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August 7, 
FARMERS’ CLUB 
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Plowing Under Cow Peas. 
11. T. L., Huntington, Va .—When is it ad¬ 
visable to plow under cow peas, the purpose 
being to get the greatest benefit as fer¬ 
tilizer? 
Ans. —Three plans are suggested. One 
is to let the vines alone. They will die 
at frost and slowly decay during the 
Winter. You lose in this way, as some 
of the leaves are blown away. An¬ 
other way is to seed the peas in drills, 
and at the last cultivation, sow Crim¬ 
son clover among the pea vines, letting 
the latter remain on the ground through 
Winter. We prefer a third plan—plow¬ 
ing under the peas at frost or before, 
and seeding to rye as a Winter cover 
crop. Much depends on the location. 
Breaking Up Old Sod. 
8. D. 6., Warren, Mass .—I have a hill 
pasture that I have been told raised great 
crops of potatoes at one time. This piece 
of land has not been plowed for 30 shears 
or more, and I wish to plow it now or later 
in the Fall to get it ready for Spring 
planting of potatoes. If plowed now is 
there any nitrogen gathering crop that I 
can sow to plow under in the Spring? If 
not, will rye sown later benefit potatoes? 
It seems to me that I have read some¬ 
where that rye would not benefit potatoes. 
Ans. —In New Jersey we should sow 
Crimson clover, but this is not a great 
success in Massachusetts. Barley and 
Canada field peas make a good catch 
crop for Northern New England and 
lower Canada—the peas being nitrogen 
gatherers. Winter vetch is highly 
praised by some farmers—we have 
failed with it thus far. You can fit 
the land in August and sow rye early. 
We would risk sowing eight pounds of 
Crimson clover seed per acre with the 
rye. It will make a good Fall growth, 
at least, and will be more likely to live 
over Winter than if seeded alone. Rye 
adds no plant food to the soil, as clover 
does, but will help the potatoes in two 
ways. It adds humus and loosens the 
ground, and its fermenting keeps the 
soil partly acid and thus keeps down 
scab. 
Loss From Mixed Fertilizers. 
IT'. F-, Marlboro, W. H .—Will you inform 
me bow long a so-called high-grade phos¬ 
phate will keep if properly housed? I re¬ 
ceived to-day at $39 a ton a quantity which 
is hard and lumpy, and has lost in weight 
six pounds to the bag. Should I accept it ? 
Ans. —We doubt if this fertilizer has 
lost anything except moisture. Well- 
mixed fertilizer will contain 10 per 
cent or more of moisture. When kept 
in a dry place or exposed to a dry wind 
it' might easily lose 10 pounds of water 
to the bag without giving up any of its 
plant food. A man might buy a ton of 
hay right from the field and store it in 
a dry barn. In two months, if he 
weighed it, there might be only 1,800 
pounds. There would still be just, as 
much food for his horse, for the 200 
pounds lost was simply water dried out 
of the hay. The only way in which a 
good sample of high-grade fertilizer 
would lose plant food would be through 
a thorough soaking. Water would leach 
some of the plant food off, but the only 
other way in which a loss would be 
like’y would be that some orgamc nitro¬ 
gen might ferment and throw off am¬ 
monia as a gas. There would be lit¬ 
tle if any danger of this, and we think 
that the only loss in your fertilizer is 
in moisture. 
A Fishing Shed. —The little struc¬ 
ture shown at Fig 418, page 719, is 
built near the water in Southern Ala¬ 
bama. It affords a shady place for 
fishermen and a general resting place 
during the day. By building these 
sheds at locations where fish are quite 
sure to be found the fishermen are 
reasonably sure to get a “bite” and 
enjoy their sport in the easiest way. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
SHORT STORIES. 
Seedling Peach Trees. 
IIow can I make a peach tree which- 
has come up from the stone hear fruit.? 
Massachusetts. J. p. g. 
It will bear when old and strong enough, 
but seedling fruits are often worthless. 
Best bud if lo a good variety before it is 
two years old. 
Filling Gaps in Strawberries. 
I had some nice strawberry plants in 
the Spring which I could not plant at 
once, with tile result that a number have 
died. Will you let me know the proper 
time for filling in? w. f. l* 
AVe fill in such plants at any time now 
that the soil is moist. It is more a mat¬ 
ter of having the soil fit than anything 
else. Take good-sized layer plants and 
set them carefully in the missing places. 
Spraying Cabbage. 
How can I make spraying liquids stick 
to the cabbage? I have a bulletin from 
the West Virginia Experiment Station on 
spraying for the cabbage worm. Also 
have been told to spray with salt water. 
I have tried everything I have yet seen, 
but everything I have tried just rolls off 
th cabbage leaf. E. F. 
Eglon, W. Va. 
