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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
October ]9 
FARMERS’ CLUB 
oughly fined until you are ready to seed represent the seeding of 14 acres, 
plant. We would use a fertilizer—as According to this it cost $9 to fit an acre 
Vegetable Plants 
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Shredding Cornstalks. 
F. C. C., Bundy Creek, Mc.—Wc have an 
acre of yellow corn. The fodder being 
valueless to us, as we keep but one horse. 
I am anxious to know whether it would 
pay to purchase a shredder to work these 
stalks up for the horse, and then market 
our hay. What proportion of the shredded 
corn could we feed? I think I could hire 
a gasoline engine. How long does it take 
to shred an acre? 
A.N.S. —^The shredders that really do ef¬ 
fective work are quite expensive, and it 
would hardly pay to buy one for a single 
acre of corn. Some of the hand power 
machines split and crush the stalks, but 
the work is not by any means equal to 
that done by the large machines which 
run rapidly by strong power. Our stock 
eat all the lighter parts of the shredded 
stalk—leaving the pith and some of the 
tougher part of the butts. The length 
of time required to shred an acre of 
stalks will depend on the size of the 
corn and the way the stalks are dried. 
Well-dried stalks work through slower 
than the greener ones. We can handle 
3,000 pounds an hour and not push the 
machine. 
Storing Cabbage. 
A. O. L., Auburn, /Jid.—Will you inform 
me as to the proper way of storing or 
burying Holland variety of cabbage? I 
have quite an amount. Will the recent 
frosts we have had injure its keeping 
qualities? 
Ans. —Our way is to cut the heads off 
the plants in the field, leaving no more 
leaves about the heads than if they were 
to be used or sold at once. They are 
then drawn and put into trenches made 
as follows: A sheltei’ed place having 
very good drainage is selected. Trenches 
about three feet wide and one foot deep 
are made. Into these the cabbage 
neads are dumped about 15 inches 
deep. The earth is then plowed or 
thrown back upon them to the depth of 
eight or 10 inches. No straw or other 
covering is put on before the earth, as 
it causes rot. Should the cabbage freeze 
solidly it will not injure them, as the 
moist earth will draw the frost out 
nicely. Cabbage can be kept nicely in a 
cold cellar provided ventilation from be¬ 
low is given. If placed in bins with 
slatted bottoms about six inches from 
the floor they will often keep well, but 
are likely to dry out and weigh much 
less than when kept outside in contact 
with the moist earth. In some large 
cabbage-growing sections they lay the 
heads, cut from the stem as described, 
tops up, close together, one deep, and 
cover with straw or leaves. A weli- 
sheltered piece of sod land is best for 
this method. A friend of mine uses a 
large compact orchard. The Holland or 
Danish cabbage will many times freeze 
solidly without damage. Freezing seems 
to improve the flavor. r. o. tioe. 
Manure or Fertilizer for Strawberries. 
L. R., Harwinton, Conn .—I wish to know 
how to handle a certain piece of land for 
strawberries. The land is a good deep soil 
which was plowed from turf last Summer; 
was given a fair coat of manure, but a 
large crop of corn was taken from it. I 
wish to set it to strawberries next Spring, 
but am afraid it is not rich enough. I 
shall not have any manure for it until 
Spring unless I buy it, and I wish to know 
which would be the better or cheaper, to 
buy manure at a fair price, or to use com¬ 
mercial fertilizers? Will any kind of ma¬ 
nure do, whether made by hogs, hens, or 
the product of the barnyard? Would it 
pay me to sow rye now, to be plowed in in 
the Spring? When is the best time of the 
year to fertilize strawberries and rasp¬ 
berries. after being set? 
Ans.-^K we had that piece of ground 
we would plow it at once and sow rye. 
In the Spring we would plow the rye 
under early, and roll the ground after 
plowing. Then, with a light cultivator 
or harrow, keep the upper surface thor- 
heavily as we could afford. The fruit 
and vine mixtures made by the leading 
manufactures are good, or you can use 
a mixture made of one part (by weight) 
nitrate of soda, one part muriate of pot¬ 
ash, one part fine bone and two parts 
dissolved rock. We would scatter this 
along the row before planting in a strip 
about 18 inches wide, and work it well 
into the soil. Then set your plants and 
keep them well cultivated. During the 
latter part of August use more of the 
same fertilizer, nut about six inches 
from the rows, and w^ell worked into 
the ground. We prefer chemical fer¬ 
tilizers for strawberries. So far as we 
know all forms of manure are suitable 
for growing the fruit, though horse ma¬ 
nure is usually preferred. The fruit 
buds of the strawberry are formed dur¬ 
ing the late Summer and Fall, and the 
best time to use fertilizer is when the 
plants are set, and when the fruit buds 
are forming. 
Short Course in Agriculture. 
The Rhode Island Agricultural Col¬ 
lege at Kingston, R. I., will try an ex¬ 
periment this year in a short course of 
six weeks on “Farm Practice.” The 
course will begin November 11, and end 
December 20. The following statement 
shows what the course will cover: 
Soils and Fertilizers.—Origin, constitu¬ 
ents and classification of soils; minerals 
and rocks of importance in agriculture: 
chemistry of manures; mixing, application, 
and use of agricultural chemicals; calcu¬ 
lation of fertilizer formulas. 
Soil Management.—Tillage, texture, mois¬ 
ture-content, humus, rotations, cover- 
crops. 
