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THE KURAE NEW -YORKER 
FARMERS’ CLUB 
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Floats as an Absorbent. 
A. M. S., Simsbury, Conn .—We would 
like to use an absorbent in our stables 
which would fix the ammonia and at the 
same time increase the value of the manure. 
Would you advise using floats at $8.50 per 
ton at our station, or basic slag? 
Ans. —We should try the“floats” as 
an absorbent and as explained on page 
070. The basic slag will not be suit¬ 
able for this purpose. It contains 
lime, which will cause a loss of am¬ 
monia if mixed with the manure. The 
slag is useful to apply directly to the 
soil, but not to use as an absorbent. 
We are getting new testimony to the 
value of floats in the manure. 
Ashes on Strawberries. 
L. A. R., Pioneer , O.—I have about two 
acres of strawberry plants covered with 
marsh hay. Will it pay to scatter ashes 
on top of the hay, and how much on clay 
soil? I can get plenty of ashes from a 
stave mill three miles away. 
Ans. —With us it would depend on 
the condition of the soil. Strawberries 
do best on an acid soil. The lime in 
wood ashes sweetens the soil and for 
this reason ashes will often not give 
the results on strawberries that we 
should expect. On our own soil we 
would not put the ashes on the mulch 
but broadcast them on the clover and 
grain—at least one ton to the acre. 
Sowing Oats and Peas. 
F. M. R., Jefferson, 0 .—When peas and 
oats are raised together, how deep should 
the peas be drilled and how much sooner 
than the oats? What quantity of seed 
per acre should be used? 
Ans. —The peas should not be sowed 
sooner than the oats. In fact the peas 
ripen first, and this is the one objec¬ 
tion to sowing them together. Last 
year I sowed two bushels of oats and 
one of peas, but I shall sow but \ l /i 
of oats next year, and I shall also try 
some of the marrowfat peas instead 
of Canada peas. I drill them the usual 
depth which I do oats, and I would not 
advise sowing the oats first, for it 
would make extra work and I should 
be afraid that the oats would be in¬ 
jured if the ground was re-drilled after 
the oats had sprouted. Who has tried 
the marrowfat peas? j. grant morse. 
Fertilizers For Old Meadows. 
J. G. M„ Neic York .—What chemicals or 
chemical fertilizers shall I buy for the 
hill farm ? You see I am mowing this farm 
and selling off the hay. Now I must plow 
a lot of the old meadow, and propose to 
sow oats and peas, and later buckwheat. 
Will it pay me best to buy North Caro¬ 
lina rock and add some sort of potash or 
would I better buy a mixed fertilizer? 
Ans. —These old meadows and pas¬ 
tures have been steadily losing potash, 
nitrogen and phosphoric acid in the 
grass crops taken from them. There 
is some clover left, and in the stubble 
and roots will be found considerable 
quantities of nitrogen. This nitrogen, 
however, is usually not available until 
the sod has been well broken up and 
decayed. This sod will not provide ni¬ 
trates, or the soluble form of nitrogen, 
until it has been well rotted. This 
will not usually occur until July or 
later. If you want a good crop of 
oats or oats and peas on such land 
the surest plan is to use nitrate of 
soda at the time of seeding. The or¬ 
ganic nitrogen in the sod will be in 
condition to feed the buckwheat crop 
later. You can use a mixture of three 
parts by weight of acid phosphate and 
one part muriate of potash to supply 
the potash and phosphoric acid. In 
addition 125 pounds of nitrate of soda 
per acre with the oats and peas will 
give them a quick start. The buck¬ 
wheat will make a fair crop.following 
without more fertilizer. 
Do not buy a low-grade fertilizer 
—that is, one with one or 1 V 2 per 
cent of nitrogen, unless you are posi¬ 
tive that the nitrogen in it is all ni¬ 
trates or soluble. The average low 
grade fertilizer seems to be a mixture 
of acid phosphate, muriate and coarse 
tankage or dried swamp muck. When 
you use such nitrogen on your oat crop 
you are little better off for it, since 
the nitrogen in the old sod is nearly 
as available as that in the fertilizer. 
There is more humbug and loss in 
buying “organic nitrogen” in mixed 
fertilizers than in any other part of 
the business. Every farmer who plows 
up a sod has a soil well supplied 
with organic nitrogen. He has little 
need to buy any more, but what he 
does need is soluble nitrogen. You 
can seldom or never obtain that in 
low grade mixtures. Unless a farmer 
is prepared to use high grade goods or 
knows that he is buying soluble nitrogen 
he will do better to use nitrate of soda. 
The chances are that most of these old 
soils are sour. We would try them 
with the litmus paper. Very likely a 
good coat of lime will get one or two 
good crops out of them without fer¬ 
tilizer and leave them in much better 
shape to be fertilized. 
KILLING TREES. 
Carolina poplars, mulberries, locusts and 
willows are about the hardest trees to get 
rid of. They can be killed, however, if 
taken at the right time. A sharp ax and 
a bucket of salt are all that are needed. 
Girdle the trees with a trough-like band 
an inch or over into the sap wood, and 
pack it full of salt all the way around. 
In a few days the leaves will have wilted 
and the roots will have been like affected. 
There is no sign of the zodiac in which to 
do this work. In this latitude August is 
the month, for by that time the leaves will 
have been matured and the weather is hot 
and dry. Peeling trees to kill them is a 
waste of time. It is true that peeling does 
sometimes kill trees, but the result is more 
from the effect of the cutting through the 
sap wood while peeling than from the peel¬ 
ing itself. If the tree is peeled while sap 
is flowing the sap will coal over the sur¬ 
face and the circulation will continue. If 
peeled when the sap has ceased to circulate 
the tree will not die. I have known trees 
to die within three days after they had 
been treated as above. The salt paralyzes 
the circulation and the hot sun does the 
rest. e. d. h. 
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