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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
January 28 
FARMERS’ CLUB.—Continued. 
Rot or Club-Root in Turnips. 
E. P. II., Ilatchville, Mans .—My field of turnips, 
planted about July 10 on Timothy sod plowed in 
June, began to show signs of blight in August, 
when the turnips were about three inches in 
diameter. It affected them so that I got about 
two-thirds of a crop. Would Bordeaux Mixture 
have'helped them any? My seed was home-grown. 
Would Canada seed be any better ? 
Ans. —The turnips, probably, were af¬ 
fected with the crown rot, and possibly 
the club-root also. If the latter, it can 
be prevented by a liberal use of air- 
slaked lime. Thirty-five bushels per acre 
have kept the disease from land that was 
badly infested. For example, the lime 
was applied in the “ Plant Hospital ” in 
1895, and two crops of turnips yearly 
have been grown upon the same soil for 
five years without any further addition 
of lime, and the last crops have all been 
free from the club-root. If the trouble 
is due entirely to a crown rot, it is not 
so easy to give a remedy ; but spraying 
with Bordeaux Mixture may prove ef¬ 
fective. I have had no experience with 
this. It is likely that the weather was 
exceptionally favorable for this rot, and 
another year, the same trouble under 
other circumstances may not appear. 
While not denying that there is any¬ 
thing in the seed, it is not likely that 
the disease is introduced into the soil 
and plants through the seed. 
BYRON D. IIAL 8 TKD. 
Habits of Belgian Hares. 
II. A. It., Foxcroft, Me .—Will Belgian hares do 
fairly well running practically wild, in a good- 
sized out-of-door inclosure or yard, if provided 
with food and shelter ? Can they be raised in 
that manner in a climate as severe as that of 
Maine ? 
Ans. —Belgian hares will stand a clim¬ 
ate such as that of Maine. They are 
very hardy, and seem happy when play¬ 
ing in the snow, with zero weather. 
They stand extreme cold better than 
very warm weather. They will burrow 
in the ground for shelter, and raise their 
young in these burrows, if allowed to do 
so. They will burrow 15 to 20 feet, in 
ordinary soil, in a very few days. They 
will raise a fair number of young, if al¬ 
lowed full liberty, with plenty of food, 
in a large inclosure, but the breeding of 
immature specimens, and promiscuous 
inbreeding, which would be unavoidable 
with this method, would soon lower the 
standard of size. I would much rather 
keep them in hutches, each doe by it¬ 
self, control the mating, and give the 
does a rest from maternal duties, during, 
at least, three months of the severest 
Winter. w. B. gibson. 
Rights of a Second Mortgage. 
W. It, No. Poston, N. Y .—What becomes of the 
surplus money in foreclosing a mortgage, if 
there are two mortgages against property, and 
the first mortgage is being foreclosed ? If, the 
first mortgage being foreclosed, the surplus 
money over the amount of first mortgage is not 
equal to the amount of the second mortgage, 
does that surplus go to the party against whom 
the mortgage is taken or party giving the mort¬ 
gage, or is it paid to the county treasurer ? 
Has the second mortgage any right to such sur¬ 
plus money if the amount is not equal to the full 
amount of the second mortgage ? 
Ans. —If A borrows money of B and C, 
giving each a mortgage on his land, B’s 
mortgage will be deemed a senior mort¬ 
gage, and C’s mortgage a junior mort¬ 
gage. 
If B obtains judgment in foreclosure 
without making C a party to the suit, 
and has the land sold to satisfy his 
(senior) mortgage claim, and there is a 
surplus after paying the senior mortgage 
and court costs, the said surplus must be 
paid into court, for the use of the person 
or persons entitled to it. A second 
mortgage continues a lien notwithstand¬ 
ing the foreclosure of the first, and as 
such follows the surplus. 
Surplus money stands in place of the 
land for all purposes of distribution 
among persons having vested interests 
or liens on the land. The fact that the 
surplus is insufficient to cover the amount 
of the junior mortgagee’s claim does not 
destroy his right to take said surplus. 
His remedy is to enforce his claim thereto 
in the court which rendered the judg¬ 
ment of foreclosure. A claim to a lien 
upon a surplus fund may be determined 
in proceedings for the distribution of the 
surplus, but an independent action is 
not proper. 
On filing the report of the sale, any 
person who had a lien on the mortgaged 
premises at the time of the foreclosure 
sale, upon filing with the clerk where 
the report of the sale is filed, a notice 
stating that he is entitled to such sur¬ 
plus moneys, and the nature and extent 
of his claim, may have an order of ref¬ 
erence to ascertain and report the 
amount due him, and such further order 
may be made for the payment of such 
surplus money to him if there be no prior 
claims thereto. 
