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1'HE RURAL NEW-YOKKKR 
May 25, 
ARTICHOKES FOR HOGS; CHEAP PAINTS 
•1. I would Hkfl to know about raising 
artichokes for hogs. Where could I get. the 
need, and how should I plant and cultivate 
them? 1 want to put In a patch (Ids Spring 
for Fall feed. 2. I would like lo know 
what l could use on old weather-beaten 
buildings for a cheap paint. How would 
a tliln wash of Portland cement colored with 
Venetian red do? i tried some on a hoard, 
and It looked all right for three months, 
and then commenced to scale off. Could I 
do anything to prevent It? It. L. r. 
Orange, Mass. 
In tlic Spring of 1870 the artichoke 
fever come on the writer so strongly 
that about two-thirds of an acre was 
planted, sending to the Northwest for 
seed. What I write is but an echo of 
the past, hut still reverberating strongly 
enough to remind me of my folly. I 
think there is yet one plant living that is 
protected by a fence post. They are 
planted very much like potatoes, with 
cultivation the same till the tops gel too 
large. The better the land the better the 
crop. The first, or cultivated crop, is 
always Ihe best, each succeeding crop 
getting poorer, and the artichokes of 
less value. But in their worthlessness 
they still hold possession, like had habits 
that belong to some men. When they 
are needed most for the hogs, that is, 
when (lie Winter is hard and Ihe land is 
frozen, the hogs cannot get them, and 
the farmer cannot dig them, and they 
would not pay for the labor if he could. 
They claim 300 to 2,000 bushels per acre, 
and the first crop gladdens the heart of 
the inexperienced farmer. The second 
crop the gladness of heart begins to 
wane, and finally ihe enthusiasm dies 
out, as the artichoke field becomes a 
mass of weeds, with a few weak 
artichokes. A few years ago I saw a 
very fine patch, with tops as high as the 
stalks of good corn. The farmer cut 
and hauled a load of tops to his pasture 
fields for his cattle. 1 do not think thoy 
cared any more for them than they 
woidd for a load of hazel brush. Tf the 
crop was as valuable as an occasional 
boom makes them, every farmer would 
grow them, as he does Ihe standard 
grain crops. The evidence is against 
them. The seed (or tubers) can he had 
of any large seed house. An eye in a 
place a foot apart will give a good stand. 
But don’t bother with them. 
2. The writer had had no experience 
with cement used as paint and so far 
has been unable to find information that 
will do to tie to, with any degree of 
certainty. O'ne writer says oil and 
cement will not hold as well as butter¬ 
milk and cement ; that the former will 
scale first. The mixture, whether oil 
and cement or buttermilk and cement, 
must he kept well stirred while it: is 
being put on. Tt is doubtless worth 
while to experiment with it. 
JOHN M, JAMISON. 
SPROUTED OATS FOR CHICKS. 
A recent Issue of 'run It. N.-Y. gave Mr. 
Cosgrove's method of supplying henH with 
green food In Winter. We get: an ample 
supply at a minimum cost: from sprouted 
onls. A furnace In cellar or other warm 
place Is necessary for the operation In 
Winter; we expect) to continue It this 
Hummer out of doom. The oats are placed 
In a water-tight vessel and covered with 
warm water, and allow to slmid 24 hours, 
wlnn they are emptied In a box that will 
allow the water to drain off freely, Oats 
are left In this box and wetted twice a day 
with warm water until Ihe onls have 
sprouls a quarter of an Inch long, when 
they are spread in hoxea about one Inch 
deep. The sprinkling Is continued milII the 
oals are as large ns you desire. We usually 
use them when four or live Inches high. 
The hen will eat the rootH ns well as the 
tops. With a temperature of (50 degrees 10 
days will bring this result, so lifter the 
first start (Ids green feed can he provided 
for each day. Chicks will eat the mils 
when 11 week old, and leave nil other feeds 
for them. As I In* fowls all prefer the oals 
to green clippings of froth -cut lawn grass, I 
shall continue the feeding of sprouted onls 
nil Summer. Since using lids method of 
getting green food l learn that this Infor¬ 
mation Is being sold as a secret for $.'"5. 
As we were using this method before we 
heard of our friend with the $5 secret, we 
feed free to offer It to your readers, hav¬ 
ing obtained the Idea from the Chinese In 
San Francisco In 1K70. The green color 
can he given to the mils by one day’s ex¬ 
posure to the light. They grow as freely 
In the dark, and the boxes can be stacked 
over each other If short of room. 1 be¬ 
lieve tills to he the cheapest green food 
that: can he given In the Winter. 
Illinois. .7 MS KM B. tJJ’HQN. 
A CASE OF “STRINGY MILK." 
