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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
brief talks about fertilizers 
Late Applications of Fertilizer. 
I have one piece of potatoes that I did 
not get enough fertilizer on. I wish to 
know how and when is the best time to put 
200 pounds more on. H. h. 
River head, N. Y. 
Right after the blooms torm is the 
hardest time with the potato and corn 
crops. Just as the tubers and ear begin 
to form the plant stands most in need 
of food. We would use the extra 200 
pounds when the first blooms appear, 
scattering it along close to the rows and 
following with the cultivator to cover 
it. Unless your fertilizer is high-grade 
and quickly available it will not do the 
crop much good. We have saved back¬ 
ward crops of potatoes and corn by 
using a good fertilizer freely while the 
plants were in bloom. 
Lime on Potatoes 
I have a clay soil that has not been plow¬ 
ed before in 20 years which I intend plant¬ 
ing to potatoes. Do you think it advisable 
to use lime? If so, could I put a handful 
on the potato before covering or on the 
hill after it is covered? m. d. t. 
Candor, N. Y. 
We have often given an opinion about 
using lime on potatoes—in a single 
word, don’t! While lime will frequent¬ 
ly increase the yield of potatoes it is 
the worst thing you can use if there is 
any scab on the seed. This scab is a 
skin disease which thrives best when 
the soil is alkaline. The lime gives the 
germs just the condition they need for 
growing and spreading, and as seed is 
rarely if ever free from scab you are 
sure to have a scabby crop if you use it 
We have tried several times to raise a 
crop of potatoes on a tough old meadow, 
but never succeeded in doing it. We 
would much prefer to grow a crop of 
corn first and then follow with potatoes. 
Cow Peas With Buckwheat. 
Will it do to sow cow peas and buckwheat 
together for a crop to plow under for Fall 
grain? I mean to plow under and phos¬ 
phate, and then sow to grain and grass. 
When and how should the peas and buck¬ 
wheat be sown? *• 
Alinda, Pa, 
We can see no advantage in sowing 
buckwheat with the cow peas. We 
would sow the peas alone and give them 
every chance to make a fine growth. 
While the buckwheat will add a large 
mass of vegetable matter it will not add 
to the actual plant food in the soil as the 
peas will. We would sow the cow peas 
early in June. If broadcast, five pecks 
will be needed; if in drills, three feet 
apart, three pecks. The advantage of 
sowing in drills is that this gives a 
chance to cultivate the soil. If you are 
to use fertilizer at all use it on the cow 
peas. It will make a largei growth of 
vine, and thus give more fertility to the 
crop, while none of it will be wasted. 
Fertilizer for Growing Peas. 
We are mixing our own fertilizer and are 
using the following formula: 1,200 pounds 
dissolved bone, 300 pounds muriate of pot¬ 
ash, 300 pounds dried blood, and 200 pounds 
nitrate of soda. We are using this fertilizer 
for peas and string beans, beans to be 
picked green for canning purposes. Would 
you suggest any change in this formula, 
so that we might perhaps get better re¬ 
sults, using 400 pounds to the acre? f. s. 
Rome, N. Y. 
Do you really mean dissolved bone or 
is it the dissolved phosphate rock which 
some dealers wrongly call “bone”? A 
true bone when dissolved or cut with 
acid contains about 2% per cent of ni¬ 
trogen and 18 per cent of phosphoric 
acid, while the dissolved rock contains 
no nitrogen and 14 per cent phosphoric 
acid. If you really have the true dis¬ 
solved bone your mixture would an¬ 
alyze about as follows: 
Phos. 
Nitrogen acid. Potash. 
1.200 lbs. dissolved bone..30 216 
300 lbs. muriate. ... 1^ 
800 lbs. dried blood.30 9 
200 lbs. nitrate. . .82 
Total .226 150 
This gives 41^ per cent of nitrogen, 11 
of phosphoric acid and 7% of potash. 
With this high per cent of nitrogen we 
should expect the peas to be late in ma¬ 
turing, with too much vine for profit¬ 
able handling. We doubt the economy 
of using so much nitrogen on peas, and 
from our own experience we should use 
acid phosphate in place of the dis¬ 
solved bone. 
When and How to Fertilize Corn. 
