1902 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Hen Manure for Wheat. 
L. H. S., Mont Alto, Pa.— On page 4 H. I. 
I. asks how to treat hen manure. The 
answer given is 800 pounds hen manure, 200 
pounds muriate of potash, 600 pounds dis¬ 
solved rock, 200 pounds fine ground bone, 
and 200 pounds nitrate of soda. Could this 
mixture be sown with wheat at the rate of 
250 or 300 pounds per acre, without Injuring 
the wheat, or would it be too strong to 
sow with the grain? 
Ans. —This mixture was intended for 
growing potatoes or small fruits and 
garden truck. It will make wheat 
grow, but the hen manure must be 
very fine and well mixed. You can get 
land plaster at a fair price; put 500 
pounds with this mixture. It will make 
it dry, so that it will feed out better 
through the wheat drill. 
Using Cement on Clay. 
J. B. Tj., Beaukiss, Tex.— I wish to build a 
cistern in the ground. I intend to cement 
to the clay, using no brick. What propor¬ 
tion of sand shall I use to one of cement, 
and how many coats? 
Ans. —I have never built a cistern in 
this way, but many have done so with 
success, where the clay is stiff and firm 
enough to plaster on. Mix one part 
Portland cement to three parts sand, 
and probably put on two coats. Do not 
jet the first coat get thoroughly dry be¬ 
fore putting on the second, or the union 
will not be perfect. Read recent arti¬ 
cles in R. N.-Y. on cements, h. e. c. 
Bean Hulls as Manure. 
J. B. C., Battle Creek, Mich. —What do you 
think of bean hulls for a fertilizer? A 
company here expects to take the hulls or 
skins from tons of beans this year. They 
remove the hulls by steaming and then 
the beans are dried and put up in cartons. 
The hulls of course are wet. The only 
use I have heard that they were going to 
put them to is to dry them and use them 
for horse bedding. I believe they contain 
a principle that would be excellent for 
run-down soil if used Intelligently. 
Ans. —We have never used bean hulls. 
If we had a chance to buy them we 
would first send a fair sample to the 
State Experiment Station and have 
them analyzed. Then we could tell bet¬ 
ter what they are good for. We learn 
of only one record of analysis. This 
showed a little over one per cent of 
nitrogen. The hulls cannot have a very 
high value, but if you can get them at 
a low figure it will probably pay to 
haul them. We would either mix them 
with the manure or use them as a 
mulch around small fruit or trees. 
Various Fruit Questions. 
W. A., Windsor, Conn. —1. Would the 
American Honey persimmon, strongly 
recommended by Prof. Munson, Denison, 
Tex., be hardy in this locality? 2. Can you 
tell me where, or of whom, medlar trees 
can be purchased? I have written to some 
of the leading northern nurseries without 
success. Can medlar trees be raised true 
from seed? 3. Can medlar grafts be grown 
successfully on apple stocks? 4. Is the 
Haymaker raspberry more hardy than the 
Shaffer or Columbian? I have the Colum¬ 
bian and find that it winterkills quite bad¬ 
ly. 5. Is the use of lime and chemicals 
(the dust spraying process attracting con¬ 
siderable attention in the West) equally 
successful and more convenient than the 
application of Bordeaux, etc., in a liquid 
form? 
Ans. —1. The native American persim¬ 
mon has been grown as far north as 
Connecticut, but not with much success, 
and it is very doubtful about the south¬ 
ern type of the species flourishing there. 
The variety called Honey is a very good, 
one, but it would be unwise to do more 
than test a tree or two. 2. Medlar u - es 
are grown and kept for sale by several 
of the southern nurseries, and by ad¬ 
dressing some of them the trees can 
doubtless be obtained. They can be 
grown from seeds quite readily. 3. I 
have heard that the medlar will grow 
grafted on the apple, but I have never 
tried it. 4. The Haymaker raspberry is 
a very new variety, and I have never 
seen it tested, and would be glad to 
know of its hardiness from those who 
have tried it. 5. Spraying with dust 
seems not to have proved as successful 
generally as was hoped by some who 
have tested it It has the advantage of 
being very light to handle compared 
with the liquid preparations, but it does 
not prove so effective. h. e. v. d. 
Potato Beetles on Tomatoes, 
J. H. V., Hudson, Mich .—I had two rows 
of tomato plants side by side, with 70 plants 
in each row. One row was of a "potato- 
leaf” sort and the other a sort with ordi¬ 
nary leaves. Noticing some Potato beetles 
on the plants I picked them off and found 
65 bugs on the “potato-leaf” variety and 
17 on the other. Did those beetles mis¬ 
take the potato-leaf sort for potatoes? If 
not, why were there so many more on the 
potato-leaf sort? 
Ans. —It is not an unusual thing for 
the Colorado Potato beetle to attack to¬ 
mato vines, and sometimes they are as 
destructive as on potatoes. I doubt 
whether the variety of the tomato had 
much to do with the number of the 
beetles found. There was doubtless 
more of a “happenstance” about it, than 
it was a case of “mistaken identity” by 
the beetles. It is quite possible, of 
course, that the beetles found the pota¬ 
to-leaf variety more to their taste than 
the common sort, but the data given 
is not sufficient to warrant the conclu¬ 
sion that the beetles knew or recog¬ 
nized any difference in the varieties. 
M. V. SLING ERLAND. 
Insects and Mice on Mulched Trees. 
