1899 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
117 
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 time. 
Put questions on a separate piece of paper.] 
Hardy Raspberry. 
M IF. S (No address ).—What are the best two 
varieties for this latitude ? [What latitude ? 
Ens ] Cuthbert winterkills too often to be profit¬ 
able? 
Ans.—L oudon will please you better 
than any other raspberry. 
Some New Apples. 
M. IF. S., Fairlee, Vt .—What do you think of the 
apples sold under the trade marks, “ Apple of 
Commerce,” “ Delicious,” “ Senator,” etc., for 
the cold North, but where Ben Davis is hardy ? 
Ans. —We have not, of course, tried 
these apples on the Rural Grounds. Speci¬ 
mens have, however, been sent to the 
office, and were much as described. 
Early Potato and Tomato. 
G. G. W., Williamslown, Mass. — 1. Is Ea iy 
Norther a good early potato? Is it as early as 
Sunrise? 2. What do you consider the best early 
tomato for market? 
Ans. —1. The Early Norther is of the 
Early Rose type, and matures at about 
the same time. It is not as early at the 
Rural Grounds by one week as Sunrise. 
2. There is not much choice between At¬ 
lantic Prize and Fordhook. 
Three Forms of Nitrogen. 
E W. J, Philadelphia, Pa .—On page 40, Rural- 
isms makes mention of a fertilizer used on corn 
that was such a delight to you, that I am inter¬ 
ested, but just what it was, you leave one to 
guess. You say that nitrogen was sown on half 
of each variety at the rate of 150 pounds per acre. 
Do you mean that you actually put 150 pounds of 
nitrogen on in the ingredients you used, or did 
you use only 150 pounds of the ingredients ? 
Ans —The three ingredients furnished 
the nitrogen, as we have said, and they, 
taken together, were sown at the rate of 
150 pounds to the acre. The object of 
using these three forms of nitrogenous 
fertilizer was that the nitrate of soda 
would act first, the sulphate of ammonia 
next, and the blood last. We have no 
record of just exactly the amount of each 
that was used. 
Starting Cabbage in the Greenhouse. 
F. H. L., Northampton. Mass .—Can a man raise 
cabbage plants in a greenhouse, the seed being 
sown February 1, the plants pricked out March 
1, kept in the house a couple of weeks, and then 
put out into cold frames with board covering? 
The question is about the board covering, put on 
nights and taken off in the daytime. Will it 
answer or must) I have sash ? By beards, I 
mean shutters 3x6 and one inch thick. 
Ans. —It is our practice here to start 
our seed in February, grow the plants 
about one-half size, and then put them 
into cold frames. From these cold frames, 
we put them out into temporary frames 
when nearly full size, and simply protect 
them from severe freezing by placing 
shutters such as are described by F. H 
L. The plants should be nearly grown 
before putting out, as they will grow 
but little under the conditions named 
until the middle or last of April. 
[PROF J S. T. MAYNARD. 
Massachusetts Agricultural College. 
Slaughterhouse Refuse for Fertilizer. 
W. T. Z., Nichols, Mo .—What is the fertilizing 
value of meat, bone and blood, all boiled together, 
p.essed and ground in the same proportion as in 
the horse or cow ? Do they contain enough 
potash for potatoes ? If not, how much potash 
should be added to each 100 pounds of the above? 
What is the market value of the above meat, blood 
and bone? Are meat, bone and blood a good 
fertilizer for tomatoes ? How should they be ap¬ 
plied—in hill or broadcast ? 
Ans. —There is but little potash in 
such animal matter. In 1,000 pounds cf 
live ox, there are less than two pounds 
of potash. The mixture you describe 
will vary considerably, but a fair aver¬ 
age would be about six per cent of nitro¬ 
gen and 14 of phosphoric acid. We 
would add 15 pounds cf either muriate 
or sulphate of potash toea.h 100 pounds. 
As compared with other fertilizing sub¬ 
stances, in New York, the nitrogen 
would be figured at 13% cents a pound, 
and the phosphoric acid at four cents. 
The mixture, with potash added, will be 
good for tomatoes on most soils. We 
would broadcast it after plowing, and 
barrow it in. 
Alfalfa on Heavy Clay. 
L. S. 6', Steuben County, N. Y .—My farm is a 
heavy clay soil, underlaid with rock at about 
seven feet. It heaves very badly in Winter, throw¬ 
ing Red clover clear out of the ground. Can I 
grow Alfalfa to advantage ? I have four acres 
that I sowed to rye late last Fall, that has not 
come up yet. Would Alfalfa catch if sown on the 
rye in the Spring ? Would it do to sow any other 
grass seed with it ? If so, what kind ? 
ANSWERED BY PROF. I. P ROBERTS. 
