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being favorable, at a reasonable outlay for 
chemical fertilizers ? I take it that Mr. 
Tabor means that the amounts named are 
to be applied independently of the elements 
of plant food to be supplied by the soil. It 
is true that analysis will show how much 
plant food is required to produce the stalks 
and one bushel of corn; but I believe it is 
not necessary to apply the whole quantity 
of plant food to produce a single crop ; 
now, in practice, how much should be ar¬ 
tificially furnished to produce the several 
crops in their order ? 
Crops Like Cold Water. 
H. H. Castle, Logan County, Idaho.— 
Will cold water injure the growth of vege¬ 
tation ? Emphatically, no, All our crops 
here are grown by artificial irrigation, and 
many mornings ice can be seen on the 
water. The ground being warmed by the 
heat of the sun, does not radiate the heat as 
easily as does the water in the small 
streams that run through the growing 
crops. Nearly all the water used here for 
irrigation is taken from small streams of 
spring water, and many of them come 
directly from snow banks. I have been 
growing crops by means ot irrigation in 
this State for over 12 years, and have had 
experience with water every year. I find 
that when there is danger of frost and 
water is turned on the ground, even though 
ice forms in the small ditches, the tenderest 
vegetables will not be harmed. This may 
sound strange, but can be verified. In fact, 
it is proved every season throughout this 
region. Our altitude is between 5,000 and 
6,000 feet above tide-water, and in some 
years we have frost every month of the 12, 
nevertheless we have fine garden vege¬ 
tables. 
A Late Ohio Farmer contains an inter¬ 
esting article on the effects of “ superphos¬ 
phates on wheat,” by W. I. Chamberlain, 
the President of the Iowa Agricultural Col¬ 
lege. His farm is in Hudson, Ohio. He 
says that on live acres, drill measure, he 
used superphosphate at the rate of $5.20 per 
acre (besides freight, about 25 cents per 
acre). These five acres yielded 35.4 bushels 
per acre. Without superphosphate 6 % 
acres yielded 24.6 bushels per acre. The 
two plats lay side by side and in natural 
fertility, previous treatment, and all other 
respects they seem to have been equal. 
That is, on that land this year $5.20 spent 
for high-grade superphosphates brought 
10.8 bushels extra of wheat on each 
acre. The figures are all “ thrashing ma¬ 
chine measure.” The weight would o ver- 
run at least one bushel in every 11, judging 
from past experience. That is, in the first 
year’s yield of wheat alone, the superphos¬ 
phate paid twice its cost. But that is not 
all. The seeding of clover and Timothy is 
far the best where the superphosphate was 
used. You can see the exact line of the 
superphosphate by the marked difference in 
the young clover and Timothy. 
Pres. Chamberlain makes a mistake in 
not telling his readers what bis “super¬ 
phosphate ” consisted of. We are led to sup¬ 
pose that it is dissolved bone-black, since he 
calls it “ high-grade,” which qualification 
he would scarcely have given to acid- 
phosphate. 
The northwest end of both plats, about 
one-third of Pres. Chamberlain’s land, is not 
tile-drained, except one four-inch main 
through a broad hollow. This third of both 
plats had a good deal of poor wheat, badly 
winter-killed, some spots being wholly bare. 
The tiled land had none winter-killed, none 
poor, though it lies further from the baru, 
is less fertile naturally, and less manured, 
and worse exposed to winds by reason of its 
westerly slope. He could not thrash the 
wheat from the tiled land separately, but it 
was his clear judgment and that of others 
that the tiling made a difference of at least 
eight bushels per acre, and that if all the 
phosphate plat had been tiled the yield 
would have been 40 bushels per acre, thrash¬ 
ers’ measure. 
President Chamberlain has stood up 
stoutly for manure these many years; but 
200 pounds of superphosphate per acre last 
year seemed to do the land more good than 
15 loads of well-rotted manure. The benefits 
of superphosphates last fall are more mani¬ 
fest than ever before. 
SAMPLES. 
THERE is no money to speak of in 20- 
bushels to-the acre wheat, at the prices 
of the last few years, Mr. Terry says in the 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
Ohio Farmer. The farmer who owns his 
large farm, all paid for and well improved, 
can live on such returns quite comfortably, 
but no man can in Ohio pay for his farm 
and improvements out of such crops, ex¬ 
cept in a very slow way—that is, if he lives 
comfortably as he goes along. Such crops 
just about pay fairly for the labor put on 
them, and the seed and use of land. But 
if, now, one can increase the crop 50 or 75 
per cent, without materially increasing the 
cost of production, why then he is on the 
road to prosperity. This is just what can 
be done on fertile land by improved farm¬ 
ing; it is just what'Mr. Terry has done ; it 
is just what he preaches ; it is the only way 
out of the present depression for individual 
farmers. 
Years ago Mr. Terry took a contract for 
drawing 100 loads of gravel about two 
miles. Several other teamsters were haul¬ 
ing on contracts. Much rain and teaming 
made the roads bad, and with two horses 
in a wagon one could hardly make living 
wages. Mr. Terry made a three-horse pole 
and drove three horses abreast, and made 
considerable clear money every day. That 
third horse drew all gravel. There was no 
more dead weight in the shape of wagon or 
driver. Two horses drew 3,000 pounds of 
gravel, the third horse easily drew 2,000. 
