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April II 
FARMERS’ CLUB 
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Fighting the Asparagus Beette. 
F. J. T., Noririch, N. Y.—My asparagus 
has been troubled by the Asparagus oeetles. 
They come on while I am cutting and con¬ 
tinue all Summer. How am I to fight 
them? After cutting, shall I use Paris- 
green with a sprayer? 
Ans.— Spray with a mixture of two 
teaspoonfuls pure Paris-green and half 
a teacupful of molasses or syrup to 
each gallon of water, as soon as the 
beetles appear after cutting is finished. 
The molasses makes the spray stick bet¬ 
ter to the fine asparagus foliage. There 
are two or more broods in a season, but 
this spray is effective if applied each 
time before much damage is done. 
Corn on a Clever Sod, 
G. J. K., Greensboro, Md. —Would rock and 
kalnit be a good fertilizer for com on land 
which produced a good crop of clover last 
year? Would ground lime, that Is, lime 
ground into a fine powdar and applied with 
a fertilizer drill, give better results than 
air-slaked lime applied in the usual way? 
Ans.—I t depends upon the soil. A 
good clover sod ought to provide nitro¬ 
gen enough for a fair crop of corn, but 
we find it profitable nine times in 10 to 
use some nitrogen in the fertilizer. The 
exception would be on heavy soil well 
filled with vegetable matter. We would 
rather have the air or water-slaked 
lime broadcast and harrowed in. 
Oats and Peas for Hay. 
G. K., Mohanoy City, P«.—Does oat hay 
make good fodder for horses, or do oats 
and peas make a better food? Which 
would you advise sowing, and about how 
much seed of each for an acre? I shall 
be short on hay this Summer and would 
like to sow something to take its place. 
Ans.— “Oat hay”—that is oats cut 
whiie in the milk or “dough” stage and 
cured like Timothy, makes fine hay. 
Most farmers iet the oats get too hard 
before cutting. This “oat hay” is much 
inferior to oats and Canada field peas 
grown together and cut when the peas 
begin to grow hard in the pods. We 
would sow oats and peas by all means. 
As stated recently, we plow in bushel 
of Canada peas per acre. A disk or Cut¬ 
away would work them in properly. 
Then sow 2^ bushels of oats on the 
rough furrows and work them in with 
an Acme or some drag harrow. This is 
a hard crop to cure. It is r c to cut, with 
us, when we are likely to have bad 
weather. Like clover hay, this fodder is 
best cured in windrow or cock, not 
spreading it out to the sun but shaking 
it up to the wind. As an all-around feed 
we call it better than good clover. 
Cow Peas at the North. 
II. O. H., Crescent Station, N. Y.—Can you 
tell me where I can procure Information 
In reference to planting the cow pea as a 
fertiiizer or as a feed for cows, etc.? Will 
the crop mature in this climate? 
Ans. —The German Kali Works, New 
York, will send you an excellent pamph¬ 
let on the cow pea. The Arkansas Ex¬ 
periment Station (Fayettevilie) has pub¬ 
lished some good bulletins on this plant. 
During the Summer we shall have con¬ 
siderable to say about it. It is doubtful 
whether the seed will mature with you, 
but the vines will make a rank growth 
if given a fair chance and wiill surely 
improve the soil. We would use either 
the Whippoorwill or Unknown variety. 
Sow or plant about 10 days after corn¬ 
planting time. They are most profitable 
on light soil. We prefer to plant in drills 
or furrows about three feet apart, much 
as you would plant beans, giving fair 
cultivation through the season. It pays 
to use muriate of potash and acid phos¬ 
phate with the cow peas. The vines 
make a large growth, and since the cow 
pea belongs to the class of plants which 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
take nitrogen from the air the more vig¬ 
orously it grows the more of this valu¬ 
able nitrogen it obtains. We do not ad¬ 
vise northern farmers to try to cure this 
crop for hay. Better plow it all under 
for fertilizer. 
Cutting an Old Clover Sod. 
