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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
April 28, 
FARMERS’ CLUB 
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please see whether it is not answered in 
our advertising columns. Ask only a few 
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separate piece of paper.] 
Mixed Ashes for Mulching. 
J. T)., Foster, O .—<1 burn anthracite coal 
in the sitting room, and wood in the other 
stoves. Would the ashes mixed be good to 
put around trees and currant bushes? 
Ans. —We are using such ashes around 
currant bushes and young trees, and find 
them very useful. There is not much fer¬ 
tility in them, but they keep down weeds 
and hold moisture. 
Why Did the Alfalfa Fail ? 
E. A. 8., Heart Lake, Fa ,—Last Spring I 
sowed a small quantity of Alfalfa seed. It 
came up quickly, and looked very promising, 
when at about eight or 10 inches high it sud¬ 
denly stopped growing, turning yellow, and 
amounted to nothing. The soil was in tine 
condition, having produced big strawberries 
the season previous. My daughter has met 
with like results for three years trying to 
raise sweet peas. Red clover does well, as 
does Crimson, but we cannot get Crimson 
through the Winter. Can you suggest why the 
Alfalfa and sweet peas fail to grow? 
Ans. —All we can do is to guess at it. 
We should say that the land was sour, 
but the fact that Red clover does well 
does not show it. Most likely the soil 
lacks potash; wood ashes or muriate of 
potash may help it. 
What One Man Can Do. 
N. F„ Waterfleld, Mass .—How many acres 
ought a man with horses and all of the 
proper tools, take care of during the season 
of corn, potatoes, cabbage, etc.? I do not 
mean from sun to sun, only about nine hours 
per day. This land is all in grass now. I 
mean on the average; of course some men 
would take care of twice as many acres as an¬ 
other would. 
Ans. —It is impossible to .give a definite 
answer. Does the man work alone on a 
farm, or does he have help in planting 
and harvesting? Are there several men 
on the same farm? To plow and fit sod 
ground for potatoes is a hard job for one 
man. With a potato planter he could cut, 
seed and plant 10 acres. By hand, it is 
doubtful if he could do three acres well 
before it would be time to plow for corn. 
We do not care to guess, but will ask 
some of our readers to tell what they 
have done single-handed. 
Apple Pomace Sours Land. 
T. E. D., Auburn, N. Y.—The Fail of 1004 
I put about 60 loads of apple pomace on 
about one-quarter of an acre of land, where it 
has lain exposed to the weather ever since. 
Last Fall I covered piece with about the 
same amount. I have no other outlet for it. 
I would like to set this land to raspberries, 
blackberries and a few strawberries. Can you 
inform me what I would better do with it 
to insure against killing plants with the sour 
land? Three years ago I covered a patch 
about four inches thick, and it killed some 
young apple and plum trees. I sowed Alfalfa 
on it, and it was so sour It killed out a lot 
of the young plants. The next year it seemed 
to recover itself, and I had a nice patch of 
grass. The Timothy came up voluntarily, and 
I never saw ranker grass grow ; it was about 
five feet, and as thick as could stand. After 
the Timothy was taken off I cut a nice lot of 
Alfalfa later in season, which I cured for 
my chickens. 
Ans. —We should not use fresh saw¬ 
dust or apple pomace without using lime 
when plowing. The pomace often makes 
a fair mulch for apple trees, but when 
plowed under often sours the land. A 
ton of lime put on after plowing and har¬ 
rowed in will help sweeten the soil. 
Improving Hill Land. 
T. B. N., Frankfort, N. Y.—I have a piece 
of land on a hill so far away and so steep 
that but little manure ever goes there. The 
soil is a loam with a slate stone subsoil; 
soil in its present state will grow good oats, 
but not much corn. What can I do to bring 
it up to a good state of production without 
manure? I shall cover this Spring with 
manure and plant to corn; thought of sow¬ 
ing clover at last cultivation, then follow a 
rotation of crops. 
Ans. —With us it would be necessary 
to use some fertilizer and green crops in 
order to make such soil productive. At 
x the last cultivation of the corn we should 
v a mixture of clover and Cow-horn 
turnip seed. Sow the seed ahead of the 
cultivator and work lightly into the soil. 
