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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
March 26 
Division With a Tenant. 
M. H. G., Moreland , N. Y .—If the owner of 
a farm lets his place, furnishing every¬ 
thing, how should the teams be kept, from 
undivided or divided products? If the 
owner takes the milk at barn (his share) 
and works it up, whose is the skim-milk? 
Ans.—I t is, so far as my observation 
serves, a rare thing that the owner fur¬ 
nishes everything, both real and per¬ 
sonal, and an equal division of proceeds 
follows. If that is the method of divi¬ 
sion in this case I should say that the 
tenant should furnish at least the grain 
fed to the horses. If there is an un¬ 
equal division, perhaps then each should 
furnish an equal share! If our friend 
would give us the whole contract we 
could more intelligently answer the 
question. h. e. c. 
Insects Working in Pop Corn. 
J. TT. It., HatJiome, Mass.—What can you 
tell me of the weevil which injures pop 
corn? It is usually thought to be more 
troublesome in corn which is kept over two 
Summers, but one grower tells me of seri¬ 
ous injury the lirst Summer, and attrib¬ 
uted it in this case to place in which it 
was stored, the upper story of a brick 
building. Knowledge of its life history, 
time of egg-laying, etc., might lead us to 
outwit it. The corn is usually barreled 
and headed up during late Winter or early 
Spring. I presume it is the larva of a small 
moth. 
Axs.—It is probably the caterpillar of 
the minute Angoumois grain moth which 
works in the stored pop corn. The eggs 
are probably laid in the ears after husk¬ 
ing time in the Fall. If the corn is 
stored where it is moderately warm, the 
insect will continue to breed through 
several generations in the seed during 
the Winter. But corn stored in slatted 
cribs outdoors is rarely injured, prob¬ 
ably owing to low night temperatures. 
If the corn could be stored in. a tight 
loom or bin, and this place fumigated 
with carbon bisulphide (one pint to each 
100 bushels of grain or 1.000 cubic feer 
of space), soon after storing, and again 
in six or eight weeks, the insect would 
be kept under control. The bad-smell¬ 
ing liquid is very volatile, and its fumes 
are heavier than air; hence the liquid 
should be put on top of the grain, in 
shallow pans, or sprinkled on. Use the 
liquid as carefully as gunpowder, for its 
fumes are explosive. 
If. V. SLIXGEIU.AXD. 
Skim-milk and Lime for Paint. 
E. 8., Lionrille, Pa.—What does C. E. 
Chapman think of skim-milk and water 
lime for paint after several years of use? 
Is there any sprayer that is a success at 
spraying whitewash on buildings? 
Axs.—Several years ago I began to 
try cheap paints and methods of paint¬ 
ing, and of them all only the milk and 
lime mixture has proved satisfactory. 
The trouble with all mixtures containing 
lime (stone, slaked) is that they flake 
off and are also too expensive for their 
duration. The milk (skimmed) and wa¬ 
ter lime are very cheap, quickly and 
easiy mixed, and if applied correctly are 
quite durable. My henhouses and barn, 
after four years of wear show but little 
scaling and no loss of color. These build¬ 
ings are of unplaned boards, and it was 
applied with a four-inch brush, and well 
rubbed in, one coat only. There has 
been a good deal of questioning as to 
what water lime is, and in many sec¬ 
tions people do not know it. As far as 
I know it is about the same thing as the 
low grades of cement, and I do not see 
any reason why they cannot be used in¬ 
stead. The water lime is a yellowish 
lime, fine as flour, and comes ready to 
use for making mortar for laying stone 
walls. It is kept for sale by most dealers 
in such supplies and costs about 30 
cents per sack (paper) for 60 pounds. I 
know that paints are applied by power 
and with sprayers, but do not think 
(have never tried it) that it would rub 
it in enough to make a good permanent 
job. The mixture should be kept well 
stirred, as the lime soon settles to the 
bottom; should be about the consistency 
of ordinary paint, perhaps a little 
thinner, so that it will stain the surface 
rather than cover it. Too thick a coat 
does not get a hold, and is more liable 
to flake. The mixture is so cheap and 
easily put on one can afford to go over 
the building once a year for two or three 
years with a thin coat each time, till it 
is quite well coated, but I did not see 
any need to put on any since the first 
time. We use yellow ochre to color, 
and I should use the milk and lime in 
preference to anything else in all cases 
except very fine houses or very fat 
pocketbooks. c. e. chapman. 
Nitrate of Soda on Potatoes.—I note a 
reference to nitrate of soda growing too 
much top on potatoes for the roots and 
root force to carry crop to perfection. I 
think this is often true on some soils. 
F. M. p. 
Fertilizers and Spraying.- Have any of 
your readers had experience with gypsum 
(ground rock) or land plaster, and common 
salt as a conserver of moisture to carry 
the crop through the dry weather of Au¬ 
gust and September? I know well that 
scarcely any two seasons are alike, and 
can understand how a number of sprayings 
with Bordeaux might not effect a perma¬ 
nent cure. Often we have a dry spell dur¬ 
ing late August or early September; then 
several warm rains in quick succession, 
likely to be followed by a foggy morning, 
temperature high; potato foliage as wet 
as a sop, and a decaying smell all over the 
field when dried up later by a fierce sun. 
The loss is apparent everywhere. Spray¬ 
ing to have any effect whatever would of 
necessity be done beforehand. t. m. p. 
Screen the Clover.— The value of cut 
clover hay as a poultry food is well known, 
but many who have plenty of clover or 
mixed hay and are daily feeding it to their 
cows or horses fail to supply their fowls 
with same for the reason they have no 
suitable cutter. A large wire screen with 
one-half-inch mesh answers very nicely in 
place of a hay cutter. In fact, it does its 
work so well that I have used the screen 
instead of the cutter for a year or more, 
and like it much better. I place screen over 
the feed-mixing trough, which I keep in 
barn in front of cow stalls; place a bunch 
of clover hay on screen and give it a few 
rubs over the wire and pass it along to the 
cows. It is surprising the short length of 
time required to get a half bushel of clover 
heads and leaves for the poultry in this 
way, and the cows never know the differ¬ 
ence, or at least do not make any com¬ 
plaint even by way of the milk bucket, 
and the hens show their appreciation ‘by 
making you carry a larger egg basket. 
New Jersey. j. e. s. 
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