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Lime on a Strawberry Bed. 
J. S. J., Greensboro, Ind .—-A strawberry 
culturlst advises never to use lime on 
strawberry beds. I would like some informa¬ 
tion on the subject, as I am thinking of 
liming land that I intend to set /his Spring. 
Ans. —We have not found lime useful 
for strawberries. Some plants do better 
in an acid soil, and the strawberry ap¬ 
pears to be one of them. Liming changes 
the soil from acid to alkaline, and in 
our experience the strawberries do not 
thrive so well. We should use the lime 
on clover, grass or grain. 
Fertilizer for One-Year Cropping. 
E. Pennsylvania .—As I expect to leave 
this farm next season, would you put fer¬ 
tilizers on the potatoes or not? The ground 
was manured last season; part was in sod, 
and it had about 500 pounds of potato fer¬ 
tilizer to the acre. It is a sandy loam, well 
drained. I had a fine crop off it last season. 
Ans. —We would not use a fertilizer 
containing organic nitrogen or bone on a 
field from which only one crop would 
be taken. You will leave a part of such 
fertility for the next tenant. If there was 
a good crop last year we should use 
nitrate of soda alone—about 200 pounds 
per acre. This furnishes nitrogen alone 
and in such cases would act something 
like a whip to take the fertility out of 
the soil. 
Seedling Walnuts. 
II. II. 8., Parkersburg, W. Va .—Would 
English walnuts that can be bought in mar¬ 
ket, when planted produce nuts as good as 
the parent, or must they be grafted? Where 
could the grafts be obtained? 
Ans. —No, the nuts in the stores nor 
any other one will not produce trees 
that will bear exactly the same kind, but 
they will be something like them. Seed¬ 
lings should be grown and then grafted. 
Scions can be obtained from California 
nurserymen, but there is a very fruitful 
and hardy tree on the lot of a Mr. Pom* 
eroy in Loekport, N. Y., that bears nuts 
of good quality. It has been named Potfi- 
cfOy, and I think he can furnish scions. 
Prafiquette and Mayette are good varie¬ 
ties, but I do not think any nurseries east 
of California keep the trees. 
H. E. VAN DEMAN. 
Lime and “Land Plaster." 
It., Connecticut .—I have read a great deal 
about land needing lime. Is the lime air- 
slaked or is it land plaster, or are they both 
alike? 
Ans. —Air-slaked lime is used on land. 
You can buy it already slaked, or in the 
form of caustic or quicklime and slake it 
yourself. The land plaster is a very dif¬ 
ferent thing from “lime,” and will not 
take its place in sweetening the soil. 
Plaster is sulphate of lime, while the “lime” 
is a carbonate. To make a homely illus¬ 
tration we will compare cooking soda 
and Glauber’s salt. The first is a bicar¬ 
bonate of soda, while the latter is sul¬ 
phate of soda. Housekeepers know how 
to use the former, and also that the latter 
is a medicine. Think what the effect 
would be if you tried to use the Glau* 
ber’s salt in making biscuit! One cannot 
perform the special work of the other— 
neither can “plaster” act upon the soil 
as lime does. 
Mixing a Fertilizer. 
G. C., East Berlin, Conn .—I wish to mix 
l v . You might spread them separately, 
but we would not mix them. How, then, 
can such a mixture be made? By using 
fine ground bone, which contains 25 per 
cent of phosphoric acid and 3]/ 2 per cent 
of nitrogen. You will see by figuring that 
900 pounds of acid phosphate and 300 
pounds of bone will give 201 pounds phos¬ 
phoric acid and over 10 pounds of nitro¬ 
gen ; 350 pounds of muriate will furnish 
more than enough potash, and 450 pounds 
nitrate of soda provides 72 pounds of 
nitrogen. This will mix much better, 
since the dry bone makes a good “filler.” 
Connection Between Lime and Alfalfa. 
E. P., Lebanon, N. Y .—What connection is 
there between lime and Alfalfa? Would 
the application of lime help to get a good 
stand of Alfalfa, and how much per acre 
on loamy land, naturally drained, which had 
potatoes on st season? 
Ans. —1 her is a large class of plants 
which thrive best in an alkaline or neu¬ 
tral soil, and fait or partly so in an acid 
soil. Alfalfa, like Red clover, belongs to 
this class. Probably the chief reason is 
that the bacteria which work on the roots 
of the Alfalfa do their best when the 
soil is alkaline. In acid soils they work 
feebly. The addition of lime to an acid 
soil corrects the sourness, and this gives 
these bacteria a better chance to work. 
It is likely, too, that aside from the 
effect upon the bacteria the Alfalfa plant 
grows better and secures more plant food 
in an alkaline soil. 
Good Apples for Southern Ohio. 
One of our readers In Cincinnati says that 
he planted, by mistake, 1,000 Ben Davis 
apple trees. He now concludes that it was 
a mistake to plant the Ben Davis, and wants 
to top-work these trees to Rome Beauty. He 
wants to know if this grafting would be ad¬ 
visable, and what other variety besides Rome 
Beauty would be likely to do well under these 
conditions. 
Ans,— The Ben Davis apple tree is one 
of the best for top-working, possessing 
as It does, an unusual degree of vigor 
and hat-ditiess; I truly believe that the 
correspondent would do Well to top-work 
his orchard, and the Rome Beauty stands 
in the front rank as a variety especially 
suited to the latitude of southern Ohio, 
in which section it originated, therefore 
is “at home.” Rome Beauty is an excel¬ 
lent keeper in cold storage—never scald¬ 
ing nor discoloring, as does York Im¬ 
perial, which, were it not for this weak¬ 
ness, would be a close second in choice. 
Where cellar storage instead of cold 
storage is employed this objection to 
York Imperial would be entirely removed, 
and it is one of the very best. If an 
early Winter variety be desired, Jona¬ 
than can hardly be improved upon. Mc¬ 
Intosh is also successfully grown, even 
much farther south, and is an attractive, 
high-quality variety. Cold storage, of 
course, would be necessary in holding 
the early Winter fruits for a profitable 
market. f. h. ballou. 
Henrietta : “And what did you do 
when the bullets began to vhistle about 
vour head?” Henry: “I made *or the rear 
as soon as possible. Whistling of any 
kind always did set me crazy.”—Boston 
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a fertilizer that will analyze about 10 
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the mixture: Acid phosphate, muriate of 
potash and nitrate of soda, also could you 
give me some easy rule for figuring it out, 
as I am all at sea? 
Ans. —Assuming that the acid phos¬ 
phate is guaranteed to contain 14 per 
cent of phosphoric acid, the muriate 50 
per cent of potash and the nitrate 16 
per cent of nitrogen, you cannot make 
such a mixture with these materials alone. 
You want 200 pounds of phosphoric acid 
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use in round figures 1,450- pounds of acid 
phosphate. To obtain the required 160 
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