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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
May 27, 
FARMERS' CLUB 
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sure al tendon. Before asking a question, 
please see whether it is not answered in 
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questions at one time. Put questions on a 
separate piece of paper. 1 
Grafting Plum Into Apricot. 
E. A. C., East Hartford. Conn .—If I 
should graft plum into a Russian apricot, 
would 11 be likely to live? I have two of 
the above, and .they seem to have but two 
faults, the'fruit is about as large as a hick- 
orynnt and as insipid as dishwater, and they 
bloom so early that they are usually killed by 
frost. 
A ns. —The apricot and plum may be 
intergrafted or budded with fair suc¬ 
cess. The Russian apricots that I have 
seen were all of poor quality, and I think 
E. A. C. has stated the case just right. 
Many people have been induced to plant 
this fruit, which I consider of almost 
no value, and the trees may as well be 
destroyed or worked over to something 
be'ter. I would advise cutting back the 
branches at once and budding the sprouts 
in August, which 1 think better than 
grafting. H. e. van deman. 
Cement and Lime for Mortar. 
./. /)., Huron. Ont .—I am about to build a 
stable with concrete walls, and would like to 
know if I can mix Portland cement and stone 
lime together for mortar. I have built the 
same kind of walls with lime mortar, and 
think that if the two will work together a 
much stronger wall would result. If they 
will, what would lie about tlie right propor¬ 
tions? 
Ans. —Yes, you can lay your wall with 
stone • lime and Portland cement mixed, 
and have a sound piece of work. I am 
assuming that it is to be built of large 
stone, and not a concrete wall of gravel 
or crushed stone. If the latter 1 would 
use only Portland. After slaking the 
lime (slake it just as nicely as for plas¬ 
tering), add one-quarter Portland; that 
is, three parts stone lime and one part 
Portland, and four parts sharp sand for 
round stone, or five parts if flat stone. 
For pointing after the work is done one 
should always use about two parts of 
Portland to three of lime. You will of 
course put in a cement floor. h. e. c. 
Mammoth Clover in Peach Orchard. 
IP. E. L., Dundas, Canada .—I have a two- 
acre peach orchard four years old. It was 
well worked last Summer, and in August I 
sowed it with Mammoth clover. It came 
through tlie Winter all right. Now I am at 
a loss to know what to do with it. I am 
told this kind of clover will grow five to six 
feet long. If I plowed it under when should 
it be done? How big should the clover get 
before plowing it under? There is every 
appearance of a big peach crop. 
Ans.— If the clover which was sown 
is the Mammoth Red clover it will not 
grow higher than from 2 to 2 l /> feet, the 
latter height being seldom reached. We 
should advise the plowing under of the 
clover at once, as the conservation of 
moisture is of more importance than the 
plowing under of a large crop of clover. 
If the clover makes a good growth in the 
Autumn there will be quite sufficient plant 
food plowed under early in the Spring. 
If there is promise of a big peach crop 
it is all the more important to conserve 
as much moisture as possible so as to 
develop this crop to the best advantage. 
The clover should he plowed under at 
once, and thorough cultivation given the 
orchard in the early part of the season. 
W. T. MACOUN. 
Use of Lime with Fertilizer. 
S. L. P., Linnberville, Pa .-—I am about to 
prepare for planting corn. I have some lime 
ready to put on after plowing, intending to 
work same into ground. It is an old sod. 
I had expected also to use chemical fertilizer 
at the rate of r>00 pounds to the acre. I am 
told it will not do to use lime and fertilizer 
at the same time. Is this right? I have 
some raw bone meal analyzing 4% ammonia. 
21..">0 phosphoric acid, left over from Fall 
seeding. I expected to mix 1,600 pounds 
hone and 400 pounds muriate of potash for 
this field of corn. 
Ans.— The objection to the use of lime 
with fertilizer does not seem to he well 
understood. Phosphoric acid is found 
combined with lime in three forms. When 
three parts of lime are combined with 
one of phosphoric acid the combination 
is called insoluble, as plants cannot make 
use of it readily. When two parts of 
lime combine with one of phosphoric acid 
the combination is not soluble in water, 
but is to a considerable extent in the 
acids which are secreted by the plant. 
These acids are about the strength of 
weak vinegar, so that this is used for test¬ 
ing phosphoric acid. When only one part 
of lime is combined with one part of 
phosphoric acid water will dissolve it. 
Now- phosphate' rock from which acid 
phosphate is made contains the insoluble 
form, that is, three parts of lime to one 
of phosphoric .acid. When this rock is 
ground fine and mixed with sulphuric 
acid the insoluble form is changed to the 
soluble—that is, two parts of the lime 
are taken away and the single part left. 
Phosphoric acid has a great “affinity" for 
lime—that is, the two rapidly combine 
when put together. Thus when you put 
acid phosphate in the soil and mix lime 
with it the two combine and instead of 
the soluble form of phosphoric acid you 
are likely to have the insoluble—thus de¬ 
feating the very object for which the acid 
phosphate was made. This is the chief 
objection to using lime in connection with 
fertilizer. In the case mentioned, where 
ground bone is used, there would be little 
objection on this account, since the phos¬ 
phoric acid in the bone is not likely to 
take up the lime. We have not found 
that corn responds to lime as does grass 
or small grain. We would ratliqr, from 
choice, use lime in the Fall when seeding 
to grass. 
Cattails or Flags for Forage. 
Ho any of your readers know anything 
about the feeding value of cattails, otherwise 
called flags? Would they pay to put in silo? 
Cape Cod, Mass. E. l. s. 
The Massachusetts Experiment Station at 
Amherst gives the analysis of some kinds of 
salt grasses in Bulletin 50. which can he ob¬ 
tained from the Station. This work did not 
include flags or “cattails.” The chances are 
that it would not pay to put them in the 
silo. Has any reader tried it? 
Fertilizer for Potatoes. 
I have noted that some correspondents pre¬ 
fer to buy the ingredients of commercial fer¬ 
tilizer and mix at home. This Spring I de¬ 
cided to give this plan a trial, and placed an 
order for fertilizer in the form of 1 .TOO 
pounds acid phosphate and 300 pounds muri¬ 
ate of potash to make a ton to apply to pota¬ 
toes, when planting witli planter. I very 
strongly desire to be successful on the ven¬ 
ture, but am at a loss to know how to mix 
evenly. Would you suggest to me a plan to 
mix the ingredients so that I may obtain best 
results from the test? e. d. r. 
Bar to, Pa. 
Unless you use stable manure or are plant¬ 
ing on a good clover sod you are likely to 
fail with this mixture. It contains no nitro¬ 
gen. an element potatoes must have. The 
acid phosphate and the muriate will not mix 
well. They are both damp and sticky, and if 
mixed are likely to cake or harclen into 
lumps. We would much prefer to broadcast 
them separately and harrow into the soil be¬ 
fore planting. You will have a much better 
mixture if you will use 500 pounds of dried 
blood or cotton seed meal in place of an equal 
weight of the acid phosphate. 
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