THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
April 4 
238 
WHAT CROP FOR A POND BOTTOM? 
CORN IS RULED OUT ? 
About seven years ago, I built a dam, and 
turned a 35-aere meadow into a small lake or 
pond. The meadow was an intervale, surrounded 
by cultivated hill tields or farms, and was the 
outlet of 750 acres of watershed. A spring brook 
runs through it. On about 10 acres, I laid about 
mile of two-inch round tile, with collars. 
These were all laid systematically, 60 feet apart, 
each drain about 650 feet long, with a fall of 2!4 
to 5 feet to each drain. At first, it was my inten 
tion to flood the ground only winters, and thereby 
detain the detritious matter from the hills on the 
meadow. But I got into the ice business, kept 
the water on the year ’round, and stocked it with 
fish. The great flood or high water in February 
washed out a large portion of the dam, and now 
it is all dry ground again. It is my intention to 
rebuild the dam, but can I raise a profitable crop 
this summer ? It has been submerged three full 
years, now. Some say that the ground is so sour 
that nothing of importance will grow this year. 
All the vegetation is rotted, and there is a deposit 
over the whole surface. Others say that, by har¬ 
rowing early in the season a few times, to let the 
air and nitrogen in together with the sunlight, I 
can grow some crop such as buckwheat. One 
professor told me to plow the ground and plant 
to corn. This I don’t wish to do, as it is too much 
work, and lasts too late in the season to cover 
with water again. Others have recommended 
millet as a fodder crop and milk producer. How 
about oats and Crimson clover, one for a grain 
crop, the other for a fodder crop ? The soil is a 
clay loam underlaid with clay. E. V. K. u. 
Orange County, N. Y. 
Oats and Crimson clover would hardly 
prove a satisfactory crop in this case. I 
would suggest sowing oats and peas, one 
bushel of each, per acre. These, either 
cut and cured as hay, or used for filling 
a silo, would provide a large amount of 
excellent food without entailing too 
much labor, which seems to be one point 
under consideration, m. ii. Beckwith. 
If the land in question is drained, so 
that the water will pass off very early 
in the spring, and it could be plowed or 
cultivated, so as to let the air into the 
soil and warm it up in time, it would, 
probably, produce a good crop of corn ; 
or, if it could not be prepared in time 
for corn, millet might be sown a little 
later in the season, with good results. 
If it would be rich enough and warm 
enough, it might do for onions, but this 
is doubtful. We doubt whether buck¬ 
wheat would be a paying crop on this 
kind of soil. smiths & powell co. 
If corn is out of the question owing to 
the labor, I think that buckwheat would 
be the next most profitable crop. Sow 
the Japanese variety, about June 10, 
just after a shower of rain. The yield 
should be 40 or 50 bushels to the acre, 
and at very little outlay of money or 
labor. Oats would, undoubtedly, do 
well and make a profitable crop ; but 
the Crimson clover would defeat his 
plans for the winter’s ice crop. Better 
sow oats and Canada field peas, if a com¬ 
bined grain and fodder crop other than 
corn be desired. .joiin l. shawver. 
What to Add to Packing-House Fertilizer. 
J. E. L. y Chattanooga, Tenn.—l have a packing¬ 
house fertilizer costing $18 per ton, with the fol¬ 
lowing analysis : 
Per cent. 
Ammonia. 7.25 
Insoluble phosphoric acid. 7.04 
Available phosphoric acid. 7.62 
I wish to add potash to this to make a complete 
fertilizer for green beans and for melons. What 
form of potash do you recommend ? Would it be 
advisable to use any cotton-seed meal, which 
may be purchased quite cheaply now ? The land 
on which I wish to use it, is a red clay loam of 
moderate fertility. 
Ans. —This is, probably, a mixture of 
blood, bone and meat. If you can obtain 
wood ashes or cotton-hull ashes at a 
reasonable figure, we would advise you 
to use potash in these forms. Do not 
attempt to mix the ashes and fertilizer, 
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I never have had any experience of 
this kind, but I would favor a corn crop. 
But as E. V. R. G. does not wish to grow 
corn, and does not say for what he 
wishes to use the crop, I would suggest 
to get all the air and sunlight he can in 
the soil and then either drill or plow in 
about eight inches deep, one bushel per 
acre of Canada field peas, and then cross¬ 
sow 1)4 bushel per acre of the strongest- 
strawed variety of oats he can find. He 
can, by cutting when the oats are in 
bloom, make a fine quality of hay ; or, 
if he choose, let them ripen and cut for 
a grain crop. The mixture is one of the 
best butter-producing foods I can grow, 
both for cheapness and quality. I think 
that, with good corn ensilage, and oats 
and peas ground, I can make June 
butter in winter, at least so say my cus¬ 
tomers. The crop should not be allowed 
to get too ripe, but should be cut as 
soon as the oats are nicely turned, as 
the peas will not shell and waste so 
badly as when fully ripe, and the straw 
will be more readily eaten. A. d. baker. 
Millet should do extremely well on 
this soil. Oats would be likely to fall 
down, and Crimson clover would not 
grow tall enough for a fodder crop, if 
started with the oats. Crimson clover is 
an annual, and should be sown in June 
or July and cut the next May; but 
usually it is not a successful fodder crop 
in the North. It is a most excellent 
plant to use to cover the ground in mid¬ 
summer, fall and winter, and to digest 
the cruder products of the soil, and pre¬ 
pare them for the crop which is to fol¬ 
low. It is customary to plow the Crim¬ 
son clover under in the spring, and fol¬ 
low with the “white grains” or corn. 
Care should be taken to cut the millet 
before the seeds are fully ripe, or they 
may be dangerous if the hay be fed liber¬ 
ally to the cattle. I. p. Roberts. 
K trees 
TEA 
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THE LEADING 
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HALF MILLION of the choicest Evergreens, Vines. 
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A 
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TREES IN SURPLUS. 
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