The climate of Steuben County should 
be fairly well adapted to the growth of 
Alfalfa, although it is at its best in the 
deep, porous, ft rtile, dryish soils of the 
West and the Pacific slope. A heavy 
clay soil is not well adapted to Alfalfa, 
yet I have known it to do fairly well on 
such soils, although not underdrained. 
Much will depend upon the plants get¬ 
ting a firm foothold the first year, and 
on being sufficiently vigorous to cover 
tbe ground and protect it to some extent 
from frequent freezing and thawing. 
Since the ground tends to heave or swell 
when frozen, care should be taken to 
cover the surface, as far as possible, with 
plants, and they should not be grazed 
elcue in the Fall, but left as a protection. 
In this case, I would sow in April, 
four quarts of clover seed per acre, of a 
mixture of three parts of Medium clover 
to one part of Alsike. A little later you 
might sow five pounds of Alfalfa seed per 
acre, if possible just before a rain, then 
roll the laud at the first opportunity. 
The rye will, probably, be a light crop ; 
if so, this will give better opportunity 
for the seeding than would be the ease 
if the rye were heavy and thick. In any 
case, I would not try this experiment on 
a large area of land, since it may not 
succeed. 
This heavy land should produce most 
excellent Timothy if the plants can once 
get a foothold, but the main object may 
be in this case, to improve the produc¬ 
tivity of the land. If that be so, tbe 
clovers and Alfalfa would do much more 
towards improving the soil than the 
Timothy, and if the clay is not tco 
tenacious and wet, the Alfalfa maybe 
able to throw its long tap-roots deep into 
the subsoil, and when it is plowed up 
and these roots decay, it will materially 
assist in draining the land. Some one 
has said that, wherever the Red clovers 
thrive well, Alfalfa is not l'kely to be 
grown in large quantities. Then, too, 
wnen fields are seeded with Alfalfa, tbe 
expectation usually is that they will 
not be plowed up for several years. If 
this method be practiced, it does not 
improve the land nearly so rapidly as 
does Red clover, which is a biennial, 
hence the ground must be plowed at the 
end of two years, and in so doing, the 
fertility brought to the land by the 
clover is made available for succeeding 
crops. It may be said that it hardly pays 
to sow Alfalfa if it is to be plowed up in 
one or two years, as it seldom gets to its 
best until two years from seeding. 
Compel your dealer to get 
you Macbeth lamp-chimneys 
— you can. 
Does he want your chim¬ 
neys to break? 
Write Macbeth Pittsburgh Pa 
TREES. 
BISMARCK Apple, October Cherry and Japan 
Plums very cheap. Catalogue free. 
C. F. MacNair & Co , Dansville, N. Y. 
TRAWBERRIES 
41.7R 3 I flflfl for Standard kinds. Onlj 
W I » 5 w d i UUU New Beds. Best Plant 
you ever saw. Raspberries, $5. a IOOO 
Other fruits at like rates, Lists SENT FREE. 
JOHN F. DAYTON, WAUK0N, Allamakee Co., IOWA. 
Pi ANT^~ Raspberry and Strawberry Plants at a 
I LH II I 0 very low price. Onr catalogue tells all. 
WM. CARSON & SONS, Rutland, Ohio. 
T T A in price but not in quality. 
r-H |H ZA 1-w Trees, Plants and Vines. 
A A J—rf i. A A Write for Catalogue, free. 
ALLIANCE NURSERIES, Rochester, N. Y. 
Pm it Trooo - PEACH TREES at special prices. 
riUll IIOuu Catalogue free. Peach Culture, de¬ 
scribing 40 varieties and other valuable information, 
Price, 50c. To It. N.-Y. readers by mail for eight 2-c. 
stamps. West Jersey Nursery Co., Bridgeton, N. J 
TREES 
Prices low. Spring catalog free. Estab¬ 
lished 1869.150 acres. The Geo. A. Sweet 
Nursery Co., Box 1605, Dansville, N. Y. 
CARMAN 
Nos. 1 and 3. very choice and very cheap, by the 
bushel or the car-load. A fine lot of small fruit 
plants also. Send for price list. 
W. W. FARNSWORTH, Watervllle, Ohio. 
$25 
Given 
For 
Best 
Name 
For 
Green’s 
Big Strawberry. 
Send for free catalogue and sample of 
Green’s Fruit Grower; also, free, Peat 
Culture; Currant Culture, Gooseberry, 
Plum, Quince or Cherry Culture. 
Address, GREEN’S NURSERY CO. 
Rochester, N. Y. 
IEW STRAWBERRIES! 
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FLANSBURGH & PIERSON, Leslie, Mich. 
Red Currant Plants 
I have the best grown. Handsome descriptive 
book, with practical suggestions on cultivation, 
mailed free. Write for it. 
J. E. SHIDELER, Indianapolis, Ind., Ruttshide Fruit Farm 
C OLOR and flavor of fruits, 
size, quality and ap¬ 
pearance of vegetables, 
weight and plumpness of grain, 
are all produced by Potash. 