You do not say what rotation of crops 
you will follow. We should, in the 
Spring, plow under the clover and either 
plant potatoes with at least 800 pounds of 
fertilizer per acre, or sow oats and peas. 
As soon as this crop was cut we would 
work up the ground and sow cow peas 
or Soy beans—plowing them under late 
and sowing rye. In order to keep up the 
fertility of soil without using manure you 
must keep the ground covered with some 
crop to be plowed under, and use a fair 
quantity of fertilizer. 
Renovating Old Butter. 
B. M. D.j Carmel, N. Y.—Can you give me 
any idea of how I should proceed to restore, 
or renovate, some butter which has become 
tainted and strong by being kept too long? 
AnS. —We understand that “renovated” 
butter is prepared about as follows: 1 he 
butter to be made over—usually strong 
and musty—is heated to the melting point. 
This heat drives off most of the bad odors. 
If this melted butter were to be cooled in 
a lump it would be like grease—which it 
really is. To give it some semblance of 
“grain” we understand that it is run 
through a fine screen which lets it fall 
in small drops upon cracked ice. The 
drerns, suddenly chilled in this way, appear 
somewhat like the “grains” of freshly- 
made butter. 
Starting Alfalfa in Virginia. 
F. D. IF., Virginia .—I am thinking of 
seeding two acres to Alfalfa, and would 
like to know what you think of the following 
plan: About one year ago I applied two 
tons of good stable manure i>e.r acre, and am 
adding two tons of ashes per acre at present; 
will plow as soon as ground gets dry enough 
and apply about two tons of sheep manure 
per acre, and harrow in well with a disk 
harrow. Then will plant in cow peas as 
early as possible in drills about 214 feet 
apart, and cultivate well until ready for hay. 
After cutting peas for hay will apply two 
tons more of ashes per acre, and disk in 
with harrow; then seed to Alfalfa. The 
ground consists of loamy, dark soil for 
about six inches, with a clay subsoil, and 
has been used as a pasture for several years. 
What kind of fertilizer would you use, and 
how much’ per acre? 
Ans. —iWe would be willing to seed 
to Alfalfa after such handling of the soil 
without any more fertilizer. The sheep 
manure and the cow peas ought to give 
enough nitrogen, and the ashes should 
provide lime and potash. Be sure to fit 
the soil with the greatest care, and have 
it fine and mellow. The only thing we 
suggest is the use of soil from some field 
now well started in Alfalfa or the use 
of “cultures” from the Department of 
Agriculture. This “inoculation” is a 
safeguard on many new soils. 
Grape Notes. 
R., New York .—I have a neglected vine¬ 
yard in which the grapes rot badly. When 
and how shall I spray? 
Ans. —'Clean the ground of leaves and 
rubbish, and apply copper sulphate solu¬ 
tion before buds start to both vines and 
ground, which must be thoroughly, im¬ 
pregnated with the fungus. After grapes 
get the size of buckshot spray with Bor¬ 
deaux Mixture and repeat twice at inter¬ 
vals of 10 days or two weeks, according 
to the weather. Give good cultivation, 
but do not apply stable manure or nitro¬ 
genous fertilizer. Potash and bone will 
give strength and vigor. 
J. (No Address ).—My grapes rot every 
season. How shall I spray and how fertilize 
in order to save them ? 
Ans. —I do not know the character of 
the soil, its treatment and what fertiliza¬ 
tion has been given it. To my mind there 
is a lack of fertility, making the vines an 
easy prey to the rot fungus, which will 
surely kill them if not arrested. If these 
vines can be sprayed with a solution of 
copper sulphate, six pounds to 50 gallons, 
before the buds start, it would help to 
cleanse them. If this cannot be done then 
spray with the Bordeaux Mixture when 
the grapes are well out of bloom, and 
twice after at intervals of 10 days or two 
weeks. Prune close and clean the ground 
of all leaves and rubbish, and keep it 
clean. Give, a dressing of wood ashes, or 
500 pounds to the acre of a good ferti¬ 
lizer, but no stable manure. 
WALTER F. TABER. 
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