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July 18, 
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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! 
JOTIIAM P. ALLDS.Norwich, N. Y. 
S. PERCY HOOKER.EeRoy, N. Y. 
JOHN RAINES .Canandaigua, N. Y. 
SANFORD W. SMITH.Chatham, N. Y. 
HORACE WHITE .Syracuse, N. Y. 
BI3N.T. M. WIECOX.Auburn, N. Y. 
JOSEPH ACKROYD .Utica, N. Y. 
FRANK M. BOYCE... East Sehodaek, N. Y. 
FRANCIS II. GATES. .. Chittenango, N. Y. 
WM. W. WEMPLE.Schenectady. N. Y. 
WM. T. O’NEIL.St. Regis Falls, N. Y. 
OWEN CASSIDY .Watkins, N. Y, 
THE OLD STRAWBERRY BEDS. 
What To Do With Them. 
I usually mow off the tops and burn on 
the patch or rake the leaves into the 
space between rows and burn there, then 
cultivate as previous year. Usually X take 
two, sometimes three crops. I have had 
no experience in single hill culture, but 
I do not think it would pay us. I have 
not tried any new varieties this year, but 
have fruited the Challenge and Ridgway. 
The latter seems best in this soli and cli¬ 
mate, and it pays to spray. We used 
Pyro, this year with good results. 
Illinois. e. s. k. 
Part of my bed last year after it was 
done bearing I mowed the tops off; the 
other part I thinned out the plants, but did 
not mow. The part mowed off I thinned 
out also. I then plowed the ground be¬ 
tween the rows, and kept it cultivated till 
Fall. The part that was mowed off gave 
the most berries and the nicest, but none 
of the old patch came up to the new patch. 
I think I would have made more had I not 
bothered with the old patch and planted a 
new ifatch as large as the old one. They 
might have done better if the ground was 
more fertile. I had the New York, Presi¬ 
dent and Glen Mary. New York hung 
full, and there were soQie large ones the 
first picking, but the drought soon made 
them run small, and they were soon gone. 
They were the best table berry I had. Presi¬ 
dent bore a few large ones, poor yield; Glen 
Mary lasted the longest, but none of them 
yielded a half crop on account of the dry 
weather. I had a few Abington for trial* 
Flavor is excellent, but didn’t yield well. 
Not many large ones. I also had a few 
McKinley, but they seemed to be the same 
as New York. j. L. B. 
Pennsylvania. 
If we do anything to them other than to 
turn them upside down with breaking plow, 
it is to turn a shallow furrow from each 
side over the row, then harrow ridges down 
with spike or spring-tooth harrow. When 
plants come through we use cultivator same 
as for newly set bed. cutting out perennial 
weeds with hoes. Before commencing this 
treatment we clip with mower and either 
rake off clean or burn over. By this 
treatment we usually get two crops from 
one planting, the second crop of course 
not so heavy or fine fruit as first, but as it 
does not cost so much in plants, labor, etc., 
is usually a profitable one. The above 
treatment is best we have found for the 
matted row system, which is the way we 
grow most of our berries. If a bed be¬ 
comes, after the first crop, very foul with 
weeds or grass, especially perennials, we 
think it best to turn under, as the labor 
of cleaning such a plantation is beyond 
the comprehension of one who has nev^r 
actually had the (experience. We have 
never had much experience with hill cul¬ 
ture, but do not think it would be profit¬ 
able to try to get more than two or three 
crops from same planting. In our soil, 
which is mostly friable clay, the tendency 
to “go to grass” is too strong to make 
it profitable to try to take more than two 
crops from any system of cultivation. We 
have not been doing much in the way of 
testing new varieties of late. We used to 
waste a good deal of time and money in 
that way, but now we let “the other fel¬ 
low” do the testing. In fact, about the 
newest thing we ' have in strawberries ex¬ 
cept a couple of promising seedlings which 
we found growing on our own place, is 
Dunlap. We find it to be one of the very 
best pollenizers for the good old Bubach 
(which is one of our main standbys for 
fancy fruit), as it adds color to that 
otherwise fine berry, making it much show¬ 
ier in crates. Dunlap being so very dark 
its pollen gives Bubach just the right 
shade of color. As a cropper Dunlap with 
us gives about two or three pickings of 
very fine berries of good appearance and 
fair quality, then tapers so small as to be 
unsalable. We do not like a variety that 
sets as much fruit as Dunlap. It is impos¬ 
sible for it to mature it •all. Such varieties 
always taper off so small in midseason as 
to make their fruit look poor by side of 
Bubach, Brandywine, Glen Mary and other 
varieties that only undertake as much as 
they are able to accomplish well. 
