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THE.RURAL NEW-YORKER 
December 15, 
FARMERS’ CLUB 
f Every query must be accompanied by 
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sure attention. Before asking a question, 
please see whether it is not answered in 
our advertising columns. Ask only a few 
questions at one time. Put questions on a 
separate piece of paper.] 
A DRILL FOR POST HOLES 
C. E. B., who inquires on page 786 
in regard to a drill for post holes, should 
take a 20-pound steel bar and start the 
holes where he wants his post, have his 
post well sharpened, and use a 20-pound 
post maul to drive with. He will find it 
the quickest and the cheapest way to set 
posts, and they can be driven in very 
rocky ground without any trouble. The 
time to drive is in the early Spring, just 
after the frost is out of the ground. The 
ground is very loose then, and if there 
are rocks they will give way as the post 
is being driven. H. A. B. 
Victor, Mont. 
C. E. B. may find some firm that will 
give him a power post hole digger. I un¬ 
derstand that a heavy crowbar makes a 
good post hole digger; when last in Spo¬ 
kane I had a blacksmith make me a dig¬ 
ger that does good work. I got a piece 
of hollow pipe, two-inch hole; pipe about 
five feet long, and into this had a piece 
of steel welded, point chisel-shaped. If 
I was to have another made 1 would have 
the pipe six feet long for the additional 
weight. H. g. 
Addy, Was h. 
Blackberries for Maryland. 
F. O., White Marsh, Md .—Which do you 
consider the best varieties of blackberries for 
commercial purposes? The land is naturally 
well adapted to blackberries. I have been 
raising Erie for some years—very successfully 
formerly, but the last two seasons they have 
done poorly, producing only about one-quarter 
of a crop. Rose-bloom seemed to be what 
was the matter. Last season they did con¬ 
siderably better than the year previous, but 
still the crop was very short. Do you think 
it likely they will entirely recover and yield 
as formerly? The canes are stouter and 
look better this Spring than last. Has the 
variety run out? Is there any better berry 
than the Rathbun? 
Ans. —Erie has been the most gener¬ 
ally successful of blackberries. The only 
way to get rid of rose-bloom, when not 
caused by late frosts., is to replant with 
new, healthy stock. Mersereau is hardy 
and productive, so far quite free from 
disease tendencies. The berries are large, 
well flavored, very black in color and are 
good shippers. Rathbun is large and of 
good quality, very productive when young. 
It is not considered a long-lived plant. 
The new Ward blackberry offered this 
year appears very promising for market 
purposes. It should at least be tried. 
There is no more reliable variety than 
Snyder, but it is a rather small and soft 
for market. . 
A Fertilizer from Hen Manure. 
A. C. C., Coxsackic, N. Y.—Could I make 
my own phosphate by using hen manure as 
a tiller ? 1 want a phosphate for corn, rye, 
oats or grass and potatoes. I have been 
buying phosphate with analysis of 2-6-8, 
paid .$30 a ton, and I am not satisfied with 
it. What does 2-6-8 mean? How do you 
figure it out? I think I can make a better 
phosphate myself. If I know what to put in 
with the hen manure I can grind my hen 
manure and make it fine and make a better 
phosphate for less money. How much potash, 
dried blood or bone, if any, should I put 
to a ton of manure? 
Ans. —A fertilizer marked 2-6-8 means 
that it contains two per cent nitrogen, six 
per cent phosphoric acid and eight per 
cent potash. Do not be too sure that you 
can make a better fertilizer out of hen 
manure and chemicals. An average sam¬ 
ple of dry hen manure may contain one 
per cent of nitrogen, one-third per cent of 
potash and four-fifths per cent of phos¬ 
phoric acid. Of the chemicals that con¬ 
tain nitrogen nitrate of soda carries 16 
per cent, dried blood 12 per cent, bone 3J4 
per cent and tankage six per cent. Acid 
phosphate contains 12 per cent more of 
phosphoric acid, while bone averages 25 
per cent, while you must get the potash 
in the form of potash salts—usually sul¬ 
phate or muriate, each of which contain 
50 per cent of potash. To make a fer¬ 
tilizer of the analysis you mention you 
will need in one ton 40 pounds of nitro¬ 
gen, 120 of acid phosphate and 160 of pot¬ 
ash. As you see from the analysis, a ton 
of hen manure will average 20 pounds of 
nitrogen, 16 of phosphoric acid and seven 
of potash. Suppose you start with 1,000 
pounds of manure. You will need to add 
30 pounds nitrogen, 112 phosphoric acid 
and 156 pounds potash. You might do it 
with the following mixture: 
J 
\ T itro- 
gen 
I’hos- 
phoric 
Acid 
I’otash 
l.oun lbs. lien manure... 
