1898 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Hope Farm Notes. 
(CONTINUED.) 
ing fine, and we hope that most of it will 
get through March in safety. If it do, 
our fertilizer problem will be a simple 
one. After figuring up the cost of last 
year's crops, we have decided to put most 
of the farm into potatoes and sweet corn, 
with a few acres of oats for horse hay. 
The berries will need a good deal of 
time, and we can handle corn and pota¬ 
toes better than other crops. The whole 
farm is now covered with Crimson clover 
and rye. Early in March, we plan to 
broadcast our potash and phosphoric 
acid right on the clover. We have both 
muriate and kainit. and for phosphoric 
acid, we use dissolved rock or basic slag. 
This scattered over the clover will give 
us more of that to plow under, and will 
save work later when plowing time 
comes. We have but little manure left 
after covering the strawberries. What 
there is and the compost will go during 
March on the lightest clover. The oats 
will be sown on a field that had a good 
dressing of slag and kainit last year. In 
this way, we expect to grow fair corn 
and oats by the use of nitrate of soda at 
planting time. If the clover do as well 
as it now promises, we figure that a 
small amount of nitrate will carry the 
crop through. This is the simplest and 
cheapest fertilizing for sweet corn that 
we can think of this year and, as I said, 
it depends on the way the clover goes 
through March. For potatoes, we shall 
buy, or mix at home, a fertilizer contain¬ 
ing, say 3% per cent of nitrogen, eight 
of phosphoric acid and, at least seven of 
potash. 
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Another thing we would like to do 
this year is to make a ton or two of pork. 
There is a good market for fresh pork in 
our country, and I believe that it can be 
made at a fair price. We have an eye 
on a little field below the spring that we 
hope to fence in for a hog yard. By dig¬ 
ging a ditch, we can run the water 
through it. In a field nearby, we plan 
to grow crops of sweet corn, oats, cow 
peas and rape to be cut and thrown over 
to the hogs. We shall see about this 
later. If I could, I would like to start 
a sow experiment. I would get good 
sows of, say Berkshire, Poland-China, 
Cheshire, Chester White and Jersey Red 
breeds, of about the same age. Keep 
them separate, and feed them on the 
foods that are cheapest in our section. 
Breed them to the same boar, and keep 
them, say three years, getting as many 
litters as possible, and keeping an ac¬ 
curate account with each sow as to food, 
and sales of pigs and pork. It seems to 
me that this ought to settle some of the 
questions and claims that are raised 
about the different breeds of hogs. In 
our country, a white hog sells best, but 
the black hogs may make more pork. I 
want to know about this. 
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By the way, here is a city woman who 
beats most of us at poultry keeping : 
I have been very much interested in Hope Farm 
Notes, and would like to give a little of my ex¬ 
perience with poultry. This is my first season, 
having lived 32 years in the city. I have a pen of 
23 S. C. White Leghorn pullets, hatched May 12, 
and June 1. They began to lay November 11, 
and during the rest of November laid 51 eggs, 
December 281, January 361. They laid 14 and 16 
eggs a day when the thermometer was below 
zero. They have a roost 6x10, double-boarded 
and papered, with board shutters to the windows. 
The coldest nights, it has sometimes been as low 
as 22 or 24 degrees, but never any frosted combs. 
Their scratching shed is 10 x 12 feet, windows east 
and south. I feed mornings one quart warm 
mash consisting of two parts each, bran, corn- 
meal, ground oats, one part middlings, one part 
meat meal, or linseed meal once a week. Occa¬ 
sionally one large spoonful of pulverized char¬ 
coal is added. Directly after the mash, I scatter 
one part of oats in litter to warm them up by 
scratching. Unless very cold, I feed only twice 
a day, the last meal being three pints of grain 
in litter. Usually, this is wheat and corn half- 
and-half, sometimes buckwheat instead of corn. 
If very cold, I feed more corn, dividing the quan¬ 
tity of grain into dinner and supper. Cabbage, 
clover hay, shells, charcoal and grit are always 
by them, green bone occasionally, but not often, 
as it is difficult to obtain it. It costs me about 
163 
$2 a month for feed, and receipts were $7.20 for 
December (35 cents per dozen) and $9.32 for Jan¬ 
uary (average of 31 cents per dozen). Nearly all 
were sold at wholesale. Considering that this is 
my first season, how does that compare with old 
poultry raisers ? MBS. a. J. Arnold. 
There you have the Leghorn pullet 
again. That would make a fine breeding 
pen from which to start a family of lay¬ 
ers. n. w. c. 
The Knight and the Rose. 
T. H., Goderich, Ont. —The little Sir 
Walter Raleigh tuber has done very well, 
indeed, with me. I planted the five little 
eyes from that very little potato, on 11 
feet of ground. Result, 11 pounds, or 
one pound to the foot—this is 176 ounces 
from one. If you wanted my little pile 
of potatoes in preference to the $1 in¬ 
closed as a renewal for The R. N.-Y., 
I think they would remain with me. 
Twenty-two years ago, I introduced 
Early Rose in this county, and looking 
over my notes of that time, I find that 
Early Rose produced 171 ounces from 
one. Is this not a close contest, only 
five ounces between the Knight and the 
Rose ? 
Garrahan on Cow Peas 
M. Garrahan, Luzerne County, Pa.— 
The R. N.-Y. has been instrumental in 
getting me into a “ peck of trouble”; 
all sorts of questions are being asked me 
regarding cow peas and their cultivation. 
I will try to answer some of those ques¬ 
tions in a general way. First, I have no 
cow peas to sell. Everybody seems to 
think that somebody has an ax to grind. 
If I had peas to sell, I should advertise 
in a legitimate manner. Second, the 
southern cow pea, as has been so often 
repeated, is not a pea at all, but in real¬ 
ity, a very tender bean, and must not be 
planted until warm weather is assured. 
If for a renovating crop to plow under, 
sow broadcast, not less than 1 % bushel 
per acre ; if for the purpose of obtaining 
seed, sow practically as fodder corn is 
sown, in rows 3 or 3% feet apart, to 
allow the free use of the cultivator. 
Third, north of latitude 40 degrees, they 
have not been considered of much ac¬ 
count, though we have been quite suc¬ 
cessful somewhat north of 41 degrees. 
Fourth, to obtain the best results, apply 
at the time of sowing a few hundred 
pounds of a fertilizer rich in phosphoric 
acid and potash, and relatively low in 
ammonia; or apply 500 pounds of acid 
phosphate and 100 pounds of muriate of 
potash per acre. 
t No lamp is a good one 
without the chimney made for 
it. 
Go by the Index. 
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