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August 22 
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WHAT FORM OF NITROGEN TO BUY. 
C. O. L., Qlbsonia, Po.—Would you use 
nitrate at $2.50 per 100 when dried blood, 
16 per cent ammonia, can be had for $30 
per ton, on grain to be sown dowm? I sup¬ 
pose nitrate would be better for potatoes 
and corn. I have got pretty good crops 
from the following: Two hundred dried 
blood, 200 muriate of potash, 100 nitrate of 
soda, and 1,500 rock; 16 per cent muriate, 
$55 per ton; dried blood, $30; rock, $14; ni¬ 
trate, $50 per ton. I pay $1.50 freight per 
ton. Could I improve on this? 
Ans.—T his is something like asking 
whether it will pay to buy sirloin steak 
at 20 cents a pound or corned beef at 14 
cents. The great reason for using ni¬ 
trate of soda is that the nitrogen in it 
is soluble in water and at once avail¬ 
able. This is worth much in some cases. 
For early vegetables which must grow 
before the soil is fully warmed out ni¬ 
trate of soda is very valuable, because 
it is always ready. The organic forms 
of nitrogen, to which dried blood be¬ 
longs, need both moisture and heat be¬ 
fore their nitrogen is made available. 
In early Spring, or where rapid growth 
is required, the biood is not as useful 
as the nitrate. It is not as useful either 
for broadcasting on grass or grain, as 
the nitrate will be dissolved at the first 
rain and thus carried down to the roots. 
We are sometimes asked why well-rot¬ 
ted stable manure will give such good 
results in early Spring or when broad¬ 
cast on grass. For much the same rea¬ 
son that nitrate of soda is so effective. 
A part of its nitrogen is in the form of 
a nitrate, that is the soluble form which 
plants use. The nitrogen in the blood 
must be made over into this nitrate form 
before the plant uses it. In using a fer¬ 
tilizer for potatoes we should certainly 
want a portion of the nitrogen from ni¬ 
trate of soda. On the other hand, we 
consider it more economical to use the 
organic forms of nitrogen on corn, be¬ 
cause that crop makes its best growth 
late in the season, when these organic 
forms are ready. Your mixture contains 
the following: 
Nltro- 
Phos. 
Pot- 
gen. 
acid. 
ash. 
Price. 
200 lbs. blood... 
.... 32 
. . . 
, . . 
$3.00 
200 lbs. muriate. 
. . . 
100 
5.50 
100 lbs. nitrate. 
.... 16 
. . . 
. . . 
2.50 
1,500 lbs. acid phos. .. 
240 
... 
10.50 
Total . 
.... 48 
240 
100 
$21.50 
This means 
2% per 
cent nitrogen, 12 
per cent phosphoric acid and five per 
cent of potash. For our own farm this 
would be too low in nitrogen and pot¬ 
ash, with more phosphoric acid than is 
needed. We doubt the wisdom of using 
so much phosphoric acid unless you are 
satisfied that your soil is greatly in 
need of it. We would expect better re¬ 
sults on potatoes by using 1,300 pounds 
of the acid phosphate and 150 pounds 
more blood and 50 pounds more muriate 
than you have been using. 
Persian Walnut in Texas. 
F. L., Denison, Te®.—Will English walnuts 
succeed In this climate? 
Ans.— Yes, I believe the Persian (im¬ 
properly called English) walnut will 
succeed in the eastern and central Uni¬ 
ted States, provided the right varieties 
are planted, but they are rare and very 
little is known about them. Indeed, the 
culture of this nut in these parts of the 
country has been usually a failure, al¬ 
though it has been tried for hundreds of 
years. Here and there trees have been 
grown from nuts that were selected at 
random, and nearly all of them have 
been either tender or unproductive. The 
latter is usually owing to the fact that 
the trees are solitary and their male 
fiowers often bloom either too early or 
too late for the pistillate ones. However, 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
there are a few very fruitful and hardy 
trees of this species in several of these 
States that I believe ought to be propa¬ 
gated by budding or grafting, and tested 
more generally. The principal reason 
why these valuable varieties have not 
been tried is, that it is very difficult to 
bud and graft the walnut, but this is 
now being accomplished by a few skill¬ 
ful and patient experimenters, and we 
hope for better success in the culture of 
this nut. Our wild Black walnut and 
the native California Black walnut, 
.rhich are much alike, are proving very 
riuitable stocks for the Persian species. 
