1900 
THIS RURAL NEW-YORKER 
423 
EXPRESSAGE ON EGG CRATES. 
I just read your editorial, page 308, 
about shipping a 300-pound man and 
a rooster. A friend of mine living 
near to me, ships eggs from here to 
Syracuse, less than 50 miles. Some¬ 
times he ships a nine-dozen crate, 
charges 35 cents; sometimes a 15-dozen 
crate, charges 35 cents; sometimes a 
30-dozen crate, charges 35 cents. Cases 
used to be returned free. Now they 
say they will have to charge at the 
rate of 40 cents per hundred pounds, 
but when my friend received two emp¬ 
ties not long since the charges were 
50 cents—as if an egg crate weighs 
over 50 pounds. Give it to them the 
same way you did to Dawley. c. h. 
De Ruyter, N. Y. 
Spent Hops as Manure. 
H. It'. P. Wilkes-Barre, Pa .—Flease state 
which is the best way to handle refuse hops 
from breweries? How to compost them and 
what is their fertilizing value as compared 
t© stable manure? 
Ans.—A verage hop refuse contains a 
little more nitrogen than stable man¬ 
ure, but very little potash and phos¬ 
phoric acid. If we could get them on 
our farm we would use as a mulch 
around trees or spread like manure 
and plow under—using potash and 
phosphoric acid with them. They can 
be mixed with the manure or with 
swamp muck to make a compost. 
N. Y. STATE DRAINAGE ASSOCIATION 
An organization of this Association was 
effected on February 24, 1009, at the 
Agronomy Building of the State College of 
Agriculture, at Ithaca, N. Y., at which time 
the following officers were elected: Presi¬ 
dent, Elmer O. Pippin. Ithaca, N. Y.; secre¬ 
tary, George'A. Crabb, Ithaca, N. Y.; treas¬ 
urer, Fred. E. Gott, Spencerport, N. Y. 
Vice-presidents are to be elected from each 
local Grange or other agricultural societies 
of the State. The object of this Associa¬ 
tion is the promotion of bettor drainage 
on the farms of New York State by the dis¬ 
semination of knowledge concerning its 
effects upon the soil, the crop, the farmer, 
and the community; by the encourage¬ 
ment of investigations which shall demon¬ 
strate the best practice in the installation 
of drains on ail kinds of soils and witli 
all classes of crops; and by facilitating 
the individual and cooperative practice of 
drainage through the removal of all hind¬ 
rances to its application and the estab¬ 
lishment of adequate methods of procedure 
where necessary. Members shall be active 
and associate. Any person may become an 
active member who is bona fide engaged in 
the pursuit of agriculture. Others may 
be elected to associate membership and are 
entitled to all the privileges of active mem¬ 
bership except to vote and to hold office. 
The vice-presidents, elected by each local 
Grange or other agricultural society in the 
State from among its members eligible to 
active membership in the association shall 
constitute the advisory board and shall 
have authority to organize local chapters 
or committees of the State Association for 
the promotion of its objects. The president, 
secretary, treasurer and chairman of the 
advisory board shall constitute the execu¬ 
tive committee of the Association. Appli¬ 
cations for membership shall be in writing 
to the secretary and accompanied by an 
admission fee of $1 which shall entitle 
each member to receive a copy of all gen¬ 
eral publications of the Association. The 
annual meeting shall lie held in February 
of each year at such time and place as the 
executive committee may decide, and pro¬ 
vision is made for the calling of special 
meetings when necessary. A copy of the 
constitution may be obtained by addressing 
the secretary. There has long been need 
of an association of this character in order 
to bring more fully to the attenlion of 
farmers the great necessity of systematic 
drainage as a means of bringing their lands 
to the higher state of productiveness, also 
as a means of securing needed legislation 
where the same is required. 
Short Weights. 
Noticing some recent arlicles in regard 
to short weights I would like to call your 
attention to short weight sacks of the dif¬ 
ferent cattle foods on the market, I mean 
those claiming to be balanced rations, also 
distillers' grains under their many dif¬ 
ferent trade names, cotton-seed and oil 
meal, although these are generally only two 
or three pounds short, and of a very fine 
nature, and probably lost that much by 
sifting through the meshes of the sacks. 
The others are coarser and sometimes 10 
pounds short on 100 pounds in sacks that 
have not been torn or damaged in shipping 
to cause any loss. f. e. m. 
New York. 
R. N.-Y.—Try the scales on some of these 
goods. They are getting so that they sell 
by the sack but charge by the pound. Make 
them weigh the goods and pay at a fair 
price per pound ! 
Poisoning Moles. —There is no very 
certain method of poisoning moles. They 
feed almost entirely on animal food, such 
as worms and insects and probably never 
eat poisoned grain. We have always relied on 
traps, and find them quite effective if given 
sufficient attention. We are told, however, 
that moles may be successfully poisoned by 
using ordinary smoked herring as bait. 
Soak the herring to remove the excess of 
salt and take small flakes of the flesh, into 
each of which should be slipped a small 
crystal of pure sulphate of strychnine, 
which may be had from the druggist. The 
poisoned bits of fish are dropped here and 
there in the runs, which should be dis¬ 
turbed as little as possible and carefully 
closed with a clod or bit of sod. While 
we cannot guarantee this method it is, at 
least worth trying. 
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