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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
April III 
NOTES FROM THE RURAL GROUNDS. 
Utilizing Kitchen Wastes. —A year¬ 
ly Summer population of quite 300,000 
persons spends the heated term at the 
numerous coast resorts of Monmouth 
County, within 12 miles of Sandy Hook, 
N. J. While many private cottages are 
occupied the great majority of these 
Summer visitors are herded in hotels 
and boarding houses. As the profits of 
catering to this army of pleasure-seekers 
are compressed in a few weeks of time, 
substantial prices are charged for ac¬ 
commodation, and generally speaking, 
the supplies furnished are abundant and 
of good quality. The waste of unused 
food from the larger hotels is enormous, 
and often of high nutritive value. It is 
important to keep the many bathing 
beaches free from offensive materials, 
and rigid prohibitions are in force in all 
the various municipalities against 
throwing or draining garbage into the 
ocean. The rapidly accumulating waste 
must be got rid of, however, and it is 
usual to contract for its removal sev¬ 
eral times a week, paying from $50 to 
$100 for the season, according to the 
amount hauled away. This would make 
a small price for the contractors who 
live in the farming region several miles 
back, if it were not for the intrinsic 
value of the material for feeding hogs 
and as a fertilizer. If kept free from 
such irritating and poisonous alkalies 
as chloride of lime and the caustic pot¬ 
ashes and sodas of various washing com¬ 
pounds, and gathered before undue fer¬ 
mentation has taken place, this table 
waste is nourishing feed for hogs, but 
its extended use has so often been fol¬ 
lowed by wholesale fatalities among the 
pigs, especially where closely yarded, 
that it has fallen into disrepute. A con¬ 
tractor near the Rural Grounds who 
hauls 300 or more tons yearly, claims 
that if poured on the ground half an 
hour before the pigs are admitted, so 
that the liquid portions may drain away, 
it is entirely harmless. This contractor 
has suffered heavy losses in the past 
while feeding such table refuse, but is 
not inclined to attribute the fatal sick¬ 
ness of the pigs to alkalies in the waste, 
as instructions are given the hotel em¬ 
ployees not to use disinfectants about 
the garbage dump, but to depend on fre¬ 
quent cleansing with water alone, and 
any washing chemicals used are sup¬ 
posed to go into the regular sewage sys¬ 
tems. It can be imagined that draining 
off the fermenting liquids would tend to 
improve the digestibility of the mess, 
but feeders are getting rather shy of 
hotel waste lately. There is no question 
as to its fertilizing value when properly 
composted. Just what the actual value 
is has probably not been demonstrated, 
but it is considered equal to good stable 
manure at $2 a ton. It is especially use¬ 
ful as a lawn dressing when so thor¬ 
oughly decomposed as to be inodorous, 
and is excellent on sod and corn lands, 
but a suspicion is growing that such dis¬ 
eases as the root-rot of cabbage and Let¬ 
tuce rot, Potato scab and Melon blight 
may be disseminated by the use of a fer¬ 
tilizer containing so large a proportion 
of vegetable trimmings, and it is likely 
to go out of favor for garden use. It is, 
of course, a good thing to return to the 
inland soil some portion of the plant 
food carried away in garden products, 
especially when reenforced by meat 
wastes from the western plains, but 'f 
it is to be used at the risk of spreading 
troublesome plant diseases it is best ap¬ 
plied to such forage crops as are not 
susceptible to these affections. Good 
stable or yard manures, supplemented by 
chemicals discriminatingly used, are 
the safest and least objectionable ferti¬ 
lizers for garden use. 
A Beautiful Forcing “Spiraea.”— 
Among the decorative plants so abund¬ 
antly forced for the Easter market the 
herbaceous Japan Spiraea now known to 
botanists as Astilbe Japonica is quite 
prominent. It is very manageable, as 
clumps of convenient size may be stored 
in any moist cold place until wanted 
and brought into bloom with great cer¬ 
tainty under proper conditions of heat, 
light and moisture. A well grown plant 
of the Japan Spiraea, with its drooping 
handsomely cut foliage and plumy 
spikes of white flowers is very hand¬ 
some, and after serving its turn as a 
table or window decoration may be fur¬ 
ther utilized by turning out into the bor¬ 
der among other hardy plants, where it 
will soon become a valued acquisition. 
The roots are offered in the Fall by bulb 
dealers at a moderate price and are 
easily grown In the window garden. 
They are not sent out before November, 
as they are late to ripen and should be 
planted as soon as received, using a pot 
little larger than will hold the clump. 
Provide free drainage by an inch or two 
of cinders or pebbles at the bottom, and 
work fine rich soil well about the roots, 
packing it down firmly. The pot with 
its contents should then be well soaked 
in water and placed in a cool dark place 
for several weeks. After the excess of 
moisture drains off so that danger of 
bursting the pot from expansion is less¬ 
ened it is good practice to expose it to 
mild freezing, thus imitating natural 
conditions. Some time in December 
bring to a light window and growth will 
soon begin if a living room temperature 
is maintained. The foliage should be 
frequently sprayed to keep off red 
spider, and if traces of aphids or green 
lice are noticed sprinkle freely with 
snuff or tobacco dust. On no account 
must the plant be fumigated with to¬ 
bacco smoke, as the young leaves are 
particularly sensitive to this agent, and 
many fine specimens are ruined in this 
way every season. When the flower 
buds show weekly applications of dilute 
liquid fertilizer are very helpful in in¬ 
creasing the size and beauty of the floral 
heads. They should never be allowed to 
suffer for water at this time, and when 
the buds are ready to expand it is best 
to set the pot in a saucer of water to be 
certain of keeping up the necessary 
moisture during this period of rapid de¬ 
velopment. A fine variety is sold under 
the name of Compacta multiflora. It is 
better than the type, and costs a little 
more. Another allied species is listed as 
Spiraea astilboides floribunda, though the 
generic name is given as Aruncus. It 
is a stronger grower than the Japan 
Spiraea, with looser panicles of a creamy 
white color. The treatment is the same, 
and the foliage is rather more resistant 
to smoke and hot sun. 
In several European nurseries hybrids 
have been successfully made between 
Astilbe Thunbergii, a species nearly re¬ 
lated to the Japan Spiraea and Aruncus 
astilboides, and several superior novel¬ 
ties introduced to the trade. All are 
very compact and free-flowering. They 
are strong growers, throwing up very 
heavy but elegant white flower heads, 
differing only in form and habit. The 
only one of these interesting hybrids yet 
grown on the Rural Grounds is named 
Gladstone, and it has proved a great ac¬ 
quisition, far superior to the parent spe¬ 
cies. The foliage is very dense and com¬ 
pact, rich dark green in color, and the 
very numerous silvery flower heads 
most gracefully poised. These hybrids 
are said to be in every way preferable to 
the common forms both for forcing and 
garden culture, and we can quite believe 
it from the behavior of this specimen. 
A clump of Gladstone costs 40 cents as 
against 15 cents for the ordinary form, 
but it is well worth the difference. 
W. V. F. 
HIDDEN SECRET OF 
DISEASE REVEALED. 
A Body of Battle Creek’s Most Famous Physi¬ 
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that is Startling the World and Curing 
Thousands Formerly Pronounced Incurable. 
A 
MESSAGE 
OF 
HOPE 
TEN DAYS' TREATMENT FREE. 
The a c c o m - 
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Half Enough Water 
is quite enough for some people, but most 
people want water every day. If 
Rider or Ericsson Hot-Air Pumps 
are used, you can have water every day in 
the year, and your cook or the stable boy 
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