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June 30, 
FARMERS’ CLUB 
[Every query must be accompanied by 
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please see whether it is not answered in 
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separate piece of paper. 1 
Killing Out Horse fiadish. 
C. E. B.j Lake Forest, III .—How can I kill 
out horseradish? I have a patch of about 
an acre that bothers me a great deal. 
Ans. —'Horseradish when once in pos¬ 
session of the ground is a very stubborn 
plant to get rid of. About the Jiest and 
most effectual way would be to plow the 
ground in the Fall, exposing the roots to 
the action of the frost during the Winter. 
Plow again early in Spring, and plant it 
with corn. This can be easily cultivated 
during the growing season. Early in Au¬ 
gust seed the ground between the rows 
with Crimson clover. Plow under the 
clover the following Spring, and plant 
again with corn. Give thorough cultiva¬ 
tion; this will about subdue the horse¬ 
radish. t. M. WHITE. 
Monmouth Co., N. J. 
How to Kill Cabbage Maggot. 
N, If., Massachusetts .—A bug new to the 
writer has appeared in our garden within 
the last two weeks. It is a small worm, 
white, about 3-16 inch long and 1-16 inch 
in diameter, of which 20 or 30 are found 
closely packed around the roots of cabbage 
and cauliflower', having completely killed 
several hundred plants within a day or two, 
after first noting the wilting of the plants. 
They seem to thrive on soil impregnated with 
slug shot, Tobacco dust, raris-green and vari¬ 
ous other things that we have experimented 
with. 
Ans. —I think the worm described by 
the correspondent is the common cabbage 
root maggot, which transforms to a fly 
resembling but smaller than the common 
house fly. The maggot often works in 
large numbers on the roots of cabbages, 
cauliflowers, radishes, turnips and similar 
plants. The poisonous insecticides men¬ 
tioned would have little or no effect upon 
these maggots, as they could not readily 
get at it to eat it, working as they do 
mostly inside the roots. I have found an 
effective remedy in ordinary kerosene 
emulsion ,or better, an emulsion made by 
dissolving one pound of soap in one gal¬ 
lon of hot water, into which one pint of 
crude carbolic acid is then poured and the 
whole mass agitated into an emulsion. 
Take one part of this standard emulsion 
and dilute it with 30 equal parts of water 
and pour it freely around the base of the 
plants. M. V. SLINGERLAND. 
Cost of Small Greenhouse. 
J. O. H., Oregon .—Will you tell me how 
to build and operate a small greenhouse? 
I want to raise cabbage, tomato and celery 
plants for sale. What should the glass, 
10 x li cost, for a house say 12x15? Could 
it be heated by a pipe from the kitchen 
stove? 
The cheapest form of small greenhouse 
for growing vegetable plants would be 
that known as a “lean-to” house, that is, 
a house with a high back wall and the 
roof in one slope, instead of having the 
ordinary double pitch roof that is com¬ 
monly associated with greenhouses. The 
cost of such a house would depend very 
much upon the price of material in the 
locality and also the question whether the 
owner would do the work of construction, 
or would have to hire labor for that pur¬ 
pose. But in all probability the less cost 
of lumber in Oregon would be offset by 
the increased cost of glass and heating 
apparatus, so that the total may not be 
very different from the cost of such a 
structure in the East. A lean-to green¬ 
house 12x15 feet could be built in the 
Middle States for $50 to $75, including 
the heating apparatus, if the owner does 
all or nearly all the work, but with the 
high prices that now prevail for both ma¬ 
terial and labor this cost may easily be 
exceeded if all the work is hired; 10x15 
glass is more often used for this purpose 
than 10x14, as both sizes are found in the 
same price bracket in the dealers’ list, and 
in small quantities would be likely to cost 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
about $3.50 per box of 50 square feet, 
this price applying to second quality or 
“A” glass, the first grade being now 
known as “double A.” It is doubtful 
whether the kitchen range would heat 
such a greenhouse satisfactorily, and I 
would suggest the use of a small base¬ 
burning boiler, such as is frequently used 
for laundry purposes, the hot water being 
conducted from the boiler through six 
runs of 1^4-inch pipe the full length of the 
greenhouse, the best arrangement of the 
piping being to run three flows up the 
back side of the house and the three re¬ 
turns down the front side, and from there 
returning to the bottom of the boiler, 
there being an air vent allowed from the 
highest point of the piping. It is prefer¬ 
able that such a greenhouse faces the 
south, and if the back wall is eight feet 
high, and the front 2 x /t feet, it will only 
be necessary to dig out a path through the 
center to a depth of about one foot in 
order to give plenty of head-room. There 
must also be some provision made for 
ventilation, else the stock would soon 
suffer in the Spring. w. h. taplin. 
TALKS WITH A LAWYER. 
Witnesses to Wiil. 
Would a will signed by a man and his 
wife, as two of the three witnesses required 
in Massachusetts be legal? E. H. w. 
Massachusetts. 
Such witnesses would be competent and 
legal. 
Renters's Right to Manure. 
A rents farm of B for year, cash rent. 
Before year is out A cleans out henhouse, 
putting manure of same in barrels outside. 
At end of year A gives up farm, which is 
taken from C at cash rent. When C takes 
possession of farm he uses the manure found 
in barrels, on said farm, before A has had 
time to move it. Can A recover price of 
manure from C, or to whom does the manure 
belong? T. G. 