There was the profit. He has found it the 
same with improved farming. By common 
practices Mr. Terry could just about live I 
but by putting on the third horse, in the 
shape of tile draining when needed, more 
thorough tillage, clover pushed for all it 
was worth, etc., etc., he has found his 
profit. 
A Delaware writer in the Country 
Gentleman says that Crimson Clover is the 
most beautiful of all clovers, and a field of 
it in full bloom will seldom fail to draw ex 
clamations of pleasure from all observers, 
and the practical beauty of it is that when 
it comes to be utilized in any of the ways 
for which it is adapted—early pasture, 
soiling, hay, seed or green manure—it pro 
duces a comfortable and beautful feeling in 
the pocket of the grower that is quite re¬ 
freshing in these times. Its great value for 
him lies in its use for green manure; com¬ 
ing as it does to its perfection early enough 
in the season to be turned under for corn, 
potatoes, cabbage, beans and many other 
crops. 
A FEW vigorous cockerels will so worry 
the hens that they will prove very poor 
layers, says Prof. Cook in the N. Y. Tri¬ 
bune. From several years’ experience and 
close observation he became assured that 
it is a great mistake to keep cocks with the 
hens after securing the early spring eggs to 
be used for breeding. 
Mr. M. Crawford makes a favorable 
report of the Parker Earle Strawberry. 
His farm is at Cuyahoga Falls,O. Probably 
a new plantation of this excessively proli¬ 
fic variety may well be set every year. 
The Canadian Horticulturist tells us of a 
new strawberry named the Williams, 
which is very large, of high color, firm, 
well shaped and of fine quality. The berry, 
it says, is creating a great sensation where- 
ever it is known. It is an enormous bearer. 
“It will yield four times as much in weight 
of fruit to the acre as the Sharpless.”. 
We want every reader of The R. N.-Y. 
to try a plant or so of the beautiful rasp¬ 
berry Rubus phcenicolasius—the Ruby- 
berry, Moss or Wineberry. 
Try Michel’s Early for the earliest 
strawberry—say, half a dozen plants. 
SOME of the newer strawberries that have 
not succeeded at the Rural Grounds are 
Jessie, Warfield, Summit, Belmont, Burt, 
Bomba, Haverland, Hampden, Cloud, 
Eureka, Carmichael, Lida and Mrs. Cleve¬ 
land. 
A MELON called, we believe, Ruby and 
Gold, was received from Mr. A. W T . Smith 
(Americus, Ga.), weighing 40 pounds. The 
flesh is well described by the name. We 
doubt if these yellow-fleshed varieties will 
ever become very popular. In quality it 
was sweet—too sweet—but the flesh was 
not as tender or “melting” as that of 
better known kinds. 
Mr. W. F. Massey says, in Garden and 
Forest, that he believes now—though he 
doubted it first—that a larger yield per acre 
can be had from the bush Lima (Sieva) 
than from the pole Sieva. He thinks the 
small bush Lima ought to be a favorite in 
the North on account of its earliness. We 
find it this season one week later than the 
large pole Lima. 
DIRECT. 
-T. H. Hoskins: “The trotting-horse 
man, in his perfect development, is a skilled 
gambler and knows all a gambler’s tricks. 
To suppose that he will be honest and fair 
when he can gain a dollar by being other¬ 
wise, merely shows the supposer to be a 
simpleton, fit to be the victim of sharpers.” 
-Life : “ You will know more about 
the pumpkin pye and pye.” 
-Christian Union: “To feel pro 
foundly the sanctity, beauty, and rich 
possibilities of the family is to put one’s 
self in the way of getting the most and the 
best out of life.” 
“ Beware of the love which feeds the 
body and starves the mind, which creates 
appetites and suffers the world to satisfy 
them.” 
“ We think of the home as the first and 
greatest of all the schools, to which no 
knowledge is alien, in which no art or 
skill or culture or accomplishment is out of 
place. We place the home before the State, 
the church, the university, because all these 
great formative influences depend on the 
home for their purity and value; without 
the home they could not be.” 
-Field and Farm: “One reason why 
we have so many worthless curs is that the 
character of the dog is but a reflection of 
the character of his master.” 
- Indiana Farmer : “ This country pays 
too much tax and too high salaries to its 
officers. The auditor of a county, at easy 
work, gets as much in one month as the 
farmer, at hard work, gets in six. Think 
of a man ditching all day in mud and 
water for $1.50, while the county treasurer, 
in his nicely furnished room, makes from 
$5 to $10 in the same length of time. They 
cry ‘responsibility,’ but just notice thai 
the ditcher’s responsibility is for all time 
to come.” 
- Evening Journal (N. Y.):“We have 
called attention to serious omissions in the 
conduct of the New York State Agricul 
tural Experiment Station at Geneva, and 
showed that, besides an expenditure ot 
$8,000 or $10,000 for new buildings, the sta 
tion was receiving about $50,000 a year from 
the State, for which the agricultural public 
were given three small bulletins, at a cost 
of $356.” 
- T. B. Terry : “ I tell you, friends, the 
business does not exist that could induce 
me to sell uiy farm and put the proceeds 
into it.” 
-News: “It is a melancholy fact and 
much to be regretted that good people who 
only want what is right often get what is 
left.” 
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