1907. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
735 
BLACKBERRIES IN SOUTH JERSEY. 
Will it pay to cultivate a field of Ward 
blackberries after harvest? What varieties 
can be used to prolong the season? 
If this field of Ward blackberries has been 
properly cut back and is now throwing out 
lateral branches the grower should not touch 
them until early Spring, when they should 
be trimmed, and all trimmings and weeds 
should be raked with horse harrow and burned, 
lie should not trim Ward until buds begin to 
show green tips, at which time he may go 
over the field with cultivator or one-horse 
plow, being careful not to cut roots. Should 
he cultivate in September, he might start 
the plants growing and cause them to be 
badly winter-killed. To prolong the black¬ 
berry season he should plant Lucretia dew¬ 
berry and Wilson, Jr. I cultivate Lucretia. 
Wilson and Ward, and my season lasts from 
June 20 until August 20. 
Cumberland Co., N. J. john casazza. 
I would not advise any form of cultivation 
at this late date. If weeds are large, if they 
could be mown down it would prevent ripen¬ 
ing of seed and get them out. of the way, but 
if not very large they will not do much 
harm. As to early varieties the Lucretia 
(dewberry) is very much earlier*, but it is 
a trailer, and has to be staked or mulched 
and is not entirely hardy; it is grown largely 
ground Vineland. The Eldorado is perfectly 
hardy, a little earlier than Ward and ripens 
its crop in a very short time. We have no 
reliable variety that is later than Ward. In 
seasons of a plentiful peach crop Ward is 
late enough. chas. black. 
New Jersey. 
BLASTING ROCKS BY FIRE . 
A Forty-Niner on Fire Blasting. 
In 1849 I sailed from New York via 
the Isthmus of Panama for San Francisco. 
In March, 1850, I went up to the mines. 
Our party consisted of three persons; one, 
whose name was Adams, was born in Stam¬ 
ford, Conn. He had been raised in a rocky 
country, and on a farm. In going up to the 
mines we reached Sacramento City, thence 
by land on foot, up the American River, then 
the Middle Fork of the American River, and 
reached the North Fork of the Middle Fork ; 
there we encamped. Adams and I decided 
to go up the North Fork on a prospecting 
tour. A few miles up this river we found 
a prospect for good digging, returned to 
camp, and then moved up to the place where 
we believed we had found the above named 
prospect where we finally encamped. For some 
months, the waters from the melting snows 
prevented us from working our find. After 
the waters receded we found a great bowlder 
in a pocket of a shelving rock, and to work 
this pocket this bowlder must be removed; 
it weighed several tons. Adams said there 
was a way to remove the bowlder; we placed 
ourselves under orders, went up on the moun¬ 
tain side, cut many trees, slid them down 
the mountain side into the river; we then 
floated these logs down stream, landed them 
and made a large pile of wood. Then we 
started a big fire on this rock, kept it going 
for 24 hours; then we poured water on this 
stone until it cracked in many pieces, so we 
could with crowbar remove the pieces with¬ 
out difficulty. We then worked the pocket, 
taking out over $2,000 in coarse gold. This 
is my experience in breaking a great bowl¬ 
der into fragments, so men could easily put 
them out of the way. d. c. lewis. 
New Jersey. 
As Done in Montana. 
In 1880 I became the owner of 100 acres 
of land that was very rocky; so much so 
that no one cared to undertake the clearing 
of it and laughed at me when I began it. 
It had originally been timbered but the trees 
had been cut for the wood before I got it, 
and the tops and refuse of the trees left 
and the place abandoned because it was 
considered too rocky to be of any value for 
■'farming. The soil was good, but there 
were many large rocks, both on the surface 
and plow depth. I had a fairly good team 
and two small boys for help; many of these 
rocks were far too large and heavy for us 
to move, as they were, so we took some of 
the refuse lying convenient and piled it on 
the rocks, about a quarter of a cord, and 
setting fire to it went on removing the 
smaller rocks, or burning other large rocks; 
next morning the burned rocks were cool 
enough to handle. If the rocks were below 
the surface we dug a trench around the 
rock; with levers raised it from its bed. so 
the heat could get under it about an inch, 
filled the trench with small pieces of wood 
and covered the top with larger pieces. It 
is absolutely necessary that the buried rocks 
be raised so that the heat can get under 
them; if that is done there is no doubt but 
that the rock will go to pieces. The reason 
is that the outside of the rock heats more 
quickly than the center and the consequent 
expansion causes the outside to crack ; then 
in cooling off the outside of the center cools 
first, and the contraction causes it to crack 
also. We were told by old-timers that we 
would have to throw water on the rock to 
crack it; it must be suddenly cooled, but we 
never tried that. We found that the ex¬ 
pansion in heating and the contraction in 
cooling did the work completely; we never 
had a failure. I do not think it makes any 
difference what the kind of rock is; expan¬ 
sion and contraction will shiver every time. 
I tried blasting, but that is dangerous and 
very little, if any quicker. j. s. K. 
Montana. 
Discovered By Accident. 
As to blasting rocks by fire it may be re¬ 
called that in the very early ’80s the im¬ 
provement of Yellowstone Park required a 
trail or wagon road along steep mountain 
slopes. At one point the ledge defied steel 
drills, and it was found to be constituted 
of volcanic glass, a dull greenish black in 
color, of which I have a fragment. In an en¬ 
gineer’s camp on a level the fire burned 
for several days for the cooking outfit, and 
an imaginative assistant swept off the 
coals with a bush and threw several pails 
of water over the heated surface. Those 
of us who use lamp chimneys may imagine 
something happened. It did crack and rend 
the mineral, and by following the grade 
pegs and using plenty of cord wood the fire- 
heated glass was burst from its ancient rest¬ 
ing place and no drills were required in 
the refractory mineral of Obsidian Cliff. 
Asheville, N. C. J. F. G. 
Cotton-Seed Meal tor Tobacco. 
R. E. R., Hannibal Center, N. Y .—I have 
been putting cotton-seed meal and ashes on 
tobacco ground, but it is a little slow. How 
would it do to put the cotton seed on in the 
Fall and harrow it in? Would it lose any of 
the nitrogen? Would it be better to sow 
rye in the Fall? 
Ans. —Cotton-seed meal, if applied to 
tobacco in the Fall of the year, would not 
lose any considerable quantity of its nitro¬ 
gen during the Winter, neither would it be 
of any special benefit. The nitrogen which 
is in cotton-seed meal does not become 
available for the plants’ use until decom¬ 
position has taken place, and this would 
take place very slowly, if at all, during 
the Winter. We would recommend using 
cotton-seed meal in the Spring rather 
than in the Fall. It would certainly be a 
good plan to sow rye in the Fall. This 
rye would make us of the available plant 
food, especially the nitrogen, and thus 
prevent its loss by drainage. 
L. A. CLINTON. 
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she was here this afternoon.” “Burst, 
my dear, burst. Mercy sakes, how can 
you use such slang? And you’ve been to 
Europe twice, too!”—Chicago Record- 
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