1907. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
A CiTY GARDEN. 
I have a lot 40 X 160 feet. The hoiisd 
stands so I have about 100 feet back of 
it. Of this I have taken between 50 and 
60 feet for a lawn and 40 feet-for garden. 
Along one side I have grapevines, set out 
in the Spring of 1905, now well loaded 
with grapes; across the end currants and 
gooseberries; along the other side oppo 
site the grapes a strawberry bed. In a 
few years I shall have peaches (three 
kinds), pears (three kinds), cherries (two 
kinds), plums (three kinds), one Yellow 
Transparent apple, all I can use. Since 
the first radishes were fit to eat we have 
lived from our garden, three to five in 
family all the time. We can pick to-dav, 
a rn. beans, tomatoes, onions, beets, Swiss 
chard, and have peas and radishes com¬ 
ing on. We put in three plantings of 
corn, same of beans, four or five of 
radishes, two or three of onions, two of 
beets, etc. All the work except a little 
spading I have done nights and morn¬ 
ings. I believe the vegetables we have 
bad from this garden, 40 x 40 feet, would 
have cost $25 to $30, and besides they 
have been absolutely fresh and always 
ready at hard. If one has never eaten 
strictly tresh vegetables, he does not know 
what good eating is. Every day the 
garden has been admired, but the best 
part of it has been the pleasure it has 
given us at the table. If more city dwel¬ 
lers would have one, I fell sure there 
would be healthier families and multiplied 
•pleasures in the homes. c. I. 
Rochester, N. Y. 
WHITEWASH HOT OR COLD? 
J. P. M., Newburyport, Matts .—What is the 
(Object of putting wliitewaxn on me outside of 
a building hot? Does it stick better or does 
jt hold the color longer? I have white 
washed a number of barns outside and have 
put the wash on cold. It seems to wear 
well, one barn I put on two coats and it 
seems to wear better. I whitewashed a tight 
board fence last Fall;; within two months 
it all came off. I put it on cold, but it 
dried in good and hard before it rained. 
1 am going into the whitewash business and 
I want to do good work. I want my white¬ 
wash to stay on and wear for years. I 
make the best whitewash there is (Govern¬ 
ment). all except boiling it before I put it on 
the surface. 
I enclose herewith the whitewash recipe 
used by the Lighthouse Board of the 
Department of Commerce and Labor. The 
idirections are to boil it as the supposition 
Is that it sticks better after boiling. It 
would probably be too expensive a wash 
for a man to use were he in the business 
for a living. Slake half a bushel of un¬ 
slaked lime with boiling water, keeping 
it covered curing the process. Strain it 
and add a peck of salt, dissolved in warm 
water; three i cunds of ground rice put 
in boiling water, and boiled to a thin 
paste; half a pound of powdered Spanish 
whiting, and a pound of clear glue, dis¬ 
solved in warm water. Mix these well 
together, and let the mixture stand for 
several days. Keep the wash thus pre¬ 
pared in a kettle or portable furnace, and 
when used put it on as hot as possible, 
with painters’ or whitewash brushes. 
w. D. BIGELOW. 
Acting Chief, Bureau of Chemistry. 
Most of the whitewash used on the 
outside of buildings contains some glue, 
that is, where the better grades are used. 
When hot this is fluid, penetrates better 
and combines better with the other in¬ 
gredients to make a firm surface. Be¬ 
sides, the hot whitewash would penetrate 
the wood in better shape than does the 
cold. E. F. LADD. 
North Dakota. 
There would not be any advantage in 
boiling the lime, for, as you know, the 
lime boils when it is slaked, or at least 
it should be slaked in that nunner; just 
cover the fresh lump lime with hot water, 
throw a bag or something over the vessel 
that it is being slaked in, and the mass 
will boil sure enough. After it r.as boiled 
for a little while I like to stir it up, so 
that no lumps get burned or receive in¬ 
sufficient water. Then cover it again and 
leave for an hour or so. Then it is 
ready to apply, while still warm. The 
addition of a little salt hardens the wash 
and causes it to stick better. The reason 
the lime wash failed to stick in the case 
nentioned by your correspondent is, that 
the lime was improperly slaked, or the 
wash may have been too old. It does its 
best when applied soon after having been 
slaked. The addition of beef suet to the 
lime as it is boiling will greatly improve 
its staying and wearing qualities. Skim 
milk is another good thing in lime wash. 
