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THE RURAL IMEj'W-YORKER 
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Pottery Moulds For Fertilizer. 
Cement Fumes on Orchard. 
Ii. F. M. (No Address ).—lias some re¬ 
fuse from a pottery fertilizing properties? 
I am within 20 jumps of a large concern, 
and I see quite a lot of broken moulds that 
seem to have been spoiled before they were 
burned, and I am told they are made of 
plaster of P’aris. I can get all I want 
for 15 cents per load, and intend to use 
some for a driveway through a 2"% acre 
garden that I have, but if it has the prop¬ 
erties of lime and can be reduced I think 
it worth more on the land. 
Ans. —The pottery moulds are plaster 
of Paris or sulphate of lime. When 
ground up they are much the same as 
land plaster and if ground should serve 
as absorbents. I should not recommend 
their use except when ground fine, 
when the ground plaster, if spread 
thinly in stables will absorb moisture 
and to some extent ammonia. I do not 
think that the casts would make a very 
good road, as I think they would be 
liable to go fine so rapidly as to make 
the road very dusty; that is, the mate¬ 
rial is not hard enough to make a good 
surface. e. b. voorhees. 
The Use of Hen Manure. 
77. G-, Perry , O.—Will it be advisable to 
spread poultry droppings directly or will 
I get better results to store them until 
Spring? I shall put the droppings on corn 
land and add acid phosphate at planting. 
Ans. —I used to think, until exper¬ 
ience taught me better, that it would 
be wasteful to put hen manure on grass 
land in Winter; but visiting a farm 
where this had been done and noting 
the splendid results, caused me to in¬ 
vestigate and to change my mind. I 
found that the small lumps of the 
manure did not get down to the earth; 
the grass held them up, and it needed 
the long rains, melting snows, and dis¬ 
integrating action of frost, to get the 
manure down to the grass roots where 
it could do good. I have had magnifi¬ 
cent crops of grass, doubling or treb¬ 
ling previous yields, when hen manure 
has been put on in early Winter. From 
my experience I should expect that hen 
manure put on grass land in January or 
February would give twice as good re¬ 
sults as the same amount applied in 
May. For cultivated crops such as corn 
and potatoes I always apply it in the 
furrow, driving on the field and throw¬ 
ing the manure with a shovel along the 
furrows, and in planting potatoes I run 
a Planet, Jr,, horse cultivator shut up 
as close as possible, through the fur¬ 
rows, thus mixing the manure and soil 
and making an ideal soft bed on which 
to drop the potatoes. 
All my hen houses but one have 
dropping boards under the roosts, and 
sifted loam is spread an inch deep on 
these boards. They are cleaned off once 
a week, earth and all, and fresh earth 
from the henhouse floor put on. To 
have a suppply two or three wagon 
loads of sifted loam is put in each 
house in the Fall, and this makes a fine 
dust bath for the fowls all Winter. This 
dry earth absorbs all the moisture of 
the droppings, prevents them from stick¬ 
ing to the boards, acts as an' absorbent 
for the ammonia if the manure heats, 
and helps to dilute the manure so it) is 
less liable to injure the roots of early 
or tender vegetables when used in the 
garden. In this way a large amount of 
hen manure is made, and it is my main 
dependence as a fertilizer. In fact for 
the last five or six years I have not 
bought or used a single pound of com¬ 
mercial fertilizer of any kind, and al¬ 
ways have good crops, unless the 
weather prevents, george a. cosgrove. 
R. N.-Y.—We know of some farmers 
who store the hen manure in a dry 
place until Spring, then crush or grind 
it and mix with potash and acid phos¬ 
phate or bone meal. This makes a good 
fertilizing mixture and is the other ex¬ 
treme from Mr. Cosgrove’s practice. 
F. 8. H’., Belleville, Ont .—Will cement 
dust or smoke from a Portland cement 
plant injure vegetation or the blossoms or 
fruit of apple trees? I have an orchard 
set out within a couple of hundred yards 
of where a cement plant has just been 
built and started operations, and when the 
wind is in a certain direction it carries 
the Portland cement dust and smoke over 
a considerable portion of my orchard. Some 
have told me that it will affect the bear¬ 
ing of the trees and the fruit. 
Ans. —While it is more than likely to 
do injury, because preventing to a cer¬ 
tain extent the transpiration of water 
from the surface of the leaves, it would 
be very difficult to estimate just what 
injury such covering will cause. I think 
the smoke from a factory, which was 
simply the result of burning coal in a 
furnace, would hardly be apt to cause 
any injury. The danger from factory 
smoke comes in the case of those which 
are producing acid fumes of various 
sorts, which would naturally) be de¬ 
structive. I do not know of any re¬ 
liable data upon these points. I do 
know, however, that in the vicinity of 
the large cement factories in northern 
New Jersey the farmers complain that 
the dust settling on the plants does in¬ 
jure them. [Prof.] e. b. voorhees. 
“De po’ chile died fum eatin’ too much 
watahmillion.” “PIoli! Dar ain’t no 
such-uh thing as too much watahmil¬ 
lion.” “Well, den, dar wasn’t enough 
boy.”—Puck. 
“Old Cush landed in this country in 
his bare feet, ten years ago. Now he’s 
got millions.” “You don’t say! Why, 
he’s got a centipede skinned to death, 
hasn’t he?”—Cleveland Leader. 
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