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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
August 12, 
FARMERS’ CLUB 
[Every query must be accompanied by 
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sure attention. Before asking a question, 
please see whether it is not answered in 
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Pine Needle* for Bedding. 
IF. IF. IF., I'ri nlut, Ore .—Are partially de¬ 
cayed pine and tir leaves found in the forest 
and used as bedding for horses and cattle in¬ 
jurious to the land when applied as manure? 
Here in and near our great Oregon forests we 
have inexhaustible quantities of such stuff 
that would be line for storing for Winter use 
for bedding provided it would not injure the 
land for crops hereafter. 
Ans. —The only danger in plowing un¬ 
der the fresh “needles” of pine or fir is 
that they contain a strong acid which will 
sour some soils. The liquid manure will 
neutralize this acid; so will heating in the 
manure pile. Therefore such “needles” 
are useful for bedding. 
Government Whitewash. 
A. II. G., Lawrence, Kan. —Will you pub¬ 
lish for my lxmefit the formula used by U. S. 
Lighthouse Service in whitewashing their 
buildings, also method of applying? This I 
think would be of interest to your readers. 
Ans. —To make “Government white¬ 
wash” slake half a bushel of good stone 
lime in boiling water, keeping it covered 
while slaking; strain and add four quarts 
of salt dissolved in warm water, three 
pounds of ground rice, boiled to a thin 
paste, half a pound of powdered Spanish 
whiting, and one pound of clear glue, dis¬ 
solved in warm water. Mix and let stand 
for several days. Apply as hot as possi¬ 
ble. 
Plant Lice on Sweet Peas. 
It. It. It., Walpole, Mans .—I have a lot of 
sweet peas infested with green lice, which 
literally cover the vines. What can I do to 
get rid of them ? I tried kerosene emulsion, 
one tablespoonful to half cupful milk, stirred 
well, then put in two gallons of water. Is 
this all right? 
Ans.—A solution of whale 1 oil soap, 
four ounces to a gallon of water, will be 
found better than the kerosene emulsion. 
most crops feed. It is probable that the 
turnip is able to make use of some 
forms of phosphoric acid which would 
not be available to some other crops. 
While turnips add nothing to the soil in 
the sense that clover does they may add 
available phosphoric acid and work over 
the soil so that it will be more productive. 
We should certainly add the turnip seed. 
Bisulphide of Carbon for Ants 
C. E. /*., Ridfjewood, X. J. —In using bisul¬ 
phide of carbon to rid the ground of ants and 
other insects, how far apart would you have 
the holes, and how much bisulphide in each 
hole? This is on freshly worked ground for 
a strawberry bed, but it will be thoroughly 
rolled and packed down. 
Ans. —If it is the intention to treat the 
whole strawberry bed, I would punch the 
holes about one foot apart, and equally as 
deep. Then pour about two tablespoon- 
fuls of the liquid into each hole, and plug 
it up with a piece of coal or a hard chunk 
of soil. m. v. slingerland. 
Grafting an Elm Tree. 
II. 8., Limaville, O. —Can the elm be suc¬ 
cessfully grafted? There is a most beauti¬ 
ful elm growing near here of a type quite 
different from common. Can I get one like 
it by grafting a scion from it on a common 
elm ? 
Ans. —Choice varieties of elm are reg¬ 
ularly propagated in nurseries by graft¬ 
ing on stocks of the common species. The 
beautiful Weeping Camperdown elm is 
always propagated by grafting high up on 
strong stocks. The scions should be cut 
early and kept dormant by ice or burying 
in cool, shaded soil until buds on the 
stock begin to swell, and the graft then 
made precisely as with the apple. The 
head grown from the graft should repro¬ 
duce the tree from which it was cut. 
Cost of Water Glass. 