Potash, 
properly combined with Phos¬ 
phoric Acid and Nitrogen, and 
liberally applied, will improve 
every soil and increase yield 
and quality of any crop. 
Write and get Free our pamphlets, which 
tell how to buy and use fertilizers with 
greatest economy and profit. 
GERriAN KALI WORKS, 
93 Nassau St., New York. 
GLADSTONE 
STRAWBERRY 
Earliest, largest, best. Fully 
described in The Rural New- 
Yorker and in our new Berry 
Catalogue—FREE. 
Slaymaker & Son. Dover, Del. 
STRAWBERRY PLANTS, BEST 2SKT’ 
Circular free, send for it. JB. King;, Tewksbury, Mass 
ft!E\A/?TQA\A/RE D D Y JO,INSON ’ s early 
II LIT OinrtYYDCnni has four requirements: 
Large as “Lady Thompson.” Early as “Michel’s.” 
Firm as “Hoffman.” Prolific as “Crescent.” Over 
300,000 plants now ordered. Price reasonable. 
O. A. JOHNSON, Upper Falrmount, Md. 
Dl APIf DEBDICG~ 1Ayi OK—$1.25 per 100. 
DLAOIVDI.llIBl)Cd Five hundred. $5. 
MORNING SIDE FARM, Sylvania, Pa. 
CTDA1AIDCDDV PLANTS. Sixty varieties 
W I HA Vf DClin I $1 per 1,000 up. Catalogue 
free. A. J. McMATH, Onley, Va. 
if you give our wonderful new straw¬ 
berry a suitable name. Catalogue free. 
1,000 var. T. C. Kevitt, Athenla. N. J. 
PFAfll TREES, 3c. All kinds of stock CHEAP. 
I LnvII kki.iance Nursery, Box 10, Geneva. N.Y 
eTRAWBERRYrtS 
and choicest stock in the world (50,000,000. 100 
varieties.) Lowest prices. Safely and cheaply 
delivered anywhere on continent. Catalogue free. 
CONTINENTAL PLANT COMPANY, Strawberry 
Specialists, 34 8outh Street, Kittrell, N. C. 
B ERRY PLANTS, that grow vigorous,guaranteed 
true to name, all the new & Standard sorts. None 
finer; cheap. By the dozen or 100,000. Catalogue 
free. J. W. HALL. Marion Station, Md. 
The New Frost-Proof PEACH 
IRON MOUNTAIN EVERYWHERE 
PEACH, PEAK, PLUM, APPLE Trees New Fruits 
and Berries—Specialties. Lowest prices. Catalogue 
free. J. H. LINDSLEY, White House, N. J. 
IF 
you are interested in Fruit Trees and Plants, 
send for my catalogue, it will save you money. 
C. A. HYATT, Croton-on-lludson, N. Y. 
M I Strawberry Plants, 1,000Glen Mary 
A 8 dlOCK F2; 20 p. c. discount on orders before 
March 15. Price-list free. Peter Speer, Passaic, N. J. 
Columbian Raspberry 
For sale by the ORIGINATOR, 200,000 of the FINEST 
PLANTS, one and two years old. Write for prices 
to J. T. THOMPSON, Oneida, N. Y. 
40,000 Peach Trees. 
For Spring Planting. Low Prices. Send for list. 
V. V. NURSERY, Washington, N. J. 
Breeder White Leghorns and Bull Plymouth Rocks. 
Eggs for Sale. 
Profits of Farming 
GARDENING AND FRUIT CULTURE 
depend upon Good Crops and they in 
turn upon Good Fertilizers. The uni¬ 
formly best fertilizer for all Crops and 
all soils is made by 
Tbe Cleveland Dryer Co., Cleveland, O. 
Materials Supplied for “Home Mixing." > 
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“STRAWBERRY PLANTS THAT CROW.” 
Why pay fancy 
My FREE. 1899 
Send for it. 
prices for plants, when you can get just as good or better at) from $1.50 to $2.50 per _1 000. 
Catalogue lists all the later introductions and standard sorts at right prices. 
K C. K. WHITTEN, Bridgman, Mich. 
WE SAVE FARMERS 40 PER CENT, fertilizers 
We sell you direct—actually pay you saleman’s expenses and agent’s profit. Write for 
free samples and book. The Scientific Fertilizer Co., Pittsburg, Pa. 
JADOO FIBRE"™ 
JADOO LIQUID 
ARE INVALUABLE TO THE GROWERS OF 
Vegetables, Fruit, Plants <>r Flowers 
SEND EOR CATALOGUE AND JPRICES. 
For Sale by all prominent Seedsmen, and by 
THE AMERICAN JADOO COMPANY, 
815 Fairmount Avenue, Philadelphia, Pa. 