Too much coloring, made with dry colors 
as it must needs be, weakens the wash. 
The wash should never be applied thick, 
but just as thin as water, two coats of 
this being better than any number of 
coats of thicker wash. If your corre¬ 
spondent interyjs doing any very large 
jobs I would advise him to get a small 
spraying machine to apply it with. I 
have just been using one of these ma 
chines, intended for whitewash and paint, 
for spraying some trees, and I have 
sprayed whitewash with it; such a ma¬ 
chine will pay for itself on contracts in 
a very short time, and I believe that a 
i 
man can make big money with a large 
machine, doing barns, etc. I have been 
informed that such has been done in 
New York State, using a 100-pound air 
pressure machine such as I have in addi¬ 
tion to the small one mentioned, and 
which I have never used myself, though 
I loaned it to a man who did railroad 
work with it. A. A. K. 
Chester Co., Pa. 
Marketing Horseradish. 
W. O. /'., Columbus, Miss .—I would like to 
hear from some of the readers how to grate 
or grind horseradish and how much vinegar 
to put with it? I have enough Maliner ICren 
horseradish to make six or eight gallons after 
grated, and want to see If I can sell it here. 
About what should it be worth a pint? 
Ans. —Horseradish is grated with a 
little machine made for the purpose, and 
is sold in the market in the grated state 
so that the buyers can add what vine¬ 
gar they want. You can get the machine 
from any dealer in such articles. You 
can put it in bottles for sale with vinegar 
enough to cover it. What it is worth 
per pint will depend on the market and 
demand. Growers in the North usually 
sell it to the trade by the ton, and seldom 
take any part in its preparation. 
Tuans planting Wild Blackberries.—J. 
F. B., Ind., page 637, wants to know if it 
would pay to transplant wild blackberries. 
Some years ago I found some unusually fine 
wild blackberries and transplanted them, ex¬ 
pecting to have something worth raising, but 
under cultivation they turned out to be prac¬ 
tically worthless. I can give no encourage¬ 
ment for anyone to cultivate wild black¬ 
berries, raspberries or strawberries. Cultivat¬ 
ed they grow a larger number of berries to 
the plant, but in size and quality are inferior 
to those left to grow in their wild condition. 
This is my experience. l. b. c. 
Litchfield, Conn. 
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A Farmer who knew said that if a man did 
not have the money to buy a manure 
spreader, he could afford to borrow it, 
pay 50 per cent interest, and still make 
money. 
This shows how extremely profitable the 
use of a manure spreader is. 
It will make more than 50 per cent per year 
on the investment. 
It increases the fertilizing value of barn¬ 
yard manure, the only fertilizer produced on 
the farm, fully 100 per cent, and when you 
remember that this barnyard manure is 
worth about $2.00 per ton, you know how 
much money a spreader makes for you on 
every ton of manure hauled into the field. 
Of course, you must be sure and buy a good 
spreader. We mean a strong, dependable, 
practical machine—one that you can load up 
day after day and drive into the field with 
absolute certainty that it will spread as many 
loads per acre as you desire. 
The I. H. C spreaders, Corn King and 
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per acre. The principal point of difference 
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apron machine. Both spreaders are replete 
with valuable features, not found on other, 
spreaders. 
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Then again there is the vibrating rake, a 
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not properly loaded, the manure is apt to pile 
up against the cylinder and clog it. Perhaps 
great chunks will be thrown out until the load 
is properly fed. The vibrating rake on the 
Cloverleaf and Corn King spreaders prevents 
this irregular feeding. It levels the load 
before it reaches the cylinder and insures 
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directly over the center and none at all at the 
sides, but instead an even distribution the 
full width of the cylinder. 
There are many other excellent features 
about these spreaders—both wheels are drive 
wheels, the steel wheels cut under the box, 
the apron never binds nor buckles, the front 
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