Some of the gardeners use molasses or 
resin with the spraying liquids, but there 
will be greater satisfaction in using dust 
mixtures. Mix the poison with cheap flour 
and dust over the plants while ^be dew is 
on them. 
Arsenate of Lead for Potato Bugs. 
I have used arsenate of lead and Paris 
green, and like arsenate of lead best for 
several reasons. The greatest point in 
favor is that it sticks so well to the foli¬ 
age. One application is sufficient for the 
entire season. Bugs are being poisoned a 
number of weeks from date of application. 
'I'he second point in favor is that it does 
not hurt the foliage if you get it on 
heavily, as does Paris green. I have used 
a number of sprayers, and like the com¬ 
pressed-air sprayers as well as any. I 
have the two-row attachment and spray 
two rows. I have also a Champion dry 
powder sprayer with which I also spray 
two rows. C. K. B. 
Bethel, Pa. 
Sawdust for Fertilizer. 
Is there any good in sawdust as a fer¬ 
tilizer? How should it be used? I have 
a lot of oak sawdust that was made six 
years ago. I can put it on the pasture 
or on the meadow or plow it under, or I 
can use it as a mulch for apple and peach 
trees. Which way would 1 get the best 
results? Would it pay for hauling? I 
would have to haul but a short distance. 
Elkins, W. Va. b. f. w. 
We would not use fresh sawdust as a 
mulch for trees unless lime was used with 
it. The sawdust contains an acid which 
will injure the soil—especially bad for 
peaches. The lime will help overcome this, 
but the best way to handle the sawdust 
is to use as bedding and soak well in the 
stable liquids. If the sawdust you speak 
of is well rotted it will make a fair mulch, 
but to make sure we would use lime scat¬ 
tered over it after it is put around the 
trees. _ 
Basket Willows.—W e use several hun¬ 
dred tons of willow's yearly, and manu¬ 
facture them into baskets, and we find 
them a very profitable crop for the pro¬ 
ducer. In fact we know of nothing which 
pays any better. Most of them are raised 
in this State, and about 90 per cent of 
them are manufactured into baskets in this 
county. AA’e are aware that the Agricul¬ 
tural Department at Washington has been 
distributing same sets, and we would ad¬ 
vise anyone who has land suitable to 
raise them in this State, as we have fa¬ 
cilities here for having them made into 
baskets cheaper than any other part of 
the country, as we have been at it for a 
great many years. 
New York. l. l. TnuitwAcnTEK & sons. 
Iowa Alfalfa.—W e read Mr. J. Cor¬ 
nell’s “New Sides to the Alfalfa” article, 
page 671. and ask why plow to renew? 
That Clinton County. Ia., Alfalfa is giv¬ 
ing a good account of itself, and this is 
how the owner treated it last Summer to 
rid the field of “red-root,” grass and 
other weeds. He disked, harrowed it three 
times, lapping about half, and told me 
you could see nothing on the ground when 
he finished the job, but in a few days 
that Alfalfa began to show up, and is bet¬ 
ter than ever. This year, on tw-o acres, 
he pastured seven old sows with 34 pigs, 
cut one crop of a ton to the acre, has 
the same bunch of hogs and pigs, now 
weaned, and second cutting soon to be 
taken off. While the sows were suckling 
the pigs he fed no grain of any kind. 
Alfalfa and water was their diet: the 
pigs got milk. Any wonder that man is 
an Alfalfa crank? m. p. w. 
Clinton, Ia. 
“Wormy Potatoes.”— 8*evoral days ago, 
while inspecting the potato field of an ac¬ 
quaintance. we were puzzled to know why 
some of the hills should be much larger 
and more vigorous than others. In search¬ 
ing for the cause we dug in a hill with a 
weak-looking vine to inspect the seed from 
which the stalk grew. We could not find 
the seed, but noticed instead a small hole 
under the plant. The second hill that we 
tried showed a like condition. The third 
hill, which was more vigorous than the 
others, but not a healtby-looking plant, 
disclosed, upon digging into it. the seed 
partly eaten by a dark worm that I have 
known as the cut or wireworm. The cause 
of the unevenness of the potatoes was then 
apparent to us. What can we put in 
with the seed at planting time that will 
stop the ravages of the worms, and not 
injure the vitality of the potato or sprout? 
Would salt do it. or lime, or land plaster? 
We would like to hear from those who have 
had similar troubles. a. s. 
Columbia County, N. Y. 
R. N.-Y.—We think sulphur dusted on 
the seed pieces helps to keep insects away. 
It is better than salt, which will injure 
the quality, or lime, which increases scab. 
The sulphur also helps to prevent scab 
and rot. 
1057 
1009 
Shipping Wheat West? 
Yes, It Has Been Done This Summer 
E. Frank Coe Fertilizers 
(Standard For Over Fifty Years) 
Are Making This Possible. 
You Should Use Them For Your Own Fall Seeding - 
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