Last Summer a case was reported from 
Massachusetts where the milk from n small 
dairy suddenly began to grow slimy or 
stringy after being kept n few hours. The 
stables were clean and Ihe cows were well 
fed and apparently healthy. Milk from each 
cow was tested separately, hut all acted 
In the same way. Customers began to 
complain and the dairyman was In great 
trouble. 
There Is n germ which enuses milk to act 
In this way. II lives and breeds in tilth, 
and Is usually found on Ihe palls or pans 
In which the milk Is handled. It may get 
carried on the hands or clothes of the 
milkers, hut usually the milk utensils are 
responsible for It. We suspected this germ 
caused Ihe damage In Massachusetts and 
advised cleaning up, especially hulling palls 
and pans every day. We have had numer¬ 
ous cases before where this treatment lias 
succeeded. Many people think washing 
with hot water will answer, but where this 
germ is found nothing short of boiling for 
at least 20 minutes will answer. Now we 
have a report of the case: 
“They followed your directions hut still 
Ihe milk was a little stringy. It happened 
one night tlmt some milk was left In the 
milk room in the barn. The next morn¬ 
ing that was all right. That same night 
some was left by an open window In the 
kitchen. The next morning this was stringy. 
On that side of the house are the sink 
drain and water closet. Iletween these two 
was the milk-run rack. They have made 
a new can-ruck the other side of the house, 
and since have hud no more trouble with 
stringy milk.’’ 
That seems to (It: the papers to that 
germ which lived In the tilth. If you have 
one of these' cases of stringy milk don’t 
Plume It on the cow, hut llrst; of all clean 
up and boll the pulls and cans. 
A Talk on Tiling. —I have been very 
much Interested in the discussion by vari¬ 
ous persons on tiling. I nm a drainage 
engineer, laying out or leveling from 50 to 
800 miles of ditch n year, and meeting all 
sorts of people, all sortH of conditions, hut 
tiling has been going on here too long 
for me lo have met anything quite so freak¬ 
ish ns some of the persons who disclose 
their Ideas In Turn It. N.-Y. The Michigan 
man draining Ills sandy marsh lilt on the 
best thing I know of when ho used gravel 
to keep the sand out of tils tile. Hut 1 
should think It would have paid him well 
to have an engineer to set grade stakes, 
and not leave his trenches open for soil to 
fall hack, making more work lo clean out 
the trench again before laying the tile. 
Then ho might possibly have secured n 
greater depth by say, six inches or a foot, 
(litis lessening the danger from frost both 
Spring and Fall. An engineer on such 
work, should, with good help, sel single 
grade stakes for four or live miles of ditch 
per day. The eastern man who selected a 
tile with round opening and square exte¬ 
rior will find that there Is quite as much 
virtue In a round outside ns Inside, they 
being hard to lay and liable to spill length¬ 
wise under pressure. The worst: feature 
of eastern tiling Is, 11 s I gather from this 
distance, the small size of the tile used. 
Soil aeration is here recognized as about 
as much benefit as drainage. The small¬ 
est tile made at any of the factories near 
here Is four-inch, while the best farmers 
here use nothing smaller than five-inch even 
for short laterals. c. w. n. 
Indiana. 
AnsuNie in ScitAv.— My attention has 
Just: been called to an error I made in that 
article on arsenical sprays published on 
page 287. In the article I said that one 
should use about, two pounds of arsenate 
of lead paste Jar one pound of J’aris- 
grecn, or four pounds of the paste far one 
pound of white arsenic. This should read 
three or four pounds of the arsenate of 
trad paste for one pound of Paris-green, or 
siao or eight pounds of the paste for one 
pound of arsenic. On lids basis the corre¬ 
spondent should use only about 1 Vi pound 
of white nrseule in order to have the 
same amount of arsenic as would he con¬ 
tained In I fie 10 pounds of arsenate of 
lead to be used In 100 gallons of water. 
Then in figuring up the comparative cost 
of the different Insecticides the J00 gallons 
of spray containing the equivalent of 10 
pounds of arsenate of lead would ho for the 
while arsenic spray about 15 or 20 cents 
plus the expense! of making; for the I’nrls- 
green spray about .ft ; and for the arsenate 
of lead spray .$1.20. m. v. hlikukuland. 
Sunday School Teacher: “Willie, 
vvliy did you strike that little boy; don’t 
you know that you should return good 
for evil?” Willie; “Ycs’ni; hut you sec, 
I’ve clone that so often that 1 got an 
awful lot of evil on hand, an’ 1 got to 
unload it somehow.”—Toledo Blade. 
When you write advertisers mention Ton 
It. N.-Y. and you’ll got a quick reply and 
“a square deal.” Sec guarantee pn/gc 10. 
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