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THE RURAL NRW-VORKER 
October 10, 
FARMERS’ CLUB 
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KEEP THEM AT HOME! 
The following members of the New York 
Senate voted against Governor Hughes in 
his efforts to remove the Superintendent 
of Insurance. Some of them have done bo 
twite—others are backsliders. All have 
proved unworthy in a fair test. All are in 
districts where the votes of farmers can 
defeat them. It should be the duty of 
every farmer to blacklist them and keep 
them away from Albany. Vote them out! 
JOTUAM P. ALLDS.Norwich, N. Y. 
S. PERCY HOOKER.LcRoy, N. Y. 
JOHN RAINES .Canandaigua, N. Y. 
SANFORD \V. SMITH_Chatham, N. Y. 
HORACE WHITE .Syracuse, N. Y. 
BENJ. M. WILCOX.Auburn, N. Y. 
JOSEPH ACKROYD .Utica, N. Y. 
FRANK .\F. BOYCE..East Schodack, N. Y. 
FRANCIS H. GATES. .Chittenango, N. Y. 
WM. W. WEMPLE... .Schenectady, N. Y. 
WM. T. O’NEIL-St. Regis Falls, N. Y. 
OWEN CASSIDY .Watkins, N. Y. 
Moving Asparagus Plants. 
Reader (Ho Address). —I planted some 
asparagus last Spring, two-year-old plants. 
I gave them but little cultivation and 
manured sparingly, consequently they made 
a poor growth. Will it hinder the growth 
of the asparagus In the future If I now at¬ 
tend to them? I intend to remove the 
plants to a different place this Fall, for 
this reason I neglected it, thinking culti¬ 
vation and manuring loss of time. Must 
the trenches be tilled up to the level after 
petting the plants out. this Fall or is a 
covering of two inches sufficient? 
Ans. —Wc would not advise the re¬ 
moval of your asparagus plants in the 
Fall, as the broken roots sometimes rot 
in Winter. They can safely be moved 
in Spring just before growth starts. If 
moved this Fall lift with a good-sized 
clump of earth and set in trench with 
crowns at least four inches below the 
surface. Asparagus should be cultivated 
through its whole growing season, but 
it is not usual to manure or apply fer¬ 
tilizers later than the beginning of July. 
Hen Manure on Potatoes. 
W. /?. C., Allendale, N. J. —You advise 
against tlie use of hen manure for potatoes. 
I planted about an acre last Spring and 
used it; result failure. 
Ans. —The majority of potato grow¬ 
ers in New Jersey are talking more or 
less about potato failure—so it may 
not be the hen manure entirely. What 
we said was that in order to get a good 
potato crop you must supply plenty of 
nitrogen, phosphoric acid and potash— 
either in the soil or in the fertilizer. 
The trouble with hen manure is that 
while it is strong in nitrogen it is quite 
weak in the other elements. On a poor, 
sandy soil a heavy dressing of hen 
manure would be most likely to give a 
large and vigorous vine but small 
tubers. We have known soils where 
hen manure alone gave a tine crop. 
Fall-Spread Hen Manure. 
J. N. B„ Tyngsboro, Mass. —Would there 
be mat (‘rial loss from spreading hen manure, 
well mixed with earth, on grass land this 
Fall? Should it be put on at once, or 
just before the ground freezes up for best 
results next Summer? 
Ans. —On level land there would be 
little if any loss from the hen manure. 
We should use it any time if desired, 
though in our own practice we use it in 
Spring on fruit and work it into the 
soil. In Florida and other warm cli¬ 
mates it is claimed that organic nitro¬ 
gen is sometimes lost from the soil in 
the form of ammonia. In warm, moist 
weather cotton-seed meal, tankage or 
lien manure will, when left near the 
surface in that climate, give off am¬ 
monia which passes away as a gas. We 
have been in fields where cow peas were 
rotting on the surface and noticed a 
strong smell of ammonia in the air. In 
the cooler weather of the North there 
would be little danger of loss by spread¬ 
ing the hen manure, though we would 
rather work it all under ground. 
Crimson Clover; the Litmus Test. 
./. L. II., Chambersburg, Pa .—The rota¬ 
tion practiced on otir farm is corn, wheat, 
wheat and grass (Timothy and clover). We 
have never had any experience with Crim¬ 
son clover, but have been wondering 
whether it would succeed if sown with the 
wheat which follows the corn In rotation 
to be plowed under for wheat again the fol¬ 
lowing Summer, and would like to have 
your opinion about the matter. Also 
would Crimson clover succeed if sown on 
wheat in the Spring like Red clover, and 
how much seed should be sown to the acre 
under either of these conditions? Is the 
litmus test for soil acidity of any value for 
practical use? If so state bow it Is done 
and where and at what price the material 
can 1)0 procured. 
Ans. —Like many others you have a 
wrong idea of the habits of Crimson 
clover. You could not seed it with 
wheat after corn, or on the wheat as 
you would Red clover in the Spring and 
expect any crop. This clover must be 
seeded earlier if you expect any growth 
in the Fall. Late July or early August 
is the best season, and it is usually put 
in the corn at the last cultivation. It 
would not do to seed in Spring, as it 
grows best in cool weather. Started in 
Spring it would grow slowly until May, 
and then, when warm weather came, 
bloom and make seed. That would be 
the end of it. You would do better to 
sow Red or Alsike clover in the Fall 
with the wheat, and get as much growth 
as possible from it. The “litmus” test 
has practical value. Blfie litmus paper 
is sold at most drugstores. For 10 
cents we can buy 25 or 30 strips in a 
small bottle. This paper has been 
soaked in a blue solution extracted from 
certain rock mosses or lichens. This 
solution is very sensitive to acid, so 
much so that whenever it conies in con¬ 
tact with a sour substance the blue color 
changes to red. You dig up fair sam¬ 
ples of the soil here and there and mix 
them together. We should take the 
upper three inches. When you have a 
fair sample take a cupful and moisten 
it so that it will hold together well. Do 
not make it as soft as thin mud. Push 
a knife down into the soil and put a 
strip of the litmus paper in the hole. 
Then press the damp soil around the 
paper and leave it there half an hour. 
Dry the paper after taking it out before 
deciding about the color. If the soil is 
sour enough to need lime the blue color 
will have changed to a pink or red. 
If YOTT nro in want of anything for 
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Look at your wheat and barley 
study them well before cutting. 
Too much stalk and leaf in proportion to your grain, 
means too much nitrogen in your soil. 
Use fertilizers with at least 6 per cent, of Potash. A stronger 
stalk and heavier head will be the result. But most fertil¬ 
izers are too low in Potash, and if you cannot get the right 
brand, then make your brand complete by adding 15 pounds 
of Muriate of Potash to each 100 pounds of your mixture. 
Complete fertilizer (2-8-6) means best crops and biggest 
profit. 
Every agent sells phosphate. Few carry Potash In stock. 
Arrange for Potash now. Potash is profit. 
Send for our books containing facts about soil, 
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