1903 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
2I3 
Salt or Lime for Snails. 
if, E, A., Rensselaer, N. I'.—Wlial can I put 
on the soil to kill snails? L.ast Summer 
our beets were eaten by something and I 
supposed that they were eaten by moles, 
as we have a great many of them, but 
when I pulled them in the Fall I found 
them half eaten up by snails. Many of 
them were mere shells and a group of 
snails inside; they destroyed more than 
half of the beets. 
Aks. —For beets attacked by snails, 
land with plenty of lime or salt is a good 
thing. Snails do not like salt, nor do 
they like lime. We rather doubt the fact 
that snails attacked healthy beets. It is 
quite probable that they did get into 
beets that had been pierced by mice or 
other enemies. A liberal application of 
lime upon land that is supposed to be 
infested by snails will be very likely to 
clean them out. 
Strawberries and Apples for Ohio. 
.-l. W., Liverpool, 0.—Will some of your 
northern Ohio subscribers suggest good 
kinds of late strawberries to plant here? 
Brandywine and Gandy are no good with 
me. Will Jonathan apple do for 20 miles 
south of Cleveland, O.? 
Ans.—H aving tried nearly all the re¬ 
puted late varieties of strawberries none 
suits me so well, at present, as the Sam¬ 
ple and Aroma. True, they are not quite 
so late as Gaudy, but they are both of 
excellent quality and, best of all, good 
clean growers and productive. The 
Sample is imperfect in blossom and 
should be planted with a variety with a 
perfect flower such as Aroma. They 
make a “tip-top team.” The Jonathan 
apple should do well with the inquirer, 
it is doing good service as a fancy, high- 
quality, early Winter apple even farther 
south. It is a very beautiful apple, a 
good seller and keeps as long as Grimes, 
kicking Co., O. f. u. uablou. 
Rust and Aphides on Lettuce. 
li. O. a. (A'o address).—What causes rust 
on lettuce in greenhouses, and what shall 
1 do for it? Is there anything better for 
Killing the green lly on lettuce and plants 
in greenhouse tlian tobacco smoke? 
Axs.—llusL and rot in glasshouse let¬ 
tuce is caused by iutected soil, and 
greatly promoted by close air and exces¬ 
sive moisture. Little can be done for it 
when once started except to correct those 
evils. Avoid wetting the lettuce foliage. 
When water is needed soak tue soil be¬ 
tween the rows by some means which 
does not wet the leaves, and ventilate 
freely whenever possible. Gse new soil 
for next crop. Nothing better than to¬ 
bacco has been found for lice or green 
fly, but it is better to keep them down 
by fumes from large quantities of damp¬ 
ened stems strewn along tne walks, or 
about the heating pipes than to smoke 
frequently. When lice have gained a 
foothold two or three strong smudges 
on successive nights will often clear 
them out so that milder means will be 
afterwards effective. 
Fire Beds for Sweet Potatoes. 
0. At. K., Uelinur, Be/.—1 am thinking of 
growing sweet potato plants with lire heat 
this Spring. Give me the best practical 
way of making bed, how to construct fur¬ 
nace, etc. 
AiNs.—These beds are cheap and easy 
to make. For your locality considerable 
heat will be required and this necessi¬ 
tates a good bed. The size of the bed 
will depend, of course, upon the number 
of plants you wish to grow. Dig out a 
pit 18 inches deep, 10 feet wide and as 
long as is wanted. Place three lines of 
cedar or locust poles full length of the 
bed, 15 inches from the bottom; one on 
each side and one in the middle. These 
poles can rest on posts driven into the 
ground. Make a furnace at one end with 
brick, two feet high, two feet wide and 
three feet long. Run two lines of flues 
from this furnace to within four feet of 
the other end. These flues may be made 
of brick or tiling; if bricks are used, 
cement all joints. The flues must rise 
about lYz inch for each 10 feet of the 
bed. A smokestack must be built at 
the end of the bed opposite to that of 
the furnace. This will give a good draft. 
Now place heavy plank crosswise the 
bed. Rough pieces of timber may be 
used instead, and then cover these with 
heavy sods. Plank up the sides and ends 
20 inches above the floor; inch boards 
will do; nail these boards to slabs driven 
into the ground. Fill dirt in around 
outside of plank. Fill in with 10 inches 
of soil, then put in the sweet potatoes 
and cover with 1% inch more soil. A 
covering of some kind must be placed 
over the bed to keep out rain. Of course 
glass is better as it will let in light. 
This kind of bed may be the cheapest 
and most simple to construct and man¬ 
age. R. H. PRICE. ■ 
Virginia. 
Concrete Frame for a House. 
J. W. M., Greenwood Depot, Va .—^Will small 
stones, sand and cement used as in build¬ 
ing concrete houses make a foundation 
wall for a frame house? This wall is to be 
from one to six feet above ground, and of 
course ought to go below freezing point. 
What proportion of each ought I to use? 
Ans.—Y es, the concrete can be used 
for a house wall or any other work for 
which stone and mortar are now used. 
Bridges, arches, buildings, including the 
floors, are now built of concrete. Use 
four parts of small stones, four parts 
sharp clean sand, and one part Portland 
or hydraulic cement. Mix the sand and 
cement thoroughly in a box before wet¬ 
ting, then put in the stones, mix and use 
at once. The earth can be used as a 
back until you get to the top of the 
ground with a plant form on the inside, 
which can be raised as fast as the con¬ 
crete hardens, and then filled in again. 
When you get above the ground use a 
tight form on both sides. Be sure to use 
clean sharp sand and have it thoroughly 
mixed with the cement. h. e. c. 
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Fertilizers. 
“The first Fertilizers I ever used I purchased of the 
Bowker Fertilizer Company’s local agent; 
I have bought of him ever since; 
I have never missed a crop; 
My land is better now than when I began. 
ft 
If Bowker’s Fertilizers had ever failed to give this man 
good results, would he have written the above letter? We sent 
him no better goods than we are sending to all our customers. 
Perhaps this is why we have doubled our sales every 
ten years. 
. 15,000 tons. 
1882 
1892 
1902 
30,000 
(50,000 
You are respectfully invited to take a part of tlie 120,000 tons in sight for igi 2 . It 
will pay you to see our Local Agent or write us before purchasing Fertilizers for igoj. 
BOWKER fertilizer company, 
Boston. New York. Cincinnati. 
