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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
January 21 
Farmers’ Club. 
[Every query must be accompanied by the 
name and address of the writer to Insure atten¬ 
tion. Before asking a question, please see 
whether it Is not answered in our advertising 
columns. Ask only a few questions at one lime. 
Put questions on a separate piece of paper.] 
Onions on Sod. 
K. S., Salem, If. .7. —Would onions do well on 
Timothy and clover sod, two years old, sandy 
loam, and when would be the best time to plow, 
so as to plant April 1 ? 
Ans. —Sod land is frequently used by 
the onion growers of south Jersey, and 
E. S. need not hesitate to use his sod for 
the purpose. Fall is, perhaps, the best 
time to plow, but if plowed now or as 
soon as possible, and then thoroughly 
and deeply fined for the seed-bed, good 
results may be expected. A. t. j. 
New Jersey Ex. Station. 
The Value of Packinghouse Waste. 
W. K., Cairo, III. —The waste from a packing¬ 
house, such as tankage, blood and bones, is 
thrown out on a pile and in Summer, lime is 
thrown on to keep down the odor. Is it a good 
fertilizer ? 
Ans. —It would be hard to give the ex¬ 
act value of this packinghouse waste 
without having a sample of it analyzed. 
Probably much of the nitrogen it con¬ 
tains is lost through applying the lime. 
Tankage and bone contain no potash, 
but only nitrogen and phosphoric acid. 
In order to get best results from it, you 
should add potash in some form, either 
wood ashes, if they can be obtained 
cheaply, or muriate of potash. 
Insects that Like Whisky. 
JV. W. P., Lexington, Ky.—l had a number of 
barrels of cider that I undertook to keep in whis¬ 
ky barrels; the barrels were second-hand, seem¬ 
ingly perfect, and kept the cider all right for 
several months, when they began to leak, first 
one and then another, sometimes around the 
head and just as often between the staves. 
Worms would perforate the side of a barrel that 
was turned upward. What was the probable 
cause of the many leaks? Would we, probably, 
have the same trouble if we used tanks of, say 
10 or 12-barrel capacity ? 
Ans. —It is not improbable that the 
leaks in W. W. P.’s whisky barrels were 
caused by insects. There is no evidence, 
however, to show that such insects are 
addicted to drink ; they are simply kinds 
of insects which find hard woods of dif¬ 
ferent kinds suitable feeding places. 
Insects eat almost everything imagin¬ 
able. Recently an insect has been found 
breeding in crude petroleum in Califor¬ 
nia. Usually the insects which burrow 
into barrels and casks are very small 
beetles. There are several records of 
liquor casks or barrels having been tun¬ 
neled and made to leak by these little 
beetles, in this country as well as in for¬ 
eign lands. In one instance, it is re¬ 
corded that, formerly, it had been easy 
to keep the insects in check by painting 
wine casks with white lead and oil; but 
latterly, they hardly waited for the 
paint to dry before commencing their 
attacks, causing the double loss of casks 
and wine. 
Many of these little wood-boring 
beetles have long been known to cause 
similar injuries. In India, one kind is 
said to have done great damage by drill¬ 
ing holes in malt-liquor casks, the cus¬ 
tom being to destroy the beetles by sub¬ 
merging the casks in boiling water. In 
California, another of these beetles has 
similar habits. Oak, chestnut, pine, 
whitewood and Eucalyptus wood have 
all been used in making casks with a 
view to discovering some substance 
which would prove distasteful to the 
beetles, but without success. It has 
been reported that Dr. Rivers, Curator 
of the Museum of the University of Cal¬ 
ifornia, had, however, succeeded in mak¬ 
ing a cask apparently beetle-proof by 
saturating the outside with a strong so¬ 
lution of alum water, applied while hot 
and, as soon as dry, painting with lin¬ 
seed oil. The cask thus treated re¬ 
mained unharmed by the beetles, while 
others were riddled. 
Whether W. W. P. can apply any of 
the above suggestions, he must deter¬ 
mine for himself. If the tanks which he 
suggests using were made of wood of 
any kind, the insects would, doubtless, 
work as freely in them as in the barrels. 
M. V. SLINGERLAND. 
Suckers on Celery. 
Reader, Masxachuxetts.— What was the matter 
with my celery last year ? Some of the plants were 
very large, but on the outside, there would be 30 
or 40 suckers, I should call them. Some of them 
were on high land, some on low, wet land, but all 
acted about the same. 
Ans. —It is possible that this sueker- 
ing is due to poor stock. Several years 
ago, New York celery growers were 
troubled with these malformed plants, 
in some places quite seriously. Investi¬ 
gation placed the probable responsibility 
on the seed grower who had furnished 
the stock. He had grown his celery year 
after year on the same land, and had 
failed to “rogue” it; that is, to go 
through the fields frequently and dis¬ 
card all plants not up to the standard of 
excellence in the variety. Hence the 
stock had deteriorated, or “run out.” 
Evidence of this weakness would be more 
likely to appear in plants grown under 
unfavorable conditions. Celery needs a 
deep, rich, moist soil, and will bear no 
check in growth. I would suggest that 
Reader try a new seedsman. s. w. F. 
A Farm in Partnership. 
J. II. B., Milan, 0. —If two men buy a farm in 
partnership, and one wishes to sell his share, can 
he compel the other partner to buy or sell if he 
does not want to do so, if they buy the farm with 
the intention of dividing it ? If they do divide, 
can the man that has the most money in it, take 
his choice of the farm first, or can that be left to 
three good men to decide ? 
Ans. —If two men buy a farm in part¬ 
nership, one partner cannot compel the 
other either to buy his share or sell to 
him the share he owns. If they purchase 
the farm with the intention of dividing 
it, the one having the greater amount 
invested cannot arbitrarily take his 
choice of any particular portion of the 
land to the detriment of the other part 
ner. There are two ways you can settle 
your difficulty : If both parties consent 
to arbitration, three men may be se¬ 
lected to divide the land as they believe 
to be equitable between them. Or either 
partner who may be dissatisfied, or both 
partners for that matter, may petition 
the probate court judge for a partition 
of the land according to the value and 
amount each may have invested. The 
question involves a partnership. If a 
dissolution is desired and a partition of 
the land made, it would be advisable foi 
you to consult a local attorney. K T>. F 
THE EDGAR 
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