Field Crops.—Management of representa¬ 
tive farm crops. 
Fruit Growing.—Location, site, planting, 
pruning, marketing. 
Vegetable Gardening.—Market-gardening 
methods in field and under glass. 
Live Stock.—Principles of feeding and 
breeding. 
Agricultural Physics.—Weather, storms, 
frosts, atmospheric drainage. Mechanical 
laws applied to farm practice. 
Drainage.—Principles of tile-drainage. 
Plant Life—The plant and its environ¬ 
ment; structure and functions of root, 
stem and leaf; reproduction; parasites. 
Laboratory wmrk, including a microscopic 
study of injurious fungi. 
Insect Life.—Types, transformations ana 
habits of representative orchard and gar¬ 
den insects. 
Woodwork.—Bench-work, joint-making; 
the use, care, and sharpening of tools. 
Ironwork.—Forging, farm-bla cksmithlng. 
pipe-fitting. 
Sanitary Science.—Heating, ventilation, 
plumbing, water supply, and sewage dis¬ 
posal. 
Farm Business.—Farm accounts, letter¬ 
writing and general business methods. 
Prof. F. W. Card will have charge of 
the instruction, wiiich will be careful 
and thorough. We feel confident that 
any person of average intelligence will 
be able to understand fully what the 
college has to offer in this short course. 
It will occupy only six weeks in the 
early part of Winter and will be follow¬ 
ed by a short course in poultry keeping. 
It is, of course, difficult to learn just 
what to try to teach during this short 
period. The college is trying to find out, 
and it seems to us that the course out¬ 
lined above is an excellent one. We 
commend it to young men or old men 
who desire to know more about the 
“why” of agriculture. 
The Cost of Clark Grass. 
ir. C. M., Grange, N. 0.—Many R. N.-Y. 
readers, like myself, would be glad to 
know the financial side of Mr. Clark’s grass 
experiment. That yield was wonderful, 
and an annual “cost” account would be 
most interesting. No doubt Mr. Clark 
keeps an itemized expense account, and 
would he not be obliging enough to furnish 
a condensed table of annual costs? 
Axs.—Mr. Clark sends us the follow¬ 
ing figures, which, he says, is a state¬ 
ment of all the expense and income for 
seven acres of grass during 12 years. 
Part of the grass has been seeded for 
several years, but we understand that 
the $129 represents more or less work 
on all the land. As Mr. Clark uses 14 
quarts each of Red-top and Timothy in 
seeding down, the 196 quarts of each 
as Mr. Clark wants it fitted. He used 
$1,314.50 worth of fertilizer in the 12 
years, or $109.54 each year, or $15.75 per 
acre: 
Labor intensely to cultivate 
the soil . $120.00 
196 qts. Timothy seed. 17.50 
196 qls. recleaned Red-top.. 19.60 
Sowing grass seed. 14.00 
SVz tons Fall dressing, $36 
per ton . 126.00 
281^ tons Spring dressing, 
$11 per ton. 1.168.50 
Total cost of production.. $1,474.60 
Total product, 588 tons at 
$12 per ton. $7,056.09 
I>ess total cost. 1,4(4.60 
CABBAGE AND LETTUCE. 
Leadlnp: Varieties. Cheap in larfte lots. 
J. 8.1.1NTHICUM, Woodwardsville, Md. 
I I'tl'in'tl I more ot tbem. Sow 
• my hardy White Onion. 
I’ound.$3; ounce, 25 cents: packaRe, 10 cents. Send 
for testimonials. BKaULIKU, Woodhaven, N. Y. 
Qoori PntatnDO~®’'^ waiter IlaleiRh, Smith’s 
OCCU rUlQIUCO Six Weeks. SO kinds. Descrip¬ 
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GINSENG 
Buy Plants at Head¬ 
quarters, and save 50 
to 200 per cent. 
Best Book of instructions published. 10 cents. 
HAKLAN P. KItLSB: V.Tremont Bldg., Boston 
Farm In North Carolina Mts. Mention The R. N.-Y, 
Tjptal profit in 12 years.$5,581.10 
Mr. Clark figures the hay that he sold 
at $12 per ton, though he says that bis 
average price has been $16. Referring 
to this year’s total crop of hay Mr. 
Clark says: “I have previously given 
you the result of my first crop of hay, 
1901, tvhich was 79,490 pounds. 1 now 
have the second crop in the barn, which 
is 23,460 pounds. The total from the 
two crops this year from the seven acres 
is 102,950 pounds; an average of 14,721 
pounds per acre. Certainly more than 
seven tons of well-dried hay per acre for 
the year. The total cut in 12 years from 
the seven-eighths-acre field is 96 tons 
339 pounds. I could now get more hay 
by sowing new^ seed upon this section, 
but think that I shall continue another 
year or more to see how long Timothy 
and Red-top can be kept going -with 
once seeding wffien each crop is fed with 
bone, potash and nitrate of soda.” 
Many a distressed sufferer from Lung or Throat 
trouble, who had lost hope under the false Idea that 
his disease was Incurab'e, has been restored to per 
feet hea th by Dr. D. Jayne’s Expectorant.—Ada. 
NO GUESS NEEDED 
W'hen yon weigh on a Jones 800-lb. Scale. 
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Rasplierry Plants 
STRAWBERRY 
per 1,000. Set 
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Illustrated Catalogue of 
Choice Evergreens, Shrubs. 
Fruit and others Trees, Roses, 
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