What is the best way to apply fertilizer 
to corn? Would it be a good way to use a 
flve-hoed wheat drill and drill the fertilizer 
between the corn rows after the corn is 
six or eight inches high? Will it pay to use 
commercial fertilizer on black swamp land 
which has been underdrained, and will pro¬ 
duce without fertilizer 60 to 70 bushels of 
shelled corn per acre? o. E. w. 
Brookville, Ind. 
We believe that it pays best to broad¬ 
cast the fertilizer all over the field. 
Many farmers prefer to put most of it in 
the hill or drill, but if they would ex¬ 
amine the roots of the growing crop 
they would find that these roots go 
everywhere and are not confined to the 
row. By scattering the fertilizer all over 
the ground we feel sure that the roots 
are sent out after it, and ihus fill the en¬ 
tire soil. Yes, that is a good way to put 
the fertilizer on, but why wait until the 
corn is eight inches high? Why not put 
the fertilizer on in this way before the 
crop is planted? If we were to put any 
fertilizer on after planting we would 
wait until just before the ear begins to 
form. The young plant does not need 
the fertilizer as much as when it is be¬ 
ginning to ear out. Swamp lands are 
usually quite rich in nitrogen, and when 
well drained do not need this element. It 
might pay to use acid phosphate and 
possibly potash. When soil gives such 
a crop without fertilizer we advise only 
an experiment with chemicals. Take a 
fair strip through the field and use at 
the rate of 300 pounds per acre of acid 
phosphate, try another strip with 300 
pounds of acid phosphate and 100 
pounds of muriate of potash mixed, and 
another with the potash alone. 
What Chemicals With Horse Manure? 
I have been raising sweet com on the 
same ground for five or six years. I have 
put the manure from two horses to the acre 
every year, and used about 100 pounds of a 
complete high-grade fertilizer. The ma¬ 
nure was hauled from Rochester, and had 
been usually stored in pits. It was always 
burnt more or less. Was that manure rich 
enough in potash and phosphoric acid? 
What fertilizer should I buy to make it 
complete? Would nitrate of soda be any 
help, as I want to raise corn again? J. s. 
Brighton, N. Y. 
Including his bedding the average city 
horse will give about five tons of manure 
per year. Much of the liquid is lost, but 
on the average a ton of such manure 
will contain 10 pounds of nitrogen, six 
of phosphoric acid and 13 of potash. 
After much experiment with chemicals 
it has been found that a mixture con¬ 
taining about four times as much phos¬ 
phoric acid and three times as much 
potash as of nitrogen will give best re¬ 
sults on average soil. In forming the 
cob and grain potash and phosphoric 
acid are essential. They should be in 
excess of the nitrogen. In using stable 
manure alone, in order to provide all 
the phosphoric acid that a corn crop de¬ 
mands, we are obliged to use more ni¬ 
trogen than is needed. By using acid 
phosphate and muriate of potash with 
the manure we get a better crop of ears, 
and do not need so much manure. Ex¬ 
periments have been tried by using on 
one acre of corn 10 tons of manure and 
on another acre five tons of manure, 150 
pounds of muriate and 400 of acid phos¬ 
phate. The smaller quantity of manure 
with the chemicals added gave the larg¬ 
er yield. In using chemicals with ma¬ 
nure we must remember that the ma¬ 
nure is rich in nitrogen and that pot¬ 
ash and phosphoric acid are needed to 
balance it. If we could use 30 pounds of 
muriate and 75 of acid phosphate with 
each ton of manure we would have a 
good corn mixture. Nitrate of soda 
would not prove economical to use with 
the manure, since all it contains of value 
is nitrogen—just what the manure con¬ 
tains in excess. 
Eakli Southern Potatoes.— About 30 
years ago I got a barrel of Early Rose i)o- 
tatoea direct from Wilmington, Del. I 
planted them May 15; on the Fourth of 
July I had potatoes as large as turkey’s 
eggs. In about seven weeks from planting. 
I think those potatoes were a month ear¬ 
lier towards maturity than the same kind 
of potatoes raised here and planted here. 
I think the Delaware season for planting 
would be one month earlier than here. I 
have sent South for seed potatoes three 
times with about the same results. I 
would not want to remove potatoes from 
their southern home until I was ready to 
plant them, and then get them by express 
as soon as possible; that is if I wanted 
early potatoes. h. b. phukb. 
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