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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
August 24, 
FARMERS’ CLUB 
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RYE AS GREEN MANURE. 
Not Packed Down. 
On page 583 I notice W. H. P., of Con¬ 
necticut, speaks about sowing rye in the Fall 
and plowing it under in the Spring. My 
own experience this year may be of interest 
to W. IT. P. . I sowed rye in my corn at the 
final cultivation last Summer, and it had a 
good growth and furnished a first-class cov¬ 
ering duriug the Winter. It started this 
Spring in good shape, but owing to the late 
Spring the rye was well advanced before I 
was able to plow the land, so that the amount 
of rye that was plowed under was large. 
For the last three weeks we have had prac¬ 
tically no rain. About two weeks ago my 
corn, which had grown well up to that time, 
commenced to turn yellow. The. land had 
been thoroughly fertilized with manure, and 
500 pounds per acre of fertilizer had been 
put into the ground with the corn, as It was 
planted, so that I knew it could not be that 
the land lacked fertility. On examination 
we found that the rye straw had not de¬ 
cayed, and had allowed the dry weather to 
take out the moisture, and as a result the 
corn was dying because of a lack of mois¬ 
ture. On a very small portion of the field, 
say an acre, more or less, the rye had been 
mowed in the Spring to use it for green feed 
for the cattle, and there the corn was green 
and was very much larger in size than over 
other parts of the field. If we had had a 
wet season it would have been all right, but 
I never again will plow rye under for corn, 
nor for any other crop. It is all well enough 
to have a cover crop for Winter, and rye is 
as good and perhaps the best, but cut it in 
the Spring for hay before you plow. 
Connecticut. chas. m. jarvis. 
R. N.-Y.—Wle have had something of 
the same experience in former years. Rye 
does not decay quickly. It was, many 
years ago, used with clay as mortar in 
building stone houses. We have seen it 
taken from such buildings after nearly a 
century in fair condition. As a rule the 
more nitrogen it contains the more readily 
a substance will decay. Crimson clover or 
cow peas under the same conditions as 
this rye would have acted differently. 
One trouble was that the soil was not 
packed with a roller after the rye was 
plowed under. Being left open the dry 
air easily worked in and took out the 
moisture. If it had been crushed down 
firmly with a heavy roller it would have 
held moisture better. We would cer¬ 
tainly cut the rye for hay and plow 
under the stubble. 
Rye Adds Nothing to Soil. 
On page 588 W. H. P., of Connecticut, 
wanted to know the value of green rye com¬ 
pared with barnyard manure. We have used 
rye between the rows of our nursery stock 
with no result, and our director often ad- 
vise's every nurseryman to use it as a cov¬ 
ering crop on the merits that it will add 
something to the soil as well as make the 
growth strong. Oar nursery land here is ex¬ 
ceedingly poor, therefore it is a hard matter 
to force our trees large enough for our trade 
in two years. We use a fertilizer, but it 
does not give very much result. Can you 
give us a method by which we can force our 
trees to the proper size in two years? There 
are a good many nurserymen who grow good 
large trees on wornout land in two years; 
how they do this we arc unable to tell. Also, 
it i« a hard matter to get our peach seed¬ 
lings large enough to bud the first of Au¬ 
gust, and if they are budded later they don’t 
seem to take very well. 
Virginia. e. w. jones nursery co. 
R. N.-Y.—As we have explained, rye 
adds no plant food to the soil. All it 
does is to furnish vegetable matter or 
humus. As we have seen in the experi¬ 
ence of Mr. Jarvis, too much of this 
vegetable matter left loose in the soil may 
be a detriment by causing a loss of mois¬ 
ture. Nursery stock requires an abund¬ 
ance of nitrogen and rye adds nothing of 
this. Crimson clover and cow peas should 
be used in place of the rye. At Harri¬ 
son’s nursery in Maryland we have seen 
remarkable use made of these crops. They 
are seeded among the trees whenever 
possible, and plowed under after they 
have made good growth. For instance, 
More Grain, Less Chaff 
will result if you use a fer¬ 
tilizer that contains plenty of 
Potash 
It is the plant-food without which 
good grain cannot be grown. 
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cow peas grow during hot weather, while 
Crimson clover will grow through the 
cooler Fall and Winter. The result of 
using these nitrogen producing crops is 
remarkable, and shows in the vigor and 
color of the trees. We like to use green 
crops that will decay rapidly and add 
nitrogen. The combination of Crimson 
clover and Cow-horn turnips does these 
admirably. Rye is good for hard clay 
soils for the very reason that it does not 
rot quickly but it should be packed down 
with a roller.__ 
Yard Rush on a Lawn. 
A. M. W., Troy, N. T .—About one-half 
acre of my lawn has filled in with grass like 
the inclosed sample. It cuts about as easily 
as so much wire would. This lawn is very 
smooth, about eight years old, and has been 
cut close always, but had this tough grass in 
from the start. Can I do anything but plow 
it up? If best to plow -would rye this Fall, 
turning same in when a foot high, then buck¬ 
wheat and turning that in, kill this out, 
following buckwheat lawn grass? Does 
this grass indicate an acid condition of 
ground? Lawn is loam or slightly clay loam. 
Ans.— The plant is not a grass but a 
rush known as slender rush or yard rush, 
Juncus tenuis. This weed may be eradi¬ 
cated by covering the lawn during the 
Winter with a good coating of well- 
rotted barnyard manure, raking it off in 
the Spring, and sowing a mixture of 
equal parts of Kentucky blue-grass and 
White clover seed. If necessary, a coat¬ 
ing of ground bone would increase the 
growth of grass and clover so that the 
rush would soon be crowded out. 
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Alfalfa Turning Yellow. 
R. E. M., Ghurchville, V. V.—I have read 
numerous articles in The It. N.-Y. on. Al¬ 
falfa and desire further information. I 
have three acres of limestone soil, rather 
stony, that I seeded to Alfalfa .Tune 1. I 
got a fine stand; it was free from weeds 
until a short time ago, when I noticed wild 
buckwheat and pigeon grass to some extent, 
also some of the Alfalfa was turning yellow. 
It is about eight to 10 inches high on. an 
average. Shall I clip it and apply well-rotted 
manure, about four 10-bushel spreader loads 
per acre? The soil bad 11 10-bushel loads 
per acre last year and grew a good corn 
crop. 
Ans.— Whenever Alfalfa begins to turn 
yellow, it is considered a good practice to 
resort to clipping, whether the crop has 
made full growth or not. In all proba¬ 
bility this occurrence is due to the pres¬ 
ence of rust. Clipping off the diseased 
stems seems to be quite a satisfactory 
method of checking the trouble, as fur¬ 
ther growth starts from new shoots 
springing out from the crown, and is 
likely to be healthy. The dressing of 
manure proposed by R. E. M. will cer¬ 
tainly be beneficial to the crop. It will 
serve both as a mulch, and as the source 
of added plant food. Whether such treat¬ 
ment is necessary, however, depends 
upon the present fertility of the land. 
Care should be taken not to use manure 
stocked with weed seeds, as it is very 
desirable to keen an Alfalfa field as free 
as possible from pernicious weeds. In 
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taining an Alfalfa field in a highly pro¬ 
ductive condition is that so many weeds 
tend to crowd in and displace the Al¬ 
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