234 
March 16, 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
GANG PLOWS FOR SMALL FARMS. 
For the benefit of the fanner from Ken¬ 
tucky, page 138, buy a riding plow that 
turns only one furrow; this can be drawn 
by three horses in sod, and a 2,800 pound 
team will pull it to plow 2J4 acres of 
stubble per day, while with the gang 
plow it will require four to plow stubble 
and six in sod. Besides, the one furrow 
plow can be used for many uses where a 
gang could not be used at all. E. p. 
Harvard, Ill. 
In reply to your Kentucky correspond¬ 
ent I would say sulky or gang plow would 
hardly pay. We plow annually 30 to 40 
acres of more or less side hill, and find 
with our health not the best that with 
the plow trucks advertised in The R. 
N.-Y. we are able to do as much as a 
stronger man with less strain on team. 
A young boy or girl that can drive a 
team can use them. We have two sets 
in use. c. 
New York. 
I do not think gang plows are practica¬ 
ble on small farms unless a farmer has 
plenty of work for four big heavy horses 
or five lighter ones outside of plowing. 
We use single plows out here unless we 
have long rounds and about 45 to 75 
acres to plow for corn; it -would not 
pay to use gang on 10 to 20-acre piece 
unless rounds were long, so as not to 
have too much turning. A gang plow 
pulls heavy for four large or five small 
horses if ground is plowed deep. I have 
a gang, but will not use it this year, be¬ 
cause my corn ground is in one 10-acre 
field and one 20-acre field. j. b. r. 
Belden, Neb._ 
Street Sweepings and Night Soil. 
T. I']. T., Friendly, Md. —I am using a sort 
of compost, street sweepings and night soli 
mixed. What Is (he value of a manure of 
this kind, and what chemicals does this con¬ 
tain mostly? Does kainit contain any other 
Ingredient except potash, and what use is it 
to land? 
Ans. —It would be impossible to do 
more than guess at the value of such a 
mixture. The chief value of the night 
soil is in the liquids. An average mix¬ 
ture of solids and liquids will contain 
more nitrogen and phosphoric acid and 
less potash than stable manure. ‘‘Street 
sweepings” also vary with the mud, ashes 
or other waste that is mixed with the 
manure. Storer in his book “Agricul¬ 
ture,” gives analyses of several such com¬ 
posts made in Europe. The average 
shows about 10 pounds of nitrogen, 10 of 
phosphoric acid and seven of potash to 
the ton. It might be safe to call this 
compost about equal to stable manure. 
Kainit is one of the German potash salts. 
It contains about l2]/ 2 per cent of potash, 
the rest being mostly salt and magnesia. 
It supplies potash to crops. In manure 
piles or stables it prevents fermentation 
and thus saves ammonia. 
Alfalfa in a Pear Orchard. 
M. M. O., Oranda, Va. —Is It a good plan 
to sow Alfalfa in a young Kieffer pear or¬ 
chard that is just beginning to bear? it is 
seven years old, at present Is sown and well 
set in Crimson clover. I am thinking of 
turning the Crimson down while in bloom 
and then cultivate the ground until in Au¬ 
gust, then sow in Alfalfa. The ground is a 
white gravel soil on top with a stiff clay 
subsoil and is not rich. If I sow Alfalfa 
how much seed should I use per acre, and 
what kind and how much commercial fertil 
Izer? I want the Alfalfa for feed. 
Ans.—T he inquirer make a great mis¬ 
take in sowing down this Kieffer orchard 
in Alfalfa with the intention of cutting 
and taking it off for feed. If he sows 
it down and turns in animals, hogs or 
sheep to eat it off as pasture it would be 
all right, but for cutting and taking off 
for feed it would soon ruin his orchard. 
His best plan would be to plow under 
the clover early before it comes in bloom, 
as drought sometimes occurs at that sea¬ 
son, and in that case his Crimson clover 
would be more of an injury than benefit 
My advice for the good of the orchard 
would be to give a dressing of, say, 300 
pounds muriate of potash and 000 pounds 
dissolved rock per acre as soon as he can 
apply it. Then plow under the clover 
early in April, keep it cultivated through 
the Summer, and then sow down to Crim¬ 
son clover in August or September, and 
repeat the same process until he has in¬ 
creased the fertility sufficient for the 
trees, but if he values his orchard no 
Alfalfa. ' CHARLES BLACK. 
Land Plaster and Salt. 
II. J. 8., Or any c Go., N. Y .—What kind of 
fertilizer may be made from land plaster 
and salt, and will it do for potatoes? How 
much per acre? 
Ans. —Land plaster and salt will not 
make a fertilizer fit for potatoes. We 
use a fertilizer to supply nitrogen, pot¬ 
ash. phosphoric acid and lime. J he latter 
is usually needed least of all as a plant 
food. Land plaster contains lime, but 
the salt is composed of sodium and chlor¬ 
ine, neither of which can be classed as 
necessary on ordinary soils. You would 
not therefore feed your crops by using 
this mixture. Far better buy a regular 
potato fertilizer. In former years land 
plaster was largely used, and gave for a 
time good results on clover. After a few 
vears its action failed. It is now under¬ 
stood that the chief beneficial effect of the 
plaster was to set small quantities of pot¬ 
ash free in the soil. After a few years 
there was no more potash to be affected 
in this way, and thus the plaster did not 
give results. Salt is used in some cases 
with fair results. On asparagus it kills 
weeds, which is probably its most useful 
service. On fields so rich in nitrogen that 
grass or grain lodges salt helps by hold¬ 
ing growth back, so that the plants do 
not grow too fast. You will sec that on 
ordinary soil there is nothing in salt or 
land plaster alone that would produce a 
full crop of potatoes. 
Growing Cannery Tomatoes. 
In reply to G. W. S., Ncwtonviilc, Ohio, 
don’t do it for less than 50 cents per bushel. 
We cut our eye teeth around Fort Scott on 
tomatoes for a “cannery” at 15 cenls per 
bushel. (I prefer 15 cent corn.) Wo bought 
tlie plants from a man hired by Hie company 
to grow them right (?). They were started 
In the opep ground late; *1 per 1,000; paid 
a good man $1.25 per day and board to 
pick. Twenty bushels per day is good work. 
tomatoes not staked. There were many small 
ones, and too many crack and taint. Can 
nery only ran one season, and moved south 
in seach of “suckers" at 15 cents per bushel- 
A fortune is waiting a good cheese maker at 
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