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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
May 0, 
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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 so 
twice-—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! 
JOT] I AM r. ALLDS.Norwich, N. Y. 
ALBERT T. KANCIIER. .Salamanca. N. Y. 
8. PERCY' HOOKER.LeRoy, N. Y. 
JOHN RAINES .Canandaigua, N. Y. 
SANFORD W. SMITH.Chatham. N. Y. 
AVI ELI AM J. TULLY.Corning, N. Y. 
HORACE WHITE .Syracuse. N. Y. 
BENJ. M. WILCOX.Auburn, N. Y. 
JOSEPH ACKROYD .Utica, N. Y. 
FRANK M BOYCD. . . 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. 
SOOT AS A FERTILIZER. 
I note what you say concerning soot 
as a fertilizer on page 317. I also turn 
to page 428 of Aikman’s Manures and 
Manuring and read the following: 
“Scot.—A manure which has long been 
used and highly esteemed is soot. Ob¬ 
tained in the usual way, it generally 
contains some three per cent of nitro¬ 
gen, chiefly in the form of sulphate of 
ammonia, and small quantities of potash 
and phosphates. A varying proportion 
of the nitrogen is present in the form 
of ammonia salts, and this undoubtedly 
confers upon soot its manurial value.” 
Further on the same authority says, “It 
has an indirect value as a slug-de¬ 
stroyer.” According to this authority 
soot would contain 60 pounds of nitro¬ 
gen to the ton, besides small quantities 
rf phosphoric acid and of potash. Prof. 
Aikman was professor of chemistry in 
Glasgow Veterinary College, and, of 
course, is good authority on the subject. 
West Virginia. A. j. legg. 
R. N-Y.—'Our figures represent an¬ 
alyses of samples of American soot and 
are, we believe, correct. These an¬ 
alyses also show that all the nitrogen 
in this soot was in .the organic form. 
We stand by our former statement re¬ 
garding soot as the American farmer 
could buy it._ 
Alfalfa At Hope Farm. 
IT. W. IT., Olneyville, R. I .—I wish you 
would ask the Hope Farm man how his 
Alfalfa came out through the Winter, or 
rather how it stood the repeated freezing 
and thawing, that the laud has had to 
endure during the past month. If Alfalfa 
s'ends the heaving and twisting better than 
C ordinary varieties, it will be an ad¬ 
ditional reason for us to strive after a 
good field of it. In this section, the Red 
and Mammoth clovers have given up 
t ’ ' fight, and fields that went into the 
Winter with a heavy stand, are as bare 
and dead as though a fire had swept over 
F cm. This is very trying for those of us 
v.’o find it hard to farm without the aid 
cf clover, and if the stations could find 
n 1 ardy, healthy breed of clover lurking in 
some near or x'emote locality, and would 
introduce it to society, it would, I am 
sure, meet with an enthusiastic reception. 
So far, I cannot speak very warmly of 
Alfalfa, for this climate. Even the experi¬ 
mental plots, where it grows finely for a 
couple of years, show a lack of vigor 
rnd a gradual thinning out of plants that 
indicate something yet lacking, either in 
t!'C land, the treatment or the plant. 
Ans. —On April 15 the Alfalfa field at 
Hope Farm had about 60 per cent of a 
stand. Patches here and there were 
entirely bare—the Alfalfa had been 
lifted out bodily and killed. Other 
patches were thick and green, while most 
cf the field was covered with a thin 
growth. The best of the plants look 
vigorous and will probably make good. 
The worst damage was done in low 
places and little depressions where the 
water stood, and where ice formed on 
the bare ground. The past Winter was 
the worst on seeding that we remember. 
The vetch has been about killed out. 
The rye is quite badly hurt and Crim¬ 
son clover would seem a failure to most 
farmers. We know, however, that what 
seems like a very thin seeding of Crim¬ 
son in April may cover the field in May. 
Our Alfalfa followed wheat in an apple 
orchard. The wheat was cut for hay, 
and thft gfbund then plowed and made 
fine with spring-tooth and Acme. We 
used a fair dressing of basic slag and 
dug soil from the old Alfalfa field— 
scattering it over the field on a cloudy 
day. We also broadcast some potato 
fertilizer which was left over. The seed 
(about 20 pounds per acre) was used 
alone, about the middle of August, and 
covered with a light harrow. Last Fall 
was not very favorable, and some dam¬ 
age was done the Alfalfa : n picking the 
apples. The soil is not really suited to 
the crop. The bare Winter was against 
it. A coat of manure in December would 
probably have helped, as many plants 
were torn out during the thaws of Jan¬ 
uary and February. We should say that 
where you can get six inches of growth 
on the Alfalfa it will resist heaving 
better than clover of the same size. 
It is evident that the plant is not natur¬ 
ally at home in our section of country, 
and it must be carefully nursed to get 
it going. We think western seed is bet¬ 
ter for us. At the Kansas Experiment 
Station it was found that there was a 
great difference in certain Alfalfa plants 
in their ability to stand cold, to throw 
off water and to endure drought. As 
we look at a field of Alfalfa or clover 
we might think all the plants were 
alike, yet it seems that they differ even 
more than varieties of apples or pota¬ 
toes or breeds of cattle. At the Kansas 
Station they are selecting the best 
plants for breeding—intending to keep 
the seed pure and in this way develop 
strains that are stronger and more pro¬ 
lific than others. We think this is good 
work, and it may help us. 
I would like to know if any of your 
strawberry growers along the coast have 
had any experience in using rock weed as a 
Winter mulch and with what result? 
Riggsville, Maine. w. n. n. 
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