth Id. a pound; 
ammonia, 3d. a pound. This last estimate re¬ 
duced to terms, of phosphoric acid (insoluble) 
and nitrogen is nearly the same as yours. But 
there is a great difference between your basis 
and that of Prof. Kedzie. “When doctors 
disagree,” etc. Upon what basis were the 
estimates of certain fertilizers made, given on 
page 8211 of the Rural New-Yorker? 
R. N.-Y.—The selling price of fertilizing 
elements has no fixed basis, but varies with 
the market, and each year the professors in 
the various experiment stations ascertain the 
fair market value,and agree on that as a basis 
for the year. For instance, in 1S79 and ’SO the 
price of nitrogen in nitric acid was 36 cents 
per pound; in ammonia, 22)4 cents; now it is 
about 18 ceuts in ammonia. Then the price of 
phosphoric acid was, for soluble, 12J£ cents; 
reverted, 0 cents, and insoluble, 7 cents; now, 
it is placed at 10 cents, 7 cents, and 5 cents, 
respectively, for the different grades. We 
presume the analysis you inclose was made 
some years ago, and that were Prof. Kedzie, 
who is a very accurate man, to rq-estimate 
now, he would place the figures as we have 
used them. Manufacturers don’t always see 
a change in the market value against them¬ 
selves as quickly as one in their favor, and 
this proves the necessity of a man’s keeping 
fully up to the times, and taking a paper that 
does so likewise. The valuations on page 829 
are on the basis used by us. 
C. P. N,, Warren, O.,—says that accord¬ 
ing to Notes from the Rural Grouuds, some 
potatoes yield well; others not. Now, if the 
Rural’s method will do all that is claim¬ 
ed forit.wbydo not all varieties yield heavily? 
R. N.-Y.—All varieties of potatoes, as in¬ 
deed, every kind of grain, has its maximum 
yielding capacity when it is cultivated under 
the most favorable conditions as to food, soil, 
situation and climate. Some kinds are not 
suited to our soil and climate, so that they 
would not yield heavily under any method of 
tillage whatever. We merely claim, so far as 
mere opinion is c.ncerned, that our method 
in any soil and any climate will induce a 
given variety of potato to yield more than it 
would if raised under the old methods. 
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