West Virginia. 
Manure belongs to A, who would have 
a reasonable time to remove it. A could 
probably obtain a judgment against C for 
the value of the manure. It would take a 
good many barrels of hen manure to pay 
the expenses of a lawsuit. 
Tenant and Landlord. 
In State of Connecticut can a tenant 
holding a floor in a house in which landlord 
also resides, at monthly rent, from one 
month to another, be compelled to give up 
the floor on a verbal notice, or must it be 
printed or in writing. J. c. 
Connecticut. 
Tenant is entitled to 30 days’ notice, 
either verbal or written, from date when 
rent is due. If then he refuses to vacate 
or if he neglects or refuses to pay rent he 
is entitled to three days’ written notice di¬ 
recting him to quit on or before date 
given. Such notice can be served by any 
person by leaving a copy at the residence 
or serving on member of the family. If 
refusal to vacate is persisted in, proceed¬ 
ings may be brought before the court. 
Line Fence Question. 
A’s farm joins B's farm, each, having a 
section of fence to keep up where the land 
is marshy. A puts out a hedge on his part 
of the fence. The hedge is now valuable 
for wood. To whom does the wood belong if 
cut? Is the hedge considered a fence or is 
it consider'd the joint property of A 
and B? x. t. z. 
New York. 
The hedge would be considered a fence. 
This cannot be removed without joint 
consent of adjoining property owners. 
At its removal it would belong to the land 
on which the trees grew. This could only 
be determined by a careful survey. 
A buys a farm in the State of New Jersey. 
B buys adjoining farm and removes all the 
fences including line fence between A’s and 
B’s property without A’s consent. What can 
A do in the matter; he not being able to 
prove who really built the line fence? 
New Jersey. F. K. 
Such a fence would belong jointly to 
adjacent land owners. In New Jersey 12 
months’ notice must be given before such 
a line fence can be removed. In case no 
notice is given B would be liable to A 
for all damages which he might suffer 
from such removal. 
Ben Davis Once More.—I think some of 
your readers too hasty with Ben Davis; they 
should not condemn a thing because they do 
not know how to use it. To prepare a Ben 
Davis for eating you want to freeze them 
like a persimmon, take them to a trip ham¬ 
mer at the iron works place them under it for 
a few trips, then soak them in good Baldwin 
cider over night. If for pies run through a 
sausage cutter and they are O. K. I drew too 
hasty a conclusion with Ben Davis on my 
farm here; it was a Ben Davis top-worked 
to Baldwin in a rich rough stony place that 
catches wash from a field, a large tree well 
trimmed and the largest, reddest Baldwins I 
ever saw. Farmers here told me they were 
Ben Davis. So I thought lie was O. Iv. until 
I hit the real thing. But I saw mistake 
before I wrote him up. v. s. n. 
Pennsylvania. 
Cultivating Corn. —My usual plan for cul¬ 
tivating corn has been to use a weeder as 
soon as the weeds first appear, and continue 
to use it about once a week, or often enough 
to keep the weeds in subjection, until the 
corn is about five or six inches high. I 
then use a cultivator as often as I think 
necessary, perhaps once in 10 days or two 
weeks, until the corn is about three feet high. 
I usually practice shallow cultivation, as I 
think I get better results from it than I do 
from deep cultivation, especially in dry 
weather. As for cultivating in wet weather, 
I think it is practically labor wasted, as you 
kill but a very few weeds. I never put a 
plow in the field after the corn is up as I 
cannot see the benefit of hilling corn. Cul¬ 
tivating potatoes I follow very much the 
same plan that I do for corn, except that I 
hill the potatoes up a little, as I think that 
they sunburn where the ground is left fiat, 
as some of them will show above ground if 
they are not hilled up, or put in so deep 
that it makes too hard work digging them. 
Berlin Co.. Conn. c. o. 
A Failure With Onions.-—S o many of 
your readers are apt to print only their suc¬ 
cesses, perhaps the telling of a real good 
flat failure in greenhouse onion raising may 
act as a helpful tonic, especially to begin¬ 
ners. Started greenhouse 12x20, southwest 
on a hillside in Fall and finished in Febru¬ 
ary, doing most of the work myself. I got 
my flats started, seeded to Prizetaker and 
Yellow Globe Danvers, following directions, 
Greiner’s method as supposed. Onions all 
came up nicely and I thought to myself “How 
easy.” I am now going out to water flats 
after breakfast with perhaps five per cent 
onions good for transplanting. As I am able 
to figure it out these are causes of my fail¬ 
ure : The old rotted compost was all right, 
but put into flats too dry and too coarse 
(should have been thoroughly soaked and 
fined). Sifted sand' contained too much clay 
and got too hard: flats were put too near 
hot-water pipes and had too much heat; flats 
laid on slight incline and water of course all 
ran to lowest point, leaving upper side dry. 
Neighbors many of them had never seen a 
greenhouse before: all shake their heads and 
say, “too much manure," However cor¬ 
recting above mistakes I shall try it again, 
following Greiner. If some greenhouse man 
starting onions in flats would bear me out, or 
tell where wrong, the information would be 
gratefully received for another trial next 
year. * henry grinnell, 
Washington 
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