The owner of the equity of redemp¬ 
tion (the party executing the mortgages) 
should be served with notice of the ap¬ 
plication for the reference and to the 
usual notices of subsequent proceedings 
relative to such surplus. The referee 
shall in all such cases be appointed by 
the court. r. d. f. 
Values of Fertilizers. 
.1. It. D., Arters, Pa .—In a bulletin of the New 
Jersey Experiment Station, a home mixture is 
reported of 100 pounds dried blood, 700 pounds 
tankage, 900 pounds dissolved S. C. rock, and 300 
pounds muriate of potash. The analysis is, nitro¬ 
gen, 2 59 per cent; phosphoric acid, 12.33; potash, 
6.95 The value of 2,000 pounds at station prices 
is $24 OS), and its cost $21. If I wish to make that 
fertilizer, it would cost me more. The cost of 100 
pounds dried blood would be $11; 700 pounds 
tankage, $21; 900 pounds dissolved 8 . C. rock, 
and 300 pounds muriate of potash, $12. The whole 
cost will be $71. The price of dried blood a pound 
is 11 cents, tankage 3 cents, dissolved S. C. rock 
3 cents, and muriate of potash 4 cents. How can 
any one make a fertilizer of that for $21 ? If I 
want a fertilizer of that analysis, it would be 
cheaper for me to buy one ready mixed. Will 
you let me know how he made that fertilizer 
for $21 ? 
Ans. —The trouble, probably, is that 
you have taken the price of nitrogen, 
phosphoric acid and potash rather than 
the trade prices of the substances which 
contain them. For example, you say 
muriate of potash costs four cents per 
pound. The station chemist gives four 
cents as the price of the actual potash 
found in the muriate. This muriate of 
potash contains 50 per cent of actual 
potash. The other 50 per cent is not 
considered in figuring its fertilizing 
value. If the actual potash is worth 
four cents per pound, the muriate of pot¬ 
ash which he would buy should be worth 
only two cents a pound. The same is 
true of the other materials. If you will 
ask for quotations on dried blood, tank¬ 
age, dissolved rock, and muriate, from 
the regular fertilizer firms, you will find 
that potash will be quoted at about $40 
per ton, acid phosphate not far from $10, 
tankage about $20, and dried blood from 
$25 to $30, according to composition. 
ANSWERED SHORTLY. 
Kaffir corn is best adapted to the dry western 
plains. It is no improvement over a good local 
corn east of the Mississippi. 
We would, if possible, buy unslaked lime, and 
slake it at home. In slaking, lime takes up water 
at the rate of 400 pounds or more per ton. When 
you buy the slaked lime, you must pay freight 
and handling on this useless water. 
We have never found very much value in rye 
plowed under for green manure. The straw 
seems to decay very slowly, and is not readily 
available. On heavy soils, a heavy growth of 
rye seems to be an advantage in loosening or 
opening up the soil. 
We prefer a sulky plow with two plows, so ar¬ 
ranged that, by riding back and forth, the fur¬ 
rows can all be thrown the same way. The best 
plowmen would, probably, prefer to walk be¬ 
hind the sulky plow and watch the furrows, 
rather than to ride on it. 
City street scrapings are, probably, worth little 
over half as much as ordinary stable manure. 
Some of them contain a good many glass bottles 
and tin cans, which make a good deal of bother 
in handling, and are an objection in the soil. A 
pamphlet issued by the Department of Agricul¬ 
ture, at Washington, gives the facts about these 
scrapings, and will be sent free. 
F. K., Cheviot, O.—Tall rye is usually plowed 
under by hanging a heavy chaindn front of the 
plow. This drags the rye down, and tips it over 
so that the furrow slice is turned upon it. One 
year, we tried the plan of mowing the rye be¬ 
fore plowing, but this did not work as well as the 
use of the chain, for more of the rye was left on 
the surface after mowing than when the chain 
was used. 
Allcock's 
Porous Piasters 
DO YOU USE PLASTERS ? 
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Why ? Try it, smell it, com¬ 
pare its fine aromatic odor 
with the smell of all other 
plasters. They all smell 
alike, a nasty, sweetish odor 
because they are made of 
cheap materials. We guar¬ 
antee Allcock’s Porous Plas¬ 
ters to be made of the high¬ 
est-priced and purest of 
drugs. Don’t be buncoed. 
Get the best—Allcock’s. 
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PCCn DOTATflCQ -Steuben and Twentieth 
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Sir Walter Raleigh and Carman No. 1, yielding at the 
rate of 726 bush, uer acre. Bush., $2.50; bbl., $ 6 . Cir¬ 
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