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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
April 14. 
FARMERS’ CLUB 
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Hen Manure for Asparagus. 
O. 8. P., Brooklyn, O. —I have an asparagus 
bed, 2x4 rods, a short distance from the 
chickenhouse, keeping about 120 hens. Can 
I put the manure from the henhouse on it, 
or part of it, during Winter, without injury 
to the plants? 
Ans.— You will not harm your aspara¬ 
gus bed by spreading on it chicken 
manure now or at any other time, but on 
the contrary should benefit it very much. 
Of course, it is possible to get this ferti¬ 
lizer on too thick, but we would not hesi¬ 
tate to spread it on, at least V /2 inch 
thick as far as it goes. As hen manure 
is deficient in potash it would be well to 
apply also a good dressing of wool 
ash°s, just before the plants begin to 
grow in the Spring. 
Encrusted Syrup Pans. 
A. H. S.j Cortland, N. Y .—My boiling pans 
for maple syrup making have become brown 
on the Inside. Does it hurt the flavor of the 
syrup, and how can it be taken off the pans? 
Ans. —The brown appearance of the 
boiling pans is due to the encrusting on 
the bottom and sides of the pans of malate 
of lime, usually called sugarsand, silica, 
etc. It will not affect the flavor of the 
maple product, but its presence in any 
quantity on the pans prevents the rapid 
reduction of the sap. It prevents the 
heat from coming up through to the sap. 
This crust of lime will always appear in 
a greater or less quantity on any boiling 
pans, and may be removed by the use of 
dilute muriatic acid. Your tinner will 
tell you what strength to use, and how to 
use it. If the crust is thick and some¬ 
what flaky, it may be removed by the use 
of a chisel or other sharp iron. A. r. p. 
The Sap in Trees. 
R. F., Ch-ant’s Mills, R. I. —We wish to 
know about the sap in the trees, one says 
it stays in the tree during the Winter and 
the “school marm” says it goes to the roots 
and moves up in the Spring, which causes 
the run when they tap the maples. 
Ans. —Trees contain sap the whole 
year, but the circulation in Winter is very 
sluggish compared with that during Sum¬ 
mer. Sap cannot be said to go to the 
roots at any time, as it is absorbed by 
the roots, and after being elaborated by 
the foliage it is deposited as woody tissue, 
sugar and starch, to be used for starting 
growth next year. When growth starts 
early in Spring sap is rapidly absorbed 
by the roots and exists in the wood cells 
with considerable pressure during warm 
days. This accounts for the sap running 
when the tree is tapped at that time. 
Later the foliage takes care of it as fast 
as absorbed, and there is seldom suffi¬ 
cient pressure to make it run after the 
buds fairly swell. 
Stringfellow Culture for Evergreens. 
D. 8. W., Wellesley, Mass .—Can you tell 
me whether anyone has tried here in the 
North, successfully or otherwise, the String- 
fellow method of transplanting on young 
hemlocks or other evergreens? I have a 
small piece of uncultivated cleared wood¬ 
land (except for two or three large oaks) 
adjoining my home, and wish to set out some 1 
evergreens, hardwood trees and shrubs with¬ 
out preparation of the ground, if the prospect 
of success is good, giving such treatment, 
mulching and fertilization as you describe of 
your young orchards. Would our native 
roses, root-pruned and cut back, probably ' 
succeed treated this way? If attempts with 
evergreens have failed would removal of the 
leaves, as is said to be necessary in the case 
of holly, increase the chances of success? 
Would Spring planting by this method suc¬ 
ceed here if done as soon as the snow is 
off and the ground is settled? 
Ans. —The cone-bearing evergreen trees ‘ 
or conifers are different from the broad¬ 
leaved evergreens in that their sap is 
resinous, and if allowed to dry out in any 
degree it never regains its former charac¬ 
ter, and the tree soon dies. We do not 
know of any attempt to transplant hem¬ 
lock or other conifers by the Stringfellow 
method, and would consider the trees 
doomed to absolute ‘failure if the roots 
were cut off. The holly tree is very dif¬ 
ferent. It has watery sap, and will stand 
close root pruning, provided the foliage 
is picked off to reduce evaporation. We 
believe the only practical way to transplant 
hemlock or other conifers is to dig with 
as extensive a root system as possible, 
keep the roots covered with damp bagging 
to prevent drying out. and plant immedi¬ 
ately in freshly-worked soil, packing the 
ground very hard and mulching to pre¬ 
vent drying out of the soil. Moderate 
(pruning of the top is beneficial, but on 
no account cut off all the foliage. Native 
roses when dormant can probably be 
transplanted by the Stringfellow method, 
root pruned and cut back, with good suc¬ 
cess. 
Wild Parsnips and Tame. 
•]. F. V., Patton, Pa .—We raised an un¬ 
usually fine crop of parsnips last season, but 
are afraid to use them for fear of there beintr 
wild parsnips among them, as the latter have 
been for years growing along the fence near. 
Are wild parsnips really poisonous? 
Ans. —We do not know that the wild 
parsnip is really poisonous. Some speci¬ 
mens growing in rich damp soil are said 
to attain large size and believed to be 
somewhat poisonous. The cultivated 
parsnip has been developed from the 
wild form. The seed firm of Vilmorin 
in. Paris undertook some years ago to 
grow a cultivated variety from the com¬ 
mon wild parsnip of Europe, and in four 
generations produced the excellent vari¬ 
ety now known as Student. There would 
be very little danger in getting wild pars¬ 
nips in your cultivated crop. It will be 
well, however, to distinguish between 
parsnips and wild carrots. Wild parsnips 
are scarce in the Atlantic States, while 
wild carrots are exceedingly common. 
The root is small, tough and disagree¬ 
able, and would likely be rather poison¬ 
ous, but could hardly be mistaken for 
the parsnip. 
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