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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
March 28 
Clover Questions from Connecticut. 
•/• K. II., Shewville, Conn. —Where is the mam., 
rial value of clover, in the roots or in the stalk 
and leaves? If clover will not grow here, what 
is the next best thing I can sow to plow under for 
manure ? 
Ans. —You should send to the Connec¬ 
ticut Agricultural College, Storrs, Conn., 
for copies of bulletins on this subject. 
As an average of several samples, the 
chemist of the station estimated that in 
the roots and stubble of an acre of clover 
—left after cutting for hay—there were 44 
pounds of nitrogen, 12% pounds of phos¬ 
phoric acid and 32 pounds of potash, or 
about as much plant food as you may 
expect to secure in 4% tons of average 
horse manure. A ton of good clover hay 
contains about 40 pounds of nitrogen, 8 
of phosphoric acid, and 45 of potash. 
We would not give up trying to grow 
clover until we had given a fair trial of 
wood ashes or air-slaked lime on the soil. 
It is quite likely that the soil is sour, and 
that, if it be well limed, the clover seed 
will start. We would try cow peas, buck¬ 
wheat and rye, though the latter are not 
so valuable as the clover and peas. 
Fertilizer for Grass and Garden. 
I. T., Cornwall, N. T.—I own a little 12-acre 
field, and wish to keep It in grass without doing 
any farming such as crop rotation involves. My 
team and cow do not afford enough manure to 
answer the call for food which arises from the 
earth. What chemical fertilizer will best supply 
my needs, and how much an acre would it be 
wise to use ? Most of the field has been worked 
in hoed crops for three successive years, in order 
to kill the weed crop of 10 years’ standing, and 
has been in grass a year, some of it two years. 
Each hoed crop got manure or fertilizer. The 
soil is a medium-heavy loam, with a little gravel, 
and the subsoil is largely clay. In raising vege. 
tables where a good size is obtained, but a lack of 
flavor is observed in the crop, does the addition 
of potash give the desired taste ? Is it wise to use 
muriate of potash dissolved in water to hasten 
growth, and how much is best to use to a gallon 
of water ? Will the same rule apply to sulphate 
of potash and nitrate of soda ? 
Ans. —Any of the special “grass-and- 
grain ” mixtures will answer for the 
held, or you may use a mixture made up 
of three parts of fine ground bone, and 
one part muriate of potash. We would 
use, at least, 400 pounds per acre each 
year. As a rule, a lack of flavor or high 
color in vegetables and fruits, indicates 
the need of potash. We would not dis¬ 
solve the potash, except in case of severe 
drought. In years of ordinary rainfall, 
we would scatter the potash or nitrate 
of soda around the plants and work into 
the soil with hoe or rake. 
Glass-House Temperature for Different 
Flowers. 
./. C. K., Buckners, Ky. —How are Caladium 
esculentum propagated? If one have three 
greenhouses, with different temperatures, will 
you group all the leading commercial flowers in 
three lists, so that each house could be filled, and 
state the temperature required ? 
Ans. —The Caladium esculentum, or, 
more properly, Colocasia esculenta, the 
“ elephant’s ear ” of the bulb catalogues, 
is freely propagated by means of the 
offsets attached to the parent tuber, after 
a season’s growth. They are warty or 
prong-like excrescences, each having an 
“ eye,” or growing center at the apex. 
They are easily broken off, and root 
readily in warm, moist soil. The tubers 
may also be cut like potatoes into pieces, 
each containing an eye, and planted 
separately; but this is more or less risky, 
as rot is likely to ensue. 
Commercial florists still recognize 
three classes of fkwers, each requiring 
a special range of temperature for de¬ 
velopment, but the number of varieties 
profitably grown has been much re¬ 
stricted of late years. The various tem¬ 
peratures are now known, in practice, by 
the most important flowers grown in 
each : 1. The violet house should be run 
at a night temperature of not more than 
40 to 45 degrees, and should be freely 
ventilated whenever the day temperature 
rises above the latter figure. The tem¬ 
perature may occasionally be allowed to 
descend among the thirties to advan¬ 
tage, but frost must never enter. Be¬ 
sides growing violets, mignonette may 
be flowered, and azaleas, dormant roses, 
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