1904 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
281 
Manure for Oafs: Cow Peas. 
W. H. C., Wilmington, Del.—I have five 
acres I wish to put in oats this Spring. 
Tlie ground is good, but has been worked 
out. It has been corn ground for two suc¬ 
cessive years, with poor yield. I have 
enough manure to spare to spread this 
field thin. Would you advise that I spread 
the manure for oats, or use extra fertilizer 
for the oats and reserve the manure for 
the wheat in the Fall, to be put in on same 
field? 
Ans. —We would use the manure on 
the oats. We doubt if what you have 
will make too much straw. We do not 
believe in holding manure over Summer. 
Better get it under ground at once. The 
loss will be less than where it is kept in 
ordinary piles. If we had that field we 
would as soon as the oats are cut plow 
or break up with a disk and sow New 
Era cow peas. If possible drill them 2% 
feet apart and give good cultivation 
through late Summer. Plow the vines 
under for wheat seeding. With a favor¬ 
able season the cow pea vines will give 
about as much benefit as the wheat 
would. 
fl Seeding of Peas. 
8. 8. O., Hardwick, Vt.—I notice that most 
seedsmen advise using one quart of seed 
peas to about 100 feet of drill. On page 
175 of The R. N.-Y., Mr. Barton says that 
one bushel per acre is plenty. As I figure, 
this would be one quart to about 450 feet. 
Which method is right, or does the first 
allow for thinning after plants are up? I 
want to grow a quantity for local market. 
Ans. —We consider that we get better 
results from thin planting of peas, one 
bushel to the acre in three-foot drills 
being our practice, than we do from 
thick. Anything in excess of this 
amount of seed tends to make shorter 
pods, and consequently an inferior pro¬ 
duct. Moreover, in case of dry weather 
you will sustain injury much sooner if 
they are too thick. One bushel per acre 
is recommended for the small early va¬ 
rieties. The later ones, the sweet wrink¬ 
led varieties, require more seed per foot 
of drill, but the greater width of the 
rows just about makes the same amount 
of seed per acre necessary. The recom¬ 
mendations of the seed catalogues, re¬ 
ferred to in the question as submitted, 
do not always prove accurate, hence the 
discrepancy. We have harvested as high 
as 250 five-eighths-bushel truck baskets 
per acre from one bushel of seed. 
JOSEPH BARTON. 
Hens and Spraying Chemicals. 
Suppose I have grapevines running on 
poultry netting around my chicken pens, 
and I spray vines with Bordeaux, etc.? If 
the poultry should eat any sprayed leaves 
that drop, will it kill them? If I spray 
fruit trees in chicken pens with California 
wash, or plum trees for curculio, adding 
Paris-green to spray (for plum trees) will 
cither of above kill poultry should they 
eat sprayed fruit, leaves or bugs? 
READER. 
There is practically no danger of pois¬ 
oning the hens. We have lost a few, but 
we laid it to eating the lime residue 
from the bottom of the barrel, which 
through a mistake was cleaned out and 
thrown in a poultry yard. We have also 
lost a number of hens from eating the 
residue from the barrels when we were 
spraying with lime, sulphur and caustic 
ar 
soda, these barrels were not cleaned in 
the yards, but the hens got out. We had 
between 600 and 700 hens in our or¬ 
chards, where we sprayed three times 
with Bordeaux and Paris-green, and 
once with lime, sulphur and caustic 
soda, and have lost no hens from poison 
except the two occasions before men¬ 
tioned. white & RICE. 
He: “We must economize. Suppose, 
darling, that you try your hand at mak¬ 
ing your own clothes.” She: “Oh, 
George, dear, I never could do that! 
Suppose I begin by trying to make 
yours?”—New-Yorker. 
Guest (studying bill of fare): “You 
haven’t had mock turtle soup for some 
time, George.” Waiter: “No, suh. Yo’ 
see, suh, de weathah’s done been so col' 
dat all de mock turkles am jes’ natur’ly 
friz up, and dey ain’t nobody ketch ’em.” 
—Catholic Standard and Times. 
ALL SORTS. 
Blood Meal.—I have only fed blood meal 
to suckling calves, with grain feed, as a 
preventive for scours; it was good in that 
way. Our calves all suck the cow until 
old enough to wean. c. a. s. 
Kansas. 
The past Winter made cattle business 
dormant for sure. It seemed that some 
would rather sit by the stove than take 
,care of what stock they already had, and 
that many reproached themselves for hav¬ 
ing stock that they could not keep com¬ 
fortable. The few who desired to purchase 
new blood from a distance were afraid to 
buy a calf lest it freeze to death en route. 
Now some business is doing with prospects 
for more in the near future. g. g. g. 
EIggs That Hatch.—T he keynote to suc¬ 
cess with poultry is to have eggs that will 
hatch out good strong chicks, and to do 
this you have to commence back a year or 
two to get things in shape. To get the very 
best results the hens you intend to breed 
from should have unlimited range from 
the time they are about a month old. If 
they get a little rain or snow it will not 
hurt them any, provided they have a good 
dry warm house to go to when they wish. 
When they are in the house keep them 
busy exercising by scratching in litter on 
the floor. For feed I find there is nothing 
better than cracked corn, wheat, buck¬ 
wheat, oats, clover, green cut bone and 
vegetables, besides oyster shell grit, etc. 
I do not believe in feeding mashes or stim¬ 
ulants of any kind; you might get more 
eggs, but they would not hatch as well, 
and the chickens would not be as strong. 
Now is the time to get ready for those 
high-priced eggs next Winter by hatching 
your chickens out in April and May, or if 
you have a quick maturing variety June 
and July will not be too late. f. e. g. 
Chazy, N. Y. 
A Farmer’s Home.—S everal years ago 
we were unfortunate'in losing our prop¬ 
erty and came back and took up the man 
agement of a portion of the old farm un¬ 
der a liberal agreement of purchase. 
Friends discouraged me, others ridiculed 
me, and thought me foolish for not ac 
cep ting a good position offered me in the 
city, but I steadily stuck to my purpose, 
preferring rural life with humble surround¬ 
ings. Under such circumstances I built a 
small greenhouse and got a splendid trad>' 
in vegetables; have fruit in bearing now, 
and by strict accounts my earning capacity 
last year was about $2.90 per day for every 
working day in the year, aside from all 
the vegetables, fruit, meat and eggs, etc., 
consumed, of which no account was kept, 
and it bids fair to double the above figure 
easily this season unless very unfavorable 
conditions set in, which are not foreseen. 
I feel that I have received no end more 
of satisfaction, health, etc., in working 
here than I would have had by a situation 
in the city, and a family of six children 
growing up with rural surroundings and 
developing a liking for one or another i.<- 
part of the business I consider of more 
satisfaction and importance than all else. 
w. 
The Judge: “And did you see the pris 
oner commit any overt act?” The Wit¬ 
ness: “No, sir, I didn’t. All I seen him 
do was to bust a couple o’ front windows 
an’ smash Patsey Breen over th’ head 
with a bung starter.”—Cleveland Plain 
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