They are especially desirable in the 
South, where the roots of the latter are 
troubled by nematodes, as our native 
species are resistant. I have recently 
seen some very healthy Persian walnut 
trees in South Carolina and Mississippi, 
and at the same places where others are 
neither hardy nor fruitful. There is one 
variety at lyockport, N. Y., named Pom¬ 
eroy, and another in Pennsylvania call¬ 
ed Rush, that are the most valuable of 
any that I know in the Eastern States. 
In California and Oregon about all the 
European varieties do well. n. e. v. d. 
The Value of Gas Lime. 
F. G. B., Bangor, A/c.—Can you give me 
any Idea of the value a.s a fertilizer of 
gas lime? I can buy it in large quantities 
at two cents a bushel, three miles from 
home. Will it pay as a top-dressing for 
grass, or harrowed In for grain or other 
crops? 
Airo.—The only value in the gas lime 
lies in the actual lime which it contains. 
This lime is used for purifying gas and, 
when fresh, contains impurities which 
would do your crops more harm than 
good. It should not be spread or work¬ 
ed into the soil until it has been 
“weathered” for several months by ex¬ 
posing it in a shaliow pile. An ordi¬ 
nary sample will contain about 900 
pounds of lime to the ton, and it is use¬ 
ful where other forms of lime give good 
results. At the price named it is cer¬ 
tainly worth hauling and piling, but you 
must not expect that it will take the 
place of a complete fertilizer. 
Barren Plum and Pear. 
J. T. H'., Oneida, N. V.—I would like to 
have some one give me information in re¬ 
gard to treatment of two fruit trees stand¬ 
ing on my grounds. One is a fine specimen 
of plum and the other a pear tree, each 
about 10 years of age. Both are very 
thrifty and fine in their general appear¬ 
ance but neither bears fruit. The plum 
tree had a few plums on it last year, and 
still less, not more than a dozen, this 
sea.son. The pear tree has never had but 
a few blossoms on it, and no fruit. The 
varieties are Washington plum and Idaho 
pear. Can anything be done to cause 
these trees to bear fruit? 
Ans. —Neither of these varieties is es¬ 
pecially valuable. The Washington plum 
is not very productive, although the 
fruit is of good quality. The Idaho pear 
tree is the most susceptible to blight of 
any that I know, and is practically 
worthless on tnis account, although the 
fruit is large and of good quality. It 
bears fairly well when the trees do well, 
but that has so far been only in the far 
Western States. This tree would do 
better service if grafted to some better 
kind, and the same is true of the plum 
tree. n. e. v. i>. 
Dried Blood and Nitrate of Soda. 
F. G. O., Sandy Creek, Me.—Is dried blood 
as quickly available as cotton-seed meal, 
and which continues to supply Its nitrogen 
the longer? Will dried blood with nitrate 
of soda furnish all the nitrogen required 
to mature a crop of potatoes? The Massa¬ 
chusetts Experiment Station used dry 
ground fish also. Is it suitable for a top¬ 
dressing for hay fields? 
Ans. —Nitrate of soda is the most 
available form of fertilizer nitrogen. 
Then follows cotton-seed meal of good 
quality, with dried blood close behind 
it. The dried blood will be likely to fur¬ 
nish a supply of nitrogen for a longer 
period. Nitrate and dried blood to¬ 
gether will furnish a good mixture of 
nitrogen for potatoes, provided you use 
enough of them. We would like to use 
a quantity of fine ground bone also. The 
use of dry ground fish is, we think, 
chiefiy confined to places where the fish 
can be bought at a low figure. In most 
places the nitrogen in blood is cheaper. 
Cotton-seed meal makes a good dress¬ 
ing for meadows, but we prefer nitrate 
6f soda for nitrogen, since it is more 
available, and usually cheaper. 
Cure for Garget. —In The R. N.-Y., 
page 575, G. I. A., Slate Hill, N. Y., com¬ 
plains of garget among his cows. Here 
is a cure that has never failed in from 
three to five days: Purchase one ounce 
homeopathic mother tincture of phytolac- 
ca; give five drops in half-ounce of water 
morning and night. c. o. k. 
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Ask for prices on Timothy, Clover and all farm 
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price and yields. 
Save dollars ex¬ 
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DIBBLE’S the heaviest yielding, 
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MEDINA. OHIO. 
A GRAND LOT OF TREES 
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00,000 2-YEAR APPLE 
$7 to $U per 
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Q I n was paid for one quart of Oom Paul Straw 
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Most complete assortment of choice 
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CRIMSON CLOVER 
W HENRY A. nRFER. ( 
In sowing this valuable clover, It is important 
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Pa. 
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