1000. 
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Shipped Strawberry Plants. 
i, 
I notice on page 363 that Mr. Baubahn 
says, “I have known of few beds that were 
a success where plants were shipped in, 
i. e., from a distant nursery.” You may 
be interested to know that I have never 
had plants do better than those that are 
sent me from Maryland. The plants are 
sent to me about the middle of April and 
as soon as they arrive I bed in and begin 
setting about May 1. Last year all my 
plants came from that State and less than 
two per cent of them failed to grow. With¬ 
out wishing to boast about my success I 
would say that several farmers asked me if 
I watered my bed, if I had selected va¬ 
rieties that made “large plants” and similar 
questions. E. m. s. 
North Hampton, N. H. 
It. X.-Y.—We have bought many plants 
from nurserymen. Some came in fine con¬ 
dition, so that hardly a plant is lost in 
setting. Others are loosely packed so that 
the air gets in and dries out the plants. 
It is not the method but the packer who 
is responsible. 
Four Years Chemical Rotation. 
8. 8. G.j Hardwick, Vt. —I have just 
been reading “Thirty Years of Chemicals 
and Clover.” It was partly through read¬ 
ing the first edition that I came to use 
fertilizers freely, but I still have a whole 
lot to learn. My plan is a four years’ ro¬ 
tation of potatoes, corn, oats, and grass. 
I use a high-grade fertilizer complete, 
3.30-7-10. I break the sod and plant 
potatoes with one ton fertilizer per 
acre. This gives a perfect swamp of vines 
and a fair yield of tubers, though not all I 
could wish. But when I come to plant the 
corn the next year I cannot get a good 
crop even when using as high as one-half 
ton per acre of the same fertilizer. One 
reason why I use this instead of a corn 
fertilizer is because It seems to me that 
with our cold late Springs and short Sum¬ 
mers the corn should do better on a highly 
soluble fertilizer. I believe my soil is 
lacking in humus, but I can hardly be¬ 
lieve that is wholly the cause of the 
failure. Oats and grass do well. I raise 
good crops of cabbage on chemicals alone, 
but strawberries do not do so well. Can 
yon suggest the reason for the failure of 
the corn? A fair dressing of manure gives 
me a good crop of corn. 
Ans. —We think the main trouble is 
that this soil lacks humus, and that it 
bakes or runs together. Corn cannot 
do its best on that kind of soil. We 
should use a good dose of lime when 
seeding to oats. We believe that soil 
is sour and that the lack of lime causes 
it to run together. The lime will help 
the oats and grass and open the soil 
so that it will not bake. Why not 
change the rotation so as to plant the 
corn on the sod ? That is the most 
natural place for the corn. You can 
sow peas and barfey or rye and tur¬ 
nips at the last cultivation of the corn, 
and thus have a crop to plow under 
for potatoes. We think you are right 
in using soluble nitrogen in that cold 
country. The season is short and or¬ 
ganic nitrogen requires a warm, moist 
soil to become available. South of 
New York we doubt if it would pay to 
use nitrate of soda on corn, as the 
longer season gives a better chance for 
organic nitrogen to decay. As we go 
north the conditions change and more 
nitrates are required. 
Spraying and Bees. 
II. C. M., Od-ell, III .—If I use hellebore, 
Paris-green or kerosene solution on trees 
and shrubs, is there danger of it killing 
bees? 
Ans. — Our experiment stations all 
over the country, as well as most of 
the companies who furnish spraying 
outfits, strongly advise against spray¬ 
ing fruit trees when in bloom. The 
instructions are to spray just as the 
leaf buds begin to open up, and be¬ 
fore the blossoms come out, and a few - 
days after the petals have fallen, it 
is advised to spray again; then at in¬ 
tervals of a week or 10 days apart, 
for a couple of more times'. If these 
instructions be followed there will be 
no danger of killing bees, or injuring 
the delicate parts of the blossoms them¬ 
selves. Experience has shown by a 
large number of tests, conducted by 
the experiment stations, that it is in¬ 
jurious to the blossoms themselves to 
spray while they are in bloom; and 
then the most intelligent and up-to-date 
fruit growers desire to protect the 
bees because they know that the bees 
are their friends, in that they help to 
pollinate their fruit blossoms. 
Hellebore, Paris green, or any of the 
arsenites, are poisonous, and when 
made up into solution and sprayed 
upon fruit blossoms while in bloom, 
would kill thousands and thousands of 
bees; but kerosene and any of the 
crude oiL solutions would not in any 
wise affect the bees, in fact, the bees 
would not go near them. The same 
may be said of the lime-sulphur water 
sprays. Whether the Bordeaux Mix¬ 
tures would poison bees we cannot say. 
These are made up of copper sulphate. 
otherwise known as blue vitriol, and 
common lime in about equal propor-r 
tions. The bees probably would not go 
near that sort of a solution; but in 
any event we would not advise spray¬ 
ing the Bordeaux Mixture on the blos¬ 
soms while in bloom, because no pos¬ 
sible good can come from it. The Bor¬ 
deaux Mixture would be very poison¬ 
ous to the bees if Paris green or any 
of t,he arsenites were added to it. 
E. R. ROOT. 
Sheep and Olives. —At the Arizona Ex¬ 
periment Station a sheep was found caught 
fast in an olive tree. It was proved that 
the sheep climbed into the tree after the 
fruit. An experiment was tried to learn 
the feeding value of culled or refuse olives 
fed with Alfalfa hay. It was found that 
03 pounds of the olives gave a gain of 16 
pounds in 30 days when fed with Alfalfa. 
Where the Alfalfa was fed alone the gain 
during the same time was 3.66 pounds. 
Sheep do not injure the olive trees—so 
here is a new way of utilizing the waste 
fruit. 
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JOHN J. POTTER, 14 Mill St., Binghamton, N. Y. 
Get a. Larger Crop of 
Sweet Corn 
Sweet corn takes up, if it can get it, a larger amount 
of quickly-soluble plant food than almost any other crop; 
it is a quick growing crop, a succulent crop, and needs 
its plant food early and continuously. For this reason 
growers who use both manure and 
BRADLEY’S FERTILIZER 
report better yields than those who use manure alone; 
and those who use larger amounts of the fertilizer esti¬ 
mate that the increased amount more than pays for all 
the fertilizer used. The reason for this undoubtedly lies 
in the greater solubility of the fertilizer, it being so pre¬ 
pared that it is immediately taken up by the feeding 
roots as soon as they are ready for it; and they are 
developing rapidly all the time. So long as the supply 
of plant food in this condition holds out, the crop will 
continue to^grow and mature large, luscious, succulent 
ears and a corresponding growth of fodder. About fifty 
sweet-corn experts, lately consulted on this matter, esti¬ 
mate that 1000 lbs. extra of BRADLEY’S over the 
quantity usually applied, will bring an increase per acre 
of at least 1000 lbs. of cut corn, and additional fodder 
worth $5 to $10. Try it this year on an acre or two at 
least. The chances are all in your favor. 
Bradley Fertiliser Works 
92 State Street Boston? Mass. 
2 Rector Street, New York 