R. A. G., Union, N. Y.—I have two acres of 
clover sod; it was seeded with corn and 
cultivated in in July, 1901. I cut tw,o good 
crops of hay last year in June and Sep¬ 
tember; both were cut while the clover 
wit.s in full bloom. It ha* started well and 
looks as though it would give a good crop 
of hay. I intended to plow this piece and 
plant potatoes, but have other sod that 
needs plowing very badly, and I cannot 
plow both. Would you advise me to try 
to keep the clover sod and mow it for hay 
this season? 
Ans. —If we had such a field as this 
we would mow it for hay this season 
and then plow and put into the most 
satisfactory forage crop. With us, this 
would be drilled fodder corn. At the 
last cultivation of this corn crop we 
would sow ahead of the cultivator a 
mixture of rye and Crimson clover—to 
cover the ground through the Winter 
and give a green crop to plow under 
next Spring—if potatoes were to follow. 
With us. Crimson clover is surer to live 
over if seeded with rye. 
Dissatisfaction with Danish Cabbage. 
C. F. R., No. Tonawanda, N. Y.—Will you 
ask some expert cabbage grower to de¬ 
scribe the characteristics of Danish Bal’- 
head, Hollander and Flat Dutch varieties, 
if they can be distinguished at all seasons? 
I have raised Danish cabbage for six years, 
I supposed: last season was a wet, grow¬ 
ing one for cabbage and it was entirely 
different from any I ever had before. 
There seemed to be three distinct kinds, 
one a small solid head, dark green and 
blue color, and then a large coarse-leaved 
kind, very flat head, large and light green, 
each leaf covering the entire head, not 
very solid, while the bulk of the crop 
was a large round-headed kind, very flns 
flavor, leaves coarse but very brittle. It 
seemed to harden very slowly; 60 per cent 
never got hard. The leaves doubled up 
at both sides. It began to rot on top when 
two-thirds grown. It gave good satisfac¬ 
tion during sauerkraut season, but for 
Winter use was too soft. What I have 
left Just goes to pieces like a lump of dirt 
after a shower. Two years ago I raised 
Henderson’s Early Summer; the season 
v'as dry and the heads were rather small 
but solid, rather flat. Last year I got the 
same labeled seed and the heads were quite 
loose but the size of a half-bushel basket. 
Ans.— A dozen or more years ago, 
when we first began to grow the Danish 
Ball-head, it was very long-stemmed 
(sometimes head and stump nearly two 
feet high); head almost balloon shaped, 
the lower part running almost to a 
point; color dark bluish green and in¬ 
tensely solid and heavy; so solid as to 
appear when cut almost as solid as a 
turnip; leaves few and inclined to be 
narrow. Of late the Danes seem to have 
been changing the type or becoming 
very careless, for with seed direct from 
the so-called best growers almost all 
types are seen. Your correspondent 
seems to be one of the many—very 
many—victims of mixed seed, which in 
my institute work I met in all the cab¬ 
bage growing sections of the State this 
Winter. The Hollander, as I have seen 
it. has shown a more yellowish green 
instead of the bluish green seen in the 
Danish, and is of a round type of head 
instead of balloon shape, but is just as 
hard and long keeping. To attempt to 
identify the different varieties and mix¬ 
tures of the Flat Dutch and other types 
of the domestic cabbage is more than 
anyone can do, unless it be an expert 
seedsman whose specialty is the study 
of types of this character. Many times it 
is very risky to buy seeds from local 
dealers. Better buy from responsible, 
well-established firms who have a hard- 
earned reputation to maintain. The 
difficulty with the Early Summer was 
probably largely owing to the season, 
damp weather naturally tending to pro¬ 
duce a greater amount of a loose leafy 
character. _ r. o. tick. 
For the land’s sake, use Bowker’s Fer¬ 
tilizers. They enrich the earth.— A4v. 
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United States Grower and Representative 
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Apple 
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Fine two and three-year old stock, 5 to 6 
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