. 10 
8 
4 
310 
lbs. muriate of potash. 
155 
350 
Il>s. ground bone. 
. 10 
87 
150 
100 
lbs. acid phosphate. . 
lbs. nitrate of soda.. 
.’ 20 
40 
20 
115 
159 
While this gives the desired analysis 
it is not the best mixture. It would be 
better to use less hen manure and more 
acid phosphate and dried blood. For ex¬ 
ample, 800 pounds hen manure, 320 pounds 
of muriate, 200 pounds ground bone and 
430 pounds acid phosphate will make a 
better mixture, since it will give three dif¬ 
ferent forms of nitrogen and more soluble 
phosphoric acid. Whenever hen manure is 
used in a fertilizer it must be made per¬ 
fectly fine, so it will mix easily. 
WANT TO KNOW. 
About The Stark Apple. —In this section 
of New Brunswick we can grow excellent 
McIntosh, Fameuse, Alexander, Wealthy, 
Gano and Golden Russet apples, but find the 
Winter a little too severe for Baldwin. King, 
Spy, etc. We now want a good Winter 
apple of as good quality as possible to get. 
The Gano does not seem to be much superior 
to Ben Davis, and we are thinking of Stark. 
Will some of your readers who have grown 
Stark where the temperature in Winter often 
goes to 25 or 30 below zero for a week, 
tell me. something about the tree, and how 
it acts? Any information about any other 
variety that would seem to fill the bill would 
be thankfully received. 
New Brunswick. s. b. hatheway. 
Wood Ashes and Potato Blight. —On 
page 849 a reader tells how the ntlgnt 
apparently delayed its attack upon that part 
of the field of potatoes which received a 
dressing of wood ashes before planting. The 
writer had a novel experience with wood 
ashes used upon potatoes the past Summer. 
While the vines were in blossom several 
wheelbarrow Joads of ashes were taken from 
the scratching shed and scattered over the 
poorest part of a small potato patch, with 
the result that after the rest of the vines 
were dead the part receiving the ashes was 
still green. Did the ashes stimulate the 
vines to grow after the others ripened, or 
did they prevent the blight attacking this 
part of the patch as I supposed it did? I 
cannot say positively that 1 know anything 
about this disease. Small black spots ap¬ 
peared on the edges of the leaves. These 
spots rapidly increased in size and numbers, 
and soon covered the whole leaf, when the 
entire plant soon drooped and died. Have 
any of the readers of The R. N.-Y. ever had 
a similar experience with ashes used in the 
manner indicated? j. d. tkickett. 
Ohio. 
For the land’s sake use Bowker’s Fer¬ 
tilizers. They enrich the earth.— Adv. 
Is abso¬ 
lutely water¬ 
proof. Resists fire. 
Is easy to apply. Re¬ 
quires no expensive at¬ 
tention. Not affected by 
changes of temperature. 
Contains no tar, paper, 
rubber or other short-lived 
ingredients to crack, dry- 
up and become useless 
with age. 
Write us for samples, booklet and 
further particulars. 
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before it destroys your trees. The 
one absolutely sure way to eradicate 
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SAVE YOUR TREES 
from the Ravage of SAN JOSK, COTTONY 
MAPLE SCALE, PSYLLA, Etc. 
ALL YOU NEED IS 
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SAN JOSE SCALE 
and other INSECTS killed bv 
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(Note the Spelling) 
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