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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
September 14, 
FARMERS’ CLUB 
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separate piece of paper.! 
ing the soil and its present condition it 
is doubtful whether such grasses could 
be named with certainty. It is a wise 
custom when seeding down land intended 
for permanent pasture to use a consider¬ 
able number of varieties in order that if 
one should prove not to be well adapted 
to the soil, another will be likely to suc¬ 
ceed. It is wise in this mixture to in- 
REMEMBER WADSWORTH. 
The following members of the New 
York Senate voted against Governor 
Hughes in his efforts to remove the Su¬ 
perintendent of Insurance. They repre¬ 
sent agricultural counties, where farmers 
are in a majority. Every one of them 
merits defeat, and should be plowed un¬ 
der by the votes of farmers. Send them 
to the political graveyard at the first op¬ 
portunity : 
J0T11AM P. ALLDS.Norwich, N. Y. 
ALI1EKT T. FANCHER, . . Salamanca, N. Y. 
S. P. FRANCHOT, . . . Niagara Falls, N. Y. 
S. PERCY HOOKER,.LeRoy, N. Y. 
JOHN RAINES, .... Canandaigua, N. Y. 
SANFORD W. SMITH, . . . Chatham, N. Y. 
\VM. J. TULLY, . . . Corning, N. Y. 
HORACE WHITE.Syracuse, N. Y. 
BENJ. M. WILCOX.Auburn, N. Y. 
JOSEPH ACKROYD.Utica, N. Y. 
FRANK M. BOYCE, . . East Schodack, N. Y. 
Value of a Dead Horse. 
E. E. 8., (No Address ).—Suppose I 
should boil up a dead horse, weight 1,000, until 
all the flesh was clean from the bones and 
spread it on the land. What amount of fer¬ 
tilizer would I get? Would it be best to put 
it on grass land, or plow it under for corn 
or grain? 
Ans. —In the flesh alone, without the 
bones, you might get 15 pounds of nitro¬ 
gen and five of phosphoric acid. We 
should put such meat on grass or grain. 
This is not the best way to utilize such a 
carcass. If the meat is sweet we would 
boil it into a soup, thicken it with corn 
meal and feed to hogs. The bones can be 
smashed with a sledge and buried in the 
manure pile or packed in layers of ashes. 
The carcass can be cut into small pieces 
and buried in damp horse manure. 
Dirty Rye for Green Manure. 
Q. IF. E., Hamford, Ont .—I have 17 acres 
now in oats and corn, except a small piece 
of buckwheat and a piece—very dirty—I am 
Summer fallowing. I intend sowing the whole 
of it this Fall to rye for green manure. Could 
I sow it in oats without plowing? I am won¬ 
dering if I disked that and sowed with drill 
between rows of oat stubble and then har¬ 
rowed I should get a crop? If I plowed up 
corn roots and thoroughly harrowed, then 
sowed rye broadcast and harrowed in is there 
a likelihood of its growing? The land is all 
light sand, except where corn is, which is a 
little heavier. Would a good crop of rye 
plowed under in Spring be sufficient manure 
for oats, strawberries, tomatoes, potatoes, cab¬ 
bage and corn? Will one of your experienced 
contributors give me some advice, as my land 
is poor and I am wanting to grow all those 
things I have mentioned, as well as some 
peaches. 
Ans. —We have frequently seeded rye 
after corn by simply working the soil 
with a cultivator. Last year our rye was 
seeded after working the stubble with a 
Cutaway. This is not the best way to 
sow grain, but you can get a fair crop 
for plowing under. Such a crop of rye 
will not be “sufficient manure” for your 
crops. As explained recently rye adds 
nothing to the soil, and is slow to decay, 
so that alone it will not prove satisfac¬ 
tory You could sow Crimson clover or 
Hairy vetch with the rye. These crops, 
if they grow, will add nitrogen from the 
air, but you cannot expect to grow the 
crops you mention successfully unless you 
use fertilizer or manure with the rye. 
elude the common and more easily ob¬ 
tained and cheaper seeds, as well as those 
supposed to be especially adapted to the 
particular case. Red and Alsike and a 
little White clover should be used. Tim¬ 
othy, Blue grass and Red-top among the 
grasses are standard, and if readily ob¬ 
tainable, some Meadow fescue. From 
these a large number of mixtures might 
be suggested. Of course, when a large 
number of varieties are used, the amount 
of seed of an individual variety may be 
reduced. As a rule, the amount of the 
clovers and Timothy that are customarily 
employed in the vicinity may be taken 
as the basis, and then add, say, one pound 
per acre of White clover and five or eight 
pounds of one or more of each of the 
other grasses. 
In our long experience we have found 
that in the case of lands that it was un¬ 
desirable to plow at frequent intervals, 
the pastures may be kept in good condi¬ 
tion by occasional harrowing and the 
scattering of additional seeds, this work 
usually being done early in the Spring in 
order that sufficient moisture may be in¬ 
sured to cause growth. On the Univer¬ 
sity farm a sandy, gravelly knoll that was 
seeded about 35 years ago and has had 
the bare spots and exposed knobs dressed 
with manure, or any litter that would af¬ 
ford a mulch, occasionally and every few 
years fresh seed scattered upon it, is now 
yielding the very best of pasturage. Prob¬ 
ably had the inquirer resorted to this 
method before plowing, he could have re¬ 
tained his hillside pasture for another 20 
years. j. l. stone. 
Questions About Crimson Clover. 
R. F. P., Holland, 0 .—Is Crimson clover, 
when plowed under, as good a fertilizer as 
Red clover? To what kind of soil is it 
best adapted? Does it make good hay for 
stock? When is the best time to sow it? 
Are you more sure of a good stand than 
you are when you sow Red clover? 
Ans. —There is not much difference be¬ 
tween the two clovers in fertilizing or 
feeding value. Ton for ton we would 
take Crimson, as it seems more rapidly 
available. We think it decays quicker in 
the soil. With us it makes on the average 
a heavier growth than Red between seed¬ 
ing in August and cutting or plowing in 
May. Good loam soil well drained is best 
for it. It is not like cow peas—a crop for 
very poor land. When cut early it makes 
good hay. When the seed ripens the 
head become hard and some damage is re¬ 
ported where horses have eaten these hard 
heads. Balls form in the stomach. There 
is no danger when fed to cattle, and no 
danger to horses when the clover is cut 
early. In our latitude we would sow be¬ 
fore August 15—at the last working of the 
corn. Do not sow in Spring or in mid¬ 
summer. This clover is a cold weather 
plant, and its chief value is its ability to 
make a very rapid growth in Fall and 
early Spring. When it has once formed 
seed the plant dies. It is quite easy to get 
a fair stand of Crimson clover when good 
seed is used—the danger comes in Spring 
when the ground is bare. When the 
ground freezes and thaws day by day and 
cold winds blow th.e clover is apt to be 
lifted out and killed unless it is very well 
rooted. For this reason Red clover is 
a surer crop, though it does not grow as 
large in the same time. 
Grasses for Permanent Hillside. 
C. H. T., Wyoming Co., N. Y .—We have 
about four acres which was plowed in May, 
steep hillside facing the north, gravelly soil, 
which we wish to seed down. It has not been 
plowed in 20 years, and we do not wish to 
plow again in 20 years more; well harrowed 
down. What are the best grasses to seed 
with and the best time to sow them? 
REENS 
ow AND 
O TO YOU 
Ans.—I t is impossible from the infor¬ 
mation given to name the grasses that 
will succeed best on this hillside. In fact, 
if we were given full information regard- 
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