J. A"., (No address). —Beading about pre¬ 
serving eggs by keeping in water glass. I un¬ 
derstood one part of water glass and 10 times 
the amount of water, and that the water glass 
was 10 cents per pound, and would preserve 
14 dozen eggs. I bought a pound, cost 25 
cents. The druggist says to put three parts 
water. This would make the eggs as dear 
as buying them in Winter. Let me know if 
I made a mistake. 
ings and destroy them with bisulphide of 
carbon. Punch holes at 'intervals of 
about one foot and a foot deep in the 
ant colonies, and pour into each hole two 
tablespoonfuls of the liquid; then plug 
the hole with a bit of sod. Bisulphide of 
carbon is highly inflammable and ex¬ 
plosive; do not bring a light near it. 
Lime is not recommended; the plank 
walk may harbor ants, but it does not 
breed them. _ 
For the land’s sake, use Bowker’s Fer¬ 
tilizers. They enrich the earth.— Adv. 
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Mix the soap and water thoroughly, and 
apply with a sprayer, covering all parts 
of the plants. While the kerosene emul¬ 
sion is excellent theoretically, it is often 
difficult to apply it perfectly, and the 
plants are likely to be scorched if the 
emulsion is not complete. Whale-oil soap 
is a useful application for all plant lice in¬ 
festations. Tobacco water is also de¬ 
sirable. 
Suckers on Sweet Corn. 
IF. S. J., Holliday, Mo .—Why does sweet 
corn sucker so badly? Should these suckers 
be pulled off. or be allowed to grow? 
Ans. —It is quite natural for some vari¬ 
eties of sweet corn to sucker freely. 
Metropolitan and other stocky growing 
kinds are very marked in this respect. If 
at all closely planted it is best to pull off 
the suckers when about a foot high. If 
your corn has plenty of room some of 
the strongest suckers, if allowed to re¬ 
main, may produce fair ears later than 
the main stalks. The best plan is to 
plant only varieties that succeed in your 
locality, and are not inclined to exces¬ 
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Use of Cow-Horn Turnip Seed. 
F. M. C., Plainfield, N. J. —I see a great 
deal in your paper about using Cow-horn 
turnip seed with Crimson clover when sowing 
for fertilizing purposes. I cannot see why, 
as long as the turnip is not a legume, and does 
not store up nitrogen as does clover. I just 
bought 84 pounds clover seed to sow in seven 
acres of corn, and it ground a little to pay 
SI cents per pound for 14 pounds of the 
turnip seed to mix in, when I can see no 
good reason for doing so. 
Ans. —This doubt is natural, but after 
seeing the effect of a crop of Cow-horn 
turnips you will doubt no more. The tur¬ 
nips will help the farm in four ways. 
You can pull part of them for feeding 
or sale. They add a large amount of hu¬ 
mus or vegetable matter to the soil with¬ 
out interfering with early Spring work. 
The long tap-root works into the subsoil, 
loosening it and admitting air and water. 
It also brings some plant food up from 
below, leaving it in the upper soil where 
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Setting Raspberries. 
TF. M. A., Papakatiny, N. J. —Which is 
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Spring? If set in (lie Fall, would they bear 
fruit a year from the following Summer? 
Ans. —Raspberry growers are well 
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set plants, if set out in the Fall they 
rarely get sufficient root-hold to resist 
heaving by frost. Plant as early in Spring 
as the soil can be made ready. Little is 
gained in time of fruiting by setting in 
Fall. The canes made the first year of 
growth are too small to bear many ber¬ 
ries the following year. A fair crop may 
be expected the third year of growth, 
and an increase under good management 
until the sixth or seventh season has been 
reached, after which there is usually a 
decline in productiveness. 
Getting Rid of Ants. 
C. J. G., Glastonbury, Conn .—Can you 
tell me how to get rid of those peskiy 
little red ants in the house? We have 
used everything. Will lime on the lawn 
hurt the grass or kill the ants that seem to 
be all over the lawn and get into the house? 
Do you think an old plank walk near the 
house breeds the ants? Do give me a remedy 
to get rid of them on the lawn, and especial¬ 
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Ans. —The simplest method of driving 
away red ants, is to destroy a large num¬ 
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raw meat bone, roughly scraped, is very 
attractive to them; place such a bone in 
their main runway, and as soon as.it is 
covered with ants, throw the mass into 
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dipped in sugar water and looselv pressed 
out may be used; when it becomes filled 
with atUs drop into boiling water, wash 
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