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FARMERS’ CLUB 
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Ground Bone for Grain. 
A. C., Berlin, X. Y .—Do you consider 
bone meal good for topdressing of meadow 
lands? If so. what is the best time of the 
year to apply and quantity per acre? 
Ans.—A s far as it goes fine ground 
bone is a good dressing for grass lands 
—but it does not go far enough. It 
contains no potash—like all the animal 
fertilizers. It has no available nitro¬ 
gen such as grass needs early in the 
season. You would do much better to 
use one part by weight of nitrate of 
soda, three parts line bone and one of 
muriate of potash. 
Acid Phosphate in Manure. 
11. S. A., Clifton Bpri'iajx, X. Y .—I see 
that “floats” or raw phosphate is being 
used for au absorbent, but lias any dairy¬ 
man used the treated rock as an ab¬ 
sorbent? Would Ihere be sufficient sul¬ 
phuric acid in the treated rock to cause 
sore feet in the cows? 
Ans. —The acid phosphate contains 
more moisture than the “floats” and 
would not absorb the liquids as well. 
We should not want to put the acid 
phosphate around the feet of cattle or 
horses. We have handled samples so 
strong with acid that it stung the hands 
badly. The acid phosphate is good to 
use in the manure pile, hut we should 
keep it away from the feet of stock. 
Value of Corncobs. 
G. J. P., Michigan .—Is a double wagon 
box full of corncobs worth 40 cents? I 
wish to mix it with manure. 1 must haul 
it four miles. 
Ans. —A ton of cobs will only give 
you five pounds of nitrogen, five of 
potash, and less than one of phosphoric 
acid. Even with this low supply of 
plant food the cobs are so slow to de¬ 
cay that you would get little benefit 
from them. We would not haul them 
unless they could he used as fuel to ad¬ 
vantage. By buying them you of course 
lose the nitrogen they contain and have 
only about 30 cents’ worth of potash 
and phosphoric acid left in the ashes 
from one ton of cobs. The cobs make 
a hot fire hut give less ash than most 
other plant refuse. A ton of the cobs 
will .give about 12 pounds of ash as 
compared with over 85 pounds from 
cornstalks or most kinds of straw. The 
ash of the cobs is nearly half potash. 
If you can get ashes from corncobs you 
have a valuable fertilizer, but the entire 
cobs are useful mainly for fuel. 
Wire Grass in Marylaud. 
T). M. K., Maryland .—I have a 10-acre 
field from which 1 took CO bushels of corn 
last Fall, but it has become overrun with 
wire grass. I wish to raise a crop of 
hay on this land, as it is all that I have 
available. What shall I raise that will 
get a good start before the grass chokes 
it? How would Spring oats do? Is there 
any danger of spreading the wire grass 
over the farm by using hay raised on this 
field? 
Ans. —It depends on what you mean 
by the name wire t*rass. On the Eastern 
Shore of Maryland in the northern part, 
the northern quack grass meets the 
southern Bermuda, and both are called 
indiscriminately “wire grass.” In the 
South, the tall Aristida,which grows all 
through the open pine forest, is called 
“wire grass.” If your wire grass is 
quack, you will easily spread it all-over 
the place by making hay of it, but if it 
is Bermuda there is less danger, as this 
grass rarely seeds north of the Gulf 
States. If your grass is Bermuda you 
can destroy it by plowing it very shal¬ 
low in the Spring, so as just to get un¬ 
der the running stems. Then get all out 
that you can harrow up and rake out 
with the steel horse rake and haul it 
off. Plow the land deeply, and in late 
May sow Black cow peas at rate of 1^ 
bushel per acre. These will give you a 
fine crop of hay, and will smother the 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
.January 16, 
Bermuda that may be left, for it will 
not grow in shade. You can then pre¬ 
pare the pea stubble for grass in the 
Fall, and will have a far better chance 
for grass than if sown in the Spring. 
The flower head of quack grass is long 
and somewhat like that of rye grass, 
while the Bermuda head is shaped like 
that of Crowfoot grass, but far more 
delicate, like the little spokes of a wire 
wheel. w. F. MASSEY. 
No Cover for Silo. —We have had 
two silos in use for several years, one 
of them has a roof over it, the other 
has no roof. Our experience teaches us 
that a roof over a silo is a needless ex¬ 
pense, we think in fact, that it is better 
to have no roof. A silo without a roof 
is always well lighted and we are able 
to spout the cut corn over the top at 
any place we wish. The rain that falls 
inside is a benefit to the silage, the snow 
that falls within is soon melted by the 
warm silage beneath. g. f. p. 
Milford, Conn. 
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