Pennsylvania. w. v. reefer. 
CRIMSON CLOVER QUESTIONS. 
Advice for a Canadian. 
I have read much of the value of Crim¬ 
son clover sown among corn to be plowed 
down as fertilizer for corn again, and have 
an idea that this scheme could be worked 
indefinitely and the ground gradually 
built up without any manure. As I intend 
sowing about an acre this year I should 
like some advice from those who have 
tried it. In the first place, would not 
the hard Winters that we have up here in 
Canada winter-kill it, or is it to be plowed 
down in the Fall before it freezes, instead 
of in the Spring? Our latitude is prac¬ 
tically the same as that of northern New 
York State, as we are right on the bound¬ 
ary line. What is the proper amount to 
sow to the acre? What time should it be 
sown in the corn, and should it be culti¬ 
vated after being sown? If not to be 
plowed until Spring how late should it be 
left to grow, right up to corn planting 
time or earlier? Also let me know the 
value of oats cut green and cured for hay 
for horses as compared ton for ton with 
Timothy hay. What weight per acre 
should it yield? As we have had short 
crops of hay for a number of years here 
I thought it would pay better to plow up 
the meadows and sow heavy with oats early 
as possible, and cure as above, and then 
follow with a cover crop such as buckwheat 
to plow under. R- H. R. 
Ontario. 
You are rather far north for Crimson 
clover, still it does quite well in some 
parts of Canada. It often fails the first 
season, but improves after a" year or two 
of seeding. Even should the hard Winters 
or trying Spring kill out this clover you 
will usually get good value from the Fall 
growth alone. It is not plowed under in 
Fall but left until Spring. We sow a peck 
of Crimson clover and two pounds of Cow- 
horn turnips mixed. At the time of last 
cultivation of the corn we scatter this 
mixed seed over the field and follow with 
a cultivator, going twice in a row. This 
covers the seed, but it is well to have a 
piece of plank or joist dragging behind the 
cultivator so as to level and smooth the 
land. The time of seeding will, of course, 
vary, depending on the condition of the 
corn. We usually plow under when the 
clover is in full bloom. Oat hay cut 
just at the right time and properly cured 
contains 10 per cent more nourishment 
than Timothy hay. The yield will average 
less. We would not advise you to sow 
oats alone. Sow Canada field peas with 
them and cut the two crops together—as 
we have often described. 
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Fall Sowing in Wisconsin. 
I have a light sand.v gravelly soil, 15 
acres, in potatoes. Could 1 sow Crimson 
clover, say about the forepart of October 
and get a catch, and he able to get a good 
growth to turn under the following Spring 
again to be planted to potatoes? 
Wisconsin. s. e. m. 
It would not pay to sow Crimson clover 
in October. It would make hut a feeble 
growth and die before Spring. In northern 
Ncpv Jersey we find August 15 about the 
limit for seeding. The clover ought to go 
iu before that date. Y'ou could not well 
sow the clover in the potatoes, as digging 
would kill it. We should dig the potatoes 
and sow rye for a Winter cover. 
Turnips With Clover. 
IIow much turnip seed ought to he sown 
per acre? What kind and when ought they 
to be plowed under for fertilizer? 
New Jersey. e. b. s. 
We use two pounds of Cow-horn turnip 
seed per acre with the clover. They re¬ 
main in the ground over Winter. Most of 
them are killed by Spring, when all are 
plowed under. 
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