J. E., Sherborn, Mass.—I have been inter¬ 
ested in account of G. G. Hitchings's or¬ 
chard grown in sod with mulching applied 
around trees. I am satisfied good trees 
and good fruit can be grown in this way, 
as I have an orchard grown along similar 
lines, but I find two serious drawbacks to 
this system. I would like to know whether 
Mr. Hltchings has had any trouble. I refer 
to borers and mice. Trees protected by 
mulch are far more liable to be attackec. 
by borers. Tramping down the snow 
around the young tree is no protection 
against mice, if there is a good straw 
mulch below. I have been six or eight 
years without losing a tree, and then had 
150 trees girdled in a Winter. 
Ans. —To protect trees from mice first 
remove all old boards or other rubbish 
found in or near the orchard, as under 
these mice find safe breeding places. 
Don’t place the mulch within six or 
eight inches of the body of the tree, and 
each Fall throw two shovelfuls of mel¬ 
low soil between the mulch and tree. 
Mice are fearful of fresh stirred soil, 
and this 'banking up around the small 
tree also helps to brace it. If this is not 
effective take best grade of building 
paper, cut in strips 1x1% foot and wrap 
trees, tying with twine, commencing at 
top with middle of twine, binding each 
way and tying at bottom. One dollar’s 
worth of paper will wrap 400 trees. 
With low-headed trees and stirring the 
soil close to the trees ocasionally dur¬ 
ing Summer I have never had trees in¬ 
jured by borers, grant g. hitchings. 
Miner Plum; Diseased Apple Trees. 
J. O. H., Skaneateles, N. Y.— 1. Do you know 
anything about a plum called Miner? I 
have heard it spoken of as being a very 
good one. 2. In 1900 one of my R. I. Green¬ 
ing trees showed signs of decay, the 
leaves becoming small and yellow. It bore 
a few very nice-looking apples but they 
resembled Maiden Blush more than they did 
R. I. Greenings. In 1901 it was dead, and 
five more trees were affected the same 
way. Upon examination, I found the bark 
dead nearly all the way around their bases. 
I could not find any borers or worms. The 
bark seemed to be alive and all right above. 
They are about one foot in diameter, and 
located nearest the house, where the hogs 
and poultry stay the most. I have about 
250 apples trees, mostly R. I. Greening, 
Baldwin and Tompkins King, but only the 
former seem to be affected. Can you give 
a remedy for it? 
Ans. —1. Miner is one of the first va¬ 
rieties of our wild plums that were 
taken from the wild state, and named 
and cultivated. It is hardy in tree and 
a vigorous and abundant bearer. The 
fruit is rather small, but of good qual¬ 
ity for a wild plum. Wyant is a bet¬ 
ter one. 2. Root rot is perhaps the 
cause of the trouble with the apple trees 
mentioned. This is a disease of the 
root that is contagious, and sometimes 
does extensive damage. The trees that 
are affected should be dug up and 
burned. No other treatment is possi¬ 
ble, so far as I know, to hold it in 
check. Samples of the diseased parts 
should be sent to the State Experiment 
Station, at Geneva, N. Y., or to the 
United States Department of Agricul¬ 
ture at Washington, where they will 
he examined and advice given by ex¬ 
perts, that may be better than mine. 
X. X. V. D. 
I will Cure You of 
Rheumatism. 
No Pay Until You Know It. 
After 2,000 experiments, I have learned 
how to cure rheumatism. Not to turn 
bony joints into flesh again; that is im¬ 
possible. But I can cure the disease al¬ 
ways, at any stage, and forever. 
I ask for no money. Simply write me 
a postal and I will send you an order 
on your nearest druggist for six bottles 
of Dr. Shoop’s Rheumatic Cure, for 
every druggist keeps it. Use it for a 
month, and if it does what I claim pay 
your druggist $5.50 for it. If it doesn’t 
I will pay him myself. 
I have no samples. Any medicine that 
can affect rheumatism with but a few 
doses must be drugged to the verge of 
danger. I use no such drugs. It is folly 
to take them. You must get the disease 
out of the blood. 
My remedy does that, even the most 
difficult, obstinate cases. No matter how 
impossible this seems to you, I know it 
and I take the risk. I have cured tens 
of thousands of cases in this way, and 
my records show that 39 out of 40 who 
get those six bottles pay, and pay glad¬ 
ly. I have learned that people in gen¬ 
eral are honest with a physician who 
cures them. That is all I ask. If I fail 
I don’t expect a penny from you. 
Simply write me a postal card or let¬ 
ter. Let me send you an order for the 
medicine. Take it for a month, for it 
won’t harm you anyway. If it cures, 
pay $5.50. I leave that entirely to you. 
I will mail you a book that tells how I 
do it. Address Dr. Shoop, Box 570, Ra¬ 
cine, Wis.- 
Mild oases, not chronic, are often cured by one or 
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Tender hearted men should not serve on the 
committee. Each member should be furnished 
with a heavy club and 
a dose of nerve tonic.. 
Before knocking the 
samples all over the 
hall, instruct janitors 
where to ship the re¬ 
mains of those that 
fall. If there is 
than one survivor, 
is a sign you are 
hard hitters. ■. Write 
to-day for 
and prices. 
Bond Steel Post Co., 
Adrian. Mich. 
m, ' •<M 1 Sf ^ f rom scab or 
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